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damn right that's correct then as you're a moralist you're a hypocrite i'm no i'm not i am a moralist wait let me ask you a question if we had a tape of everything you've ever said privately would you come out to be saintly or and whole i would not be an inkling but only all related and i never chose never use the n. word never you never use the n. word that so who way has certainly had any other words from me that the trump even attack another religion rooms and word i said when your famous limit let you grope them i've never done and what i've never said that ok you're a giant and what i get i ok it doesn't mean a damn thing to me i keep telling you there are a moralist and you don't care what people say privately yes hillary clinton called a jewish guy a jewish s.o.b and i wrote a piece in the wall street journal defending her against charges of anti-semite ok but i care what people do not what they say privately if hitler said i hate jews i hate jews i wish they all die and didn't kill one jew i wouldn't care you wouldn't bother me of course not ok i hear what people do ok so do you think i care what
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they say to you well privately then let's record everybody you know well i don't have time to really know that will know about everybody if i learned some you don't learn a damn thing from private toll i don't know you didn't hear anything from what nixon said about you know nothing because when it came to saving the jewish state he did it ok that's all that mattered to me then as we'll be right back with politicking after the break dennis is book is the rational bible we shall not discuss the new deliverer of the bible that's right and as for a guy following these words like you.
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aeroflot russian and lights. you know world of big partisan movies lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.
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aeroflot russian and lights. that's a very rough terrain a sort of climate and you have to fight through difficult for them to flank. it was gunshots on top of them and it's all very fresh what happened and. even not i. don't think any of. you know i don't want. to see it but a body in this world is ready to participate in the good. old to me a good meeting and. you don't think about these you know the soldier on no you've got three it's like and you know and the other patients.
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come. back and politicking i am larry king and i'm with dennis prager nationally syndicated host of the dennis prager show founder of the online prager university you hard to believe this we're all friends he's a bestselling author his latest book is the rational bible exodus god slavery and freedom i normally never give my opinion i don't just love you've been doing this for years right taking on dennis prager a couple of political questions and we'll get to your book out of midterms going to come out. i there i'm not i never avoid questions but the truth is i just don't make predictions what do you think what i think if they were held today i think it
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be it would be nip and tuck i just don't know look i thought hillary was going to win so asking me political predictions is not wise i'm not good at predictions what do you make of the state of the country and its division well the division i wrote that we're in the civil war before trump was ever elected we are in the civil war the left and right are always different as the south and north were in fact i think even more different so it is what it is i'm very sorry about it but i don't make any bones i mean look if you believe that that having an all black dorm at a college is a good thing and you don't that's a pretty big division liberals were for integration the left is for segregation one of the things i show all the time is that leftism has nothing in common with liberalism except big government and that's an example race the the liberal dream
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on race is that race doesn't matter the point race does matter to the left your color matters so that an all black dorm or a black graduation is now common and therefore you oppose the last tuesday. well no no let me explain first of all i know i was going to go yes there are i didn't i never lived them you don't like them i don't like them but i don't oppose them for only one reason if there was a christian dorm in other words by religion i don't mind where people unite on values i might where people unite on race. that's so but so that's what you it's something i would never live in one i wish they didn't exist i don't think it's healthy i want to use the dorm with asians and christians and buddhists and so on but there is a difference between race and religion and are you happy with the record of the
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trumpet ministration yes i'm thrilled with all the people who've departed the white i didn't care less and the us you asked me about its achievements not not its personnel but the personnel make the achievements you're right but the president is ultimately responsible i am happy with with the supreme court nomination i am happy with reining in the government bureaucracy i think it's good for america i am happy with the lower tax rate so that we're finally at sweden's level the you know that we had the highest tax rate but i don't remember there was one exception in the entire western world on companies and now look at the economy so everything's good so why then say everything is why this job is vision if everything's going well we have the sharp division under obama two left and right can't stand each other or how come in the sixty's when we had division we also had giants in the senate who dined together that's right we made allowances for each other and now there's right none of that direct why not because you and i will differ on the genesis of the
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reason but i think the reason is that liberals have gone so far left when you have has not gone far enough that's correct i don't think it's comparable you don't think no i gave you the race example liberal has a lot of examples well well what do you think of that example do you think an all black the warm is a liberal or a leftist idea i think it's a result of racism. but there was more racism in the sixty's and you were against black dorms then i liberal view was integration in our remaining let's discuss you ok funny how did you then is franco from almighty decide to write a bible i've been teaching the bible from the hebrew my whole life and. non jews and jews equally have taken the courses and thousands bought my tapes i have something i know how to make it relevant i just admitted that that's the reason that i'm doing this the bible was america's central book for most of its
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history today it's ignored i would like to re re center it in american life it's the greatest book ever written but if you just sit down and read it you will know why and i'm i try to explain i'll give you want to example it says honor your father and mother the severity profound thing we're told to love god we're told to love the stranger and we're told to love our neighbor. but we're never told to love our parents because the bible is very sophisticated and understand some children a lot of children just can't love their parents villages kids not duchesse still interest normal know even in normal homes but whether you like your parent or not you have to honor them it's like i stood up when jimmy carter entered my radio studio many years ago i don't like the man i don't like his presidency but i stand
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up for a president so to you honor your parents even if you don't like them this is a very profound notion do you know there's a crisis in america of adult children who won't speak to a parent it is an epidemic nobody talks about it but i know about through my radio i escorting and says raise your hand if you know a family in which an adult child refuses to speak to a parent about a third of the hands go up no matter what the audience when you ask them to honor them yes not like them i don't care if that's right it doesn't matter if you like your parents that's your business but god's business is whether you honor them parental authority and role is very important this can relate to politics and anything of call of i was at my grandchildren the twins but mitzvah and bar mitzvah and for first time in a long time i attended a ceremony and read from the old testament right and that god. was a hard lawyer whom i slaved by enemies believe in me if you don't believe in me
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bread god i am going god you will worship me and another right he was an egoist he that's all i mean over there right he got his wife you read that book that's why i started with exodus you would have a different understanding of god god the reason that god wants you to only worship him and no other gods why is because if there's one god is one morality. whereas if you have many gods you have many moralities every every society around the jews had child sacrifice and human sacrifice this god comes and says you meant you may not sacrifice human beings if there's one god everybody has to listen to him if he's only the god of the jews and there are many other gods goalkeeper he also is like having your children he says slay enemies you never said slay enemies you find me once where god in the in the torah later afterwards yes and joshua it's
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a claim yes so that's correct i didn't explain that out of what because. the the god of this bible is the same god who said love your neighbor as yourself love the stranger there was the first time in the in the history of the world people were told to love people who were different from them it is the most frequent law in the torah the first five books love the stranger so for them this is the canaanites were considered particularly evil they were the ones who did child sacrifice and. that was the way it was understood you will slay your enemy what is he supposed to say. let them continue sacrificing children i mean i don't i don't have a perfect answer but the only reason we asked the question is because of that book that book gave us the moral standards to question god is real means fight with god that book is not in our constitution you're right but it our constitution is
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predicated on that but does that mean it means that every one of the founders and even later lincoln lincoln did not go to church regularly but the the book on his night table was the bible this country is in moral chaos precisely because it's not on people's night tables. where in moral chaos we are in laurel chaos yes and when we're gods in a way we treat women. in that part of a cell with the pens how we treat movement obviously there is if a man holds a woman in disgrace all wants to grab her by that that we had that's right moral chaos yes no that's immoral but it's not moral chaos more chaos is when you don't know right from wrong the the fact that i belong to good of course it's wrong yes that's so i said it's not moral chaos i agree with you both people think it's wrong as it is moral chaos is when. you grow up and think that. that race is important that that's that's that's a terrible that's
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a racist notion race is irrelevant i don't who is or ace no jews are it jews jews are in a nation and not a religious right correct that's right a race. well there is a jewish way but i don't honor race i honor you are jews right but i don't i don't honor race the concept of race is not and anyway it's religion but you can't convert to being black you can convert to being a jew so obviously it's not just a race ok there are black jews white jews but there were no white blacks or asian blacks ok so so it's not comparable moral chaos is when people think that israel is the villain in the middle east that's moral chaos those people are there but a lot of compas is broken one of you think israel can do wrong things. not not against israel but that they like that they're leaving settlements in mind bad idea that's
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fine you it's perfectly able to just make you anti semitic no it is not a lot of what antis zionist makes you when tyson medic not critical of his are fine if you ionise the belief that a jewish state can exist the muslim world does not believe a jewish state can exist and the leftists support them they do yeah well i know a lot of people on the left who don't support irrelevant the left you don't irrelevant . the. you heard of b.d.s. . boycott divestment and sanctions of israel when you isolate the only one state on earth to economically strangle it and that state by coincidence is the only jewish state in the world i think you have a problem you have a problem with obama but he sold them more weapons than any present all the presidents combined sold israel more white i don't know but more old presidents combined many from oh yes ok so funny i didn't my problem with obama was about iran
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not about israel. well i think the whole world is feels very bad about iran but we didn't let the they don't the europeans rush to tehran to do business with them it's not true very few people feel bad about iran the israelis do and republicans in america do that's it then is you've got to come back again soon pleasure thank you larry fasts always a joy always love his latest book is the rational bible exodus god slavery and freedom and sound now in available everywhere including for download thank benenson thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me a king's things i love you dennis and don't forget use the politicking hash tag and that's all for this edition of politicking.
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aeroflot russian and lights. in a world of big partisan locks and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.
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. murder was never great was founded on the rapes and the murders. nothing changed so we said no response to these situations that we do in the ways. people get shot every day she is just people kill each other blood for killing children. so it was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with why this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason.
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coming up this hour a special report from syria on how the country is slowly rising from the ruins off the seven years of conflict. oh my god. that's coming up. on the palestinian president to protest in the gaza strip continues with palestinians attempting to break through the border fence destroying so which is it responded to take gas meanwhile there's more protests erupt on the border we speak to a rap artist who shot to fame off the phone new video at the demonstrations. oh yeah. and hillary clinton back young girl who noting clash during the national anthem in protest against
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social injustice we put the issue up for the. little girl needs to spend more time in a constructive manner trying to get what she wants it's not to say it's wrong for them to be so we stand up for what they believe in that's what this little girl was doing that's all. they're welcome it's one am here in moscow you're watching international i will start this hour with syria where years of war have left the country in ruins huge amounts of key infrastructure have been destroyed including factories and hospitals we visited some of the main sites is rebuilding start some people try to get their lives back on track. if damascus is serious about welcoming back millions of its refugees well it has a lot to do first and foremost most of the country has been reduced to rubble by
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the war so a lot of people just don't have a place they can call home anymore secondly infrastructure is a big issue because major transportation arteries have been cut and thirdly electricity is so scars that anyone who has a power generator well is a very lucky person. that's why factories like this one are crucial most syrian cities have to survive amid a chaotic and unstable power supply we've been told that when anti assad fighters captured this facility they looted it clean for equipment and left it badly damaged it's fully operational now but lack of power of course isn't the worst that syrians have had to endure lie i swear we were dying of hunger one kilo of bread for one thousand lire you have to eat otherwise you starve to death and i am. rice and
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bulger nothing that. we were living in hunger and poverty we would wake up in the morning not knowing how to manage to get our daily food children suffered malnutrition that ten year old girl looked like a two year old. throughout the war some parts of syria have seen well the riff experiment but it would have been much much worse if it wasn't for the incredibly fertile soil and that's why you hear some branches of the trees actually broken under the weight of peaches advanced agriculture and international aid is helping to put food back on people's plates so now with the fighting contained to smallpox. it's syrians can treat themselves to something nice this ice cream plant has even had a go with its old interpretation of the oreo recipe yet all of this is great on
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paper but doesn't help much of delivery trucks have no rules to drive on. this just over forty kilometers between the cities of holmes and hama a trip that should have taken somewhat thirty minutes would stretch up to six hours see with this bridge destroyed of commuters had to gamble with their lives taking long detours through to hardy's territories this newly paved highway has brought the drive back to well under an hour this market in homes is more than two thousand years old it has seen many things in this civil war is not the worst of those it has survived through and it is hoped that the rest of the country will follow its model. of reporting from syria forty.
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well amid the massive reconstruction there is also room for artwork because these artists once lived in a refugee camp need a mask to flee when it came under attack although with peace returning they decided to return to depict the aftermath of the fighting they say they wanted to leave a record for future generations of what happened at the camp and what they went three. meanwhile the trumpet ministration has stopped funding for stabilization projects in syria but at the same time u.s. officials say they are making preparations for the final battle against eyesore. we're remaining in syria the focus is the ensuring defeat of isis we still have not launched the final phase to defeat the physical caliphate this is actually being prepared now and that will come at a time for choosing but it is coming for almost all of syria has not been liberated from isn't this most of it is back under the control of the legal government in
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damascus from the reconstruction of many of series cities devastated by the conflict is well underway the president trump says the u.s. and its allies most of the credit for defeating the terrorists. coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the territory but done a great job with isis we have just absolutely decimated isis just absolutely obliterated isis in iraq we're joshua landis head of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma gave us his thoughts on the issue. the united states does not want assad to become too strong there are hoping to keep leverage in order to try to push iran out of the country to get a better deal for the kurds and and of course they're also worried about what's going to happen if their profits where there are very complex negotiations and and russia is at the heart of them so there are many competing agendas in washington
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and as long as president trump is not spending a lot of money there i think he's happy to keep a few thousand troops if that increases america's leverage the united states does not want to spend a lot of money and that's quite clear and many people have been complaining bitterly about deaths typically in iraq and other areas that have been quite badly destroyed they've been pressuring a saudi arabia which just said it would spend another hundred million in syria stabilization they've been pushing france and and european countries to try to get them to spend more money rather than washington this has been one of president trump's constant refrain is that others have to pay for this process. that has come to light pentagon analyst was stripped of his security clearance after he complained about how lucrative contracts were given to stephan helper a man he turned to be an f.b.i. informant with more details on this is kind of. viewers will recall stefan helper
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at the university of cambridge helper met with an individual from the trump campaign carter page and this meeting took place roughly three weeks before the f.b.i. launched its investigation into alleged collusion between trump and russia it was later revealed that stefan helper has a long history as an f.b.i. informant he's worked with the cia what we're also learning is that an individual named adam a lot of injure has been stripped of his security clearance now adam levin sure is a twelve year pentagon strategist he has worked with the pentagon he raised why it was that stefan helper was receiving over a million dollars over the course of six years and different contracts and it wasn't exactly clear what work he was carrying out now adam levin juror raised this complaint and he was then stripped of his security clearance now he filed a whistleblower retaliation complaint and his attorneys are pointing out kind of an
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interesting chain of events this is what his attorney has to say. rick to keep pope was contracts very close to the vest and nobody seems to have any idea what he was doing the time he. did a good chunk of it. he composed. the burmans as he's free. is it possible that adam a lot of injure was fired simply for asking about the money that was going to step on help or in these contracts these allegations are being raised there's a lot of talk about when is it proper to strip someone of their security clearance and when is it not it indicates that there seems to be quite a bit of disagreement within the halls of power in the united states as we head up to the midterm congressional elections any mashona form and my five intelligence offices says that whistle blows in the u.s. not receiving treatment. i think we have to await the outcome of his trial of his case just to see what the actual facts might be however it does raise some
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interesting concerns one of course the over reliance of the u.s. intelligence agencies on contracting out their work and the huge amounts of money that are there by paid to contractors usually friends of whatever administration is in power secondly of course we have to think about what actually happens to whistleblowers in the u.s. because they've had a really rough time those coming out of the intelligence agencies over the last decade and the americans say they have this procedure where whistleblowers can can brace their concerns and they will be properly addressed and yet we see time and time again that they're not so i think we need also to consider what might be the best path for whistleblowers to have confidence that if they have concerns about crime or about corruption they will be heard they were the investigation will occur those who might be needed to be held to account will be held to account but the whistleblower will not be penalized and it appears from this case the whistleblower yet again has been penalized.
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