Valuetainment - April 25, 2026


"They ACTUALLY Like Each Other" - Trump ANNOUNCES 3-Week Israel–Lebanon Ceasefire Extension


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In this episode, we talk about the recent ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, Trump's comments about the two countries, and why he thinks they like each other. We also talk about Iran and its influence in the Middle East.

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00:00:00.360 President Trump comes out. Rob, do you have this with the Lebanon and Israel?
00:00:03.780 Yes.
00:00:04.820 He comes out saying Israel-Lebanon ceasefire to be extended by three weeks.
00:00:09.360 Okay? By three weeks. And he said maybe they even like each other.
00:00:12.560 Rob, is this the clip you were talking about?
00:00:14.060 Yes, sir.
00:00:14.440 Go for it.
00:00:15.420 Well, thank you very much. And I'm told this is a rather historic meeting
00:00:18.800 because these countries have been bordering each other for many, many years.
00:00:24.180 And it doesn't happen much, although they like each other.
00:00:27.620 I found that out today, and I've sort of heard about that.
00:00:30.320 They actually like each other, Lebanon and Israel.
00:00:33.400 And we had a great meeting with the very high officials of Lebanon and very high officials of Israel.
00:00:40.940 And we think that the president of Lebanon and the prime minister of Israel over the next couple of weeks will be coming here.
00:00:48.400 They've agreed to an additional three weeks of, I guess, no firing, ceasefire.
00:00:55.460 No more firing.
00:00:56.400 Let's see.
00:00:56.820 We hope that happens. It's not going to happen between them, but they do have Hezbollah to think about. 0.99
00:01:04.400 Okay. So, Ilan, where do you stand with this? 0.94
00:01:06.960 I think Trump's hilarious, number one, saying that they like each other. 0.80
00:01:10.180 Look, do I think in the future that there's a possibility that Lebanon, once you have a decay of Hezbollah, that they form better relations with Israel? 0.87
00:01:18.180 I would love for that to happen, but not right now. 0.61
00:01:21.740 So I think the, you know, look, I think it shows Trump has actual tremendous influence in the region over Israel.
00:01:27.280 You know, as much as people say Israel's controlling the United States, here you have an example where, once again, Trump pushed for Israel to do something, and they listened, they abided.
00:01:35.960 And I think deep down Trump is, you know, this is going to sound weird.
00:01:39.160 Trump came in hoping to create more stability and peace in the region.
00:01:42.020 I think in his own weird way, he's actually accomplishing it.
00:01:45.700 I would really like to see more stability between Lebanon and Israel.
00:01:48.360 Tom. Well, B.B. Netanyahu has never been the easiest guy for U.S. presidents to deal with at all.
00:01:56.020 And you've seen you've heard things from Trump.
00:01:58.960 You know, hey, we liked a couple of the guys, but they killed him.
00:02:02.180 Sort of signaling there is maybe not perfect alignment there with the battle plans and stuff.
00:02:07.320 And I think what he's talking about here, I think behind closed doors, you know, some diplomacy got done.
00:02:14.860 And I think they got some progress here because if it is truly a three-week ceasefire to put some accords in place, that's good for the innocent citizens that are all over Lebanon, the Christian citizens that are there that have nobody representing them. 0.77
00:02:28.920 You know, rockets in the morning go to the south toward Israel, rockets in the afternoon go to the north toward Lebanon, and I'm underneath both of them, right? 0.56
00:02:37.220 So I think some diplomacy got done, and I think it is kind of funny to say they've been neighbors for many years.
00:02:43.980 Yeah, they've always been neighbors.
00:02:46.140 They just moved in five years ago.
00:02:49.400 Oh, you're moving in.
00:02:50.160 Oh, welcome.
00:02:51.800 But to come back and say, you know, hey, they like each other.
00:02:55.180 They do like each other.
00:02:56.120 I think he's trying to put out an olive branch there,
00:02:58.900 and he's trying to put a message, Pat.
00:03:00.400 Yeah.
00:03:00.680 I think it's positive.
00:03:01.520 Adam.
00:03:02.340 Look, I think at the end of the day,
00:03:03.720 people are sick and tired of fighting wars every single day,
00:03:07.980 every single year, every single decade since 1948 in that region. 0.92
00:03:13.860 And then, again, since 1979, I think people of Lebanon are sick and tired of their country being hijacked by Iran. 0.73
00:03:21.380 The whole conversation about, you know, Israel controls America. 0.74
00:03:24.960 Okay, show me some proof, not just some BS.
00:03:27.740 But you know who actually controls Lebanon? Iran.
00:03:33.280 Because what did they used to call Lebanon many, many decades ago?
00:03:37.300 The Paris of the Middle East.
00:03:39.000 When's the last time you heard that? 0.61
00:03:40.720 Now it's the Iran of the Middle East, just not the Gulf side of things.
00:03:46.180 The people of Lebanon, and I have a lot of friends that are Lebanese.
00:03:48.440 We have a friend here who's Lebanese.
00:03:50.660 You know who they hate more than Israel, the IDF? 1.00
00:03:55.660 Hezbollah. 0.99
00:03:56.920 So, you know, we talked about the other day.
00:03:58.140 You said 80% this conversation you had with Kiriakou, where he was just plain wrong.
00:04:03.480 He said, you said, you said 80 to 90% of people of Iran are sick and tired of the IRGC.
00:04:09.340 follow the numbers follow the money it's the exact same thing going on in lebanon and here's
00:04:15.200 the last point speaking of follow the money and stability through strength if you look at
00:04:21.080 your neighbors right in the the golan heights whatever's covering lebanon syria that area
00:04:26.440 if you look over you look at israel 50 years ago the economy wasn't that great they weren't a
00:04:34.160 capitalist society now you look over from lebanon you look over some syria israel is one of the
00:04:39.700 greatest uh economic booms we've ever seen especially the middle east israel is the silicon
00:04:44.320 valley of the middle east and you're in iran sorry and you're in uh in in lebanon and you're 0.99
00:04:50.700 in syria and you're gaza and you're looking over and you're like these damn jews what did they do 0.99
00:04:55.040 it's like they just worked earned saved and invested where you're trying to build terror 0.98
00:04:59.920 tunnels they're building capitalist cities and i think the good people of lebanon who are some of
00:05:04.820 the worst in the misery index unemployment and inflation are like can we just have a normal
00:05:09.120 freaking life and not fight every single day of our life yeah and have a good society for our
00:05:14.320 kids to grow up in let's do it and that's i think cooler heads i mean i think in regard to the
00:05:18.940 ceasefire great anytime there's people not dying is amazing i just and i keep going back to what
00:05:24.900 is what is victory going to be because i don't think the tail like where you have to get rid of
00:05:29.900 the terrorists okay so that'll it'll be a good three weeks hopefully it lasts but it will never
00:05:35.040 end it'll never end pat i guess they already took 20 of the land but my thing is terrorists they're 0.78
00:05:40.900 always going to be there so that that will never stop like well but israel has shown it's willing
00:05:46.180 to concede land in exchange for true peace and it's every time it's done that it's either like
00:05:50.740 i've talked about in the past it's either been met with sadly retaliation that backfired or it's
00:05:55.460 been met with sustainable peace when the other side actually wants it so israel has come forward
00:05:59.860 many times also i do believe you know deep down that the lebanese christian population wants better
00:06:04.140 relations of course a hundred percent of course they do and and adam's a hundred percent right
00:06:08.620 that there's a great tragedy in the middle east not just in lebanon but across the middle east
00:06:12.840 in general where there's been a decay of all this opportunity tons of natural resources tons of
00:06:18.240 culture tons of history these are places that tourists would love to visit and yet because of
00:06:22.520 extremism which is a fundamental issue across the board in the region there's a there's a complete
00:06:27.460 decay of virtually every single country lebanon gaza sorry i'll let you go tom i didn't mean no
00:06:33.700 i'm not i'm agreeing i'm not in an agreement well because what i want to ask you though what what
00:06:37.820 is victory in regard to because those extremists are there by the way they're not going anywhere
00:06:41.920 they're multiplying i'm just trying like i mean i'm trying to be hopeful yeah victory looks how
00:06:47.300 It's hard to pull the weeds out of the garden.
00:06:48.900 Victory looks like a complete cultural shift, not just in one region, but across the region.
00:06:53.300 You see it in UAE.
00:06:54.460 You see it in a lot of the Gulf states.
00:06:55.900 They are trying to come back to the table and say there's a way forward where we can integrate with Western societies and see growth in our populations.
00:07:03.840 You know why?
00:07:04.440 Because they're putting a priority for growth, prosperity, and the benefit of their people over religion. 0.54
00:07:10.680 Yet in a lot of these other countries and what Iran's motivation is and what Hezbollah's motivation is and Hamas, 0.76
00:07:15.940 they've indicated not to only Israel, not to only the entire world, but to their own people, we don't care about you. 0.93
00:07:21.740 Our priority is destruction. 0.80
00:07:23.780 So, you know, sometimes if your enemy or if the person you're trying to negotiate with is starting from the fundamental point of I want to destroy you no matter what,
00:07:32.820 it's very hard.
00:07:33.780 You're asking an impossible question because that's their starting point. 1.00
00:07:37.040 So Hezbollah is the problem. 1.00
00:07:39.580 And I'm not debating that. 1.00
00:07:41.080 I'm just saying, like, how do you?
00:07:42.940 But here's my question.
00:07:44.440 Do you think it's going to stop?
00:07:45.860 I do.
00:07:46.600 How do you get rid of extremists that are everywhere in your country?
00:07:49.560 How do you get rid of that in America?
00:07:52.140 No, no.
00:07:52.740 But you're asking a very weird question because to me, okay,
00:07:57.580 how do you get rid of alcoholics?
00:08:01.420 Go ahead.
00:08:01.820 What do you mean?
00:08:02.380 How do you get rid of alcoholics?
00:08:03.700 So many people driving drunk on the 95 freeway.
00:08:06.160 Right here, by the way, this exit is number one most people dying in car accidents.
00:08:11.100 Right here, 95 in Cyprus.
00:08:13.280 I don't know if you know.
00:08:14.280 It's the number one place in America on freeways of the most fatalities driving is right here.
00:08:19.020 Stop it.
00:08:19.500 Right here, a couple bucks away?
00:08:20.780 Yeah, it's number one.
00:08:21.800 I don't drive.
00:08:22.940 Here's a question for you.
00:08:24.020 How do you get rid of alcohol drinking and driving?
00:08:28.360 How do you do that?
00:08:30.280 I mean, you can't stop people from drinking.
00:08:33.460 So you can't stop people from, I mean, you want to get people help.
00:08:37.320 You want people to talk to them.
00:08:38.400 You want to put them in AA.
00:08:39.320 How do you get people to stop using cocaine?
00:08:42.140 Stop putting it in the country.
00:08:43.820 Stop getting cocaine in the country.
00:08:45.120 Stop letting people bring it over the borders and just stop getting it here.
00:08:48.580 And then people will stop if they can't get it here.
00:08:50.120 Will people still find a way to get cocaine?
00:08:52.200 Yes.
00:08:52.700 Absolutely.
00:08:53.300 Will people still find a way to get alcohol?
00:08:55.620 Prohibition, you know, make it illegal, all that.
00:08:57.380 Will they still find a way to do it?
00:08:58.560 Of course.
00:08:59.320 Of course.
00:08:59.660 So why, though?
00:09:00.900 Because what's going to be constant forever?
00:09:04.500 What will be constant?
00:09:05.900 Human beings.
00:09:08.800 As long as we have human beings, what do we have?
00:09:11.620 We have conflict.
00:09:13.200 Conflict is never going away.
00:09:14.400 Now, here's the question, though.
00:09:16.460 Can we, should we just say, well, nothing's going to happen.
00:09:19.580 Let's just not do anything.
00:09:20.980 Because what kind of a mindset is that, to say something like that?
00:09:23.660 Or can we say, can we find a way to decrease it by 2%?
00:09:27.660 Can we find a way to decrease it by 4%?
00:09:30.960 Can we find a way to decrease it by 10%?
00:09:33.100 Yes, we can.
00:09:34.440 And so we're in pursuit of that, right?
00:09:37.220 In your family, if you think about it in your family, do divorces happen?
00:09:42.180 Yes.
00:09:43.220 Does domestic violence happen?
00:09:45.260 Yes. 0.96
00:09:45.680 Yes.
00:09:46.560 Do people filing bankruptcy happen?
00:09:48.920 Yes.
00:09:49.540 Do people overextending themselves financially happen?
00:09:52.920 All of those things are what?
00:09:54.260 Yes.
00:09:54.680 Yes.
00:09:54.900 Reality.
00:09:55.260 Should we say, well, people are never going to stop doing that,
00:09:58.080 so let's just not even do anything about it.
00:09:59.580 No.
00:10:00.060 I think the effort is to try to pursue to decrease.
00:10:05.200 And all you can deal with is who are the leaders today.
00:10:09.780 That's all you can deal with.
00:10:11.420 You cannot deal with who the leaders are going to be tomorrow,
00:10:15.360 whose son is going to take over one day and be the leader.
00:10:18.040 You know, you have to figure out a way to find a way to make things better today.
00:10:22.220 And this is purely for the reasonable players,
00:10:25.020 not the emotional players, you have to decide which one you are.
00:10:28.660 You're either part of the emotional community
00:10:30.720 or you're part of the reasonable community.
00:10:32.700 The emotional community just wants emotions.
00:10:35.920 The reasonable community wants to find solutions.
00:10:39.020 It's not easy.
00:10:39.760 It's annoying.
00:10:40.280 It's boring.
00:10:41.000 It's easier to say nothing will ever change.
00:10:45.560 How dramatically, how better do you think your mom sleeps today
00:10:48.580 than she did four years ago? 0.85
00:10:50.400 A lot better.
00:10:51.200 Why do you think?
00:10:52.080 Because I've changed my life.
00:10:54.260 and zero. Give me her peace of mind with you
00:10:56.240 right now. Oh, her peace of mind knows that I'm
00:10:58.200 surrounded about people that care about me
00:11:00.240 and love me. I've kicked
00:11:01.840 anything that was in my life that was
00:11:04.160 trying to destroy me with, you know, drinking
00:11:05.840 or partying or any of that stuff.
00:11:08.480 I've turned myself to Christ and everything's
00:11:10.480 How much better do you sleep? A lot
00:11:12.260 better. What if we said it's Vinny? Vinny's always
00:11:14.220 going to be like that. Bingo.
00:11:16.840 What if we said Vinny's always going to
00:11:18.300 be like that? Meaning? Meaning
00:11:20.140 Vinny's never going to change. Vinny's a womanizer, 0.98
00:11:22.680 alcoholic, drunk, 0.99
00:11:24.260 just wants to do that's vinnie what if people said that what if people accepted that it's not
00:11:30.980 leadership it's saying no what if he chooses to change what if he chooses to make an improvement
00:11:37.620 what that what happens to the world what happens to his mother what happens to vinnie it opens it
00:11:43.780 up i'm a regular guy i'm not a guy that went to what do you call it a ivy league nothing i didn't
00:11:48.720 even go to regular states college they wouldn't take me there i barely made it into community
00:11:53.160 college and community college they let anybody in so what happened somebody believed and it was
00:11:58.860 minor progress so to me i like the fact that we're working on making minor progress the part you have
00:12:05.160 to realize vinnie is the hardest thing to do do you know what eventually gets um
00:12:10.540 what what content do you think is more exciting to consume divisiveness nasty calling out
00:12:22.040 versus somebody that's going out there talking about
00:12:24.880 how to improve your life, better your life,
00:12:26.640 you can make a change,
00:12:27.900 what do you think gets more eyeballs?
00:12:30.080 Well, the drama stuff is always going to be the one.
00:12:32.300 Tony Robbins tried to have a TV show.
00:12:33.860 You know how long it lasted?
00:12:35.180 Two or three episodes.
00:12:36.220 NBC.
00:12:36.660 Type in Tony Robbins' NBC show.
00:12:38.240 How long did it last?
00:12:39.380 Because he was positive.
00:12:40.520 Because he was positive.
00:12:41.360 How long did Jerry Springer last?
00:12:43.920 It would still be going.
00:12:44.900 Many years.
00:12:45.780 How long?
00:12:46.360 Because people...
00:12:47.960 Look how many episodes he did.
00:12:49.100 Two episodes.
00:12:49.500 Only airing two.
00:12:50.140 Tony Robbins, who's changed millions of people's lives, goes and does a show with NBC at last two episodes until they're like, people are not interested in positive stuff.
00:12:59.380 Yeah, people like drama.
00:13:00.240 People want drama and negativity, conflict, change, all this stuff.
00:13:03.080 So if you can find a way to be part of the community to say, you know what, I think we can do something about it.
00:13:09.360 Great.
00:13:09.980 I think we need more of that.
00:13:11.500 You know, because the world today is so, I'm telling you, you go on Twitter and you ask yourself, how long can you be on X?
00:13:19.020 if you go on if you you know i'm willing to bet to do this put a blood pressure machine that's
00:13:26.360 constantly running on you and i would love to do it on 20 different people and put them on
00:13:32.020 different platforms go on twitter and go up and read the stories newsfeed see what happens to your
00:13:38.800 blood pressure 10 20 30 minutes later i did this to myself by the way did you really then go watch
00:13:43.520 comedy then go read the bible then go read a self-help book then go read a business book see
00:13:50.400 what happens to your blood pressure the world today is a different world and we have to we have
00:13:54.700 to be aware of it but for me the reasonable players who are trying to make progress more
00:13:58.720 power to them the emotional people that are trying to get eyeballs you do your thing the
00:14:02.380 market long term is going to favor who the reasonable people that always together i fully
00:14:07.240 agree with you pat and if i could just kind of add a little icing on the case you're absolutely
00:14:10.900 right how's it going to happen how's it going to happen how's it going to happen you ask these
00:14:13.700 questions well let's look at some case examples look what he did the guy did uh bukele in el
00:14:18.860 salvador el salvador was the most dangerous country in the western hemisphere a decade ago
00:14:24.120 and what was the root of their problem focus with me now what was the root of their problem 0.89
00:14:28.920 the criminals ms 13 yes ms 13 is hezbollah they are the cancer in society where you have 80 90 0.68
00:14:36.180 percent of society it's like can we just live a normal life and not kill each other every day over 0.91
00:14:40.960 religious differences or military differences can we just do that and what did he do he flipped
00:14:46.500 our whole country around that's hopefully hopefully what can happen in lebanon and why lebanon pat you
00:14:53.120 would know this i don't know if there's another society civilization in the middle east that has
00:14:58.500 sunnis shias christians all types of religions living and working together and then you have
00:15:04.340 The Shiite radicals saying, nope, we're taking over the country.
00:15:08.460 And this is like, I'm taking my country back.
00:15:10.620 I think the people of Lebanon finally are like, we're done with this. 0.97
00:15:14.040 We're taking our country back. 1.00
00:15:15.120 And I hope they do.
00:15:16.600 Okay, if you want to run.
00:15:18.220 I just wanted to say to Vinny also, in terms of being hopeful,
00:15:20.480 when we see a snapshot of something, even though it might be 10 years, 20 years,
00:15:23.620 it feels like forever.
00:15:24.520 It feels like it's never going to end.
00:15:25.480 But you do see sustainable relations between Israel and other countries in the Middle East
00:15:29.800 that you would have never believed would have happened.
00:15:31.800 The fact that there's sustainable peace.
00:15:33.140 Bahrain, Oman, UAE, Morocco.
00:15:35.100 Even Egypt back in the day, if you would have looked at the relationship,
00:15:37.900 Jordan and Israel, if you would have looked at the relationship,
00:15:40.660 just the entire Middle East from the start when the Arab League
00:15:42.940 wanted to destroy all of Israel.
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