Share-a-thon | Day 1

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1. 0:02In Matthew 22, 37 through 40, Jesus said,
2. 0:06love the Lord your God with all your heart
3. 0:08and with all your soul and all your mind.
4. 0:10This is the first and greatest commandment.
5. 0:13And the second is like it.
6. 0:14Love your neighbor as yourself.
7. 0:16All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.
8. 0:19Love God your love, too.
9. 0:21It's Charathon on American Family Radio.
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13. 1:01Good evening everyone. Welcome to the Hamilton Corner, the spring,
14. 1:062026 Shareathon edition of the program.
15. 1:10My name is Abraham Hamilton the third.
16. 1:12I am joined by the corner contingent right across from me,
17. 1:15Up on my man, a hundred grand Mr. Bobby.
18. 1:17Stirrr, ozein, his Shamathon Best
19. 1:21that he's wearin' in the screening room,
20. 1:23produce extraordinaire, often imitated,
21. 1:25never duplicated the real JMac.
22. 1:28Ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to rock
23. 1:29and roll with today's edition of the program.
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28. 1:55share-thon for those who may be new to the American Family Radio Network is the
29. 2:01time that we take three days in the spring, three days in the fall to where
30. 2:06we appeal to you, the listener directly, to support the work of the ministry here materially
31. 2:13and financially for those who are able to give, for those who are unable to give at the moment,
32. 2:18we ask you, we covet your prayers for the work of God in our nation generally and specifically
33. 2:24for the work that God is doing through American Family Radio because we believe God has established
34. 2:29this ministry for this moment that would darkness, swelling all around us on many different
35. 2:35fronts, that one of the sources that God has used to convey his truth to a dying
36. 2:41world has been this ministry. And so we make that appear to you, it enables us to
37. 2:45be completely free from being dependent upon external sources that would seek to
38. 2:50lean on you, to change the content that you offer due to the financial strings that
39. 2:56are attached. We have no allegiances or loyalties other than Jesus Christ.
40. 3:02First and foremost, his holy word and to you, our supporters and listeners, there's nothing
41. 3:08in between that.
42. 3:09So the number to call again is 877-616-2396 or you can get securely online at EFR.net.
43. 3:18This is the show that we remind you daily as you're making your transition from your part
44. 3:22time jobs where you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
45. 3:27I want to remind you that what goes on in your house is far more important than what
46. 3:31goes on in the White House. It's not because the things in the White House are
47. 3:35unimportant. It's not because we cannot influence or impact the White House at
48. 3:39all, but we are not directly involved in what transpires at the White House,
49. 3:43where we whereas in our homes, we are directly involved and engaged. And so I say
50. 3:51what goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White
51. 3:54House because you and I have a mandate and a responsibility to execute our King's
52. 3:58commission starting first in our homes.
53. 4:02Every show that we start, Sharethon included, we turn to God's holy word because we cannot
54. 4:07engage in the world around us effectively nor sufficiently if we try to do so by putting
55. 4:13our Bibles on the shelves.
56. 4:16But we must utilize God's word, see what God has revealed about himself in his word, what
57. 4:22God says about mankind in his word, and how he requires his people to engage.
58. 4:27It lines all of that out for us in his holy word.
59. 4:30And today is no exception.
60. 4:31We're going to begin the program.
61. 4:33And James chapter two, James chapter two verse 26.
62. 4:37And we're turning here because there are things that are happening before even stepping
63. 4:41into the studio.
64. 4:42I came on at four a little earlier than normal, but president Trump seemed to be holding fast
65. 4:47with APM deadline in Iran.
66. 4:50You know, we need to and I've been saying this repeatedly to pray for our leaders, to pray
67. 4:55for our nation to pray for our servicemen and women,
68. 4:59because this is a critical time,
69. 5:01a critical time that we are living in.
70. 5:06And so that is commanded of us in scripture.
71. 5:09And in James chapter two, verse 26,
72. 5:12the word of God says this,
73. 5:14for just as the body without the spirit is dead,
74. 5:18so also faith without works is dead.
75. 5:23I'll read it again.
76. 5:25For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
77. 5:33Now some have asked what can that mean because we have the teaching from the Apostle Paul,
78. 5:38for example, that explains that we are saved by grace through faith.
79. 5:44Yet, the Apostle James, the brother of Jesus, half brother, naturally speaking, is saying
80. 5:52And faith without works is dead.
81. 5:53So how do you reconcile those two verses?
82. 5:55They seem to be contradicting one another.
83. 6:00When the simple reality is they're not contradicting
84. 6:02one another at all.
85. 6:03The Apostle Paul, when explaining that we are saved
86. 6:05by grace through faith, and here's the big fancy word,
87. 6:08the soteriology, the soteriological,
88. 6:12teaching that the Apostle Paul is offering,
89. 6:14is explaining that salvation that we enjoy,
90. 6:17that the free is a free gift of God,
91. 6:20that we are not saved by any works that we perform,
92. 6:23we are saved by grace alone, through faith alone,
93. 6:27through the finished work on the cross alone.
94. 6:30There's nothing we can add to secure our salvation.
95. 6:33There's nothing we can add to purchase our salvation.
96. 6:36We are saved as a result of what Jesus has secured
97. 6:41on our behalf.
98. 6:43What James is explaining is the fruit of
99. 6:47or the outward working of salvation.
100. 6:50The results of salvation, what James is talking about
101. 6:53is what happens in and through the life of a person
102. 6:56who has been saved.
103. 6:58All right, so Paul is explaining how to become saved.
104. 7:01James is explaining what happens once we are saved.
105. 7:05And the reason why James is saying that
106. 7:08because there are some people who would suggest
107. 7:10that, well, I'm saved, but my life doesn't events that.
108. 7:15And they quote the most off quoted, misquoted,
109. 7:19decontextualized scripture ever, which is judge not.
110. 7:22You can't judge me, only God can be my judge.
111. 7:26Nah, God is the ultimate judge.
112. 7:30For God's people have an obligation to judge.
113. 7:32We just don't have the way we're thought to condemn.
114. 7:35I refer to you, refer people to Psalm 1
115. 7:37when the Lord says to the believer
116. 7:39to walk not in the counsel of the ungodly.
117. 7:42Well, I shall not judge.
118. 7:43No, no, no, God commands me to judge.
119. 7:45In order to meet a comply with what is taught in Psalm 1,
120. 7:48I must be able to identify what and who is ungodly.
121. 7:54Then I'm commanded once having made that identification
122. 7:57of what and or who is ungodly, then I stay away from that.
123. 8:03I stay away from that.
124. 8:04That's a judgment.
125. 8:05What I don't have the authority to do is to condemn.
126. 8:08I don't get to put anybody in hell,
127. 8:12but I have an obligation to judge.
128. 8:14But this is what the scripture teaches.
129. 8:15My obligation to judge begins with myself
130. 8:20that I am to judge myself righteously.
131. 8:24And then when it comes to others, external to me,
132. 8:28that I apply the same standard to myself
133. 8:32as I apply to someone else.
134. 8:34So when you read the text, faith, without works is dead,
135. 8:37the first application of that verse is to me.
136. 8:41If I am a believer as I profess to be,
137. 8:44then there are certain things that should be evident through my life.
138. 8:49I need to assess whether or not I am a producer of good fruit.
139. 8:54I must assess whether or not the spirit of God is evident in me through the fruit
140. 9:00that is produced by Holy Spirit in my life.
141. 9:03I have an obligation to do that.
142. 9:05This is what the Apostle James is talking about.
143. 9:08Fakes without works is dead.
144. 9:10If I am saved, then that means I have a sobriety concern in the reality.
145. 9:15of eternal life. There is a sobriety and a conviction concerning the things that God proclaims.
146. 9:21There is a reality that I love what God loves and I loathe what God loaves. There is a reality
147. 9:26that have an obligation to live as though I have been born again. And there are certain
148. 9:33characteristics and features of regeneration that you cannot conceal. You cannot conceal.
149. 9:41This is one of the reasons why one of my favorite things to do is to hear people testify
150. 9:45I haven't been born again.
151. 9:48A friend of mine was a brother in the faith,
152. 9:50talks about man, before I was born again,
153. 9:52you know, I was raised on the block,
154. 9:53I used to fight all the time.
155. 9:55Somebody look at me sideways, I'm, you know,
156. 9:59I would bust them up real quick, you know?
157. 10:02Talk to another friend, you know?
158. 10:06I used to be profane in my speech,
159. 10:08but God has redeemed me.
160. 10:11And the redemption and the regeneration is so evident
161. 10:14because when you hear the testimony,
162. 10:16It is you're almost overwhelmed and shocked.
163. 10:20No way, this brother was so gentle, so loving.
164. 10:23Never would I realize he was a nuk if you buck kind of guy.
165. 10:29That's what the word of God does.
166. 10:30This is what the Apostle James is talking about
167. 10:33when he says just as the body without the spirit is dead,
168. 10:36so also his faith without works is dead.
169. 10:38You can't sell the notion that you're born again,
170. 10:42yet your life is continually and perpetually
171. 10:47It's not distinct distinct from those who have not been born again.
172. 10:54It's not possible.
173. 10:56God knows we get saved.
174. 10:57We don't get in a new mind instantaneously.
175. 11:00Being born again doesn't make anybody sin less, but being born again does make you and
176. 11:06me sin less.
177. 11:10Because one of the major features of being born again is that the believer is mortified,
178. 11:16mortified by their own sin.
179. 11:20That's why it's not so easy for the believer to run around talking about what other people
180. 11:23are not doing because our names are on Michael Jackson, but we are consistently looking at
181. 11:29the man or woman in the mirror.
182. 11:34So this is what the scripture is meaning and how we understand scripture, interpret scripture.
183. 11:40Paul and James are not rivals.
184. 11:42Paul and James are working together.
185. 11:44Paul is explaining how one must be saved.
186. 11:47You are saved by grace through faith.
187. 11:49finished work on the cross, Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Mosaic Law, Jesus Christ
188. 11:55is the fulfillment of the Passover. What Passover pointed to is fulfilled in Christ Jesus. That's
189. 12:00why in Luke's recording of the Gospel, Luke records Jesus as they're participating in the
190. 12:07Last Supper, which was also a Passover meal in which Jesus inaugurated what we describe as the
191. 12:13Lord's Supper as he is participating with the back bread of the AFI Coleman as after they had
192. 12:19taking the third cup of redemption during the Passover, Jesus says, this day, this cup that
193. 12:27you're partaking of is the new covenant in my blood.
194. 12:31This cup of redemption that you're taking is the new covenant in my blood.
195. 12:38And as often as you partake in this meal, do so in remembrance of me.
196. 12:42And the Apostle James comes in and describes me what happens in the life of a believer who
197. 12:47has been born again.
198. 12:49Faith without works is dead.
199. 12:51If you are redeemed, your life should echo that reality.
200. 12:55If you are born again, your life should look as if you are born again.
201. 13:00There are certain appetites, certain approaches, certain things.
202. 13:04When you are born again, the things that usually, that used to not bother you, now they become
203. 13:08odious to you.
204. 13:11It's like a person who is not a smoker, for example, and you enter the presence of a smoker.
205. 13:20before when you used to be a smoker, you didn't smell certain things.
206. 13:23And now that you're not smoking anymore, that aroma stands out to you.
207. 13:27That's the example I'm talking about.
208. 13:31James is honing in on that, just as the spirit, just as the body without the spirit is dead,
209. 13:37so also faith without works is dead, man.
210. 13:44You can't sell that I'm born again, yet there's no evidence of regeneration at any point in
211. 13:53in your life. God knows where we are when He saves us. He knows that the holes we were in,
212. 14:01when He redeemed us, when He found us. But when you've been redeemed, man, that redemption
213. 14:08bears evidence in your life. It bears evidence in my life. And here's the other thing. It
214. 14:13continues to bear evidence. You never get to the point where you arrive because God continues
215. 14:18to refine and reform and to purify us to where we grow from glory to glory to glory.
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220. 15:00We live in a day when America's families are under attack like never before.
221. 15:05Buddy Smith, Senior Vice President of the American Family Association.
222. 15:09The war against Biblical principles rages on numerous fronts.
223. 15:14The Internet, Hollywood, Washington, D.C., America's corporate boardrooms, and the list goes on.
224. 15:20At American Family Association, we're committed to standing against the enemies of God, the
225. 15:26enemies of your family, and we recognize it's an impossible task without God's favor and
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227. 15:34Thank you for being faithful to pray for this ministry, to give financially and to respond
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229. 15:42What you do on the home front is crucial to what we do on the battle front.
230. 15:47We praise God for your faithfulness.
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232. 15:56biblical foundations.
233. 15:57I'm Janine from Clarksville, Arkansas.
234. 16:04I've been listening regularly to AFR for almost a year now and decided to become a monthly
235. 16:10donor during the spring shareathon this past year.
236. 16:14The programming on AFR provides a platform for honing my apologetic skills and keeps me
237. 16:20informed on issues in the news from a biblical worldview and on stories I might
238. 16:26not hear on legacy media. I was also challenged this year when listening to
239. 16:32today's issues in May when the conversation turned to a discussion
240. 16:38regarding hand-capping the Bible with a subsequent interview with a mother-in-law
241. 16:43of the staff member who had completed that challenge in three years. I thought
242. 16:48about that one of the instructions for the King of Israel found in Deuteronomy 1718 was
243. 16:55that he write out for himself in a book, a copy of the law. So I began that challenge
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251. 17:53Welcome back to day one of the spring
252. 18:002026, Sharethon, edition of the Hamilton Corner.
253. 18:03Abraham Hamilton III is my name.
254. 18:06We are, as I mentioned in day one, the number to call is 877-616-2396.
255. 18:14That number again is 877-616-2396 or you can give securely online at aFR.net.
256. 18:23That is aFR.net as I was sharing before.
257. 18:27There are lots of places where you can get news and information and some places are better
258. 18:32than others.
259. 18:33One thing that you can rely upon here, and many of you who are listening, you have come to rely
260. 18:38upon, is that we will always endeavor to anchor what is communicated on these airways on this
261. 18:45network in God's holy word.
262. 18:48It's one thing to have an opinion.
263. 18:52Opinions are like armpits and elbows.
264. 18:54Everybody has at least one for the most part.
265. 18:57Sometimes people have two.
266. 18:59And when someone has none, that's a rarity.
267. 19:02But what we endeavor to do is to aid the audience in navigating the issues of the day.
268. 19:10This is what we seek to do in this program through God's holy word.
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271. 19:27I'd like to play a testimony similar to the one before, man.
272. 19:32I was so, so powerful that being challenged right on these airwaves with the hand copying
273. 19:40of God's holy word.
274. 19:41You'll remember as she alluded to in the book of Deuteronomy, the Israelite kings were commanded
275. 19:47to have their own copy of God's holy word.
276. 19:50But what happened when kings failed to comply with that command, it ended up having downstream
277. 19:56consequences on their functioning as monarchs and then ultimately on the thrust of the society,
278. 20:04so much so to where you get centuries down the line to where Josiah was surprised to learn
279. 20:09about this thing called the book of the law.
280. 20:12And similarly, we're experiencing a degradation of our own society because while we have in
281. 20:18God we trust on our Federal Reserve notes our society does not look like we are trusting
282. 20:24in God.
283. 20:25So let's listen together to this listener testimony, someone situated just as many of
284. 20:30you are right now listening to this program to hear how God used this network to minister
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286. 20:37I'm Kay and I live in Newton, Kansas.
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288. 20:47So I drove to Tupelo the summer of 2023 to celebrate and praise the Lord for blessing
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323. 23:06Now I wanna turn for a moment
324. 23:08because as I said yesterday, President Trump gave a deadline
325. 23:14to the Iranians of 8 p.m. Eastern time today,
326. 23:19or else, what he said, or else he threatened to strike,
327. 23:24using our military to strike power plants, electrical,
328. 23:30locations, infrastructure bridges,
329. 23:33other locations all throughout Iran.
330. 23:35And then earlier today, before I came on the air at 4 p.m., President Trump was approaching
331. 23:41a press gaggle and he was asked whether or not he would hold fast to his 8 p.m. deadline
332. 23:47and he responded, quote, 8 p.m. is happening, but a concrete deal could change things, end
333. 23:54quote.
334. 23:55So he still is saying that he's hopeful for a deal to come to the fore, but he's expressing
335. 24:03his Resolute Commitment to Honor that 8 p.m. deadline.
336. 24:08One of the things that may not be obvious is that the rogue Iranian regime has completely
337. 24:15cut off internet access to people in the country in Iran.
338. 24:21And so it's been cut off for nearly 40 days.
339. 24:23And so there are questions circulating whether or not the people in Iran are aware of what
340. 24:30President Trump has been saying.
341. 24:32There obviously the speculations no one can say for certain what the people physically on the ground and Iran are saying
342. 24:38But that does present a tortured
343. 24:41Consequence but President Trump earlier this morning at 7 a.m. Eastern time this morning made this post
344. 24:49And if you're watching the show Jeff would you put it up on the screen for the people that he posted on?
345. 24:54truth social
346. 24:57He posted this quote a whole civilization will die tonight
347. 25:03Never to be brought back again.
348. 25:07I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.
349. 25:10However, now that we have complete and total regime change, where different, smarter, and
350. 25:16less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionary-ly wonderful can happen.
351. 25:22Who knows, in all caps, of course, we will find out tonight one of the most important
352. 25:27moments in the long and complex history of the world.
353. 25:3147 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end.
354. 25:36God bless the great people of Iran in, I ran in quote, posted at 8, at 706 a.m. Eastern
355. 25:43this morning.
356. 25:46That's a lot.
357. 25:47That's a lot in one post.
358. 25:52And that has caused many people to be concerned.
359. 25:55Now if you've been paying attention to the way President Trump speaks, he's often, he often
360. 25:59and speaks in hyperbolic tones, you know, if he had a conversation for him, it was the greatest
361. 26:06conversation. It was a great conversation. If somebody is nice to him, they're wonderful people,
362. 26:13wonderful people. They're not nice to him. Very mean, very rude, very, very mean, very rude.
363. 26:19You know how it goes. But when he says a whole civilization, there are, I think some disingenuous
364. 26:30brokers, like Russell Moore and others who take this take that statement to mean or construe
365. 26:36the statement as if President Trump is saying he's going to murder civilians.
366. 26:41Like, like, I just think that's an unfair, that's an unfair reading and frankly a bit disingenuous
367. 26:50because I believe they're using President Trump's communication style in an effort to
368. 26:55try to besmirch him when I don't for one moment think that the whole civilization is a reference
369. 27:02to the civilians.
370. 27:03If you've been paying attention to President Trump, there's a whole thing from Operation
371. 27:05Epic Fury.
372. 27:06From the very first day he talked about it, he talked about trying to get rid of the ayatollahs
373. 27:11in an effort to allow the Iranian people to liberate themselves.
374. 27:17So refer to a whole civilization I take to mean.
375. 27:21He talked about the reign of the Mullis, the Shiite, 12th imam, cleric regime.
376. 27:32And I think if you're an honest broker reading the entirety of this post, you know that's
377. 27:38what he means as well because he goes down in the same post and says, now that we have
378. 27:43complete and total regime change where different, smarter and less radicalized minds prevail,
379. 27:49maybe something revolutionary, really wonderful can happen.
380. 27:53He says maybe.
381. 27:54So if you will be honest about reading and I'm not trying to parse every single word of
382. 27:58this social media post, but because the president has chosen to use social media to communicate,
383. 28:03it's appropriate to evaluate what he posts on social media.
384. 28:06But I think you should be honest about what he is posting.
385. 28:09It seems clearly that the civilization he's talking about is the rule of the mullus.
386. 28:13All right.
387. 28:14The rule of the 12 or clerics.
388. 28:17All right.
389. 28:18Now, I do think it's noteworthy that he described that as total regime change because in previous
390. 28:25statements he said that our objective was not regime change.
391. 28:29So what does that mean?
392. 28:31I do think it's fair to raise that.
393. 28:33But to say that he's talking about he's going to annihilate Iranian civilians.
394. 28:36I just think that's an unfair characterization.
395. 28:39Now putting that to the side, it is interesting to see because 8 p.m.
396. 28:43Eastern time is 7 p.m.
397. 28:45Central time.
398. 28:46about an hour after this show ends is the deadline.
399. 28:49And, you know, I, it's one of those moments
400. 28:53you ever heard of the old game chicken.
401. 28:55You know, he's made the statement,
402. 28:57eight p.m., a deal is, we have a deal in place or else.
403. 29:03And there's a lot at risk when you have such,
404. 29:07such an expressed timeline and such an expressed commitment
405. 29:12because what happens?
406. 29:14there was a lot of criticism rightly towards Barack Obama
407. 29:17when he set his red lines, and then his red lines got crossed,
408. 29:21and he'd reset the red lines,
409. 29:22which communicated a bit of factlessness,
410. 29:25a bit of weakness on his part.
411. 29:28That is a risk being taken.
412. 29:29Now, I don't, for one moment, think that President Trump
413. 29:32is like Barack Obama, I think he's demonstrated that already,
414. 29:35dating all the way back to Qasem Soleimani
415. 29:38and all of those other things.
416. 29:39And so this is a serious time.
417. 29:41I'm sharing this with you, convey this information to you,
418. 29:47to you in an effort to encourage what I said earlier,
419. 29:49to pray for our country.
420. 29:51You know, we just had the situation where we had the, you know,
421. 29:55amazing rescue of a downed US airman.
422. 29:58I saw reports today that said that the man was, was surviving behind
423. 30:04enemy lines in Iran for 36 hours, for 36 hours.
424. 30:08That could have been a disaster.
425. 30:14Could have been a disaster.
426. 30:15But thankfully our military was able to avoid it.
427. 30:20I for one will be praying this evening.
428. 30:22I wanna ask you to do the same.
429. 30:24I have been praying, but I will continue to pray
430. 30:30for our nation, for our leadership,
431. 30:33for the Iranian people too.
432. 30:34I mean, I've shared with you guys before
433. 30:37that one of the places where the gospel is being advancing
434. 30:39More than anywhere else internationally has been in Iran.
435. 30:43And this is according to missionary reports from many different places.
436. 30:47Our friends of voice and the martyrs have shared a lot some of this information open
437. 30:51doors.
438. 30:53Several other missionary outfits have been reporting this information.
439. 30:57This is a pivotal time in our nation's history.
440. 30:59And I know we have the things about the Strait of Hormuz and all that other kind of stuff.
441. 31:04While those things are very important, they're not more important than people than people.
442. 31:08So this is a very critical time.
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482. 34:16I know we're going into a break, but it appears to be breaking news
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484. 34:25for two weeks in Iran.
485. 34:27We'll try to get into as much of this as we can in this next segment, an agreement to
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537. 37:35Hamilton corner.
538. 37:36I alluded to this during the break, but it seems that
539. 37:39President Trump has agreed to suspend bombing for two weeks in
540. 37:48Iran.
541. 37:50is what is being reported. A lot of the details we don't have just yet. I expect more details
542. 37:57be coming forward. Questions that I have immediately as to whether or not this is a unilateral suspension
543. 38:02or is this a agreement that is in place? It seems that this is a unilateral suspension
544. 38:11that is announced. It's again as I said earlier, is this something where the president has some
545. 38:19information that has led him to do this is just a gesture of good faith. We don't have
546. 38:26all of those details yet, but it appears that the 8 p.m. deadline is now off of the table
547. 38:33from the president. It appears at this juncture. And because this is breaking while we're on
548. 38:40the air, we're not able to get all of the details. But I definitely will dig into this
549. 38:45and we'll have more to report as we come back later.
550. 38:50And I'll ask if see, maybe you guys can pull it up for me.
551. 38:53But President Trump has posted on True Social.
552. 38:55I'll try to read it quickly based on conversations with Prime Minister Shabaa Sharif and Field
553. 39:00Marshal, I see him near of Pakistan.
554. 39:03And wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to
555. 39:07Iran and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the complete immediate and
556. 39:13safe opening of the Strait of her muse. Her moves, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack
557. 39:18of Iran for a period of two weeks. There's more that he said there. I don't want to risk
558. 39:23that screen going off before I get it all out. I'll try to get it get it here. But there's
559. 39:27more that's being said there, but President Trump has made a post on true social and because
560. 39:33we have the best people ever. Yes, if you have it, Jeff, would you please? It's on the screen
561. 39:39Now, it's on the screen now.
562. 39:41So if you're watching the show, you can read it.
563. 39:43I'll read the whole true social post.
564. 39:45I'll start at the beginning again.
565. 39:46President Trump just posted this at 5.32 PM Central time,
566. 39:516.32 PM Eastern time.
567. 39:53And again, I started to top quote, based on conversations
568. 39:56with Prime Minister Shabbat Sharif and field Marshal
569. 39:59at Semunir of Pakistan.
570. 40:01And wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force
571. 40:04being sent tonight to Iran and subject to the Islamic Republic
572. 40:07Iran agreeing to complete immediate and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
573. 40:13I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.
574. 40:18This will be a double-sided ceasefire.
575. 40:23The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all military objectives, and
576. 40:29are very far along with a definitive agreement concerning long-term peace with Iran.
577. 40:35And peace in the Middle East.
578. 40:37received a 10-point proposal from Iran and believe it is a workable basis on which to
579. 40:43negotiate. Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between
580. 40:49the United States and Iran, but a two-week period will allow the agreement to be finalized
581. 40:54and consummated on behalf of the United States of America. As President and also representing
582. 41:01the countries of the Middle East, it is an honor to have this long-term problem close
583. 41:05the resolution. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump in
584. 41:10quote. I want to leave it on the screen for a little bit, Jeff, for those who may just
585. 41:14be tuning in or who didn't have the chance to read that. This is interesting that this
586. 41:25is all breaking right at this moment, right at this moment. So according to the president's
587. 41:32post, we'll just go through it right here on the air live. And again, those who are ready
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590. 41:52news right as it's happening. You wonder why I call him, produce extraordinary and I
591. 41:57I all know, you know, as right as it's happening, we have the president's rationale as he's posted
592. 42:02it, but according to what President Trump has said that the communications included communications
593. 42:07between the United States of America and Pakistan acting as a negotiator between Iran and the
594. 42:16United States of America, which is information that may not have been provided before.
595. 42:20If you recall, I had been asking, well, president is the president is talking about he's negotiating,
596. 42:25who is he negotiated with?
597. 42:26who is he negotiating with?
598. 42:28All right, we now know that the Pakistanis
599. 42:31have been serving as an intermediary for the negotiation.
600. 42:36In addition to that, President Trump has posted
601. 42:40on True Social that Iran has agreed,
602. 42:45this is what he's saying,
603. 42:46let me make sure I read it properly.
604. 42:48We're in the request of that,
605. 42:49I hold off the instructions,
606. 42:50I'm not in Iran, so just let me.
607. 42:52Okay, so apparently the president is indicating
608. 42:54that Iran has agreed to,
609. 42:56And he put these in all caps, complete, immediate and a safe opening of the Strait of her moves.
610. 43:03That's news.
611. 43:04All right.
612. 43:05That's what the president has reported.
613. 43:08And in light of that, he's agreed to suspend the attack on Iran that previously had the
614. 43:12APM deadline that he, in the suspension period is two weeks.
615. 43:17Would you have Bobby?
616. 43:18The Dow futures are up a point and a half.
617. 43:22The exact is up almost two point to following this announcement. So Bobby is sharing is that
618. 43:29the stock market is immediately responding to the announcement that the NASDAQ is up.
619. 43:33The Dow futures is up part of 2% on all three major index. Okay. On all three all major three
620. 43:40major indexes you see are there about 2% are within that all four all four all four. Okay.
621. 43:47That's news. Thank you for that Bobby. Getting back to President Trump's post. He said that
622. 43:52But this ceasefire is a double sided ceasefire, meaning the Iranians are going to stop popping
623. 43:57off and the US will stop popping off for a period of two weeks.
624. 44:05Then President Trump goes on to say that we've already met and exceeded our military objectives
625. 44:11and that there's already been progress in negotiation for long term and definitive peace
626. 44:17between the US and Iran.
627. 44:20not just between the US and Iran, but peace between the Iranians and the remainder of the
628. 44:25nations in the Middle East.
629. 44:27President Trump specifically cites, was that?
630. 44:29Oil has dropped 10%.
631. 44:32The cost per barrel?
632. 44:35So apparently the oil markets are responding and that the per barrel cost for oil has dropped
633. 44:4110%, while I'm reading or talking through President Trump's true social post.
634. 44:47The president says that he received or we the United States of America received a 10 point
635. 44:54proposal from Iran and President Trump believes that it is a workable basis upon which to negotiate.
636. 45:04He said almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to, which
637. 45:09obviously my most immediate question is.
638. 45:12So they've agreed to cease pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
639. 45:15But apparently, this hinges on opening the straighter.
640. 45:20Uh-huh.
641. 45:21Yeah, so right.
642. 45:23So Bob is saying that most of this current conversation
643. 45:26is about opening the straighter for moves.
644. 45:28But when the president says that the Iranians have agreed
645. 45:30to almost all of the various points of past contention,
646. 45:37past contention would indicate this is not limited
647. 45:40to the straighter for moves because that happened following
648. 45:42the initiation of Operation Epic Fury.
649. 45:45But the past contention as to why Operation Epic Fury was
650. 45:49instituted in the first place had to do with the
651. 45:52Iranians' pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
652. 45:56So my question is, at this point, is if almost all
653. 46:00various points of past contention have been agreed to,
654. 46:03has there been an agreement concerning the pursuit
655. 46:08of a nuclear weapon?
656. 46:09All right?
657. 46:11What other?
658. 46:12Obviously, we don't know the answer to all of these.
659. 46:13But these are questions that are, are, are, are, I'm, I'm reacted to this immediately on
660. 46:17the air right now in real time.
661. 46:19Um, has there been agreement concerning Iran's capacity to quote, to quote general raising
662. 46:27cane as there been an agreement reached concerning our reigns capacity to quote project strength
663. 46:35beyond its borders?
664. 46:38Has there been an agreement there?
665. 46:41These are these are things that are worth being requested.
666. 46:46But the news that is breaking now is that a two week ceasefire has been announced.
667. 46:53The details we don't have, but the president seem to be confident that they have a basis
668. 46:58to continue negotiations and that he believes that two weeks provides enough time to finalize
669. 47:05the agreements that have already the, the, the, the, to finalize an agreement following negotiations
670. 47:10that are already underway.
671. 47:13Now, as we have mentioned, that on the economic front,
672. 47:18for the four major stock indexes have all responded
673. 47:24to this announcement with an increase,
674. 47:25and that the price for oil at this moment appears
675. 47:28to have dropped about $10 a barrel,
676. 47:30about $10 a barrel, not just 10%,
677. 47:32but about $10 per barrel.
678. 47:34Yeah, which is about 9%.
679. 47:36Okay, which is about 9%.
680. 47:389% this is according to Mr. Arrosa.
681. 47:41Brent has dropped $11.5.
682. 47:45What's that?
683. 47:45Brent.
684. 47:46Brent.
685. 47:47No sea crude.
686. 47:48Okay.
687. 47:49No sea crude.
688. 47:50That's down 11.50.
689. 47:51It's about 11% drop.
690. 47:55This is interesting.
691. 47:57This is interesting how all of this is unfolding at this very moment.
692. 48:01Now should these should this negotiation hold?
693. 48:05You know, is this President Trump?
694. 48:07art of the deal coming to fort once again, is it the Iranians recognizing that that the
695. 48:15president was serious about what's going on?
696. 48:18We will find out more information from this, but at the moment, it is breaking right at
697. 48:23this moment that President Trump has announced a two week ceasefire that is a reciprocal ceasefire,
698. 48:29double sided ceasefire both on the Iranian side and on the American side and the communication
699. 48:37according to what president Trump has revealed included the Pakistani serving as a broker,
700. 48:43if you will, between the parties in this instance.
701. 48:47That is news, ladies and gentlemen.
702. 48:51Well, we are literally in the final six minutes and five seconds of the first day of the spring
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710. 49:38of
711. 49:39why didn't know we'd have this news breaking while we're on the air but i'm
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713. 49:47day one of the spring twenty twenty six year-old let's listen together to
714. 49:50another
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769. 53:22AFR.net for many of you, you heard it here first that President Trump announced a two-week
770. 53:31ceasefire of bombings in Iran.
771. 53:34He announced that it is a double-sided ceasefire that the foundational components of an agreement
772. 53:42According to President Trump,
773. 53:43our in place in that the two weeks ceasefire
774. 53:46will give them the necessary time to finalize
775. 53:50the agreement with the Iranians to secure a cessation
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777. 53:57of America and Iran, and peace between Iran
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