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Speaker 1: Stateside Richard Arnold, Morning, Hey Mike, So come to Cuban.

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Speaker 1: The moment, Iran, the talks they work. Well, are we

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Speaker 1: dropping bombs?

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Speaker 2: Oh well, we just wait to see on this. There's

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Speaker 2: a said round of talks taking place between Iran and

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Speaker 2: the US on the nuclear program. This is the US

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Speaker 2: has put together in the region the biggest accumulation of

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Speaker 2: military firepower since the two thousand and three Iraq invasion.

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Speaker 2: There are two aircraft carriers, strike groups, and dozens of

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Speaker 2: finer jets and aerial refuelers in the region now, as

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Speaker 2: Trump has raised the prospect of new military action against Iran.

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Speaker 2: Last Junior, of course, Trump claimed the US had quote

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Speaker 2: obliterated Around's nuclear program, but now he's suggesting that Iran

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Speaker 2: has not given up on that effort. Secretary of State

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Speaker 2: Marco Rubo is saying, in relation to this.

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Speaker 3: After their nuclear program was obliterated, they were told not

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Speaker 3: to try to restart it, and here they are. You

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Speaker 3: can see them always trying to rebuild elements of it.

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Speaker 3: They're not enriching right now, but they're trying to get

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Speaker 3: to the point where they ultimately can.

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Speaker 2: So Rubio is laying out some of the bases for

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Speaker 2: possible use US attack, and that includes talk as well

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Speaker 2: of Iran's huge missile capability.

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Speaker 3: Iran possesses a very large number of ballistic missiles, particularly

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Speaker 3: short range ballistic missiles that threaten the United States and

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Speaker 3: our bases in the region and our partners in the region,

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Speaker 3: and all of our bases in the UAE and Qatar

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Speaker 3: in Bahrain. And they also possess naval assets that threaten

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Speaker 3: shipping and try to threaten the US Navy. So I

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Speaker 3: want to have better understand that beyond just a nuclear program,

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Speaker 3: they possess these conventional weapons that are solely designed to

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Speaker 3: attack America.

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Speaker 2: Well, a lot of the debate is spilling out into

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Speaker 2: the public now. Some in the White House have argued

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Speaker 2: it would be better if Israel struck a run first,

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Speaker 2: which would trigger Iran to retaliate, helping to increase they

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Speaker 2: suggest public support here for an American attack. Others propose

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Speaker 2: a joint initial US as radio operation if it comes

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Speaker 2: to this. While the head of the US Joined Chiefs,

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Speaker 2: Dan Kin, is warning that the US still may not

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Speaker 2: have the right forces in place to carry out in

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Speaker 2: eat campaign against Iran, He's raising concerns that without allies

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Speaker 2: in the region. This might be a difficult mission. It's

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Speaker 2: echoed by foreign policy expert David Ignatius of The Washington Post.

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Speaker 4: I wish there was a sign hosted in the White

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Speaker 4: House as they think about Iran. The sign would say

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Speaker 4: this is not Venezuela. There's a view after the enormous

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Speaker 4: success of Venezuela that using military power quickly surgically is easy.

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Speaker 2: Just power Iran, he says, is far more complicated meantime.

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Speaker 2: Cuba Wild story today where Cuba says it attacked a

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Speaker 2: US speedboat with ten Cuban residents of the United States

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Speaker 2: on board this thing. Four were killed, six others were

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Speaker 2: injured in what Cuba calls a terrorist plot and armed infiltration.

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Speaker 2: They say the speedboat was inside their territory of waters.

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Speaker 2: On board they found assault rifles, other guns, along with

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Speaker 2: explosive devices, telescopic site, bulletproof, versed camouflage, gill all kinds

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Speaker 2: of paraphernalia. Rubio says he's not taking Cuba's account on

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Speaker 2: all of this at face value.

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Speaker 3: It is highly unusual to see shootouts an open sea

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Speaker 3: like that. We're going to find out. We're not going

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Speaker 3: to base our conclusions on what.

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Speaker 2: They've told us CUBI, though it says that the six

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Speaker 2: people they have detained have mostly criminal history. So investigations

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Speaker 2: go on.

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Speaker 1: And then we come to the testimony Hillary first.

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Speaker 2: That's right. The Epstein probe really stepping up. Hillary Clinton

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Speaker 2: is testifying before the House Oversight Committee today. Former President

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Speaker 2: Bill Clinton peers tomorrow. Why Hillary, That's not clear. It's

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Speaker 2: not apparent she ever met with pedophile Epstein. She had

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Speaker 2: met his sex trafficking associate, Julainne Maxwell. Her testimony will

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Speaker 2: be videotaped, and I guess so we'll hear a lot

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Speaker 2: from the lawmakers involved in this. There are photos in

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Speaker 2: the Epstein files of Bill Clinton with Epstein and with Maxwell.

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Speaker 2: As we know, the Clintons repeatedly have denied wrongdoing related

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Speaker 2: to Epstein. Hillary Clinton has accused the House panel of

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Speaker 2: using her and a husband to distract from Trump's ties

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Speaker 2: to Epstein. Democrat Robert Garcia says the committee should call

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Speaker 2: President Trump as well as the Clintons.

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Speaker 5: Let's get President Trump in front of our committee to

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Speaker 5: answer the questions that are being asked across this country

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Speaker 5: from survivors, from those who have been brutally attacked and raped,

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Speaker 5: sometimes as children.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Trump Justice Department is being accused of improperly

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Speaker 2: withholding some Epstein interviews that refer to Trump. This is

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Speaker 2: a story just to come out. Some of these withheld

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Speaker 2: masterials that describe claims by a woman who came forward

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Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen saying she was assaulted both by Epstein

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Speaker 2: and by Trump when she was a minor, in a

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Speaker 2: period when she would have been thirteen to fifteen years old.

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Speaker 2: President Trump denies any wrongdoing. The FBI did three subsequent

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Speaker 2: interviews on this, but reports of those interviews were withheld

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Speaker 2: from the public, even though the Justice Department was required

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Speaker 2: by the Congress to release them. The DOJ now says,

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Speaker 2: with this story going viral, it is quote reviewing where

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Speaker 2: the Epstein reports were improperly withheld. But dominoes are falling

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Speaker 2: all over. Bill Gates has apologized for his Epstein tirees,

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Speaker 2: saying they were a quote huge mistake, admitting affairs while

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Speaker 2: he was married with two Russian women, won a Russian

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Speaker 2: nuclear physicist and the other a Russian bridge player. Larry Summers,

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Speaker 2: former US Treasury Secretary, is to resign from Harvard now

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Speaker 2: because of his Epstein tires. That's the latest on that.

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Speaker 2: Harvard also has placed an administrative leave and a professor

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Speaker 2: of maths and biology, Martin Nowak. Former Democratic Senator Bob

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Speaker 2: Kerry also has popped up, resigning from the board of

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Speaker 2: an energy startup because of his correspondence with Epstein after

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Speaker 2: his initial conviction. So is there no end of this crap?

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Speaker 2: Not so far.

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Speaker 1: You have a good week in Richard Arnold State tried.

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Speaker 1: The writings were in, by the way, for the State

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Speaker 1: of the Union. It wasn't great. But that's not necessarily

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Speaker 1: on Trump. They generally aren't the first one you get

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Speaker 1: a good audience, the second one. And so it goes

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Speaker 1: thirty one million, thirty one and a half million last year,

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Speaker 1: this year twenty seven point eight. And if you like

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Speaker 1: Trump and watch Fox, which generally you do, Fox did

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Speaker 1: okay out of it. Then we come to some poles,

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Speaker 1: and I have them in a moment increasingly. I got

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Speaker 1: I think it's three poles. Increasing The Americans are starting

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Speaker 1: to go down the Biden esque track on Trump. The

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Speaker 1: reason mentally up for it now.

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