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BREAKING: Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire; Hegseth Calls Press "Pharisees"

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

JVL, Mark Hertling and Andrew Egger are going live to cover Trump's announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, Hegseth's press conference, and the continuing war of words between GOP figures and the Pope.

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0:00.0

Whoa. Hello, friends. This is JVL here with my Bullwark colleagues and St. Louis Cardinals fans, Mark Hercling and Andrew Egger.

0:10.0

And we've got a little bit of breaking news via the most important government communications network available, truth social, that the president has put, I don't know if we can put this up, Matt,

0:24.0

excellent conversations with the highly respected president Joseph Aoun of Lebanon and Prime Minister

0:30.8

Bibi Netanyahu, and they have agreed for a formal 10-day ceasefire starting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. And it just sounds like

0:42.6

it's going to be great. Dan Raisin-Kane is there and mentioned a little disappointed. We don't have

0:50.2

anything about the landslide victory in this bleat or or the the theft of 2020 or

0:57.8

sleepy Joe Biden but we up we do have the nine wars that have now been solved and this is

1:03.5

the 10th war so uh i mark like this is how the commander, like, I just don't even, I guess.

1:16.6

Yeah.

1:16.9

I guess.

1:17.9

Yeah, this is actually a pretty good thing because Lebanon probably has their best government in decades right now.

1:25.9

And I think Netanyahu has been persuaded to collaborate with them

1:33.5

a bit more. And there's been extensive killing in the southern part of Lebanon as Israeli military,

1:40.7

the IDF has gone into that country and continued to fire artillery rounds. And by the way,

1:46.3

I should probably say this, but I did my master's thesis on Operation Peace for Galilee, which was the

1:53.3

1982 invasion of Lebanon by the Israelis. And they had been stuck in that area for the last 40 years. So this would be a very

2:04.6

good thing if Lebanon does agree to a ceasefire and they can do some peaceful speaking. But

2:10.9

what I will counter are the 10 wars that the president continues to claim he solved because

2:17.1

as you go through each one of them,

2:19.6

some of them are still going on. There's been no treaties signed between the nations. There's no

2:25.0

Kashmir is still contested by India and Pakistan. Serbia is not happening. The dams in Egypt,

2:32.8

they're still not flying. You know, it's just,

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