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Speaker 5: Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, the president

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Speaker 2: Here's President Trump outlining the objectives. Our objectives are clear.

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Speaker 5: First, were destroying ORENS missile capabilities.

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Speaker 5: Never going to have a nuclear weapon. I said that

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Speaker 2: a phrase that she used more than any other. And

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Speaker 2: every time I hear the phrase, I think of Tulsi Gabbard.

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Speaker 2: She is synonymous in my mind with this phrase. You

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Speaker 3: I can't remember it.

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Speaker 2: No regime change wars. We're tired of regime change wars.

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Speaker 2: There is no human being that said regime change war

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Speaker 2: every time she said regime change war, you'd be drunk.

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Speaker 7: Okay, So here's the thing with regime change. What a

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Speaker 2: not short term reaction. Critical to understand. Meanwhile, lobbing criticisms

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Speaker 2: at a commander in chief at a time like this,

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Speaker 2: during active conflict, what does that do well? It weakens morale,

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Speaker 2: It's certainly embolden's enemies. It fractures the unity of the

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Speaker 2: effort itself. Look in moments of active conflict, I think,

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Speaker 2: and I'm not saying I understand the shrill shrieking of

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Speaker 2: it's patriotic to protest, of course it is. But in

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Speaker 2: moments of active conflict, political restraint should be strategy. Everyone

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Speaker 2: and Fetterman has said it. Everyone has agreed that Iran

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Speaker 2: is despotic and its leadership needs to go and needs

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Speaker 2: to be toppled. None have ever dealt with it until

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump. So, now that American troops are in harm's way,

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Speaker 2: the commander in chief, I should think for just a

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Speaker 2: minute or two, we ought to lay down our arms

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Speaker 2: for at least a week and let the commander in

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Speaker 2: chief do the job. And not because he's beyond criticism,

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Speaker 2: of course, but because the men and women on the

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Speaker 2: front lines need to know their country is behind them.

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Speaker 2: Public division fractures morale. That's not a secret. Fractured morale

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Speaker 2: signals weakness to others. Weakness emboldens enemies. It's that simple.

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Speaker 2: Our Republic's strength in war comes from a temporary pact,

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Speaker 2: not forever, but a temporary pact, and that is hold

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Speaker 2: fire at home so that soldiers feel supportive abroad. It's

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Speaker 2: just like even Democrats, even some. There weren't many, but

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Speaker 2: there were a few that were actually willing to be

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Speaker 2: honest and say the Jasmine Crocketts, the aocs, the Gavin

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Speaker 2: Newsom's going abroad to the UH big conference over there

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Speaker 2: in Davos and mouthing off about Donald Trump bad form, distasteful.

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Speaker 2: There are just certain things we don't do. It's not

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Speaker 2: about blind loyalty, of course, it's deliberate doctrine of unity

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Speaker 2: as deterrence. The appearance of cohesion tells adversaries that our

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Speaker 2: resolve is unshaken. In a moment like this, we're just

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Speaker 2: really a couple of days into this effort. The silence

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Speaker 2: of partisanship preserves the moral capital that we need to

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Speaker 2: win in efforts like these. If you break that discipline

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Speaker 2: and you in doubt into the ranks of our men

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Speaker 2: and women, or confusion into the strategy, and vulnerability on

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Speaker 2: the battlefield, vis is war and you can't afford those things.

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Speaker 2: Unity is not cosmetic, It's a weapon. Our telephone number

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Speaker 2: is eighty five to five Stigall if you'd like to

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Speaker 2: get in here. A little bit from Marco Rubio yesterday.

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Speaker 2: The purpose of this operation in number twenty nine.

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Speaker 8: The United States is conducting an operation to eliminate the

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Speaker 8: threat of Iran's short range ballistic missiles and.

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Speaker 9: The threat posed by their navy.

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Speaker 8: The purpose of this is to destroy that missile capability.

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Speaker 8: Why does Iran want that blistic missile capability? What they

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Speaker 8: are trying to do, and have been trying to do

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Speaker 8: for a very long time, is build a conventional weapons

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Speaker 8: capability as a shield where they can hide behind it.

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Speaker 8: Meaning there will come a point where they have so

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Speaker 8: many conventional missiles, so many drums, and.

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Speaker 9: It can inflict so much how much?

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Speaker 8: Then no one can do anything about their nuclear program.

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Speaker 10: That is.

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Speaker 2: Eight five five Stagalls the telephone number. Come on in

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Speaker 2: good to be with you folks, looking at you Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening on AM five sixty the answer. Thanks

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Speaker 2: from home base. Our flagship station Philadelphia is AM nine

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Speaker 2: Our telephone number is eight five five Stagall if you

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Speaker 2: want to get in here. You know Operation Epic Fury.

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Speaker 2: It is intensifying, obviously, the world bracing for what comes next.

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Speaker 2: The Holy Land specifically red alert sirens fill the air

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Speaker 2: sirens give you fifteen seconds when they hear them in

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Speaker 2: Israel to get to the nearest bomb shelter. And the

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Speaker 2: situation is very serious as you can imagine. The threat

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Speaker 2: is real, and it's in times like these, Freedom and

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Speaker 2: faith aren't just abstract ideas. They're what we depend on,

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Speaker 2: and in times like this, please the International Fellowship of

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Speaker 2: Christians and Jews is on the ground preparing large scale

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Speaker 2: distributions of life saving food, first aid, and emergency essentials

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Speaker 2: for security personnel, all while helping ensure hospitals, emergency rooms

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Speaker 2: and shelters are stocked with critical supplies that they need,

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Speaker 2: specifically medical supplies. Israel's most vulnerable, the sick, the elderly,

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Speaker 2: children and families depend on the Fellowship, and the people

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Speaker 2: of the Holy Land depend on all our prayerful support.

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Speaker 2: So whether you're Christian, whether you're Jew, anywhere around the world,

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Speaker 2: praying for the protection of Israel, her people, their neighbors,

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Speaker 2: the brave American and Israeli troops putting their lives on

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Speaker 2: the line in this fight for freedom. Stand in prayer

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Speaker 2: with Israel and stand today with IFCJ. You can find

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Speaker 2: out more about the important work they do at SUPPORTIFCJ

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Speaker 2: dot org. That's support IFCJ dot org. Victoria Coats will

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Speaker 2: be with us in just a little bit. She is

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Speaker 2: author of the Battle for the Jewish State, How Israel

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Speaker 2: and America Can Win. She's the former Deputy National Security

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Speaker 2: Advisor to Donald Trump. She was in the room for

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Speaker 2: a lot of critical discussions surrounding events like we're living

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Speaker 2: right now, So she'll offer unique perspective. Coming up in

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Speaker 2: just a bit. Waiting patiently in Florida, it's Sherry. Sherry,

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you called. Good morning and.

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Speaker 10: Chris, Good morning, Chris, thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 10: You had mentioned earlier in your show about what people

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Speaker 10: thought about what's going on with this operation for Fury,

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Speaker 10: and I think what's happened in our country is we

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Speaker 10: have a lot of selfish or self absorbed people. They're

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Speaker 10: preoccupied with social media, unrelated to national and world news,

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Speaker 10: lack of history taught in our schools. And a big

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Speaker 10: difference is is a lot of these citizens now they've

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Speaker 10: never experienced war time. They've never experienced that camaraderie or

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Speaker 10: the patriotism. You know, we're talking Korean War, World War two,

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Speaker 10: you know, except for Vietnam. That's kind of a little different.

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Speaker 10: But we have to remove these threats. You know, we've

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Speaker 10: been tap dancing around this country for a long time,

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Speaker 10: and so it has their neighboring company or countries, and

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Speaker 10: it's kind of like the mafia. It's like, here, we'll

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Speaker 10: watch your store. You just behave you know, don't throw

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Speaker 10: sand while you're in the box. And everybody knows that

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Speaker 10: except for the people that aren't paying attention are younger people.

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Speaker 10: We're talking twenty to forty five year age. It's a

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Speaker 10: total different morale, ethics, social.

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Speaker 11: Norm So that's kind of how I feel about it.

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Speaker 2: And I'm thinking of how people feel about I think

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Speaker 2: based on some of the responses that I've been getting

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Speaker 2: at least social media. In an email, Sherry, I think

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Speaker 2: you're right. It's interesting that it's that age group that

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Speaker 2: you mentioned. They're the only ones, according to popular polling,

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Speaker 2: that don't support efforts here by the president. And what

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Speaker 2: can you attribute that to? I don't know. Is it

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Speaker 2: instant gratification, is it isolationism? Is it a lack of education?

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Speaker 2: Is it a lack of understanding history? I think yes,

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Speaker 2: I think that may be the biggest of all. And

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Speaker 2: I'm really glad you called. It's a great point. David's

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Speaker 2: and Florida as well. David, Good morning, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 11: Sir?

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Speaker 2: Hi, Good morning, Chris.

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Speaker 12: I'm glad to listen to you this morning. Hey, question plate,

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Speaker 12: why do you think people like Tucker Carls and Candace

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Speaker 12: Owens and they're like, are so anti Israel all of

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Speaker 12: a sudden? I mean, I know about the falling out

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Speaker 12: of with Candace and and Ben, but dude, they've gone crazy.

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Speaker 12: And now you know telling saying Trump's being controlled by Yahoo,

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Speaker 12: And I mean, I'm sure you remember twenty sixteen they

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Speaker 12: all said Trump hated Jews. Now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 12: He's being controlled by Jews. The craziness on now, on

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Speaker 12: all sides is just unbelievable. But I wanted to get

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Speaker 12: your take on what do you really think is driving

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Speaker 12: Candice and Tucker. Are they being paid by Qatar or

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Speaker 12: what is going on because they're they've just gone crazy.

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Speaker 2: Well, I will tell you, David, I'm not punting. I

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Speaker 2: just implemented a New Year's policy that I was not

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Speaker 2: going to discuss other hosts. That doesn't ban you or

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Speaker 2: preclude you for speaking about other hosts. I just decided

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Speaker 2: I wasn't going to go there. I will ask you then,

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Speaker 2: I'll ask you the question with the question, what do

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Speaker 2: you think it is good?

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Speaker 12: Chris? I mean, I've talked to it about to a

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Speaker 12: lot of my close friends that have been conservatives their

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Speaker 12: whole life. I'm forty five, I've been conservative my whole life.

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Speaker 12: The only thing we could really come up with is,

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Speaker 12: I mean, I think is they're getting some type of

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Speaker 12: funding from Qatar. I mean, it just doesn't make sense

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Speaker 12: all of a sudden, you go off the deep end

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Speaker 12: with these things crazy conspiracy after conspiracy. You know, Mike

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Speaker 12: Huckabee tried to set him straight and he Mike did

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Speaker 12: a great job in that interview. But I don't know, man,

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Speaker 12: It's just disappointing because I think those people hold a

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Speaker 12: lot of weight with some conservatives.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I'll say this, David. I wrote about revelation

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Speaker 2: addiction last year. We're in a business where everybody's trying

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Speaker 2: to get attention. I'll leave it at that for a minute.

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Speaker 2: what exactly does that mean? The Israelis have said that

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Speaker 2: been killed thus far. So it's been a pretty devastating attack,

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Speaker 2: a pretty successful one. The President has laid out very

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Speaker 2: specifically what the mission is. But naturally Americans are worried

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Speaker 2: and weary and skeptical of past wars in our immediate past,

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Speaker 2: Iraq and Afghanistan among them. So we bring in one

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Speaker 2: of the experts on this matter. She sat in the

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Speaker 2: room for important discussions like these as Deputy National Security

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Speaker 2: Advisor to President Trump's first term. She is the vice

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Speaker 2: president at the Catherine and Shelby Cullum Davis Institute for

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Speaker 2: National Security at the Heritage Foundation now, and she is

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Speaker 2: author of the Battle for the Jewish State. She's Victoria Coach,

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Speaker 2: and we're grateful for her time. Victoria. Good morning, Good morning, Chris.

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Speaker 9: Good to be with you.

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Speaker 2: You know the sentiment out there that creeps in, and

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Speaker 2: I think it's natural. We're not too far removed from

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Speaker 2: That's for another debate and discussion. But people worry that

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Speaker 2: that's what this devolves into. So let's tackle that right

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Speaker 2: off the top. You say, what about that?

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Speaker 7: Now?

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Speaker 1: That is a natural and just concern and important to

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Speaker 1: remember that this summer we'll be marking not just the

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States, it'll

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Speaker 1: be the twenty fifth anniversary of nine to eleven. We're

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Speaker 1: quarter century now removed from those terrorist attacks, and as

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Speaker 1: you say, we're not that far out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: We still have two thousand troops in for example. So

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Speaker 1: you know, we look at what happened with the two

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Speaker 1: very successful military campaigns into Afghanistan in two thousand and

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Speaker 1: one and then Iraq in two thousand and three. Now

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Speaker 1: with Afghanistan, I don't think there's any question that the

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Speaker 1: invasion was just they harbored Osama bin Laden. That was

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Speaker 1: where the attacks were plotted against us on nine to eleven.

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Speaker 1: But the problem with both attacks, you know, successful military campaigns,

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Speaker 1: is we didn't declare victory and come home. We ascribed

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Speaker 1: to this thing Colin Powell called the pottery barn rule,

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Speaker 1: which is you break it, you buy it, by which

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Speaker 1: he then dictated that we had to rebuild both these

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Speaker 1: nations that had been just intrinsically hostile to us into

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Speaker 1: modern democracies, into the equivalent of Virginia. And it didn't work, shockingly.

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Speaker 1: And you know, the more I thought about that, you

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Speaker 1: break it, you buy it, it's the pottery barn like.

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Speaker 2: It's not a couch.

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Speaker 1: You know, this isn't something for sale in a store.

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Speaker 1: These are countries and they both had very hostile leadership.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think there was a sincere belief that

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Speaker 1: that Afghanistan had harbored terrorists that had attacked us. So

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Speaker 1: you know, you make the decision as commander in chief,

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Speaker 1: you're going to go in and you're going to tople

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Speaker 1: those governments. Fine, but this whole nation building errand turned

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Speaker 1: into horrible mission creep. President Trump objected to that at

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Speaker 1: the time, and he adjects to it now. And so

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Speaker 1: I think as we saw in Venezuela, as we're likely

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Speaker 1: to see in Cuba, we will see something very different

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Speaker 1: in Iran, where we will have a sort of time limited.

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Speaker 1: He's talking about a month, maybe less, because it's been

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Speaker 1: so successful military campaign in Iran, at which point this

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Speaker 1: becomes the business of the Iranian people. He's going to

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Speaker 1: give them their best opportunity in forty seven years to

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Speaker 1: change their government if they wish to do so.

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Speaker 2: And so Victoria, that leads me to this question. And

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Speaker 2: I heard Vice President Vance going to Great Pains last

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Speaker 2: night to make the case, Hey, we hope that the

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Speaker 2: next government is friendly to us and helpful to us.

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Speaker 2: But he was making no assurances or promises. And I

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Speaker 2: know Marco Rubio has done the same, and President Trump

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Speaker 2: has said the same. We think there's some good folks

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Speaker 2: that could be helpful and allies, but we don't know,

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Speaker 2: and basically communicating that's not for us to decide. I

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Speaker 2: appreciate that point of view, but I guess that leads

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Speaker 2: us all to wonder, well, what if these theocratic thugs

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Speaker 2: just take on a new face and nothing changes about

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Speaker 2: their motivations and designs.

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Speaker 1: Oh I think the military campaign will fundamentally change the

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Speaker 1: situation on the ground visa VI the American people, because

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Speaker 1: what the President has said is they will never get

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Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon. So whatever business was left unfinished at

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Speaker 1: the end of the Twelve Day War, and I think

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Speaker 1: the hope then was that by demonstrating our capabilities, by

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Speaker 1: sending them way back in their nuclear program, they would

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Speaker 1: then have the sense to come to the table and

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Speaker 1: negotiate a meaningful deal. That did not turn out to

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Speaker 1: be the case. So there's unfinished business with the nuclear program.

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Speaker 1: They're systematically destroying their ability to send up all these

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Speaker 1: missiles that they're currently doing, and they're going after the launchers.

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Speaker 1: So you're both getting rid of the stockpiles. But if

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Speaker 1: you get rid of the launchers, it actually doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: how many missiles you have, you can't move them around.

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Speaker 1: And they're also neutralizing their terrorist proxies, who have been

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Speaker 1: remarkably muted throughout all of this. So those three objectives

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Speaker 1: are what are actually going to change the game for

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Speaker 1: the American people. We won't be threatened by any of

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Speaker 1: those three things anymore. And so regardless of what comes

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Speaker 1: next politically and Iran, if those objectives are successfully met,

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Speaker 1: the mission is a success.

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Speaker 2: So if it's a theocracy again, if another iotolotype pops

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Speaker 2: up and that they continue to govern themselves, as a

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Speaker 2: theocracy and Islamist theocracy. We don't care because they really

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Speaker 2: don't have the weapons to bother us anymore. Is that

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Speaker 2: effectively the point?

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Speaker 1: No, I mean I do care. I mean I've obviously

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Speaker 1: been around and adjacent to this problem for a long time,

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Speaker 1: and the Ranian people are wonderful and it would be

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Speaker 1: a fantastic gain for the United States if Iran becomes

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Speaker 1: a friend again. You know, they're large country, ninety million people,

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Speaker 1: the second largest.

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Speaker 2: Victoria, Kelly, I interrupt you, and just I'm sorry to

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Speaker 2: interrupt you. I just Hugh Hewitt said something with Selena

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Speaker 2: Zito yesterday and it struck me and is a kind

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Speaker 2: of a neophyte to Biblical history. I happen to be

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Speaker 2: in the Book of Ezra and Nehemia right now in

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Speaker 2: our Sunday school class, and I think it was Hugh

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Speaker 2: a ton of bricks. The Persians and the Israelis have

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Speaker 2: the longest history together that there is in that region.

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Speaker 2: And that's what we're talking about again, interestingly, is could

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Speaker 2: you see a reunification there? A King Cyrus tie Absolutely, yeah.

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Speaker 1: And my friend Len Kotokowski, who's working very closely with

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Speaker 1: the Iranians right now from the first Trump term, and

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Speaker 1: I have written a number of articles about what we

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Speaker 1: call the Cyrus Accords, which should be the next generation

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Speaker 1: of the Abraham Accords, but between Iran and Israel.

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Speaker 14: So all of this is possible.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we celebrated Perim yesterday, the celebration of Queen Esther,

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Speaker 1: who saved the Israelites from persecution at the hands of

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Speaker 1: the Persians. I mean, it's a long, rich history, and

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Speaker 1: there's no reason, especially given that as recently as nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy nine there were strong diplomatic ties between Iran and Israel.

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Speaker 1: This should be a source of strength to us, to Israel,

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Speaker 1: and to the regent. I mean, bear in mind one

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Speaker 1: of the worst decisions the Iranians have made the history

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Speaker 1: of bad decisions, but this is a particularly bad one.

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Speaker 1: Is they've been bombing their neighbors, all of the pretty

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Speaker 1: much the entire GCC except for Egypt, and you know

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Speaker 1: there this is this is a terrible decision. They've alienated

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Speaker 1: the region and so everyone. If they if they have

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Speaker 1: a good change, a positive change, this could be a

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Speaker 1: huge upside. I'm just saying that's that's not our mission

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Speaker 1: here though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So is it likely then, do you think that

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Speaker 2: there are enough Iranians Persians that is moderates if you

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Speaker 2: want non theocratic sympathizers who who would like to see

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Speaker 2: a return to the previous government type of governance.

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Speaker 14: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And there you also have a very strong Kurdish population.

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Speaker 1: And one of the things that there are reports of

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Speaker 1: along the Iran around around border, which of course the

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Speaker 1: Iranians fortified very strongly after their unpleasant experience in the

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Speaker 1: Iraq War. So you know, if you open up that border,

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Speaker 1: a lot of Iraqi Curds can come over, unify with

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Speaker 1: the Iranian curds and potentially even arm them. That's up

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Speaker 1: to the Kurves if they want.

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Speaker 2: To do that.

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Speaker 1: But one of the issues the Randian people have is

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Speaker 1: not having any arms.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let me if I could take a quick break

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Speaker 2: with Victoria Coats from the Heritage Foundation, former deputy National

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Speaker 2: security advisor to Donald Trump in his first term. Plenty

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Speaker 2: more to unpack here with Victoria in just a minute,

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Speaker 2: eight five fives to gall our telephone number. Back with

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Speaker 2: Victoria Coats from the Heritage Foundation. She sat in the

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Speaker 2: room for many important decisions in President Trump's first term.

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Speaker 2: And my question, Victoria, he hosts President Trump, does the

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Speaker 2: German Chancellor today? European allies have generally been quiet, if

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Speaker 2: not outright persnickety to put it mildly, about President Trump's

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Speaker 2: actions here, what do we do with our European allies?

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Speaker 2: Although this guy that runs NATO has been pretty supportive

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Speaker 2: all in all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Secretary General Mark Rita is actually a tremendous asset

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Speaker 1: to President Trump. And I was not particularly supportive of

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Speaker 1: his appointment because the Netherlands, his country, did not make

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Speaker 1: their two percent while he was Prime Minister. He's really

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Speaker 1: been quite it's strong. The major European allies, what I

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Speaker 1: would call Old Europe because I used to work for

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Speaker 1: Rumsfeld Germany, France, the United Kingdom have really been a

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Speaker 1: sad group of sisters in this engagement. They came out

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Speaker 1: Friday or Saturday rather and said it was the weekend

859
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Speaker 1: and so they really weren't going to comment until Monday,

860
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Speaker 1: except for the United Kingdom said that they wouldn't let

861
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Speaker 1: us use their bases. I mean, fine, I'm quite frankly,

862
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Speaker 1: I don't think they should be dabbling in the Middle East.

863
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Speaker 1: They've got a war on their own soil in Europe

864
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Speaker 1: that's just entered its fifth year. Why don't they take

865
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: care of that instead of complaining about what we're doing.

866
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Speaker 2: What does this do to China and Russia? Make them

867
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Speaker 2: think twice?

868
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: Oh, it certainly does. And this is part of the

869
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: conventional wisdom that prevented a lot of previous presidents from

870
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Speaker 1: taking this kind of action, that the United States would

871
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Speaker 1: be isolated on the world stage. Absolutely not. We've got

872
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: the whole region lining up behind US, oh and Israel,

873
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Speaker 1: and then furthermore, the other so called superpowers Russia and China.

874
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 1: They can't do anything about this. They put out strong

875
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Speaker 1: statements too, but that's all they're doing. Apparently the Iranians

876
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,720
Speaker 1: ask them for help, and they both said, no, they

877
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Speaker 1: can't project power the way we can. They can't do

878
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: what we're doing here. So I think this really is

879
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Speaker 1: a great game changer for the President going into his

880
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: meeting with Chairman g in April.

881
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 2: Do you think boots on the ground will happen? In

882
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 2: your view, I don't think President Trump wants to do

883
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Speaker 2: that necessarily, but they've not taken that option off the table.

884
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: Well, for sure, they shouldn't take it off the table,

885
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem likely to me. Now, you could

886
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Speaker 1: have some covert forces, some intelligence community folks going in

887
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: for specific missions. That's something these rallies can.

888
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Speaker 6: Do as well.

889
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, some of our Arab partners

890
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Speaker 1: may be joining this effort. We may actually see Saudi

891
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: or Emirati more likely troops performing some missions, potentially even

892
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: side by side with the Israelis. Keep an eye on

893
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Speaker 1: that space, but I think that isn't necessary. What we've

894
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: done over the last seventy two hours, chris Is really

895
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: dismantled their missile defense systems, these s four hundreds as

896
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: three hundreds from Russia that we're supposed to be so effective,

897
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: not at all. Our stealth planes have just taken those

898
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Speaker 1: things out. And what that means is we can now

899
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Speaker 1: bring in less exquisite aircraft to do you know, just

900
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,799
Speaker 1: the sort of yeomen's work going around and hitting these

901
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Speaker 1: thousands of targets that we have. And you know, once

902
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Speaker 1: we've established that air superiority, the need for ground troops

903
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Speaker 1: goes down considerably.

904
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Speaker 2: Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia with about thirty seconds, Victoria,

905
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Speaker 2: how significant is it that these countries are actually joining

906
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Speaker 2: the efforts, not just staying out of it, but actually

907
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Speaker 2: joining it in many cases.

908
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Speaker 1: Now, this is an extraordinary development. It's the offshoot of

909
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 1: the Abraham Accords. But again, conventional wisdom was Israel would

910
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Speaker 1: be isolated and attacked by Arab neighbors. The opposite has

911
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Speaker 1: turned out to be the case. Chris, we have to

912
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Speaker 1: question all of the assumptions the foreign policy elites here

913
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Speaker 1: in DC have labored under for so many years.

914
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Speaker 2: The brilliant Victoria coach. We are grateful for your perspective.

915
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Speaker 2: I hope you'll stay with us as this continues to unfold.

916
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Speaker 2: Thank you, of course, thank you, Chris. Morning moment. Let's

917
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Speaker 2: go a little more. Marco Rubio from yesterday on notifying Congress,

918
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 2: why didn't you notify Congress? He addresses this number thirty Congress. Well,

919
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 2: we did.

920
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 8: We notified Congress. I mean we notified the Gang of A.

921
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 8: We notified the congressional leadership. There's no law that requires

922
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 8: us to do that. The law says we have to

923
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 8: notify them forty eight hours after beginning hostilities.

924
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 9: We've done that.

925
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 8: I think the notification went today, but we did notify

926
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Speaker 8: members of Congress in advance. But we can't notify five

927
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Speaker 8: hundred and thirty five members of Congress. The Congress can

928
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 8: vote on whatever they want, but there's no law that

929
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 8: requires us to do that. And I want to say

930
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Speaker 8: something because I see people on TV. Look, that's fine,

931
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 8: if they want to take a war powers vote, they

932
00:51:57,760 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 8: can do that. They've done that, They've done that a

933
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 8: bunch of times. But there's no people keep saying that

934
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:03,880
Speaker 8: we have there's no law that requires the president to

935
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Speaker 8: have done anything with regards to this. To begin with,

936
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Speaker 8: no presidential administration has ever accepted the War Powers Act

937
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Speaker 8: as constitutional. Not Republican presidents, not democratic presidents. That said,

938
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Speaker 8: we have followed a notification at forty eight hours, we're

939
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Speaker 8: here today. I've done more Gang of Eight briefings than

940
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Speaker 8: I got in the four years that Biden was president,

941
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Speaker 8: and I was a member of the Gang of Eight.

942
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 8: All that said, we've complied with the law one hundred percent,

943
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 8: and we're going to continue to comply with it.

944
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Speaker 2: Eight five five stagalls to telephone number. Rubio is ferocious

945
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 2: and effective in communicating and explaining. I mean he's a

946
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Speaker 2: creature of Congress, after all, the Senate. He knows how

947
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 2: to talk to these people. He's not afraid to stare

948
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 2: him down and explain fully why this needed to happen.

949
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Speaker 2: Give me number thirty one.

950
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 11: Was forced to.

951
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,120
Speaker 14: Strike because it in Israeli action.

952
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 4: No.

953
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:57,799
Speaker 9: First of well, let me two things. I would say.

954
00:52:57,880 --> 00:53:00,439
Speaker 9: Number one is no matter what, Ultimately, this operate needed

955
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 9: to happen. That's the question of why now.

956
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,399
Speaker 8: But this operation needed to happen because Iran and about

957
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 8: a year or a year and a half would cross

958
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 8: the line of immunity, meaning they would have so many

959
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 8: short range missiles, so many drones that no one could

960
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 8: do anything about it because they can hold the whole

961
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 8: world hostage. Look at the damage they're doing now and

962
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 8: this is a weekend Iran. Imagine a year from now.

963
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,319
Speaker 8: So that had to happen. Obviously, we were aware of

964
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 8: Israeli intentions and understood what that would mean for us.

965
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Speaker 9: And we had to be prepared to act as a

966
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Speaker 9: result of it. But this had to happen no matter what.

967
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Speaker 2: So, ed, does that satisfy you or not? I mean,

968
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 2: for people that aren't satisfied with this or angry about

969
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,840
Speaker 2: it or think it's ill gotten or not been described

970
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 2: or defined. Well, Rubio seems pretty resolved and clear anyway.

971
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 2: I don't know if you necessarily buy it or like it,

972
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 2: but I certainly believe he believes what he's saying.

973
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 3: No, Chris, absolutely, Rubio has been the most effective for

974
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 3: me front facing since yesterday. I actually enjoyed his commentary

975
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 3: more than the press conference that we covered here. It's

976
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 3: you thought he was better at explaining this than Pete

977
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 3: hegsas I do. Yes, he turned it around very quickly.

978
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 3: It wasn't I know he's very well media trained, but

979
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 3: it didn't seem like he was reaching for anything. He

980
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 3: came right back with the right stuff. There's nothing about

981
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 3: him that is unsteady, wavering. U. He doesn't he doesn't misspeak,

982
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 3: he doesn't double speak, he doesn't ham, he doesn't haul.

983
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 3: He always seems to go right at the question and

984
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 3: answer it directly every time. I don't notice any fault,

985
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 3: any hesitation, any faltering, I should say in what he's saying.

986
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 3: So I agree with you. I think he's a terribly

987
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:47,760
Speaker 3: effective communicator. In number thirty two here, how about regime change?

988
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 3: Marco Rubio addresses this do we want to see a

989
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 3: regime change.

990
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 8: We would love to see this regime be replaced, and ultimately,

991
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 8: as a president has said, pause, let me finish my answer.

992
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 8: As the president set, he would for the people of

993
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 8: Iran to use this as an opportunity to rise up and.

994
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:05,839
Speaker 9: Remove ease leads. They've been wanting to remove them from

995
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 9: a long time.

996
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 8: We've seen successive waves of protests, and we've seen them

997
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 8: slaughter people. Okay, but the objective of this mission is

998
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 8: to make sure they don't have these weapons that can

999
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:14,879
Speaker 8: threaten us in.

1000
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:16,799
Speaker 9: Our allies in the region. That's why we're doing what

1001
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:17,479
Speaker 9: we're doing now.

1002
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 8: And while we would love to see a new regime,

1003
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 8: the bottom line is, no matter who governs that country

1004
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 8: a year from now, they're not going to have these

1005
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 8: ballistic missiles and they're not going to have.

1006
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 9: These drones to threaten us.

1007
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 2: So that's the question. Do you believe they were a

1008
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 2: threat ed? I mean, I think fundamentally that's where we

1009
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:38,879
Speaker 2: have to come to. Do you believe Iran was could

1010
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,320
Speaker 2: be again a threat if not dealt with? That's the

1011
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 2: question we all have to ask ourselves, and there are

1012
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 2: some that apparently just do not believe Iran's a threat.

1013
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 2: They just don't believe it. They think this is made

1014
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 2: up at a whole cloth because Israel wanted us to

1015
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:54,879
Speaker 2: do you think Iran is a threat, a destabilizing threat

1016
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 2: in the region or to us in the future or.

1017
00:55:56,719 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 3: Now at absolutely, Chris, and I think that's evident. By

1018
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 3: October seventh, nobody in the world, including Israel, was expecting

1019
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:07,879
Speaker 3: that to happen from Hamas fully funded by Iran. So

1020
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 3: what's the next thing. When is the next time they're

1021
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 3: going to step out in that kind of way and

1022
00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:16,160
Speaker 3: slaughter innocent people?

1023
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 2: Yes, it was coming. I think what Rubio said, look

1024
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:21,400
Speaker 2: at what Iran was able to pull off even in

1025
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 2: their weakened condition. Look at what they did even as

1026
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 2: we attacked them. Look at how they were able to

1027
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 2: lob missiles at all their neighbors and the damage they did,

1028
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 2: and that's weakened. I thought that was a pretty effective

1029
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 2: message on the idea of boots on the ground, sending

1030
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:41,520
Speaker 2: our men and women into battle on the ground. There

1031
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 2: number thirty three, Marco Rubio, we.

1032
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 8: Believe the objective that we have set for this mission,

1033
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 8: which is the destruction of the ballistic missile capabilities, both

1034
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 8: launch capability and manufacturing.

1035
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:53,919
Speaker 9: Can be achieved without ground forces.

1036
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 8: Right now, we're not postured for ground forces, but obviously

1037
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 8: the President has.

1038
00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 2: Those options, keeping the option open, not the plan as

1039
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 2: of now. It's head to the phones out to California.

1040
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 2: It's Eric quaiting patiently. Eric. I'm glad you called. Good morning, Hi, Chris.

1041
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 15: I'd like to try to answer or elaborate somewhat an

1042
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 15: earlier call that you got from David asking why so

1043
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 15: many people are anti Israel.

1044
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 11: Now.

1045
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 15: I am a Christian Jew, born again Hebrew Christian, so

1046
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 15: you know that I cannot possibly be anti Semitic, but

1047
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 15: I'm not Prosionist. And what I want to say here

1048
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 15: is that the Abrahamic Covenant in Genesis was not referring

1049
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 15: to a political state or a government. It was referring

1050
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:59,280
Speaker 15: to God's people, the Jews all over and right now.

1051
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 15: The Jews are still scattered worldwide since seventy a d

1052
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 15: from the Roman invasion under Titus, which of course was

1053
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 15: a tragic event. They will be regathered on God's timing

1054
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 15: and go back to the land, and unbelief the present

1055
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 15: Zionist movement of back to the Land, they've gone back

1056
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 15: in unbelief, and that is not the true Israel.

1057
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 2: The reconstituting of Israel and the regathering of the Jewish

1058
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 2: people is the focal point, right That's the debate and

1059
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 2: the discussion and whether you believe that that is the

1060
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 2: current area that we call Israel. But I think you're

1061
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 2: correct in saying this. That's a theological discussion that's too

1062
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 2: deep for me, and I'm not going to try. But

1063
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 2: it is clear that the borders and the boundaries the

1064
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 2: country of Israel right now the discussion from a theological

1065
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 2: point of view, I think for people of goodwill and

1066
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 2: good faith, it is clear and true and honest to

1067
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 2: say that the government of Israel is different than the

1068
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Speaker 2: reconstituting of the Jewish people. I think that most good

1069
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 2: people of good faith can recognize the government of modern

1070
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 2: day Israel is not the same thing that we talk

1071
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 2: about theologically, and I'll leave it at that. But I

1072
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Speaker 2: don't think it ever warrants hostility toward Israel. Necessarily. Can

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Speaker 2: the government of Israel today be criticized? Of course it

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Speaker 2: can and should, just like ours can and should be.

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Speaker 2: And so yeah, it's a theological discussion. It's a deep one,

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Speaker 2: and it's an important one. In fact, it's been interesting.

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Speaker 2: I've been spending time in Romans right to Ezra and Nehemiah.

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Speaker 2: If you are a person of faith, if you're a

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Speaker 2: Christian right now, probably more than ever, it's a good

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Speaker 2: idea to open up your Bible, get familiar with the text,

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Speaker 2: talk with a faith leader, and get your mind right

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Speaker 2: about it. Orna minute, Hey there, Tampa, thanks for listening

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Speaker 2: on the answer AM eight sixty. You know, I saw

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Speaker 2: that the Tampa. I don't know if this is real

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Speaker 2: or not. You never know anymore on social media whether

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Speaker 2: something's real or not. I had to ask, is this

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Speaker 2: real that the Tampa Airport has been I found this

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Speaker 2: difficult to believe. The claim was that the Tampa Airport

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Speaker 2: on what looked to be very very official kind of

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Speaker 2: letterhead digital letterhead. Again, I'm dubious, but I loved the sentiment.

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Speaker 2: Whether it's true or not, the Tampa Airport says they

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Speaker 2: have banned all pajama wearing. Fast Eddie, no more pajamas.

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Speaker 2: We've had it. We're sick to death of it. You

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Speaker 2: can't wear pajamas to the airport anymore. Now. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if that was just somebody having fun and trying

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Speaker 2: to make it look official or not. But I liked

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Speaker 2: the sentiment. You like that, Yeah, I do.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, We're not the you know, as adults, we're traveling.

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Speaker 3: We're not in college anymore. Come on, take comes off.

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Speaker 2: I don't know whether that's true or not, but I

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Speaker 2: loved the scent of it. It's been floating around on

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Speaker 2: social media. Tampa, by the way, one of my favorite

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Speaker 2: places to go because not far from there is Clearwater

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Speaker 2: and that's where the Phillies are in spring training right now.

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Speaker 2: Is that the best time If you've never been to

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Speaker 2: spring training, I highly recommend it to you if you

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Speaker 2: want to get out of a cold place and go

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Speaker 2: see some baseball in March. Oh, is that fun? I

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Speaker 2: just love it there. Every time I see that shot

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Speaker 2: of Tampa, I think at Clearwater, not far I just

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Speaker 2: love it. Eight five five stigalls the telephone number from

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Speaker 2: the Relief Factor Studios. Listen, folks, The Trump doctrine is

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Speaker 2: peace through precision. That's it. Peace through precision. Eliminate the

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Speaker 2: existential threat quickly without occupation, Empower the locals to stabilize

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Speaker 2: their own government, then step back. America avoids endless wars

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Speaker 2: creating conditions on the ground, at least for last peace.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the plan in Cuba two, by the way,

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Speaker 2: Instead of decades long occupations and nation building like in

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Speaker 2: Iraq and Afghanistan, Trump's approach pretty straightforward, rapid targeted action

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Speaker 2: to remove threats, an exit before a protracted ground war

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Speaker 2: takes place. Bush and Obama they dragged America into endless

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Speaker 2: nation building exercises, hundreds of thousands of troops, trillion dollars

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Speaker 2: price tags, no clear exit, just forever wars, as they

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Speaker 2: were called, trying to remake entire societies. Trump's approaches the opposite.

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Speaker 2: It's quick, it's precise, the objectives are clear. In Venezuela, Iran,

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Speaker 2: clear goals. Cuba means perhaps removing the top threats Maduro

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Speaker 2: captured comane, eliminated regime collapse via sactions, then stepping out,

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Speaker 2: stepping back. No occupations, no decade long reconstruction. Just neutralize

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Speaker 2: the danger. That's it. It's about stability, it's about safety,

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Speaker 2: it's prosperity. You can't have safety and prosperity if you

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Speaker 2: don't have stability. So far, that's exactly what's happened. President

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Speaker 2: Trump has delivered exactly what he's envisioned. Trump even has

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Speaker 2: a deal with Greenland on the table, and that was

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Speaker 2: the result of negotiation. It's leverage. He's taking away the

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Speaker 2: enemy's leverage. He's strengthening our position. But it's all targeted.

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Speaker 2: It's strategic. That's it. It's that easy to understand. And

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Speaker 2: I'll just say this about Iran. Islamists are deadly menacing

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Speaker 2: threats to all of us. Islamists must be destroyed before

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Speaker 2: they destroy us, because make book on it. They want

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Speaker 2: to destroy you, and they want to destroy me, and

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Speaker 2: they want to destroy anyone not like them. Islamists must

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Speaker 2: be eliminated wherever they're found, in my estimation, And you

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01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:22,400
Speaker 2: can just take Israel and put them aside for a

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Speaker 2: minute if you'd like. If it makes you uncomfortable or

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01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:29,360
Speaker 2: you're angry or whatever about Israel and Jews, if that's

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Speaker 2: what exercises you, then allow this Christian to say, I'll

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Speaker 2: set Israel and the Jews aside and say, as a Christian,

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Speaker 2: I want all Islamists muted and defeated wherever they're found,

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Speaker 2: not Muslims. Careful you begot Nope, I said Islamists, Islamo fascists,

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Speaker 2: is Lamo supremacists. These are people that subjugate their women.

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Speaker 2: These are people that murder and kill gays. Do you

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Speaker 2: understand that murder throw them right off the top of buildings?

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Speaker 2: Do you understand that people? Does everyone understand what Islam is?

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Speaker 2: Does everyone understand what Islamism is? Do you want your

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Speaker 2: women covered head to toe with slits for eyes? Hey? Girls, Hello?

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Speaker 2: Do you want that? Fellows? Do you want that for

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Speaker 2: your women? Or do you like your Sydney Sweeney? I

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Speaker 2: like Sidney Sweeney. Thanks, I'd rather like I'd like to

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Speaker 2: see Sidney Sweeney in an ad, not covered head to

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Speaker 2: toe with slits for eyes. I want Islam Islamists eradicated.

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Speaker 2: I'm perfectly comfortable with that. That's from a Christian point

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Speaker 2: of view. More in a minute. Hey, everybody's trying to

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Speaker 2: save money where they can. If you buy your own

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Speaker 2: expensive those premiums are getting. It's why I've sent my

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Speaker 2: own parents, my personal friends, and my colleagues to John

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Speaker 2: coverage at the very best rates. My own parents saved

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Speaker 2: four hundred dollars a month each on their Medicare supplemental

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Speaker 2: health insurance premiums reaching out to John Rouman and US

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Speaker 2: She reached out to US Medical Plan to replace her

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Speaker 2: Cobra insurance rates. Saved six hundred dollars a month. A

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Speaker 2: personal friend who buys his own family's health insurance out

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Speaker 2: of pocket, I send him to John and now he's

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Speaker 2: saving one thousand dollars a month. Listen, folks, this is

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Speaker 2: month without sacrificing coverage. But you're not going to know

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Speaker 2: unless you reach out right now and have the conversation

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Speaker 2: eight seven seven four one zero forty three to twenty

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Speaker 2: it be with you, folks? Welcome in a live look

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Speaker 2: at Philadelphia's headquarters for the seventy six ers training facility

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Speaker 2: at present. I believe they haven't moved yet, have they

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Speaker 2: head We're in Philadelphia at our headquarters. Our flagship station,

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Speaker 2: Philadelpha is a M nine ninety the answer. That's over

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Speaker 2: there in Camden, I believe as of now, but not permanently.

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Speaker 2: They're moving or something.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, no, the mayor, Cherrell Parker does not want

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Speaker 3: them in Camden, so the plans.

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Speaker 2: Should be to move within the year. Eight five fives

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Speaker 2: to gall, is that you get to us today, love

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Speaker 2: to have you. If there's anything on your mind, we

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Speaker 2: would love to speak with you. Is Gabriel with us

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Speaker 2: by the way or not? I'm sorry, didn't that okay?

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Speaker 9: He is?

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Speaker 2: I wasn't sure. Eight five five Stigall or you can

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Speaker 2: go to Christigall dot com and get caught up on

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Speaker 2: everything you need social media. Is there herump Society, my

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Speaker 2: three times a week newsletter, that's there, Chris Stigall dot com.

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Speaker 2: All right, Gabriel is with US, executive director of Polaris

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Speaker 2: National Security. He's been on Fox already this morning. Gabriel,

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Speaker 2: you've been busy. Welcome back.

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Speaker 14: Hey, good morning, Chris can be with you.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it. I wasn't sure I know how busy

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Speaker 2: you've been. I was curious if you even had the time.

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Speaker 2: People have been leaning on your expertise on this subject

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Speaker 2: of Iran, and I'm great that you could make time

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Speaker 2: for us, because I do think no matter where you

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Speaker 2: sit on this, what vantage point, whether you're critical or

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Speaker 2: supportive of this, I think everybody wonders the same thing,

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Speaker 2: and that is, what does success look like? Now that

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Speaker 2: we're here? What does success look like to you? How

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Speaker 2: do you view success here when this is done, assuming

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Speaker 2: it ends, as President Trump says, in the next four

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Speaker 2: weeks or so.

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Speaker 14: So I think I think there's two ways to look

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Speaker 14: at success.

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Speaker 2: Way.

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Speaker 16: One is that we've completely eliminated Iran's blissic missile activity.

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Speaker 16: It's research, its development, its whole supply chain, and so

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Speaker 16: that it takes a year, maybe two years.

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Speaker 14: For them to build new bolistic missiles.

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Speaker 16: At all, you know, I frankly, I think what we've

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Speaker 16: seen in just the last two days is that the

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Speaker 16: ballistic missile and drum threat is actually more acute than

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Speaker 16: it's nuclear threat. These are things that can be a

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Speaker 16: shield for their nuclear program. And I think, you know,

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Speaker 16: imagine if they had had a few more years to

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Speaker 16: build one hundred missiles a month, how much more deadly

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Speaker 16: their response would be right now? And so I think

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Speaker 16: taking that out, completely obliterating it again buys us a

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Speaker 16: couple more years.

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Speaker 14: But that's not very satisfying.

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Speaker 16: If that's just, oh, a couple more years and then

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Speaker 16: we have to go do this again every time.

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Speaker 14: And that's why, to me, without regime change.

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Speaker 16: All you are doing is you are mowing the lawn,

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Speaker 16: but the grass keeps growing back. And unfortunately, I think

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Speaker 16: it's clear to me that really we're not going for

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Speaker 16: a regime change policy, which means that we're just doing

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Speaker 16: another strike to degrade Islamic Republic capabilities, but that we're

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Speaker 16: kind of content, or we've we've admitted to ourselves that

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Speaker 16: we're not really going to go and replace this regime

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Speaker 16: and that we'll just have new leaders come in.

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Speaker 14: In a couple of weeks and we'll be doing this

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Speaker 14: all over again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Gabriel ne Rono with IS again Polaris National Security.

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Speaker 2: You have very specifically studied Iran, and so I'm confused.

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Speaker 2: I've never been I don't know the makeup. If I

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Speaker 2: was quizzed on the population and the makeup of that population,

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Speaker 2: I would fail it. So I defer to you. I

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Speaker 2: keep hearing that there are millions of Iranians. We had

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Speaker 2: guests yesterday who said there are millions of Iranians who

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Speaker 2: want to go back to a place where they were

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Speaker 2: governed via a more secular tradition and they had a

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Speaker 2: thriving economy and country that was not a theocracy, and

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Speaker 2: it wasn't that long ago. So are there millions? Do

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Speaker 2: they have the will, do they have the mind, do

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Speaker 2: they have the power? Or are we just going of

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Speaker 2: you said, return to this theocracy again?

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Speaker 14: You know, I think it's actually tens of millions.

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Speaker 16: Iran has the lowest mosque attendance rate in the entire

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Speaker 16: Middle East.

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Speaker 14: It's only about ten.

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Speaker 16: To fifteen percent who are actual, you know, now practicing

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Speaker 16: Muslims who are supportive of the regime itself. It's a

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Speaker 16: very small minority which the regimes.

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Speaker 2: So how can I so, I'm sorry to interrupt you,

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Speaker 2: but with that fac you just shared, how is it

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Speaker 2: then that you're confident that we just go back to

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Speaker 2: a theocracy again? Are they that strong?

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Speaker 14: Well, because what the regime does have is a whole security.

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Speaker 16: Apparatus within the ier GC, within the besieged, within this

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Speaker 16: law enforcement forces, which is the exact forces that went

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Speaker 16: and killed thirty two thousand people back in January, and

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Speaker 16: they've got eleven thousand stage security stations throughout the country,

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Speaker 16: and their sole task is maintain the revolution, the Islamic

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Speaker 16: revolution key power by all means necessary. And so that's

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Speaker 16: very difficult for the running people to surmount, particularly because

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Speaker 16: I think the writing people do not have good tactics

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Speaker 16: when they come to oppose the regime. They are burning buildings,

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Speaker 16: they're not taking them over. They are gathering in the streets.

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Speaker 16: But what they're not doing is getting weapons and trying

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Speaker 16: to actually kill the security forces in a concerted, you know,

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Speaker 16: militia like, guerrilla like tactics. And so if they continue

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Speaker 16: with the same practices they have in the past, they

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Speaker 16: simply are going to come up short.

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Speaker 14: There's a lack of maturity and a.

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Speaker 16: Lack of organization in the opposition from what we've seen

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Speaker 16: for the last several years, which again makes it hard

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Speaker 16: for me to believe that they have what it takes

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Speaker 16: to actually overthrow the government.

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Speaker 2: So that would mean in order to achieve that, to

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Speaker 2: fix that, to correct that, that would mean boots on

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Speaker 2: the ground. But does it necessarily have to mean American

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Speaker 2: boots on the ground. Could Israel handle a task like

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Speaker 2: that properly installing themselves and training these folks up.

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Speaker 16: You know, I don't think Israel as the will or

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Speaker 16: even the operational capacity to do a full ground invasion.

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Speaker 16: I don't think it necessarily requires that. What it would

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Speaker 16: require is US to take out huge numbers of these

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Speaker 16: military stations, huge additional numbers of this military apparatus. And

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Speaker 16: so this would what this would require is again probably

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Speaker 16: more like the six to eight week version of this

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Speaker 16: war rather than the three.

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Speaker 14: To four week version.

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Speaker 16: The three to four week version, we're taking out the

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Speaker 16: offensive capabilities and things that threaten us, but it's the

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Speaker 16: you would need weeks more to go and take out

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Speaker 16: that apparatus of repression that exists throughout the country. And frankly,

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Speaker 16: I'm not sure that either the United States or Israel

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Speaker 16: has the missiles and munitions that it wants to spend

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Speaker 16: on this for that task.

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Speaker 14: And so that's what you.

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Speaker 16: Know, is really concerning me. That we're going to come in,

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Speaker 16: We're going to do a lot of damage, We're going

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Speaker 16: to take a lot of damage, but we're not can

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Speaker 16: go that extra mile to actually get rid of the regime.

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Speaker 16: But you know, I might be discounting the running people.

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Speaker 16: I hope I'm wrong here. I hope that they are

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Speaker 16: able to organize and have courage and take to the

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Speaker 16: streets and do the strategically necessary things. I just haven't

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Speaker 16: seen evidence of that in the prior demonstrations.

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Speaker 2: Okay, to the skeptical, and there are those in this audience,

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Speaker 2: I respect and understand that there are people that are

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Speaker 2: just skeptical that this was ever necessary or a real threat.

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Speaker 2: You've studied this, and let's try as hard as it

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Speaker 2: is for a lot of people because they're very emotional

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Speaker 2: about Israel. I get it. Israel is this hot button

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Speaker 2: thing for people. But I'd like to be intellectually honest

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Speaker 2: for a minute and just extract the Israel from the

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Speaker 2: discussion entirely. Let's say Israel didn't exist, is Iran in

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Speaker 2: its current form until we went in there this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Is Iran a threat to the United States and it's

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Speaker 2: neighbors and the rest of the world. Israel word a thing.

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Speaker 16: It is, and it's because of their ideology. The way

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Speaker 16: I like to think of them is that they're a

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Speaker 16: Shia version of Isis. They have an expansionist, revolutionary ideology.

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Speaker 16: They want to take over the Middle East and maybe

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Speaker 16: even beyond. They want to dominate with their ideology and

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Speaker 16: their religion, and in their view, they want to trigger

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Speaker 16: the end times by expanding and having this massive military

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Speaker 16: confrontation from the West that again, think of them like Isis,

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Speaker 16: just a slightly different type of ideology and a whole

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Speaker 16: lot more organized and larger. We would never have allowed

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Speaker 16: Isis to have a nuclear weapon, and we should never

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Speaker 16: allow Iran to.

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Speaker 14: Get a nuclear weapon. And the issue is.

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Speaker 16: That they are hell bent literally on getting that capability

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Speaker 16: whatever the cost. And so it's not that I want

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Speaker 16: more of iron I really don't want this, and I'm not,

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Speaker 16: you know, even a cheerleader for the for the war

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Speaker 16: that we have currently, but it is a necessary thing

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Speaker 16: to ensure us safety and security so that we don't

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Speaker 16: have this radical regime on the March.

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Speaker 2: So with about a minute ago, when you hear people

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Speaker 2: say Israel drew us into this, we weren't even gonna

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Speaker 2: go there were it not for Israel. It's all Israel's fault.

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Speaker 2: This is all about Israel and only Israel, you say, you.

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Speaker 16: Know, President Trump is the one that started this conversation

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Speaker 16: two months ago when he said that if there were

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Speaker 16: if the running regime killed its people, that he would

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Speaker 16: impose costs on the regime. That was President Trump who

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Speaker 16: started this, who put this all into action, and the

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Speaker 16: Israelis have, you know, agreed to be part of the

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Speaker 16: military solution to this. But I think it's it's this

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Speaker 16: ingenuous to say that this is all Israel. This was

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Speaker 16: something that the United States was very clear about that

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Speaker 16: President Trump personally made brought to a four, tried to

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Speaker 16: give the Runnians an alf ramp and the Ruttings rejected it.

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Speaker 16: And so certainly the Israelis are part of this. They

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Speaker 16: are her part and parcel of the Middle East and

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Speaker 16: the security apparatus that we've built there. But I think

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Speaker 16: we would be in here whether Israel was here or not.

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Speaker 2: Gabriel Narona over there at Polaris National Security polarisdashus dot

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Speaker 2: org if you'd like to follow them online. Thank you, Gabriel,

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01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:26,760
Speaker 2: appreciate your perspective as always.

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Speaker 14: Thanks Chris.

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Speaker 2: Eight five fives to golle Mon A minute. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think tomorrow. I've been thinking about this and what to

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Speaker 2: do in Iran. I think tomorrow in the newsletter in

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Speaker 2: the Herrum Society. If you're not a Hrrum for this

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01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 2: might be the week to join, because I think I'm

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Speaker 2: going to put to paper, so to speak, today, all

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Speaker 2: my thoughts on this how to achieve a liberated, safe,

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Speaker 2: and prosperous Iran. I have some thoughts it's going to

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Speaker 2: be based on Trump's strengths and getting countries to work

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Speaker 2: together in that region. I think President Trump's doctrine is

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Speaker 2: the answer, quite frankly, for most nations. Some very good

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01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:12,479
Speaker 2: news yesterday. I don't want to get too far away

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Speaker 2: from the show before I mentioned this. The California public

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Speaker 2: schools can't keep parents in the dark if their children

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Speaker 2: express a gender identity that doesn't align with their sex

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Speaker 2: recorded at birth. The Supreme Court ruled this yesterday. The Court,

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Speaker 2: in a split decision, concluded that parents likely have This

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Speaker 2: is just amazing. I mean, I'm reading this from the

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Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal and the verbiage is kind of stunning.

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Speaker 2: In a split decision, the court concluded that parents likely

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Speaker 2: have a constitutional right to be kept in form if

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Speaker 2: their children adopt new pronouns. Can you imagine that that's

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Speaker 2: a split decision. That we live at a time you

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Speaker 2: talk about biblical wow. We live in a time where

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Speaker 2: there are people that think government officials as well as

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Speaker 2: schools should be allowed in fact encouraged, in fact, legally

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Speaker 2: enforced to keep secrets between them and your children. And

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Speaker 2: I really want that to settle in for a minute.

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Speaker 2: That's what we're talking about. California trying to legally force schools, teachers, principals,

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Speaker 2: counselors to keep secrets between your children and them, legally

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Speaker 2: force them to keep secrets. And the Supreme Court yesterday

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Speaker 2: came out and said, no, we actually don't think schools

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Speaker 2: can be legally forced to keep secrets. We think parents

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01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:50,799
Speaker 2: have a constitutional right to be told if their children

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Speaker 2: decide they don't want to be the gender they are anymore.

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Speaker 2: We think that something public schools should tell their parents.

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Speaker 2: We live in a time where people actually think that's

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Speaker 2: acceptable to keep secrets from parents about something that mentally distressing.

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Speaker 2: In Texas, Ken Paxton confirms that Texas law prohibits mental

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Speaker 2: health providers from transing kids. This is one of the

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Speaker 2: issues of our time. By the way, this is one

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Speaker 2: of the issues of This is one of the defining

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Speaker 2: moments in our lives today. Are we going to hand

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Speaker 2: children over to the state? And this Frankenstein's monster experimentation

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Speaker 2: with this mental illness called gender dysphoria telling, never mind

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Speaker 2: discussions of Israel and Islam. What kind of godless nation

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Speaker 2: are we that we've come to a place where we

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Speaker 2: tell young children God made a miss or you weren't

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Speaker 2: born the gender that we assigned you at birth. We

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01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:09,280
Speaker 2: can physically reconstruct and mentally re engineer you so that

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Speaker 2: you can be the gender you want to be instead

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Speaker 2: of the gender you are.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 2: That is the ultimate in Hubris. You can talk all

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Speaker 2: you want about Islam, Iran, Jews, Israel, talk about any

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Speaker 2: and all of that all you want, but we are

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Speaker 2: in some kind of godless, hedonistic, looney tunes place as

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Speaker 2: a country. If we're handing our children over to the

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Speaker 2: state to become lab rats, I I'll go to my

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Speaker 2: grave on this one. You're a lunatic if you embrace

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Speaker 2: this stuff. Okay, Our chief economist Steve Moore, we'd like

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01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:52,960
Speaker 2: to check in with him every Tuesday. Anyway over there

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Speaker 2: at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. Do you have the

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Speaker 2: Hotline newsletter? It comes to you for free every week

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Speaker 2: in your email box if you sign up for it.

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Speaker 2: To the Committee to n LEAs Prosperity Economically speaking, Steve

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Speaker 2: O and I welcome you in good morning. We are

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Speaker 2: obviously all watching Iran and the situation there, and I

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Speaker 2: read stories from Politico today, for instance, about how China's

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01:22:15,080 --> 01:22:19,959
Speaker 2: oil dilemma is real after these strikes by our forces.

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01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:22,360
Speaker 2: But what does it mean for our gas prices, which

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Speaker 2: we've seen tick up a little bit, and what does

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Speaker 2: it mean for our greater economy? Steve Oh, I know

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Speaker 2: you've been watching it. Good morning, Hi, Good.

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Speaker 6: Morning, Chris. Well, well timed question.

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Speaker 17: I just finished editing the hotline for this morning that'll

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Speaker 17: be going out very shortly, so I'll give you a

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Speaker 17: sneak preview. And our lead item is called thank God

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Speaker 17: for Drill, Baby Drill, because what's going on is we

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Speaker 17: are just in the last fourteen months, the United States

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Speaker 17: has become the number one oil and gas producer in

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Speaker 17: the world. So we are much much less reliant on

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Speaker 17: Middle East oil than we were two.

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Speaker 6: Years ago, five years ago.

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Speaker 17: I go back to the nineteen late nineteen seventies when

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Speaker 17: we're completely dependent on the Middle East.

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Speaker 6: And so this is the reason.

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Speaker 17: By the way, can you imagine if Kamala Harris had

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Speaker 17: been president, you know, and they had their you know,

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Speaker 17: zero carverent emission policy that would have we would be

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Speaker 17: paying one hundred dollars a barrel today right now. The

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Speaker 17: latest I checked. You may know the latest numbers. I

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Speaker 17: checked late last night. It was about seventy two dollars

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Speaker 17: a barrel, which is higher. It's up about eight percent,

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Speaker 17: but it's not up thirty five percent as a lot

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Speaker 17: of people were expecting. And so this is because we've

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Speaker 17: become much more energy independent, and Trump has made that

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Speaker 17: a top priority. You know where the oil place is

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Speaker 17: headed from here, it's always hard to predict, but.

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Speaker 6: We're much less vulnerable today. So I've said this on.

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Speaker 17: Your show many times over the last few years, that

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Speaker 17: it's not just an economic.

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Speaker 6: Issue to produce more oil and gas here.

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Speaker 17: It's a national security issue as well.

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Speaker 2: And again I'm no foreign policy expert, and I can't

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Speaker 2: prove anything of that say here, but it seems to

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Speaker 2: me as I do the math and I start to

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Speaker 2: kind of look at the timeline of events. Our move

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Speaker 2: on Venezuela came just before this move on Iran, and

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Speaker 2: I wonder if they were done in sequential order because

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Speaker 2: of Venezuela's rich oil supply. I mean, obviously they're always talking.

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Speaker 2: I saw Bessen had a seat at the table in

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Speaker 2: the situation room as these strikes were happening over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: I'm always intrigued that Besson is in the room for

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Speaker 2: all of these critical foreign policy decisions because obviously it

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Speaker 2: impacts our economy.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, absolutely right, And listen Trump, don't I hope that

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Speaker 17: Americans don't think this is about oil, because it really isn't.

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Speaker 17: I mean, hopefully this was really about age. This was

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Speaker 17: in many ways a humanitarian mission to save the tons

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Speaker 17: and tons of thousands of Iranians who were being murdered

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Speaker 17: by their own leadership every day. But of course the

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Speaker 17: Middle East is strategically important. Incidentally, you know, as we

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Speaker 17: continue to become more and more energy independent, because there's

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Speaker 17: no country that has more oil, gas and other resources

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Speaker 17: than we do. You know, we don't have to be

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Speaker 17: dependent on you know what's different today about the world

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Speaker 17: than it was, say thirty years ago, is the Middle

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Speaker 17: East in terms of providing resources, is less and less

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Speaker 17: important in the world because of what we're doing here

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Speaker 17: in America. So it's looking so far like the economy.

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Speaker 17: And by the way, the Stow Jones only fell yesterday,

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Speaker 17: But now I didn't look at the futurists overnight.

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Speaker 6: So I don't know what's happened this.

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Speaker 17: Morning, but you know a lot of people were predicting

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01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:42,320
Speaker 17: like five percent reduction in stock values, and yesterday they

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01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:45,200
Speaker 17: only fell by about a half a percentage point. So

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Speaker 17: the world is looking at this and saying, hey, this

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Speaker 17: is not a disaster for the economy, and in a

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Speaker 17: long run it may be a positive thing.

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Speaker 2: I was traveling yesterday, but I thought, out of the

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Speaker 2: corner of my eye, I saw January jobs numbers were positive.

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Speaker 2: Is that right? Did you see jobs numbers? I'm making

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Speaker 2: that up. I'm not just come out late in the week,

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Speaker 2: but at any rate, I guess I'll just broadly ask

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Speaker 2: you employment, how does that look? How do paychecks look

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Speaker 2: as we had? Because, as we know, people vote on

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Speaker 2: economic issues, and I mean, are you still feeling even

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Speaker 2: given this action, are you feeling bullish about the economy?

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01:26:19,240 --> 01:26:23,680
Speaker 2: Or could this, if protracted, become a dream economically when

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Speaker 2: Trump was really building and celebrating it in the State

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Speaker 2: of the Union last week.

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Speaker 17: So that's a very complicated question. And I'm not, by

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Speaker 17: the way, I'm not a foreign policy person, you know,

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Speaker 17: I'm an economist, but you.

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Speaker 6: Know what, I think almost all Americans would agree. We

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Speaker 6: don't want to quackdmire.

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Speaker 17: We don't want what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan here,

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01:26:43,400 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 17: you know, where we were there for five or six

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01:26:45,040 --> 01:26:46,960
Speaker 17: years and didn't really accomplish much of anything.

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Speaker 6: Knowing Donald Trump, I think this.

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Speaker 17: Is a surgical strike where we take out the murderous

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Speaker 17: leaders of that country and then hopefully leave put in

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Speaker 17: a hopefully help them put in a new regime that

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Speaker 17: is is pro people and humanitarian and and helps their people,

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01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:06,679
Speaker 17: you know, get rich.

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Speaker 6: But it gets out. That's my own view.

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Speaker 17: I don't I'm not a big fan of, you know,

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01:27:13,240 --> 01:27:16,600
Speaker 17: nation building. I don't think that's a great idea. So

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Speaker 17: I don't know what you think about it, Chris, you

1552
01:27:18,439 --> 01:27:20,240
Speaker 17: probably know a lot more about that than I do.

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01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:23,960
Speaker 17: But I've always say I've always believed our best role

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Speaker 17: in the world, and I think Trump agrees with this.

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Speaker 17: Lead by example, show the rest of the world how

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Speaker 17: you can be prosperous and free, and just tell the

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Speaker 17: rest of the world do what we're doing well.

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Speaker 2: The cynical view is always you know, when war is launched,

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01:27:36,920 --> 01:27:39,400
Speaker 2: people will either call it a a distraction or b it's,

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01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 2: you know, to line the pockets of the military industrial complex.

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Speaker 2: I don't think Trump's doing either of those things. I

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01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:47,200
Speaker 2: really don't. I think it's sincerely held conviction and a

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01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:50,080
Speaker 2: plan that he came to the table with. But having

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Speaker 2: said all that, economically speaking, what does military action like

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Speaker 2: this do long term? I mean, it is it is

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01:27:57,680 --> 01:28:00,280
Speaker 2: probably correct to say that in many ways it's sort

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Speaker 2: of a boost to the economy, often at least people

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Speaker 2: that make munitions and things like that, when you're talking

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Speaker 2: about protracted engagement, which is hopefully not what this is.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, what do we know about these kinds

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Speaker 2: of things and what it's done to the economy in

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Speaker 2: the past, for instance, what have we learned?

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Speaker 17: Well, look, anything that can make America safer is pro growth,

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01:28:21,200 --> 01:28:24,920
Speaker 17: right because you know, when you have wars or you

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01:28:24,960 --> 01:28:28,080
Speaker 17: have terrorism, you know that has a very.

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Speaker 6: Negative effect an economy.

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Speaker 17: So let's hope and pray that this makes the world

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01:28:33,800 --> 01:28:35,679
Speaker 17: a safer place and more prosperous place.

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Speaker 6: It's just too early to tell, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 6: so far, so good.

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Speaker 17: Is amazing, And you know, I'll salute our military. I mean,

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Speaker 17: my god, the professionalism of them both in Venezuela here

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Speaker 17: and then in Iran is just spectacular.

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Speaker 6: It's a real tribute to.

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Speaker 17: Our know how and our technology technology that we're able

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Speaker 17: to do these surgical strikes in such an effective way.

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Speaker 17: By the way, you know, as I'm reading the paper

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01:29:05,360 --> 01:29:08,240
Speaker 17: this morning and about our intelligence, you.

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Speaker 6: Know, was amazing.

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01:29:08,960 --> 01:29:11,800
Speaker 17: We knew where these guys were every minute of every day.

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Speaker 17: I mean, that's pretty amazing.

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Speaker 2: Housing the news there, I think when since we last talked,

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01:29:17,960 --> 01:29:20,479
Speaker 2: it's come down. Interest rates have come down a little

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01:29:20,479 --> 01:29:22,960
Speaker 2: bit on housing without the FED doing much yet. So

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Speaker 2: what does that tell us?

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Speaker 17: It tells us that if we have continued growth as

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Speaker 17: we've had the last year under Trump, It's very simple, Chris.

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Speaker 17: I mean, I don't want to insult the intelligence of

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Speaker 17: your listeners, but when you produce more goods and services,

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Speaker 17: the price of these things fall and inflation falls. And

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Speaker 17: we've seen good reports on inflation. And the best way

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01:29:46,040 --> 01:29:48,080
Speaker 17: to bring down interest rates is not to rely on

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01:29:48,120 --> 01:29:49,200
Speaker 17: the fetor reserve Board.

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01:29:49,560 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 6: It's to create a system of abundance.

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01:29:52,160 --> 01:29:56,000
Speaker 17: Prices fall, and when prices fall, mortgage rates fall. So

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01:29:56,040 --> 01:29:58,960
Speaker 17: you're right, it was a real red letter day, but

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Speaker 17: I think it was Thursday I last week, for the

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Speaker 17: first time in three or four years, the interest rate

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01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:07,000
Speaker 17: on mortgagees bell below six percent.

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01:30:08,280 --> 01:30:12,040
Speaker 2: How close are we to seeing or will we ever see?

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Speaker 2: I think there was always big debate that interest rates

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Speaker 2: for houses would would ever drop back down to the threes.

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01:30:18,320 --> 01:30:19,559
Speaker 2: Do you think those days are just done?

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01:30:19,560 --> 01:30:22,960
Speaker 6: For good God, that's an impossible question.

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01:30:23,280 --> 01:30:25,400
Speaker 17: I'm only laughing when you say that because I'm older

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01:30:25,400 --> 01:30:27,840
Speaker 17: than you, Chris, and I remember when I was, you know,

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01:30:27,960 --> 01:30:31,080
Speaker 17: in my mid twenties, and interest rates were as high

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01:30:31,120 --> 01:30:32,760
Speaker 17: as fourteen percent, you.

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01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:36,360
Speaker 6: Know, so I liked don five percent mortgage.

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01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:38,800
Speaker 17: Would be a really good thing, given how high they

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01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 17: can go in many countries that are paying a lot

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01:30:42,320 --> 01:30:45,719
Speaker 17: higher mortgage rates than we are. But look, I remained

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01:30:45,760 --> 01:30:47,920
Speaker 17: very bullish on the US economy. We've got a president

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01:30:47,920 --> 01:30:50,960
Speaker 17: who's a businessman, who knows what he's doing. He's pressing

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01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:54,599
Speaker 17: all the right buttons, and you know, I'm praying that this,

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01:30:54,600 --> 01:30:59,920
Speaker 17: this military incursion into Iran makes the world to say

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Speaker 17: for place.

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Speaker 6: I think that's what we'd all love to see.

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01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:05,280
Speaker 2: What's the next data point, Steve O you're waiting for.

1630
01:31:05,360 --> 01:31:07,519
Speaker 2: Is there something in particular you're looking to see that's

1631
01:31:07,560 --> 01:31:09,400
Speaker 2: going to make a dramatic statement one or the other.

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Speaker 17: You mentioned jobs just a minute ago, Chris, and it's

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01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:17,439
Speaker 17: kind of a dilemma because job creation has slowed, no

1634
01:31:17,600 --> 01:31:20,519
Speaker 17: question about that, over about the last eighteen months. Part

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01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:22,360
Speaker 17: of that is due to the fact that we just

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01:31:22,400 --> 01:31:26,360
Speaker 17: have fewer young people entering the workforce. It's demographics and

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01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:29,519
Speaker 17: that's going to continue for a while. And the big question,

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01:31:29,560 --> 01:31:31,280
Speaker 17: and we'll have to maybe talk about this in future

1639
01:31:31,280 --> 01:31:34,280
Speaker 17: weeks because we don't have time to now, how is robotics,

1640
01:31:34,360 --> 01:31:36,880
Speaker 17: artificial intelligence? How are these going to really change the

1641
01:31:36,960 --> 01:31:39,320
Speaker 17: labor force in our demand for workers. I mean, we

1642
01:31:39,400 --> 01:31:43,639
Speaker 17: have two million truck drivers who make their living driving trucks.

1643
01:31:43,640 --> 01:31:46,320
Speaker 17: I bet many of them listening to the show right now.

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01:31:46,720 --> 01:31:48,439
Speaker 17: Well ten years from now, we're not going to have

1645
01:31:48,439 --> 01:31:50,959
Speaker 17: a lot of truck drivers because they will all be automated.

1646
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:53,600
Speaker 17: So the world's changing in an amazing way and we

1647
01:31:53,760 --> 01:31:55,040
Speaker 17: just need to be prepared for it.

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01:31:56,439 --> 01:32:00,200
Speaker 2: Follow Steve. He's on ex Steven Moore and you can

1649
01:32:00,200 --> 01:32:02,479
Speaker 2: also get that newsletter that he sends out every day

1650
01:32:02,520 --> 01:32:04,200
Speaker 2: that he's working on. You just got a sneak preview

1651
01:32:04,200 --> 01:32:07,040
Speaker 2: of it. The Committee to Unleash prosperity issues, the Hotline newsletter.

1652
01:32:07,240 --> 01:32:09,439
Speaker 2: Oh and by the way, he's also the co author

1653
01:32:09,439 --> 01:32:13,360
Speaker 2: of The Trump Economic Miracle. Get that book and read

1654
01:32:13,360 --> 01:32:15,880
Speaker 2: all about it Forward by Donald Trump. Thank you, Steve O.

1655
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:16,680
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you.

1656
01:32:17,080 --> 01:32:18,360
Speaker 6: Thank you, Chris. Have a great week.

1657
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:22,720
Speaker 2: Take care our telephone number eight five five Stagall if

1658
01:32:22,760 --> 01:32:25,600
Speaker 2: you'd like to roll in here today. We continue to

1659
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:28,400
Speaker 2: cover the situation in Iran. Keep it on the Salem

1660
01:32:28,439 --> 01:32:30,880
Speaker 2: News Channel on the Salem Radio Network. This radio station

1661
01:32:31,720 --> 01:32:35,000
Speaker 2: for all the latest news, all day, every day. Morning

1662
01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:39,200
Speaker 2: minute in Brooklyn. Gil has been waiting very patiently. If

1663
01:32:39,240 --> 01:32:41,240
Speaker 2: he's still with us this morning, Gil, I'm glad you called.

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01:32:41,439 --> 01:32:43,200
Speaker 2: Good morning, Hello, Chris.

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Speaker 11: Just coldness says that there are two things that make

1666
01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:53,320
Speaker 11: me sick versus a Democrat keep saying that Iran didn't

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01:32:53,479 --> 01:32:56,800
Speaker 11: pose an imminent threat. What are we supposed to do?

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01:32:56,880 --> 01:32:59,439
Speaker 11: Wait until we're looking down the barrel of a gun.

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01:33:01,120 --> 01:33:05,800
Speaker 11: And the other thing is that Iran was conceived in

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01:33:06,880 --> 01:33:10,720
Speaker 11: with an act of war when they took over our embassy,

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01:33:10,800 --> 01:33:14,439
Speaker 11: that is an internationally recognized act of war, and we

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01:33:14,640 --> 01:33:18,720
Speaker 11: did nothing, and then they killed our servicemen in Beirut.

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01:33:18,800 --> 01:33:24,920
Speaker 11: They've killed literally thousands of servicemen ever since they I

1674
01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:28,040
Speaker 11: don't need to go into that. Everybody knows they But

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01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:31,440
Speaker 11: the point is that they have been at war with

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01:33:31,560 --> 01:33:35,280
Speaker 11: us for what fifty eight years is it, and we

1677
01:33:35,560 --> 01:33:40,439
Speaker 11: finally woke up to the fact that they are a threat.

1678
01:33:40,560 --> 01:33:44,360
Speaker 11: They are a destabilizing factor to the entire world, and

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01:33:44,400 --> 01:33:47,759
Speaker 11: they need to be taken care of. I'm also tired

1680
01:33:47,800 --> 01:33:55,200
Speaker 11: of the argument like why now, like Reagan said, if

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01:33:55,240 --> 01:33:58,759
Speaker 11: not us two, if not now?

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01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:07,519
Speaker 2: When Bill beautifully said I'm not going to miss Iran's leadership.

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01:34:07,560 --> 01:34:09,920
Speaker 2: I hope that we don't leave a vacuum where the

1684
01:34:09,960 --> 01:34:12,840
Speaker 2: same kind of leadership takes over again. But the fact

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01:34:12,840 --> 01:34:16,120
Speaker 2: that they're neutralized as a threat, that's a very very

1686
01:34:16,120 --> 01:34:19,800
Speaker 2: good thing. Is lomists are just They're the worst. They

1687
01:34:19,880 --> 01:34:21,920
Speaker 2: just are. And I will say that we are in

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01:34:21,920 --> 01:34:25,240
Speaker 2: an era of social media consumption now that has a

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01:34:25,240 --> 01:34:29,080
Speaker 2: lot of people very confused about that. And I can't

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01:34:29,120 --> 01:34:31,680
Speaker 2: ever prove and I won't ever know why exactly it

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01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:33,439
Speaker 2: is that some people that claim to be in the

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01:34:33,439 --> 01:34:37,000
Speaker 2: conservative space are now part of a sustained campaign to

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01:34:37,000 --> 01:34:40,599
Speaker 2: cause people to doubt Donald Trump and undermind Donald Trump's

1694
01:34:40,600 --> 01:34:43,960
Speaker 2: efforts or seem to suggest that somehow taking out is

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01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:48,280
Speaker 2: lomists in Iran is somehow a bad thing or not

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01:34:48,520 --> 01:34:53,799
Speaker 2: in our interest. It is beyond me what would motivate

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01:34:53,840 --> 01:34:56,720
Speaker 2: someone to have that as a genuinely held conviction. I

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01:34:56,760 --> 01:34:59,080
Speaker 2: would love for someone and ed correct me if I'm wrong.

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01:34:59,360 --> 01:35:01,880
Speaker 2: Have you heard it anyone who's in opposition to this?

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01:35:02,000 --> 01:35:04,639
Speaker 2: And again, not on the left, I don't. I'm setting

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01:35:04,680 --> 01:35:06,680
Speaker 2: the left aside. I'm talking about the voices who we

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01:35:06,720 --> 01:35:09,719
Speaker 2: all know. Have you heard any of them explain why

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01:35:09,840 --> 01:35:13,280
Speaker 2: Iran was just fine left to their own devices and

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01:35:13,400 --> 01:35:15,160
Speaker 2: we shouldn't have had anything to do with them one

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01:35:15,200 --> 01:35:17,040
Speaker 2: way or the other, just leave them alone. Have you

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01:35:17,080 --> 01:35:19,639
Speaker 2: heard any of these people critical of Trump explain why

1707
01:35:19,680 --> 01:35:25,360
Speaker 2: they should have been left alone? As of right down? No? No, yeah,

1708
01:35:25,439 --> 01:35:28,599
Speaker 2: And I would love someone to try. And the fact

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01:35:28,640 --> 01:35:30,720
Speaker 2: that they don't really defend Iran, the fact that they

1710
01:35:30,720 --> 01:35:34,000
Speaker 2: don't really explain why Iran is good and sweet full

1711
01:35:34,040 --> 01:35:38,280
Speaker 2: of virtue, tells me that these people exist to be

1712
01:35:38,320 --> 01:35:42,479
Speaker 2: a destabilizing force in our own country. And again, not

1713
01:35:42,560 --> 01:35:45,160
Speaker 2: that you have to be in lockstep, not that you

1714
01:35:45,240 --> 01:35:49,040
Speaker 2: have to support dear leader in all things. Where Donald

1715
01:35:49,040 --> 01:35:51,080
Speaker 2: Trump falls short and doesn't get it right. I'm happy

1716
01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:54,720
Speaker 2: to criticize, but we're a few days into what has

1717
01:35:54,760 --> 01:36:00,200
Speaker 2: been a demonstrably effective takedown of what as Gil just

1718
01:36:00,240 --> 01:36:04,400
Speaker 2: laid out. Anybody that understands their history is a historic,

1719
01:36:05,320 --> 01:36:13,679
Speaker 2: historical enemy, and Islamo supremacist nation bad actors. I don't

1720
01:36:13,680 --> 01:36:17,600
Speaker 2: need a time, certain like there is no good or

1721
01:36:17,720 --> 01:36:21,599
Speaker 2: bad time to take out an Islamic threat. If Islamo

1722
01:36:21,680 --> 01:36:24,880
Speaker 2: supremacy exists, and it means us or anyone else that's

1723
01:36:24,920 --> 01:36:27,320
Speaker 2: free in the United States or around the world, harm

1724
01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:31,080
Speaker 2: neutralize it when it makes best sense. And this president,

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01:36:31,120 --> 01:36:34,439
Speaker 2: the man that I voted forth three times and won

1726
01:36:34,479 --> 01:36:40,479
Speaker 2: an election at least twice with seventy seven million votes,

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01:36:40,680 --> 01:36:43,559
Speaker 2: was always very clear that Iran couldn't have a nuclear weapon.

1728
01:36:43,720 --> 01:36:46,720
Speaker 2: He saw evidence to suggest the time was right, and

1729
01:36:47,400 --> 01:36:50,120
Speaker 2: the time was critical to strike right now, and if

1730
01:36:50,160 --> 01:36:53,800
Speaker 2: we didn't there could be big problems in short order

1731
01:36:54,040 --> 01:36:57,080
Speaker 2: for not just our allies in the region, but US globally.

1732
01:36:58,479 --> 01:37:02,880
Speaker 2: I trust Donald Trump. My vote was for Donald Trump.

1733
01:37:02,960 --> 01:37:05,280
Speaker 2: There's only one guy that can make this decision at

1734
01:37:05,320 --> 01:37:09,000
Speaker 2: a time, and it's him. And here before I'm pleased

1735
01:37:09,040 --> 01:37:14,519
Speaker 2: with it. I can't attribute what motivates someone to be

1736
01:37:14,880 --> 01:37:17,320
Speaker 2: in opposition. I guess that's for you to sort out.

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Speaker 2: See you tomorrow. So that's a wrap for another Christagall

1738
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Speaker 2: Show podcast. Thanks for committing to it listening to it

1739
01:37:22,320 --> 01:37:24,880
Speaker 2: all the way through. You're a fighter. I like that

1740
01:37:24,920 --> 01:37:27,080
Speaker 2: about you. Hope you'll leave it a five star review

1741
01:37:27,280 --> 01:37:30,080
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