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Speaker 2: So you think people's independent flying and travels around the

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Speaker 2: But I'm saying, should Republicans allow them to do that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, or people trying to cause chaos. I mean things

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Speaker 2: What about this, Yeah, what about this guy that lobbed

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Speaker 2: that what we're starting to sense. That's my sense of exactly.

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Speaker 3: I thought there were too many things that happened this weekend,

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Speaker 2: So well, the American public lose patients, most certainly Trump voters,

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Speaker 2: It's an ominous sign of how the conflict with Iran

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Speaker 2: All serious analysts that I've heard say it's not a

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Speaker 2: That this is not the same as a supply problem.

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Speaker 2: You will people tolerate it? That's the big question. Fast Eddie.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you don't believe that the President means it when

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Speaker 3: No, no, not at the moment. I don't think that's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, eight five five. Stigalls the telephone number.

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Speaker 2: It's how you reach us today. Kicking off another very

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Speaker 2: it here. Chris Wright. Just to put a butt bow

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Speaker 8: Take a listen, oh, I tell them that for forty

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Speaker 8: and they've throughout that forty seven years they've tried to

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Speaker 2: And it's time to put it to an end.

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Speaker 8: So yes, we have a temporary period of elevated energy prices,

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Speaker 2: You know, in some ways I always sort of appreciate

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Speaker 2: And do you know why, if people are honest and

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, maybe this is a time where we

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Speaker 2: Why why do we accept it? And incidentally, anytime Iran

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Speaker 2: have been many over the last fifty years, whether the

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Speaker 2: goes oil. How about we just not in that place anymore.

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Speaker 2: I like that, all right. Caroline Levitt tackling energy, talking

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Speaker 9: The President and his energy team are on the ball.

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Speaker 9: They've announced political risk insurance for cargo vessels and oil

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Speaker 9: They've announced that the US Navy, if and when necessary,

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Speaker 9: The President is also tapping into our newfound market in Venezuela,

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Speaker 9: And so again this is a short term disruption. We're

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Speaker 2: All right, so let's read from folks who study markets

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Speaker 2: three D chess being played right now. Venezuela and Iran

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Speaker 2: D chess. A real win scenario here would have two components. One,

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Speaker 2: so it's long term thinking. It's not the immediate and

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Speaker 3: If he's friendly to the United States and he's not

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Speaker 2: okay with we completely newtered Iran. We've taken out all

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Speaker 2: of their new con missile capability. They won't bother us

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Speaker 2: for a good long time. But they still have a

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Speaker 2: wild eyed leader who'd like to well that set well

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Speaker 2: with the rest of us, even though I think most

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Speaker 2: people would say, we don't want to regime change war.

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Speaker 2: So see, we're in a catch twenty two. I think

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Speaker 2: here's what I'm about to say that I don't think

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Speaker 2: it's very popular. I think the American public, if polled,

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Speaker 2: would be a little hypocritical. I think I would let

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Speaker 2: me put it on me rather than put it on

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Speaker 2: anybody else. You ask me, Stigaldi, do you want a

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Speaker 2: regime change war? Do you want the troops to go

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Speaker 2: into Iran topple them and put in new leaders that

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Speaker 2: we help build a new government? I say, uh uh,

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Speaker 2: I've seen that one before. I don't want anything to

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Speaker 2: do with it. No, thank you? All right? Well, are

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Speaker 2: you all right with bombing the hell out of them,

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Speaker 2: taking out their nukes, taking out their missiles, keeping the

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Speaker 2: straight open so that the free flow of commerce, and

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Speaker 2: basically neutralizing them into oblivion for another generation or something?

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Speaker 2: Are you okay with that? If the Iyatolda's sun has

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Speaker 2: designs to just rebuild it to the same place that

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Speaker 2: we sit today, I say, no, that sounds terrible. We'd

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Speaker 2: go to all this. We've lost seven of our brave fighters,

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Speaker 2: We're spending a lot of money, and that same wild

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Speaker 2: eyed leadership takes over again. No, that sucks. I don't

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Speaker 2: like that outcome at all, if I'm to be honest.

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Speaker 2: But Eddie, I just said I don't want a regime

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Speaker 2: change war. So I can't have it both ways. So

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Speaker 2: what do you do with me? Am I being a hypocrite?

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Speaker 3: No, I just think that this war needs to rap quickly.

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Speaker 3: Koman ne any komany needs to be gone. The the

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Speaker 3: what is it, the Republican Guard or whatever it's called,

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Speaker 3: needs to be gone.

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Speaker 2: We need to what the But that means you got

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Speaker 2: to stay. You got to stay and hunt these people

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Speaker 2: till every one of them is snuffed out. That that

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Speaker 2: could be longer than weeks. I mean, so if you

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Speaker 2: mean gone, you mean what killing them, taking them out,

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Speaker 2: making sure they don't come back, yes, or.

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Speaker 3: Just killing them and taking them out. I mean Trump

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Speaker 3: has already said to the Iranian people, now's your time,

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Speaker 3: now's your chance, rise up, you're ready.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, and if they don't, I guess I'm just

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Speaker 2: and I know you don't have this answer. I'm just curious.

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Speaker 2: If they don't, how long do we stay?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, because we've got to make sure that

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Speaker 3: straight is open.

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Speaker 2: Our state admission is to just make sure commerce continues

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Speaker 2: to happen and these guys don't have nukes and missiles. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's our state admission. That's it. And we'll try to

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Speaker 2: help them, that is, the Iranian people, by taking out

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Speaker 2: these goon leaders. But if they just continue although, we're

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Speaker 2: gonna talk to John Hayward in a little bit. John

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Speaker 2: has some reports that say some of these goons aren't

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Speaker 2: showing up for work, and I can't blame them. What

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Speaker 2: do they call them? The Ministry of Intelligence or something,

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Speaker 2: the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or whatever the hell? They

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Speaker 2: all these bearded wackos and turbans that show up for

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Speaker 2: meetings and they keep being blown up. They call them

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Speaker 2: the League of Intelligent Men or something. It was hilarious,

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Speaker 2: and they keep dying every time they get together for breakfast.

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Speaker 3: The boom John's story, it's tell the IRGC.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, revolutionary anyway, Apparently some of them are not terribly

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Speaker 2: excited to show up for work. Now, John has some reporting,

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Speaker 2: and I would imagine that's true. Can you make them

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Speaker 2: scatter like cockroaches? I don't know. That'll be a question

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Speaker 2: for John. What does it look like if we do,

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Speaker 2: in fact achieve all of the stated objectives but leadership

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Speaker 2: doesn't change. Is that satisfactory to most Americans? Eight five

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Speaker 2: five stigalls are telephone number glad to be with you

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Speaker 2: on this Monday. All right, So I just put up

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Speaker 2: a Twitter X pole question a minute ago, and it's

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Speaker 2: a simple question. There's really not much to it. There's

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Speaker 2: probably nuance, but I don't you know, there's no space

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Speaker 2: to put nuance in a X poll, And that is

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Speaker 2: the Trump administration has been clear this war in Iran

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Speaker 2: is not about regime change. Are you okay with the

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Speaker 2: same theocracy left in charge even if their weapons are

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Speaker 2: non existent? Are you okay with the same theocracy left

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Speaker 2: in charge of Iran even if their weapons are non existent? Yes? No,

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Speaker 2: simple simple ex pole question. If you don't follow on X,

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Speaker 2: X if you've already got an X account, follow me

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Speaker 2: there again. I know there's nuance to that question, but

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Speaker 2: that's a real possibility because the Trump administration always stated

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Speaker 2: this was not about regime change. So all right, bomb

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Speaker 2: them into the Stone Age and then let their theocracy

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Speaker 2: take over again. Are you all right with that? Just asking,

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Speaker 2: not driving anywhere with it? Eight five five Stigall is

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Speaker 2: how you reach me today? Today? From NBC News. Here's

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Speaker 2: the headline, Trump struggles on immigration prices and Iran as

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Speaker 2: Democrats hold a midterm edge. Now, I am not rose

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Speaker 2: colored glasses here on midterms. I'm realistic and I understand

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Speaker 2: midterms never go the way of the party in power.

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Speaker 2: Almost historically true. I think, with three exceptions, if one

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Speaker 2: party has total control by year two into a presidential administration,

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Speaker 2: that party in total control loses. It's almost always historically true.

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Speaker 2: Having said all that, we've never seen an opposition party

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Speaker 2: in the Democrats. This historically unpopular. So if you were

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Speaker 2: to look at the data points, it's basically a coin flip,

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Speaker 2: it's a jump. So NBC News trots out this poll, Oh,

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Speaker 2: Trump is underwater, He's struggling on all these issues, and

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Speaker 2: I'm not making this up. You dig just a little

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Speaker 2: bit into the very same story, and it says, quote,

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Speaker 2: Republicans narrow the Democrat advantage. When voters are asked to

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Speaker 2: weigh which party they think would do a better job

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Speaker 2: of handling the most important issues, most voters, including a

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Speaker 2: sizable portion of self identified Democrats, continue to view the

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Speaker 2: Democrat party negatively. The Republican Party gets negative ratings, though

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Speaker 2: not to the same degree. So this poll that makes

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Speaker 2: it sound like Trump and Republicans are the ones in trouble, NBC,

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Speaker 2: you dig a little bit. The American people trust Republicans

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Speaker 2: more on the issue of immigration by twelve points, the

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Speaker 2: American people trust Republicans on the issue of crime by

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Speaker 2: twenty two points, and by twenty seven points. The American

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Speaker 2: people trust Republicans on border security. And in terms of

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Speaker 2: the economy, Ladies and gentlemen, would it surprise you to

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Speaker 2: learn that Republicans are tied with Democrats ahead of the

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Speaker 2: midterms on the economy. That's NBC News, as all Pole. Now,

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Speaker 2: I have another story here today about hang on here.

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Speaker 2: Yes here, It is from Just the News and John Solomon.

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Speaker 2: Driven by ignorance, Americans increasingly embrace socialism after decades of rejection.

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Speaker 2: Findings from a new Fox News poll released Friday indicate

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Speaker 2: a historic high of thirty eight percent of registered voters

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Speaker 2: now consider it positive for the country to shift from

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Speaker 2: capitalism towards socialism, marking an increase from thirty two percent

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two to eighteen percent in twenty ten.

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Speaker 2: The shifting sentiment towards socialism may not necessarily reflect fuzzy

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Speaker 2: feelings for its ideals, but rather a lack of understanding

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Speaker 2: of what those ideals are. Well, that's exactly right. A

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Speaker 2: lack of understanding of what it is. Do you think

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Speaker 2: most Americans who answer they favor the idea of flirting

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Speaker 2: with socialism or maybe we ought to take a look

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Speaker 2: at it, they're inevitably young, I would bet you. I

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Speaker 2: can't prove, but I haven't dug into the specifics of

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Speaker 2: who Fox News sampled, but I would bet it's driven

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Speaker 2: by younger people or people from a certain generation who

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Speaker 2: were maleducated millennials on down. If you're thirty something right now,

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Speaker 2: you probably weren't even taught about socialism fast eddie fair

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Speaker 2: to say you think most thirty somethings even know what

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Speaker 2: the hell socialism is, what it even means, what it

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Speaker 2: would look like for real, if implemented.

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Speaker 3: Ear I can say from my own college experience, No,

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Speaker 3: not at all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're forty, I am. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: We weren't talk You weren't taught about it. We weren't

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Speaker 3: the Iran taking over seventy nine, like, we weren't talking

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Speaker 3: about any of this stuff, just where it is on

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Speaker 3: the political spectrum.

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Speaker 2: That's all. And who's reaching people your age and younger.

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Speaker 2: A bunch of overly emotional, hysterical podcasters preying on the

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Speaker 2: fears and emotions of a lot of people who were

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Speaker 2: maleducated on history and issues of socialist We got to

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Speaker 2: the Poor as well. And you know here we are

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Speaker 2: I realized that that sucks a lot of the oxygen

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Speaker 2: every single day specifically not just food, but water. It

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Speaker 2: entire communities really are held back by the absence of

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Speaker 2: access to basic, clean water and food for the poor.

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Speaker 2: If you don't know about them, or you haven't heard

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Speaker 2: me talk about them last year, you guys stepped up

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Speaker 2: in such a big way last year to help this organization.

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Speaker 2: These people love the Lord. And one of the things

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Speaker 2: I've been told specifically is where the need is great

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Speaker 2: What they can do with a dollar is amazing. What

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Speaker 10: Well, this is the miracle. Fifty dollars will help provide

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Speaker 10: There are children who are walking miles, they are making

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Speaker 2: That's incredible, and they do. I mean, I've been in

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Speaker 2: we kick off this tremendous, tremendous effort led by our

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Speaker 2: love the work they do. There is a gentleman that

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Speaker 2: I found on X over the weekend, just brilliant and

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Speaker 2: it's it's worth reading in its entirety. I'm not going

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Speaker 2: He's a self identified war scholar, Chair of War Studies

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Speaker 2: at Madison Policy Forum, and he writes at Substack a

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Speaker 2: eleven ten or eleven, but he said he wrote this

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Speaker 2: a few days ago. The US Israeli War the strategy

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Speaker 2: appears to be working and Iran is losing. In classical

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Speaker 2: strategic terms, he writes, war must always be evaluated through

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Speaker 2: the relationship between political objectives and military action. The success

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Speaker 2: of a war cannot be measured simply by explosions, missile launches,

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Speaker 2: or headlines. It must be measured by whether the use

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Speaker 2: of force achieves the political objectives of war, whether through

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Speaker 2: territorial control, destruction of military capability, or compelling the enemy

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Speaker 2: to change its behavior in accordance with those objectives. Thus far,

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Speaker 2: the United States has been and consistent in publicly stating

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Speaker 2: its goals. President Trump's statement announcing the start of operations

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Speaker 2: made clear that the war is aimed at ending the

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Speaker 2: Iranian regime's nuclear weapons pursuit, destroying the missile capabilities to

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Speaker 2: Iran has long used as a shield for that nuclear ambition,

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Speaker 2: and in limiting Iran's ability to threaten global commerce through

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Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuze. This is not declared regime change.

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Speaker 2: That distinction matters, He writes. Strategic objectives must be judged

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Speaker 2: based on what political leaders state as their aims, not

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Speaker 2: what critics speculate those aims might secretly become The stated

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Speaker 2: goal of this war is not to overthrow the Islamic

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Speaker 2: Republic of Iran. The stated goal is to compel the

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Speaker 2: regime to fundamentally change its behavior, abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions,

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Speaker 2: degrade its ballistic missile capable abilities, stop threatening the closure

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Speaker 2: use of proxy terrorism across the Middle East. If the

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Speaker 2: regime ultimately collapses under the pressure of military defeat or

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Speaker 2: internal revolt, that would certainly be a positive outcome of

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Speaker 2: the war. But it has not at least publicly been

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Speaker 2: declared as a strategic objective, and that distinction is not

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Speaker 2: just academic. He says, I understand the skepticism surrounding wars

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Speaker 2: in the Middle East. I participated in the two thousand

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Speaker 2: and three invasion of Iraq, which was explicitly framed as

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Speaker 2: regime change war. The stated objective the removal of Saddan

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Speaker 2: Hussein and his Saddam Hussein and his Bath Party from power,

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Speaker 2: along with the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

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Speaker 2: Like many soldiers preparing for that operation, my unit was

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Speaker 2: told by our two star commander that the campaign would

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Speaker 2: likely be a sixty day operation. But to be very

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Speaker 2: clear and Frank, Iran is not Iraq. The Saddam regime

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Speaker 2: was removed from power quickly, but the United States then

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Speaker 2: disbanded the Iraqi Army and large parts of the back

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Speaker 2: government structure. What followed was a prolonged effort to impose

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Speaker 2: a new political system and conduct nation building while fighting

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Speaker 2: a growing insurgency. History unfolded very differently than originally planned.

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Speaker 2: But strategic analysis must evaluate the war that exists, not

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Speaker 2: the war people fear might emerge until the United States

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Speaker 2: alters its stated political objectives. The strategy must be measured

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Speaker 2: against the goals that have been articulated. So just days

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Speaker 2: into the war, the evidence increased increasingly suggests that Iran

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Speaker 2: will be compelled to do our will. The United States

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Speaker 2: in Israel are imposing their will on the Islamic Republic

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Speaker 2: in Iran. And he goes on to understand why this matters,

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Speaker 2: you have to understand and Iran's strategy, and that's to

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Speaker 2: cause chaos and destabilization and whatnot. Skipping ahead here a bit,

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Speaker 2: mister Spencer writes leadership decapitation is not by itself a

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Speaker 2: guaranteed method of changing regime behavior. History shows that regimes

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Speaker 2: can sometimes absorb the loss of senior leaders and continue

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Speaker 2: their policies, but the simultaneous elimination of multiple senior leaders

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Speaker 2: in a short period of time disrupts decision making, weakens

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Speaker 2: internal confidence, forces remaining officials to focus on survival as

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Speaker 2: much as strategy. The continued threat that newly appointed successors

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Speaker 2: could also be targeted only compounds that instability. Iran's military

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Speaker 2: capabilities are also being steadily degraded. He talks about how

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Speaker 2: we've crushed their naval forces and their missile launch capability,

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Speaker 2: degrading that arsenal therefore has implications far beyond the current conflict.

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Speaker 2: Mister Spencer writes the campaign includes a component that is

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Speaker 2: less visible but equally important, and that strategic messaging. President

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Speaker 2: Trump and the administration appear to have deliberately introduced elements

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Speaker 2: of unpredictability and uncertainty into this conflict. War is the

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Speaker 2: realm of uncertainty. Uncertainty is not merely a condition of war.

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Speaker 2: It can also be a weapon. Reading here from John Spencer,

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Speaker 2: a war scholar over at Substack, I'm going to continue

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Speaker 2: this read because it's worth your time. Hang on just

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Speaker 2: a second, one Sunny started in Boston this morning, watching

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Speaker 2: on the Salem News Channel, listening on AM five ninety.

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Speaker 2: Thanks a lot for listening on great radio stations. All

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Speaker 2: if you'd like to get in here asking the X

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Speaker 2: at Chris Stagall, I'm just simply asking, Okay, we bomb

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Speaker 2: Iran into the Stone Age, but their theocracy remains intact

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Speaker 2: when it's all said and done, and this Iatola's son

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Speaker 2: Do you mind?

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Speaker 11: That?

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Speaker 2: Is that okay? So far? And I mean it's early

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Speaker 2: in the X unscientific, but so far overwhelmingly X respondents

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Speaker 2: say no, I'm not okay with that, which would then

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Speaker 2: imply what fascinate regime change? And we're a no regime

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Speaker 2: change war era ed So I don't understand that was

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Speaker 2: where I thought we were going. We're no regime change war, right.

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Speaker 2: I was certainly saying the same thing. Boy a rock Afghanistan.

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Speaker 2: That was stupid. We will never do that again. And

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Speaker 2: so Trump says, that's okay, We're not going in there

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Speaker 2: to change the regime. We're just bombing them into the

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Speaker 2: Stone Age. So they don't have weapons to threaten us.

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Speaker 2: And we hope they'll change regimes. But if they don't,

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Speaker 2: then so be it. But most of the people responding

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Speaker 2: say they want the regime changed. Okay, what do you

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Speaker 2: do with that?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I mean, And even Trump himself has

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Speaker 3: We're just you know, hopefully the people rise up and

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Speaker 3: they take what's that like? I don't I mean, if

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Speaker 3: we're going Lindsey Graham, if we're doing it, then let's

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Speaker 3: then let's see we No, yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: There's him. Then there's Lindsey Graham. We'll get to that

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Speaker 2: guy in a minute. So sorry. I came across it

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Speaker 2: over the weekend, as John Spencer. Iran's missile arsenal has

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Speaker 2: long been one of its primary instruments of coercion. Iran

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00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 2: possesses large ballistic missiles UH it's systems capable of striking

861
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,720
Speaker 2: targets across the entire region, and Tehran has openly discussed

862
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 2: expanding that missile force dramatically as the foundation of a

863
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 2: broader strategy. Degrading that arsenal has implications far beyond the

864
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 2: current conflict, he writes, Trump and the administration appear to

865
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 2: have deliberately introduced elements of unpredictability by keeping the scope

866
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:57,800
Speaker 2: and duration of operations unclear. The United States forces Iranian

867
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 2: leaders to consider a wide range of possible escalatory outcomes.

868
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 2: Will this campaign last days? Will it last weeks? Will

869
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 2: ground forces be introduced? Could Kurdish fighters become involved? Could

870
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 2: unrest internally intensify? May internal dissent escalate into a broader uprising?

871
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 2: None of these possibilities have to occur, he writes, In

872
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 2: order to create strategic pressure, the mere plausibility forces Iran

873
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:36,280
Speaker 2: decision makers to confront multiple simultaneous dilemmas, And he writes,

874
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 2: this is working, and there's evidence of this working. More

875
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 2: on this with my friend John Hayward. In just a moment,

876
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 2: Operation Epic Fury underway, and it's of course intensifying, and

877
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 2: while everyone's braced for what's coming next. It's never been

878
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,280
Speaker 2: more true than it is in Israel. Red alert sirens

879
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 2: filling the air, sirens giving you seconds to reach the

880
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 2: nearest bomb shelter. It's a serious situation, obviously, and the

881
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 2: threat is always real. It's always been real, but never

882
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 2: more so than now. Freedom and faith aren't just abstract

883
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 2: ideas in times like this, they're what we depend on.

884
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 2: And in times like this, the IFCJ, the International Fellowship

885
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 2: of Christians and Jews, they're on the ground preparing large

886
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 2: scale distributions of life saving food, first aid, emergency essentials

887
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 2: for security personnel, well helping ensure hospitals, emergency rooms and

888
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 2: shelters are stocked with critical medical supplies. Israel's most vulnerable,

889
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:35,280
Speaker 2: the sick, the elderly, and little kids. Families. They depend

890
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 2: on the Fellowship at times like these, and the people

891
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 2: of the Holy Land depend on your prayerful support as well.

892
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 2: So join Christians and Jews around the world in praying

893
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 2: for the protection of Israel, her people, and the brave

894
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 2: American and Israeli troops putting their lives on the line

895
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 2: in this fight for freedom. Stand with Israel in prayer

896
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 2: today by going to SUPPORTIFCJ dot org. Their website again

897
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 2: is support IFCJ dot org. Just to conclude this piece,

898
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 2: because I typically don't like reading lenky pieces to you,

899
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 2: I know, reading two people is generally kind of tired.

900
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 2: I don't like doing that, but I think this piece

901
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 2: is important. It is a piece on substack by a

902
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 2: gentleman with the last name of Spencer. His name is

903
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 2: John Spencer's. He's the executive director of the Urban Warfare Institute.

904
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 2: He's a war scholar in Iraq vet himself and chair

905
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 2: of War Studies at Madison Policy Forum. And he wrote,

906
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 2: Israel War, the strategy appears to be working, the US

907
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 2: Israel war appears to be working, and Iran is losing.

908
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 2: So concluding here what he wrote, and then I want

909
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 2: to bring in our buddy John Hayward, who's also brilliant,

910
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,720
Speaker 2: to see if he concurs with the summary here. Seven

911
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,320
Speaker 2: days into this conflict, he rights, and the military balance

912
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 2: clearly favors the United States and Israel. Iran's attacks against

913
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 2: Israel and other regional states have been significantly reduced. It's

914
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 2: missil and drone for horses are being systemically degraded, its

915
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 2: naval capabilities destroyed, its leadership structure continues to have pressure.

916
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,399
Speaker 2: The Islamic regime in Iran is no longer shaping this war.

917
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 2: It's reacting to it. And just as importantly, the United States,

918
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 2: our forces, and our interests are already safer today than

919
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 2: they were seven days ago. The regime's ability to secretly

920
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 2: pursue a nuclear weapon threat in American troops or immediate

921
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 2: neighboring states, and hold global commerce hostage through missile and

922
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 2: naval coercion is being steadily degraded. None of this, he writes,

923
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 2: guarantees the final outcome of the war. No one can

924
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 2: say with certainty whether the Iranian regime will abandon its

925
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 2: pursuit of nukes, agree to intrusive internal inspections, or surrender

926
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:49,880
Speaker 2: its stockpile enriched uranium, or dismantle its ballistic missile program,

927
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,800
Speaker 2: or stop using the strait of hormones as a coercive threat,

928
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:57,879
Speaker 2: or end its decades long investment in proxy militias. And Yes,

929
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 2: President Trump and his demand for unconditional surrender is consistent

930
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:06,399
Speaker 2: with policy objectives stated from the beginning of this war.

931
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 2: It does not necessarily mean the surrender of the Iranian state.

932
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 2: It means the unconditional end of the behaviors that cause

933
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:18,799
Speaker 2: the conflict. The regime must abandon its pursuits. But what

934
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 2: can only be evaluated right now, he writes, as the strategy.

935
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 2: And here's how he concludes, and this is the most important.

936
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,480
Speaker 2: He says, the use of force appears to be systemically

937
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 2: reducing the regime's capabilities across multiple domains. The measure of

938
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 2: strategy is not noise, destruction or headlines. It's whether force

939
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 2: is bending the enemy toward your political objective. And days

940
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 2: into this war, evidence suggests that's exactly what's happening, he says.

941
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:49,320
Speaker 2: One example is the Iranian president publicly apologizing for attacks

942
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 2: on neighboring countries, an early signal that the regime may

943
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 2: already be recalibrating its behavior. Statements may must ultimately be

944
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 2: judged by actions, but a final caution is necessary. Now

945
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 2: listen up to this. This is again from John Spencer,

946
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 2: executive director of the Urban Warfare Institute. He says this

947
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 2: the information age. Analysis is everywhere, but not all analysis

948
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 2: is equal. Just as a reader should examine the biography

949
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 2: of an author before purchasing a serious book, it is

950
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 2: wise to examine the background of anyone claiming expertise on

951
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 2: this war, review their professional and academic history. Examine their

952
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:33,320
Speaker 2: previous commentary on military operations, look at their social media

953
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 2: posts and past analysis. If someone has a long history

954
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:43,240
Speaker 2: of purely political commentary, whether anti Trump, anti American, anti Israel,

955
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 2: or driven by ideological positions, it becomes difficult for that

956
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 2: individual to separate political preference from objective strategic analysis. War

957
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 2: demands clear thinking. The coming days will reveal whether Iran

958
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:03,800
Speaker 2: chooses escalation, endurance, or negociation. For now, the strategic duel continues.

959
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,320
Speaker 2: That's a guy named John Spencer his pieces at Substack

960
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 2: US Israel War. The strategy appears to be working and

961
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 2: Iran is losing. So we bring in John Hayward, one

962
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 2: of our most trusted voices, the national security deputy editor

963
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 2: at Breitbart, has been for years. We've leaned on him

964
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:24,800
Speaker 2: for many conflict in terms of his analysis over the years,

965
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,800
Speaker 2: with I think great accuracy. And so John, I just

966
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 2: ask you the question that I've been asking this audience

967
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,800
Speaker 2: this morning on X and he talked about it a

968
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,839
Speaker 2: little in this piece. Mister Spencer did is we could

969
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 2: be talking about an Iran that in fact does not

970
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 2: change their theocratic leadership. Maybe they're decimated in terms of

971
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,839
Speaker 2: their abilities to do anything, but maybe their leadership doesn't

972
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 2: change at all, And are we okay with that? And

973
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 2: so far on scientifically on X, most of my audiences

974
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 2: they are not okay with that. What do you say?

975
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 2: Good morning?

976
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,280
Speaker 4: Well and good morning? I can understand why the audience

977
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 4: wouldn't feel that way. We look at how malign Iran

978
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 4: has been ever since the Islamic Revolution, how many uprisings

979
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 4: have they had now where they've had to kill thousands

980
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,720
Speaker 4: of their own people to stay in power, And we think, well, gee,

981
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 4: after we bomb the hell out of them like this,

982
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 4: shouldn't that collapse the regime is anything less than that

983
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 4: really a win if the iatolas are still there, the

984
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 4: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is still there, and they can

985
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 4: just reconstitute their abilities and become a global cread again.

986
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 4: So I'm sure a lot of people see the collapse

987
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 4: of the regime as the final victory, and anything less

988
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 4: than that is going to feel like less of a

989
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 4: slam dunk. Even if all the other objectives you were

990
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 4: just mentioning are complete, Even if we can decisively get

991
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 4: rid of their nuclear program, if the theocracy is still there.

992
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,919
Speaker 4: A bad actor remains on the map after we went

993
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 4: to all out war against.

994
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 2: Them, even though we're in this precarious spot where many

995
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 2: Trump voter and I would be one. You know, President

996
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 2: Trump said, We've been in a lot of stupid wars,

997
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 2: and I'm not going to get us into a stupid war.

998
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 2: And so now you have a healthy contingent on social media.

999
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 2: How measurable it is. The polling doesn't suggest it's as

1000
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 2: measurable as it is. Loud on social media say this

1001
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 2: is a regime change war. He promised no regime change wars,

1002
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 2: and you say, what to that?

1003
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 4: Well, I know people are nervous about regime change wars

1004
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 4: because look at the last ones. Look at how that's

1005
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 4: been working out every time we've tried it. And you

1006
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 4: can't even begin to think about a regime change war

1007
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,399
Speaker 4: until you have boots on the ground. The only way

1008
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 4: to forcibly replace the leadership of a country is to

1009
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 4: completely conquer it and do what we did to Germany

1010
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 4: and Japan and World War two. That has not gone

1011
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 4: well in the modern age. And everybody's allergic to nation

1012
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 4: building me too. So I don't think we want that

1013
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 4: so we have to understand that it is possible that

1014
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,799
Speaker 4: this kind of air strike campaign could get us to

1015
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,439
Speaker 4: many other objectives. We could reduce ron as a threat.

1016
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:43,880
Speaker 4: I think we've done that. They don't have a navy anymore.

1017
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,240
Speaker 4: We're wiping out a lot of their top shelf missiles.

1018
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 4: They're no longer the regional threat they were ten days ago.

1019
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,920
Speaker 4: So that part is going well. But if the objective

1020
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,279
Speaker 4: is regime change or bust, I don't think a lot

1021
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:56,440
Speaker 4: of people want to see the kind of force deployed

1022
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:58,720
Speaker 4: that that would require. And we look at what happened

1023
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 4: in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I don't blame anybody for

1024
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,359
Speaker 4: being nervous about getting involved in something else like that.

1025
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 2: So it's kind of a catch twenty two. And I'll

1026
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 2: be honest, I'm one of these I feel exactly as

1027
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:13,840
Speaker 2: you feel, as you just said. Nobody's excited about boots

1028
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:15,959
Speaker 2: on the ground or trying to build a new nation.

1029
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 2: But we're left feeling kind of gross about all this.

1030
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 2: If that same theocracy is still in charge, even if degraded,

1031
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:25,919
Speaker 2: when it's over, So what do you do?

1032
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:31,480
Speaker 4: Well, One thing you do is what we're doing right now,

1033
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:33,360
Speaker 4: which is degrade their ability.

1034
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 6: To influence the rest of the Middle East.

1035
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:38,320
Speaker 4: Iran is the Shiite islam superpower, and in the Middle

1036
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 4: East that gives them a special status because all Sheit

1037
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 4: Muslims feel some sense of deference or at least respect

1038
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:47,399
Speaker 4: for the Iranian regime, and that gives them a little

1039
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:49,920
Speaker 4: bit extra staying power that you wouldn't see out of

1040
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 4: a Khadaffi in Libya or a Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

1041
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 4: That's something you have to be realistic about when you're

1042
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 4: doing battle with a regime like this. But at the

1043
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 4: same time, that means if they get absolutely pulverized like

1044
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 4: we're doing now, and we walk away with a tiny

1045
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 4: handful of casualties and we've completely defanged them, that's a

1046
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:10,359
Speaker 4: humiliation that this theocracy would not easily get over. Even

1047
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 4: if they remain in power. They'll try to say it's

1048
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 4: a win if the theocracy still exists at all. But

1049
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 4: for a lot of people in the Middle East, they

1050
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 4: respect strength, they respect success, and if ron looks like

1051
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 4: it's been humiliated, it's going to reduce the threat they

1052
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 4: posed for some time to come.

1053
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 2: John Hayward, is it realistic to say that the neighbors

1054
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 2: Bahrain Cutter Uae, Saudi Arabia who've kind of been loathed

1055
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 2: to get involved with Iran. Obviously, Iran took some shots

1056
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 2: at the Miran has now said so sorry about that.

1057
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 2: We kind of lost ourselves. Sorry for shooting at you.

1058
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 2: But suddenly those neighbors are feeling a little more emboldened

1059
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 2: to maybe join the fray here a little bit with

1060
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 2: the US and Israel. Is that what we're seeing, and

1061
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 2: they're going to change their dynamic of relations there.

1062
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:56,959
Speaker 6: I don't know if they'll join the Fray.

1063
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 4: They're supportive at this point of the operation in their

1064
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 4: highly critic of Iran, but every one of those countries

1065
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 4: is a Sunni Arab monarchy with a large, restless Chiite

1066
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 4: minority population, and every one of them is nervous that

1067
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 4: the Sahites are going to go bananas and start riding

1068
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 4: and so forth in their country, and that would be

1069
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 4: an additional threat they'd have to face. Some of them

1070
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 4: could conceivably be overthrown by a determined Chaite uprising if

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Speaker 4: that were to happen. So they're going to step very

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Speaker 4: carefully when it comes to actually joining in the fight

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Speaker 4: against Iran. They might even help with some airpower here

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Speaker 4: and there. But if they really go to war against Iran,

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Speaker 4: they're potentially opening a battle in the least that they

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Speaker 4: really don't want to be a part of.

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Speaker 2: Just to be clear, So you're saying that those neighboring

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Speaker 2: countries to Iran, they have minorities that are supportive of Iran,

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Speaker 2: and if they joined us in a full scale attack,

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Speaker 2: those minorities may start giving them trouble their moderate government governments.

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Speaker 2: Is that about right?

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Speaker 6: Absolutely? Most of those countries.

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Speaker 4: The Schahite minorities in those countries have had uprisings and

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Speaker 4: riots within the last ten to twenty years, So that's

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Speaker 4: not a theoretical problem, something that could very much happen.

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Speaker 4: I think one of the big reasons Iron attack them

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Speaker 4: is because they want that to happen. They're trying to

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Speaker 4: provoke that kind of an uprising, or at least set

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Speaker 4: the stage for the Shechhiite minorities in those countries to

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Speaker 4: get loud, get noisy, and begin bolstering Iran's case.

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Speaker 2: You've been good enough to hang with us, and I

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Speaker 2: want to hold you for another segment if I could,

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Speaker 2: because China is a big story here too, and you've

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Speaker 2: written about that. John Hayward at Breitbart Today, I'll ask

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Speaker 2: you before the break though oil prices. The Trump administration

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Speaker 2: has been out this weekend saying, hey, don't sweat it,

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Speaker 2: it's not a matter of supply, it's just getting the

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Speaker 2: straight of horror moves back open and we're going to soon.

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Speaker 2: Are you freaked out about oil prices? Does President Trump

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Speaker 2: lose political cachet here and patients at home if he

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Speaker 2: can't deal with energy prices soon?

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Speaker 4: Only if they go a lot higher than they are

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Speaker 4: for a lot longer. A minor temporary spike is not

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Speaker 4: a big problem for him politically. Nobody likes it. Nobody

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Speaker 4: wants to see the price of the pump go up.

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Speaker 4: But I think this would have to go on for

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Speaker 4: quite some time. It would have to go on for months,

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Speaker 4: and oil would have to get a lot more expensive

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Speaker 4: than it is, and the rest of the Western world

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Speaker 4: would really have to feel it before it was a

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Speaker 4: political problem for Trump.

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Speaker 2: Back with John Hayward. He is the National Security deputy

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Speaker 2: editor at Breitbart. He's written about China specifically and what

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Speaker 2: this has done to them. I'll ask him about Russia too.

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Speaker 2: The Wall Street Journal sort of posits that this actually

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Speaker 2: has Russia in a vice long term, particularly with the

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Speaker 2: moves we've made on Venezuela. It's a big picture. More

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Speaker 2: in a minute, John, just quickly to put a bow

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Speaker 2: on this kind of regime change business. You wrote a

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Speaker 2: piece that said that some of these security forces are

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Speaker 2: failing to show up for duty. Perhaps could this take

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Speaker 2: care of itself? I mean, is it a pipe dream

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Speaker 2: to imagine that morale would just cause decay and erosion

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Speaker 2: naturally of leadership and the people of Iran really could

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Speaker 2: rise up and install someone moderate. Is that a pipe

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Speaker 2: dream or possible?

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Speaker 12: Well?

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Speaker 6: No, that's how war works.

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Speaker 4: War is always a contest of will, and war is

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Speaker 4: always won when the enemy's will to fight breaks and

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Speaker 4: they look for a resolution, and sometimes that's cataclysmic and

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Speaker 4: you see an uprising, a disintegration of morale inside the

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Speaker 4: enemy army. Now, every war has rumors that people are surrendering.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes it's true, sometimes it's not, sometimes it's exaggerated. But

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Speaker 4: there is word coming out of Iran that there have

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Speaker 4: been some problems with some of the non IRGC units.

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Speaker 4: The IRGC is their elite military. They swore allegiance to

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Speaker 4: the new Iatol yesterday and vowed to continue the fight,

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Speaker 4: which is what they're going to say. Of course, what

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Speaker 4: else would they say. But if the IRGC starts breaking

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Speaker 4: down and we start seeing real morale problems, significant morale

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Speaker 4: issues in the IERGC, then the end would be nigh

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Speaker 4: for RN. They put a lot of eggs in that

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Speaker 4: basket and they expect that group, the Revolutionary Guards, to

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Speaker 4: fight to the bitter end, and if there's any sign

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Speaker 4: that they're not willing to keep fighting anymore, then we

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Speaker 4: might be looking at a surrender.

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Speaker 2: Paint the global picture for me. We've toppled the Moduro

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Speaker 2: regime in Venezuela. We effectively have control of it there.

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Speaker 2: Soon in theory we will be able to control the

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Speaker 2: flow of oil through the Strait of Horn moves again.

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Speaker 2: Russia is still a situation obviously with Ukraine, and then

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Speaker 2: there's China. Put all these puzzle pieces together for us,

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Speaker 2: John Well.

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Speaker 4: A lot of this is really bad for China. China

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Speaker 4: is losing a lot of its energy infrastructure. They're super

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Speaker 4: reliant on oil out of the Middle East. About half

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Speaker 4: of their oil and natural gas is currently at risk

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Speaker 4: in the Iran war. They don't want to lose the

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Speaker 4: discounted oil they've been getting from Iran. They would probably

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Speaker 4: survive losing the discounts, but if they lose access to

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Speaker 4: the oil, that's a severe problem for China's economy.

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Speaker 6: They're well aware of it now.

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Speaker 4: They just put out a new five year plan and

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Speaker 4: an estimate in their big political meeting for the year

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Speaker 4: where they only mildly scaled back GDP and they didn't

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Speaker 4: mention Iran at all, and that struck a lot of

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Speaker 4: observers as whistling past the graveyard. They don't want to

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Speaker 4: admit how bad this is for them. Losing Venezuela was

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Speaker 4: bad for them. Everything is coming up against China right now,

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Speaker 4: and President Trump's push to get them out of the

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Speaker 4: Southern Hemisphere being problem for China. They've spent billions of

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Speaker 4: dollars developing influence in the Southern Hemisphere and under the

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Speaker 4: United States, and if Latin America turns decisively against China

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Speaker 4: and unites behind the United States, there goes billions of

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Speaker 4: dollars and years of effort on the part of the

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Speaker 4: Chinese and it's going to make them recalculate their strategy.

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Speaker 4: So is the failure of their military equipment. It's now

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Speaker 4: become almost a joke how badly China's military equipment has

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Speaker 4: performed in Iran's hands. And some of that's that the

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Speaker 4: Iranians maybe aren't as good at using it as Chinese

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Speaker 4: soldiers would be. But I guarantee you there's a lot

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Speaker 4: of military planners at the People's Liberation Army right now

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Speaker 4: that are not liking what they're seeing coming out of

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Speaker 4: this conflict. They didn't expect us to have unchallenged air

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Speaker 4: superiority in two to three days.

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Speaker 2: Is this just a kind of a happy side outcome

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Speaker 2: of striking Iran, that we would weaken Russia and China,

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Speaker 2: that eventually oil prices would drop to degrade Russia's economy

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Speaker 2: as well as China' at the same time. Sort of

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Speaker 2: a happy accident.

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's an accident. Strategy the planners that

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Speaker 4: set this up, there is a strategy. They knew this

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Speaker 4: was going to happen. How could they not. They knew

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Speaker 4: that this would have an impact on China. And China's

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Speaker 4: very muted response. They denounced the war, they called for

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Speaker 4: an end of hostilities. They did some yelling about the

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Speaker 4: United States picking on Iran and so on. But they

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Speaker 4: haven't done anything meaningful ever since the war started, and

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Speaker 4: that tells you the planners that knew how much this

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Speaker 4: was going to harm and rattle China were exactly right.

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Speaker 4: I think this is all a big part of the strategy.

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Speaker 2: And just briefly the UK. Trump tells the UK, we

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Speaker 2: don't want your stupid little battleships. Stay at of it.

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Speaker 2: You're too late to the party. We don't need your help.

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Speaker 2: What about Europe broadly and the way they behave during this.

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Speaker 4: Everything Europe has done has vindicated Trump's opinion of them.

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Speaker 4: I mean, He's been proven right in every respect about

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Speaker 4: their military capabilities, their political allegiances, how much they've fallen

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Speaker 4: under sway to China, how much some of these countries

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Speaker 4: are now nervous about their Muslim populations. They've been effect

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Speaker 4: stively colonized, and that reduces their ability to get involved

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Speaker 4: in a war like this.

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Speaker 6: They're clearly worried.

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Speaker 4: About their domestic populations blowing up. Every single thing that

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Speaker 4: Europe has done since the beginning of Operation Epic Furity

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Speaker 4: has completely vindicated Trump's opinion of them.

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Speaker 2: If you want to be smarter throughout this conflict, John

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Speaker 2: Hayward is who you must read, the National security deputy

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Speaker 2: editor at breitbarton John, Thank you, my friend.

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Speaker 2: I'm asking people the poll question this morning. Okay, we're

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Speaker 2: completely victorious in Iran, but the theocracy stays that is,

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Speaker 2: we take out all of it. We basically nuke them,

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Speaker 2: bomb them, blow them the hell. They have absolutely no

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Speaker 2: weapons left. But the same theocracy is still in charge.

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Speaker 2: Are you okay with that? And so far again unscientific,

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Speaker 2: but those of you saying no, I'm not okay with that.

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Speaker 2: I want new leadership. I don't want the same theocracy back.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how we do that. I'm curious. I

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Speaker 2: guess we hope that we just bomb them into submission

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Speaker 2: and then they change course on their own, because they've

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Speaker 2: said no regime change war, and that is something that

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Speaker 2: I understand most voters who voted for President Trump said

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Speaker 2: they don't want either. There are some that already believe

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Speaker 2: that's what the Trump administration is trying to do. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: I think they've gone to great pains to say that's

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Speaker 2: not what they're trying to do. But they don't want

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Speaker 2: to get backed into a corner committing to anything. Here's

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Speaker 2: Pete Haigsith, the Secretary of War, on sixty minutes last night,

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Speaker 2: give me number eighty nine, if you please, gee love.

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Speaker 8: People.

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Speaker 13: Ask boots on the ground, No boots on the ground.

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01:08:58,479 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 13: Four weeks, two weeks, six weeks, go in, go in.

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Speaker 13: President Trump knows, I know, you don't tell the enemy,

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01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:08,320
Speaker 13: you don't tell the press, you don't tell anybody what

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01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:11,640
Speaker 13: your limits would be on an operation. We're willing to

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Speaker 13: go as far as we need to in order to

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Speaker 13: be successful.

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Speaker 2: So that's that I do wish, And I'll just say

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Speaker 2: this and then I'll move on. I do wish for

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01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:27,080
Speaker 2: less Lindsey Graham, fast Eddie. I could do without Lindsey

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Speaker 2: Graham forever. I whether you know you people in South

1298
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:33,800
Speaker 2: Carolina will deal with him, and you continue to reelect him,

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Speaker 2: and whatever I don't, whatever I suppose it's like eighty

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01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:39,800
Speaker 2: percent of the time he's fine. But I just it's

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01:09:39,880 --> 01:09:42,240
Speaker 2: times like this less Lindsay. You know, it's you know,

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01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:45,960
Speaker 2: more cow bell, less Lindsey. Okay, less Lindsey. I agree, man,

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01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:47,040
Speaker 2: is this helping anything?

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01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:49,280
Speaker 3: He needs to be They need to shut him down.

1305
01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:50,960
Speaker 3: Trump needs to be like, buddy, do you want my

1306
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:53,720
Speaker 3: endorsement stayed in the sidelines during this?

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01:09:53,800 --> 01:10:01,559
Speaker 2: Yeah? Number eighty four. Just enough enough, Lindsey Graham. We're

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01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 2: going to blow the hell out of these people.

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01:10:03,800 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 11: This regime is in a death row now, it is

1310
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 11: going to be on its knees. It's going to fall,

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01:10:10,479 --> 01:10:12,720
Speaker 11: and when it falls, we're going to have peace like

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01:10:13,200 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 11: no other time. We're going to have prosperity, unlike anyone

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Speaker 11: could ever imagine.

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Speaker 2: Peace springs prosperity.

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Speaker 11: You can't do it by talking to Democrats criticize this operation.

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01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:25,840
Speaker 11: They didn't do it thing. These men and women in

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01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:27,759
Speaker 11: the military should make us all proud.

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Speaker 2: Bruce from Family Guy, I don't want to hear him

1319
01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:36,240
Speaker 2: talking about anybody on their knees either while we're at it.

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Speaker 2: But you know what I'm saying, let's just that's enough enough.

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Speaker 2: Just please take a seat, Just go have a seat

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Speaker 2: and we'll be with you when our affairs are in order.

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Speaker 2: I just that doesn't help anything. I agree now, Look,

1324
01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 2: I sell them. You'll seldom hear me say this. But

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Speaker 2: Megan McCain said something on social media over the weekend.

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01:10:55,160 --> 01:10:57,639
Speaker 2: She said, this guy's been my dad's best friend forever.

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Speaker 2: He's been a family friend since I was a toddler,

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01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:03,720
Speaker 2: so I know him a lot and he's dear to

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01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:07,439
Speaker 2: my family. But she too said, shut up, Lindsey, you're

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01:11:07,439 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 2: scaring the hell out of people. Stop talking now. If

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Speaker 2: Megan McCain says that about Lindsey Graham, fast Eddie, what

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01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:15,559
Speaker 2: does that tell you now?

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is the guy in the twenty sixteen

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01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 3: remember when the stage was massive before Trump pulled away.

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01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:23,640
Speaker 3: This is the guy that said, well, we need to

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01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 3: send troops to Iran or Syria, just said why why

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Speaker 3: are we sending trips to I mean, he's he if

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Speaker 3: there's a war, he wants it now. He wants to

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01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:35,320
Speaker 3: attack China right now because they might bay Taiwan.

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01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:38,880
Speaker 2: It is true about him. He has never seen a war.

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01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 2: He doesn't want to go hard charging into never all right,

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01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:45,920
Speaker 2: eight five five STI golf. Meanwhile, the Democrats are not

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01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:49,599
Speaker 2: having it any better. I mean, there may be some

1344
01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:53,719
Speaker 2: rancor and defections and fighting and fighting on social media.

1345
01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:56,719
Speaker 2: I get it. But don't you doubt for a second

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01:11:56,760 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 2: that all's well and happy among Democrats. So Jesse Jackson's

1347
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 2: big funeral was this weekend, heading into the weekend, and

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01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:09,120
Speaker 2: Obama showed up, and Biden showed up, and Clinton showed up,

1349
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:14,679
Speaker 2: and they all took shots at Donald Trump. Cackle Bridges

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01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:17,960
Speaker 2: did too, the fake vice president. I'm not even sure

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01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:19,800
Speaker 2: what this means. Number seventy nine, give this to me.

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01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:21,880
Speaker 2: Here's a little boy. If you missed him, here's the husk,

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01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:25,960
Speaker 2: the pretend immediate past president Joe Biden. Number seven.

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Speaker 7: I told you all earlier when I was a kid,

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01:12:28,360 --> 01:12:31,759
Speaker 7: I had a cleft palate or club foot. Note evenld

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01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:36,280
Speaker 7: have laughed, but it's okay to laugh. As tutterant. I'm

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01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 7: not being critical of here, but think about it. It's

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01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:43,080
Speaker 7: the one place for people think you're stupid. Oh really,

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01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:45,400
Speaker 7: I'm a hell a lot smarter most of me.

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Speaker 2: Did you miss him? So anyway, these three guys show up,

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01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 2: and Kamala Harrison, they take the opportunity to do whatever

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01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 2: the hell it is they do. Jesse Jackson Junior didn't

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01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:12,360
Speaker 2: much care for it. He'd seen all he needed to see.

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Speaker 2: In number eighty, I listened for several hours of.

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Speaker 12: Three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson.

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Speaker 12: He maintained a tense relationship with the political order, not

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Speaker 12: because the presidents were white or black, but the demands

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01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:43,800
Speaker 12: of our message, the demands of speaking for the least

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01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:48,920
Speaker 12: of these, those who were disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed,

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Speaker 12: the disrespected, demanded not democratic or Republican solutions, but demanded

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01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:06,200
Speaker 12: a consistent, prophetic voice that at no point in time

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01:14:06,439 --> 01:14:12,320
Speaker 12: ever sold us out as a people. And it speaks

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01:14:12,400 --> 01:14:15,840
Speaker 12: volumes about who the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

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Speaker 1: Was.

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Speaker 2: Oh my, may I translate that for you. All of

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01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:30,639
Speaker 2: those presidents and that pretend vice president and president who

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Speaker 2: spoke at my father's funeral were sellouts. My dad was

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01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:40,160
Speaker 2: the genuine article. They were sellouts, and they turned their

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01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:42,200
Speaker 2: back on my dad's cause, and they didn't even know

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01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 2: who he was, and they wore and dany what you

1381
01:14:44,160 --> 01:14:45,760
Speaker 2: go back and read some of the stories I was

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01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:49,880
Speaker 2: reminding myself this weekend. Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama specifically

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01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:53,519
Speaker 2: were not friends fast Eddie. There just to be very

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01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:57,080
Speaker 2: very clear, Jesse Jackson did not care even a little

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01:14:57,120 --> 01:15:00,000
Speaker 2: bit for the one his holiness piece be upon him,

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01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:03,679
Speaker 2: Barack Hussein Obama. They did not get along, and Jesse

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01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:07,800
Speaker 2: Jackson had consistently been shoved out and was kept on

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01:15:07,800 --> 01:15:11,240
Speaker 2: the outside of the White House almost every time any

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Speaker 2: of those people that we just mentioned took a position

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01:15:14,720 --> 01:15:17,400
Speaker 2: of power in the White House, Jesse Jackson was left outside.

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Speaker 2: And so I think the sun was reminding everybody there,

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01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:22,040
Speaker 2: all right, you can show up and speak, but you

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01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:24,720
Speaker 2: didn't know my dad, pretty damn it. I mean.

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Speaker 3: For as for as radical as the referend Jesse Jackson was,

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01:15:29,280 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 3: I don't think he hated the country the way that

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01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 3: Obama did. I don't think that the theological teachings that

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01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:39,240
Speaker 3: Barack Obama came up with were quite the same as

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01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:42,120
Speaker 3: what the Reverend Jesse Jackson was preaching.

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Speaker 11: You know.

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01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:48,840
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, over at Axios, Ken Martin's dysfunctional DNC alarms Democrats.

1401
01:15:48,880 --> 01:15:53,240
Speaker 2: Democrat National Committee chair Ken Martin facing a growing crisis

1402
01:15:53,280 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 2: of confidence within his party donors' operatives, and some DNC

1403
01:15:57,400 --> 01:16:01,880
Speaker 2: members are questioning his leadership's dysfunction likely won't affect this

1404
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:05,080
Speaker 2: year's midterms. Democrats have overperformed in recent elections, but it

1405
01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:07,639
Speaker 2: could have huge consequences for the party's ability to meet

1406
01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:10,000
Speaker 2: the challenges in the twenty twenty eight race. We'll see.

1407
01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:12,599
Speaker 2: They keep telling themselves, OD, it's a lock, this fall

1408
01:16:12,680 --> 01:16:15,160
Speaker 2: is a lock. That's fine, we'll win just because we

1409
01:16:15,240 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 2: show up. But this Ken Martin guy is a problem

1410
01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:20,599
Speaker 2: long haul. If they're already chirping about him, if there's

1411
01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:23,280
Speaker 2: already this kind of dissension, they're like the Ayatola over

1412
01:16:23,280 --> 01:16:30,400
Speaker 2: there not showing up for work. They're and then over

1413
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:34,320
Speaker 2: at Bill Maher's show, Adam Schiff and Don Lemon show up,

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01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:38,600
Speaker 2: give me number eighty two, and Bill Maher traps the

1415
01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:43,360
Speaker 2: shifty senator from California with some interesting history. Listen to

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01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:44,160
Speaker 2: this number eighty two.

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01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:47,920
Speaker 14: And the president had the constitutional authority to direct the

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01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:51,400
Speaker 14: use of military force because he could reasonably determine that

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01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:54,160
Speaker 14: such use of force was in the national interest. That's

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01:16:54,240 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 14: too vague for you. Totally vague, okay, because that's from

1421
01:16:57,960 --> 01:17:00,120
Speaker 14: Obama about Libya.

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01:17:00,160 --> 01:17:03,960
Speaker 15: Well, Obama made the argument initially that he could go

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01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:07,679
Speaker 15: into Syria without an authorisation. I and many others pushed back.

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01:17:07,520 --> 01:17:08,200
Speaker 2: On that argument.

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01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:12,439
Speaker 15: Ultimately, he did not go forward with going after Assad

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01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 15: even though Aside was gassing his own people because he

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01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 15: thought he might lose the vote in Congress.

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01:17:18,680 --> 01:17:21,799
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the red line that Obama said we wouldn't

1429
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 2: allow crossed, he gased his own people. He crossed the line,

1430
01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:29,320
Speaker 2: and Obama did nothing. Then there's Don Lemon number eighty three.

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01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:35,200
Speaker 14: What is you think of the trap that Trump laid

1432
01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:38,760
Speaker 14: in the State of the Union address where he just

1433
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:40,920
Speaker 14: to show the type there, because I think it's self

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01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:42,160
Speaker 14: explabatory what he did.

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01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:46,320
Speaker 16: If you agree with his statement, then stand up and

1436
01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:51,360
Speaker 16: show your support. The first duty of the American government

1437
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:54,920
Speaker 16: is to protect American citizens, not illegal areas.

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01:17:56,400 --> 01:17:59,960
Speaker 14: And the Democrats didn't stand. I mean, obviously it's a

1439
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:03,679
Speaker 14: it's a deliberate trap because you know they always played

1440
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:06,960
Speaker 14: these games. If Simon says they're at the State of

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01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:09,160
Speaker 14: the Union, well I thank you, and I agree on

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01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:11,560
Speaker 14: this is all performative, I know, but it's going to

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01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:14,599
Speaker 14: look bad in campaign ad. I don't think anyone's going

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01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:17,880
Speaker 14: to remember that come campaign and put.

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Speaker 2: It all right. Well, let's I'll take that bet, don Lemon.

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01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:24,800
Speaker 2: Nobody's going to remember that, just like nobody's going to

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01:18:24,840 --> 01:18:28,800
Speaker 2: remember you storming into a church service. Two moments in

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01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:31,800
Speaker 2: history that I guarantee, and if I have to personally

1449
01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:35,120
Speaker 2: donate my money to make sure they end up in ads,

1450
01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:37,960
Speaker 2: those two moments will end up in ads this fall.

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01:18:38,120 --> 01:18:40,920
Speaker 2: Great to be with you from the Relief Factor Studios,

1452
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 2: looking at AM nine to seventy country there in Manhattan.

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Speaker 2: Society coming out today, going to talk about not just

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Speaker 2: the bigoted mayor but also his very bigoted wife. Sure

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01:19:26,080 --> 01:19:29,120
Speaker 2: about the new first Lady of New York. Speaking of Manhattan,

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01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 2: there guys. Wow, am I getting to that in a

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01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:35,720
Speaker 2: little bit with Aaron McGuire. The unicorn of the Democrats

1469
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 2: continues to be John Fetterman, who joined Kaylee mckinenny over

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01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:43,640
Speaker 2: the weekend talking about his support of Markwayne Mullen, his

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Speaker 2: fellow senator from Oklahoma. Of course, Fetterman senator from Pennsylvania,

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01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 2: but he says, I like Mark Wayne Mullen, and I

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01:19:51,960 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 2: totally support the guy to be the next Department of

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01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:58,320
Speaker 2: Homeland Security secretary. In number eighty seven, I was the.

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Speaker 17: Only Democrat that joined on that mission to Turks and

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01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:05,960
Speaker 17: Cagos to help save those Americans being being locked up

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01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 17: in prison because they had a couple of random bullets

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01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:12,680
Speaker 17: in there as accidentally. So I mean, he's a good dude,

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01:20:12,840 --> 01:20:16,480
Speaker 17: and I know it's a significant upgrade, and I'm absolutely

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01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:20,920
Speaker 17: going to vote for him.

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01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:23,120
Speaker 2: And just you know, back to this Bill Mark conversation

1482
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:26,840
Speaker 2: with Don Lemon and Adam Schiff, John Fetterman gets it.

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01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:30,400
Speaker 2: This has got to be about more. Democrats have got

1484
01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:32,600
Speaker 2: to have a better message than just f Trump and

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01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:35,679
Speaker 2: obstruct from Trump at all. TNS give me number eighty

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Speaker 2: one here.

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Speaker 15: You have to find a way to do both stand

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01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:46,280
Speaker 15: up to Trump and also deliver from stand up.

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01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 14: But I mean, don't you think after ten years it's

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01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:50,960
Speaker 14: just a little I mean, it's a bit of an

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01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:53,360
Speaker 14: eye roll. Well, when people see that, they just think

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Speaker 14: that's all you got, That's all you Democrats have is Trump,

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Speaker 14: and we're looking for something different. It seems like Tylery

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Speaker 14: is making this case, and I think the fact that

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Speaker 14: he won in Texas, I think says a lot.

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Speaker 2: There's a Washington Post story today headline US was only

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Speaker 2: country in worldwide survey to say most fellow citizens are

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Speaker 2: bad people, not the survey of adults. But I don't

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Speaker 2: think it should come as a big surprise that fifty

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Speaker 2: three percent of American adults described the morality and ethics

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Speaker 2: of their fellow citizens as bad, somewhat bad, are very bad.

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Speaker 2: Twenty four other countries polled in the Pew Research Center polling,

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Speaker 2: most people said other residents there are somewhat good or good.

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Speaker 2: Pew found that ninety two percent of people say they're

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01:21:45,960 --> 01:21:48,960
Speaker 2: fellow Canadians, for instance, are good, while just seven percent

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01:21:49,080 --> 01:21:52,920
Speaker 2: say they're bad. Americans tend to think broadly that most

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Speaker 2: other people are worse than they themselves are, said a

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Speaker 2: sociologist who conducted the poll. Pew has never asked this

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01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:03,799
Speaker 2: specific question, so there is no data over time. However,

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Speaker 2: more than half of the country's surveyed showy partisan bias,

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Speaker 2: meaning people whose preferred political parties out of power are

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Speaker 2: particularly likely to view their federal citizen as immoral. Well,

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Speaker 2: you hear it all the time. Those of us who

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Speaker 2: vote for Donald Trump are bad people. I mean, look,

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01:22:19,760 --> 01:22:23,479
Speaker 2: it's by design. The Democrat Party is built on the

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Speaker 2: idea that if you oppose them, you are bad. You're immoral,

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01:22:26,760 --> 01:22:30,920
Speaker 2: you're rotten, you're illegal, you're corrupt. That's what they're running on.

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Speaker 2: Bill Maher said, can't you do better than that? No,

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01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:37,680
Speaker 2: they're wired that way. That's all they've got. That's what

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Speaker 2: they believe will lead them to victory. More a minute.

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Speaker 2: That's good to see some sun. Most of the week

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Speaker 2: last week was unsettled in gray and cloudy at least

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Speaker 2: out east, and really unsettled. Well, there were some wicked

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Speaker 2: tornadoes up in Michigan. It was a weird stretch of

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01:22:58,680 --> 01:23:01,200
Speaker 2: weather last week. But any way, nice and sunny start today,

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Speaker 2: at least in Buffalo, New York. As we look at

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Speaker 2: one of our city cams, there in Buffalo eight five

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Speaker 2: five Stagall is how you reach me today. Follow along

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Speaker 2: C H R I, S S T I G A

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Speaker 2: L L. That's my handle on all of them, or

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Speaker 2: you can go to Christigall dot com and thanks for

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Speaker 2: watching and or listening to the show via the Salem

1534
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Speaker 2: podcast later today if you'd like. Subscribe to that at

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Speaker 2: Apple or Spotify. There's lots of ways to get to

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Speaker 2: the show. We'd love to have your board. However you

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01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:41,439
Speaker 2: get here. We turn to our friend Erin McGuire every Monday.

1539
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:44,160
Speaker 2: She gives us a little insight into the world of politics.

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01:23:44,160 --> 01:23:47,000
Speaker 2: We call it Mondays with McGuire. She's a Republican strategist Aarin,

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: Good morning Chris, Happy Monday, and to you.

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Speaker 2: This is a complex time I suppose for those of

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01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:59,639
Speaker 2: you in the game of politics trying to message. Because

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01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 2: I see this NBC poll. We talked about it earlier.

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01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:06,000
Speaker 2: I know the conventional wisdom. We all understand the party

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01:24:06,040 --> 01:24:09,960
Speaker 2: in power midterms, that party always loses. But the Democrats

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01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:14,240
Speaker 2: are so unpopular, Aaron, I don't know if historically, while

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Speaker 2: history is not on the Republican side, I don't know

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Speaker 2: if history has ever been as unkind Democrats as it

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Speaker 2: is right now.

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Speaker 1: True, that's very true.

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01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:26,519
Speaker 18: The Democrat brand is completely broken and untrusted by the

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01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:29,519
Speaker 18: American people. But that doesn't make the headwinds any less

1555
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:33,520
Speaker 18: for Republicans going into this cycle, especially with the redistricting

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01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:37,200
Speaker 18: fights we saw across the country, especially those redistricting fights

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01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:39,800
Speaker 18: in those majority maker states. Chris, I know you and

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01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:42,880
Speaker 18: I have talked about this at length California.

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Speaker 1: And New York.

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Speaker 18: The good news is in New York, the Supreme Court

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01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:49,880
Speaker 18: stepped in and protected Nicole Mallyatacus's seat on Long Island,

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01:24:49,920 --> 01:24:52,439
Speaker 18: that Brooklyn Long Island neighborhood that really is the only

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01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 18: Republican that represents anything really within Manhattan itself or within

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Speaker 18: I'm sorry, within New York City.

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Speaker 1: Itself to protect that seat.

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Speaker 18: It's the same thing out in California where that redistricting

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01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:06,679
Speaker 18: effort has really taken away, and when we're sitting at

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01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:09,680
Speaker 18: a one seat majority right now in the House, Man,

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01:25:09,760 --> 01:25:12,080
Speaker 18: those are tough headwinds ahead for Republicans.

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Speaker 2: So the Senate, I just want to be really clear.

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Speaker 2: Are you talking specifically about the House or the Senate too,

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01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:22,760
Speaker 2: because I've heard some on the left very optimistic that

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01:25:22,840 --> 01:25:26,080
Speaker 2: now even the Senate may fall. That would be really

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Speaker 2: cataclysmic if so.

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Speaker 18: Right, Yeah, when you're talking about those majority maker seats,

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01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:33,799
Speaker 18: that's the House specifically, but the Senate map has become

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01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:38,160
Speaker 18: more competitive. North Carolina is a Senate seat that Democrats

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01:25:38,200 --> 01:25:40,559
Speaker 18: are going to be putting a lot of money into.

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01:25:41,040 --> 01:25:45,080
Speaker 18: James Tallerico in Texas, whoever comes out of that primary

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Speaker 18: on the Republican side, you better believe and I still

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01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:50,040
Speaker 18: believe that Texas is the big blue fever dream.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that that Senate seats.

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Speaker 18: About to flip this cycle, but there's going to be

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Speaker 18: a lot of resources put into that race. Ohio, You're

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01:25:57,040 --> 01:25:59,080
Speaker 18: going to see a lot of money. Georgia, You're going

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01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:02,280
Speaker 18: to see a lot of money. Democrats see that. They

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Speaker 18: see an opportunity because of the history that you find

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Speaker 18: in these election years with the party in power in

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Speaker 18: the White House and who holds the House in the Senate,

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01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:14,719
Speaker 18: they see themselves getting a more competitive map right now,

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01:26:14,920 --> 01:26:16,720
Speaker 18: and that's going to take a lot of money for

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01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:18,679
Speaker 18: them to try to flip these seats, but they feel

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01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:19,960
Speaker 18: very confident about it.

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Speaker 2: On that Texas Senate primary. Just briefly, I thought it

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01:26:27,840 --> 01:26:31,320
Speaker 2: interesting last week that we saw Ken Paxton say all right,

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Speaker 2: I'll drop out, I'll drop out right now if the

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Speaker 2: Save Act passes the Senate, to which Cornan felt, I

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01:26:38,200 --> 01:26:40,599
Speaker 2: guess compelled and came out this weekend and said, oh,

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01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:44,120
Speaker 2: I'm all for the Save Act. So it's kind of interesting.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is really Trump just said on social

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01:26:46,520 --> 01:26:49,360
Speaker 2: media this weekend. I am not signing another piece of legislation.

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01:26:49,479 --> 01:26:51,599
Speaker 2: I don't care how big or small it is until

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01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:54,160
Speaker 2: the Save Act happens. So what is the status of

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01:26:54,200 --> 01:26:56,480
Speaker 2: the Save Act for you at this hour? For the Republicans,

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01:26:56,479 --> 01:26:58,960
Speaker 2: and how critical is it that they get it passed.

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Speaker 18: It's hugely critical that they get it passed. And for

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Speaker 18: Attorney General Paxton, I mean, what an offer to make

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Speaker 18: to lay your political career on the line for the

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01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:12,160
Speaker 18: betterment of election integrity in the country. I mean, I

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01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:14,639
Speaker 18: don't know many people in politics who would make such

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01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:17,840
Speaker 18: an offer of themselves in such an instance.

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Speaker 1: But he has. And you're hearing more movement on.

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Speaker 18: The Senate side about this, right the talking filibuster. The

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Speaker 18: Senate's very good at kind of bending its own rules

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01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:28,640
Speaker 18: and using them in a way so that you can

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01:27:28,680 --> 01:27:31,599
Speaker 18: have a filibuster without the work that actually goes into it.

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Speaker 18: Plenty of you know, people who have watched politics over

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01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:37,360
Speaker 18: the year, remember mister Smith goes to Washington, Right, that's

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01:27:37,400 --> 01:27:40,519
Speaker 18: the talking philibuster having to stay down there. Ted Cruz

1620
01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:43,840
Speaker 18: on the Senate floor previously reading Green Eggs and ham right,

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01:27:43,920 --> 01:27:45,880
Speaker 18: we know what a talking philibuster looks like.

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01:27:46,200 --> 01:27:47,360
Speaker 1: Having to force that.

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Speaker 18: The political reality of that talking philibuster is, yeah, you're

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01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:53,320
Speaker 18: going to give Democrats the floor and Republicans are going

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01:27:53,400 --> 01:27:56,200
Speaker 18: to have to take a lot of really tough votes.

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01:27:56,439 --> 01:27:59,040
Speaker 18: But if that is the price to pay, are some

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01:27:59,200 --> 01:28:01,679
Speaker 18: tough votes that we're then going to have to move

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01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:05,959
Speaker 18: forward from to protect election integrity in this country, That's

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01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:08,479
Speaker 18: exactly what needs to be done. If Democrats want to

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01:28:08,479 --> 01:28:12,360
Speaker 18: fill abuster, putting measures in to make sure that not

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01:28:12,439 --> 01:28:15,960
Speaker 18: only US citizens vote, but people who can verify that

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01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:18,120
Speaker 18: they are who they are and they are US citizens.

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01:28:18,320 --> 01:28:21,800
Speaker 18: Over eighty percent of the American people support this, then

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01:28:21,840 --> 01:28:23,840
Speaker 18: that's what needs to be done. And I think full

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01:28:23,880 --> 01:28:26,320
Speaker 18: steam ahead on that. That is what's going to get

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01:28:26,320 --> 01:28:27,559
Speaker 18: everything else moving forward?

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01:28:27,800 --> 01:28:32,360
Speaker 2: Let's go boys, I asked fast Eddy off the top

1638
01:28:32,400 --> 01:28:34,320
Speaker 2: of the show today, and I am curious about this.

1639
01:28:34,560 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 2: If airports start to stack up. We saw in Houston massive,

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01:28:38,479 --> 01:28:42,800
Speaker 2: massive delays this weekend, we're technically in a government shutdown,

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01:28:43,040 --> 01:28:45,760
Speaker 2: which I think most people have forgotten. We've heard from

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01:28:45,760 --> 01:28:47,960
Speaker 2: some coast guard communities who say, well, we're feeling it

1643
01:28:47,960 --> 01:28:50,280
Speaker 2: because they're not getting paid. So I'm mindful of that.

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01:28:50,320 --> 01:28:51,920
Speaker 2: I don't mean to sound dismissive, but I don't think

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01:28:51,920 --> 01:28:54,160
Speaker 2: most Americans have really felt it. But if you start

1646
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:57,519
Speaker 2: feeling it at the airport, Aaron, what's the likelihood that

1647
01:28:57,560 --> 01:28:59,519
Speaker 2: Democrats all of a sudden decide this needs to come

1648
01:28:59,560 --> 01:29:01,120
Speaker 2: to an end or I hear talk that maybe they're

1649
01:29:01,160 --> 01:29:04,040
Speaker 2: trying to carve out funding for the TSA and nothing else.

1650
01:29:04,880 --> 01:29:07,559
Speaker 2: Should Republicans hold on this thing, because if people start

1651
01:29:07,560 --> 01:29:11,320
Speaker 2: getting massively inconvenienced on flights, then you could start to

1652
01:29:11,360 --> 01:29:12,759
Speaker 2: hear some real political noise.

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01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:16,680
Speaker 18: Yeah, Republicans shouldn't allow any carve out whatsoever when it

1654
01:29:16,720 --> 01:29:19,599
Speaker 18: comes to DHS funding for a number of reasons. Just

1655
01:29:19,640 --> 01:29:22,880
Speaker 18: this weekend, there were two attempted bombing attacks outside Gracie

1656
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:26,920
Speaker 18: Manor in Manhattan, where Mayors Zoran Mondami and his wife lives.

1657
01:29:27,240 --> 01:29:30,120
Speaker 18: That kind of political violence needs to work in hand

1658
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:33,439
Speaker 18: with DHS to be combated, and so making little carve

1659
01:29:33,479 --> 01:29:36,240
Speaker 18: outs to try and make things slightly easier and less

1660
01:29:36,240 --> 01:29:40,080
Speaker 18: politically worrisome for the Democrats, like allowing for the TSA

1661
01:29:40,200 --> 01:29:43,200
Speaker 18: funding to go through but still block Coastguard and the

1662
01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:47,080
Speaker 18: other measures that doesn't make sense. Democrats are the ones who,

1663
01:29:47,120 --> 01:29:50,519
Speaker 18: yet again have taken a political hostage that is going

1664
01:29:50,560 --> 01:29:53,519
Speaker 18: to hurt the American people. It is not hurting anybody

1665
01:29:53,560 --> 01:29:55,360
Speaker 18: else other than the traveling public.

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01:29:55,400 --> 01:29:56,800
Speaker 1: Right now, it's spring break time.

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01:29:57,000 --> 01:30:00,000
Speaker 18: There are families trying to enjoy their lives, spend money,

1668
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:02,439
Speaker 18: keep our economy moving, and Democrats are saying, We're going

1669
01:30:02,479 --> 01:30:04,200
Speaker 18: to make it that much tougher for you to do.

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01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:04,439
Speaker 2: So.

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01:30:04,760 --> 01:30:08,719
Speaker 18: We have active terrorist threats in the United States right now,

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01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:12,160
Speaker 18: we saw it this weekend, and what are they saying, No,

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01:30:12,280 --> 01:30:15,320
Speaker 18: thank you. Democrats are saying, let's make America less safe

1674
01:30:15,520 --> 01:30:18,559
Speaker 18: because we want to play political games. ICE is already funded,

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01:30:19,040 --> 01:30:21,040
Speaker 18: So for them to say they're doing this for anything

1676
01:30:21,040 --> 01:30:23,880
Speaker 18: other than political reasons is pure posturing and noise.

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01:30:24,240 --> 01:30:25,599
Speaker 1: And so no carve outs.

1678
01:30:25,800 --> 01:30:28,720
Speaker 18: They either pass DHS or they continue to hurt the

1679
01:30:28,760 --> 01:30:32,000
Speaker 18: American people, but under no circumstances. And the good news

1680
01:30:32,040 --> 01:30:34,680
Speaker 18: about Senator Mark Wayne Mullin coming forward as the new

1681
01:30:34,720 --> 01:30:35,839
Speaker 18: replacement over.

1682
01:30:35,680 --> 01:30:39,120
Speaker 1: There is he knows these senators, he knows these members.

1683
01:30:39,280 --> 01:30:41,960
Speaker 18: He can offer the guarantees and assurances of what his

1684
01:30:42,080 --> 01:30:46,760
Speaker 18: leadership will look like at DHS to hopefully break this logjam.

1685
01:30:47,680 --> 01:30:52,240
Speaker 2: Aaron McGuire mondays with McGuire here, she's a fantastic Republican strategist.

1686
01:30:52,320 --> 01:30:55,799
Speaker 2: Let's talk he Ron. The president says, listen, gas prices

1687
01:30:55,840 --> 01:30:58,639
Speaker 2: are going to spike little small price to pay for

1688
01:30:58,680 --> 01:31:01,240
Speaker 2: the outcome that ultimately we will achieve, and they will

1689
01:31:01,240 --> 01:31:04,400
Speaker 2: come down quickly. The Energy Secretary out this weekend saying

1690
01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:06,599
Speaker 2: they'll come down quickly. It's not a supply issue, it's

1691
01:31:06,640 --> 01:31:10,800
Speaker 2: just getting the straight Orford moves open again. Where does

1692
01:31:10,880 --> 01:31:13,320
Speaker 2: this land on the ears of people? Politically? If you're

1693
01:31:13,360 --> 01:31:16,840
Speaker 2: on social media, you think even Trump's basis turned on him.

1694
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:19,120
Speaker 2: That's what you read on social media, But the polls

1695
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:21,559
Speaker 2: don't suggest that. So so what do you know about it?

1696
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:25,479
Speaker 18: Yeah, the MAGA base and the Republican base remains firmly

1697
01:31:25,520 --> 01:31:28,960
Speaker 18: with President Trump, and rising costs and rising prices are

1698
01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:32,960
Speaker 18: going to hit Republicans and the President. We're running on affordability,

1699
01:31:33,120 --> 01:31:36,360
Speaker 18: we're running on lowering taxes, We're running on a stronger economy.

1700
01:31:36,400 --> 01:31:39,880
Speaker 18: So anytime, even short term, when prices come up, the

1701
01:31:39,880 --> 01:31:42,680
Speaker 18: American people feel that, and they're going to blame the

1702
01:31:42,720 --> 01:31:45,320
Speaker 18: party and people in power. I know that the White

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Speaker 18: House has had the Secretary, the Energy Secretary out and

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Speaker 18: the President. Now they need to be having a full

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Speaker 18: throated at conversation right now with the American people about

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Speaker 18: other extraordinary measures that can be taken. And I'm not

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Speaker 18: talking playing the Joe Biden tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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Speaker 18: to try to artificially bring down costs. But this is

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Speaker 18: an administration that has led on energy dominance and independence.

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Speaker 18: Now is the time to lean into that messaging and

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Speaker 18: success to talk about the leavers and opportunity to bring

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Speaker 18: down costs here in the United States with our own

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Speaker 18: resources and opportunity. The President needs to be out there,

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Speaker 18: full throat and yes, while costs go up, we have

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Speaker 18: to acknowledge that reality as well, that this is the

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Speaker 18: reality of the change that's going on. But let's also

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Speaker 18: talk about the military action that could be being taken

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Speaker 18: right now to open the Strait of Horror moves. What

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Speaker 18: are we doing with our friends and allies, and why

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Speaker 18: is Aron.

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Speaker 1: Holding this hostage so much? Really, only one vessel has

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Speaker 1: been able to get.

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Speaker 18: Through right now, and it has corn on it, and

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Speaker 18: so until that opens back up, this is where it's

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Speaker 18: kind of a multi messaging thing at the same time.

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Speaker 18: This is where the cabinet comes together and you deploy

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Speaker 18: people so the American people know not only are you

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Speaker 18: on top of it, you're addressing it, but you're going

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Speaker 18: to make sure that moving forward, costs can continue to

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Speaker 18: come down so that when we come out of this,

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Speaker 18: what do you know, it'll be even lower than it

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Speaker 18: was before for the price of gas.

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Speaker 2: It is hard to ask in twenty seconds, but what

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Speaker 2: does political victory look like to you? Messaging wise?

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Speaker 18: Were iron Yeah, political victory means the price that the

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Speaker 18: Strait of Horror moves has opened almost immediately, and that

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Speaker 18: you see those vessels moving again and the cost of

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Speaker 18: gas only spikes just a couple of days and comes

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Speaker 18: plummeting right back down. That's how you're going to win

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Speaker 18: this politically, is keeping those Costslow.

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Speaker 2: She's Eric maguire. We lean on her every Monday for

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Speaker 2: her political acumen. In mondays with McGuire. Thank you, Erin,

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Speaker 2: have a great week ahead, you two.

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Speaker 1: Thanks. Chris.

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Speaker 2: Erin and I were kind of talking about it this weekend.

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Speaker 2: There was a guy named Jake Lang. I don't know him.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who he is. I don't know what

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Speaker 2: it was exactly that he was leading, but it was

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Speaker 2: some kind of protest against the Islamification of the country

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Speaker 2: in front of the Mayor's house. Mad Manny Zoran Mam

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Speaker 2: Donnie the Islamist. So this guy, Jake Lang, brought a

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Speaker 2: bunch of protesters to protest in front of the Mayor's house,

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Speaker 2: a peaceful protest, as I understand, until during that protest,

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Speaker 2: an actual improvised explosive device and IED was thrown at

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Speaker 2: these demonstrators outside the Mayor's house what's known as Gracie Mansion.

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Speaker 2: Not thrown at the mayor, mind you. It was thrown

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Speaker 2: into the protesters who were the protesters. They were there

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Speaker 2: to protest the Islamification of the country, and there were

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Speaker 2: a lot of police and bystanders nearby, and that should

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Speaker 2: be the focus of the outrage, But instead, what does

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Speaker 2: the mayor do? Well, he used the moment to do

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Speaker 2: what he keeps doing over and over again. His wife too.

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Speaker 2: They're both radical Islamists, They're committed to the cause. So

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Speaker 2: he redirects attention away from the most dangerous fact and

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Speaker 2: back toward the political narrative that he prefers. Yeah, he

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Speaker 2: called the attack criminal and reprehensible and all that, but

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Speaker 2: the sharpest rhetorical fire was still trained on the anti

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Speaker 2: Islamist protest organizer and the protest itself, which of course

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Speaker 2: he called islamophobic. Now that's not clarity, it's calculated misdirection.

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Speaker 2: A bomb was thrown at demonstrators, and the mayor still

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Speaker 2: tried to make the bigger story, the ideology that he

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01:35:20,520 --> 01:35:26,880
Speaker 2: wants condemned. That's not balance, that's certainly not moral leadership.

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Speaker 2: That is agenda driving deception. New Yorkers have to reject

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Speaker 2: bigotry in all its forms, of course, but they can

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Speaker 2: also recognize that the defining outrage of the day was

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Speaker 2: the explosive violence. A mayor's first duty is to make

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Speaker 2: that plane, and Mamdani did the opposite. He blurred the

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Speaker 2: central danger and reframed the event in a way that

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Speaker 2: was more useful to his politics. And that's why this

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Speaker 2: matters by itself. One statement might be dismissed as clumsy

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Speaker 2: or in artful or something, but this was not an

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Speaker 2: isolated slip. This fits the larger pattern by Mamdani selective outrage,

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Speaker 2: selective language, selective moral clarity, always blending and trucking in

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Speaker 2: that same ideological stew pattern. Recognition is not prejudice, folks,

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Speaker 2: it's survival. And we notice a pattern with Islamists like

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Speaker 2: Mandami when the same distortions keep appearing on Israel on

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Speaker 2: statements like globalize the Intifada around his wife's conduct, which

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Speaker 2: I write about more at the rumf Society today. Reprehensible stuff.

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Speaker 2: And now after a real bomb was thrown into a crowd,

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Speaker 2: New Yorkers should stop pretending that they're looking at a

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Speaker 2: mayor who's just not always artful with his words. They're

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Speaker 2: looking at a man who uses his words to mislead

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Speaker 2: and a mayor who obscures danger in service of an

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Speaker 2: agenda that's not protecting the city. He is deliberately making

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Speaker 2: New York less safe. I have more to say about

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