Verdict with Ted Cruz - Who Elected Comrade Mamdani, How to Test Negative for Stupid & a Pilgrimage to Israel Week In Review

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00:00:05.380 Welcome, it is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:00:07.320 Weekend Review, Ben Ferguson with you,

00:00:09.240 and here are some big stories that you may have missed

00:00:11.200 that we talked about this week.

00:00:12.840 First up, the polling numbers are out,

00:00:15.760 and we now know a lot more about who voted

00:00:18.020 for communism in New York City.

00:00:20.700 What does it mean for the rest of the country?

00:00:22.660 We'll break it down for you.

00:00:24.420 Also, Senator Kennedy joined us to talk about his new book.

00:00:27.460 Who did he write it for, and what was the goal?

00:00:30.000 And finally, I just got back from Israel

00:00:33.460 with an incredible trip, and we'll give you those highlights.

00:00:36.760 It's the Weekend Review, and it starts right now.

00:00:40.420 All right, so let's break down the election.

00:00:42.900 It was a, quote, disaster.

00:00:45.400 The media was just thrilled of what happened on election night.

00:00:49.780 Mandani is the one, though, that I want to really focus on

00:00:52.500 for a second.

00:00:53.240 He is a communist.

00:00:54.560 He's a proud communist.

00:00:55.580 He went back to his core beliefs in his victory speech,

00:00:58.900 basically yelling at Donald Trump and saying,

00:01:01.000 we are a communist city.

00:01:02.640 The red apple literally now is red apple of communism.

00:01:07.440 Breaking this down, this seems to be a point

00:01:10.520 where Democrats are actually almost doubling down

00:01:13.020 on this type of extremism in their party.

00:01:15.240 I think this is actually going to grow

00:01:16.840 between now and the midterms,

00:01:18.140 and I want your reaction to what we learned.

00:01:20.100 Well, Comrade Mandani is the face

00:01:24.500 of the Democrat Party now, and I got to say,

00:01:26.900 the election results this week, they were a disaster.

00:01:31.120 They were an absolute blowout.

00:01:33.320 What is striking is several things.

00:01:35.220 Number one, turnout was exceptionally high

00:01:37.780 among the left-wing base, and that's a real warning sign

00:01:40.680 for next year, for the midterms.

00:01:43.720 The left showed up in massive numbers.

00:01:46.720 They're pissed.

00:01:47.920 They hate Donald Trump, and that anger is dangerous.

00:01:52.320 That anger is motivating.

00:01:55.020 And too many folks on the right,

00:01:57.100 too many kind of in the common sense middle, stayed home.

00:02:01.460 And I will tell you, if you look historically,

00:02:03.920 all right, let's go back to 2008.

00:02:05.780 2008, Barack Obama's elected.

00:02:08.260 As a result, a lot of folks on the right,

00:02:10.260 you and me included, were really unhappy.

00:02:11.920 We didn't like Barack Obama's policies.

00:02:13.840 We were pissed off.

00:02:14.660 2010 was a massive tidal wave year.

00:02:18.880 It was the Tea Party wave, and it was in large part

00:02:21.700 because those on the right were particularly energized

00:02:24.500 and angry.

00:02:26.380 Fast forward to 2012.

00:02:27.880 2012, Barack Obama is re-elected president.

00:02:30.680 And the reaction again, 2014 was another wave election,

00:02:34.380 a huge election.

00:02:35.360 We won nine Senate seats.

00:02:37.160 We retired Harry Reid as majority leader.

00:02:39.220 We won the biggest majority in the House since 1928.

00:02:42.600 And it was because, again, those on the right were angry.

00:02:46.380 They were energized.

00:02:47.320 They were contributing money.

00:02:48.320 They volunteered.

00:02:49.100 And those on the left were complacent.

00:02:50.460 By the way, fast forward to 2018.

00:02:53.520 Donald Trump had just been elected in 2016.

00:02:55.960 2018 was a very good Democrat year.

00:02:58.920 We lost a bunch of seats.

00:03:00.320 Why?

00:03:00.680 Because the left was really energized.

00:03:02.800 And folks on the right were a little bit complacent.

00:03:04.820 This week's election day suggests that we're in real danger

00:03:09.460 of that happening again in 2026, that the left,

00:03:12.380 I'll tell you on fundraising, the left is outraising the right

00:03:15.340 anywhere between 3 to 1 and 4 to 1.

00:03:18.620 That is really, really dangerous.

00:03:20.440 And the turnout, the turnout in Virginia,

00:03:22.940 the left showed up in much bigger numbers.

00:03:24.500 The turnout in New Jersey, the left showed up

00:03:25.980 in much bigger numbers.

00:03:26.800 The turnout in New York City, the left turned out

00:03:29.160 in much bigger numbers.

00:03:30.060 Now, Ben, I'll tell you one of the most interesting,

00:03:32.400 do you know what demographic was dominated

00:03:36.240 by the radical left wing on election day?

00:03:39.600 This is shocking because you and I,

00:03:42.420 we geek out on the political stuff and data after elections.

00:03:45.860 Young people in the Democratic Party

00:03:47.960 were really ready to go vote.

00:03:50.380 Yeah, but let me be more precise.

00:03:52.200 Young women.

00:03:54.180 And let me give you some stats.

00:03:55.800 In New York City, among young women, 18 to 29,

00:04:00.380 81%, 81% voted for Comrade Mamdani.

00:04:06.860 In New Jersey.

00:04:08.120 18 to 29, wow.

00:04:10.800 In New Jersey, among young women,

00:04:13.700 80% voted for Mikey Sherrill, the Democrat,

00:04:17.020 in New Jersey, of young women.

00:04:19.280 In Virginia, 78% of young women voted for Abigail Spanberger. 0.91

00:04:26.280 It was dominant.

00:04:27.420 And by the way, to give you a comparison,

00:04:29.640 because yes, young people went left,

00:04:31.520 but there was a big gender gap. 1.00

00:04:33.880 So, young women in New York, 81% for Mondami. 0.50

00:04:38.820 Young men, 64% for Mondami.

00:04:41.600 So, almost a 20-point gender gap.

00:04:44.320 How about New Jersey?

00:04:46.840 Young women, 80% for Mikey Sherrill.

00:04:49.680 54% of young men.

00:04:54.040 So, a 25, 26% gender gap in New Jersey.

00:04:58.940 How about Virginia?

00:05:00.640 78% for Spanberger of young women.

00:05:04.540 Just 56% of young men in Virginia.

00:05:08.680 So, we saw that this was a race where 0.97

00:05:11.380 the single most overwhelming demographic was young women,

00:05:15.420 which was so overwhelmingly lopsided

00:05:18.020 that it helped drive the results on Election Day.

00:05:22.900 When you think about this,

00:05:24.820 and then it goes back to,

00:05:26.120 okay, what was the messaging

00:05:27.560 that was connecting with young women

00:05:29.520 to have them come out in these numbers?

00:05:31.840 Or, was it not so much of a message?

00:05:34.240 And this is part of the breakdown

00:05:35.320 of trying to figure out

00:05:36.660 what you learned from an election

00:05:38.020 to make sure before the midterms

00:05:39.260 we can course-correct it.

00:05:40.860 Or, was it just that the left

00:05:43.740 and women in the Democratic Party

00:05:45.800 were so motivated compared to conservative women? 1.00

00:05:48.080 I call it the Trump slump.

00:05:49.800 You feel like your party's in power.

00:05:51.760 You feel like they're doing the things

00:05:53.160 that you asked them to do.

00:05:54.260 Complacency.

00:05:54.520 Donald Trump is putting in complacency.

00:05:56.840 But you feel comfortable

00:05:57.840 because you're like,

00:05:59.440 we just won an election.

00:06:01.040 Yeah, things are great.

00:06:02.100 Donald Trump's doing what he said

00:06:03.120 he was going to do.

00:06:04.020 So, when you look at it,

00:06:05.160 was it issue-based,

00:06:06.280 based on data that we've seen,

00:06:08.040 or was it more just the other side

00:06:10.020 that was so angry

00:06:10.960 that Donald Trump won

00:06:12.140 and they wanted to win so badly

00:06:14.100 to send a middle finger to the president

00:06:15.880 that they showed up in these record numbers

00:06:17.720 and they voted for their candidate?

00:06:19.700 Yeah, we don't have that data yet.

00:06:22.020 There will be time to break that out,

00:06:23.460 but we don't have it right now.

00:06:24.800 But I'll give you another aspect

00:06:26.200 in New York City.

00:06:27.700 So, there was a massive difference

00:06:29.940 based on whether you were

00:06:31.600 a long-time New Yorker

00:06:32.780 or you were new to the city.

00:06:35.540 So, if you're a New York voter

00:06:37.200 and you had been in New York City,

00:06:40.000 you'd lived in New York City

00:06:41.080 less than five years,

00:06:42.300 what percent of the people

00:06:43.200 who lived in New York City

00:06:44.180 less than five years

00:06:45.420 do you think voted for Comrade Mandani?

00:06:48.340 Got to be overwhelmingly high.

00:06:51.960 83%.

00:06:52.360 All right.

00:06:53.700 How about five to ten years?

00:06:54.880 What do you think five to ten years?

00:06:57.320 I would say it's probably still fairly high,

00:06:59.860 but not as high as that first group.

00:07:01.140 76%.

00:07:03.360 Okay, let's go ten years or more,

00:07:07.280 but not born in New York City.

00:07:08.880 What do you think the percentage is?

00:07:11.420 About 50%.

00:07:12.620 54%.

00:07:13.580 So, it drops from 76,

00:07:16.440 five to ten years,

00:07:17.320 to 54.

00:07:18.440 How about I was born in New York City,

00:07:20.760 which, by the way,

00:07:21.300 is 47% of the voters

00:07:22.620 were born in New York City.

00:07:23.600 What do you think,

00:07:24.420 what percent of the vote

00:07:25.580 do you think Mandani got

00:07:26.800 of people born in New York City?

00:07:28.160 I'm going to guess below 50%.

00:07:31.920 34%.

00:07:35.320 Cuomo got 45%.

00:07:37.040 So, Cuomo beat Mandani

00:07:38.880 by 11 points

00:07:40.720 among people born in New York,

00:07:42.320 but among people

00:07:43.480 who lived in New York

00:07:44.180 less than five years,

00:07:45.860 Mandani beat him 83% to 15%.

00:07:49.900 So, it is overwhelmingly...

00:07:52.120 Look...

00:07:52.160 There was a clear...

00:07:52.500 Yeah.

00:07:54.300 Clear what?

00:07:54.760 There was a clear rowing cry

00:07:55.960 from Mandani,

00:07:57.240 and he did this

00:07:58.100 in his campaigning.

00:07:59.160 He did it, by the way,

00:08:00.180 in his victory speech.

00:08:02.320 He said that New York City

00:08:03.840 is a city of immigrants.

00:08:05.920 In other words,

00:08:06.880 if you came here recently,

00:08:08.520 I'm your guy,

00:08:09.500 the establishment,

00:08:10.680 the old school,

00:08:11.420 the American citizen,

00:08:12.460 you're not a priority

00:08:13.320 in New York City anymore.

00:08:14.740 This reminds me

00:08:15.780 an awful lot

00:08:16.640 of what we were talking about

00:08:18.080 ten years ago

00:08:19.320 in major cities in the UK.

00:08:21.600 We are seeing a lot

00:08:22.660 of those same type of results

00:08:23.820 now in New York City.

00:08:24.860 Yeah, and by the way,

00:08:27.520 there's also

00:08:28.500 a significant

00:08:29.700 educational differential.

00:08:31.400 All right,

00:08:31.680 so if you're in New York

00:08:32.720 and you had an advanced degree,

00:08:34.020 what percent of the vote

00:08:34.820 do you think Mandani got?

00:08:37.360 Advanced degree.

00:08:38.380 I would say

00:08:39.140 maybe around 50% or below.

00:08:43.240 57%.

00:08:43.720 Advanced degree, 57%.

00:08:46.040 How about bachelor's degree?

00:08:48.200 Oh, gosh.

00:08:48.880 I'm going to go

00:08:49.460 maybe even lower?

00:08:51.520 57%.

00:08:51.920 So, advanced and bachelor's,

00:08:53.440 both tied at 57%.

00:08:53.860 How about associate's degree?

00:08:57.020 I would say higher.

00:09:01.100 45%.

00:09:01.580 By the way,

00:09:02.160 Cuomo got 48%.

00:09:03.240 So, if you had

00:09:03.580 an associate's degree,

00:09:04.840 Mandani lost.

00:09:06.560 How about some college

00:09:08.100 so you don't have

00:09:08.560 an associate's degree?

00:09:10.640 Mandani,

00:09:11.160 my gut is

00:09:12.640 it would go even higher.

00:09:14.380 But you're saying

00:09:15.200 I'm wrong.

00:09:15.980 You're wrong.

00:09:16.760 Some college,

00:09:17.640 Mandani 40%, 0.98

00:09:18.820 Cuomo 48%.

00:09:20.360 How about

00:09:21.120 high school graduate?

00:09:22.060 See, I would have

00:09:24.880 thought high school

00:09:25.400 graduate would be

00:09:25.880 70 plus percent

00:09:26.920 from Mandani.

00:09:27.540 Nope.

00:09:27.840 You're telling me

00:09:28.360 that's wrong.

00:09:28.940 This is breaking

00:09:30.320 the normal model.

00:09:31.780 Of high school graduates,

00:09:33.380 Mandani got 39%.

00:09:35.320 Cuomo got 47%.

00:09:37.340 And finally,

00:09:38.120 no high school degree.

00:09:39.020 So, didn't even

00:09:39.520 graduate high school.

00:09:42.260 I mean,

00:09:42.980 clearly based on

00:09:43.600 the trend now,

00:09:44.300 the majority vote

00:09:44.960 against Mandani

00:09:45.700 that didn't have

00:09:46.220 a high school degree.

00:09:46.820 So, no high school degree,

00:09:48.700 40% voted for Mandani,

00:09:51.360 49% for Cuomo.

00:09:53.520 So, Cuomo beat

00:09:54.420 Mandani by nine points.

00:09:56.640 So, who elected

00:09:57.840 Comrade Mandani?

00:09:59.720 It is the smarty-pants,

00:10:01.720 college-educated,

00:10:02.780 advanced degrees.

00:10:04.040 It is the rich

00:10:05.080 who elected Mandani.

00:10:06.460 By the way,

00:10:07.160 working class,

00:10:07.980 look, if you've got

00:10:08.620 a GED,

00:10:09.340 if you've got

00:10:09.740 a high school degree,

00:10:10.860 they're like,

00:10:11.420 we don't want

00:10:12.000 a socialist. 1.00

00:10:12.640 These people are nuts. 1.00

00:10:13.760 And it is the rich 1.00

00:10:17.220 New Yorkers

00:10:18.760 who,

00:10:21.320 look,

00:10:21.880 I'm not an armchair

00:10:22.620 psychologist,

00:10:23.500 but that is who elected.

00:10:25.060 So, this is the elitist,

00:10:25.300 this is the Soros's.

00:10:27.240 It is the Soros's.

00:10:28.640 By the way,

00:10:29.900 the same

00:10:31.320 Comrade Mandani

00:10:32.240 who said

00:10:32.640 we should have

00:10:33.220 no billionaires

00:10:34.140 also happily

00:10:36.040 tweeted out a picture,

00:10:37.300 actually Soros,

00:10:38.120 Alex Soros

00:10:38.860 tweeted out a picture,

00:10:40.260 so proud to be

00:10:41.340 a New Yorker.

00:10:42.040 The American dream

00:10:43.020 continues.

00:10:43.920 Congrats,

00:10:44.520 Mayor,

00:10:44.860 with a picture

00:10:45.360 of the two of them

00:10:45.980 together.

00:10:46.960 This is the same guy

00:10:47.980 who said

00:10:48.600 no billionaires,

00:10:51.080 well,

00:10:51.320 except for the billionaires

00:10:52.260 that funded

00:10:52.820 the communist takeover

00:10:53.920 of New York City.

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00:11:33.780 Now on to story number two.

00:11:35.860 I know you've got

00:11:36.600 to run center soon,

00:11:37.740 but I want to ask you

00:11:38.700 one other question.

00:11:39.320 Sure, ask me anything you want.

00:11:41.320 And it goes back

00:11:42.940 to the book.

00:11:44.580 When you write this book

00:11:45.860 and you sit down

00:11:46.400 to do it,

00:11:47.100 who did you envision

00:11:47.980 reading it?

00:11:48.680 Is there some bigger purpose

00:11:50.240 where you're like,

00:11:50.920 I want to write this

00:11:51.720 for the future generation?

00:11:53.220 Was part of it just,

00:11:53.960 I want to just tell my story

00:11:55.320 and how I got to

00:11:56.120 where I am today?

00:11:56.840 What was it?

00:11:57.300 Here's what I did.

00:11:58.080 I sat down

00:11:58.700 with a handheld dictaphone

00:12:00.100 at my kitchen table

00:12:01.380 and I started dictating.

00:12:03.400 And I dictated.

00:12:04.120 I dictated,

00:12:05.540 I don't know how many hours,

00:12:07.480 hundreds of hours.

00:12:08.640 And then I had it transcribed

00:12:10.080 and then I put it together

00:12:11.900 and then I had an editor come in

00:12:14.280 who looked at it

00:12:15.220 and rearranged it.

00:12:16.460 And then I just started editing.

00:12:18.180 And I was speaking

00:12:19.020 to the same person

00:12:20.660 that Ted and I both speak to

00:12:22.560 when we do interviews.

00:12:23.660 Yep.

00:12:24.040 The average American.

00:12:25.180 And I tried to speak plainly.

00:12:29.120 I don't try to muddy the water

00:12:31.100 to make it look deep.

00:12:33.300 The American people

00:12:34.160 don't have time for that.

00:12:35.820 And I wanted them to understand

00:12:37.680 that if you get mad,

00:12:40.300 I can't help it.

00:12:41.660 I have the right to remain silent,

00:12:43.540 but God did not give me the ability.

00:12:46.280 And some people are going to like it

00:12:48.080 and some don't.

00:12:49.600 But that's what the American people

00:12:51.720 expect from their politicians today.

00:12:53.680 And it's one of the reasons

00:12:55.440 that Senator Schumer,

00:12:57.520 who Ted and I both know,

00:13:00.220 he's right now,

00:13:01.740 he's got 30% approval rating.

00:13:04.360 He's got a 60% disapproval rating.

00:13:07.440 The other 10% won't pause their video game

00:13:10.700 to answer the pollster's call.

00:13:13.040 And Chuck is polling.

00:13:14.780 He's polling right up there

00:13:16.460 with clubbing baby seals. 0.60

00:13:19.540 That's, I mean...

00:13:20.660 But to be fair,

00:13:21.620 he's still above chlamydia.

00:13:22.600 He's still above...

00:13:23.600 He's still above...

00:13:26.200 It's margin.

00:13:27.120 It's close.

00:13:28.220 But because Chuck's been here so long.

00:13:31.800 Ted, you know,

00:13:32.480 he's been here so long.

00:13:34.360 He sounds like Washington.

00:13:36.380 So I will say it's interesting.

00:13:38.160 You and I have a very similar process,

00:13:40.040 it sounds like,

00:13:40.760 for writing a book

00:13:41.380 because that's very much

00:13:42.700 the books I've written.

00:13:44.160 And some of it is,

00:13:44.960 it may be being a lawyer

00:13:45.940 and having written briefs,

00:13:47.080 that that process of recording

00:13:49.580 and telling stories.

00:13:51.160 In my books,

00:13:51.760 I just try to tell stories

00:13:52.820 because that's how people communicate.

00:13:54.200 I've read a couple of your books.

00:13:55.440 There's a difference

00:13:56.020 between you and me, though.

00:13:57.120 I've written one book.

00:13:58.280 Ted's written about a squillion.

00:14:00.240 Okay.

00:14:01.060 But it's hard.

00:14:02.360 I mean, I'm not...

00:14:02.920 It is.

00:14:03.220 It is a painful process.

00:14:06.480 You know, all right,

00:14:07.120 you're a kid.

00:14:07.920 When does the idea of being a lawyer,

00:14:09.360 what was it that made you say,

00:14:10.960 hey, I can do that,

00:14:12.500 I want to do that?

00:14:13.280 My dad was from a depression family

00:14:15.480 in Oklahoma.

00:14:16.780 He got a degree,

00:14:17.960 worked his way through college

00:14:18.920 in petroleum engineering,

00:14:20.500 came to Louisiana

00:14:21.160 to work in the oil fields,

00:14:22.700 married my mom.

00:14:24.160 I have three brothers.

00:14:26.080 From day one,

00:14:27.020 they drilled into us.

00:14:28.420 Education, education, education.

00:14:30.800 And it wasn't

00:14:32.080 where you're going to go to college.

00:14:35.040 It's...

00:14:35.260 Or when you're going to go to college.

00:14:36.580 It was where.

00:14:37.720 And that was drilled in from day one.

00:14:39.720 And I enjoyed college,

00:14:42.100 but I started thinking

00:14:43.420 about law school then.

00:14:45.020 But I stalled

00:14:46.780 and restalled to it

00:14:47.840 as long as I could.

00:14:49.220 I mean, I spent

00:14:49.840 four years in college

00:14:51.400 and then I went

00:14:52.640 three years in law school

00:14:53.940 and then I clerked

00:14:54.800 for a federal judge

00:14:56.500 and I tried to get

00:14:58.020 a Supreme Court clerkship.

00:14:59.360 I didn't.

00:15:00.340 You did.

00:15:02.480 And then I said,

00:15:03.400 well, I'm not ready

00:15:04.620 for the real world.

00:15:05.380 I'm going back to school.

00:15:06.340 I went back

00:15:06.800 and got another law degree

00:15:07.740 at Oxford.

00:15:08.300 Yep.

00:15:08.880 And then finally,

00:15:09.540 I had to...

00:15:10.540 You know, I had to...

00:15:11.360 I was out of money,

00:15:12.560 you know,

00:15:12.880 and I wanted to eat

00:15:13.740 and live indoors.

00:15:14.960 So I didn't want to live

00:15:16.480 in a refrigerator box

00:15:17.840 behind an outback.

00:15:18.880 So I had to go to work

00:15:19.820 for a living.

00:15:20.520 And Ben,

00:15:20.820 I know something

00:15:21.500 that I know you don't know.

00:15:23.080 I know the name

00:15:23.700 of his old law partner.

00:15:25.120 Who is that?

00:15:26.040 Who's that?

00:15:26.780 So he would practice

00:15:28.160 his name obviously

00:15:29.020 as John Kennedy

00:15:29.820 and his partner

00:15:30.600 was Jose Canseco.

00:15:32.160 And he'd walk in

00:15:32.840 and it'd be John Kennedy

00:15:33.680 and Jose Canseco

00:15:34.500 here to see you.

00:15:35.260 I told Ben that story.

00:15:35.640 That's a true story.

00:15:35.940 And they would double take?

00:15:37.840 One of my best friends,

00:15:39.160 I was in a,

00:15:39.840 for Louisiana,

00:15:40.540 a big law firm,

00:15:41.620 six to 80 lawyers.

00:15:42.640 And one of my good friends

00:15:43.580 was Jose Canseco.

00:15:45.020 And we'd go to meetings

00:15:46.240 and I'd say,

00:15:47.320 I'm John Kennedy,

00:15:48.020 this is Jose Canseco,

00:15:49.460 we're here to see so-and-so.

00:15:51.120 And they would say,

00:15:52.300 you're here to see security, sir.

00:15:56.000 True story.

00:15:57.140 All right.

00:15:57.480 So when did you get,

00:15:59.080 when did you get the idea

00:16:00.100 in your head

00:16:00.540 you wanted to run for office?

00:16:01.680 Was this something

00:16:02.240 like as a kid

00:16:03.100 you always wanted to do?

00:16:03.720 Oh, I always thought about it.

00:16:05.800 But I was practicing law,

00:16:08.160 earning a good living.

00:16:10.680 Louisiana politics was rough.

00:16:12.620 I mean, it was rough.

00:16:13.540 It was under,

00:16:13.820 it was under Governor Edwin Edwards.

00:16:16.960 I wasn't part of his clique.

00:16:18.840 Who has my favorite

00:16:20.360 political bumper sticker ever.

00:16:22.400 Yep.

00:16:22.740 And you know exactly

00:16:23.860 where I'm going.

00:16:24.420 Do you know,

00:16:24.780 do you know this, Ben?

00:16:25.480 I don't know if you know this.

00:16:26.460 I do, I do not.

00:16:27.460 So Edwin Edwards

00:16:28.540 is running for governor

00:16:29.520 against David Duke.

00:16:31.480 Now, David Duke

00:16:32.200 was a former

00:16:32.760 Grand Wizard

00:16:33.920 of the KKK.

00:16:35.560 Yeah, Grand Wizard, right?

00:16:37.060 But Edwin Edwards 0.70

00:16:37.860 was as corrupt, 1.00

00:16:39.440 he was as crooked 1.00

00:16:40.260 as a dog's hind leg. 0.96

00:16:41.800 See, I'm trying to do this

00:16:42.560 to keep up with John T.

00:16:43.240 That's pretty good, Tim.

00:16:44.700 And everyone knew

00:16:46.060 he was corrupt.

00:16:46.880 And so Edwin Edwards 0.58

00:16:47.960 bumper sticker said, 0.99

00:16:50.520 vote for the crook. 0.99

00:16:51.620 It matters. 0.99

00:16:52.540 That's right.

00:16:53.260 And if you're running

00:16:54.200 against a Klansman,

00:16:55.200 that was a winning slogan.

00:16:57.200 And then you know what?

00:16:58.000 He was indicted

00:16:59.080 and convicted

00:16:59.800 of embezzlement

00:17:00.640 or fraud or something.

00:17:01.760 The economy was doing

00:17:02.840 well in Louisiana.

00:17:04.040 I mean, this was,

00:17:05.020 having a colorful governor

00:17:06.260 was all fun and games.

00:17:08.040 He was a big, 0.97

00:17:09.740 he was very promiscuous. 0.89

00:17:11.840 He used to say, 0.79

00:17:14.060 I give,

00:17:16.040 they make,

00:17:17.140 how did he put it?

00:17:18.280 I,

00:17:18.560 when I give blood,

00:17:19.920 they use it

00:17:20.360 to make Viagra.

00:17:21.820 That was a,

00:17:22.720 that was a,

00:17:23.640 I always thought

00:17:24.480 that was a pretty good one.

00:17:25.980 And, and...

00:17:26.780 There's a bumper sticker

00:17:27.800 for you.

00:17:27.920 Okay, that's a line

00:17:28.600 they would have used

00:17:29.140 about Strom Thurmond too.

00:17:30.220 You and I didn't serve

00:17:30.960 with Strom Thurmond,

00:17:31.740 but by all accounts,

00:17:32.740 that would have described

00:17:33.780 him accurately.

00:17:34.400 And he was running

00:17:35.200 for governor,

00:17:35.940 I think his third time.

00:17:37.500 And he was way ahead

00:17:38.340 in the polls.

00:17:39.000 He was running

00:17:39.620 against the incumbent.

00:17:40.920 And the press asked him,

00:17:42.240 they said,

00:17:42.760 are you going to win

00:17:43.240 this race?

00:17:44.280 And he said,

00:17:44.740 well, let me put it this way.

00:17:46.240 The only way

00:17:46.880 I can lose this race 1.00

00:17:48.260 in the last week

00:17:50.040 is if I'm caught in bed

00:17:51.700 with a live girl

00:17:53.260 or a dead boy.

00:17:54.760 And I thought

00:17:56.340 that was pretty clever.

00:17:57.700 But eventually

00:17:58.800 his past caught up to him.

00:18:00.360 And we elected

00:18:01.100 a reform governor

00:18:02.100 named Buddy Romer.

00:18:03.620 He and I'd supported him.

00:18:05.460 He asked me

00:18:05.960 to leave my practice,

00:18:06.920 come to Baton Rouge.

00:18:08.060 And I liked it.

00:18:09.260 I was his legal counsel.

00:18:11.500 And I stayed

00:18:13.600 and then I ran for office

00:18:14.720 and got elected.

00:18:15.720 And I ran for the Senate

00:18:16.640 three times.

00:18:17.840 Took me three times

00:18:18.720 to get here.

00:18:20.000 And I thought

00:18:22.340 they left me for dead

00:18:23.580 for a few times

00:18:25.340 politically.

00:18:26.120 I switched parties

00:18:27.040 because the Democrat,

00:18:28.300 I couldn't,

00:18:28.980 I just couldn't be

00:18:29.740 a Democrat anymore.

00:18:30.680 And they all got mad at me

00:18:32.140 and they tried to hurt me.

00:18:33.600 But the mistake they made,

00:18:35.520 they let me live.

00:18:37.720 They never should have

00:18:39.000 let me live.

00:18:39.940 So I won it

00:18:40.720 on the third time

00:18:41.640 and here we are.

00:18:42.660 We're having fun.

00:18:43.520 All right.

00:18:43.760 Biggest surprises

00:18:44.600 when you get to the Senate.

00:18:45.780 Biggest surprise upside

00:18:47.280 and biggest surprise downside.

00:18:50.440 Biggest surprise upside

00:18:52.160 you probably saw this.

00:18:54.920 I came in wanting

00:18:56.000 to gallop.

00:18:58.060 You can't gallop

00:18:59.260 in the Senate.

00:19:00.180 You have to inch along.

00:19:02.560 And at first

00:19:03.700 that frustrated me.

00:19:04.660 It still does.

00:19:05.980 But it's not

00:19:06.780 altogether bad

00:19:07.740 because after a while

00:19:08.740 you realize

00:19:09.400 the Senator's job

00:19:10.620 is not just

00:19:11.760 to advance

00:19:12.540 good ideas. 1.00

00:19:14.200 It's to kill

00:19:15.300 bad ideas.

00:19:16.460 and sometimes

00:19:18.260 killing the bad ideas 0.99

00:19:19.640 is more important 0.99

00:19:20.560 than advancing

00:19:21.680 the good ideas.

00:19:23.920 That has been

00:19:25.180 my biggest transformation

00:19:27.140 in the Senate.

00:19:28.700 But it's frustrating.

00:19:30.880 Senator McConnell

00:19:31.960 is your friend

00:19:32.720 and mine.

00:19:33.760 But Mitch

00:19:34.240 was the majority leader.

00:19:36.560 And I wasn't used

00:19:37.980 to taking orders

00:19:39.860 from another politician.

00:19:42.160 And Mitch and I

00:19:43.200 butted heads

00:19:44.080 a few times.

00:19:44.860 He butted heads

00:19:45.540 with you.

00:19:46.100 Oh yeah.

00:19:46.820 Mitch liked to run it

00:19:48.120 from the top down.

00:19:50.080 And I thought

00:19:51.300 I remember you

00:19:52.160 and I talked

00:19:52.820 when we passed

00:19:53.860 President Trump's

00:19:54.760 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

00:19:56.920 We passed it

00:19:57.900 through reconciliation.

00:19:59.860 And Ted

00:20:00.400 was an advocate

00:20:01.360 of doing a second bill.

00:20:03.380 Yep.

00:20:04.540 And it just took

00:20:06.000 a majority vote.

00:20:06.900 No Democrats.

00:20:08.440 And we

00:20:08.800 I backed him.

00:20:10.860 And Mitch

00:20:11.600 wouldn't do it.

00:20:12.820 And we left

00:20:13.940 so much good policy.

00:20:15.660 On the tape.

00:20:16.200 It remains the most

00:20:17.160 politically indefensible

00:20:18.160 decision I've ever seen.

00:20:19.200 And I hope

00:20:19.900 we don't do it

00:20:21.080 under Trump's

00:20:22.220 second term.

00:20:23.600 And actually

00:20:24.420 John brought that up

00:20:25.380 at lunch today.

00:20:26.460 Yeah.

00:20:26.960 Made that argument

00:20:27.960 and it's clearly

00:20:28.900 look

00:20:29.900 it is our best avenue

00:20:32.240 to win victories

00:20:32.980 and we should be

00:20:34.340 focused on winning victories.

00:20:35.580 Now that being said

00:20:36.220 we got a lot done

00:20:37.180 in that one big bill.

00:20:37.880 Well it's

00:20:38.340 sure.

00:20:39.400 But we get a second

00:20:40.340 bite at the apple.

00:20:41.220 Exactly.

00:20:41.760 And a third

00:20:42.460 if we want it.

00:20:43.000 And why not take it?

00:20:44.340 Yep.

00:20:44.820 Why not take it?

00:20:46.040 And we don't have to get

00:20:47.260 we don't have to get

00:20:48.380 Democratic votes.

00:20:49.500 Yep.

00:20:50.160 Because I'm

00:20:50.920 I'm

00:20:51.260 you know

00:20:52.660 I think

00:20:53.360 I want to thank

00:20:54.320 the best of people

00:20:55.240 but I just think

00:20:56.080 it's going to be hard

00:20:57.040 to negotiate anything

00:20:58.840 with the Democrats

00:20:59.680 from here on out.

00:21:00.420 They just hate Trump.

00:21:01.680 They're so extreme

00:21:02.820 right now.

00:21:03.320 They're just blinded

00:21:04.260 by their passion.

00:21:06.480 Yep.

00:21:07.140 Senator I'm going to

00:21:08.020 I'm afraid of hitmen

00:21:09.040 from Louisiana.

00:21:09.980 Your staff's telling me

00:21:10.880 we were supposed to

00:21:11.460 rap with you a few

00:21:12.160 minutes ago

00:21:12.680 so I want to hold up

00:21:13.560 the book again

00:21:14.180 so you can do that.

00:21:14.500 Oh man thanks.

00:21:15.380 Alright.

00:21:15.860 Alright.

00:21:16.020 So let me tell everyone again.

00:21:17.420 People know what to buy.

00:21:18.040 The book

00:21:18.420 is How to Test Negative 1.00

00:21:20.320 for Stupid 1.00

00:21:20.880 and Why Washington 1.00

00:21:22.020 Never Will.

00:21:22.780 It is by John Kennedy

00:21:24.000 not John F. Kennedy

00:21:25.140 but John Kennedy

00:21:26.660 the great United States

00:21:28.000 Senator.

00:21:28.980 The book is funny.

00:21:29.820 It is interesting.

00:21:30.900 It gives you stories

00:21:31.820 behind the scenes

00:21:32.820 of what's going on

00:21:33.800 in the U.S. Senate.

00:21:34.820 John Kennedy

00:21:35.380 rats out all his colleagues.

00:21:37.620 He makes them embarrassed.

00:21:38.760 He makes them curl up.

00:21:40.920 Curl up.

00:21:41.440 Chuck Schumer

00:21:42.080 curled up in a ball

00:21:43.080 in the closet

00:21:43.660 and cried like a little girl

00:21:45.180 when John Kennedy

00:21:46.460 wrote this book.

00:21:47.520 So you need to go to Amazon

00:21:48.760 and buy it

00:21:49.620 and I will say

00:21:51.480 as I said before

00:21:52.440 John Kennedy

00:21:53.140 is easily

00:21:55.260 one of my favorite colleagues.

00:21:56.860 He is funny as hell

00:21:59.240 and he is smart as hell.

00:22:01.520 A lot of people

00:22:02.180 don't realize

00:22:02.860 this man is dangerous

00:22:04.040 and has

00:22:04.600 you know

00:22:04.840 he's an Oxford

00:22:05.560 educated lawyer

00:22:06.520 and with a southern accent

00:22:08.800 particularly Yankees

00:22:09.960 underestimate

00:22:10.500 and be like

00:22:11.220 alright he's got

00:22:11.680 a southern accent

00:22:12.320 he can't be all that bright.

00:22:13.840 You can't accuse me

00:22:14.860 of being self-aware

00:22:15.920 not being self-aware.

00:22:17.320 I'm fully aware

00:22:18.040 that my voice

00:22:18.980 scares small children

00:22:21.120 and sets off car arms

00:22:22.760 but it's my voice.

00:22:24.280 But thank you

00:22:25.140 for having me Ted.

00:22:25.840 Thank you Ben.

00:22:26.580 And I'm going to close

00:22:28.180 I'm going to close

00:22:29.140 with my favorite

00:22:30.000 Kennedyism 0.75

00:22:30.720 which was

00:22:32.780 in a Judiciary Committee

00:22:34.260 hearing

00:22:34.720 John Kennedy

00:22:36.300 leaned forward

00:22:36.940 into the microphone

00:22:37.680 and he said

00:22:39.280 Christmas tree ornaments

00:22:41.700 and Jeffrey Epstein

00:22:43.520 two things you know

00:22:45.540 didn't hang themselves.

00:22:48.120 I love it.

00:22:49.220 And I was sitting there

00:22:50.060 going wait

00:22:50.600 this is at an open hearing

00:22:52.580 of the Senate Judiciary Committee

00:22:54.260 did he really say that?

00:22:56.300 It was

00:22:56.760 I did

00:22:57.360 it was true 0.69

00:22:58.260 I'd read that joke somewhere

00:23:00.080 it seemed like a good idea

00:23:01.760 at the time.

00:23:02.860 As before

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00:23:04.660 the rest of this conversation

00:23:05.900 on this topic

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00:23:10.060 to hear the entire thing.

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00:23:43.080 I want to get back

00:23:44.260 to the big story

00:23:45.440 number three of the week

00:23:46.380 you may have missed.

00:23:47.740 So Ben

00:23:48.260 have you been to Israel before

00:23:49.500 or is this the first trip?

00:23:51.140 This is

00:23:51.480 this is my pilgrimage

00:23:52.440 very first time ever.

00:23:54.060 Well it is amazing.

00:23:55.440 I've been a number of times

00:23:56.680 to Israel

00:23:57.380 and it is a

00:23:58.460 breathtaking place.

00:24:00.400 It is a place

00:24:01.560 all of history

00:24:03.240 converges on.

00:24:04.580 It is the birthplace

00:24:06.100 of Christianity

00:24:07.340 is the birthplace

00:24:08.400 of Judaism.

00:24:10.120 In Israel 0.79

00:24:10.980 in Jerusalem

00:24:11.640 you walk down roads

00:24:13.620 the city of David

00:24:14.500 which is this

00:24:15.240 underground

00:24:16.120 archaeological

00:24:16.920 excavation

00:24:18.140 under Jerusalem 0.64

00:24:19.640 you walk down the road

00:24:21.100 from the pool of Shiloh

00:24:22.720 to the old

00:24:24.520 temple

00:24:25.340 where Jesus

00:24:27.040 most certainly

00:24:27.860 walked

00:24:28.420 and you walk

00:24:29.800 along it

00:24:30.400 and there are

00:24:31.560 platforms

00:24:32.180 that

00:24:33.460 a street preacher

00:24:35.280 an itinerant preacher

00:24:36.280 would stand

00:24:36.900 and preach on

00:24:37.620 and you stand

00:24:38.520 I've stood on

00:24:39.100 those platforms

00:24:39.800 and it takes

00:24:41.200 your breath away

00:24:41.920 that Jesus Christ

00:24:43.520 almost certainly

00:24:45.020 stood on this

00:24:46.140 particular piece

00:24:47.120 of stone

00:24:47.680 addressing

00:24:49.380 the crowd

00:24:50.360 of the Israelites

00:24:53.300 who were there

00:24:54.180 in Jerusalem

00:24:55.000 it is

00:24:55.520 the Sea of Galilee

00:24:56.740 you look at

00:24:58.460 you imagine

00:24:59.120 Jesus walking up

00:25:00.280 to Peter

00:25:01.220 walking up

00:25:01.800 to fishermen

00:25:02.260 and saying

00:25:02.940 follow me

00:25:04.320 and let me make you

00:25:05.100 fishers of men

00:25:05.860 and not just

00:25:06.980 fishermen

00:25:07.840 and it is

00:25:09.180 it's a beautiful place

00:25:10.780 it is a profound place

00:25:11.920 so tell me

00:25:12.920 when did you arrive

00:25:13.920 and what have you done

00:25:14.940 on the ground

00:25:15.380 in Israel?

00:25:15.800 so it arrived

00:25:16.840 on Monday

00:25:17.740 after a delayed flight

00:25:19.280 missed a flight

00:25:21.000 because of

00:25:21.540 actually the shutdown

00:25:22.380 is what we were told

00:25:23.180 and then we had

00:25:24.080 a time out

00:25:24.760 with the air traffic

00:25:26.900 controllers

00:25:27.420 and also the crew

00:25:28.620 on the plane

00:25:29.200 so we sat on the tarmac

00:25:30.220 for about five hours

00:25:31.360 in Houston

00:25:31.900 and then they said

00:25:33.300 you got to get off the plane

00:25:34.120 we've lost our crew

00:25:35.020 because of the rules

00:25:35.920 and this is a TSA

00:25:37.900 and it was at the very beginning

00:25:39.120 of kind of the breakdown

00:25:39.820 are you part of a broader group

00:25:41.320 or like what's the reason

00:25:43.180 for going to Israel?

00:25:43.960 yeah so I was asked

00:25:45.520 to come over

00:25:46.060 from the Israeli government

00:25:47.580 and also came

00:25:48.620 with the CEO

00:25:49.480 of IFCJ

00:25:50.340 the International Fellowship

00:25:51.280 of Christians and Jews

00:25:52.240 there is a Christian

00:25:54.780 leadership conference

00:25:56.780 happening here

00:25:57.460 as well at the same time

00:25:58.980 that is

00:26:00.100 it is one

00:26:01.080 that's been postponed

00:26:01.780 because of the war

00:26:02.680 and so I was asked

00:26:04.340 to speak at that

00:26:05.260 this is a conference

00:26:06.600 where Bibi is speaking

00:26:07.620 where you have

00:26:08.720 the mayor of Jerusalem

00:26:09.800 is speaking

00:26:10.280 you have the U.S. ambassador

00:26:11.720 Mike Huckabee as well

00:26:12.920 and it is bringing

00:26:14.820 Christians together

00:26:16.380 back to the Holy Land

00:26:18.000 but then what also

00:26:19.460 has happened

00:26:19.880 is they've set up

00:26:20.460 these incredible moments

00:26:21.900 and tours

00:26:22.400 where I've been able

00:26:23.040 to meet with

00:26:23.820 some of the victims

00:26:25.040 of the war

00:26:25.800 and go and see

00:26:27.960 where the war

00:26:29.260 is taking place

00:26:29.700 so yesterday

00:26:30.340 we actually went

00:26:31.220 to the border

00:26:31.920 with Syria

00:26:33.120 and with Lebanon

00:26:33.960 and went literally

00:26:35.240 to where we could see

00:26:36.660 Hezbollah

00:26:37.480 looking at us

00:26:39.120 and you met

00:26:40.760 with the parents

00:26:41.820 of the kids

00:26:42.640 who were killed

00:26:43.180 on the soccer field

00:26:43.960 tell us about that

00:26:45.160 yeah

00:26:45.600 so last night

00:26:47.400 I have

00:26:48.320 and I will try

00:26:49.120 not to get emotional

00:26:49.740 but it's hard not to

00:26:50.740 I was asked

00:26:52.260 to come in

00:26:52.880 to meet with

00:26:53.520 the families

00:26:54.360 some of the families

00:26:55.240 who children

00:26:55.980 there was 12 children

00:26:57.040 that were killed

00:26:57.680 while playing soccer

00:26:58.520 on a soccer field

00:26:59.260 it made international news

00:27:00.280 we covered it

00:27:01.040 on this show

00:27:01.640 and they asked me

00:27:03.580 if I would meet

00:27:04.440 with the families

00:27:05.260 and hear the family stories

00:27:06.860 and I was there

00:27:09.000 and the parents

00:27:10.020 were talking

00:27:10.620 of this was

00:27:11.760 one of the little girls

00:27:12.780 you can see

00:27:13.500 who died

00:27:14.240 and her mother 0.91

00:27:14.840 was the first one

00:27:15.620 to speak

00:27:16.080 and she was telling

00:27:18.400 they want to tell

00:27:19.440 the story

00:27:19.940 they were all

00:27:21.320 different ages

00:27:21.860 they were very young

00:27:22.740 to a 17 year old

00:27:24.200 if I remember correctly

00:27:25.200 some of it

00:27:26.600 was through translation

00:27:27.760 but you can kind of

00:27:28.600 see the different ages here

00:27:30.040 some of them

00:27:30.940 are obviously

00:27:31.920 most were younger

00:27:32.840 but you can see

00:27:33.520 there someone's

00:27:34.060 a little bit older

00:27:34.840 and junior high

00:27:36.100 you can see

00:27:36.500 that's one of the

00:27:37.000 oldest kids there

00:27:38.060 and that was

00:27:39.480 you know

00:27:39.860 it's incredible

00:27:40.700 but we sat there

00:27:41.740 and we were hearing

00:27:42.560 their stories

00:27:43.040 these kids

00:27:43.660 and at the very end

00:27:44.940 they said

00:27:45.240 they'd like to present me

00:27:46.660 with something

00:27:46.880 I didn't know

00:27:47.380 they were going to do this

00:27:48.360 and I put the picture

00:27:50.780 on social media

00:27:51.400 but the mother

00:27:51.980 of this young girl

00:27:53.480 said that they wanted

00:27:55.760 to give me something

00:27:56.540 and I didn't see the ball

00:27:57.980 before they brought it out

00:27:59.160 but these pictures

00:27:59.900 on this ball

00:28:00.520 so people understand

00:28:01.200 they're stickers

00:28:01.860 they're handmade

00:28:03.240 and they said

00:28:04.800 they wanted to say

00:28:05.800 thank you

00:28:06.400 for standing up

00:28:07.220 for their kids

00:28:07.900 and for telling

00:28:08.960 their story

00:28:09.540 to the world

00:28:10.280 because they

00:28:11.300 want people

00:28:12.340 to understand

00:28:12.920 what it's like

00:28:13.560 to live in Israel

00:28:14.420 and what was taken

00:28:15.780 from them

00:28:16.460 by the way

00:28:17.960 these were children

00:28:19.160 that were doing nothing

00:28:20.060 they were playing

00:28:20.900 on a soccer field

00:28:21.780 they were being kids

00:28:22.900 and suddenly

00:28:24.100 Hezbollah rocket

00:28:24.980 came over 0.99

00:28:25.540 and killed them all 1.00

00:28:26.740 yeah 1.00

00:28:27.360 and it was a

00:28:28.580 the way that they

00:28:29.620 described it was

00:28:30.660 they didn't care

00:28:31.920 who they killed

00:28:32.540 there was

00:28:33.880 there was a lot

00:28:34.660 of media spin

00:28:35.540 that well

00:28:36.000 this soccer field

00:28:37.200 maybe wasn't

00:28:37.780 directly target

00:28:38.560 Hezbollah doesn't 1.00

00:28:39.240 care who they kill

00:28:39.960 they just want 1.00

00:28:40.440 to kill Jews 1.00

00:28:41.180 northern Israel 1.00

00:28:42.340 southern Israel

00:28:43.020 where's the

00:28:43.840 kibbutz you went to 0.52

00:28:44.660 the tip of

00:28:45.620 northern on the

00:28:46.760 opposite side

00:28:47.360 of where the attack

00:28:48.040 happened

00:28:48.360 the initial attack

00:28:49.300 happened October

00:28:49.940 the 7th

00:28:50.240 okay so right

00:28:50.740 by the Golan Heights

00:28:51.640 border with Lebanon

00:28:52.780 and Hezbollah

00:28:54.180 so if you're looking

00:28:55.260 at the map

00:28:55.740 this would be in Syria

00:28:56.640 Hezbollah

00:28:57.240 at the northern point

00:28:59.040 and they started us

00:29:00.400 there because they

00:29:01.080 said they wanted us

00:29:02.080 to understand

00:29:02.740 that the goal

00:29:03.480 was actually

00:29:05.060 to attack from both sides

00:29:06.360 for folks at home

00:29:07.480 to understand

00:29:08.140 so Israel 0.93

00:29:09.300 is a very small nation

00:29:10.780 it's about the size

00:29:11.880 of the state

00:29:12.440 of New Jersey

00:29:13.360 where October 7th

00:29:15.400 happened

00:29:15.700 was in the southern

00:29:16.940 part of Israel

00:29:17.760 it's right by the

00:29:18.540 Gaza Strip

00:29:19.140 the Gaza Strip

00:29:19.900 is along the Mediterranean

00:29:21.040 in the southern part

00:29:22.700 and Hamas

00:29:23.480 which is the 0.54

00:29:24.060 major terrorist

00:29:25.300 organization

00:29:25.960 in the Gaza Strip

00:29:27.120 entered into

00:29:28.580 southern Israel

00:29:29.340 and murdered

00:29:30.380 over 1200 Israelis 1.00

00:29:32.960 raped women 0.99

00:29:34.320 and little girls 0.99

00:29:35.220 took over 200

00:29:36.180 Israelis hostage 0.60

00:29:37.600 it was also

00:29:38.720 one of the worst

00:29:39.760 American terrorist 0.78

00:29:41.420 attacks ever

00:29:42.180 as we saw

00:29:42.720 dozens of Americans

00:29:43.900 murdered

00:29:44.840 dozens of Americans

00:29:45.860 taken hostage

00:29:46.620 now northern Israel

00:29:48.820 which is up

00:29:49.420 by Lebanon

00:29:49.960 and Syria

00:29:50.580 what you have up

00:29:52.020 there is Hezbollah

00:29:52.840 Hezbollah is a different 0.55

00:29:53.920 terrorist organization

00:29:55.000 both Hezbollah

00:29:55.920 and Hamas

00:29:56.680 their patron

00:29:58.280 is Iran

00:29:58.960 and Iran

00:29:59.540 funds over 90%

00:30:00.960 of Hamas's budget

00:30:02.820 Iran funds

00:30:03.880 over 90%

00:30:04.700 of Hezbollah's budget

00:30:05.600 when October 7th

00:30:07.960 first erupted

00:30:08.980 Israel quite rightly 0.99

00:30:10.760 declared

00:30:11.240 we are going to

00:30:12.040 utterly destroy Hamas

00:30:13.460 there was an

00:30:13.940 interesting period

00:30:14.840 that extended

00:30:15.600 for weeks

00:30:17.000 and then even

00:30:17.440 a couple of months

00:30:18.200 where it wasn't

00:30:18.940 clear

00:30:19.360 if Hamas 0.72

00:30:20.980 would be

00:30:21.300 or rather Hezbollah

00:30:22.380 would be drawn

00:30:22.880 into this

00:30:23.400 Hamas was the 0.99

00:30:24.540 aggressor on October 7th

00:30:26.520 and Hezbollah

00:30:27.340 had the opportunity

00:30:28.120 just to shut up 0.51

00:30:29.140 and not engage 0.92

00:30:30.560 and then Hezbollah

00:30:32.060 pretty quickly

00:30:32.680 decided

00:30:33.240 nope

00:30:33.620 we want to

00:30:34.860 raise our hand

00:30:35.520 we want to

00:30:36.080 engage

00:30:36.580 and began

00:30:37.460 just firing

00:30:38.900 rockets

00:30:39.660 a massive

00:30:40.620 barrage of rockets

00:30:41.700 into northern Israel

00:30:42.800 thousands

00:30:43.800 and the kids

00:30:45.500 in the soccer field

00:30:46.340 about 60%

00:30:46.360 I was told yesterday

00:30:47.240 by the US government

00:30:48.580 about 60%

00:30:49.460 of all the rockets

00:30:50.440 on hand

00:30:50.980 that Hezbollah 0.98

00:30:51.580 had in their arsenal

00:30:52.780 were shot

00:30:53.380 during this war

00:30:54.200 repeat that

00:30:55.640 that's a powerful

00:30:56.580 statement

00:30:56.960 60%

00:30:58.440 and as we had

00:30:59.560 our briefing

00:31:00.180 from the Israeli

00:31:00.900 government

00:31:01.360 we actually went

00:31:02.600 to this neighborhood

00:31:03.620 this kibbutz 0.96

00:31:04.320 and in this neighborhood

00:31:05.600 their sin

00:31:07.440 for being targeted

00:31:08.420 by Hezbollah

00:31:09.120 was that they

00:31:10.140 farm pink lady apples

00:31:12.240 that we eat

00:31:12.780 in the United States

00:31:13.380 of America

00:31:13.860 and by the way

00:31:15.180 much of northern Israel

00:31:16.360 was evacuated

00:31:17.800 because the rocket

00:31:19.100 attacks were so intense

00:31:20.480 that the Israelis

00:31:21.220 couldn't live there

00:31:21.940 anymore

00:31:22.240 because you couldn't

00:31:22.800 go into your own home

00:31:24.380 without risk

00:31:25.140 of rock blowing it up

00:31:26.780 and so

00:31:27.420 the amazing thing

00:31:29.140 is Hezbollah

00:31:29.820 literally volunteered

00:31:30.920 and said

00:31:31.220 hey we want to be

00:31:31.860 part of this

00:31:32.440 and then

00:31:33.620 the Israelis

00:31:34.640 carried out

00:31:35.400 the pager attack

00:31:38.100 which remains

00:31:39.280 one of the most

00:31:40.800 extraordinary

00:31:41.340 military and

00:31:42.420 intelligence operations

00:31:43.560 I think the world

00:31:44.480 has ever seen

00:31:45.180 where

00:31:46.320 I mean I've joked

00:31:47.300 but this is not a joke

00:31:48.440 if you wrote

00:31:50.360 the pager attack

00:31:51.960 as a script

00:31:53.560 to a movie

00:31:54.180 nobody in Hollywood

00:31:56.260 would buy it

00:31:57.180 if you wrote it

00:31:57.720 as a Jason Bourne movie

00:31:58.740 they'd say 0.96

00:31:59.080 this is ridiculous 0.99

00:32:00.440 you're telling me 0.99

00:32:01.860 Israel creates 1.00

00:32:03.040 a shell company

00:32:04.180 in Hong Kong

00:32:04.900 builds

00:32:06.760 pagers

00:32:07.320 years in advance

00:32:07.920 years in advance

00:32:09.600 makes them

00:32:10.600 heavy duty

00:32:11.480 kind of serious

00:32:12.640 hardcore pagers

00:32:13.600 and embeds

00:32:15.100 where the battery

00:32:15.780 would be

00:32:16.340 a tiny little

00:32:17.260 explosive

00:32:17.840 then gets

00:32:19.240 this shell

00:32:19.800 company

00:32:20.180 in Hong Kong

00:32:20.800 to sell

00:32:21.540 the pagers

00:32:22.160 to Hezbollah

00:32:23.480 like how the hell

00:32:24.220 do you do that

00:32:24.800 I don't know

00:32:25.300 how you sell

00:32:25.780 pagers to Hezbollah

00:32:26.580 but the Mossad

00:32:27.900 does

00:32:28.260 Israel does 0.95

00:32:29.240 sells them

00:32:30.880 to Hezbollah

00:32:31.840 and then

00:32:32.340 this remains

00:32:33.800 the single

00:32:34.420 most targeted

00:32:35.160 military and

00:32:36.020 intelligence attack

00:32:37.000 I think in history

00:32:37.840 because it was

00:32:38.560 Hezbollah leadership

00:32:39.980 that decided

00:32:40.780 okay

00:32:42.160 who is it

00:32:43.280 that gets

00:32:44.860 these pagers

00:32:45.440 I'm going to

00:32:46.960 give it to every 1.00

00:32:47.700 crazy ass 1.00

00:32:48.700 terrorist 1.00

00:32:49.220 we have

00:32:50.580 in Lebanon

00:32:51.080 the people

00:32:52.220 that I want

00:32:52.780 to be able

00:32:53.080 to page

00:32:53.540 and say

00:32:53.840 hey

00:32:54.140 would you 0.98

00:32:54.920 go blow 0.90

00:32:55.280 up a bus 0.98

00:32:55.800 would you 0.95

00:32:56.100 go blow 0.78

00:32:56.480 up a mall 0.70

00:32:57.520 would you 0.99

00:32:57.880 go murder 1.00

00:32:58.500 children 1.00

00:32:59.060 take this

00:33:00.100 pager

00:33:00.440 and then

00:33:01.740 Israel

00:33:02.340 in a

00:33:03.080 simultaneous

00:33:03.540 moment

00:33:04.220 detonated

00:33:05.060 all the

00:33:05.460 pagers

00:33:05.820 and took

00:33:07.060 out

00:33:07.440 every person

00:33:08.860 that was

00:33:09.200 injured

00:33:09.560 every person

00:33:10.280 that was

00:33:11.160 killed

00:33:11.600 with very

00:33:13.020 minor exceptions

00:33:13.940 of someone

00:33:14.380 who was really

00:33:14.940 close to a

00:33:15.580 terrorist

00:33:15.980 they were

00:33:17.720 personally

00:33:19.040 selected by

00:33:20.060 the leaders

00:33:20.560 of Hezbollah

00:33:21.200 Hezbollah

00:33:22.140 decided which

00:33:23.140 terrorist died

00:33:23.940 and by the way

00:33:24.540 within a day

00:33:25.620 or two

00:33:26.000 there was a

00:33:27.040 second operation

00:33:27.840 where Hezbollah

00:33:28.400 was using

00:33:28.960 walkie-talkies

00:33:29.940 those blew up

00:33:31.500 and I'm going to

00:33:32.860 say

00:33:32.980 infiltrated

00:33:33.620 yeah they blew

00:33:34.260 those up as well

00:33:35.040 yeah by the end

00:33:36.340 of it I think

00:33:37.000 every Hezbollah 0.88

00:33:37.800 terrorist

00:33:38.200 every Hamas 0.99

00:33:38.900 terrorist 0.88

00:33:39.380 every Iran 0.97

00:33:40.620 IRGC 0.96

00:33:41.400 terrorist

00:33:41.840 like every time 0.97

00:33:42.800 a phone rang

00:33:43.720 they jumped

00:33:44.860 it was

00:33:46.100 extraordinary

00:33:46.760 and it was

00:33:47.400 a response

00:33:48.100 to so

00:33:48.800 what

00:33:49.580 Hezbollah

00:33:50.620 literally volunteered

00:33:51.600 and said

00:33:52.140 we want to be

00:33:52.820 decimated as bad 0.98

00:33:53.820 as Hamas

00:33:54.800 and Israel

00:33:55.880 said well

00:33:56.440 happy to oblige

00:33:57.300 yeah

00:33:58.140 and you go

00:33:59.060 back to this

00:33:59.520 neighborhood

00:33:59.840 and as we

00:34:00.980 went into

00:34:01.620 this neighborhood

00:34:02.200 which the

00:34:03.120 people have

00:34:03.960 a lot of

00:34:04.600 them have

00:34:04.840 still not

00:34:05.240 returned

00:34:05.680 some of

00:34:06.780 the farmers

00:34:07.200 are coming

00:34:07.620 there to

00:34:07.940 farm

00:34:08.340 but Hezbollah

00:34:09.780 knew the

00:34:10.300 houses that

00:34:10.880 they were

00:34:11.200 blowing up

00:34:11.940 in this

00:34:12.800 neighborhood

00:34:13.140 were farmers

00:34:14.040 they knew

00:34:15.200 that they

00:34:15.500 were families

00:34:16.240 and what

00:34:17.660 they did

00:34:18.460 to justify

00:34:19.580 their attacks

00:34:20.160 early on

00:34:20.620 was when

00:34:21.140 the people

00:34:21.580 had fled

00:34:22.260 the Israeli

00:34:23.700 military

00:34:24.280 would take

00:34:24.940 back in

00:34:25.880 the husband

00:34:27.380 of the home

00:34:28.160 to go get

00:34:28.700 some of their

00:34:29.120 belongings

00:34:29.600 before they

00:34:30.420 would flee

00:34:30.900 again

00:34:31.320 and they

00:34:32.180 justified

00:34:32.820 the military

00:34:33.740 walking in

00:34:34.340 the house

00:34:34.600 as the reason

00:34:35.060 to blow 0.56

00:34:35.360 the house

00:34:35.760 up

00:34:36.040 and so

00:34:36.720 I met

00:34:37.020 with a

00:34:37.300 farmer

00:34:37.600 who had

00:34:38.280 three children

00:34:38.940 the exact

00:34:39.540 same age

00:34:40.040 as my

00:34:40.440 kids

00:34:40.780 and he

00:34:42.120 was showing

00:34:42.940 us

00:34:43.400 his

00:34:44.180 neighborhood

00:34:44.560 and he

00:34:45.540 was talking

00:34:46.000 about how

00:34:46.400 I had to

00:34:46.900 come back

00:34:47.300 to tend

00:34:47.580 the fields

00:34:47.920 because this

00:34:48.300 is my

00:34:48.640 home

00:34:49.020 and I

00:34:49.460 was literally

00:34:50.040 under rocket

00:34:50.800 barrage

00:34:51.220 and would

00:34:51.560 come to

00:34:52.140 work

00:34:52.540 knowing that

00:34:53.760 Hezbollah

00:34:54.220 was targeting

00:34:55.080 the houses

00:34:56.100 and so

00:34:56.700 finally

00:34:57.080 after a few

00:34:58.140 days

00:34:58.540 the homeowner

00:34:59.660 said to the

00:35:00.280 military

00:35:00.580 don't go back

00:35:01.400 into my

00:35:01.740 house

00:35:02.040 because as

00:35:02.780 soon as

00:35:03.080 you go

00:35:03.400 in there

00:35:03.720 they blow

00:35:04.420 up my

00:35:04.760 home

00:35:05.120 and everything

00:35:06.060 is destroyed

00:35:06.640 we went

00:35:06.980 into a

00:35:07.300 home

00:35:07.600 the books

00:35:08.560 of the

00:35:08.860 children

00:35:09.140 were still

00:35:09.600 there

00:35:09.880 the stove

00:35:11.400 was still

00:35:11.960 there the

00:35:12.340 way it

00:35:12.560 was set

00:35:12.800 that morning

00:35:13.340 the one

00:35:14.720 of the

00:35:14.900 homeowners

00:35:15.240 offered me

00:35:16.180 a piece

00:35:16.740 of a

00:35:17.020 broken pot

00:35:17.900 of their

00:35:18.260 home

00:35:18.640 and a

00:35:19.240 burner

00:35:19.700 of the

00:35:20.380 stove

00:35:20.760 and said

00:35:22.540 take it

00:35:22.980 back

00:35:23.260 and a

00:35:23.680 piece

00:35:23.960 of their

00:35:24.220 tile

00:35:24.800 in their

00:35:25.540 children's

00:35:26.180 bathroom

00:35:26.560 I'll put

00:35:27.500 it on my

00:35:27.860 desk for

00:35:28.260 the rest

00:35:28.500 of my

00:35:28.740 life

00:35:29.060 but to

00:35:29.920 hear them

00:35:31.040 talk about

00:35:31.800 the brutality

00:35:33.140 of Hezbollah

00:35:33.880 knowing that

00:35:34.520 you're blowing

00:35:34.940 up a

00:35:35.320 farmer's

00:35:36.120 home

00:35:36.680 who has

00:35:37.460 never

00:35:37.920 bothered

00:35:38.300 you

00:35:38.520 in your

00:35:38.740 entire

00:35:39.080 life

00:35:39.420 for sport

00:35:40.240 it was

00:35:41.080 just for

00:35:41.680 sport

00:35:42.060 at that

00:35:42.380 point

00:35:42.580 it wasn't

00:35:42.960 even

00:35:43.200 killing

00:35:43.600 a person 0.62

00:35:44.100 they knew

00:35:45.400 that they

00:35:45.780 were gone

00:35:46.200 just pure

00:35:48.020 sport

00:35:48.440 and hatred

00:35:48.940 like we're

00:35:49.560 going to blow 0.98

00:35:49.940 up your

00:35:50.240 neighborhood

00:35:50.560 because you

00:35:51.340 are

00:35:51.880 Jewish

00:35:52.760 we know

00:35:53.820 you're not

00:35:54.160 there

00:35:54.480 we know

00:35:55.160 you have

00:35:55.480 fled

00:35:55.780 but we

00:35:56.440 want you

00:35:56.740 to come

00:35:57.040 back to

00:35:57.420 destruction

00:35:57.940 and ruins

00:35:58.640 so you've

00:36:00.040 been in

00:36:00.320 northern Israel

00:36:00.960 have you been

00:36:01.840 in Tel Aviv

00:36:02.440 have you been

00:36:02.900 in Jerusalem

00:36:03.400 where else

00:36:04.140 have you been

00:36:04.580 so been

00:36:06.960 in Tel Aviv

00:36:07.560 as well

00:36:08.080 which is

00:36:08.880 an incredible

00:36:09.480 city

00:36:09.840 I didn't

00:36:10.180 realize how

00:36:10.720 much it's

00:36:11.160 like New

00:36:12.140 York City

00:36:12.680 or a

00:36:13.040 very modern

00:36:14.180 nightlife

00:36:14.800 city

00:36:15.140 but one

00:36:16.520 other thing

00:36:16.820 I want to

00:36:17.140 mention about

00:36:17.600 this trip

00:36:18.080 so far

00:36:18.720 is I met

00:36:19.660 with the

00:36:20.120 mother

00:36:20.660 of one

00:36:22.100 of the

00:36:22.360 hostages

00:36:22.980 that was

00:36:23.380 taken

00:36:23.720 that became

00:36:24.340 unfortunately

00:36:25.200 she became

00:36:25.760 famous

00:36:26.220 if you

00:36:26.680 remember

00:36:27.000 the videos

00:36:27.500 that came

00:36:27.880 out

00:36:28.120 there is

00:36:29.000 a girl

00:36:29.420 that's

00:36:29.700 been

00:36:29.860 separated

00:36:30.420 from her

00:36:30.940 boyfriend

00:36:31.320 she is

00:36:31.960 in between

00:36:32.600 two

00:36:32.920 terraces

00:36:33.340 on a

00:36:33.860 motorcycle

00:36:34.420 and she's

00:36:35.580 reaching out

00:36:36.400 and screaming 0.96

00:36:37.340 for her

00:36:38.080 boyfriend

00:36:38.440 who is

00:36:39.360 being held

00:36:39.940 with his

00:36:40.380 arms behind

00:36:40.740 his back

00:36:41.020 by two

00:36:41.440 terraces

00:36:41.800 and they're

00:36:42.180 separating

00:36:42.640 them

00:36:42.920 and that

00:36:43.840 video just

00:36:44.440 went viral

00:36:45.040 early on

00:36:45.740 in the

00:36:45.980 moments

00:36:46.560 after

00:36:47.040 he was

00:36:47.900 held

00:36:48.160 underground

00:36:48.740 for two

00:36:49.620 years

00:36:49.920 without

00:36:50.140 seeing

00:36:50.500 sunlight

00:36:51.200 and

00:36:52.520 was

00:36:52.960 starved

00:36:53.580 he was

00:36:54.500 returned

00:36:55.000 they just

00:36:55.840 reunited

00:36:56.760 you may have

00:36:57.440 seen that

00:36:57.740 video of them

00:36:58.260 in the

00:36:58.460 hospital

00:36:58.860 finally getting

00:36:59.660 to see

00:36:59.920 each other

00:37:00.260 again

00:37:00.520 and hugging

00:37:00.920 and falling

00:37:01.460 backwards

00:37:01.860 as they

00:37:02.200 hug on

00:37:02.580 the hospital

00:37:03.460 bed

00:37:03.880 and the

00:37:04.760 mother was

00:37:05.220 telling the

00:37:05.820 story of

00:37:06.640 her son

00:37:07.260 and the

00:37:08.920 trauma

00:37:09.380 the way that

00:37:10.740 they were

00:37:11.060 mentally tortured

00:37:11.900 and lied to

00:37:12.680 that there was

00:37:13.380 destruction of all

00:37:14.340 of Israel

00:37:15.300 been destroyed

00:37:16.120 that they were

00:37:17.860 told that their

00:37:18.540 loved ones had

00:37:19.120 been killed

00:37:19.700 their family

00:37:20.220 members had

00:37:20.680 been murdered

00:37:21.200 that no one

00:37:22.280 had survived

00:37:22.900 that they were

00:37:23.960 going to die

00:37:24.720 that they were

00:37:25.140 going to dig

00:37:25.660 their own

00:37:26.060 graves

00:37:26.300 some of them

00:37:26.640 did

00:37:26.840 to see

00:37:28.480 the torment

00:37:29.220 and I think

00:37:29.860 that's one of

00:37:30.340 the things I

00:37:30.800 will forever

00:37:31.800 remember from

00:37:32.520 this trip

00:37:32.960 and I'm

00:37:33.240 grateful for

00:37:33.920 it is

00:37:34.240 when we

00:37:34.960 talk about

00:37:35.600 what this

00:37:36.080 is like

00:37:36.560 the psychological

00:37:38.000 warfare

00:37:38.700 senator

00:37:39.160 and the

00:37:40.240 evil of

00:37:41.000 Hamas 0.96

00:37:41.680 and Hezbollah

00:37:43.160 has no

00:37:44.020 ends

00:37:44.400 whether it's

00:37:45.300 blowing up

00:37:45.840 farmers homes

00:37:46.640 for sport

00:37:47.300 whether it is

00:37:47.900 killing children

00:37:48.800 is that the 1.00

00:37:49.540 soccer ball

00:37:50.140 and seeing

00:37:51.580 these kids

00:37:52.160 who were

00:37:52.480 their only crime

00:37:53.480 was being 0.97

00:37:53.820 Jewish and

00:37:54.320 playing sports

00:37:55.060 that's it

00:37:55.800 psychopath 0.99

00:37:56.680 terrorists 1.00

00:37:58.720 kill civilians 0.71

00:37:59.960 are the 0.99

00:38:00.940 embodiment of 0.97

00:38:01.680 evil

00:38:01.920 and sadly

00:38:02.960 we live in

00:38:03.460 a world

00:38:03.860 where evil

00:38:04.680 is plentiful

00:38:06.400 it's incredible

00:38:07.300 so today

00:38:08.400 I'm going to

00:38:08.740 be leaving

00:38:09.140 with the

00:38:09.540 government

00:38:10.140 and going

00:38:10.620 down to

00:38:11.100 the side

00:38:11.480 of the

00:38:11.820 attack

00:38:12.300 at the

00:38:12.580 festival

00:38:12.940 and I'm

00:38:13.960 going to

00:38:14.100 be meeting

00:38:14.460 with some

00:38:14.880 of the

00:38:15.060 hostages

00:38:15.480 there

00:38:15.800 I'm going

00:38:16.800 to hopefully

00:38:17.260 tell those

00:38:17.780 stories as

00:38:18.340 well

00:38:18.640 in one of

00:38:19.360 our next

00:38:19.680 episodes

00:38:20.160 because it's

00:38:21.120 just telling

00:38:21.880 their stories

00:38:22.440 and letting

00:38:23.200 people understand

00:38:23.860 what happened

00:38:24.480 that day

00:38:24.920 and going

00:38:25.740 to go

00:38:25.900 to the

00:38:26.080 kibbutz

00:38:26.420 that were

00:38:26.640 attacked

00:38:26.920 there

00:38:27.160 and tour

00:38:28.120 the homes

00:38:28.640 of the

00:38:29.420 children

00:38:29.940 that were

00:38:30.400 murdered

00:38:31.040 in their

00:38:31.420 cribs

00:38:31.820 I'm going

00:38:32.900 to meet

00:38:33.140 with the

00:38:33.460 families

00:38:33.800 of the

00:38:34.320 elderly

00:38:34.640 that were

00:38:34.960 killed

00:38:35.220 including

00:38:35.600 holocaust 0.90

00:38:36.120 survivors

00:38:36.400 I met

00:38:36.640 with some

00:38:36.920 holocaust 0.90

00:38:37.380 survivors

00:38:37.800 that were

00:38:38.180 had to

00:38:39.220 are homeless

00:38:39.980 in essence

00:38:40.480 and had

00:38:40.800 to move

00:38:41.080 to Jerusalem

00:38:41.700 to survive

00:38:42.480 the war

00:38:43.040 I met

00:38:43.860 with them

00:38:44.140 as well

00:38:44.540 incredible

00:38:45.020 story

00:38:45.420 so we'll

00:38:45.700 have more

00:38:46.080 of that

00:38:46.320 I promise

00:38:46.740 you coming

00:38:47.220 up in

00:38:47.580 other episodes

00:38:48.380 but I

00:38:49.200 want to

00:38:49.640 say to

00:38:49.940 everyone that

00:38:50.920 is listening

00:38:51.360 if you

00:38:51.820 are a

00:38:52.160 person

00:38:52.480 of faith

00:38:53.020 the

00:38:54.360 pilgrimage

00:38:55.440 to come

00:38:56.180 here

00:38:56.420 and to

00:38:56.800 see

00:38:57.220 I think

00:38:58.100 the hope

00:38:58.620 of our

00:38:58.980 faith

00:38:59.320 in

00:38:59.760 Christianity

00:39:00.260 to walk

00:39:01.340 where Jesus

00:39:01.700 walked

00:39:02.060 to walk

00:39:02.540 where he

00:39:02.860 carried

00:39:03.140 the cross

00:39:03.680 I did

00:39:04.020 that

00:39:04.260 the first

00:39:05.200 day I

00:39:05.480 was here

00:39:05.880 and to

00:39:07.300 be able

00:39:07.920 to just

00:39:08.360 see the

00:39:08.880 Sea of

00:39:09.140 Galilee

00:39:09.600 and witness

00:39:10.220 where so

00:39:11.480 much of

00:39:11.900 our

00:39:12.020 biblical

00:39:12.240 80%

00:39:12.740 of the

00:39:13.000 biblical

00:39:13.260 history

00:39:13.780 in the

00:39:15.280 Bible

00:39:15.880 with Jesus

00:39:16.440 I got

00:39:17.080 to witness

00:39:17.420 from standing

00:39:17.860 in one

00:39:18.260 place

00:39:18.760 and it

00:39:20.780 spread to

00:39:21.220 the world

00:39:21.600 where they

00:39:22.300 believe

00:39:22.780 Jesus

00:39:23.160 was

00:39:23.460 crucified

00:39:23.980 where they

00:39:24.580 believe

00:39:24.840 he was

00:39:25.120 buried

00:39:25.520 and where

00:39:26.700 he rose

00:39:27.220 again

00:39:27.660 in heaven

00:39:28.220 I got

00:39:28.820 to go

00:39:29.040 to the

00:39:29.220 tomb

00:39:29.380 yeah

00:39:29.620 I mean

00:39:30.820 standing

00:39:31.800 in the

00:39:32.160 tomb

00:39:32.560 look as

00:39:33.780 a believer

00:39:34.200 it takes

00:39:35.500 your breath

00:39:35.880 away

00:39:36.160 the

00:39:37.380 as I

00:39:38.940 described

00:39:39.340 it to

00:39:39.780 family

00:39:40.640 in a

00:39:41.020 text

00:39:41.280 I said

00:39:41.660 the

00:39:41.920 level

00:39:43.060 of

00:39:43.420 feeling

00:39:43.960 I would

00:39:44.340 say

00:39:44.480 the Holy

00:39:44.780 Spirit

00:39:45.160 in these

00:39:45.760 places

00:39:46.080 is something

00:39:46.820 I've never

00:39:47.200 felt before

00:39:47.800 the second

00:39:49.000 closest I've

00:39:49.560 ever felt

00:39:50.000 to that

00:39:50.320 type of

00:39:50.680 spiritual

00:39:51.160 gathering

00:39:52.260 of Christians

00:39:52.700 was honestly

00:39:53.240 Charlie Kirk's

00:39:53.860 memorial

00:39:54.180 and it

00:39:56.260 was incredible

00:39:56.920 two of the

00:39:59.160 biggest

00:39:59.660 spiritual

00:40:00.160 moments

00:40:00.520 in my

00:40:00.840 life

00:40:01.100 have

00:40:01.240 happened

00:40:01.500 in the

00:40:01.700 last 60

00:40:02.200 days

00:40:02.500 both

00:40:03.020 in a

00:40:03.500 weird way

00:40:03.840 around

00:40:04.080 tragedy

00:40:04.540 which

00:40:05.320 also is

00:40:05.860 why

00:40:06.100 I think

00:40:06.540 it's

00:40:06.780 incredible

00:40:07.100 when you're

00:40:07.520 Christian

00:40:07.840 that you

00:40:08.160 know

00:40:08.320 that God

00:40:08.680 is still

00:40:09.000 a God

00:40:09.220 of hope

00:40:09.620 Amen

00:40:10.620 As always

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