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Speaker 2: on a Monday morning after what can only be described

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Speaker 2: as a stunning weekend for many different reasons, in both

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Speaker 2: the positive and the negative. It's war we're talking about here, folks,

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Speaker 2: so you never want to take it lightly. You never

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Speaker 2: want to be to flip about it. As we're talking

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Speaker 2: about lives lost, three that we know of so far,

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Speaker 2: and this morning, as this effort is underway, it appears

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Speaker 2: least that's what Kuwaiti News is reporting right now. We

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Speaker 2: many many outlets. But I do want to start by

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Speaker 2: and that is where we start today by acknowledging that

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Speaker 2: we have at least lost three service personnel that we

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Speaker 2: President Trump says it's almost certain that there will be more.

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Speaker 2: And if this Kuwaiti News agency is correct, there is,

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Speaker 6: Earlier today, Sentcom shared the news that three US military

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Speaker 6: service members have been killed in action. As one nation,

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Speaker 6: we agreeve for the true American patriots who have made

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Speaker 6: our immense love and eternal gratitude to the families of

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Speaker 6: the fallen, and sadly, there will likely be more.

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Speaker 2: That is, if you have any heart at all, you know,

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Speaker 2: as an American president, and I believe President Trump does.

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Speaker 2: I think he takes this more seriously than many do.

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Speaker 2: I think President Trump internalizes what it means for these families.

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Speaker 2: He has welcomed so many, countless thousands over his tenure

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Speaker 2: you've seen him time and again. There's not a man

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Speaker 2: of this lightly. He sees it as a righteous mission

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Speaker 2: it is now that it must be dealt with, and

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Speaker 2: he's the man to do it. I appreciate bold decisiveness,

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Speaker 2: more than most. Having said that, these are clearly very

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Speaker 2: command nodes, key regime sites, nothing more, nothing less, and

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Speaker 2: Israeli intelligence that's really enabled a lot of this very

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Speaker 2: Because in doing so it officially made a bunch of

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Speaker 2: the notion that Saudi Arabia has opened their airspace, among

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Speaker 2: real estate. It's huge. This is not an imperialistic war,

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Speaker 2: war for conquest. It's not an imperialistic war. It is

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Speaker 2: a strategic strike with a singular purpose, and that is

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Speaker 2: to stop Iran's race toward nuclear weapons and halt a

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Speaker 2: regime that has openly defied every American warning for decades. Really,

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Speaker 2: they rushed to start reconstituting their nuclear program as soon

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Speaker 2: as Midnight Hammer ended the operation that weekend, and their

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Speaker 2: rulers in Iran have unleashed a new wave of domestic

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Speaker 2: have massacred thousands of their own citizens, crushing all peaceful protests.

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Speaker 2: This is not just some run of the mill dictatorship.

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Speaker 2: This is a uniquely evil, brutal, totalitarian, Nazi like Islamist

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Speaker 2: jew hating America hating entity. They are the world's foremost

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Speaker 2: exporter of terrorism and they've been doing it proudly since

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy nine is Islamic Revolution. For decades, these people

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Speaker 2: using Iraq, using Afghanistan. Countless Arabs and Israelis slaughtered as well. Tens,

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Speaker 2: maybe hundreds of thousands of innocent Iranians have lived under

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Speaker 2: the boot of this theocracy. What's at stake is far

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Speaker 2: bigger than just the price of oil. This is about

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Speaker 2: And it wasn't that long ago, folks. This is different

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Speaker 2: than Iraq and Afghanistan because Iraq and Afghanistan were never civilized,

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Speaker 2: peace loving communities. Iran was check the tapes, check the history.

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Speaker 2: It was not that long ago. And so when I

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Speaker 2: Barack Obama and by extension, Joe Biden and the people

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Speaker 2: I've always thought Barack Obama was well, I mean, you

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Speaker 2: that right now. Whatever their motivations, they rewarded Iran's behavior

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Speaker 2: That's for the better part of the last two decades, aid,

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Speaker 2: that's who's been in charge of United States policy, and

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Speaker 2: to continue what they've done. Donald Trump governs differently. As

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Speaker 2: No apologies, no evasions. Donald Trump just takes decisive action.

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Speaker 2: He did this in broad daylight. No less, they took

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Speaker 2: this to Iran in broad daylight. Now that is steely resolve.

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Speaker 2: Most of all, it's turning this shadow foreign policy, this

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Speaker 9: I have repeatedly said that for tomorrow's Iran, we seek

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Speaker 2: And you saw the reaction domestically from Iranian people, not

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Speaker 10: Me again, Chris.

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Speaker 11: I would say, as Madame Radevis said over the weekend,

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Speaker 10: It's end of the religious deocracy. This is the end

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Speaker 11: I think it's time for democracy, it's time for popular

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Speaker 10: So we are at a very very historical crossroads.

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Speaker 11: As you mentioned, and I think the time for regime

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Speaker 11: Well, I would say that Iran is right for democracy.

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Speaker 11: So basically, Iranians are ready to bring about a regime

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Speaker 2: This is what I wanted to get to specifically because

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Speaker 11: So yes, there are Ranians for not now, but for

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Speaker 2: How could I ask you how prevalent. Do you think

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Speaker 2: you help us understand the makeup of the people there.

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Speaker 11: Definitely, it's overveilding majority of the Avenians.

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Speaker 10: As I said, you have to just go.

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Speaker 11: Back a month ago, there were millions and millions of

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Speaker 11: people in the streets protesting, chanting for democracy, wanted to

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Speaker 11: get rid of this regime, calling for death to how

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Speaker 11: many down with this regime? And again also it's very

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Speaker 11: important that they don't want to go back to the

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Speaker 11: time of the show or the monarchy. One has to

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Speaker 11: listen to the chance saying down with oppressor being the

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Speaker 11: shop or the supreme leader. So Irenians have no nostalgia

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Speaker 11: about the Shaw's regime either, because that was also a

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Speaker 11: despotic regime, that was a dictatolar regime that Evenian people

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Speaker 11: basically checked out with a massive revolution back in nineteen

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Speaker 11: seventy nine. So basically the message from Iron is very

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Speaker 11: simple to monarchy, no, to theocracy, yes to real democracy now,

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Speaker 11: and that I think is very much encompassing.

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Speaker 10: How can I say this if one looks at.

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Speaker 11: The composition of the people and the protests, you had

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Speaker 11: families out there. You had you know, fathers, children, and

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Speaker 11: a lot of fans, even the grand parents, all out

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Speaker 11: their industries. You have even from all walks of life.

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Speaker 11: You had people from all thirty month provinces. So we

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Speaker 11: are not talking about a particular part of the country.

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Speaker 11: You're not talking about a particular ethnicity. It's a truly

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Speaker 11: nationwide sentiments. Evening people have had it and they are

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Speaker 11: ready and prepared to take the history in their own hands.

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Speaker 2: It was really something to see in our own streets,

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Speaker 2: the hundreds, if not thousands, in various cities of Iranian

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Speaker 2: natives who came out waving that I guess return to

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Speaker 2: the old flag, tearing down the new flag on various

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Speaker 2: embassies around the world, or tearing down the old flag

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Speaker 2: putting up the new old flag Shahingo. Body of the NCRII,

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Speaker 2: the National Council of Resistance of Iran, will continue to

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Speaker 2: lean on your expertise. Thanks for your time, sir. More

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Speaker 2: in a moment, you know, I think that's obviously what's

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Speaker 2: on the minds of most Americans is one wonders what

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Speaker 2: happens when this is over right and is that fair?

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Speaker 2: I think most Americans wonder, Okay, this is not. And

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Speaker 2: that's the thing I feel very confident at this hour

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Speaker 2: in saying I see no evidence to believe that this

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Speaker 2: is the same as Iraq and Afghanistan. And I believe

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Speaker 2: that if President Trump thought this was Iraq and Afghanistan,

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Speaker 2: he would have gone about this entirely differently. I also

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Speaker 2: don't believe people like Dan Raisin Kine, our Chair of

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Speaker 2: the Joint Chiefs. I don't think people like Pete Hagsis.

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Speaker 2: I don't think certainly not Vice President advanced. I don't

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Speaker 2: would have agreed to this strike if they thought they

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Speaker 2: were dealing with another Iraq and Afghanistan. I think they

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Speaker 2: understand full well what those were, and what that was,

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Speaker 2: and how wrong headed it was, and how lacking in

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Speaker 2: plan or understanding of outcomes there would be.

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Speaker 10: So I.

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Speaker 2: Do believe this is different. I think it's very very

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Speaker 2: interesting to hear our previous guests, your hung body say

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Speaker 2: we don't want and we don't need boots on the ground.

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Speaker 2: Do you believe that we don't want and we don't

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Speaker 2: need boots on the ground will handle this ourselves. Our

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Speaker 2: people can get this done. It is historically true that

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Speaker 2: our aerial assaults have not seen regime change. They haven't

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Speaker 2: necessarily ended up toppling the governments that were striking from

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Speaker 2: the air by themselves. So look, I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: can't predict. It would be stupid to try, because it's war.

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Speaker 2: You can't predict any of it. He says. Most of

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Speaker 2: these people are ready. They will have to do the

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Speaker 2: heavy lifting to make sure that there aren't any pockets

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Speaker 2: of resistance there that want to cleave to this theocracy.

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Speaker 2: And that's I don't think anybody in the United States

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Speaker 2: wants to see our men and women doing that work.

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Speaker 7: No, not at all. And I'm not being Lindsay Graham here, truly,

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Speaker 7: I'm not. But I don't know how you can get

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Speaker 7: rid of something like that when we've seen how effective

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Speaker 7: Hamas has been and embedding themselves all throughout Palestine.

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Speaker 12: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: If I RAN's there, you know, kind of the master,

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Speaker 7: the head of the snake of all of it. I

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Speaker 7: don't know how you clear that out without some kind

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Speaker 7: of military ground operation.

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Speaker 2: And I'm maybe that's Israel. Look that maybe Israel. I mean,

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Speaker 2: most of the intelligence that we used in this operation

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Speaker 2: came from Israel, and so it may well be that

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Speaker 2: Israel It maybe Netnahu said, look, if you help us

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Speaker 2: kind of do the initial heavy lift here, we'll go

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Speaker 2: in and we'll handle the rest. I would be very

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Speaker 2: shocked at this hour to hear President Trump announced that

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Speaker 2: we're physically sending men and women in to start clearing

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Speaker 2: the ground there in Iraq or in Iran. Rather would

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Speaker 2: that would surprise me. I can't say it's off the table.

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Speaker 2: I have no knowledge of any of that. And maybe

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Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth, who's going to give a live press conference today,

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Speaker 2: will explain. Trump has said more or less he thinks

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Speaker 2: this will be weeks, but that's it. Weeks, not years,

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Speaker 2: not even months. I don't I don't think this ends

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Speaker 2: with us being physically on the ground there. That's my hunch,

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Speaker 2: but I can't know for sure. Over at CNN State

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Speaker 2: of the Union, a discussion about this and the Democrats

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Speaker 2: opposition to it, their pretend opposition to it. Anyway, I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, whatever they've got to it doesn't matter. It's

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Speaker 2: taking out a theocracy that slaughter's gaze and subjugates women

532
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Speaker 2: and is a terrorist menace to not just the region,

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Speaker 2: but the world and certainly the United States. Whatever Trump's doing,

534
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Speaker 2: the Democrats have got to reflexively oppose it. Interesting conversation

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Speaker 2: came up yesterday on CNN number twelve.

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Speaker 3: I think that it is imperative the Democratic Party wake

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Speaker 3: up and get past their dislike of Donald Trump, the

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Speaker 3: This is about national security. This is about what is

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Speaker 3: possible in the Middle East. This is about being a

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Speaker 3: good partner to the Gulf States and what their aspirations are.

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Speaker 3: This is about supporting the people of Venezuela. This is

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Speaker 3: about dismemory our relationship with or not dismembering, but resetting

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Speaker 3: our relationship with China. Right now, fifty five percent of

545
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Speaker 3: the oil production that Uran produces goes to China, despite sanctions.

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Speaker 3: You want to support the people of Ukraine. You want

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Speaker 3: to end not wor you have to. There is no

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Speaker 3: getting around dismembering this Islamic Republic.

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Speaker 1: It is non negotiable.

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Speaker 3: It is not a want to have, It does a

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Speaker 3: have to have, and it's not just for the Iranian people.

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Speaker 3: I think you have to trust the Iranian people.

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Speaker 1: We know this.

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Speaker 3: Government better than anyone else. When you dismember and decapitate

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Speaker 3: this regime, you are going to see a change in

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Speaker 3: the Middle least in Venezuela and China.

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Speaker 1: In Ukraine.

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Speaker 3: And I think, quite frankly, their ideology has really it's

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Speaker 3: caused a lot of problems for US worldwide. We need

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Speaker 3: to take it seriously. And I think at this point

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Speaker 3: we have a tremendous opportunity. This will be like ending

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Speaker 3: the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall. This is a transformational

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Speaker 3: moment for humankind.

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Speaker 2: And as for John Fetterman, when asked about his base

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Speaker 2: not liking his support for this number fourteen.

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Speaker 13: Right now, why can't you just acknowledge that, you know,

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Speaker 13: look at the kind of people that are grieving that

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Speaker 2: This morning, we're expecting to hear from Secretary of War

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Speaker 2: Pete Hegseith live and when that happens, we will carry

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Speaker 2: it live. Of course, things are always fluid, so we

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Speaker 2: never know exactly when these things might occur. Specifically, because

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Speaker 2: there's some breaking news this morning that there is some

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Speaker 2: more details. I started the show talking about what was

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Speaker 2: originally reported as five It appears that with three F

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Speaker 2: fifteen's that were shot down over Kuwait in a friendly fire,

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Speaker 2: it's now being reported as a friendly fire incident and

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Speaker 2: all three pilots, thank god, survived. So three fifteen American

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Speaker 2: fighter pilots shot down in a friendly fire exercise, I

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Speaker 2: guess in over the skies of Kuwait, and all three

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Speaker 2: pilots survived. So that's the new reporting, at least I

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Speaker 2: get this morning from Fox News. We will continue to

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Speaker 2: monitor that. As of right now, we know of three

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Speaker 2: personnel killed in action and five severely wounded over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: And that's the sum total of the casualties and the

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Speaker 2: injuries that American forces have sustained so far. President Trump

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Speaker 2: says it's likely there will be more. Of course, you

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Speaker 2: can't predict or control these things when you're talking about combat.

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Speaker 2: And I've already had some folks reach out curious if

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Speaker 2: we're going to see a ground incursion, will the American

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Speaker 2: military be involved in going in on the ground. A

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Speaker 2: lot of parents and family worried about that. Right now,

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Speaker 2: I can't say. It would be stupid of me to

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Speaker 2: bet or guarantee. I would be surprised if that's President

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Speaker 2: Trump's thinking. I'd be very surprised if that's part of

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Speaker 2: the plan. And I see no evidence at this hour

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Speaker 2: that that is part of the plan, But we will

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Speaker 2: continue to monitor it. Yesterday I came here into the

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Speaker 2: studio to make some comments that my colleagues at Salem

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Speaker 2: Media Group and town Hall asked me to make in

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Speaker 2: reaction to the events of the weekend, and due to

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Speaker 2: enjoyed hearing it. I thought those of you that are

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Speaker 2: enjoy some of my initial thoughts over the weekend. So

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Speaker 2: here they go. I just got a church this afternoon

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Speaker 2: to read the news. We've lost three of our warriors

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Speaker 2: and five more seriously wounded during action in the first

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Speaker 2: phase of Operation Epic Fury. Ali Beth Stuckey said this

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Speaker 2: morning on social media, and I just agree with her

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Speaker 2: that we should be mindful as we go about our

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Speaker 2: business today and every day that while we have men

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Speaker 2: and women who voluntarily put their lives on the line

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Speaker 2: and put themselves in harm's way all the time, every day,

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Speaker 2: they do it so that we don't have to, most

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Speaker 2: of us don't really understand the reality of the hell

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Speaker 2: that they live in combat. And she's right, So I

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Speaker 2: want to pause and just remember, first of all and say, humbly,

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Speaker 2: war as hell, and we should never minimize death. Having

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Speaker 2: said all that, understanding why the President chose this moment

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Speaker 2: to topple the Iranian rooms is something most of us

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Speaker 2: don't really know. And while many have our guesses and

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Speaker 2: our conspiracies and our justifications, most of us don't really

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Speaker 2: know what motivated this decision. Maybe we will know more

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Speaker 2: in time. We've certainly laid out a body of evidence

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Speaker 2: over nearly fifty years, and I'll get into that in

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Speaker 2: just a moment. And I've had people reach out to

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Speaker 2: do I think this will bring violence upon us, maybe

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Speaker 2: sleeper cells in the United States? And to that, I say,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I think we should assume so, because

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Speaker 2: you see, we're dealing with a global Islamist threat. They

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Speaker 2: are so repellent. And I really want you to think

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Speaker 2: about this. These people are so objectionable, even their Arab neighbors,

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Speaker 2: who've typically stayed out of conflicts like these, even they

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Speaker 2: is allowing us in to their airspace and use their

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Speaker 2: real estate to conduct this operation. That's never happened before,

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Speaker 2: and it speaks to the destabilizing menace that Iran's regime

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Speaker 2: has been. And yet at this hour there are those

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Speaker 2: who are so dedicated to Donald Trump's political destruction they

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Speaker 2: prefer to defend Iran and paint our president as the aggressor,

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Speaker 2: which isn't just wrong, it's morally obscene. Now, while American

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Speaker 2: and Israeli forces are carrying out very precision strikes, well

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Speaker 2: planned strikes against Iran's nuclear and military targets, there are

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Speaker 2: a chorus of American politicians on both the left and

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Speaker 2: supposedly the right, though that remains to be seen as

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Speaker 2: far as I'm concerned, rushing to condemn America and Israel

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Speaker 2: and not the monsters in Tehran. And they posture about

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Speaker 2: process and de escalation, but of course the truth that

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Speaker 2: they refuse to say out loud is Iran's regime slaughtered

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Speaker 2: more than thirty five five thousand protesters in just the

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Speaker 2: last month alone. We're talking about women and teenagers, children, shot, beaten, tortured, hanged,

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Speaker 2: all because they want their freedom back, a freedom that

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Speaker 2: not too terribly long ago they enjoyed. Check the tapes,

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Speaker 2: you can see it. There's lots of evidence floating around

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Speaker 2: of what it used to be the Persians in another era.

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Speaker 2: This is not a complicated government that we just can't

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Speaker 2: understand as Westerners. This is evil in its purest form

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Speaker 2: that has been governing Iran for almost fifty years. And

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Speaker 2: as I said yesterday, I don't believe Donald Trump celebrates

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Speaker 2: a military industrial complex as previous presidents have. I don't

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Speaker 2: believe Donald Trump comes to this wanting a forever war.

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Speaker 2: I do believe Donald Trump feels he's on a righteous

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Speaker 2: mission to weed out the despots and the murderers that

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Speaker 2: embolden and empower our global enemies, while brutalizing and threatening

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Speaker 2: our allies, and most of all, ending a fifty year

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Speaker 2: tradition of targeting American lives. Now, can I promise that

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Speaker 2: this ends well it's war? No, certainly not. Can I

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Speaker 2: promise Iran flourishes and there's peace in the land. No,

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Speaker 2: I can't, and nor can President Trump or anyone else.

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Speaker 2: But does that mean that righteous people do nothing because

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Speaker 2: the outcome is unpredictable, I say certainly not. Listen, I'll

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Speaker 2: close by stressing I'm a Christian first, and I believe

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Speaker 2: that God is on the throne and God is sovereign.

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Speaker 2: And if you spend any time in scripture, you see

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Speaker 2: story after story after story of leaders stepping into the

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Speaker 2: breach to take on despots and tyrants and kings, dangerous

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Speaker 2: stuff that often leads to people getting killed. But throughout

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Speaker 2: those stories in scripture is God. He's the through line.

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Speaker 2: He is sovereign, and his will be done. Sometimes God

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Speaker 2: elevates very unlikely people to achieve his designs, and sometimes

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Speaker 2: he uses evil tyrants to do the same. But what

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Speaker 2: we must never lose sight of, as my pastor said

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Speaker 2: today in fact preaching in First Samuel, God has delivered

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Speaker 2: his ancient people from distress and chaos and hatred. So

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Speaker 2: don't you think he's capable of doing the very same

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Speaker 2: thing for those of us who love him today. I

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Speaker 2: believe that Proverbs twenty one point one says the king's

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Speaker 2: heart is a stream in the Lord's hand, and he

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Speaker 2: channels it wherever he pleases. I love that. Listen. I

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Speaker 2: voted for Donald Trump in part because I was tired

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Speaker 2: of this righteous nation, and I believe that we are.

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Speaker 2: I realize not everybody does anymore. In fact, that's unpopular

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Speaker 2: to even say, but I do believe God shed his

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Speaker 2: grace on thee we are a righteous nation, and I

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Speaker 2: was tired of us being weak, and we have been weak.

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Speaker 2: We've been watching aggressors pouring over our wide open border.

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Speaker 2: We've watched Chinese spy balloons flying overhead unimpeded for days.

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Speaker 2: We've watched Russian and Chinese naval vessels flagrantly cruising just

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Speaker 2: near miles off our coastlines. A nation of strength and

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Speaker 2: resolve is needed now more than ever. The world's despots

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Speaker 2: as of late have felt more emboldened than ever with

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Speaker 2: previous leadership, and so rewarding and negotiating bad behavior that

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Speaker 2: only begets more bad behavior. At some point, righteous people

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Speaker 2: have to step forward and act, and we must do

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Speaker 2: it with reverence and awe always always for our creator, first,

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Speaker 2: praying that his will be done in all that we do,

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Speaker 2: and I hope that our leaders are doing so. This

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Speaker 2: is my prayer. I believe Donald Trump is the right

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Speaker 2: man at a critical time in our nation's history, in

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Speaker 2: world history, and only God knows for sure, of course,

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Speaker 2: but I pray the United States will always be a

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Speaker 2: nation guided by God's grace and providential hand to achieve

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Speaker 2: his goals. I choose to believe our heroes today who

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Speaker 2: lost their lives or are at risk of losing their lives,

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Speaker 2: and the near future in this fight will bask in

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Speaker 2: his glory someday for the dangerous work they're doing to

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Speaker 2: rid this earth of real darkness. And I pray that

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Speaker 2: that darkness doesn't make its way to our doorstep because

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Speaker 2: of their sacrifice. That's why they do it after all.

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Speaker 2: But I rest in the assurance ultimately in all of this,

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Speaker 2: as it's written in Proverbs nineteen twenty one. Many are

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Speaker 2: the plans in a man's heart, but it is the

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Speaker 2: Lord's purpose that prevails. And so I rest in that truth.

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Speaker 2: And I'll tackle a new week starting tomorrow morning at

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Speaker 2: six am Eastern on the Salem News Channel and the

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Speaker 15: No.

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Speaker 2: I just keep thinking what if Kamala Harris were president

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Speaker 2: of the United States, That's all I keep thinking. Well,

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Speaker 2: first of all, we wouldn't be here. We'd probably be

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Speaker 2: sending more cash to them as they'd be building their

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Speaker 2: new defenses to the ceiling. Live look at San Diego,

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Speaker 2: California this morning on eleven seventy am. The answer thanks

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Speaker 2: week newsletter, The Harrump Society, I was busy there. I

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Speaker 2: published a free edition of The Hrump Society over the weekend. Incidentally,

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Speaker 2: you can find it there. The fact is we're here

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Speaker 2: in large part because democrats Barack Obama built this chaos.

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Speaker 2: As just a fact, one weekened this country. The other

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Speaker 2: is restoring this country. Whether it's open borders or the

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Speaker 2: Chinese spy balloon, or as I said earlier, Russian and

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Speaker 2: Chinese military vessels off of our coasts. President Trump is

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Speaker 2: doing this the right way. This is a powerful direct

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Speaker 2: appeal he made, telling the Iranian people, take over your government.

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Speaker 2: We're creating a space where we can make it yours

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Speaker 2: to take. The hour of your freedom is at hand,

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Speaker 2: and he made it clear that it's the Iranian people,

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Speaker 2: not the Mullahs, that will determine their future, which stands

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Speaker 2: in very stark contrast to just a little while ago,

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Speaker 2: back in two thousand and nine, when the Obama administration

862
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Speaker 2: betrayed their revolution and just made some mild diplomatic statements

863
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Speaker 2: and that was the sum total of it. President Trump's

864
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 2: approach mirrors the principled stand that America took against tyranny

865
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Speaker 2: in Venezuela, confronting evil directly, not indefinite occupations. That's not

866
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Speaker 2: Trump's goal here, It's never been his mo. He's empowering

867
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Speaker 2: oppressed people to seize their own destiny. Trump puts this

868
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Speaker 2: country and Americans first. It's not just rhetoric, it's decisive action.

869
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Speaker 2: This is classic Reagan peace through strength, stuff, credible deterrence

870
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Speaker 2: that sends a message to every adversary, including China and Russia.

871
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Speaker 2: And don't miss that this display this weekend is as

872
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Speaker 2: much for China and Russia as it is anybody else,

873
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Speaker 2: while laying the groundwork for lasting stability in the Middle East,

874
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Speaker 2: including the vital progress that he's made in Gaza. We

875
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Speaker 2: live in historic times, and thank goodness, weakness is over.

876
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Speaker 2: I can't stress enough how thankful I am. Kamala Harris

877
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 2: and Tim Walls were never put in power. Our perspective

878
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:11,439
Speaker 2: can be clear here. Leadership confronting evil, a leadership that's

879
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 2: willing to do that, that's willing to protect civilization and

880
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 2: dismantle the world's top state sponsor of terror, giving an

881
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:24,840
Speaker 2: entire people a chance at freedom. The very people that

882
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 2: people like Obama and Biden empowered are finally facing justice

883
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Speaker 2: under Donald Trump, and the Middle East and the world

884
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Speaker 2: will be safer for it. I feel confident in that

885
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Speaker 2: it's hard work, and it's dangerous work, and as always,

886
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Speaker 2: May God protect and bless the brave men and women

887
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Speaker 2: who are doing this work. They volunteer so that you

888
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Speaker 2: and I can sit here and discuss it freely today

889
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 2: and go about our daily lives. What a blessing they are.

890
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,800
Speaker 2: United States Senator Dave McCormick will be with us to

891
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Speaker 2: get us his first blush take. And some of his

892
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 2: colleagues who say Congress needs to be convened and needs

893
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Speaker 2: to have a formal vote on this, what say you?

894
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Speaker 2: That's next? All right, let's go to one of the Democrats.

895
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Speaker 2: We played John Fetterman for you earlier. Democrat Connecticut Senator

896
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Speaker 2: Chris Murphy in number sixteen had this to say, in

897
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Speaker 2: reaction to our strikes in Iran over the weekend.

898
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Speaker 4: Nobody in this country is asking for war with Iran,

899
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Speaker 4: just like months ago, no one in this country was

900
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Speaker 4: asking for war with Venezuela. This president is intentionally tanking

901
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 4: our economy. He's the most corrupt president in the history

902
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:44,319
Speaker 4: of our nation, and Americans want him to focus on

903
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Speaker 4: the crisis here at home. Instead, he is busy getting

904
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Speaker 4: us involved in Quagmire's overseas that already are becoming deadly

905
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 4: to American soldiers. This is a disaster. It is illegal,

906
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,839
Speaker 4: and the President is obligated under the Institution to come

907
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Speaker 4: to Congress and ask for an authorization of military force.

908
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Speaker 4: He wouldn't get that authorization if he asked for it.

909
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Speaker 4: Congress wouldn't vote to give him the promission to do it.

910
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Speaker 4: But he's obligated to come to Congress.

911
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Speaker 2: Okay, So that's Chris Murphy of Connecticut. We bring in

912
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Speaker 2: United States Senator Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania to respond. Senator,

913
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Speaker 2: first of all, thank you very much for joining us

914
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Speaker 2: first thing on a Monday morning after a very consequential weekend.

915
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Speaker 2: We're glad you're here.

916
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:31,320
Speaker 16: Hey, good morning, Chris, listen, this is it's a consequential moment,

917
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 16: as you say, and you know, I'm reminiscing thirty five

918
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:39,440
Speaker 16: years ago about to the day I was in Iraq

919
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 16: and we had another operation. And the difference between this

920
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 16: one and that one is dramatic.

921
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Speaker 2: On many fronts.

922
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Speaker 16: Our soldiers have just conducted soldiers and airmen have just

923
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:56,919
Speaker 16: conducted themselves with incredible competence, and it's been incredibly.

924
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Speaker 2: All Right, we'll try to re establish we're on a

925
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Speaker 2: cell phone with you and Senator. Senator, I'm sorry kind

926
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Speaker 2: of cut out there for a minute, and I apologize

927
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 2: so sorry for the interruption. Let me reset with a

928
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 2: question for you. You heard your colleague and many have

929
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:17,240
Speaker 2: said on social media that this is an illegal maneuver

930
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 2: by the president and that if in fact he actually

931
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 2: went to Congress, he's quote constitutionally obligated to do he

932
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 2: would not get approval to do this. So can you

933
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Speaker 2: talk about that, please?

934
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Speaker 16: Yeah, Abs, So, the under the Constitution to respond to

935
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Speaker 16: protect America and the American people, the war powers have

936
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Speaker 16: been debated for fifty years. Presidents, Democrats and Republicans alike

937
00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 16: have consistently exercised that authority with Clinton and his bombings

938
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 16: in Kosovo, with President Obama and the actions taken in Libya.

939
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Speaker 16: The President is operating against an imminent threat of Iran,

940
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Speaker 16: which has more blood on its hands, has killed more

941
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Speaker 16: Americans in the last twenty years than any other country

942
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Speaker 16: in the world. It's got a huge ballistic missile capability

943
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Speaker 16: which has threatened our allies in the region, threatened American basis,

944
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Speaker 16: and the Presence operating with completely within the confines of

945
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Speaker 16: the law. They notified Congress, the President's team did with

946
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Speaker 16: appropriately as was required under the Warpals resolution. And now

947
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Speaker 16: the President has ninety days before he has any other

948
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Speaker 16: additional requirement. So this is political theater on part of

949
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 16: the Democrats. And what's happening here is the Presence made

950
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Speaker 16: a very consequential decision to take action after giving the

951
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Speaker 16: Iranian regime lots of off ramps, take action against a

952
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Speaker 16: country and a regime that has posed a threat to

953
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Speaker 16: America for decades.

954
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Speaker 2: Senator, were you surprised by this? You know, we were

955
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Speaker 2: in Washington for the State of the Union. I was

956
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Speaker 2: actually at the White House the very next day, on

957
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Speaker 2: that Wednesday. It was my impression at the time though

958
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Speaker 2: I didn't really understand it that there was a tremendous

959
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Speaker 2: amount of activity, more so than I typically see a

960
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 2: lot of security. It seemed a lot of principles were

961
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Speaker 2: in the building. Now, knowing what happened, I begin to

962
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Speaker 2: think to myself, obviously this was something that they had

963
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 2: been talking about for some time. How surprised were you

964
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Speaker 2: by this strike?

965
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Speaker 16: Well, I think we were tightening the news with economic

966
00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 16: sanctions and added pressure, But I believe the President was

967
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Speaker 16: looking for some sort of negotiated way out of this

968
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Speaker 16: where the Iranian regime would to pitch. We would have

969
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Speaker 16: to be very careful about trusting Iran, given how many

970
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Speaker 16: times it's broken its promises, But I think the President

971
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:48,280
Speaker 16: was legitimately looking for off ramps for the Raignan regime.

972
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 16: But as they were belligerent and continue to say they

973
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Speaker 16: wouldn't disarm their ballistic missiles and continue to despite promises

974
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Speaker 16: to the contrary, beginning at their nuclear program, I think

975
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Speaker 16: the President became convinced that that action was required. And listen,

976
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Speaker 16: this is a very bold and courageous step, you know,

977
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Speaker 16: using our magnificent military an incredibly effective couple of days.

978
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Speaker 16: But we know this is the early days. The intelligence

979
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 16: that allowed us to take out the leadership, you know,

980
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 16: very very impressive. But listen, Chris, I think you're probably

981
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 16: I think we're all a bit scarred by twenty years

982
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 16: of war in Iraq, the risk and the fear of

983
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 16: foreign entanglements. I think the President feels the weight of

984
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 16: that too, and so while he's been courageous to use

985
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 16: military force, I think he's also very mindful of not

986
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 16: getting America entrenched in a land war in the Middle East,

987
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 16: and I don't think he will.

988
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:57,439
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick with us. I'm glad you said

989
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:01,480
Speaker 2: that you're fairly communicative with this president. I know and so,

990
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 2: and having served as a Special Forces guy yourself, I

991
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 2: want to speak to that very thing. There are people

992
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 2: listening to us right now who have sons and daughters

993
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 2: in service and are terrified. I'm sure they fully know

994
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 2: what could be when they step up and serve, and

995
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 2: we're so grateful that they're willing to do it. But

996
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:24,200
Speaker 2: here now there are men and women whose families are

997
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 2: engaged in this and wondering will there be boots on

998
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 2: the ground. Would you support that if so? Or do

999
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 2: you think this president is there. My impression is, I mean,

1000
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 2: obviously war is something we can't predict, but my impression

1001
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 2: of President Trump is that's nothing he has an appetite for.

1002
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 2: How about you.

1003
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Speaker 16: Yeah, Well, first, I do want to say, I'm just

1004
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 16: prayers with the families for service members we lost, and

1005
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 16: prayers and gratitude to the many tens of thousands, hundreds

1006
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 16: of thousands of men and women who are serving right

1007
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 16: now putting themselves in harm's way. And I think the

1008
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 16: President feels the weight of that. And when he's deployed

1009
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 16: military force in Venezuela and Iran previously and now in

1010
00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 16: this case, I think he's very mindful of the fact

1011
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 16: to use that force really a forced peace through strength.

1012
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 16: In other words, the goal is to bring about peace

1013
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 16: and stability in the Middle East in a way that

1014
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,520
Speaker 16: will take away the threat that has existed for decades

1015
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 16: from Iran. I think the appetite getting entangled and putting

1016
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 16: American troops on the ground is quite low. But that

1017
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 16: doesn't mean we won't use military force. It means that

1018
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Speaker 16: we'll use military force as the President as strategically selectively

1019
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 16: in a way that accomplishes the goals but minimizes the

1020
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 16: risk of long term entanglement. I think I think that's

1021
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 16: his mindset, and I think that you know that that.

1022
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 2: Should be the mindset.

1023
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 16: I think we all learned some very harsh lessons. I

1024
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 16: remember Chris two thousand and two, do you know when

1025
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 16: there was evidence of weapons of mass destructure for Saddam Hussein?

1026
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 16: And I wrote an op ed that said, let's go,

1027
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:12,680
Speaker 16: let's roll against Saddam Hussein in the Los Angeles Times.

1028
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 16: And what followed, and I was beating my chest, we

1029
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 16: got to go, And what followed was twenty years of

1030
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 16: treasure and lives, five thousand Americans killed in action. And

1031
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 16: I've got that article framed on my desk as a

1032
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 16: reminder of the humility that we should all have when

1033
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 16: we think about putting our men and.

1034
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,479
Speaker 2: Women in harm's way. Amen. And I was a young

1035
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 2: talk show host who was jingoistic and flag waving and said,

1036
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 2: let's go, you know, put a as Toby Keith said,

1037
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 2: put a boot in her ass, as he famously sayg

1038
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 2: having no idea or concept of what that really meant. So,

1039
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 2: with just about a minute or so to go, Senator,

1040
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 2: can you explain to us why you believe I've made

1041
01:00:58,280 --> 01:00:59,959
Speaker 2: the case earlier in the show. Why do you believe

1042
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 2: this is different than that? Why is this a different

1043
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 2: time and this a different conflict?

1044
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 16: Two things. I think the military goals are extremely clear.

1045
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 16: Destroy the missiles, destroy the missile launchers, destroy the Iranian navy,

1046
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:19,160
Speaker 16: and destroy the manufacturing capability that gave fifty seven thousand

1047
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 16: drones to Russia, and that's building these missiles. So take

1048
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:25,840
Speaker 16: out those military capabilities that will make it a much

1049
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 16: safer region. Two, I think from day one, the President

1050
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 16: has said to the Iranian people, I'm going to give

1051
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:36,800
Speaker 16: you the chance to rise up and take a responsibility

1052
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 16: for your future, and will help you, but the burden

1053
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 16: is with you, and that may mean a modified version

1054
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 16: of the regime we have, that may mean a new regime.

1055
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Speaker 16: But this is for the Uranian people to take charge,

1056
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Speaker 16: and I think we've laid the groundwork for them to

1057
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:56,720
Speaker 16: do that in the weeks and months ahead. The Presence

1058
01:01:56,760 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 16: made that clear. But I don't think he thinks this

1059
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Speaker 16: is America's job to fix Iran, and I think they're

1060
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Speaker 16: raining people know that.

1061
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Speaker 2: When do you expect if you haven't already to hear

1062
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Speaker 2: from the Secretary of War, maybe Secretary of Rubio. Have

1063
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:12,080
Speaker 2: you already been briefed or will you be brief soon?

1064
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Speaker 16: I had an opportunity there will be a briefing tomorrow

1065
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Speaker 16: to ye tomorrow, rather will be a briefing tomorrow with

1066
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Speaker 16: the Chairman, the CIA, Director of the Secret State, Secretary

1067
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Speaker 16: of Defense. In the last several days, I've had a

1068
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Speaker 16: chance to be in multiple conversations with the ambassador from

1069
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Speaker 16: Israel and Secret of State, so I'm fairly current. But

1070
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Speaker 16: I think tomorrow will really see the update on the

1071
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 16: intel on how effective this military operation has been. In

1072
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Speaker 16: at least from a distance, it's been a magnificent showing

1073
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 16: of our military capability. But make no mistake, a lot

1074
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Speaker 16: of work to do, Chris. There's two thousand missiles still

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Speaker 16: on the ground and Iran that can that gets throughout

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Speaker 16: the region.

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Speaker 2: Senator McCormick, we're grateful for your perspective and time, first

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Speaker 2: thing on a Monday. As you learn more, we would

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Speaker 2: be thrilled to have you back as you have time.

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Speaker 2: Thank you sir so much.

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Speaker 16: There, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth is set to give a press conference with

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Speaker 2: the Joint Chiefs Chairman here. We think in the next

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Speaker 2: ten minutes or so, and we will carry that live

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Speaker 2: here on the Salem News Channel and the Salem Radio networks.

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Speaker 2: So sit tight for that. But I can't help but marvel.

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Speaker 2: In a single weekend, Donald Trump did what five decades

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Speaker 2: of diplomats and academics and foreign policy experts swar was impossible.

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Speaker 2: With Israel's help and a military that President Trump largely

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Speaker 2: rebuilt along with the Secretary of War, he broke the

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Speaker 2: spine of the Iranian regime. President Trump shattered the nuclear threat.

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Speaker 2: He opened a path for freedom to ninety million oppressed

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Speaker 2: people under a theocracy, and he rewrote the power map

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Speaker 2: of the Middle East. And he did it in just

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Speaker 2: seventy two hours more or less, Operation Epic Fury. It

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Speaker 2: wasn't just a military strike. It was an historic recalibration

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Speaker 2: of global power. I mean, think about what was achieved here.

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Speaker 2: Nuclear sites were destroyed, missile factories wiped out, the IRGC's

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Speaker 2: command decapitated, and the Supreme leader eliminated in his bunker

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Speaker 2: in Tehran. It's not a timid diplomacy of Barack Obama

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Speaker 2: or managed decline like Joe Biden. This was civilizational leadership

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Speaker 2: in broad daylight. No pallets of cash, no apologies to terrorists,

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Speaker 2: no weakness disguised as strategy. Instead, Donald Trump spoke directly

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Speaker 2: to the Iranian people with words millions had waited forty

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Speaker 2: seven years to hear, Rise up, take your country back.

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Speaker 2: Your hour of freedom is at hand. What other president

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Speaker 2: in recent years has talked like that? Who else has

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Speaker 2: the courage to act? I'll wait, I have to go

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Speaker 2: watch old tapes of Reagan and Thatcher to hear that

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Speaker 2: kind of talk. The results have been immediate and sweeping.

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Speaker 2: A Gaza ceasefire has been secured. Think of that. Iran's

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Speaker 2: terror network has been shattered. Peace talks are advancing in Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: We're not there yet, but I'll bet you this is

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Speaker 2: going to have a lot to do with that accelerating

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Speaker 2: for Russia. Venezuela's dictator has been captured, and then Cuba,

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Speaker 2: They're now clearly on deck. At home, energy dominance is

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Speaker 2: being restored, inflation crushed, crime rates have fallen dramatically, the

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Speaker 2: border sealed, and the federal bureaucracy has been gutted by Doge.

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Speaker 2: This is the post assassination attempt Trump, the post butler Trump, focused, unflinching,

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Speaker 2: mission driven like we've never seen him every decision has

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Speaker 2: been precise. Everything President Trump has done has been purposeful.

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Speaker 2: Every act intentional, purposeful, thoughtful, precise. And the political class

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Speaker 2: can dither and virtue signal and go on their stupid

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Speaker 2: talk shows. But President Trump is doing what serious men do,

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Speaker 2: what serious presidents are meant to do, solving the biggest, ugliest,

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Speaker 2: consequential problems. While others spent decades running from them or

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Speaker 2: negotiating with them, President Trump deals with them like a

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Speaker 2: man and like a leader. We have not seen someone

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Speaker 2: on the world stage like this. I guess since I

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Speaker 2: was born. There is no substitute for leadership like this.

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Speaker 2: There is, and there probably will be no second Trump.

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Speaker 2: You really have to step back and soak this in.

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Speaker 2: It's enormously consequential. Our telephone number is eight five five, Stigall.

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Speaker 2: I want to hear from you on this today. I

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Speaker 2: have yet to take your calls and your thoughts on

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Speaker 2: where you sit with this Secretary of War. Hegseith is

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Speaker 2: scheduled to speak. Until he does so, I will take

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Speaker 2: a few of your calls on the other side of

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Speaker 2: the news break here on the Salem News Channel on

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Speaker 2: the Salem Radio Network. Sit tight. The Secretary of war

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Speaker 2: is slated to speak well, check in with the political

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Speaker 2: ramifications of all this too. How does that shake out

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Speaker 2: the polling and the whatnot. Aaron Maguire does that for

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Speaker 2: a living. She'll tell us about it in the next hour. Hey,

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Speaker 2: everybody's trying to save money where they can. If you

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Speaker 2: buy your own health insurance or if you're on Obamacare,

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Speaker 2: you know how expensive those premiums are getting. It's why

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Speaker 2: I've sent my own parents, my personal friends, and my

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Speaker 2: colleagues to John Rulman and his team at US medical

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Speaker 2: Plan dot com. John works with one hundred different private

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Speaker 2: health insurance companies across the country to find you the

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

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Speaker 2: parents saved four hundred dollars a month each on their

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Speaker 2: Medicare supplemental health insurance premiums reaching out to John Roulman

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Speaker 2: and US Medical Plan dot com. I have a friend

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Speaker 2: in between jobs. She reached out to US Medical Plan

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Speaker 2: to replace her Cobra insurance rates. Saved six hundred dollars

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Speaker 2: a month. A personal friend who buys his own families

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Speaker 2: health insurance out of pocket. I send him to John

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Speaker 2: and now he's saving one thousand dollars a month. Listen, folks,

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Speaker 2: this is one of the easiest ways to save appreciable

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Speaker 2: money every month without sacrificing coverage. But you're not going

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Speaker 2: to know unless you reach out right now and have

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Speaker 2: the conversation eight seven seven four one zero forty three one,

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Speaker 2: or log onto us medical plan dot com. Hey, good morning, folks,

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Speaker 2: Welcome in to this Monday edition of The Stagall Show.

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Speaker 2: After a incredible weekend, what has been, by all accounts,

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Speaker 2: a successful strike on Iran, taking out their supreme leader,

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Speaker 2: the Secretary of War and the Joint Chief Chairman are

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Speaker 2: holding a press conference at the Pentagon live at this

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Speaker 2: very moment. We will join it in progress here on

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Speaker 2: the Salem News Channel in the Salem Radio Network.

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Speaker 15: Mistles and drones to create a conventional shield for their

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Speaker 15: nuclear blackmail ambitions. Let me say that again, a conventional

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Speaker 15: shield for their nuclear blackmail ambitions. Our bases, our people,

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Speaker 15: our allies all in their crosshairs. Iran had a conventional

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Speaker 15: gun to our head as they tried to lie their

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Speaker 15: way to a nuclear bomb. It almost worked under Obama

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Speaker 15: and his terrible deal, but not under this president. Turns out,

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Speaker 15: the regime who cham did death to America and death

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Speaker 15: to Israel was gifted.

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Speaker 12: Death from America and death from Israel.

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Speaker 15: This is not a so called regime change war, but

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Speaker 15: the regime sure did change, and the world is better

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Speaker 15: off for it.

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Speaker 12: Today.

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Speaker 15: In their desperation, the enemy is unmasked as Iranian missiles

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Speaker 15: and drones reign down indiscriminately on the hotels, airports, apartments,

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Speaker 15: and other civilian targets of their neighbors. Cowardly terrorist tactics

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Speaker 15: from a regime that for decades has trafficked in cowardly

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Speaker 15: terrorist tactics lies death and destruction. To this day, the

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Speaker 15: Iranian leadership has built nothing except proxies and missiles and

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Speaker 15: drones and deeply buried nuclear factories and facilities. Peaceful nuclear

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Speaker 15: ambitions do not need to be buried underneath mountains. Last June,

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Speaker 15: Operation Midnight Hammer obliterated their nuclear program to rubble. Afterward,

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Speaker 15: we told them plainly, that's it.

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Speaker 12: I'll make a deal. They arrogantly refused.

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Speaker 15: We said, rebuild it, and we'll stop you again, this

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Speaker 15: time far worse. Well, President Trump, Secretary of Rubio Steve Whitcoff,

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Speaker 15: Jared Kushner. They bent over backwards for real diplomacy. Offering

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Speaker 15: pathway after pathway to peace.

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Speaker 12: I watched it. I was there.

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Speaker 15: They tried, over and over and over again, earnest attempts

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Speaker 15: at peace.

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Speaker 12: The former regime had every chance to.

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Speaker 15: Make a peaceful and sensible deal, but Tehran was not negotiating.

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Speaker 15: They were stalling, find time to reload their missile stockpiles

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Speaker 15: and restart.

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Speaker 12: Their nuclear ambitions.

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Speaker 15: Their goal hold US hostage, threatening to strike our forces. Well,

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Speaker 15: President Trump doesn't play those games, and as Secretary of

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Speaker 15: Rubio said after the Maduiro raid, if you don't know,

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Speaker 15: now you know. President Trump puts America and Americans first.

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Speaker 12: He doesn't hesitate, and neither do our troops.

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Speaker 15: The mission of Operation Epic Fury is laser focused. Destroy

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Speaker 15: Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production, destroy their navy

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Speaker 15: and of their security infrastructure.

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Speaker 12: And they will never have nuclear weapons.

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Speaker 15: We're hitting them surgically, overwhelmingly, and unapologetically. With every passing day,

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Speaker 15: our capabilities get stronger and Irams get weaker. We set

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Speaker 15: the terms of this war from start to finish. Our

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Speaker 15: ambitions are not utopian, they are realistic, scoped to our

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Speaker 15: interests and the defense of our people and our allies.

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Speaker 12: Speaking of people. We hope the Iranian.

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Speaker 15: People take advantage of this incredible opportunity. President Trump has

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Speaker 15: been clear, now is your time.

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Speaker 12: To Iranian security forces, choose wisely.

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Speaker 15: President Trump has also been clear about your fate in

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Speaker 15: either direction.

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Speaker 1: To the media.

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Speaker 15: Outlets and political left screaming endless wars, stop, this is

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Speaker 15: not Iraq, This is not endless.

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Speaker 12: I was there for both.

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Speaker 15: Our generation knows better, and so does this President. He

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Speaker 15: called the last twenty years of nation building wars dumb,

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Speaker 15: and he's right.

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Speaker 12: This is the opposite.

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Speaker 15: This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission.

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Speaker 12: Destroy the missile threat, destroy the navy, no nukes.

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Speaker 15: Israel has clear missions as well, for which we are

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Speaker 15: grateful capable partners. As we've said since the beginning, capable

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Speaker 15: partners are good partners, unlike so many of our traditional

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Speaker 15: allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming

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Speaker 15: and hawing about the use of force. America, regardless of

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Speaker 15: what so called international institutions say, is unleashing the most

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Speaker 15: lethal and precise airpower campaign in history, B two s, fighters, drones, missiles,

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Speaker 15: and of course classify effects.

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Speaker 12: All on our terms with maximum authorities.

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Speaker 10: No stupid rules of engagement.

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Speaker 15: No nation building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically

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Speaker 15: correct wars.

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Speaker 12: We fight to win, and we don't waste time or lives.

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Speaker 15: As the President warrant, an effort of this scope will

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Speaker 15: include casualties, war as hell and always will be.

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Speaker 12: A grateful nation.

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Speaker 15: Honors the four Americans we have lost thus far and

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Speaker 15: those injured the absolute best of America. May we prosecute

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Speaker 15: the remainder of this operation in a manner that honors them.

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Speaker 15: No apologies, no hesitation, epic fury for them and the

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Speaker 15: thousands of Americans before them, taken too soon by Iranian radicals.

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Speaker 12: Before I turn it over to General Kane for the

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Speaker 12: operational update, let me speak straight to you. The Joint

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Speaker 12: Force are warriors on the front lines. This is your moment.

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Speaker 15: This is the generational turning point America has waited for

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Speaker 15: since nineteen seventy nine and since the rudderless wars of Hubris.

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Speaker 15: My generation, our generation endured. Don't listen to the noise,

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Speaker 15: just stay focused. Our commander in chief is steady at

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Speaker 15: the wheel. We face it determined enemy.

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Speaker 12: But you are better. But we must prove it every

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Speaker 12: single day.

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Speaker 15: History doesn't care if we're tired, if we're scared, or

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Speaker 15: if the fight feels big. It demands warriors who rise anyway.

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Speaker 15: Peace through strength, the warrior ethos, lethality, unity of purpose.

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Speaker 15: Those are not slogans. They're the beating heart of what

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Speaker 15: it means to wear the uniform. That uniform you think

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Speaker 15: clearly under fire, you act decisively in chaos. You uphold

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Speaker 15: the Constitution, and you uphold our country without hesitation. We

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Speaker 15: are not defenders anymore. We are warriors trained to kill

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Speaker 15: the enemy and break their will. History is watching be

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Speaker 15: the force you swore on oath to be focused, disciplined,

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Speaker 15: lethal and unbreakable. We will finish this on America first

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Speaker 15: conditions of President Trump's choosing, nobody else as it should be.

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Speaker 15: I know this above all, President Trump, and I have

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Speaker 15: your back, always through fire, through criticism, through fake news,

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Speaker 15: through everything.

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Speaker 12: We unleash you because you are the.

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Speaker 15: Best, most powerful, most lethal fighting force the world has

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Speaker 15: ever seen. May Almighty God watch over you, and his

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Speaker 15: providential arms of protection extend over you.

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Speaker 12: Godspeed warriors, and keep going, General King over you.

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Speaker 17: Thank you, Miss s Rick Terry, and good morning every

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Speaker 17: one of me. The purpose of my portion.

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Speaker 2: We're the only reason I'm interrupting here is because we're

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Speaker 2: not going to be able to spend much time before

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Speaker 2: the break with General Cain. We will revisit this and

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Speaker 2: drop back in in just a little bit. But in summary,

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Speaker 2: those of you just joining us this morning, that is

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Speaker 2: a live coverage this morning of our Joint Chief Chair

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Speaker 2: Dean rasin Kan, who just took to the podium, Secretary

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Speaker 2: of War Pete Heggsyth, who just addressed the nation. He

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Speaker 2: said a few things that I just jotted down here.

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Speaker 2: There is this is not a regime change war, but

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Speaker 2: the regime did change. He said. The missiles reigning down

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Speaker 2: on the neighbors of Iran tells you all you need

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Speaker 2: to know about who they really were, which I couldn't

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Speaker 2: agree more. That was one of the stupidest things Iran

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Speaker 2: could have done. They just started firing like Yosemite, sam

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Speaker 2: on everybody all around them and caused their Arab neighbors

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Speaker 2: to turn on them. Leadership in Iran was built on

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Speaker 2: nothing but terrorism. Our military is laser focused, surgical, and unapologetic.

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Speaker 2: He said this repeatedly, that we set the terms as

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Speaker 2: the United States. We do not strive for utopian goals,

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Speaker 2: but realistic goals, he said to the Iran security forces.

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Speaker 2: They should choose wisely, he stressed. Pete Haggsath, Secretary of War, stress,

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Speaker 2: this is not a rock. This is not endless war,

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Speaker 2: he said, And I thought, very specifically, I was there,

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Speaker 2: I fought in Iraq. I know what it was. Our

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Speaker 2: generation knows better, he said, And I loved that specific point.

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Speaker 2: This is not a rock, this is not endless. Our

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Speaker 2: generation knows better, and so does this president. He said

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Speaker 2: very simply that our goal is this, destroy missiles, destroy

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Speaker 2: their navy, and no nukes. That's it. He said that

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Speaker 2: we carried out the most lethal and precise aerial strikes

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Speaker 2: in history, and we're doing so on our terms, no

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Speaker 2: quagmires or politically correct terms. We fight to win, no apologies,

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Speaker 2: epic fury, the rudderless wars of Hubrius we experienced in

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Speaker 2: our generation. That's not this. Ignore the noise. Listen to

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Speaker 2: your commander in chief. We are focused, disciplined, lethal and unbreakable.

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Speaker 2: Secretary of War Pete Higson, Joint Chief Chare is speaking

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Speaker 2: live at the Pentagon. Will dip in for a little bit. Then,

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Speaker 2: of course, we got to go a little bit back

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Speaker 2: and forth formatically, and I'm sorry about that. If the

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Speaker 2: press asks questions today, we will continue to monitor as well.

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Speaker 2: Here's a little more from Dan Raisin Kane to EH hour.

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Speaker 17: At fifteen thirty eight three point thirty eight pm on Friday,

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Speaker 17: February twenty seventh, the United States Central Command, through the

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Speaker 17: Secretary of War, received the final go order from President Trump.

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Speaker 12: The President directed.

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Speaker 17: And I quote Operation Epic Fury is approved. Noah borts

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Speaker 17: good luck close quote in the region. Every element of

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Speaker 17: the Joint Force made their final preparations. Air defense batteries

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Speaker 17: ready themselves, checking their systems to respond to Iranian attacks.

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Speaker 17: Pilots and crews rehearse their strike packages for the final time.

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Speaker 17: Air crews began loading their final weapons, and two carrier

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Speaker 17: strike groups began to move towards their launching points.

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Speaker 12: Across the globe.

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Speaker 17: Our operation centers came alive in Tampa, Florida, here at

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Speaker 17: the Pentagon, and of course forward in the Central Command

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Speaker 17: A or. As always, operational security was paramount as we

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Speaker 17: sought to maintain and sustain the element of surprise. This

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Speaker 17: operation was highly classified, so that at h hour the

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Speaker 17: enemy would see one thing speed, surprise and violence of action.

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Speaker 17: The first movers were US Cybercom and US space Com,

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Speaker 17: layering non kinetic effects, disrupting and degrading and blinding Iran's

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Speaker 17: ability to see, communicate, and respond. At h hour, the

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Speaker 17: beginning of major combat operations zero one fifteen Local Eastern

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Speaker 17: daylight time nine to forty five local am Tehran time.

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Speaker 17: As dawn crept up across the Central Command A or

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Speaker 17: the sky search to life, more than one hundred aircraft

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Speaker 17: launched from land, sea fighters, tankers, airborne early warningtronic attack

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Speaker 17: bombers from the States, and unmanned platforms, forming a single

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Speaker 17: synchronized wave. This was a daylight strike based on air

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Speaker 17: trigger event conducted by the Israeli defense forces, enabled by

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Speaker 17: the US intelligence community. The first shooters at sea were Tomahawks,

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Speaker 17: unleashed by the United States Navy, closed in on Iranian

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Speaker 17: naval forces and began to conduct strikes across the southern

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Speaker 17: flank in Iran. On the ground forces fired precision standoff

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Speaker 17: weapons measured deliberate, precise, and lethal. This was a massive,

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Speaker 17: overwhelming attack across all domains of warfare, striking more than

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Speaker 17: one thousand targets in the first twenty four hours. We

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Speaker 17: are now roughly fifty seven hours into the operation. In

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Speaker 17: the initial phase, Sencom's focus was systematic targeting of Iranians,

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Speaker 17: command and control infrastructure, naval forces, ballistic missile sites, and

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Speaker 17: intelligence infrastructure designed to daze and confuse them. Coordinated space

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Speaker 17: and cyber operations effectively disrupted communications and sensor networks across

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Speaker 17: the area of responsibility, leaving the adversary without the ability

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Speaker 17: to see, coordinate, or respond effectively. The combined impact of

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Speaker 17: these strikes, swift, precise and overwhelming, has resulted in the

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Speaker 17: establishment of local air superior.

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Speaker 2: Swift, precise, and overwhelming. That's Dan Raisin Kane, chair of

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Speaker 2: the Joint Chiefs there at the Pentagon. We will continue

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Speaker 2: to stay with this when we return from break. One

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Speaker 2: thousand targeted hits. In the first hours of this one

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Speaker 2: am eastern broad daylight, one hundred, one hundred aircraft launched.

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Speaker 2: It was a massive undertaking. Mornamentute, Old Glory they're waving

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Speaker 2: in midtown Manhattan this morning. You know, it wasn't since

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Speaker 2: at the southern tip of Manhattan. It wasn't sentenced the

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Speaker 2: events of nine to eleven that we talked about an

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Speaker 2: operation quite like this, and a lot of people remember

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Speaker 2: that back then. I do too. If you were of

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Speaker 2: a certain age, you remember it. Younger people who may

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Speaker 2: not remember it, they just remember the buzz saw that

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Speaker 2: had been Iraq and Afghanistan, and a lot of people

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Speaker 2: are leery that that is this all over again. Pete

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Speaker 2: Heggsith and Dan Raisin Kane, the Joint Chief Chair having

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Speaker 2: a joint press conference at the Pentagon at this hour,

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Speaker 2: and they went to great lengths to assure the American

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Speaker 2: public that is not what this is. This is precise.

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Speaker 2: They have a very specific target in mind, and when

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Speaker 2: they're done, they're out, was effectively the message today. I

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Speaker 2: want to go back to this press conference because the

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Speaker 2: Joint chiefs Chair has finished his remarks, was about to.

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Speaker 2: Pete Heggsyth, the Secretary of War, made remarks prior to him,

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Speaker 2: and I believe they're both going to take some questions

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Speaker 2: from the press. We're going to dip back in here.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Maguire is standing by as well, a great Republican strategist,

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Speaker 2: because I want to talk to her about the politics

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Speaker 2: of all of this. Domestically. Democrats, of course, try to

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Speaker 2: make ay. So let's go back to the press conference

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Speaker 2: and listen to some questions. I assume they're taking from

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Speaker 2: the media part of the reason.

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Speaker 12: Why it's such a threat to us.

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Speaker 15: That's why I talk about conventional umbrella to blackmail nuclear ambitions.

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Speaker 12: They were building up this conventional arsenal in order.

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Speaker 15: To ensure that no one would ever block them from

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Speaker 15: their ability to get nuclear weapons. So we're very clear

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Speaker 15: eyed about the nature of this Iritian threat, and we

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Speaker 15: are going to get after it. I don't know if

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Speaker 15: you ever have that sure, Thanks for the question.

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Speaker 17: The only thing I'll add is it unlike an operation,

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Speaker 17: a single operation like Midnight Hammer or Absolute Resolve. Well,

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Speaker 17: it'll take some time for us to conduct battle damage assessment,

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Speaker 17: and the targeting cycle that Sencom will.

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Speaker 12: Run will take those things into effect.

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Speaker 17: Apple Cooper will adjust his plan and fires accordingly to

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Speaker 17: ensure that we're at treating that. He's focused on long

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Speaker 17: range strike capability coming out of the enemy, and that's

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Speaker 17: a key and essential part of it.

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Speaker 8: The capabilities that still exist from the enemy front.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, that's what it may when I say we're still

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Speaker 17: doing BDA normally, you know, normally we'd be able to

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Speaker 17: see a singular thing and we'd assess pretty quickly he's

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Speaker 17: doing offense and assessment simultaneously, so it'll take longer for

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Speaker 17: us to assess than it would in a single operation.

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Speaker 12: So very fix seth.

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Speaker 1: Thank you a great use with the Daily Caller.

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Speaker 10: Two questions for you.

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Speaker 8: The President said yesterday in this video message that we

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Speaker 8: will leave or on when we complete all our objectives.

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Speaker 8: What are our objectives? And can you share more information

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Speaker 8: on how the soldiers who were killed were killed.

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Speaker 15: Well, they help the objectives, as did the chairman. They're

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Speaker 15: they're completely nested. I mean, Iran has an ability to

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Speaker 15: project power against us in our allies in the ways

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Speaker 15: that we can't we can't tolerate. So whether that's balistic

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Speaker 15: missiles and drones, so offensive capabilities effectively there their navy

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Speaker 15: which would attempt to set other terms and I pose

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Speaker 15: different costs, drone capabilities which which we laid out there

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Speaker 15: and ultimately just tying it back to Midnight hand, the

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Speaker 15: President has been willing to make a deal.

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Speaker 12: You can't have a nuclear bomb.

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Speaker 15: Radical Islamists can't have a nuclear bomb that they wheeled

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Speaker 15: against the world.

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Speaker 12: He gave them every single opportunity. Then we precisely took

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Speaker 12: it away.

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Speaker 15: And even then after that they didn't have that, they didn't.

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Speaker 12: Come to the table with a willingness to give it away.

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Speaker 15: So ultimately that those nuclear ambitions, which never ceased, are

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Speaker 15: something that had to be addressed as well. So that's

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Speaker 15: a discreet sense of what's being addressed here to ensure

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Speaker 15: that they can't use that conventional umbrella to continue a

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Speaker 15: pursuit of nuclear ambitions.

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Speaker 12: And then as it pertains to the US casualties, that particular.

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Speaker 15: Incident was you know, you have air defenses and the

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Speaker 15: lots coming in and you hit most of it, and

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Speaker 15: we absolutely do.

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Speaker 12: We have credible air defenders.

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Speaker 15: Every once in a while you might have one unfortunately

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Speaker 15: called a squirter that makes its way through, and in

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Speaker 15: that particular case happened to hit a tactical operations center

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Speaker 15: that was fortified. But these are powerful weapons, so we

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Speaker 15: are certainly we'll do as I said, moments like that

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Speaker 15: as we remember them and we take care of them

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Speaker 15: and take care of their families, only stiff in arms

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Speaker 15: off to ensure that we we do this properly.

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Speaker 12: Thank you, yeah, great, Thank you, secretary Headsas I had

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Speaker 12: two questions for you. First, are there currently any American

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Speaker 12: boots on the ground, and you're on.

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Speaker 15: No, but we're not going to go into the exercise

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Speaker 15: of what we will or will not do. I think

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Speaker 15: it's one of those fallacies for a long time that

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Speaker 15: this Department or presidents or others should tell the American

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Speaker 15: view our in our enemies, by the way, here's exactly

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Speaker 15: what we'll do, Here's exactly how long we'll go, here's

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Speaker 15: exactly how far we'll go.

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Speaker 12: Here's what we're willing to do and not do. Its foolishness.

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Speaker 15: And so President Trump ensures that our enemies understand, will

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Speaker 15: go as far as we need to go to advanced

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Speaker 15: American interest. But we're not dumb about it. You don't

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Speaker 15: have to roll two hundred thousand people in there in state.

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Speaker 15: For twenty years, we've proved that you can achieve objectives

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Speaker 15: that advance American interests without being foolish about it. Now,

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Speaker 15: will we be bold about it? Are we willing to

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Speaker 15: be decisive about it? Do we put months and months

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Speaker 15: of planning into what kind of effects we want to achieve?

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Speaker 12: Absolutely? But going forward, why in the world.

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Speaker 15: Would we tell you, you, the enemy, anybody, what we

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Speaker 15: will or will not do in pursuit of an objective.

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Speaker 12: We fight to win.

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Speaker 15: We fight to achieve the objectives the President of the

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Speaker 15: United States has laid out, and we will do so unapologetically.

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Speaker 18: Thank you any significance to Israel carrying out this strike

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01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:35,600
Speaker 18: to the Ayatola, and I wanted to know what was

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01:29:35,640 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 18: your immediate reaction to finding out about his coach.

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Speaker 15: I think Israel did a great job in the conduct

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Speaker 15: of that operation.

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Speaker 12: Please, yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 18: You mentioned during the briefing General Kin that there would

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Speaker 18: be additional troops, said to the regions, could you say

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01:29:56,439 --> 01:30:00,120
Speaker 18: how many troops currently are involved in this operation and

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01:30:00,120 --> 01:30:02,800
Speaker 18: how many additional troops are planned to.

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Speaker 12: Go in in this next phase.

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Speaker 17: I don't want to talk specifics because that would tip

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01:30:08,320 --> 01:30:13,240
Speaker 17: the enemy off. We have more tactical aviation flowing into theater,

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01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:15,280
Speaker 17: just based on the time it took to get it

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01:30:15,320 --> 01:30:18,280
Speaker 17: out there. I think we're just about where we want

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01:30:18,320 --> 01:30:20,920
Speaker 17: to be in terms of total combat capacity and total

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01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:24,080
Speaker 17: combat power. For Admiral Cooper, one of the things though,

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01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:29,640
Speaker 17: that a commander, he'll consistently assess the trajectory of the campaign,

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01:30:30,080 --> 01:30:33,000
Speaker 17: is he on or off trajectory and then make an

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01:30:33,040 --> 01:30:37,200
Speaker 17: ask of the joint force, which will then develop options

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01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:40,400
Speaker 17: for consideration by the Secretary and the President to either

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01:30:40,520 --> 01:30:43,759
Speaker 17: increase or in some cases decrease the amount of combat

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01:30:43,800 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 17: capability that we have over there.

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Speaker 2: I heard the question, all right. I think the bulk

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01:30:49,640 --> 01:30:51,800
Speaker 2: of the questions off the top most Americans are thinking

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01:30:51,840 --> 01:30:55,040
Speaker 2: about right now. We're just asked, what are the objectives?

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01:30:55,160 --> 01:30:59,639
Speaker 2: Keith Pete Higgs says, take out Iran's offensive capabilities, their navy,

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01:31:00,520 --> 01:31:03,040
Speaker 2: their drone capabilities, and no nukes. They are not to

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01:31:03,040 --> 01:31:04,920
Speaker 2: have nukes, they cannot develop nukes. We are not going

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01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:08,559
Speaker 2: to allow them to reconstitute nukes or the conventional umbrella

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01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:10,720
Speaker 2: under which they have been operating that way, so that's

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01:31:10,760 --> 01:31:13,639
Speaker 2: their goal. Asked about the three I guess now four

1534
01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:16,200
Speaker 2: who have lost their lives, he said they were hit

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01:31:16,320 --> 01:31:21,439
Speaker 2: in a tactical operations center because of an errant shot

1536
01:31:21,479 --> 01:31:24,880
Speaker 2: from an aerial assault what he called a squirter. That

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01:31:24,960 --> 01:31:26,519
Speaker 2: was what he referred to it as. That is kind

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01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:34,680
Speaker 2: of an erent, kind of astray aerial missile, I guess

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01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:36,479
Speaker 2: for one of a better term, that hit a tactical

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01:31:36,520 --> 01:31:41,080
Speaker 2: operations center, killing four of our service personnel. No boots

1541
01:31:41,080 --> 01:31:42,800
Speaker 2: on the ground, he said, we do not have any

1542
01:31:42,880 --> 01:31:45,040
Speaker 2: boots on the ground at present. He said, but it

1543
01:31:45,080 --> 01:31:48,519
Speaker 2: is foolish to project our plans. We have no intention

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01:31:48,600 --> 01:31:51,160
Speaker 2: of saying what we intend to do. But we don't

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01:31:51,160 --> 01:31:52,720
Speaker 2: have to stay there for twenty years and send in

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01:31:52,720 --> 01:31:55,840
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand of our men and women. So with that,

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01:31:55,920 --> 01:32:00,599
Speaker 2: I bring in our favorite strategist. She is a republic strategist.

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01:32:00,640 --> 01:32:03,160
Speaker 2: And the politics of this matter a lot. President Trump

1549
01:32:03,200 --> 01:32:05,879
Speaker 2: is not necessarily thinking about politics right now, clearly because

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01:32:06,840 --> 01:32:09,160
Speaker 2: you know, on its face this kind of thing is

1551
01:32:09,920 --> 01:32:12,720
Speaker 2: generally not popular with the American public, though this particular act,

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01:32:12,760 --> 01:32:17,559
Speaker 2: according to initial polling Aaron suggests people are happy the

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01:32:17,600 --> 01:32:19,840
Speaker 2: Supreme Leader is dead. Anyway, how do you read it

1554
01:32:19,840 --> 01:32:21,200
Speaker 2: from a politics perspective?

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01:32:21,240 --> 01:32:25,600
Speaker 19: Good morning, Good morning, First and foremost to the incredible

1556
01:32:25,800 --> 01:32:28,439
Speaker 19: men and women of the United States Military. Thank you

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01:32:28,520 --> 01:32:31,439
Speaker 19: for your service and for the four we've lost. We

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01:32:31,560 --> 01:32:35,000
Speaker 19: mourn as a country. Those are four brilliant Americans who

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01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:37,840
Speaker 19: are fighting for freedom and fighting for every ounce of

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01:32:37,880 --> 01:32:40,479
Speaker 19: freedom across the world. And we could not be lucky

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01:32:40,640 --> 01:32:44,759
Speaker 19: as a nation for our brave service members. Politically speaking,

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01:32:44,760 --> 01:32:47,280
Speaker 19: this is a very difficult time for President Trump and

1563
01:32:47,320 --> 01:32:51,720
Speaker 19: one where the American people, the Iranian people are celebrating

1564
01:32:52,080 --> 01:32:53,400
Speaker 19: the death of the Ayatola.

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01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:56,800
Speaker 1: That was a massive strike and a massive outcome. Here.

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01:32:57,200 --> 01:33:00,800
Speaker 19: The politics of this though sits Betweenericans with fear as

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01:33:00,840 --> 01:33:05,519
Speaker 19: a never ending war, regime change, and the escalatory pasture

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01:33:05,560 --> 01:33:06,599
Speaker 19: of the United States.

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01:33:06,800 --> 01:33:08,759
Speaker 1: Those are three very difficult places.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:10,960
Speaker 1: I'm thirty seven years old.

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01:33:11,080 --> 01:33:13,919
Speaker 19: I was in middle school when nine to eleven happened,

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01:33:14,040 --> 01:33:15,840
Speaker 19: and we spent twenty years in I rock.

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01:33:16,160 --> 01:33:18,840
Speaker 1: That was something that really turned the American people off.

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01:33:18,840 --> 01:33:22,000
Speaker 19: And the generation before mine and before that, the Vietnam

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01:33:22,040 --> 01:33:24,840
Speaker 19: War and the length of that war also really worried

1577
01:33:24,840 --> 01:33:28,479
Speaker 19: the American people. So the politics on that that is

1578
01:33:28,520 --> 01:33:30,920
Speaker 19: going to be important. But what President Trump is doing

1579
01:33:31,160 --> 01:33:33,000
Speaker 19: is continuing to communicate.

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01:33:33,280 --> 01:33:35,879
Speaker 1: He has not gone into a hole. He is not hiding.

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Speaker 19: He immediately put out a message to the American people

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01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:42,400
Speaker 19: about the strikes and then he took ten reporter calls

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01:33:42,600 --> 01:33:46,599
Speaker 19: from ten different outlets to read them in on what happened.

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01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:50,400
Speaker 1: Now, the biggest thing is going to be consistency in messaging.

1585
01:33:50,640 --> 01:33:53,880
Speaker 19: It's going to mean that the Department of War, the Pentagon,

1586
01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:57,280
Speaker 19: the White House and all leaders are on the same

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01:33:57,360 --> 01:34:00,640
Speaker 19: page on what the goals are. Is going to be

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01:34:00,680 --> 01:34:03,639
Speaker 19: the biggest thing because if the goal is regime changed,

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01:34:03,680 --> 01:34:06,000
Speaker 19: the president put out on true social you know, or

1590
01:34:06,080 --> 01:34:09,560
Speaker 19: the Iranian people stand up, This is your best opportunity.

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01:34:09,880 --> 01:34:13,120
Speaker 19: If it's blocking nuclear capabilities and making sure that they

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01:34:13,160 --> 01:34:16,759
Speaker 19: do not have nuclear proliferation or enrichment of uranium in Iran,

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01:34:17,200 --> 01:34:19,439
Speaker 19: that is another thing. But the message needs to be tight,

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01:34:19,479 --> 01:34:22,120
Speaker 19: and so far, even that little bit of fluidity in

1595
01:34:22,160 --> 01:34:26,400
Speaker 19: the message is going to give the president's adversaries ammunition

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01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:30,360
Speaker 19: to use against him politically about why we struck Iran?

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01:34:31,360 --> 01:34:33,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, what was your impression that was going to I

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01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:34,519
Speaker 2: was going to ask you, and if you're kind enough,

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01:34:34,920 --> 01:34:36,600
Speaker 2: you got up early for us, so we'll go to

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01:34:36,640 --> 01:34:38,080
Speaker 2: break and hold you over if we could, and have

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01:34:38,160 --> 01:34:39,600
Speaker 2: you back for some more. But let me let me

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01:34:39,600 --> 01:34:41,599
Speaker 2: ask you just broadly, what what did you think of

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01:34:41,680 --> 01:34:44,920
Speaker 2: the way I think you kind of touched on President

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01:34:44,960 --> 01:34:50,280
Speaker 2: Trump communicating this weekend. Haigs is just there. He's pretty combatant, combative.

1605
01:34:50,320 --> 01:34:52,320
Speaker 2: When asked, you know what about this? What about that?

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01:34:52,400 --> 01:34:54,320
Speaker 2: He continues to say, Look, we're not going to be

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01:34:54,360 --> 01:34:56,600
Speaker 2: dumb and tell you our next play. That's not the

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01:34:56,600 --> 01:34:58,200
Speaker 2: way we roll here. It's going to be swift, it's

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01:34:58,240 --> 01:35:00,000
Speaker 2: going to be decisive. It's going to be tough, hey

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01:35:00,160 --> 01:35:02,599
Speaker 2: says plays well, I think with most Americans because he's

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01:35:02,680 --> 01:35:03,840
Speaker 2: kind of a patent esque figure.

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01:35:03,920 --> 01:35:06,400
Speaker 1: Ya, I think so.

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01:35:06,560 --> 01:35:09,960
Speaker 19: And when you marry him up there in that Department

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01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:12,880
Speaker 19: of War Pentagon briefing with one of the leaders of

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01:35:12,920 --> 01:35:16,439
Speaker 19: the strikes who has kind of that tactical background information

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01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:19,639
Speaker 19: to really dive in, because part of working the Department

1617
01:35:19,640 --> 01:35:23,640
Speaker 19: of War Press Corps means having that very detailed information

1618
01:35:24,040 --> 01:35:27,040
Speaker 19: about the capabilities of the United States military and the

1619
01:35:27,080 --> 01:35:29,840
Speaker 19: build up there. So you've got a really nice juxtaposition

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01:35:30,000 --> 01:35:33,479
Speaker 19: and balance between the two messengers. Even in that press

1621
01:35:33,520 --> 01:35:37,000
Speaker 19: conference right now, you get Secretary Hegseth, who is bold

1622
01:35:37,120 --> 01:35:40,519
Speaker 19: and brash and unapologetic on behalf of the president.

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01:35:40,720 --> 01:35:42,559
Speaker 1: And then you maintain the Department of.

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01:35:42,520 --> 01:35:46,519
Speaker 19: War leadership as well in those conversations to not only

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01:35:46,560 --> 01:35:49,439
Speaker 19: the press but the American people. Everybody is working hand

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01:35:49,439 --> 01:35:52,479
Speaker 19: in glove on this to make sure that Iran does

1627
01:35:52,520 --> 01:35:55,719
Speaker 19: not have the ability to continue to try and threaten

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01:35:55,760 --> 01:35:58,519
Speaker 19: and murder Americans and our allies around the world.

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01:35:58,640 --> 01:35:59,840
Speaker 1: It is going to be very careful.

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01:35:59,880 --> 01:36:01,960
Speaker 19: And if I'm working at the White House, if you're

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01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:04,959
Speaker 19: Caroline Leavitt right now, you are talking to the Department

1632
01:36:04,960 --> 01:36:05,400
Speaker 19: of Work.

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01:36:05,280 --> 01:36:07,280
Speaker 1: Communications team non stop.

1634
01:36:07,400 --> 01:36:09,920
Speaker 19: This is a conversation that has to keep continuing, but

1635
01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:12,519
Speaker 19: the White House has to be the one driving the

1636
01:36:12,640 --> 01:36:15,800
Speaker 19: overarching message and letting the Department of War carry it.

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01:36:16,600 --> 01:36:18,240
Speaker 2: That was going to be my question for you, and

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01:36:18,280 --> 01:36:20,639
Speaker 2: I'll ask it of you when we return, Aaron McGuire.

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01:36:20,720 --> 01:36:24,080
Speaker 2: When the Secretary of War, the Joint Chief Chairman, they

1640
01:36:24,120 --> 01:36:26,000
Speaker 2: go to that podium and they talk to the press today,

1641
01:36:26,760 --> 01:36:29,280
Speaker 2: how much coordination is going on with the President and

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01:36:29,320 --> 01:36:31,479
Speaker 2: his comms team at the White House? I imagine quite

1643
01:36:31,479 --> 01:36:33,840
Speaker 2: a bit. We'll talk more about that. And by the way,

1644
01:36:34,280 --> 01:36:36,280
Speaker 2: how does this shake out in the coming year with

1645
01:36:36,400 --> 01:36:39,720
Speaker 2: the economy, gas prices and the like. Worna men with

1646
01:36:39,720 --> 01:36:45,040
Speaker 2: Aaron maguire. Back with Aaron McGuire, our Republican strategists that

1647
01:36:45,120 --> 01:36:48,479
Speaker 2: we count on for kind of an honest assessment of

1648
01:36:48,479 --> 01:36:50,320
Speaker 2: where things stand as we head into the midterms. It's

1649
01:36:50,360 --> 01:36:53,479
Speaker 2: always historically tough for the president's party in power to

1650
01:36:53,520 --> 01:36:56,720
Speaker 2: hang on anyway. We know where a war we're in nation,

1651
01:36:56,880 --> 01:36:59,280
Speaker 2: we get it, so the President's got to calculate that too.

1652
01:36:59,479 --> 01:37:02,000
Speaker 2: But he's clearly not thinking about this from a political

1653
01:37:02,040 --> 01:37:04,360
Speaker 2: point of view. But my question to you was, first

1654
01:37:04,360 --> 01:37:08,600
Speaker 2: of all, on messaging, are they mindful of this politically?

1655
01:37:08,760 --> 01:37:10,280
Speaker 2: I know you don't want to talk about putting men

1656
01:37:10,280 --> 01:37:13,120
Speaker 2: and women in harm's way as politics, but I assume

1657
01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:14,920
Speaker 2: if you're thinking it all about the fall, you've got

1658
01:37:14,920 --> 01:37:17,640
Speaker 2: to be thinking about how this is conveyed. And so

1659
01:37:17,720 --> 01:37:20,840
Speaker 2: my question heading in was how carefully and closely are

1660
01:37:20,880 --> 01:37:22,519
Speaker 2: they coordinating this with the Pentagon?

1661
01:37:23,760 --> 01:37:26,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, they should be very carefully and closely.

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01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:27,880
Speaker 19: And to your point, Chris, it really has nothing to

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01:37:27,920 --> 01:37:30,080
Speaker 19: do with midterms for them as much as it does

1664
01:37:30,120 --> 01:37:32,600
Speaker 19: the ability to land the mets, the message and the

1665
01:37:32,680 --> 01:37:36,400
Speaker 19: narrative that they want out there, really in these unprecedented times,

1666
01:37:36,439 --> 01:37:38,719
Speaker 19: and man, if we haven't said that a million times

1667
01:37:38,720 --> 01:37:41,719
Speaker 19: in this century, it feels like every time we turn around,

1668
01:37:41,760 --> 01:37:44,680
Speaker 19: it's another opportunity for this White House to get the

1669
01:37:44,720 --> 01:37:47,120
Speaker 19: message right. And that's something that they're doing very well.

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01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:51,400
Speaker 19: They have communications professionals just within the White House who

1671
01:37:51,439 --> 01:37:54,599
Speaker 19: work with the Cabinet, who work with specific departments. So

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01:37:54,640 --> 01:37:57,120
Speaker 19: in this case, I bet you it was the cabinet officials.

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01:37:57,240 --> 01:37:59,600
Speaker 19: It was the Cabinet Communication Team is the Department of

1674
01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:02,720
Speaker 19: Working Munication team, it's the White House Communication team, and

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01:38:02,800 --> 01:38:05,320
Speaker 19: it is those are the ones leading it, and they

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01:38:05,360 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 19: all are aware that how they message this has large

1677
01:38:08,600 --> 01:38:11,160
Speaker 19: implications for the president as commander in chief.

1678
01:38:11,360 --> 01:38:13,320
Speaker 1: Politics doesn't motivate.

1679
01:38:13,040 --> 01:38:15,559
Speaker 19: How they message this, and the midterms don't as well,

1680
01:38:15,800 --> 01:38:18,400
Speaker 19: But they know that right now their ability to message

1681
01:38:18,439 --> 01:38:22,280
Speaker 19: clearly has a major impact on the nation, and that's.

1682
01:38:22,040 --> 01:38:23,200
Speaker 1: The most important thing.

1683
01:38:23,560 --> 01:38:25,560
Speaker 19: A slip up in a word, a slip up in

1684
01:38:25,600 --> 01:38:29,600
Speaker 19: a comma, can really have a totality and a catastrophic

1685
01:38:29,680 --> 01:38:32,320
Speaker 19: effect in this country at this time.

1686
01:38:32,520 --> 01:38:34,080
Speaker 1: So they are working very closely.

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01:38:34,120 --> 01:38:36,920
Speaker 19: I imagine there are multiple calls a day, multiple meetings,

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01:38:37,120 --> 01:38:39,439
Speaker 19: and that all of the messaging that's coming out of

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01:38:39,479 --> 01:38:42,600
Speaker 19: the Pentagon has been looked at, hopefully and worked with

1690
01:38:42,920 --> 01:38:44,519
Speaker 19: by the White House team as well.

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01:38:45,320 --> 01:38:47,800
Speaker 2: The President's discipline has been remarkable. You and I were

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01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:49,400
Speaker 2: just talking about the state of the Union. You saw

1693
01:38:49,400 --> 01:38:51,479
Speaker 2: this coming. You saw some pictures released to the as

1694
01:38:51,479 --> 01:38:53,960
Speaker 2: you mentioned last week, the troops seating some lobster and

1695
01:38:53,960 --> 01:38:56,679
Speaker 2: some steaks, and that's generally a telltale sign. The President

1696
01:38:56,680 --> 01:38:58,320
Speaker 2: didn't show his hand at all on the state of

1697
01:38:58,320 --> 01:39:00,360
Speaker 2: the Union on this. I mean, his discipline has been

1698
01:39:00,400 --> 01:39:03,400
Speaker 2: really something kind of un Trump like generally.

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Speaker 19: People always underestimate Donald Trump, and then he shows up

1700
01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:10,120
Speaker 19: in the most unexpected ways sometimes as people kind of

1701
01:39:10,320 --> 01:39:12,760
Speaker 19: sometimes put him in a box for his performance. He

1702
01:39:12,800 --> 01:39:15,160
Speaker 19: did touch on Iran in the State of the Union address,

1703
01:39:15,200 --> 01:39:17,760
Speaker 19: but certainly had been very clear for a very long

1704
01:39:17,840 --> 01:39:21,519
Speaker 19: time these negotiations have an end date, and Iran was

1705
01:39:21,560 --> 01:39:22,479
Speaker 19: continuing to do.

1706
01:39:22,439 --> 01:39:24,000
Speaker 1: What Iran has always done.

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01:39:24,280 --> 01:39:27,960
Speaker 19: Kick the can, more conversations, let's keep talking. This isn't

1708
01:39:27,960 --> 01:39:31,080
Speaker 19: the Obama administration. Trump's not going to send him send

1709
01:39:31,320 --> 01:39:34,320
Speaker 19: around over a billion dollars in cold hard cash to

1710
01:39:34,400 --> 01:39:38,480
Speaker 19: try and placate them. No, the buck stops with the president.

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Speaker 1: And they were and this is an administration that.

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Speaker 19: Absolutely refuses to let Iran continue to be a global

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Speaker 19: sponsor and the leading global sponsor of terrorism around the world.

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Speaker 19: That line was set, Iran crossed it, and the president,

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Speaker 19: as I like to say, this is the f around

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Speaker 19: and find out presidency. I would not try and call

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Speaker 19: Donald Donald Trump's bluff at any point.

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Speaker 1: Administration.

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Speaker 2: He's about to sit down with China again, and we

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Speaker 2: got the midterms coming up. Thirty seconds. Tell me how's

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Speaker 2: this president doing? How's he doing domestically in messaging how's

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Speaker 2: he doing to our international foes like China? Kind of

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Speaker 2: your thoughts in closing here.

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Speaker 19: Yeah, Domestically, he is driving the message at home about

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Speaker 19: lower costs, about energy, about the tax cuts that people

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Speaker 19: are about to see in this tax season.

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Speaker 1: As we're entering.

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Speaker 19: So he's really shepherding that and geopolitically when it comes

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Speaker 19: to China in this conflict as well. That's really been

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Speaker 19: the President's sweet spot messaging wise in this administration.

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Speaker 1: He has been a geopolitical force for good and for truth.

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Speaker 19: So that messaging is going to play very keenly into

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Speaker 19: the midterms.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Maguire, We love leaning on her for her political acumen.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it as always on Mondays. What a weekend,

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Speaker 2: What a Monday, What a week? And weeks it will be.

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Speaker 2: God bless our troops, Aarin, Thank you, God, bless the

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Speaker 2: men and women who do this work. They are in

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Speaker 2: our prayers. Thanks for being with us. We'll see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: So that's a wrap for another Christagall Show podcast. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for committing to it, listening to it all the way through.

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