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Speaker 4: Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. It is April eighth,

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty six. We are here at the Yri Fi

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Speaker 4: Studios in Phoenix, Arizona. Welcome Blake. Howdy, Blake's deep in thought.

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Speaker 4: Already lots of news. I mean, I don't think that

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Speaker 3: Tons of news.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, we have a tentative, as Jade Vance says, a

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Speaker 5: This might not last, This might not last till the

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Speaker 4: So we're gonna see if this two week piece deal

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Speaker 4: So let's just go through all the facts. So a

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Speaker 4: I personally didn't think that that ever meant nuclear weapons.

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Speaker 6: Blake, your take, I think that's very possible, and you

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Speaker 6: You are the president has thought about Ron for literally decades.

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Speaker 4: And I think there's a couple other takeaways here. I

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Speaker 3: One of these.

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Speaker 4: Folks out in our movement that I would love to

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Speaker 4: have a barbecue with is Jonathan Keeperman. You might know

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Speaker 4: him as lom As. He is a sage of wisdom

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Speaker 4: the MAGA fracturing over the conflict in Iran. In We're

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Speaker 4: horn Moose yet. We're not through this yet, I don't

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Speaker 4: think so. Jonathan, welcome back to the show.

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Speaker 7: It's so good to have you man, Blake and Andrew,

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Speaker 7: it's great to be here. I appreciate the praise I

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Speaker 7: always love hearing that from you guys, So I could

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Speaker 3: I try to you know. It's it's.

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Speaker 6: So we've got a visual here running from left to right,

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Speaker 2: This is after peptides. Okay, they have peptides for.

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Speaker 3: This, So listen. I just got a haircut not long ago.

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Speaker 5: Okay, whatever you say, Andrew.

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Speaker 4: So Jonathan, let's just get your viewpoint first of all

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you know, just to set the table

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Speaker 7: we've been talking about the Iran War, and I share

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Speaker 4: I would say that as far as ending a war,

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Speaker 4: we had more, as you say, optionality here than a

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Speaker 4: lot of other scenarios that you could imagine. And we

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Speaker 4: kept saying like Trump could simply just declare victory and

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Speaker 4: get out. Yeah, I mean essentially that's what he was

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Speaker 4: kind of positioning, I believe, with the straight of hormus,

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Speaker 4: saying hey, we don't get any of our energy from there.

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Speaker 4: It's your guys' problem, NATO, if you guys want the

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Speaker 4: straight open and I think we're gonna kind of see

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Speaker 4: some of that when it comes to whether they're tariff

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Speaker 4: or whether it's a joint venture, whether we allow Iran to,

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Speaker 4: you know, put a toll on these tankers that go through.

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Speaker 3: Not ideal.

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Speaker 4: It sets a bad precedent I think for energy and

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Speaker 4: trade throughout the world. But it's also not a doomsday scenario.

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Speaker 6: I think if the president, I think the one thing

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Speaker 6: he seems consistently fixated on is the nuclear weapon part.

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Speaker 6: I think if you can credibly claim I have made

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Speaker 6: it so this will never happen or it will take

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Speaker 6: an extremely long time to happen.

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Speaker 5: I agree he's ready to accept a lot of other things.

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Speaker 3: I totally agree.

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Speaker 4: I think what's going to happen out of this, and

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Speaker 4: then I'll throw to you, Jonathan, is the negotiations that

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Speaker 4: are going to go on in Islamabad.

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Speaker 3: So apparently starting Friday.

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Speaker 4: There's some question of whether or not security is such

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Speaker 4: that Jade Vance can participate. But Jared Kushner Witkoff, I

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Speaker 4: think they are going to demand that there are actual

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Speaker 4: American forces or observers or whatever that goes on with

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Speaker 4: this I EA or whatever. Maybe I got the acronym wrong.

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Speaker 4: That goes in and actually removes it, physically removes it

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Speaker 4: and observes the removal of that. If they can negotiate

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Speaker 4: that in all of this, You're right, Blake. I think

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Speaker 4: they're going to be willing to put up with a lot,

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Speaker 4: including removing sanctions. This tolls through the straight Jonathan.

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Speaker 7: Your take, Yeah, I just think that you know, Blake's right,

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Speaker 7: and ending a war is difficult, But what you want

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Speaker 7: in this situation is for everybody to be able to

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Speaker 7: walk away. Both sides need to be able to walk away,

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Speaker 7: saving face to their own people, their own constituency. Iran

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Speaker 7: can tell their people that they made the Great Satan blink, okay,

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Speaker 7: and that's all they need, and they survived. There was

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Speaker 7: no regime change, so they're still standing. That is a

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Speaker 7: win sort of, regardless of anything else that happens from

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Speaker 7: their end. From Trump's point of view, the big headline

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Speaker 7: item here, and I think really the thing that's motivating him,

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Speaker 7: maybe even more so than the nuclear material their uranium,

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Speaker 7: is that he got the ayatola. The iatola has existed

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Speaker 7: as this sort of bogeyman for people Trump's age, going

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Speaker 7: back to the Cold War.

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Speaker 2: And you know, Trump.

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Speaker 7: Got another notch on his belt. He got the Iyatola.

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Speaker 7: Their military capacity is badly degraded. Obviously it can still

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Speaker 7: do some stuff like control the straight of horror moves,

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Speaker 7: but it's badly degraded. If he can get just some compromise,

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Speaker 7: even rhetorical compromise on the uranium stuff, I think both

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Speaker 7: sides can walk from this. And again, while it's not

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Speaker 7: a win per se, it's not a huge w it's

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Speaker 7: not the thing we're celebrating going into midterms. It's largely

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Speaker 7: forgotten I think in several months.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I just I do think that you could actually,

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Speaker 4: you know, spike the football pretty largely in a big way, loudly,

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Speaker 4: if you do get the concessions on the nuclear and

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Speaker 4: I think because that that has been the one most

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Speaker 4: consistent drum beat from President Trump when it comes to Iran.

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Speaker 4: You can't let Iran have nuclear if we get if

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Speaker 4: we get massive concessions there, but we have to give over,

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Speaker 4: give concessions back, for example on sanctioning their oil, then

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Speaker 4: that will that would be something that he could touch.

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Speaker 6: I think to say, in the end, Iran getting nuclear

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Speaker 6: weapons is the only thing that keeps us obsessed with them,

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Speaker 6: even if they're an annoying government. Frankly, even if they're

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Speaker 6: government that funds terrorist activities, it's the new It makes

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Speaker 6: them evil.

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Speaker 5: But there's a lot of evil government.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying.

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Speaker 4: They killed upwards of fifty thousand of their own people

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Speaker 4: during the protests. Yeah, And the question is, then, Jonathan,

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Speaker 4: if we remove sanctions on their energy and their petrol

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Speaker 4: chemicals and stuff like that, are we actually going to

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Speaker 4: potentially create a monster out of our run? I think

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Speaker 4: that would be the one question, because are they going

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Speaker 4: to be stronger? One of the questions that we have

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Speaker 4: remaining out of this is are they weakened? Will the

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Speaker 4: people actually you know, topple the regime eventually?

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Speaker 7: You know, this may run counter to you know, most

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Speaker 7: people's preferences, but I think regularizing relationships with anyone.

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Speaker 2: Is a good idea.

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Speaker 7: And if we can regularize economic relationships with Iran, maybe

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Speaker 7: there's some rough water that we have to pass through

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Speaker 7: and they abuse that for a period of time, but

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Speaker 7: I think in the long run that's the only way

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Speaker 7: out of this.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we need to have a sort.

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Speaker 7: Of global landscape where these countries participate in the broader

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Speaker 7: global economy.

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Speaker 2: That is a win.

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Speaker 7: And I think this larger narrative, the larger foreign policy narrative,

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Speaker 7: the Iran specific story, gets captured by what's going on

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Speaker 7: everywhere else. With Venezuela, We'll see what happens with Cuba,

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Speaker 7: We'll see what we can strike a deal maybe with China,

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Speaker 7: which I know is on the table and coming up soon.

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Speaker 7: So I think this can all work itself out, and

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Speaker 7: it isn't necessarily the case that removing sanctions is going

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Speaker 4: those things out. So I want to talk about the movement.

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Speaker 4: There's a story out of Axios. We could throw the

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Speaker 4: graphic up right now where it's talking about the Maga media,

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Speaker 4: you know world that helped create Trump, Maga media's great unraveling.

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Speaker 4: Of course, there's a picture of picture of Tucker, Alex Jones,

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Speaker 4: Marjor Taylor Green, Matt.

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Speaker 3: Walsh, and Cerno. Pretty sure, you know, you know.

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Speaker 4: It is truth to say that this has caused a

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Speaker 4: massive amount of consternation, handwringing, and actual attacks on the president.

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Speaker 3: Where do we go from here?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, look, I saw this article earlier, and

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Speaker 7: that's certainly an important and early faction that supported Trump.

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Speaker 7: But this is a huge coalition, and it's a big tent.

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Speaker 7: I'm a big tent guy, and we all have to

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Speaker 7: accommodate ourselves to the fact that we are in a

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Speaker 7: big tent coalition, and that consists of, you know, libertarians

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Speaker 7: and people who are very strongly opposed to the Iran

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Speaker 7: war and want to see us, from a foreign policy perspective,

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Speaker 7: retrench and retreat back into America. There are immigration hawks,

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Speaker 7: of which I count myself among.

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Speaker 2: There's the culture warriors.

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Speaker 7: You know, you have young people, old people, and there

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Speaker 7: are a lot of just diverging interests here, and all

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Speaker 7: of us are in some sense subservient to the interest

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Speaker 7: and will of Donald Trump. He's the guy at the top,

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Speaker 7: he's the guy that calls the shots. And sometimes when

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Speaker 7: you're within that coalition, you're going to get a little

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Speaker 7: bit of what you want. Sometimes you're going to get

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Speaker 7: a lot of what you want, and sometimes you're going

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Speaker 7: to have to compromise and give up on the things

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Speaker 7: you want because other members of that coalition are going

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Speaker 7: to win the argument on any given issue. And I think,

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Speaker 7: regardless of what's happened here, and I would really strongly

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Speaker 7: urge even those who are strongly opposed to what's going

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Speaker 7: on Iran to consider that we'd be much worse off

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Speaker 7: if the Democrats win, be much worse off if Kamala

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Speaker 7: Harris was president, and if the Republicans lose office in

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Speaker 7: the midterms. I don't believe in the acceleration thesis at all,

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Speaker 7: which is that you have to lose in order to

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Speaker 7: win at some point in the future. No, you win

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Speaker 7: by winning, You win incrementally within that coalition. You make

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Speaker 7: your argument, you try to win on the issues that

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Speaker 7: matter to you the most, and be willing to compromise elsewhere.

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Speaker 7: And remember that your ego just isn't very important in

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Speaker 7: this equation. And so what I hope is as this

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Speaker 7: starts to die down, as it becomes a less salient

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Speaker 7: centerpiece of what's going on in the news every day,

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Speaker 7: and it's the thing you see when you scroll that

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Speaker 7: will start to coalesce around more shared objectives. We get

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Speaker 7: back to this domestic agenda that I was referencing earlier.

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Speaker 2: So that's my hope, that's what I think will happen.

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Speaker 7: And I think you know, members of this coalition are

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Speaker 7: just going to have to learn to get along.

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Speaker 6: So I'm hopeful that you're right, Jonathan, But I guess

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Speaker 6: I want to sound a note of concern, worry, caution.

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Speaker 6: First of all, I think you and I both know

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Speaker 6: this already was a super salient issue before the Iran

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Speaker 6: War broke out. We've definitely got voices that are all

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Speaker 6: Israel all the time, all the Jews all.

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Speaker 5: The time, let's be frank.

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Speaker 6: And on top of that, it's also some of it's

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Speaker 6: going to be difficult to walk back.

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Speaker 5: We have people it wasn't just people opposed to the war.

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Speaker 6: We had people saying twenty fifth Amendment, use the twenty

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Speaker 6: fifth Amendment, people saying there's our war crimes. We need

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Speaker 6: a Nuremberg. We have people honestly sounding very liberal in

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Speaker 6: their overall statements, I guess, yeah, and they're saying we

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Speaker 6: shouldn't be criticizing Islam or whatever. But last Levault, there's

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Speaker 6: a concern I'm seeing where I think there's a lot

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Speaker 6: of voices on the bigger right that you say, we

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Speaker 6: want to unite around these domestic goals, but.

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Speaker 5: A lot of stuff is so not policy, not politically.

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Speaker 6: Driven at all anymore. And that's something that really concerns me.

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Speaker 6: It's when they're very centered on maybe their latest outrage stuff,

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Speaker 6: but not as much on what are we actually doing

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Speaker 6: on immigration for example.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, look, I don't want to sound too Pollyannas here,

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Speaker 7: and I recognize that some of this is sort of

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Speaker 7: hopeful thinking and that there are real headwinds facing this coalition.

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Speaker 7: And I think some of the impolitic and sort of

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Speaker 7: imprudent things that people were saying online, well, a lot

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Speaker 7: of that is just sort of siloed off in a

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Speaker 7: This is my view. Maybe I'm wrong about this, but

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Speaker 7: I some of this is just siloed off in the

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Speaker 7: online mill you that we operate in and we're highly

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Speaker 7: responsive to, but doesn't necessarily translate into broader conservative GOP politics.

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Speaker 2: That's one, and I think two.

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Speaker 7: You know, I'm operating under the assumption, which is just

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Speaker 7: I've seen over time that people have incredibly short memories,

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Speaker 7: and a lot of the people who are now in

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Speaker 7: Trump's face and are directing policy decisions, you know, six

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Speaker 7: years ago or ten years ago or whenever it was,

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Speaker 7: we're saying precisely the same things about Trump that some

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Speaker 7: of his more recent allies are saying about him now

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Speaker 7: with regards to Iran. So there's a lot of movement

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Speaker 7: within the collisions. People say things that are regrettable. I

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Speaker 7: hope cooler heads will prevail. I think there is time

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Speaker 7: to subtly sort of walk back some of the inflammatory

666
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Speaker 7: rhetoric that's been bandied about online over the last several

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Speaker 7: months with regards to Iran.

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Speaker 2: So, look, we have a.

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Speaker 7: Long way to go. The mid terms really haven't ramped

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Speaker 7: up yet. In terms of messaging. I think it's going

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Speaker 7: to be really important for GOP strategists to take a

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Speaker 7: very hard look of what's important to this coalition, what

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Speaker 7: can be the shared interest, and just hammer that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Over and over and over again.

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Speaker 7: And try to recreate the sort of enthusiasm that if

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Speaker 7: people again people don't remember.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was in January, the.

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Speaker 7: State of the U Union speech that was maybe the

679
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Speaker 7: high water mark of this first term. Everybody was really enthused.

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Speaker 7: All of the right things were being said. There was

681
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Speaker 7: this sense of coming together over a shared domestic agenda.

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Speaker 7: I really do think we can get back to that.

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Speaker 7: Maybe we lose some people, maybe this war and what's

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Speaker 7: gone on creates some attrition within the coalition, but I

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Speaker 7: don't think it has.

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Speaker 2: To be a fatal blow.

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Speaker 3: Jonathan.

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Speaker 4: When I interpret what you're saying, and I hate to

689
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Speaker 4: be this, you know, gruff with with the audience, with

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Speaker 4: the movement, with the coalition, it just sounds like you're

691
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Speaker 4: you're sort of compelling or begging people. Maybe not begging,

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Speaker 4: I'm begging them to be grown ups, to behave like adults.

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Speaker 4: You know, there's this speech that president or that Vice

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Speaker 4: President Vance gave this morning.

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Speaker 3: Where he's warning again he was just going to reference that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so let's go ahead and play this clip and

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Speaker 4: then we'll get you your take.

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Speaker 3: Seventeen.

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Speaker 8: Resist the temptation to think that victory is an im

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Speaker 8: mediate or that we're going to win back our civilization

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Speaker 8: through instant gratification. I think a lot of people this

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Speaker 8: is particularly true in the United States of America. If

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Speaker 8: they see something that the administration does they don't like,

704
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Speaker 8: they say, oh, that's not what we voted for.

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Speaker 2: We're going to check out a politics.

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Speaker 8: No. No, no, that's the exact wrong response. If we

707
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 8: do something you don't like, the response should be to

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Speaker 8: get more involved, to make your voice heard, and to

709
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Speaker 8: try to push things in the direction that you want

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Speaker 8: them to be pushed. Our civilization was not built overnight.

711
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Speaker 8: It's not going to be saved overnight. And so what

712
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Speaker 8: I'd encourage you to do is stay involved, be patient,

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Speaker 8: and don't let disappointment turn to checking out of the

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Speaker 8: system entirely.

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Speaker 2: There's way too much of that. We call that.

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Speaker 8: Black pilling in the United States of America, and black

717
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 8: pilling is how you give power to the forces that

718
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Speaker 8: are trying to destroy what our ancestors built.

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Speaker 4: Why I think this is so important, Jonathan, is because

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Speaker 4: let's go back to this Maggie Haram and Jonathan Swampiece

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Speaker 4: New York Times.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Jd Vance was the most anti Iran intervention voice in

724
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Speaker 4: the administration. He did not get what he wanted. He

725
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,280
Speaker 4: did not that is very clear. And here he is saying,

726
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 4: don't give in to cynicism. Stop demanding immediate gratification. You're

727
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 4: not going to get everything you want. I just find

728
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Speaker 4: it wild that we have so much of this like

729
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 4: main player syndrome going on, where everybody expects their viewpoint

730
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Speaker 4: to be expressed in the present.

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Speaker 3: If you want that, go run for president.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: And look, man, I think it's egos. I think there's

734
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Speaker 7: something about the media environment we're in that is hyper

735
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Speaker 7: focused on whatever's happening right now to the exclusion of

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Speaker 7: the longer timeline. And so there's two pieces of this

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Speaker 7: jd Vance clip that I think are so important to

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Speaker 7: take away, and I just I really love jd.

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Speaker 3: Vance.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he couldn't have articulated it better.

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Speaker 7: One is what he said leaves room for the internal

742
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Speaker 7: coalitional debate. It's not to say that you just have

743
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Speaker 7: to be in lock step with everybody in your coalition

744
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,320
Speaker 7: at all times. There's room for disagreement, there's room for debate,

745
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Speaker 7: and by the way, go out and win the argument.

746
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Speaker 7: Try to do what you can to influence the administration

747
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Speaker 7: to your side. That's fine as long as we're all

748
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Speaker 7: on the same side at the end of it. Part

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Speaker 7: two is this is a long game. We're not going

750
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Speaker 7: to undo what's happened to this country over the last

751
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Speaker 7: couple of decades in one year, in one term, in

752
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Speaker 7: one policy decision. This is something that is going to

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Speaker 7: take multiple administrations.

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Speaker 2: This is going to be something that takes.

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Speaker 7: Multiple generations of GOP coming together to figure out how

756
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Speaker 7: to undo first of all, all of the bad things

757
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Speaker 7: that were done previously, and then come up with better

758
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 7: solutions and better alternatives so that, yeah, frankly, we can

759
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 7: just live in a.

760
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Speaker 2: Normal, insane society again.

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Speaker 7: So I love this clip and I encourage everybody to

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Speaker 7: take these words from Jdvance to heart.

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Speaker 4: I think you're right. I think the timing of the

764
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 4: clip is really important. So listen, we've only got a

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Speaker 4: couple more minutes here with you. Jonathan Kieperman Lomez on

766
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Speaker 4: X great follow, But tell us what's going on with

767
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Speaker 4: Passages Press too, because yeah, there's so much happening. I've

768
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Speaker 4: seen you pictures online with like stack of books next

769
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Speaker 4: to you, and yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Give us the update.

771
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Speaker 2: So yeah, Passage, we are right.

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Speaker 7: Now, there's a huge sale, So go to passage dot

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Speaker 7: Press buy all the books in our backlist up to

774
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Speaker 7: fifty percent off on these bundles. We got books for kids,

775
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Speaker 7: these great Hardy Boys books and other kids books. We

776
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Speaker 7: got books for all interests, history books, war books, et cetera.

777
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Speaker 7: We got forty over forty books coming out the rest

778
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Speaker 7: of this year. We got a great new homeschool classic

779
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Speaker 7: curriculum imprint coming out that's going to be launching next

780
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Speaker 7: week that I'm really excited to get in people's hands.

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Speaker 7: We are making American literature great again. Okay, that is

782
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Speaker 7: our goal at passage dot Press, So please visit, please

783
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Speaker 7: support the cause. Blake and Andrew, I got a big

784
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Speaker 7: box sending you guys right now, so you'll have a

785
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Speaker 7: bunch of stuff soon, Okay, a bunch of swag.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I love looking here.

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Speaker 6: They've got They've got Hardy Boys, Robert Howard, that's Conan

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Speaker 6: the Barbarian, HP Lovecraft master Works. Uh, there's a lot

789
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Speaker 6: of stuff, and I really want to emphasize this point.

790
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Speaker 6: People should check this out because we complain so much

791
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Speaker 6: about rotten culture and one of the worst is books.

792
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Speaker 6: There's a lot of trashy books out there. There's not

793
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 6: enough good quality stuff that reflects our values, especially in

794
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Speaker 6: high quality form. There, I will say passages books. They

795
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Speaker 6: are good books. They are nice to have on your shelf,

796
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Speaker 6: and I'd strongly encourage everyone to uh to buy some

797
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Speaker 6: support Jonathan's business support.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I love this. Yeah, I'm coming back on. Okay,

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Speaker 2: the next time you ask, I.

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Speaker 3: Probably look it. I tell you, I'm trying to tell you.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm always like it's thrown out invites to

803
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,720
Speaker 4: Jonah that he's like, I'm a little busy and busy.

804
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Speaker 3: So finally was like, hey, you caught me on it

805
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Speaker 3: off day, Like this is actually good.

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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 4: But and then last thing here, and then we're gonna

808
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Speaker 4: we're gonna cut over and see if we can grab

809
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Speaker 4: this press conference.

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Speaker 3: You've got Rufo and Lomez. How do people watch that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, go to the Blaze Rufo and Lomez.

812
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Speaker 7: It's on YouTube. It's on the Blaze site. Uh, it's

813
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 7: a bi weekly show. It's me and Chris Rufo just

814
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 7: chatting figuring out what's going on, trying to keep this

815
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 7: coalition together, trying to make sense of all the complications

816
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 7: in our current politics and culture and everything else.

817
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Speaker 2: And then we also do an interview segment.

818
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Speaker 7: Blake was recently on with Chris last week, so we

819
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 7: got a lot going on there and please yes check

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Speaker 7: it out.

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Speaker 4: Awesome Jonathan, Keeperman and Keeperman. I think that's you're trying

822
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Speaker 4: to keep the coalition together right now, you know what.

823
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Speaker 3: I know. I view myself as about as far right

824
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 3: as you.

825
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 4: Can go on most issues, especially like immigration, and i'm

826
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Speaker 4: you know, up and down the.

827
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Speaker 5: Line far right as you can go, which is just

828
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Speaker 5: a bit left of me.

829
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know this is our internal debate. Blake's like,

830
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Speaker 4: you're are moderate, but this is my point. It's like,

831
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Speaker 4: it's crazy to feel like we're these like moderate voices

832
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Speaker 4: when you've got part of the former coalition. I don't

833
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 4: know what's gonna merge as that's you know, calling to

834
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Speaker 4: basically coup the president because they don't agree with his policies.

835
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Speaker 4: So like all of a sudden, I have to be

836
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Speaker 4: like a squish moderate and I hate it.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait. Like, so all right, my friend, we'll

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Speaker 3: see you soon. I hope.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Take care for the time. Man, folks.

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Speaker 4: This we don't take all of them on the show,

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Speaker 4: but I think today is a truly important day because

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Speaker 4: where it doesn't it's not as clear as like you know,

871
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 4: you know, World War two right where or civil war.

872
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 4: We're used to these grandiose celebrations that theatrics of, you know,

873
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 4: signing a surrender that doesn't happen in modern warfare nearly

874
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 4: as much. Obviously, we saw it in Venezuela where Maduro

875
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 4: was captured and taken back.

876
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 3: I mean that was fairly clearcut.

877
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 4: But it's not always clear cut, and so you have

878
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 4: to define your objectives and you have to then, you know,

879
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 4: get press conferences up and running into clear victory. This

880
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 4: is why I think hegseeth you saw him out this

881
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:37,680
Speaker 4: morning and explaining why he defines this as a victory

882
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 4: and obviously this is part of the pr spin both sides.

883
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:44,399
Speaker 4: I listen, I think, again to Blake's earlier point nine one,

884
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 4: we may not see this ceasefire even hold through the

885
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 4: end of the show. But I think that given the

886
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 4: calculus of a current moment, I think the administration would

887
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 4: be loath to reignite hostilities kinetic operations because I think

888
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 4: there is an understanding that Iran is really willing to

889
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 4: sort of wait out and take the barrage, take the punishment.

890
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 4: But here's Pete hegseth st three.

891
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 11: Iran begged for this ceasefire, and we all know it.

892
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 11: Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on

893
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 11: the battlefield, a capital v military victory.

894
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,240
Speaker 4: It was a little bit of defining though military victory.

895
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 4: He didn't say it was a political victory. It's not

896
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 4: regime change. I think what is going to be very

897
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 4: interesting in this press conference as we a wait that

898
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 4: you can see that at the bottom of your screen.

899
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 4: It's going to be very interesting to see what happens

900
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 4: specifically with nuclear right nuclear is I think if we

901
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 4: can get that chess piece off the board, we can,

902
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 4: I think objectively declare some semblance of a victory and say, listen,

903
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,399
Speaker 4: maybe the strait is it cleared out. Maybe we didn't

904
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 4: get regime change. Maybe we remove sanctions and they are

905
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 4: going to get more money flowing into the Iranian regime.

906
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 4: But the Ietola is gone, most of their main leadership

907
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 4: is gone. Maybe we'll have to lomz this point and

908
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 4: the previous hour. We're going to establish regular relations, normalize

909
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 4: relations with whatever is left intact in Iran. And that's

910
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 4: not a bad thing, all right. So I think I'm

911
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 4: waiting for clarity. I think the world is waiting for clarity.

912
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 4: I don't know, Blake, what are you hoping to see?

913
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 4: Because sometimes these press conferences you don't get much specific.

914
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 4: I think today's going to be a bit different.

915
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I think, as you say, we're going to

916
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 6: see them define not just what victory is, but hopefully

917
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 6: set terms for the ceasefire that can hold. I think

918
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 6: they're probably going to get grilled over strikes still happening,

919
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 6: over that disagreement over Lebanon, and that's probably going to

920
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 6: be the most difficult answer they can give, because that's

921
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 6: going to be what people on to break the ceasefire

922
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 6: wide open again. We'll probably also have to see how

923
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:55,919
Speaker 6: aggressive their posture is on if the ceasefire starts breaking down,

924
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 6: are they ready to fully resume everything. Are we back

925
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,760
Speaker 6: to the threats or do we think Trump is seizing

926
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,720
Speaker 6: an off ramp aggressively where if the ceasefire starts going south,

927
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 6: he's still not inclined to raise back up all of

928
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 6: America's military operations.

929
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we know already reporting is that Israel,

930
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 4: the leadership of Israel, is not happy with this ceasefire.

931
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 4: They very much want to be able to continue operations

932
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 4: in southern Lebanon to take out Hesbelah. I think it's

933
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 4: also a like I mentioned before, it's a clear indication

934
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 4: that Iran sees Hesbela as an extension of the regime.

935
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 4: So you know, if there was any doubt, let there

936
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 4: be no doubt that Hesbela is an extension of the

937
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 4: regime in Lebanon. And Israel is not happy with this,

938
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 4: but they're kind of Trump's got them cornered a little bit.

939
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 4: So I think that's going to be another question here

940
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 4: that Caroline Levit's going to have to navigate what are

941
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 4: you going to do with Israel? Israel is a X

942
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 4: factor question mark on the board. Obviously, their proximity to

943
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:56,399
Speaker 4: Iran is much closer than our own, so they want

944
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 4: to see this regime toppled. There's no doubt in anybody's

945
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 4: mind really, So we'll see how she handles that. But again,

946
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 4: questions on the board nuclear straight o' her moves hesbilla,

947
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 4: can this cease fire hold? Is Jade Vance going to

948
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:15,760
Speaker 4: be present in Islamabad for the Friday peace steal negotiations

949
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 4: or is there some security concern? What is the security concern?

950
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 4: So there's a thousand questions that she's going to be

951
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 4: confronted with, and maybe it will be a grilling, but

952
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 4: I think I'm most curious to see what is the

953
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 4: ten point plan? Are we going to get any clarity

954
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:33,320
Speaker 4: on the ten point plan? The White House has already

955
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 4: said it's a different ten point plan than has been

956
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 4: reported and circulated.

957
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 6: It is funny how I don't think there's been any

958
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 6: public versions of the ten point plan. Yeah, there's all

959
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 6: different places reporting les versions.

960
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 4: I think that's why President Trump issued that truth today

961
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 4: saying that they're all fake basically, So take it all

962
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 4: with a grain of salt, keep your wits about you.

963
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 4: This is all a litmus test all right, this is

964
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 4: all litmus test. Are you going to catastrophize, are you

965
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 4: going to doom and gloom? Or are you going to

966
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 4: keep your wits about you. I'm very proud of us

967
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 4: on the show that we've kept our wits about us

968
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 4: and we're column balls and strikes. We're not rushing into war.

969
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 4: We certainly are glad that this one could be on

970
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 4: the precipice, on the threshold of being over. I think

971
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:19,799
Speaker 4: that's a good thing and we should celebrate that. But

972
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 4: it is fragile. It is very fragile, and we've got

973
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 4: to see right now, the strait is essentially halted.

974
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:25,280
Speaker 3: It's closed.

975
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 4: So is there going to be immediate action taken by

976
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 4: the administration to get that reopened.

977
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 3: We don't know.

978
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 4: And I think it's also very telling here we are.

979
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 4: This was supposed to start at ten we one pm Eastern,

980
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 4: this press conference, and we're already at one twelve pm Eastern,

981
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 4: so it's already been delayed a bit. We kept this

982
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 4: segment open for this press conference today and it's delayed,

983
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 4: which means this is a very active and moving situation.

984
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 4: And I bet we're working with wet Cement here. Wet cement.

985
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 5: Indeed, Yeah, and then how quickly does it? But yeah,

986
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 5: did you ever did you ever read Hitchhiker's Guide to

987
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 5: the Galaxy?

988
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 12: No?

989
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 3: I joined up.

990
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 6: It's I don't know if maybe it would age badly,

991
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 6: it might not be funny anymore, but it's what's funny about?

992
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 3: Watch them? I watched them.

993
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,319
Speaker 5: Well, well, I'm just say with the black pilling thing,

994
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:14,759
Speaker 5: I just remember.

995
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 6: The thing you'll remember is that the Hitchhiker's Guide of

996
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 6: the of the title, it's this book, and it just

997
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 6: says on the cover, don't panic. And I think that

998
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 6: would be good to have on a lot of things

999
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 6: in the right. Maybe we could add it to these

1000
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 6: pocket constitutions that we have.

1001
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 4: Just put don't panic on the article one, section one.

1002
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 4: Just to give you a quick market update, though. Oil

1003
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 4: is down eighteen dollars a barrel. It came down at

1004
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:41,320
Speaker 4: about I think it was about one ten. It settled yesterday,

1005
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 4: so it's at ninety four dollars a barrel. It's down

1006
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 4: sixteen percent, which is good news. And then the markets

1007
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 4: are surged twelve hundred points. The Dow is up twelve

1008
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 4: hundred s and P five hundred is up two and

1009
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 4: a half points, up one hundred and sixty seven, and

1010
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 4: the Nasdaq is up three points at six hundred and

1011
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 4: seventy points. So the markets like what they're hearing, despite

1012
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 4: some of the uncertainty, despite the fragile, very fragile piece

1013
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 4: that we've reached, Let's hope that it continues on. Let's

1014
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 4: hope that Caroline Levitt has some updates for us that

1015
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:19,360
Speaker 4: will lead us to have additional reason for optimism. But

1016
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 4: right now, I think, right now, I think a lot

1017
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 4: of the calls yesterday for the twenty fifth Amendment, a

1018
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 4: bunch of Democrats got together, what did the number get

1019
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 4: up to, like seventy eighty Democrats calling for President Trump's impeachment.

1020
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 4: A lot of that has settled, and that today is

1021
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:40,760
Speaker 4: a new day. So I'm very very interested to see

1022
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 4: what is revealed in this press conference.

1023
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 3: All right, I want to while we're waiting on.

1024
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 4: This press conference to get started, it's important to realize

1025
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 4: what some of the rhinos in the House tried to

1026
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 4: do while we were all distracted by the war. Well,

1027
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:56,799
Speaker 4: we weren't so distracted that we didn't notice. We had

1028
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 4: Nick Sorder on yesterday talking about it, and that's when

1029
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 4: I discovered that it wasn't, in fact, called the Dignity Act,

1030
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 4: It's called the God Act. They had the audacity, the

1031
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:11,280
Speaker 4: shamelessness to put a Spanish word on an amnesty bill

1032
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 4: while we were all distracted with Iran.

1033
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 3: Let's hear Rep. Maria Salazar in her own words, twelve.

1034
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 13: We give them dignity. At some point in the future,

1035
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 13: another legislator will write another law to give them paths

1036
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 13: to citizenship. Right now, what we need to do is

1037
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 13: to buy peace for these people, allow them to stay,

1038
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 13: to continue working because they're needed.

1039
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 5: It's just insane.

1040
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,919
Speaker 6: It's we actually want an election on saying we're going

1041
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 6: to enforce the border, we're going to do deportations. And

1042
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 6: every single time Congress comes up there like cockroaches or something,

1043
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 6: and they just come out and say, actually, what the

1044
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:51,360
Speaker 6: people wanted was mass amnesty.

1045
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the exact opposite.

1046
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 4: And what I've realized from this is that there will

1047
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 4: always be a push. It doesn't matter how much the

1048
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 4: base wants the money, interest in ag, hospitality, other sectors

1049
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:07,959
Speaker 4: are going to continue pushing for amnesty because they want

1050
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:08,720
Speaker 4: cheap labor.

1051
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,399
Speaker 6: You literally just have to learn to tune them out.

1052
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,319
Speaker 6: You just like they're going to say it. No matter what,

1053
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:15,279
Speaker 6: they will always say it. So you just have to

1054
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,279
Speaker 6: ignore them. You have to say thanks, you say that

1055
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 6: every time, we're ignoring you.

1056
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 3: So Rep.

1057
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:23,479
Speaker 4: Maria Alvira Salazar, who should be primary, by the way,

1058
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 4: like this woman, I don't care who endorsed her. Okay,

1059
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 4: I guess she's got a Trump I don't care. She

1060
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 4: needs to be primary because you cannot represent the grassroots

1061
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 4: and the movement of the Republican Party if you're going

1062
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 4: to continue pushing garbage amnesty and try and you know,

1063
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 4: to quote Ron Desantist, don't pee on my leg and

1064
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 4: tell me it's raining. That's exactly what's happening here. Brandon Gill,

1065
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 4: who's gonna come on the show tomorrow, said this is

1066
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 4: an amnesty bill. She fires back said, read the bill

1067
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 4: before you open your mouth. Calling the Dignity Act amnesty

1068
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 4: isn't just wrong, it's a deliberate distortion.

1069
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 3: No, what you're trying to do.

1070
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 4: Calling it the Dignity Act is a deliberate distortion of

1071
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 4: an amnesty bill.

1072
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 3: And I love that.

1073
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 4: There's a community note on her x feed here it

1074
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 4: says it grants amnesty permanent residency Dream Act, Deferred Action

1075
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 4: in Legal Status, Dignity Program, halts deportations, wipes three to

1076
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 4: ten year bands, creates inspected and admitted loopholes, grants Attorney

1077
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:23,800
Speaker 4: General power to terminate deportation for family hardship.

1078
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:27,479
Speaker 3: Are you kidding it? Who they're all gonna claim cardship family?

1079
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're always You can't really give in these flexible

1080
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 6: definitions of things.

1081
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 5: We've seen that with asylum. We've seen this with refugee status.

1082
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 5: We see it.

1083
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 6: I mean, that's also how all the fraud that works

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Speaker 6: in all these blue states. You create a vague category

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Speaker 6: that everyone can claim, and if it's not really aggressively enforced,

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Speaker 6: it quickly breaks down. And we know it won't be

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Speaker 6: You have these immigration judges, and if you install a

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Speaker 6: sympathetic actor, you basically have the inmates running the asylum.

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Speaker 5: Everyone's able to claim the benefit.

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Speaker 3: Get this.

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Speaker 4: It allows every illegal alien deported by Trump since January

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Speaker 4: twenty seventeen to return to the USA. They can apply

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Speaker 4: for their new dignity status Digny DODD from their home

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Speaker 4: country and then return to the USA. It also ups

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Speaker 4: caps on certain immigration visas it so it increases our immigration.

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Speaker 4: Then it provides funding to lawyers that are going to

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Speaker 4: argue on behalf of these illegals to get back into

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Speaker 4: the country. This is a this is absolute resous behavior,

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Speaker 4: betrayal of the American voters. Get this woman out of

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Speaker 4: my party. And by the way, I'm gonna have Rich

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Speaker 4: Barris joined maybe tomorrow if he's available, because he's got

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Speaker 4: a backstory on some of this polling that's being circulated

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Speaker 4: around the administration that is warning them against using the

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Speaker 4: words mass deportation. I want to hear your your thoughts.

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Speaker 4: Send us an email Freedom at Charlie Kirk right now.

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Speaker 4: Do you like the term mass deportation?

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Speaker 3: Do you not like it?

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Speaker 4: Do you understand the rationale behind maybe not using it

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Speaker 4: as much? Okay, I want to hear all your viewpoints.

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Speaker 4: Do you think it's bad PR Listen, there is an

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Speaker 4: argument to be made that we lost some of the

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Speaker 4: PR wars right mass on ice agents. That's one of

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Speaker 4: the things that I've heard actually does pull very badly. Okay, Well, like,

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Speaker 4: maybe there's some room to maneuver here, but you are

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Speaker 4: not going to convince me that mass deportations and the

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Speaker 4: reclaiming of American culture and sovereignty is not popular across

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Speaker 4: the board. It is one of the issues that has

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Speaker 4: been I think under valued, underappreciated the most in American

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Speaker 4: politics since Trump came down the Golden escalator. He saw it,

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Speaker 4: he called it out, and it will and Caroline just

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Speaker 4: walked out. And Trump deserves a massive amount of credit

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Speaker 4: for changing the discourse on that topic alone. And we're

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Speaker 4: gonna die on that hill. That's the hill you die on.

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Speaker 4: It's mass deportations in our sovereignty. Let's go ahead and

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Speaker 4: take the Caroline Levett press conference.

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Speaker 14: Good afternoon, everybody. Good to see all of you here today.

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Speaker 15: Before I discuss the ceasefire with a on I have

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Speaker 15: a quick update from the First Lady of the United States.

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Speaker 14: Yesterday marked the very first.

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Speaker 15: Conviction under the Take It Down Act, landmark legislation that

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Speaker 15: First Lady, Milania Trump, played an instrumental role in getting

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Speaker 15: passed that protects victims from non consensual AI generated sexually

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Speaker 15: explicit images, cyber stocking, and threats of violence. This is

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Speaker 15: a huge achievement for the First Lady, and I know

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Speaker 15: the President is very proud of his wife's efforts in

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Speaker 15: getting this critical legislation passed to protect America's youth. So

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Speaker 15: we thanked the First Lady for her efforts, and we

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Speaker 15: hope that others will report on this historic conviction yesterday.

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Speaker 15: With respect to the two week cease fire announced by

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Speaker 15: President Trump last night, this is a victory for the

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Speaker 15: United States of America that the presidents in our incredible

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Speaker 15: military made happen. From the very beginning of Operation Epic Fury,

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Speaker 15: President Trump stated this would be a four to six

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Speaker 15: week military operation to dismantle the military threat posed by

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Speaker 15: the radical Islamic Iranian regime. Thanks to the unbelievable capabilities

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Speaker 15: of America's war fighters, the United States has achieved and

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Speaker 15: exceeded those core military objectives.

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Speaker 14: In just thirty eight days.

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Speaker 15: The US military destroyed Iran's defense industrial base, crushing the

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Speaker 15: regime's ability to manufacture weapons that they and their proxies

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Speaker 15: used to maim and kill Americans and.

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Speaker 14: Terrorize the world.

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Speaker 15: Iran's ability to build in stockpile ballistic missiles and long

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Speaker 15: range drones has also been set back by years compared

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Speaker 15: to where it was six weeks ago prior to the

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Speaker 15: launch of Operation Epic Fury. We destroyed the vast majority

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Speaker 15: of Iran's ballistic missiles launcher vehicles and long range attack drones.

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Speaker 15: Through more than four hundred and fifty strikes on ballistic

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Speaker 15: missiles and approximately eight hundred strikes on Iran's drone launching

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Speaker 15: units and storage facilities. In total, more than thirteen thousand

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Speaker 15: targets of across Iran were struck. Again, this is in

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Speaker 15: the matter of just thirty eight days. Meanwhile, the Iranian

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Speaker 15: navy was completely annihilated. The United States destroyed more than

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Speaker 15: one hundred and fifty naval vessels in total, including sixteen

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Speaker 15: entire classes of Iranian warships. Despite once being the largest

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Speaker 15: undersea force in the Middle East, Iran now has zero

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Speaker 15: submarine vessels. Ninety seven percent of Iran's once massive inventory

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Speaker 15: of more than five thousand naval mines has.

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Speaker 14: Also been targeted and destroyed.

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Speaker 15: Iran's air forces are functionally and operationally irrelevant at this point,

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Speaker 15: after the United States maintained total air dominance over their

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Speaker 15: country for weeks on end. To underscore the significance of this,

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Speaker 15: before Operation Epic Fury, the Iranian Naval Air Force would

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Speaker 15: fly between thirty to one hundred flights per day. Today

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Speaker 15: that number is zero. Iran's ability to fund and so

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Speaker 15: poor its terrorist proxies has been greatly reduced. At this point,

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Speaker 15: Iran can no longer distribute weapons to its proxies in

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Speaker 15: the region, and most importantly, Iran will not be able

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Speaker 15: to acquire nuclear weapons. Prior to the start of this

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Speaker 15: successful operation, Iran was aggressively expanding its short range ballistic

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Speaker 15: missile arsenal. Through these weapons and its navy, Iran was

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Speaker 15: attempting to build a military build up around their country

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Speaker 15: that would pose an imminent and existential threat to the

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Speaker 15: United States military assets in the Middle East, our allies

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Speaker 15: in the region, and ultimately.

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Speaker 14: The free world.

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Speaker 15: Iran was pursuing this dangerous and aggressive strategy for one reason,

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Speaker 15: to hold the entire world hostage to its terrorist ambitions.

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Speaker 15: The Iranians aim to use their expanded military capabilities as

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Speaker 15: a shields around their country to continue achieving their ultimate

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Speaker 15: goal internally building nuclear bombs. But their murderous and evil

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Speaker 15: plans have been blown up quite literally and figuratively. Along

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Speaker 15: with their military, their nuclear program, and most of their

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Speaker 15: senior leadership, including the former Supreme Leader Ayatola A La Camani,

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Speaker 15: their command and control structures were also massively disrupted after

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Speaker 15: being struck more than two thousand times. Many of their

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Speaker 15: remaining leaders are paralyzed in fear and no longer enjoy

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Speaker 15: the freedom to move around their country freely and meet openly.

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Speaker 15: Thanks to the unmatched excellence of our warriors at the

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Speaker 15: direction of the Commander in Chief, the world has just

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Speaker 15: witnessed a historically swift and successful military triumph.

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Speaker 14: President Trump started Operation Epic Fury with.

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Speaker 15: Strategic military objectives in the United States has clearly achieved them.

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Speaker 15: As we mark this progress, we also remember and honor

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Speaker 15: the thirteen American heroes who laid down their lives in

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Speaker 15: this noble effort. I know President Trump, in our grateful

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Speaker 15: nation honors their ultimate sacrifice, and we will never forget them.

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Speaker 14: May God bless their families.

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Speaker 15: The valiant efforts of all of our our incredible service

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Speaker 15: members created maximum leverage for the President of the United States,

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Speaker 15: allowing he and his leadership team to engage in tough

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Speaker 15: negotiations over the past couple of weeks that have now

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Speaker 15: created an opening for a diplomatic solution in long term

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Speaker 15: peace in the Middle East. The President's maximum pressure and

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Speaker 15: the leverage created by the success of Operation Epic Fury

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Speaker 15: led to the Iranian regime asking for and ultimately agreeing

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Speaker 15: to a ceasefire proposal with the United States. Iran can

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Speaker 15: no longer tolerate being bombed or taking the gamble of

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Speaker 15: what was to come. Following President Trump's eight pm deadline

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Speaker 15: last night, Iran has agreed to open the strait of

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Speaker 15: her moose, and as the President said, we have received

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Speaker 15: a proposal from the Iranians that has been determined to

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Speaker 15: be a workable basis on which to negotiate. I've seen

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Speaker 15: a lot of inaccurate coverage today from the media about

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Speaker 15: these negotiations in these plans already, so let me be

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Speaker 15: clear and correct the record. The Iranians originally put forward

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Speaker 15: a ten point plan that was fundamentally unserious, unacceptable, and

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Speaker 15: completely discarded. It was literally thrown in the garbage by

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Speaker 15: President Trump and his negotiating team. Many outlets in this

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Speaker 15: room have falsely reported on that plan as being acceptable

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Speaker 15: to the United States, and that is false. With the

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Speaker 15: president's deadline fast approaching in the United States military completely

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Speaker 15: decimating Iran with each passing hour, the regime acknowledged reality

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Speaker 15: to the negotiating team. They put forward a more reasonable

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Speaker 15: and entirely different and condensed plan to the President and

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Speaker 15: his team. President Trump and the team determined the new

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Speaker 15: modified plan was a workable basis on which to negotiate

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Speaker 15: and to align it with our own fifteen point proposal.

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Speaker 14: The President's red.

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Speaker 15: Lines, namely the end of Iranian enrichment in Iran, have

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Speaker 15: not changed, and the idea that President Trump would ever

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Speaker 15: accept an Iranian wish.

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Speaker 14: List as a deal is completely absurd.

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Speaker 15: The President will only make a deal that serves in

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Speaker 15: the best interests of the United States of America, and

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Speaker 15: he is a negotiating team.

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Speaker 14: We'll focus on this effort over the next two.

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Speaker 15: Weeks so long as the strait of her moves remains

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Speaker 15: open with no limitations or delays. These extraordinarily sensitive and

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Speaker 15: complex negotiations will take place behind closed doors over the

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Speaker 15: course of the next two weeks. I would strongly advise

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Speaker 15: the media against running.

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Speaker 14: With narratives that have no basis.

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Speaker 15: In fact, what Iran says publicly or feeds to all

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Speaker 15: of you in the press is much different than what

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Speaker 15: they communicate to the United States. The President and his

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Speaker 15: team privately never underestimate President Trump's ability to successfully advance

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Speaker 15: America's interests and broker peace. President Trump has a proven

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Speaker 15: track record of achieving good deals on behalf of the

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Speaker 15: United States and the American people, and he will only

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Speaker 15: accept one that puts America first.

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Speaker 3: Listen.

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Speaker 4: If faith and values are important to you, they should

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Speaker 4: be a part of how you date. It's that simple,

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Speaker 4: not something you figure out later when you, like three,

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Speaker 4: four months down the road in a relationship. You see,

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Speaker 4: most dating apps are built around casual connection, instant gratification,

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Speaker 4: no long term vision, and that's just not what many

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Speaker 4: of you are looking for. Thank goodness, That's why I

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Speaker 4: like Upward. It's a dating app designed around faith and

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Speaker 4: shared values. People who care about commitment, integrity, marriage and family,

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Speaker 4: the things that we really value on this show. You're

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Speaker 4: starting from common ground instead of trying to negotiate your

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Speaker 4: core beliefs months into a relationship. That kind of clarity

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Speaker 4: matters if faith is central to your life, or even

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Speaker 4: if it's something that shaped how you were raised and

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Speaker 4: how you see the world. Upward connects you with people

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Speaker 4: who take that seriously. So if you're tired of the

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Speaker 4: confusion and ready to date with intention, with marriage and

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Speaker 4: family and mind, download Upward and start building on that

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Speaker 4: right foundation. Because strong relationships start with shared values. Download

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Speaker 4: the Upward app today.

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Speaker 15: With that, I will take your questions today. I'm sure

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Speaker 15: you have a lot of them. In our new media seat,

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Speaker 15: we have Shaped Harris with the AMAC news line. Shane,

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Speaker 15: thank you for being here. Why don't you kick us off?

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Speaker 16: Yeah?

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Speaker 17: Thanks for having me, Caroline.

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Speaker 3: Two questions are you?

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Speaker 7: First?

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Speaker 18: Following the President's announcement of the ceasefire, If this is

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Speaker 18: indeed the end of hostilities in Iran, what is the

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Speaker 18: President's message to the American people about what was it

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Speaker 18: achieved for our country through Operation Epic Fury.

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Speaker 15: Sure, I think I just laid out a significant portion

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Speaker 15: of that in my opening remarks six weeks ago. The

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Speaker 15: President looked the American people in the eye directly, and

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Speaker 15: he told them that he launched this operation to take

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Speaker 15: out the imminent threat that was posed by Iran. And

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Speaker 15: that threat has now been greatly destroyed. Their navy, their missiles,

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Speaker 15: their defense industrial base, and their desire and their plan

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Speaker 15: to build a nuclear bomb inside their country is no

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Speaker 15: longer going to be allowed, can no longer happen thanks

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Speaker 15: to the remarkable success of Operation Epic Fury over the

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Speaker 15: course of the last thirty eight days, that has been

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Speaker 15: absolutely achieved and now we're moving into the next phase

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Speaker 15: of this, which is a negotiating period to put some

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Speaker 15: fine points on this into hopefully broker an agreement that

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Speaker 15: can achieve long term in the Middle East.

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Speaker 18: Yeah, and then second, what is the President's message to

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Speaker 18: American seniors who have a much higher voter participation rate

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Speaker 18: and they're likely to key swing vote in the midterm elections.

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Speaker 15: Well, the President loves our seniors across the country, and

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Speaker 15: as you know, the President signed the one big, beautiful bill,

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Speaker 15: the Working Families.

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Speaker 14: Tax Cut, last year, which greatly reduced.

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Speaker 15: Taxes on Social Security for our seniors. In fact, thanks

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Speaker 15: to the Working Families Tax Cut, nearly ninety percent of

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01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:29,439
Speaker 15: seniors will no longer pay tax on their Social Security.

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Speaker 15: That's a huge win for our seniors and also for

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Speaker 15: our middle class and working families across the country. With

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Speaker 15: the no tax on tips provision and the no tax

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Speaker 15: on overtime. Next week is tax Week, you'll hear a

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Speaker 15: lot from the President about how his policies have benefited

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Speaker 15: the American people. And I'm proud to report that the

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Speaker 15: President will be traveling next week to the great states

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Speaker 15: of Nevada and Arizona to tout this historic accomplishment over

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Speaker 15: the course of the next week. Thank you for being here,

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Speaker 15: Shane Gabe.

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 19: Calin stage, media is saying that Iron is now closed

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Speaker 19: off the straight afore Moose today response to his rarely

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Speaker 19: tax on Lebanon. What's the White House response to that?

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Speaker 19: And just listed many military successes. I understand that, But strategically,

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Speaker 19: how is the administration arguing that Iran does not have

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Speaker 19: more economic leverage than now than it did before the story?

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Speaker 15: Sure well, with respect to the first reporting out of

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Speaker 15: Iranian state media, the President was made aware of those

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Speaker 15: reports before I came to the podium.

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Speaker 14: That is completely unacceptable.

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Speaker 15: And again this is a case of what they're saying

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Speaker 15: publicly is different privately. We have seen an uptick of

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Speaker 15: traffic in the Strait today, and I will reiterate the

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Speaker 15: President's expectation and demand that the Strait of Hermose is

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Speaker 15: reopened immediately, quickly and safely. That is his expectation, and

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Speaker 15: it has been relayed to him privately that that is

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Speaker 15: what's taking place in These reports publicly are false.

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Speaker 19: Here the Resident yesterday threatened that a whole civilization would

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Speaker 19: die if a ceasefire deal wasn't reached understanding that Iranian

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01:09:57,400 --> 01:10:00,519
Speaker 19: leaders have previously set death to America. But Guy, is

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Speaker 19: it appropriate for the president of the United States to

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Speaker 19: use that kind of language when talking about civilian targets?

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Speaker 19: And was a president Maki Islam by signing off his

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Speaker 19: true social post over the weekend Praise be to Allah

1355
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Speaker 19: when that antagonized muscle anallies across the world.

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Speaker 15: Well, I understand the questions about the president's rhetoric, but

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Speaker 15: what the President cares most about is results, And in fact,

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Speaker 15: his very tough rhetoric and his tough negotiating style is

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Speaker 15: what has led to the result that you are.

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Speaker 14: All witnessing today.

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Speaker 15: Iran publicly acknowledging last night that they have agreed or

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Speaker 15: that they wanted this cease fire with the United States

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01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:39,640
Speaker 15: because they no longer could tolerate being bombed by our

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Speaker 15: very powerful and lethal military, and that they have committed

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Speaker 15: to the reopening of the Strait of hermus which the

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Speaker 15: President will hold them accountable for, and it's something the

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Speaker 15: administration is closely monitoring in real time. Danny, should the

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Speaker 15: world not take his word seriously, The world should take

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Speaker 15: his word very seriously, and understanding that the President is

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Speaker 15: always most interested in results, and it was the Iranians

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Speaker 15: who backed down, not President Trump. He said that they

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Speaker 15: would face very grave consequences, as you just laid out

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Speaker 15: by the eight pm deadline if they did not agree

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Speaker 15: to reopening the straighter for Moose. And what did they

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01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:13,599
Speaker 15: do last night? They agreed to reopen the straighter for Moose.

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Speaker 14: Danny, Thanks, thanks.

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Speaker 10: Would President Trump liked to see Lebanon included in this

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01:11:18,920 --> 01:11:20,960
Speaker 10: peace deal, says, you know that's been increased as way

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Speaker 10: the strikes on Lebanon today with dozens of casualties.

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Speaker 15: Then sure Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire that

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Speaker 15: has been relayed to all parties involved in the ceasefire.

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Speaker 15: As you know, Prime Minister net and Yahoo put out

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Speaker 15: a statement last night in support of the cease fire,

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Speaker 15: in support of the United States his efforts, and he's

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Speaker 15: also assured to President Bill continue to be a helpful

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Speaker 15: partner throughout the course of the next two weeks.

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Speaker 10: Is there any thought though that the President might like

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Speaker 10: to see Lebanon included in a future date given that

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Speaker 10: it seems to be causing or potentially undermining the around

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Speaker 10: cease fire.

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Speaker 15: Again, this will continue to be discussed. I am sure

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Speaker 15: between the President and Prime Minister net Yahoo, the United

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Speaker 15: States and Israel and all of the parties involved, but

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Speaker 15: at this point in time, they're not included in the

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Speaker 15: Seaspire deal.

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Speaker 14: Jeff, thank you, Caroline.

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Speaker 20: Will the US take part in talks with Iran and

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Speaker 20: Islamabad on Friday?

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Speaker 15: I can announce that the President is dispatching his negotiating team,

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Speaker 15: led by the Vice President of the United States J.

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Speaker 15: D Vance, Special Envoy Witcoff, and mister Kushner to Islamabad for.

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Speaker 14: Talks this weekend.

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Speaker 15: The first round of those talks will take place on

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Speaker 15: Saturday morning local time, and we know we look forward

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Speaker 15: to those in person meetings.

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Speaker 20: What role does the President see for the US in

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Speaker 20: monitoring or helping with this rate of forms going forward?

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Speaker 15: I think the President commented on that this morning. We're

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Speaker 15: going to continue to monitor it very very closely. We

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Speaker 15: will be helpful in any way that we can, but

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Speaker 15: we fully expect Aroan to do this, and the President

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Speaker 15: has made that quite clear as well.

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Speaker 14: It's, again, as.

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Speaker 15: His statement said last night, the ceasefires subject to the

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Speaker 15: safe reopening of the strait of hermouse.

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Speaker 14: Again, this was just determined last night.

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Speaker 15: We understand things take time, but that's the president's expectation

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Speaker 15: and he will hold everyone to it.

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Speaker 14: Sure in the green blazer, thank you very sure, and

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Speaker 14: then in front of you. But Andrew, you can go ahead.

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Speaker 14: You're not wearing a green blazer.

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Speaker 21: I am actually wearing it.

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Speaker 14: Was a little brown to me, but go ahead.

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Speaker 21: Fair enough.

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Speaker 22: So.

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Speaker 21: Regarding the president's rhetoric when the US invaded Iraq in

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Speaker 21: two thousand and three, George W. Bush said in a

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Speaker 21: message to the Iraqi people that the military campaign was

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Speaker 21: directed quote against the lawless men who rule your country,

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Speaker 21: and not against you. Yesterday, the President threatened to destroy

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Speaker 21: Iran's civilization, the entire civilization, not the Iranian government, but

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Speaker 21: the Iranian civilization, the Iranian people.

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Speaker 23: The US has been a moral leader for most of

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Speaker 23: its history by fighting wars against other governments, not against civilizations.

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Speaker 23: How can the president and it claimed that America can

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Speaker 23: never have the moral high ground if he's threatening to

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Speaker 23: destroy civilizations and not casting wars as fights against other governments.

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Speaker 15: Andrew, I think you should take a look at the

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Speaker 15: actions of this president over the course of.

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Speaker 14: The past six weeks and the actions.

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Speaker 15: Of our brave men and women in our United States

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Speaker 15: military who have taken out the essentially taken out the

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Speaker 15: military of a rogue Islamic regime that has chanted death

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Speaker 15: to America for forty seven years, that has killed and

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01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 15: maimed thousands of American soldiers over the course of the

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Speaker 15: last five decades. The President absolutely has the moral high

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Speaker 15: ground over the Iranian terrorist regime, and for you to

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Speaker 15: even suggest otherwise is frankly insulting.

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Speaker 16: Respect.

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Speaker 7: Go ahead, with all due respect, go ahead, there is

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Speaker 7: just given what we've seen in Lebanon today and the

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Speaker 7: increase attacks of israel organ is there.

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Speaker 22: Any concern that met Yahoo is trying to kill the ceasefire.

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Speaker 15: The President spoke with Prime Minister net Yahoo last night

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Speaker 15: in that private conversation, Prime Minister Netya, who related exactly.

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Speaker 14: What he said to the world publicly that he.

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01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:08,400
Speaker 15: Supports the president in Israel remains a key ally and

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01:15:08,439 --> 01:15:09,839
Speaker 15: partner to the United States.

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Speaker 14: They've been a tremendous partner over the course of.

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Speaker 15: The past six weeks, and we thank them for their

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Speaker 15: heroic efforts as well. And the President had that conversation

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Speaker 15: last night and that was relayed to the world publicly

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Speaker 15: as well.

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Speaker 14: Reagan, go ahead, Thank you.

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Speaker 16: Carolyn, I have a question for you on Iran, A

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01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 16: question on the Dignity Act. As show on Iran, it's

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Speaker 16: been reported that the ceasefire was struck after the involvement

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Speaker 16: of two unlikely factors, JD. Vance in China. What role

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Speaker 16: did those parties play in striking a deal?

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Speaker 15: Well, Vice President Vance has played a very significant, in

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Speaker 15: a key role in this since the very beginning. Of course,

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Speaker 15: he's the President's right hand band. He is the Vice

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Speaker 15: President of the United States. He's been involved in all

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Speaker 15: of these discussions and as I just announced, he'll be

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Speaker 15: leading this new phase of negotiations in Islamabad later this week.

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Speaker 15: With respect to China, there were conversations that took place

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Speaker 15: between top levels of our government and China's government. The

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Speaker 15: President has great respect for President She in a great

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01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:14,280
Speaker 15: working relationship with him and with that country, and he

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Speaker 15: looks forward to visiting China in just a few weeks.

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Speaker 16: On the Dignity Act, it's getting a fresh push through Congress.

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Speaker 16: It would give some illegal immigrants in the country a

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Speaker 16: path to citizenship.

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Speaker 14: What's the White House his position.

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Speaker 16: On this legislation and would the President sign it if

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Speaker 16: it made it to his desk?

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Speaker 15: Honestly, Reagan, I haven't spoken to the President about the legislation,

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Speaker 15: but I will have that conversation and we'll get you

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Speaker 15: our formal position on it as soon as we can.

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Speaker 14: You're welcome, go ahead.

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01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:43,559
Speaker 20: The presidentation your name this point, and he was supported

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Speaker 20: John us An.

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Speaker 22: That's sure.

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Speaker 19: The charge tolls for ships going through the street.

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Speaker 12: Does the President believe that the US should horn revenue

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Speaker 12: from the Strait of Romo's going forward.

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Speaker 15: It's something it's an idea the President has floated, as

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Speaker 15: you know, and it's something that will continue to be

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Speaker 15: discussed over the course the next two weeks. But the

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Speaker 15: immediate priority of the President is the reopening of the

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Speaker 15: strait without any limitations, whether in the form of tolls

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Speaker 15: or otherwise the.

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Speaker 18: Highly enriched uranium.

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Speaker 20: Has Iran given the administration any indication that it would

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Speaker 20: simply turn.

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Speaker 14: Over the enriched uranium or is this an expectation that

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Speaker 14: president has that he.

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Speaker 18: Would have to send in ground troops.

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Speaker 17: In order to do that.

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Speaker 15: This is on the top of the priority list for

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Speaker 15: the President and his negotiating team as they head into

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Speaker 15: the next round of discussions. And as I said in

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Speaker 15: my opener, that is a red line that the President

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Speaker 15: is not going to back away from, and.

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Speaker 14: He's committed to ensuring that takes place.

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Speaker 15: We hope it will be through diplomacy.

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Speaker 14: They would turn it over they have, Yes, Trever.

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Speaker 12: The latest news out of Iran is that the air

1519
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:51,400
Speaker 12: defenses have been activated in several cities, including Isfahan, and

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01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:54,280
Speaker 12: that explosions have been hurting his coon who is bombing

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01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:55,120
Speaker 12: Iran right now?

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01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:59,320
Speaker 15: Were those reports just as of a few minutes ago? Okay,

1523
01:17:59,400 --> 01:18:01,640
Speaker 15: so obvious. I'll have to go back and check with

1524
01:18:01,680 --> 01:18:03,720
Speaker 15: the National security team. I'm standing out here with all

1525
01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:05,160
Speaker 15: of you, but I will do that and we will

1526
01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:05,800
Speaker 15: get you an answer.

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Speaker 12: Okay, tell us on the civilization question that we've been

1528
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:09,479
Speaker 12: talking about.

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01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:12,120
Speaker 15: And I would just add to that point again, I

1530
01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:14,640
Speaker 15: haven't seen these reports. I'm not verifying them, not that

1531
01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 15: I don't trust you, Trevor, but I want to go

1532
01:18:16,240 --> 01:18:18,280
Speaker 15: back and check with the experts here at the White House.

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Speaker 15: I would just say, and I would echo what the

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01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:23,280
Speaker 15: Vice President said this morning. This is a fragile truce.

1535
01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 15: Ceasefires are fragile by nature. We've seen this with respect

1536
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Speaker 15: to the twelve day war with Iran in Israel last year.

1537
01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:33,000
Speaker 15: It takes time sometimes for these seasfires to be fully effectuated,

1538
01:18:33,479 --> 01:18:36,000
Speaker 15: and one of the results of Operation Epic Fury was

1539
01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:40,320
Speaker 15: we completely dismantled Iran's command and control center, which makes

1540
01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:42,720
Speaker 15: it difficult for them to pass messages up and down

1541
01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:45,960
Speaker 15: the chain. And so we understand that I would caution

1542
01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:48,320
Speaker 15: a little bit of patience, but of course we want

1543
01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:51,800
Speaker 15: to see the ceasefire effectuated and abided by by all

1544
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 15: parties as quickly as possible.

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01:18:53,200 --> 01:18:56,000
Speaker 3: Thank you for residential administrations.

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Speaker 12: Going back to Ron Reagan, have said this formulation about

1547
01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:01,560
Speaker 12: nuclear war, that a nuclear war cannot be won and

1548
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:03,760
Speaker 12: must never be thought. Is that still the view of

1549
01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:07,720
Speaker 12: this administration? Given the president's comments about civilization.

1550
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:10,120
Speaker 14: I have no change in our view on that policy, Katie.

1551
01:19:11,439 --> 01:19:14,200
Speaker 16: I'm just given the gravity of what he said yesterday,

1552
01:19:15,160 --> 01:19:18,360
Speaker 16: what was your understanding of what he meant when he said.

1553
01:19:19,640 --> 01:19:22,599
Speaker 14: This civilization is going to be eliminated. I think it

1554
01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:22,920
Speaker 14: was a.

1555
01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:25,360
Speaker 15: Very very strong threat from the President of the United

1556
01:19:25,360 --> 01:19:28,960
Speaker 15: States that led the Iranian regime to cave to their

1557
01:19:29,040 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 15: knees and ask for a ceasefire and agree to reopening

1558
01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:33,880
Speaker 15: the Strait of hermos So it was a very strong

1559
01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:36,519
Speaker 15: threat that led to results and as the Secretary of

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01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:40,280
Speaker 15: War stated at the Pentagon this morning, it was not

1561
01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 15: an empty threat by any means. The Pentagon had a

1562
01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:46,240
Speaker 15: target list that they were ready to hit go on

1563
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:49,439
Speaker 15: at eight pm last night if the Iranian regime had

1564
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 15: not agreed to open the strait, which they did.

1565
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:53,480
Speaker 14: And I think that's something we should all be grateful.

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01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:55,320
Speaker 16: For United States as a morale leader in the world,

1567
01:19:55,360 --> 01:19:56,040
Speaker 16: given that I.

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Speaker 15: Was asked this exact same question by your colleague Andrew

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01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:01,280
Speaker 15: in the back. And I think again the insinuation by

1570
01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:04,439
Speaker 15: anyone in this room that Iran somehow has the moral

1571
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:07,280
Speaker 15: high ground over the United States of America is insulting,

1572
01:20:07,360 --> 01:20:11,280
Speaker 15: considering the atrocities that they have, considering the atrocities that

1573
01:20:11,320 --> 01:20:14,599
Speaker 15: they have committed against our people and our military over

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01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:15,839
Speaker 15: the past five decades.

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Speaker 14: John, John, thanks a lot, Caroline. Two questions for you.

1576
01:20:21,479 --> 01:20:23,679
Speaker 20: One has to deal with a statement, a joint statement

1577
01:20:23,720 --> 01:20:27,639
Speaker 20: put out this morning by some of America's European allies,

1578
01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:30,120
Speaker 20: our NATO allies, And in that joint statement they said,

1579
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:33,960
Speaker 20: regarding the Strait of Formose, our governments will contribute to

1580
01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:38,720
Speaker 20: ensuring freedom of navigation in the Strait of Formuse. The

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01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:42,559
Speaker 20: administration's reaction to that joint statement is that smooth things

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01:20:42,600 --> 01:20:45,760
Speaker 20: over when the President meets with NATO's Secretary General a

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01:20:45,840 --> 01:20:47,200
Speaker 20: little bit later this afternoon.

1584
01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:49,280
Speaker 15: I have a direct quote from the President of the

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01:20:49,360 --> 01:20:51,240
Speaker 15: United States on NATO, and I will share it with

1586
01:20:51,280 --> 01:20:54,360
Speaker 15: all of you. They were tested and they failed, and

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Speaker 15: I would add it's quite sad that NATO turned their

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01:20:56,400 --> 01:20:58,320
Speaker 15: backs on the American people over the course of the

1589
01:20:58,360 --> 01:21:00,400
Speaker 15: last six weeks when it's the American peace people who

1590
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 15: have been defunding their defense. As you know, President Trump

1591
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:06,160
Speaker 15: will be meeting with Secretary Ruta in a couple of

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01:21:06,200 --> 01:21:07,720
Speaker 15: hours here at the White House, and I know he

1593
01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:10,680
Speaker 15: looks forward to having a very frank, in candid conversation

1594
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:11,240
Speaker 15: with him.

1595
01:21:11,320 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 20: And the secondly, in regards to this conflict thirty eight days,

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01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:18,040
Speaker 20: as you pointed out, President Trump has said that there's

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01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:22,360
Speaker 20: been regime change. Has that regime change led to more

1598
01:21:22,479 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 20: freedoms for the Iranian people.

1599
01:21:25,160 --> 01:21:27,760
Speaker 15: I think that's a question that's being asked a little

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01:21:27,760 --> 01:21:30,360
Speaker 15: bit too early, John, and we hope that is the case,

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01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:32,559
Speaker 15: but it's something that has yet to be.

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01:21:32,520 --> 01:21:39,360
Speaker 17: Seen, Carolyn Tolling by the Iranians and the Strait of Formuz.

1603
01:21:39,920 --> 01:21:42,160
Speaker 17: I've heard you talk about a number of red lines

1604
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:44,559
Speaker 17: that the President has in this negotiation, but I haven't

1605
01:21:44,560 --> 01:21:46,840
Speaker 17: heard you say that Iranian tolling in the straight up

1606
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 17: formos is a red line. Would it be acceptable to

1607
01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:52,960
Speaker 17: the United States at the end of all this if

1608
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:54,960
Speaker 17: the Iranians are able to charge poles in the straight

1609
01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:55,439
Speaker 17: of moves?

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01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:58,880
Speaker 15: I think the President was very clear and simplistic in

1611
01:21:58,920 --> 01:22:01,880
Speaker 15: his language last night in his truth social post where

1612
01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 15: he said that this ceasefire is subject too of the free, safe,

1613
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:07,439
Speaker 15: and immediate reopening.

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01:22:06,840 --> 01:22:08,000
Speaker 14: Of the Strait of Hormuse.

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01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:10,800
Speaker 15: That's very plain language and it should be taken at

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01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:16,120
Speaker 15: face value. Carry Carrie go ahead without limitation including tolls.

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01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:18,679
Speaker 14: Yes, Harry could call up on ETNY.

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01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:21,599
Speaker 22: What would the uish to allow a rand to collect

1619
01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:22,920
Speaker 22: tolls from the.

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01:22:22,840 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 14: Straight up promise sects? And that's something that we've opposed

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01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:26,519
Speaker 14: for umber of years now.

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01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:30,360
Speaker 15: Again, that's not something we've said that we've definitively accepted.

1623
01:22:30,479 --> 01:22:33,639
Speaker 15: The joint venture is something that was proposed by the President,

1624
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:35,880
Speaker 15: but he was very clear in his statement last night

1625
01:22:35,920 --> 01:22:39,320
Speaker 15: he wants to see the straight reopened immediately without limitation,

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01:22:39,400 --> 01:22:40,639
Speaker 15: and that's something we're going to hold.

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01:22:40,520 --> 01:22:46,479
Speaker 22: Them to only and friends in Iran. I myself an Iranian,

1628
01:22:46,520 --> 01:22:48,479
Speaker 22: and I've been talking to them through the blackout. One

1629
01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:51,720
Speaker 22: of my family members yesterday said goodbye to me. So

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01:22:52,040 --> 01:22:55,599
Speaker 22: what message should we be sending Iranians when they message

1631
01:22:55,640 --> 01:22:56,920
Speaker 22: me saying what should.

1632
01:22:56,600 --> 01:22:58,920
Speaker 14: They be doing right now? How could they stay safe?

1633
01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:01,040
Speaker 22: Because they really don't know what to do.

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01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:05,639
Speaker 15: I think the President's main priority, and my main priority

1635
01:23:05,640 --> 01:23:08,599
Speaker 15: as his spokeswoman, is to make sure that clear messages

1636
01:23:08,600 --> 01:23:11,040
Speaker 15: are sent to the American people, of course, which is

1637
01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:14,760
Speaker 15: my job today. With respect to the Iranian people, the

1638
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:17,840
Speaker 15: President has taken out the imminent threat that was posed

1639
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:20,759
Speaker 15: by their military to the United States, to our allies

1640
01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:23,400
Speaker 15: in the region, to our forces in the region, and

1641
01:23:23,439 --> 01:23:26,320
Speaker 15: of course, as the President has long said, he hopes

1642
01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:29,960
Speaker 15: that Iran will be a country of peace, of prosperity.

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01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:31,639
Speaker 14: And we're moving into this next round.

1644
01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:35,000
Speaker 15: Of negotiations to hopefully come to an agreement with this

1645
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:38,559
Speaker 15: new regime that will create long term stability in the

1646
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:40,439
Speaker 15: Middle East, so that they.

1647
01:23:40,400 --> 01:23:43,320
Speaker 22: Should stay inside of their homes and also take back

1648
01:23:43,360 --> 01:23:47,360
Speaker 22: their country. So how there's a contradiction there, So how

1649
01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 22: do you address that?

1650
01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:48,479
Speaker 14: Again?

1651
01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:52,160
Speaker 15: We're moving into this next round of negotiations with the

1652
01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:54,400
Speaker 15: remnants of the regime and those that we are speaking

1653
01:23:54,400 --> 01:23:57,679
Speaker 15: with now to hopefully reach a place of peace long

1654
01:23:57,800 --> 01:24:00,000
Speaker 15: term for the region, and that includes the Iranian people

1655
01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:01,720
Speaker 15: as well.

1656
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:02,960
Speaker 14: In the blue go Ahead.

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01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 9: Thank you for the Way has issue posted the statement

1658
01:24:07,160 --> 01:24:09,760
Speaker 9: from the Iranian government that passage in the Strait will

1659
01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:13,479
Speaker 9: be coordinated with Iran's armed forces as of today, who

1660
01:24:13,479 --> 01:24:14,600
Speaker 9: controls the state of the.

1661
01:24:14,600 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 15: Straight up armies again this these statements were put out

1662
01:24:18,160 --> 01:24:19,120
Speaker 15: twelve hours ago.

1663
01:24:19,439 --> 01:24:22,360
Speaker 14: We expect that the Strait will be opened immediately.

1664
01:24:22,439 --> 01:24:25,479
Speaker 15: As I said earlier, we have seen an uptick in

1665
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:27,599
Speaker 15: traffic in the Strait and it's something that we are

1666
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:30,719
Speaker 15: monitoring minute by minute, hour by hour as the days

1667
01:24:30,760 --> 01:24:31,040
Speaker 15: go on.

1668
01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:38,360
Speaker 22: Straight questions one on the deportations of Iranian officials.

1669
01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:40,400
Speaker 14: And nine and up on the negotiations.

1670
01:24:40,439 --> 01:24:43,880
Speaker 15: Are there still security concerns about visprect demands.

1671
01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:45,240
Speaker 14: On being part of these pace.

1672
01:24:45,120 --> 01:24:48,679
Speaker 22: Talks on Stepway cob Chare Kushner And then two, given

1673
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:52,040
Speaker 22: the ongoing deportation of General Solawani's niece, does the Trump

1674
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:53,040
Speaker 22: administration plan.

1675
01:24:53,000 --> 01:24:57,320
Speaker 16: To deport more relatives or people in the families of Iranian.

1676
01:24:57,000 --> 01:24:59,800
Speaker 14: Officials that are in the US. Certainly anyone who is

1677
01:24:59,840 --> 01:25:00,880
Speaker 14: here fraudulently.

1678
01:25:01,320 --> 01:25:04,680
Speaker 15: I understand one of the individuals who their visa was

1679
01:25:04,720 --> 01:25:07,400
Speaker 15: revoked by Secretary of Rubio and they were deported by Ice.

1680
01:25:07,439 --> 01:25:10,080
Speaker 15: They had a fraudulent assilent claim. That's against the laws

1681
01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 15: of the United States. So anyone who is here illegally

1682
01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:16,280
Speaker 15: or fraudulently is subject to our nation's immigration laws and

1683
01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:17,719
Speaker 15: will be removed from our country.

1684
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:19,360
Speaker 14: And I know this continues to be.

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01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:22,040
Speaker 15: A top priority for the State Department, working in conjunction

1686
01:25:22,400 --> 01:25:25,200
Speaker 15: with the Department of Homeland Security. With respect to the

1687
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:28,479
Speaker 15: safety of the Vice President, we fully trust the United

1688
01:25:28,520 --> 01:25:30,840
Speaker 15: States Secret Service to do their job to keep the

1689
01:25:30,920 --> 01:25:33,519
Speaker 15: Vice President and the President's negotiating team safe.

1690
01:25:33,840 --> 01:25:36,240
Speaker 14: They do a tremendous job, and we fully trust them

1691
01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:40,960
Speaker 14: to do that. In the back go ahead President has

1692
01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:42,040
Speaker 14: sent to you by his guys.

1693
01:25:42,280 --> 01:25:44,800
Speaker 17: What's the message in the American people regarding Cuba and

1694
01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 17: loo can Cubans expect in relations to this statement.

1695
01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:50,559
Speaker 15: Well, look, I think when President Trump said that, and

1696
01:25:50,560 --> 01:25:53,240
Speaker 15: he later clarified after making that statement, that he meant

1697
01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:55,760
Speaker 15: the Cuban regime is bound to fall.

1698
01:25:56,120 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 14: The country is very weak.

1699
01:25:57,760 --> 01:26:02,240
Speaker 15: They're in a very weak position economic obviously financially. The

1700
01:26:02,280 --> 01:26:04,760
Speaker 15: Cuban people are fed up with their government, as they

1701
01:26:04,800 --> 01:26:08,519
Speaker 15: should be, and these talks and discussions continue to happen

1702
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:10,560
Speaker 15: at the highest level of our government. I don't have

1703
01:26:10,600 --> 01:26:13,320
Speaker 15: any updates or announcements for you with respect to Cuba

1704
01:26:13,360 --> 01:26:14,040
Speaker 15: policy today.

1705
01:26:15,400 --> 01:26:16,639
Speaker 14: Good to see, Thank you, Caroline.

1706
01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:19,960
Speaker 22: Secretary Heccess said this morning that US troops would be

1707
01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:21,280
Speaker 22: sticking around.

1708
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:23,479
Speaker 14: Can you expound upon that what we.

1709
01:26:23,400 --> 01:26:26,439
Speaker 22: Should expect from US troops in theater for the next

1710
01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:27,479
Speaker 22: two weeks and beyond.

1711
01:26:28,040 --> 01:26:30,960
Speaker 15: I would defer you to the Pentagon for any specifics

1712
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:34,000
Speaker 15: on assets that have been in place in the Middle East,

1713
01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:36,760
Speaker 15: but take the Secretary at his word, and also the

1714
01:26:36,760 --> 01:26:39,360
Speaker 15: President has reiterated this as well in his own words

1715
01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:41,720
Speaker 15: that we're not going to move anything immediately.

1716
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:43,240
Speaker 14: Again, this is a two.

1717
01:26:43,040 --> 01:26:44,880
Speaker 15: Week seaspire where we hope at the end and we

1718
01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:47,759
Speaker 15: expect at the end we'll have a good agreement between

1719
01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:50,240
Speaker 15: the United States and Iran. But in the meantime, we're

1720
01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:52,680
Speaker 15: going to ensure that our military is always at the

1721
01:26:52,720 --> 01:26:56,040
Speaker 15: ready of the commander in chief. Take a couple more

1722
01:26:56,240 --> 01:26:59,519
Speaker 15: in the back, Thank you, thank you, thank you. On NATO,

1723
01:26:59,560 --> 01:27:00,320
Speaker 15: I'll take your question.

1724
01:27:01,960 --> 01:27:05,280
Speaker 13: Can you tell me the United States still considering withdrawing

1725
01:27:05,680 --> 01:27:06,160
Speaker 13: from NATO.

1726
01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:09,800
Speaker 15: It's something the President has discussed, and I think it's

1727
01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:11,760
Speaker 15: something the President will be discussing in a couple of

1728
01:27:11,760 --> 01:27:15,000
Speaker 15: hours with Secretary General Ruta, and perhaps you'll hear directly

1729
01:27:15,040 --> 01:27:17,360
Speaker 15: from the President following that meeting later this afternoon.

1730
01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:18,599
Speaker 14: Thank you everyone, all.

1731
01:27:19,920 --> 01:27:20,720
Speaker 3: Right, welcome back.

1732
01:27:21,479 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 4: At a lot of information there. We're told just to

1733
01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:27,519
Speaker 4: I think hit some of the high water marks here,

1734
01:27:27,800 --> 01:27:31,080
Speaker 4: that the straight up horn moose is open for all

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Speaker 4: intents and purposes. The President continues demand that demand that

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Speaker 4: the strait is open safely, securely and immediately. That was

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Speaker 4: apparently the lynchpin to getting the sea fire two weeks

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Speaker 4: ceasefire accomplished in the first place. We're told Lebanon is

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Speaker 4: not a part of the current framework, so Israel's free

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Speaker 4: apparently to continue attacking southern Lebanon and has Ballad there.

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Speaker 4: We'll see if you're on, We'll see if we'll see

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Speaker 4: if Ron agrees. We are told that JD. Vance is

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Speaker 4: in fact going to be participating in the peace negotiations

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Speaker 4: in Islamabad starting on Friday, along with Special Envoy wit

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Speaker 4: Cough and mister Jared Kushner. I think those were the

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Speaker 4: big points. There's a lot of questions about America's you know,

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Speaker 4: the moral equivalency because of President Trump's truths.

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Speaker 3: You know, are we any better than Iran? Of course

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Speaker 3: we are.

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Speaker 4: You know, we don't kill fifty thousand protesters on the

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Speaker 4: streets when they're protesting the government.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of insanity there. There was a reporter

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Speaker 3: there going.

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Speaker 4: Like my auntie from from Iran called me and asked,

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Speaker 4: if you know, if she said goodbye, like listen, like

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Speaker 4: it's so annoying. The press was very annoying there. She

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Speaker 4: does a great job putting up with their garbage. But yeah,

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Speaker 4: what were your main takeaways?

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Speaker 6: I thought the most interesting thing is they did ask

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Speaker 6: about NATO and the President did express, or I should

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Speaker 6: say Levitt, she expressed a lot.

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Speaker 5: Of disappointment with them.

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Speaker 6: The line was like they had the chance to step

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Speaker 6: up and they failed. I do wonder if we'll see

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Speaker 6: more discussion of that. It could, of course be another

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Speaker 6: play by the president. He's always wanted NATO to contribute

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Speaker 6: more generally, step up for their own defense.

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Speaker 4: Mark Ruta, the Secretary of General of NATO, as meeting

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Speaker 4: with the President today, So he's at the White House,

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Speaker 4: and he's been somebody that understands Trump, that seems to

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Speaker 4: have embraced Trump more fully with all of his you know,

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Speaker 4: quirks and idiosyncrasies. So you know, I happen to think

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Speaker 4: that NATO will continue on, Our involvement in NATO will

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Speaker 4: continue on. But yeah, this was a big blow to

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Speaker 4: that alliance. I think, and again we could argue Trump

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Speaker 4: calls it a paper tiger. I think it's yet to

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Speaker 4: be seen if NATO is going to live up to

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Speaker 4: its promise or not.

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