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Speaker 2: for the American people. Welcome to the Scott Jenning Show.

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Speaker 3: It is war in the Middle East.

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Speaker 1: The United States and Israel take down the despotic Iranian regime.

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Speaker 1: We'll have the latest with a slew of experts on

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Speaker 1: today's show. Horrific shootings in Austin, Texas and Cincinnati, Ohio,

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Speaker 1: and a mother in Northern Virginia stabbed to death by

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Speaker 1: an illegal immigrant, and all of the breaking news of

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Speaker 1: this day. It is Monday, March the second. This is

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Speaker 1: common sense for the American people. I'm Scott Jennings reporting

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Speaker 1: to you from your nation's capital here on Salem, and we.

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Speaker 3: Begin today with war.

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Speaker 1: We all awoke Saturday morning to the news that the

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Speaker 1: United States and Israel had decapitated the Iranian regime and

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Speaker 1: begun a massive air and naval campaign against a group

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Speaker 1: of fanatics who had themselves been at war with Western

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Speaker 1: civilization for the last forty seven years. Now, war of

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Speaker 1: this scale does not come without risk. As we arrive

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Speaker 1: on the air today, four US servicemen have died, some

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Speaker 1: others have been injured, and this morning we learned that

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Speaker 1: three American F fifteen fighter jets were shot down, not

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Speaker 1: by the enemy, but by friendly fire from Kuwaiti air defenses.

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Speaker 1: All of the personnel involved in that incident, however, and

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Speaker 1: thank goodness, are safe and recovered. But by all accounts,

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Speaker 1: the war effort is off to an incredible start. The

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Speaker 1: top level of the Iranian regime was eliminated instantly at

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Speaker 1: the beginning. We have air superiority over Iran to fly

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Speaker 1: thousands of sorties and to strike targets at will. I

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Speaker 1: did speak with senior administration officials this weekend. There was

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Speaker 1: intelligence and a sense that Iran was preparing to strike

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Speaker 1: US targets military and civilian with its ballistic missiles. That

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Speaker 1: was one of the reasons for the US attack. The

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Speaker 1: fact that Iran would not give up its nuclear ambitions

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Speaker 1: was another, and of course, forty seven years of terrorism

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Speaker 1: against the United States responsibility for thousands of American deaths

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Speaker 1: and injuries.

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Speaker 3: President Donald J.

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Speaker 1: Trump spoke to my CNN colleague Jake Tapper this morning

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Speaker 1: and told him that the US hasn't even started hitting

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Speaker 1: the Iranians hard yet.

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Speaker 3: He said the big wave begins soon.

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Speaker 1: And the President spoke this morning at the White House

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Speaker 1: about the threat that Iran posed to the United States.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear from the President and cut number ten.

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Speaker 4: An Iranian regime armed with long range missiles and nuclear

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Speaker 4: weapons would be an intolerable threat to the Middle East,

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Speaker 4: but also to the American people. Our country itself would

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Speaker 4: be under threat, and it was very nearly under threat.

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Speaker 4: I was very proud to have knocked out the Iran

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Speaker 4: nuclear deal by President Barack Cusan Obama. That was a horrible, horrible,

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Speaker 4: dangerous document. They would have had nuclear weapons three years ago.

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Speaker 1: And how are Iranians around the world and in the

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Speaker 1: United States reacting to all of this, Well, they're dancing

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Speaker 1: in the streets. Here's some audio and video of the

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Speaker 1: celebrations in Los Angeles, California, home to one of the

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Speaker 1: largest Iranian diasporas in the world.

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Speaker 3: Let's take a look at that clip. Number twelve, please.

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Speaker 1: And for our radio audience, what you're seeing in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles on the street, people dancing, people waving Iranian flags,

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Speaker 1: not the regimes flag, but the previous.

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Speaker 3: Iteration of theiron.

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Speaker 1: They're waving American flags, they're waving Israeli flags, They're cheering

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Speaker 1: for our President Donald J.

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Speaker 1: On today's show, we have an expert lineup of analysts

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Speaker 1: to break down all of this war coverage. Rebecca Heinrix

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Speaker 3: She's from the Hudson Institute.

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Speaker 1: She joins to discuss the progress of the military campaign

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Speaker 1: so far. That'll be in about ten minutes. At twenty

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Speaker 1: minutes past the hour. At thirty three minutes past the hour,

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Speaker 1: we have Jonathan Cornericus, a former spokesperson for the IDF

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Speaker 3: He'll talk about the Israeli piece of this.

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Speaker 1: And at about fifty minutes past the hour, how is

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Speaker 1: the media hand all of this? Well, several outlets are

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Speaker 1: disgracing themselves with how they've described the Ayatola. Maya Sulkan

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Speaker 1: The hour This show as always bringing you the best

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Speaker 1: Today we'll have more on the Iranian war throughout the hour.

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Speaker 1: There is other news today, sad news. Let's go to Austin,

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Speaker 1: Texas where a radical Muslim gunman from Senegal open fire

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Speaker 1: people are dead, fourteen more injured. Terrible scene at that location.

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Speaker 1: Incredibly Austin police responded within fifty seven seconds.

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Speaker 3: Let's see cut nine here.

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Speaker 6: This incident started with again those shut that calls for

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Speaker 6: a male shooting at Buford's Bar on West sixth Street.

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Speaker 6: Officers immediately transitioned, came over East sixth to West sixth Street,

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Speaker 6: and we're faced with the individual with a gun and

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Speaker 6: three of our officers returned fire, killing the suspect.

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Speaker 1: The gunman here is named you know what, I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to read his name, he doesn't deserve it. But

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Speaker 1: he came here from Senegal. He was a naturalized citizen

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Speaker 1: in the United States. He was wearing a Property of

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Speaker 1: Allah hoodie in a photo released by authorities.

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Speaker 3: Pretty sickening.

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Speaker 1: The FEDS are looking into whether this can be considered terrorism.

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Speaker 1: In the last few minutes, Fox News has obtained a

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Speaker 1: picture of the T shirt the gunman was wearing under

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Speaker 1: his property of Alla sweatshirt and it had the flag

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Speaker 1: of the Iranian regime on it. And Cincinnati, Ohio, nine

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Speaker 1: people were taken to the hospital after a mass shooting

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Speaker 1: the early hour Sunday morning. No arrests so far, no

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Speaker 1: An illegal alien has killed an American citizen. The details

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Speaker 1: are gruesome. A forty one year old mother was stabbed

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Speaker 1: to death at a Northern Virginia bus stop. The alien

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Speaker 1: had dozens dozens of prior arrests for rape and assault,

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Speaker 1: according to the police there. The victim here is Stephanie Mentor,

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Speaker 1: age forty one, fatally stabbed allegedly by Abdul Jallo, a

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Speaker 7: Forty one year old Stephanie mentor died from her injuries.

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Speaker 7: Her family just posting this obituary describing a rest quote

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Speaker 7: a beam of light in dark places, charging her killing.

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Speaker 7: Thirty two year old Abdul Jallo already well known to

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Speaker 7: police and prosecutors. Court record show the unhoused man had

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Speaker 7: a reputation for violence, an alleged rape in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 7: then a series of four alleged stabbings, and more recently

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Speaker 1: That's NBC four television in Washington on that story. Now,

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Speaker 1: this all comes as the new governor of Virginia, Democrat

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Speaker 1: Abigail Spanberger, has ordered state law enforcement to stop cooperating

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Speaker 1: with ICE to deport violent illegal aliens. And this illegal

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Speaker 3: It is Monday, March the second.

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Speaker 1: This morning, War Secretary Pete Hegseth held a news conference

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Speaker 1: to brief on the military effort in Iran.

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Speaker 3: Here's part of that cut.

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Speaker 9: Number one turns out the regime who chanted death to

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Speaker 9: America and death to Israel was gifted death from America

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Speaker 9: and death from Israel. This is not a so called

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Speaker 9: regime change war, but the regime sure did change and

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Speaker 3: Joining us now.

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Speaker 1: Rebecca Heinrich's official foreign policy and National security correspondent of

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Speaker 1: good day to you. What do you make of the

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Speaker 10: Good to be with you here, Scott, So. I thought

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Speaker 1: And we've heard the President make some remarks this morning.

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Speaker 10: Great questions. So I love it when President Trump gives

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Speaker 1: Hudson Institute. Rebecca, you'll keep your phone on. We're going

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Speaker 1: He is in Tel Aviv, Israel, and making his inaugural

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Speaker 3: We're honored to have you, sir.

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Speaker 5: I am honored to be here. Pleasure to be here

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Speaker 5: for the first time.

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Speaker 3: Yes, thank you, my friend.

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Speaker 1: We have seen volleys of Iranian missiles and drones fired

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Speaker 3: Have you been getting any sleep?

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Speaker 1: How are the Israeli people feeling as we see them

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Speaker 1: going in and out of the bomb shelters today.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, in and out, that's the word, and shuffling back

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Speaker 5: We're a small country, so with the relative few amounts

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Speaker 1: you think we're going to see that here in the

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Speaker 1: next day or two.

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Speaker 5: You know what, I wouldn't have said so two days ago,

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Speaker 5: but I think that there's actually a chance, not because

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Speaker 5: you know, they've found the spirit leadership and the bravery

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Speaker 5: needed to do. So maybe that you know, these countries

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Speaker 5: in the region, they're not necessarily bad, but they're not

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Speaker 5: necessarily known for their combat bravery and their ability to

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Speaker 5: stand up to bullies. They've been cowering under the Iranians

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Speaker 5: for quite a while and you know, been held safe

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Speaker 5: by the American umbrella of safety that the US safety

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Speaker 5: and security that the US has spread over them. They

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Speaker 5: have a lot of tech, but for the first time,

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Speaker 5: I think what they're seeing in the calculation that they're

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Speaker 5: making is that Iran is weakened and that Iran is

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Speaker 5: exposed and vulnerable, and if there's if there ever was

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Speaker 5: a best opportunity for the Saudis, the Emiratis and others

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Speaker 5: to actually retaliate against Iran, now is a great time

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Speaker 5: because Iran doesn't have any air defenses and they're exposed

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Speaker 5: and they're in disarray. So just you know, for the books,

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Speaker 5: for the records, it would be a pretty smart thing

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Speaker 5: to do, and probably the right thing to do for

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Speaker 5: domestic and political purposes as well for the Saudis and emirrants.

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Speaker 5: Definitely it's warranted because the Iranians have fired more than

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Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty ballistic missiles at the UAE. They

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Speaker 5: have fired more than five hundred explosive drones and two

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Speaker 5: cruise missiles at the UAE. I don't know exactly how

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Speaker 5: many at Saudi, but it's these are substantial amounts. This is,

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Speaker 5: you know, aggression, direct aggression by the Iranians against these countries,

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Speaker 5: and they, by all means should defend themselves.

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Speaker 1: That voice you're hearing on the Scott Jennings Show today,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Conricuez. He's a former spokesperson for the IDF, that's

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Speaker 1: the military in Israel. He's also a senior fellow at

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Speaker 1: the Foundation for Defensive Democracies. Seems to me that this

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Speaker 1: alliance between the United States and Israel is something we

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Speaker 1: should talk about, and our Secretary of War here, Pete Hegseith.

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Speaker 3: Did do that this morning. Jonathan.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to play a clip of Pete Hegseth discussing

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Speaker 1: our ally Israel, and I want to get your reaction.

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Speaker 3: To it. Let's play cut number two.

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Speaker 9: Israel has clear missions as well, for which we are

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Speaker 9: grateful capable partners. As we've said since the beginning, capable

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Speaker 9: partners are good partners, unlike so many of our traditional

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Speaker 9: allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming

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Speaker 9: and hawing about the.

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Speaker 12: Use of force.

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Speaker 9: America, regardless of what so called international institutions say, is

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Speaker 9: unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in

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Speaker 9: history B twos, fighters, drones, missiles, and of course classified effects,

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Speaker 9: all on our terms, with maximum authorities. No stupid rules

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Speaker 9: of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no democrats see building exercise,

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Speaker 9: no politically correct wars. We fight to win, and we

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Speaker 9: don't waste time or lives.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan, maybe talk to us because of your experience about

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Speaker 1: the close coordination that goes on between the United States

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Speaker 1: military and the Israeli military and what makes that coordination

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Speaker 1: so lethal.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciate very much, and so do many other Israelis.

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Speaker 5: The words of Secretary of War Hegseth, and of course

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Speaker 5: the leadership of the President and most of the team

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Speaker 5: of the administration, Secretary Rubio and many others. We can

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Speaker 5: see that there's the bond here at a moral level,

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Speaker 5: but there's also at the real, actual factual level, unprecedented cooperation.

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Speaker 5: What I've seen Israelian American officers do is share a

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Speaker 5: raw intel at the purest level, build scenarios together, build

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Speaker 5: entire operations and targeting procedures, and actually coordinate operations and

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Speaker 5: then rehearse it together at an unprecedented level of intimacy.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the relationship here between the US and Israel

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Speaker 5: military speaking is something that has grown over years. I

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Speaker 5: think you know, the US is a it's an empire

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Speaker 5: that is capable of working with other countries, with other militaries.

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Speaker 5: It is built to work in coalitions. Israel isn't. For

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Speaker 5: many years, we knew how to fight, but we knew

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Speaker 5: how to fight alone. And this is now the first

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Speaker 5: time where we, I think, are seeing the excellent benefits

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Speaker 5: of being able to plant together and together both offensively

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Speaker 5: against Iran and striking Iranian targets and also defensively protecting

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Speaker 5: assets American assets and protecting Israel. I am in awe

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Speaker 5: of the professionalism. I am very grateful for the skill,

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Speaker 5: the bravery, the discipline, and the composure of armed forces

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Speaker 5: whether it's the pilots men and women. By the way,

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Speaker 5: we have more than thirty female pilots, is Raeli female

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Speaker 5: pilots who have participated in the sorties over Iran. That

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Speaker 5: in itself is a beautiful thing. And what one of

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Speaker 5: our Persian language spokespeople said, she's also a woman, She

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Speaker 5: said that Israeli women are not bystanders to history. They

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Speaker 5: make history, which is such a stark contrast to how

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Speaker 5: women are treated under the Islamic regime in Iran. And

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Speaker 5: I hope that that will of course change and that

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Speaker 5: the beautiful potential of women in Iran will be unleashed

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Speaker 5: for the better of Iranian society. But the corporation is strong,

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Speaker 5: it is growing even stronger, and I'm very happy. I

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Speaker 5: think it is mutually beneficial. We're learning from each other,

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Speaker 5: we are improving each other, and we are delivering on

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Speaker 5: the battlefield. I can only express my condolences to the

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Speaker 5: families of what I understand is now five fallen American

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Speaker 5: service members, if the number is correct, because I understand

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Speaker 5: the last also succumb to his wounds, and condolences to

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Speaker 5: the family. I'm a soldier myself. I have lost soldiers

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Speaker 5: in combat. I know what that means, and I hope

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Speaker 5: that their families will at least find comfort in the

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Speaker 5: fact that their children paid the ultimate sacrifice. But they're

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Speaker 5: doing it for a very good cause.

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Speaker 3: May God rest all of their souls. It is, in

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Speaker 3: fact a noble cause.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Conrica's former IDF spokesman and senior fellow at the

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Speaker 1: Foundation for Defensive Democracies. Thanks for coming on. We'll call

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Speaker 1: you back in the days ahead as this unfolded. It

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Speaker 1: is a historic situation and we're grateful for your time today.

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Speaker 5: Indeed, thank you very much, My pleasure.

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Speaker 1: All right, Jonathan Conricus. Excellent report from Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Speaker 1: By the way, as Operation Epic Fury intensifies, the world

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Speaker 1: braces for what comes next, and in the Holy Land,

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Speaker 1: red alert sirens are filling the air. They give you

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Speaker 1: about fifteen seconds to reach the nearest bomb shelter.

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Speaker 3: The situation is serious, the threat is real.

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Speaker 1: In times like these, faith and freedom aren't just abstract ideas.

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Speaker 3: They're what we depend on.

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Speaker 1: this when we come back. It's Scott Jennings on Salem.

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Speaker 3: Stay with us. You know, gold and silver recently soared

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Speaker 12: You've heard the narratives, now get the truth. It's The

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Speaker 12: Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 3: Monday, March to second.

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Speaker 1: Full coverage of the war effort in Iran continues here

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Speaker 1: on The Scott Jenning Show this weekend. By the way,

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Speaker 1: you may have seen some interesting headlines and reporting from

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Speaker 1: the mainstream media around the death of the Ayatola From

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Speaker 1: the New York Times Ayatola Kamane, hardline cleric who made

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Speaker 1: Iran or regional power dead at eighty six Washington Post

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Speaker 1: not much better. They claimed that under kamanee quote, Iran

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Speaker 1: did not seek to destroy the Jewish state militarily. He

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Speaker 1: merely sought its dissolution through quote popular referendum. The whitewashing

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Speaker 1: of the Iyatola is already incredible, and Maya Sulkan at

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Speaker 1: the Free Press is all over it. Maya welcome into

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Speaker 1: the Scott Jennings Show. How is the media covering this

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Speaker 1: already and how are they failing?

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Speaker 3: That's what I'd like for you to tell our listeners today.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, thank you so much for having me. You know,

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Speaker 11: if you are relying on the Times or The Guardian

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Speaker 11: or the Washington Post for the Iatola's obituaries, you might think,

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Speaker 11: you know, a world leader, albeit maybe a slightly controversial one,

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Speaker 11: had died. Like you said, they called him the hard

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Speaker 11: line cleric, which, as I say, it's kind of like

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Speaker 11: a calling Hiller a hardline nationalist. The Guardian kind of

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Speaker 11: took us through a literary tour of the Iatola's life,

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Speaker 11: his fondness for Persian poetry, and what really just stood

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Speaker 11: out to me is the fact that the Iranian people,

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Speaker 11: or anyone paying close attention, do not need an obituary

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Speaker 11: to tell to tell them who Hamini was. He was

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Speaker 11: not a cleric or a statesman. He was a dictator,

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Speaker 11: an evil one who terrorized people who believe in basic

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Speaker 11: human rights. So the way that he has been depicted

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Speaker 11: has kind of been really, really remarkable.

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Speaker 1: Our guest today is Maya Sulkan, intrepid reporter with the

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Speaker 1: Free Press. Maya I was reading with astonishment from the

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Speaker 1: Washington Post this weekend after this all was confirmed.

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Speaker 3: I'll read it to you.

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Speaker 1: With his bushy white beard and easy smile. Ayatola Kamani

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Speaker 1: cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually

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Speaker 1: scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known

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Speaker 1: to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels.

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Speaker 1: Bushy white beard and easy smile. Maya, you might have

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Speaker 1: thought that we had bombed Santa Claus if you read

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Speaker 1: the Washington Post. I was astonished that this sentence was

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Speaker 1: written by a journalist and approved by an editor.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, you know, they also kind of went

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Speaker 11: on to say that, like you said, he didn't you know,

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Speaker 11: seek to destroy the Jewish state militarily, just saught, you know,

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Speaker 11: dissolution through referendum. I mean, how they reached this conclusion

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Speaker 11: when you know, you don't even have to be following

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Speaker 11: the region closely, but just go to his x feed

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Speaker 11: and post after post, is you know, describing Israel as

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Speaker 11: a cancerous tumor assuring his followers you know, Zionism was

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Speaker 11: always close to implosion. How they reached that conclusion and

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Speaker 11: decided that his beard and smile were you know, the

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Speaker 11: most important parts of his legacy is a complete mystery

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Speaker 11: to me.

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Speaker 3: As a journalist.

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Speaker 1: What do you think other journalists need to keep in

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Speaker 1: mind when writing obituaries like this? I mean, yes, controversial

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Speaker 1: is one way to describe it. But the Ayatola, the regime,

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Speaker 1: I don't really think there's any controversy or any These

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Speaker 1: people are responsible for thousands upon thousands upon thousands of deaths,

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Speaker 1: people being maimed, terrorism around the world. I mean controversial,

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Speaker 1: That word, to me doesn't really cut it, because, you know,

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Speaker 1: controversial means there's really two sides to the debate. Here

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Speaker 1: in the West, shouldn't journalists be more clear about exactly

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Speaker 1: what people like this stood for?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, of course, this is these obituaries are

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Speaker 11: completely downstream of a much larger problem. But you know,

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Speaker 11: there is not freedom of the press in Iran, and

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Speaker 11: so the idea that there are writers in newsrooms across

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Speaker 11: the world drafting these obituaries as if they can even

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Speaker 11: understand what it is like to live under an oppressive

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Speaker 11: to the people who have suffered under this regime, which

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Speaker 11: is millions of people who have suffered for decades. And so,

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Speaker 11: like you say, I mean, it's it's you know, the

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Speaker 11: read it's ignorance, But it's I think that's slightly generous

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Speaker 11: given the fact that, like you say, these are people

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Speaker 11: who's mandated to know what's going on in the world.

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Speaker 1: That voice you're hearing making her inaugural appearance on The

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Speaker 1: Scott Jennings Show is Maya Sulkan. She is one of

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Speaker 1: the best journalists, the best reporters, and you can read

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Speaker 1: her reporting at the Free PRESSVFP dot com. Her latest

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Speaker 1: story headline the posthumous makeover of Ali Kamani while Iranians

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Speaker 1: danced in the streets major Western outlets dressed up Ayatola

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Speaker 1: Kamani as a statesman instead of what he was, the

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Speaker 1: architect of decades of terror at home and abroad.

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Speaker 3: Maya Sulkin, thanks for joining us on the show today.

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Speaker 11: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we'll have Maya back in the future. I

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Speaker 1: am sure that wraps up our number one. Our number

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Speaker 1: two is coming. We'll check the breaking news here when

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Speaker 1: we come back, and more coverage of the war in Iran.

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Speaker 1: It's common sense for the American people. I'm Scott Jennings

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Speaker 1: on Salem.

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Speaker 3: Stay with us.

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Speaker 12: If the leftists haven't had enough yet, there's more. This

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Speaker 12: is the Scott Jenny Show.

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Speaker 3: The voice of free speech.

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Speaker 12: The truth delivered, common search.

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Speaker 3: For the America.

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Speaker 12: Un Here's Scott Jenny, Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, March the second Scott Jennings Common Sense for

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Speaker 1: the American people. Reporting to you here from our nation's

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Speaker 1: capital on Salem. Quick check at the headlines. A Texas

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Speaker 1: college student has been identified as one of the two

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Speaker 1: victims gunned down by a suspected terrorist in Austin in

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Speaker 1: the wee hours Sunday morning. The victim's name Writer Harrington,

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Speaker 1: nineteen years old. He attended Texas Tech University. The gunman

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Speaker 1: here from Senegal, wearing a Property of Allah shirt and

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Speaker 1: sporting an Iranian flag when he shot up that bar

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Speaker 1: in Austin. Several other people in some still critical. President

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Speaker 1: Trump told my c and in colleague Jake Tapper this

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Speaker 1: morning that the biggest waves of the American war effort

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Speaker 1: against Iran are yet to come, and that we could

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Speaker 1: be at this for the next few weeks. And the

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Speaker 1: Iranians are continuing to fire ballistic missiles randomly into other

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Speaker 1: Arab Gulf states. It seems they're doing more to create

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Speaker 1: enemies for themselves every hour.

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Speaker 3: War does not come without risk.

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Speaker 1: So far, four US service members are confirmed dead in

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Speaker 1: this military effort, and may God Rest their souls. Secretary

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Speaker 1: of War Pete Hegseth held a press conference on the

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Speaker 1: effort this morning.

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Speaker 3: Here's part of that. Let's listen to cut number four.

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Speaker 13: Hi, thank you, Cameron Arkin with the Daily Wire.

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Speaker 12: My question is about some of the.

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Speaker 13: Domestic threats, if any, we're having this right now, that

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Speaker 13: they're any concerns about Iranian sleeper cells, and kind of

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Speaker 13: what has the Trump administration been doing to kind of

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Speaker 13: monitor these.

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Speaker 9: All across the Intern Agency in full coordination. Of course,

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Speaker 9: we're paying attention to any potentialities there there. This is

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Speaker 9: a former regime, a regime that seeks to export that

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Speaker 9: ideology and try to sow terror. We're ready for that.

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Speaker 9: We've seen these types of folks before, and the American

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Speaker 9: people can rest assured that we're vigilant on that.

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Speaker 1: And to comment on all of this, we have the

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Speaker 1: dean of academics at the Institute for World Politics, a

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Speaker 1: senior Fellow in National Security Affairs at the American Foreign

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Speaker 1: Policy Council, and a former Special assistant in the Office

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Speaker 1: of the Secretary of Defense. Please welcome doctor James Robbins

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Speaker 1: to the show. Jim, you heard, Secretary of War Hegseth there.

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Speaker 1: How do you rate his handling of the war effort,

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Speaker 1: at his handling of the media so far.

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Speaker 13: Well, I think he's handled the war very well. I mean,

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Speaker 13: we're only a couple of days into it, but as

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Speaker 13: the President said, we're way ahead of schedule. So I

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Speaker 13: think Secretary of HeiG Seth has done wonderfully. I think

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Speaker 13: his handling of the media was very adroit this morning.

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Speaker 13: He was avoiding some of the pitfalls that the press

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Speaker 13: were questioning him on certain things like timetables and you know,

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Speaker 13: troop amounts and acceptable casualties and things like this, and

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Speaker 13: these are the type of questions that establish narratives that

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Speaker 13: we'll come back to bite you later. You know, if

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Speaker 13: you promise a certain timetable and don't meet it, well

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Speaker 13: then that becomes part of the discussion. So what he

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Speaker 13: did was he showed that he is going to maintain

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Speaker 13: his flexibility and his agility whatever changes on the battlespace.

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Speaker 13: Our guys are going to react to that, and you know,

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Speaker 13: the press people just have to report on it and

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Speaker 13: not try to get ahead of it.

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Speaker 1: All right, you spent a decade inside the Department of

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Speaker 1: Defense and teaching at the National Defense University. When you

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Speaker 1: look at the opening seventy two hours of the war effort,

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Speaker 1: give us your military view of this. Has it been flawless,

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Speaker 1: near flawless. What's your analysis of how the United States

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Speaker 1: and Israeli's performed so far?

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Speaker 13: Well, it's been extremely impressive, particularly in how the Israelis

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Speaker 13: and the United States took out the leadership of Iran

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Speaker 13: just immediately, like a decapitation strike.

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Speaker 3: Immediately.

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Speaker 13: There was no you know, build up to this, no

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Speaker 13: ramp up, no crisis, They just did it. And that's impressive.

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Speaker 13: That's that's fairly new in warfare. And you know the

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Speaker 13: fact that we've only taken a limited number of casualties.

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Speaker 13: We don't know how these casualties were taken, but that's

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Speaker 13: impressive in itself. The friendly fire incident with our F

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Speaker 13: fifteen's that's obviously not ideal, but it shows the chaos

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Speaker 13: of the battle space.

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Speaker 3: But overall, it.

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Speaker 13: Looks like an extremely impressive couple of days in which

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Speaker 13: the enemy command structure has been decimated. They're starting to

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Speaker 13: take out the IRGC and the basis and the internal

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Speaker 13: apparatus of oppression that's keeping the Iranian people down, giving

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Speaker 13: them a chance to have a revolution, and you know,

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Speaker 13: it seems like everything, as the President said, is ahead

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Speaker 13: of schedule.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about what's going on inside of Iran

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Speaker 1: right now. As you mentioned, we decapitated the government. In fact,

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Speaker 1: the President said today that some of the people that

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Speaker 1: might have taken over Iran were killed in the initial airstrikes.

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Speaker 1: So it's not clear really, I think to most Americans

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Speaker 1: what comes next for Iran, it may not even be

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Speaker 1: clear to people in Iran right now. Also, I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about what we're seeing in the streets. You know,

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Speaker 1: over the last few weeks, we've had lots of protests.

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Speaker 1: The Iranian regime slaughtered tens of thousands of protesters. Give

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Speaker 1: us your view what's going on inside the Iranian government

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Speaker 1: and what do you think is going through the minds

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Speaker 1: of the Iranian people and the protesters right now? Do

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Speaker 1: they believe it is their moment to retake their government?

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 13: In the Iranian government, I mean there's chaos. People are

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Speaker 13: getting killed right and left. We keep taking out layers

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Speaker 13: of their command structure. Their units are now operating sort

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Speaker 13: of semi autonomously, which may explain why they're hitting targets.

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Speaker 13: They shouldn't be hitting like a French naval base or

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Speaker 13: a hotel in Dubai, things like this. I mean, there's

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Speaker 13: just kind of this chaos going on inside of their

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Speaker 13: command structure and with the people in the streets. I mean,

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Speaker 13: they may be waiting a little bit while the bombing

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Speaker 13: is still going on, waiting for their opportunities. They probably

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Speaker 13: still are hurting from the fact that thousands of them

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Speaker 13: were killed in the previous uprising and the United States

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Speaker 13: didn't really come to their assistance at that time. But

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Speaker 13: now we're definitely giving them the chance to do something

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Speaker 13: by taking out the government, taking out senior IRGC leaders,

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Speaker 13: taking out their headquarters and their depots and whatnot. I mean,

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Speaker 13: the means by which they could be put down. So

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Speaker 13: the people in Iran, they're not as organized as they

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Speaker 13: they need to get weapons. If they can get those

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Speaker 13: from the army farming units come over to them, you know,

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Speaker 13: like they did during the seventy nine revolution, turning against

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Speaker 13: the regime but backing the people. They have weapons there

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Speaker 13: are a lot of weapons in the country. It just

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Speaker 13: has to get in the right hand. So hopefully they're

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Speaker 13: arming themselves and getting organized, because mobs in the street

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Speaker 13: do not make a revolution. We need people starting to

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Speaker 13: stand up and declare that they are the new government,

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Speaker 13: whether it's in town, in a province or wherever. They

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Speaker 13: have to start acting politically as well as just turning

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Speaker 13: out to demonstrate.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Jim robbins our guest here in the second hour

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Speaker 1: of the Scott Jennings Show today on Monday, March the second,

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Speaker 1: the President said today, and this is a new statement

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Speaker 1: from the President, We're destroying Iran's missile capabilities, We're annihilating

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Speaker 1: their navy. We're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor

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Speaker 1: of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon. And we're

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Speaker 1: ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund

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Speaker 1: and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders. What do

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Speaker 1: you make of the case for war? Has the White

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Speaker 1: House successfully made this case? What do you recommend to

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Speaker 13: Well, you know, we've been at war with Iran one

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Speaker 13: way or another for forty seven years. The Islamic Republic

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Speaker 13: is responsible for the deaths of more US personnel than

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Speaker 13: any single state actors since the Vietnam War. So to me,

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Speaker 13: that's the case for war. We just haven't been fighting

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Speaker 13: it the way we should have been fighting it, and

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Speaker 13: now we are. When Secretary Haig sat talks about the

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Speaker 13: IEDs that they faced in Iraq, I mean this came

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Speaker 13: from Iran, all the weapons and you know IEDs. It

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Speaker 13: sounds like a coffee can full of gunpowder and nails

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Speaker 13: something like that. No, these are extremely sophisticated weapons that

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Speaker 13: were tooled in Iran and then sent into Iraq to

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Speaker 13: kill our people. So that and in a variety of

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Speaker 13: other things that have happened over the years, that's part

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Speaker 13: of this. So there's that aspect. Then there's the nuclear program,

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Speaker 13: the missile program, all of the more proximate things that

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Speaker 13: President Trump talked about that were threats to our country

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Speaker 13: instability in the Middle East, that's part of it too.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Jim Robbins, dean of Academics at the Institute for

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Speaker 1: World Politics, Senior Fellow in National Security Affairs at the

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Speaker 1: American Foreign Policy Council, Jim, thanks for joining us. Sounds

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Speaker 1: like we're going to be at this for a few weeks.

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Speaker 1: We'd love to have you back as the war effort proceeds.

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Speaker 1: We're going to take a break. When we come back.

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Speaker 1: We'll hear a little more from Secretary Hegseth at his

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Speaker 1: press conference this morning.

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Speaker 3: It's Scott Jennings on Salem. Stay with us.

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Speaker 12: Fighting the left with the best weapon we have. Common

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Speaker 12: sense is this Scott Jenny Show.

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Speaker 1: We continue our coverage of the war effort against Iran

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Speaker 1: in just a moment.

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Speaker 3: First here something every parent needs to hear.

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Speaker 1: More kids and grandparent, I might add more kids are

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Speaker 1: being targeted online through gaming platforms, social media and these

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Speaker 1: messaging apps, and big tech is not.

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Speaker 3: Doing enough to protect them.

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Speaker 1: These companies profit from screen time and engagement, and predators

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Speaker 1: often slip through the cracks when they do. Families are

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Speaker 1: paying the price. Child to Help are friends and partners

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Speaker 1: at Child to Help. They hear from children every day

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Speaker 1: who were contacted through these games and these apps, Kids

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Speaker 1: your help. Let's talk a little bit here on the

893
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: Iranian or effort about one of the heroes of the

894
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Speaker 1: efforts so far. A lot of attention, of course, rightfully

895
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Speaker 1: on our President who made a courageous decision, on Secretary Rubio,

896
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Speaker 1: on the Joint Chiefs, on General Kine, who's obviously doing

897
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Speaker 1: a terrific job. But there's a lot of hesitance I

898
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Speaker 1: think in the media to heap praise on some one

899
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Speaker 1: who deserves it. Today, Pete Hegseeth the Secretary of War.

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Speaker 1: Now you might remember that Pete Hegseth was someone that

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Speaker 1: the liberal media slandered and spar smeared for months during

902
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Speaker 1: his confirmation. Afterwards, they called him incompetent, they called him

903
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Speaker 1: at drunk, they said he was unfit for the job.

904
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Speaker 1: A lot of Democrats smeared and slandered Pete hegg Seth.

905
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: What are the results right now, Well, let's see the

906
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: Ayatola is dead, Maduro in jail. Not a bad record

907
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Speaker 1: for the Secretary of Defense. Last summer we obliterated and

908
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 1: degraded Iran's nuclear capabilities, and we're back at it now.

909
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,440
Speaker 1: This morning, Secretary heg Seth gave a great press conference

910
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: detailing the operation and what's to come. Let's start with

911
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: what might have been the best line of the effort

912
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Speaker 1: so far. Here's Pete Hegseth in cut number one.

913
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Speaker 9: Turns out the regime who chanted death to America and

914
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 9: death to Israel was gifted death from America and death

915
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Speaker 9: from Israel.

916
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Speaker 3: This is not a so called.

917
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Speaker 9: Regime change war, but the regime sure did change and

918
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 9: the world is better off for it.

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Speaker 1: Really good that our Secretary of War Pete Hegseth can

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Speaker 1: give a press conference, make affirmative statements, talk to the media,

921
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Speaker 1: and he is unafraid to say out loud that we

922
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Speaker 1: are going to hold our enemies accountable when they come

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Speaker 1: after us. And that is, of course exactly what Iran

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Speaker 1: has been doing for forty seven years, coming after the

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Speaker 1: United States. The President of the United States, by the way,

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Speaker 1: has made some comments today. Let's hear from the president.

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Speaker 1: Now here's cut number thirteen.

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Speaker 4: Composers to the American people and a threat, indeed, it is.

929
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Speaker 4: We have the strongest and most powerful by far military

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Speaker 4: in the world, and we will easily prevail. We're already

931
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Speaker 4: substantially ahead of our time projections.

932
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Speaker 12: But whatever the time is, it's okay. Whatever it takes,

933
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Speaker 12: we will always and we have right from the beginning.

934
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Speaker 4: We projected four to five weeks, but we have capability

935
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Speaker 4: to go.

936
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Speaker 12: Far longer than that. We'll do it.

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Speaker 4: Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, President wants

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Speaker 4: to do it really quickly.

939
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Speaker 12: After that, he'll get bored.

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Speaker 4: I don't get bored.

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Speaker 12: There's nothing boring about this. Do you agree with that, Pete?

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Speaker 4: I don't think there's anything mister General, I think there's

943
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Speaker 4: nothing boring about it. Somebody actually said from the media,

944
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Speaker 4: I think he'll get bored after about a week or two. Now,

945
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Speaker 4: we don't get bored. I never get bored. If I

946
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Speaker 4: got bored, I wouldn't be standing here right now. I

947
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Speaker 4: guarantee you that to go through what I had to

948
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Speaker 4: go through.

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Speaker 1: What's obvious to me today is that Pete haigk Set,

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Speaker 1: the Secretary of War, is locked in on top of

951
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Speaker 1: every day tale and executing a great effort, and the

952
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Speaker 1: Commander in Chief is in it to win it, whatever

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Speaker 1: it takes to defeat our Iranian enemies. One note before

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Speaker 1: we go to break, we're still planning the cruise this November.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't booked your cabin for the November Gulf

956
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Speaker 1: of America cruise with Mike Gallagher and myself, I encourage

957
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Speaker 1: you to do it today. Text the word cruise to

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Speaker 1: nine four eight seven eight. Get your cabin today. We're

959
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Speaker 1: gonna have a great time be you. Right after the election,

960
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: we'll have much to discuss. More war coverage when we

961
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Speaker 1: come back. It's Scott Jennings on Salem.

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Speaker 3: Stay with us.

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Speaker 8: He's the author of the best selling book, A Revolution

964
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Speaker 8: of Common Sense.

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Speaker 12: Cheers Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 1: It is Monday, March second, common Sense for the American people.

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Speaker 1: Scott Jennings here reporting from Salem, and my next guest,

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Speaker 1: I think has the honor of being the quickest returning

969
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Speaker 1: guest in the history of the Scott Jennings Show. He

970
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Speaker 1: was on here late Friday to discuss the possibility of war,

971
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Speaker 1: and now he's back today to discuss the.

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Speaker 3: War that is underway.

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Speaker 1: Ben Talablue from the Foundation for Defensive Democracies. Benham, thanks

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Speaker 1: for coming back to the show. I believe, based on

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Speaker 1: the timeline that I've seen while we were on the

976
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 1: air Friday discussing all of this, the President was making

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Speaker 1: the decision giving the orders to strike Iran. You've been

978
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Speaker 1: watching the coverage throughout the weekend. What are your reactions

979
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Speaker 1: to the President's decision making and how it's going so far.

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Speaker 14: Well, it's a pleasure to be back with you and

981
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 14: again be back with you so soon. But you know,

982
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 14: the President just proved that he is as much commander

983
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Speaker 14: in chief as he styles himself to be negotiator in chief,

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Speaker 14: and he took a decisive move. And while some may

985
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Speaker 14: say it was a gamble, the gamble already seems to

986
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Speaker 14: be paying off. I mean, there are operations underway, joint

987
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Speaker 14: operations I want to stress American and Israeli that are

988
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Speaker 14: designed to defang the regime of its long range strike capabilities.

989
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 14: Go after not just the transporter erectro launchers that fire

990
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Speaker 14: these missiles, the installations that house these missiles as well

991
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Speaker 14: as the launchers. And lest we forget, within the opening

992
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Speaker 14: hours of the war, I think within the first six

993
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 14: hours it was reported that the Supreme Leader's compound was struck,

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Speaker 14: and just after that it was reported that the Supreme

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Speaker 14: Leader himself died in the blasts and the explosion following

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Speaker 14: the attack on that compound. And make no mistakes, there

997
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Speaker 14: has not been a decappination operation against the sitting state

998
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Speaker 14: leader in this part of the world that has been

999
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Speaker 14: that successful that quickly.

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Speaker 1: Benam The intelligence capabilities here of the United States and

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Speaker 1: of Israel inside Iran are just incredible. I think it

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Speaker 1: was reported that the CIA sort of figured out where

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Speaker 1: the Ayatola was going to be. You had Masad all

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Speaker 1: over Iran here, and these two countries and these two

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Speaker 1: intelligence services working together for the elements of the Iranian

1006
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Speaker 1: regime that remain. How much paranoia must be running through

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Speaker 1: what's left of the Iranian government right now. I mean

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Speaker 1: they are probably looking behind every door and around every corner, wondering,

1009
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Speaker 1: you know, is there a foreign intelligence operative watching me

1010
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Speaker 1: right now?

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Speaker 3: I mean, chances are there probably is.

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Speaker 14: Chances are there probably is, and not just washing them,

1013
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 14: but is there also a foreign drone above me? You know,

1014
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:21,440
Speaker 14: it's not just the coordinating and the planning with their

1015
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Speaker 14: colleagues and partners, where it turns out one of them

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Speaker 14: might be a foreign agent or a foreign asset, or

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Speaker 14: in reality, probably an Iranian patriot which simply just doesn't

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Speaker 14: want to see their country go down the tube and

1019
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Speaker 14: is willing to work with major Western powers to stop

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Speaker 14: the armed forces from burning through the country like they

1021
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Speaker 14: already are. That might be a more proper fit, we

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Speaker 14: could say, for armed forces folks who are defecting or

1023
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Speaker 14: quiet quitting or working with foreign intelligence services, than to

1024
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Speaker 14: call them traders per se, because I think the Islamic

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Speaker 14: Republic is the trader to the Iranian nation here. And

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Speaker 14: then second, of course, the capability, the fear, the long

1027
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Speaker 14: range strike capabilities, and the fear that exists due to

1028
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Speaker 14: the drone power, the missile power, the air power of

1029
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Speaker 14: the US and of Israel overhead could even be sensed.

1030
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Speaker 14: During the Twelve Day War, you know, there was even

1031
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Speaker 14: audio of Iranian missile launch teams who were afraid of

1032
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Speaker 14: firing their missiles because it would signify where they are

1033
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Speaker 14: and that could have been one of their last moves

1034
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Speaker 14: on this earth. And that fear, plus that, you know, patriotism,

1035
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Speaker 14: could foster defections, or it could foster quite quitting or

1036
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Speaker 14: foster more unit level individual pressure for opportunism and survival

1037
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Speaker 14: rather than continuing to carry out the fight. Because less

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Speaker 14: we forget, this is a regime right now that is headless,

1039
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Speaker 14: but that is still fighting. There is not a commander

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Speaker 14: in chief at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Then talk to me about that.

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Speaker 1: I guess it was reported that according to the constitution

1043
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Speaker 1: of Iran, a three member interim council takes over.

1044
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Speaker 3: How does it work right now for them?

1045
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Speaker 1: Do they have effective control, decision making control of the

1046
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Speaker 1: Iranian military and maybe tack onto that this issue. I'm

1047
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Speaker 1: kind of stunned at Iran firing all these missiles indiscriminately

1048
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Speaker 1: and other Arab states and the golf striking civilian targets.

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Speaker 1: They seem to be creating enemies for themselves by the hour.

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Speaker 1: What do you make of all that leadership, command and

1051
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Speaker 1: control and the decision making going on with Iran's remaining

1052
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Speaker 1: military capabilities.

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Speaker 14: Well, let's take it from the top. You don't have

1054
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Speaker 14: to take it for me. You can take it from

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Speaker 14: the Foreign Minister of Iran who in a recent interview

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Speaker 14: in English, by the way, said that they don't control

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Speaker 14: the armed forces, that the armed forces have their own

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Speaker 14: target banks and preset plans, and regardless of the status

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Speaker 14: and the politics, that these guys are going to be

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Speaker 14: firing or whatever they want to be firing at. So again,

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Speaker 14: this is what a government official in the Islamic Republic said.

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Speaker 14: So there it goes to show you how much worth

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Speaker 14: and value and even really capability and credence to deliver

1064
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Speaker 14: that these folks have, because they don't even seem to

1065
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Speaker 14: be controlling their armed forces. So that really does force

1066
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Speaker 14: us into the world of available military options rather than

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Speaker 14: thinking there's a quick and easy political off ramp here.

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Speaker 14: The second thing about command and control while the focus

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Speaker 14: is indeed on the Leadership Council to assume some of

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Speaker 14: these major executive functions, and that Leadership Council is composed

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Speaker 14: of the President as eschon this other cleric, Ali Rezaafi,

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Speaker 14: who he can get back to talk to. Some people

1073
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Speaker 14: have said he could be a potential Supreme Leader successor.

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Speaker 14: Some people say he's more of a pliable face for

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Speaker 14: the hardline national security deep state. And then the third

1076
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Speaker 14: the head of the Judiciary. These three legally and politically

1077
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Speaker 14: are serving in that executive function, in that kind of

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Speaker 14: interim leadership council capacity, and there will be doing this

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Speaker 14: up until the next quote unquote Supreme Leader is picked

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Speaker 14: by the Assembly of Experts, which is a body of

1081
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Speaker 14: folks that the Supreme Leader has helped to steer their

1082
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Speaker 14: activities through, even though they were supposed to be monitoring

1083
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Speaker 14: his activity during his time in office. Twice to say,

1084
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Speaker 14: the name we haven't mentioned in the institution we have

1085
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Speaker 14: not mentioned is Ali Larry Johnny and the Supreme National

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Speaker 14: Security Council Today, even though the regime no longer has

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Speaker 14: an actual person whose title is Supreme Leader, that individual

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Speaker 14: and that institution are, in my view at this moment

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Speaker 14: in time, the most important person and the most important

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Speaker 14: national security decision making body inside Iran today. So while

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Speaker 14: you have this council that is going to be in

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Speaker 14: place up until you get a new quote unquote supreme leader,

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Speaker 14: that individual Ali Larry Johnny, who heads the Supreme National

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Speaker 14: Security Council, is going to be the most important person

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Speaker 14: for command and control in that country. And we believe

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Speaker 14: he is still alive.

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Speaker 1: The next thing, Benam, what kind of Let me just

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Speaker 1: ask you, what kind of person is that is he?

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Speaker 1: I mean, how do you how do you regard him

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Speaker 1: and compare him to the previous leadership in Iran?

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Speaker 14: Consummates regime insider. You know, this guy served in the

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Speaker 14: Goods Force in the heyday of the Iran Iraq War.

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Speaker 14: He's educated, He's held a whole host of national security,

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Speaker 14: high ranking political hissians. He was a former Speaker of Parliament.

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Speaker 14: He's been all over the place. He is a deep

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Speaker 14: state insider. I know here in Washington people talk about

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Speaker 14: swamp creatures, but that is the swamp creature of that

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Speaker 14: kind of a regime. He's seen all sides, work with

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Speaker 14: all factions, and believes in the mission and in so

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Speaker 14: many ways he may be more dangerous because he's a

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Speaker 14: more capable person. You know, an ideological person is ideological

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Speaker 14: about their end state, is ideological about their goals. But

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Speaker 14: they can totally logically and rationally, sometimes eerily rationally, in

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Speaker 14: a very cold calculating way, pursue rational means to very

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Speaker 14: ideological ends. And that does remind me not just this

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Speaker 14: Larry Johnny, but the whole family of Larry Johnny's, who

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Speaker 14: are sometimes jokingly called the Kennedys of Iran given their

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Speaker 14: political and economic wealth and impact.

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Speaker 3: That's Ben and Ben Talliblue.

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Speaker 1: He is the Iran program and Senior Director and senior

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Speaker 1: Fellow at the Foundation for Defensive Democracies. Benam tell me something.

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Speaker 1: I assume you're in contact with some people inside of Iran.

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Speaker 1: What's day to day life like right now for the

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Speaker 1: average Iranian resident? If you're living in Tehran, are people out,

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Speaker 1: are they going to school? Are they going to the markets?

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Speaker 1: Or people generally staying inside? What is your understanding of

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Speaker 1: how life is proceeding as this war effort is going on.

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Speaker 14: Well, what we could tell with the Internet being turned

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Speaker 14: back on after the protests that occurred in January and

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Speaker 14: really was the forcing function of the moment, you could say,

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Speaker 14: was that Iranians were really trying to you know, stay

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Speaker 14: out of sight, but really all of a sudden burst

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Speaker 14: back out onto the street again, and in particular during

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Speaker 14: across multiple university campuses for six straight days before the

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Speaker 14: war began, to continue to chant and protest against this

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Speaker 14: regime and to commemorate those young brave Iranians who fell

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Speaker 14: forty days ago. And they memorialize and eulogized and commemorated them,

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Speaker 14: and in so doing they actually fought pushed back a

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Speaker 14: lot of you know, quote unquot street fighting on university

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Speaker 14: campuses between pro and anti regime folks in that country.

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Speaker 14: So it was a small microcosm of the state and

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Speaker 14: society there on Iran's university campuses. But elder folks, middle

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Speaker 14: aged folks, a lot of folks were trying not to

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Speaker 14: be seen, trying not to risk the ire of Iran's

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Speaker 14: increasingly policing and patrolling national security deep state and in

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Speaker 14: particular their security services. That has changed in the outpouring

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Speaker 14: of celebration and felicitation of the news of Hamonase passing,

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Speaker 14: because as you know, once the conflict got underway, and

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Speaker 14: a lot of strikes even in around urban centers were felt.

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Speaker 14: People in Tehran because they remember the Twelve Day War,

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Speaker 14: tried to flee and Tehran is the country's capital. Greater

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Speaker 14: Tehran plus the suburban areas has a population of fifteen

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Speaker 14: million on a day to day during working hours, you know,

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Speaker 14: a little bit less ten to eleven million if you

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Speaker 14: just count Tehron. Many of them fled to the north

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Speaker 14: or to some of the provinces during the last war,

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Speaker 14: so you saw that behavior again. But then you also

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Speaker 14: saw road closers due to dancing, and again felicitations that

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Speaker 14: the regime could not control once the Supreme Leader had

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Speaker 14: been announced to be dead, and these felicitations and parties

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Speaker 14: went into midnight, even Tehran time.

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Speaker 1: Ben on one piece of sound just into the Scott

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Speaker 1: Jennings show, I want to get your comment on. This

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Speaker 1: is the NATO Secretary General Mark Ruda. This happened on

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Speaker 1: I believe Fox News a little while ago. Take a

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Speaker 1: listen to what he had to say, and I want

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Speaker 1: to get your reaction as we wrap up here cut

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Speaker 1: number seven, Please.

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Speaker 15: Christphale say that my thoughts are with the service members.

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Speaker 15: So you are service members who made the ultimate sacrifice

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Speaker 15: of the last couple of days. And let me also

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Speaker 15: say that the commander in chief, the leader of the

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Speaker 15: three worlds, President Donald J. Trump, I really commend what

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Speaker 15: is happening here, taking out Kamana, taking out the nuclear

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Speaker 15: capability and in Iraq, but also taking out to ballistic's

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Speaker 15: missile program in irm This is crucial. And what I

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Speaker 15: see in Europe I spoke of is all the key

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Speaker 15: European leaders over the weekend is revite split support for

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Speaker 15: what the Pleasant is doing and also making sure that

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Speaker 15: when it comes to logistics access, defending key US interest

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Speaker 15: in Europe and in the region, the Europeans are really

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Speaker 15: stepping up.

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Speaker 1: Venom, Are you seeing good, solid, proper international support for

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Speaker 1: what the President is doing?

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Speaker 3: Thirty seconds?

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Speaker 14: The support is growing. Obviously we'd always love to see

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Speaker 14: more from Europe. But let me just take the UK

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Speaker 14: as a small microcosm. They were a lot more skeptical

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Speaker 14: about this moving into it, and there was a lot

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Speaker 14: of room for improvement in their regional policy. But look,

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Speaker 14: push comes to shove. It's the Islamic Republic that has

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Speaker 14: actually pushed the Europeans the E three and in particular

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Speaker 14: the UK into our embrace. They are now officially going

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Speaker 14: to be allowing Americans to use their basis to stage

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Speaker 14: operations to go against the regime's missile program.

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Speaker 1: Venom ben Iran Program Senior Director and Senior Fellow at

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Speaker 1: the Foundation for Defensive Democracies. Benam, I'm sure we will

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Speaker 1: see you in the very near future as the war

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Speaker 1: effort unfolds. Thanks for joining us today. Quick word from

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Speaker 1: our friends at the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

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Speaker 1: We're watching Operation Epic Fury intensify in the Holy Land.

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Speaker 1: The sirens are filling the air. When they fill the

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Speaker 1: area of about fifteen seconds by the way to get

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Speaker 1: into a bomb shelter.

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Speaker 3: It is a serious situation.

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Speaker 1: The threat is real and in times like this, freedom

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Speaker 1: and faith are not just abstract ideas.

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Speaker 3: They are what we depend on.

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Speaker 1: And at times like this, the International Fellowship of Christians

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Speaker 1: and Jews is on the ground. They're preparing large scale

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Speaker 1: distributions of life saving food and first aid. They help

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Speaker 1: ensure that hospitals and emergency rooms and shelters are stocked

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Speaker 1: with these supplies. If you want to join Christians and

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Speaker 1: Jews around the world in praying for Israel and in

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Speaker 1: helping the effort. I encourage you please visit SUPPORTIFCJ dot

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Speaker 1: org or support IFCJ dot org visit them today. We'll

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Speaker 1: wrap up the show when we come back. A few

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Speaker 1: thoughts on what Democrats are saying. I'm Scott Jennings on Salem.

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Speaker 8: Stay with us in fighting for free speech at Western civilization.

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Speaker 12: This is the Scott Jenny Show.

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Speaker 3: Home stretch here on Monday, March second.

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Speaker 1: We've had a big show today thanks to all the

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Speaker 1: experts and analysts who have come on to talk to

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Speaker 1: us about the American and Israeli war effort against Iran.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people, by the way, having a lot

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Speaker 1: of debates out there about does the President of the

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Speaker 1: United States need authorization to do this?

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Speaker 3: Should he have gotten authorization from the Congress? You know,

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Speaker 3: I was.

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Speaker 1: Thinking back to the Obama administration and wondering, m did

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Speaker 1: Barack Obama need authorization to attack multiple countries with the

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Speaker 1: drones and the bombs, I mean thousands of attacks? And

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Speaker 1: I thought, who better to consult? What expert better to

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Speaker 1: consult on this? Then the speaker emerita herself, Nancy Pelosi.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to what she had to say

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Speaker 1: back then and cut number eleven.

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Speaker 16: So speaking Vidam leader, you're saying that the president did

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Speaker 16: not need authorization initially and still does not need any

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Speaker 16: authorization from Congress one Libya.

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Speaker 12: Yes, thank you, thank you all very much.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, interesting Speaker Pelosi saying Obama didn't need any

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Speaker 1: prior authorization to attack Libya.

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Speaker 3: Interesting to know.

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Speaker 1: The Democrats, by the way, it seems to me, are

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Speaker 1: setting themselves up politically for failure, because if you look

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Speaker 1: at the statements of a great many of these Democrats

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Speaker 1: and the candidates who are running for the House and

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Speaker 1: the Senate this year, they appear to be taking a

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Speaker 1: line that makes it seem like they're basically cheering for

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Speaker 1: American failure, that they are anti American somehow. They are

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Speaker 1: aligning themselves with the Iranian regime, the regime that has

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Speaker 1: attacked America and Western civilization for forty seven years, killed

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Speaker 1: and maimed thousands of American military personnel and other agents

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Speaker 1: of the United States, have funded terror around the world,

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Speaker 1: the masterminds, architects, and funders of October the seventh. Why

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Speaker 1: are Democrats aligning with those interests instead of what's in

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Speaker 1: the best interest of the United States. I mean, look

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Speaker 1: at George Conway. He's running for Congress in New York.

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Speaker 1: Here's his comment. Perhaps the terrorist state with nuclear weapons

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Speaker 1: is Czechs notes the United States of America. This is

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Speaker 1: a Democrat candidate for Congress calling the United States of

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Speaker 1: America a terrorist state. Jack Schlosberg part of the Kennedy

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Speaker 1: family in New York City. He's running for Congress and

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Speaker 1: in fact he has Nancy Pelosi's endorsement. Comment we need

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Speaker 1: regime change in the United States. He referred to the

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Speaker 1: US government, the popularly elected government, national popular vote, and

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Speaker 1: electoral College as a regime. We need regime change, according

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Speaker 1: to Democrat candidate for Congress, Jack Schlosberg.

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Speaker 3: What are other Democrats saying? Well, zorn Mam Donnie.

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Speaker 1: He put out a statement he was I guess he

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Speaker 1: was monitoring the situation there from his perch as the

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Speaker 1: mayor of New York City. He said it was a

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Speaker 1: catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression, bombing cities,

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Speaker 1: killing civilians, opening a new theater of war. Then and

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Speaker 1: an incredibly tone deaf part of his statement, Mam Donnie said,

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Speaker 1: I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers you

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Speaker 1: are part of the fabric of this city. You will

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Speaker 1: be safe here.

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Speaker 3: Brother.

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Speaker 1: They are safe here because they're in the United States

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Speaker 1: of America.

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Speaker 3: They're here for a reason. They're not an Iran for

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Speaker 3: a reason.

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Speaker 1: The Iranians in the United States are not worried about

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Speaker 1: their safety here.

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Speaker 3: They would be worried if they were.

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Speaker 1: In Iran under the despotic regime we just decapitated. They're

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Speaker 1: dancing in the streets here in the United States. They're

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Speaker 1: not worried too much about this. What an incredibly tone

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Speaker 1: deaf thing to say. Congresswoman Rashida Tlabe of Michigan, again

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Speaker 1: Democratic member of Congress. You cannot free people by killing

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Speaker 1: them and destroying their country. So Tlabe has aligned herself

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Speaker 1: with the Iranian regime, with the Iyatolas regime. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I question the wisdom of aligning yourself with the people

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Speaker 1: who are already dead in our war effort, but they are.

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Speaker 1: Rashida Tlabe trusts the Iranian regime as it was constituted.

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Speaker 1: He thinks whatever they were doing, whatever you want to

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Speaker 1: call it, was good. Was it good for women there

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Speaker 1: who were being tortured and murdered. Was it good for

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Speaker 1: the protesters in the streets who were being slaughtered by

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Speaker 1: the tens of thousands.

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Speaker 3: I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: Predictably, ilhan Omar and others have also aligned themselves with

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Speaker 1: the fanatics instead of what's in the best interest of

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Speaker 1: the United States. Democrats right now are in serious, serious

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Speaker 1: danger of looking like kookie anti American radicals, and the

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Speaker 1: Republicans look like pro American, pro freedom, responsible actors. That's

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Speaker 1: it for today. We'll be back with more tomorrow. It's

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Speaker 1: Scott Jennings on Salem. Thank you for listening.