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Re-election victory forIsrael's Bibi Netanyahu,

the Trump effect, and what'snext for the Middle East.

In the United States,millions of jobs go unfilled.

Is the immigrant caravan the answer?

What a closed borderwith Mexico may cost you.

Offended students at GWU.

Bye-bye Colonial George?

And why Americans are turningtheir backs on religion.

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Now that the Israeli election is over,

what's next for the Jewish state,

the Palestinians, and the Middle East?

President Trump is expected to unveil

his long-awaited MiddleEast peace plan any day now.

Well here from Jerusalemto discuss the Trump plan

and Prime MinisterNetanyahu's election victory

is the former mayor ofShiloh, Israel, David Rubin.

He's also the author of thebook Trump and the Jews.

David, welcome.

So first up, I've got to ask you

about Bibi Netanyahu's victory.

How much credit can Donald Trump take

for the Likud Party win?

- Well definitely it helps.

We have to look back at PrimeMinister Netanyahu's term,

the two years, two and a half years

together with the president

and they've had a lot of commonality,

a very good relationship,and the Golan Heights

sovereignty move was a very big move

and Jerusalem sovereigntymove was a very big move,

very popular in Israel, sothose two recognitions alone,

that has to be a featherin Netanyahu's cap

even though I think that a lotof it came from Washington,

not from him.

- Well, it seems that theUS-Israeli relations are,

have been improved under this president.

And you wrote the book Trump and the Jews

so has Israel ever had a more committed,

better US presidential ally than this one?

- Not at all, not at all.

Look, for a while, I was saying

that President Trump hasbeen the best president

for Israel-United Statesrelations since Harry Truman,

but the fact is that, at thispoint, having seen everything,

looking at the moving ofthe embassy to Jerusalem,

recognition of Jerusalemas Israel's capital,

the doing away of thathorrible Iran nuclear deal

which basically gave themthe pathway to a nuclear bomb

plus billions of dollars,

the closing of the PLOoffice in Washington,

and of course, the GolanHeights sovereignty.

And not paying the terroristsof the Palestinian Authority

who give salaries to theirindividual terrorists.

That had to be stopped.

This has strengthened theUnited States' relationship.

It's turned it into atrue bonding of values

between our two countries.

- And Trump's commitment,his love for Israel,

may be what is driving his peace efforts.

He's unveiling a new peace plan soon.

What do you expect will be in it.

- Well, nobody reallyknows what to expect.

There are different possibilities.

There's talk and there are rumors

about the issue of borders,

what it's going to meanas far as borders go.

There's talk about the possibility that

many of the so-called Palestinians,

the Arab residents of Judea and Samaria,

might be made Jordaniancitizens and a question of

whether they would haveto move to Jordan or not.

Obviously, it would bemuch better for peace

if they were moved over to Jordan,

but I'm not sure thatthat's what's in the plan.

So we're all gonna have tojust be a little bit patient

and we'll see.

Soon after the Israelicoalition is formulated,

I think that's when we're going to see.

- Now Daniel Pipesrecently wrote in a column

mentioning the possibility of Jerusalem

serving as the capital ofboth Palestine and Israel,

Israel maintaining 10% ofthe so-called West Bank,

Judea and Samaria, andthe Palestinians 90%.

So what do you think of that idea, David?

- I think it's a ridiculous idea.

That would be a non-starter

if I ever heard a non-starter.

Look, you're not going to have peace

based on falsehood and basedon fiction and based on lies.

There is no peace that isgoing to be accomplished

in this area without havinga little bit of biblical,

historical precedent.

And when you talk abouthistorical precedent

and you talk about biblical accuracy,

it's not gonna happen unlessIsrael has sovereignty

over all of Judea and Samaria.

Netanyahu has spoken about,

you know, he promisedright before the election

that he's going todeclare sovereignty over,

Israeli sovereignty overthe Jewish communities

in Judea and Samaria.

So that's, you know, thatis a good first step,

but the ultimate stepthat's really going to work

is to declare Israeli sovereigntyover Judea and Samaria,

100% of Judea andSamaria, and if necessary,

having a path to loyal citizenship

for those Arab residentsof Judea and Samaria.

And those who don't wantto be loyal citizens

simply giving them a stipendand moving them over to Jordan.

It's not going to work givingthem 90% of Judea and Samaria.

- [Gary] And David, itseems the Palestinians

may never accept a Jewishstate as their neighbor,

that they'll continuefighting against Israel

no matter what.

- That's absolutely correct.

I was telling you what Ithink is going to work,

what could possibly work.

And in my book, Trump and theJews, I made that quite clear,

that we have to have peaceagreements based on truth,

but it's also a truth thatthe Palestinian Authority

is not going to acceptanything less than 100%

of Judea and Samaria.

It's already been proposed to them.

And you cannot have anysplitting of Jerusalem,

any dividing of Jerusalem,

any dividing of the land of Israel.

It's not gonna work.

We're not like an apple cakethat you cut up into pieces

and you hand out to different parties.

- Well, I'm sure

President Trump--- We're a tiny country

about the size of New Jersey.

- I'm sure President Trumpand Secretary Mike Pompeo

are aware of that.

We'll see what the president comes up with

in the days ahead.

David Rubin, former mayor of Shiloh,

and author of the book Trump and the Jews.

Thank you for your insight, sir.

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- Now that Kirstjen Nielsen is out

as Homeland Security secretary

and former Bordercommissioner, Kevin McAleenan,

has been named as herreplacement, what is next?

Well President Trump is still threatening

to shut down the border

to stop a massive influx of immigrants.

Well joining us with moreon this and other issues

affecting your economic livelihoodis Financial Issues host

and CEO of Financial IssuesStewardship Ministries,

Dan Celia.

Dan, it's so good to see you again.

So President Trump hasn't ruled out

shutting down the border with Mexico.

If he does do it, whowould it harm more, Dan,

the US or Mexico?

- Well, certainly it's gonna harm the US

from a perspective of workers,

the migrant workers in particular.

It depends on what timeof year he does it,

what the season is andhow that's gonna impact

some of our agricultural industry.

But it certainly is gonna have an impact

on the ag industry commodity,

some of the commodities and such.

So that will be a problem.

I think overall it's abigger problem for Mexico

than it's gonna be for the United States

because, if that happens,you've got to remember

we have all these migrantscoming from Central America

and they're gonna be juststaying put in Mexico

and you're gonna have the situation

that we have in Tijuana right now

start to escalate and start to spill over

into all the areas on the border.

It's gonna be a huge, hugeproblem for Mexico even more so.

It is gonna impact oureconomy, but on a small level.

I believe if it is prolongedand that we start seeing

the legalized migrantworkers start to slow down,

then that's gonna be a problem.

- They're not slowing down at this point.

What's moving them to come allthe way from Central America,

risk even death, to getto the United States?

Is it job opportunities?

Must be.

- Well, it is.

It's all about opportunity.

You know, Mexico is very much,

and so are these CentralAmerican countries,

are very much incentivizedto keep them and help them

to get here because guesswhere all their money goes?

It goes back to their homeland.

Look, you know what Gary, no matter what,

we're still the land of opportunity

and this is where jobs are,this is where good pay is.

They understand better thana lot of our workers here.

They understand.

They have an appreciationthat all they've got to do

is work, and they can workas many hours as they want.

- But Dan, the unemploymentrate remains at 3.8%.

That's below full employment,

and I know most Americanswould probably support

allowing in enough legal immigrants

to meet the country'semployment needs right now,

so what should be done on that front?

I mean there are a lotof jobs for them, right?

- You know what, Gary, I wrote an article

about a year and a half or so ago

and talked about this very thing.

I said for the Trump pro-growthagenda to be successful,

we need to emphasize and getto work on legal immigration

because the greatest economy,

we can have all the pro-growth things

working for this economy,

it's not gonna work ifwe don't have workers

to fill the jobs, andwe don't have workers

to fill the jobs.

We have 7.3 million job openings.

- [Gary] All those jobs,Dan, where are they?

What industries are we talking about?

Where do we need most ofour workers right now?

- We are seeing the highlevel technology or IT jobs,

there are huge gaps there,and it goes from that

all the way down to theperson working at Starbucks

or Dunkin' Donuts or somewhere,

that it goes all theway through the economy

in a very, very broad way.

The construction industrywill not ever thrive.

We are seeing housing numbers

that we haven't seen in years.

And we keep talking aboutlower mortgage rates

and buyers from millennialsthat don't want to buy houses.

Half the problem is buildersdon't have capacity to build.

- The stock market has been growing.

The economy's been growingsince this president

came into office.

But I know you and otherfinancial analysts are

a little bit hesitant, maybehave some fears about it,

that it may be slowing a bit.

So what must this president do now

to keep things moving forward, Dan?

- Well I think the number one thing

the president has to do ishe's to get issues resolved

in and around US-Chinatrade and Europe trade

first and foremost.

It's got to be the highestpriority in the administration

from keeping some momentum in the economy.

- And we haven't even talked about Brexit

and how that's influencing

everything,- No.

- the uncertainty about that.

But Dan, we're running out oftime and I want to get this in

because, like many babyboomers, I'm concerned

about this enormous debtand the future our children

and grandchildren will face.

How would they ever be able to manage it

without paying the majorityof their salary in taxes

just to service the debt?

- Yeah, it's not gonna be manageable.

I mean it's manageable right now.

We are sitting at about 100% debt to GDP.

Some are saying 75.

I say 102 by my calculations.

But we're sitting somewhere in that range.

That's, believe it or not,Gary, it's manageable.

It's only manageable though there.

If that keeps going up andgrowth keeps going down

or becomes slowing down,now we're really in trouble.

And that's the problem.

It can't just be growth.

We have to do somethingabout our spending,

and we've done nothingin the last 12 years.

- Dan Celia of FinancialIssues Stewardship Ministries,

as always, we appreciateyou and your insights.

- Thank you, Gary.

I appreciate being here.

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- Senator Ted Cruz isinvestigating Yale Law School

for discriminating against students

who hold traditional Christian values.

Yale has enacted a policy change

that denies stipends or loan repayments

for students who professa traditional view

of sexuality.

Cruz says Yale is violatingthe constitutional rights

of Christian studentsby blacklisting them,

punishing them for their beliefs.

Well joing us with more on this

and also the latest campus craziness

in our nation's capital, is Emma Meshell.

She's with LeadershipInstitute's Campus Reform.

Hello again, Emma.

Good to see you.

So explain to us exactly what Yale did

that has Senator Cruz so upset.

- Well Yale students were up in arms

because Alliance Defending Freedom,

which is a legalorganization that represented

the defendant in theMasterpiece Cakeshop lawsuit,

they actually had a speakercoming to Yale Law School

and students were extremely offended

that he was going to be there

and it triggered a conversation

in which Yale decided toactually remove funding

for students who want todo a summer fellowship

at a Christian legal organization.

And this really shows Yale's bias

because, essentially, what this is

is it's a religious test forstudents based on LGBT issues,

but also this really should alarm us

because these are ournation's top legal scholars

who are at Yale University.

Countless grads from thisschool have become politicians,

they've become judges, senators,the list goes on and on.

We should really be terrified

for our constitutional freedomsand our freedom of religion

if these are our top legal scholars

and they're being taught thatthis is an okay thing to do.

- I'm sure liberals at YaleLaw and elsewhere would argue

that the school has theright to defund groups

that they view as discriminatory.

- Well essentially whatthey're doing here though

is picking and choosing based on

what the school deems acceptable,

and that's really not okaybecause what this does

is it puts Christians at a disadvantage

and they're the only ones

who are really goingto be affected by this,

and it is specific enforcementto target Christians,

and that's what Ted Cruz's case is here.

And we've actually seen caseslike this play out before,

at the University of Iowa,

a group called Business Leaders in Christ.

We've reported about them

at the LeadershipInstitute's Campus Reform.

They had to sue their universityfor the right to choose

their leadership based on whobelieves in Christian morals

and they actually won thislawsuit because, as we know,

the Constitution really upholdsthat freedom of religion.

Ted Cruz knows this.

And we know that if this goes to court,

it's probably not goingto hold up in Yale's favor

because colleges liketo think that they act

as a shelter from the Constitution

and students' constitutional rights,

but really, they don't,and in the court of law,

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and we will see that play out.

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some brilliant legal minds from Yale.

They should know that as well.

That's not gonna hold musterwith the Supreme Court

if it's ever challenged.

Is there any indication

that Yale's backing off on this, Emma?

You know, they may losefederal funding and grants.

- Not so far.

We haven't seen any sort of change up

from Yale's perspective here.

They're holding true.

We will see if theyhold up against Ted Cruz

if he actually does take them to court.

That'd be very interesting to watch.

Campus Reform will befollowing this closely

because this is not only an issue

of students being enforced,

having a liberal point of view

forced upon them by their school,

but this is also a matterof our nation's top minds,

people who are going tobecome our attorneys,

they're going to become our judges,

taking on a skewed understanding

of what freedom of religion actually is.

- And not far from you, Emma,right there in Washington DC

at George Washington University,

students have voted to dump their mascot,

the mascot's nicknamedGeorge the Colonial,

because they say it's offensive.

Explain to me why this happened

because didn't George Washington,

the American Revolutionary war hero,

become our first presidentduring the colonial era?

- Absolutely.

Well, students have takenon an understanding,

thanks to their groupthink and academia,

that anything thatreferences the term colonial

is offensive and must be removed.

And this really is an attitudethat we see all the time

on college campuses, and in this case,

students have taken onthis mindset so much so

that they actually have voted,

a majority of students in thelast student election at GW,

voted to change their mascotfrom George the Colonial

to something else less offensive.

And this really is not a binding decision

because the schoolultimately has the rights

to decide what the mascot is,

but it really does show here

that students are takingon this understanding

that anything thatreferences colonial times

or anything that referencesa founding father,

those sort of things, those are offensive

and, therefore, must be removed.

- So I understand they wanta less offensive mascot,

a hippo?

I wonder if they'll change that

once they realize thathippos actually kill

2,900 people each year.

More people are killed by hippos

than any other African animal.

Do they know that?

- (scoffs) Who knows ifthey know that or not,

but really, students are takingon a skewed understanding

of what we should talk about

and what the conversation shouldbe if something offends us.

Students have reallytaken on this idea that,

when we are offended bysomething someone else does

or something going on at our school,

the answer is always tojust pull it, to hide it,

to throw it away or rip it down,

and that's really not the answer

and it's also not howthe real world works.

It's unfortunate thatstudents are taking on

this understanding that they have a right

to not be offended.

- Okay, Emma Meshell of Campus Reform,

thank you for joining ustoday and setting us straight.

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- America is following Europe's lead

and is now trending away from religion.

According to the General Social Survey,

since 1991, the number of Americans saying

they have no religion hasrisen an alarming 266%.

23.1% of people polledsaid they have no religion.

Catholics are about 23% of the population.

Evangelicals statisticallythe same at 22.5%.

Protestant Christianity hasdropped 62.5% since 1982.

It's now just 10.8% of the population.

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Researchers speculate it's because

people are being moretruthful about their faith

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Many churches today arewatering down the gospel,

avoiding teaching of sin, hell,

the need for repentance and a savior.

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Jesus says: Because you arelukewarm, neither hot nor cold,

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and committed to their faith.

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A Swiss poll done 25 years ago

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It's 33% if both the fatherand mother attend regularly,

only 3% if the mother attends.

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This latest survey isnot all gloom and doom.

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so the branches may bear much fruit.

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