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Speaker 1: Morning, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Is Trump mad to be thinking this? To we take

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Speaker 2: him seriously?

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Speaker 1: You know, i'd ask you, is threatening to regain the

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Speaker 1: Panama Canal by Greenland turned Canada into the fifty first state? Serious?

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Speaker 1: I think what he's proposed here is less serious than

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Speaker 1: some of those. I think he is interested in buying

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Speaker 1: Greenland and will look for a way to try to

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Speaker 1: do it. NATO allies Bedan on the issue of Panama Canal,

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Speaker 1: I think he's using the threat of violating the treaties

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Speaker 1: to basically extract something out of the Panamanians, either on

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Speaker 1: immigration or on lower tolfies. So I think on this one,

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Speaker 1: the chances that this could be implemented are slim denon

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Speaker 1: and slim left has already left time. But it is

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Speaker 1: dangerous in its articulation, and that's the real problem. In

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Speaker 1: one fell swoop with the Israeli Prime Minister looking like

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Speaker 1: he just like the cat who swallowed a dozen canaries,

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Speaker 1: President of the United States tethered US credibility and prestige

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Speaker 1: to what some people will regard as force transfer. He's

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Speaker 1: undermined Egypt and Jordan to long standing treaty partners of

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Speaker 1: Israel and allies of the US. He's made the idea

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Speaker 1: of Israeli Saudi normalization much more difficult. And he sent

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Speaker 1: this unmistakable signal to authoritarians, including Putin and she that

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Speaker 1: if you want territory, just articulate the fact that you

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Speaker 1: were going to seize it. All in all, it is

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Speaker 1: an idea whose time has not yet come. It's not

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Speaker 1: ready for prime time. I doubt if he has a strategy,

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Speaker 1: and if he does have a strategy, if he actually

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Speaker 1: tries to do any of this, I think it's going

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Speaker 1: to fundamentally harm American credibility and interest.

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Speaker 2: As you mentioned, obviously, Knitt and Yahoo loved it. What

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Speaker 2: is the reaction throughout Israel on this.

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Speaker 1: Wing is dancing in the streets. I think that was

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Speaker 1: one of the reasons Trump did this. He's provided this

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Speaker 1: in now with talking points that he can use to

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Speaker 1: keep his government together. Most Israelis don't care about gods,

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Speaker 1: They don't care about the humanitarian situation there because of

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Speaker 1: the trauma of October seventh, that takes priority. As far

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Speaker 1: as mister Nithaniao is concerned. This way help him marginally

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Speaker 1: with the Israeli body politics. Majorities want an implementation of

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Speaker 1: this deal and an end to the Warren Goza. But Israeli,

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Speaker 1: a public opinion rarely ever tapes decisions when it comes

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Speaker 1: to national security. So buy and large again. You know

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Speaker 1: where you stand in life is where you sit. So

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Speaker 1: the right wing will love this, the extremists even more.

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Speaker 1: Most Israelis will probably dismiss it. But support for Trump

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Speaker 1: in Israel is very high.

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Speaker 2: It's one thing for him to muse about finding the

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Speaker 2: Palestinians some way to live. But the follow up with

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Speaker 2: the comments that he might send in troops the house.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty serious stuff, really, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean I think it's serious. It's ludicrous. He'd

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Speaker 1: have you already see Republicans, which is rare since loyalty

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Speaker 1: is the current corn of the realm and Trump Land.

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Speaker 1: But you know, Republicans then Democrats either coming down saying

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Speaker 1: it won't work. It's scary, it's crazy. Yeah, So no,

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Speaker 1: that's you know, we did set up a something called

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Speaker 1: Jlock six months ago to try to deliver assistance. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you follow that issue. Had such logistical

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Speaker 1: problems with this heavy seas, faulty construction, uh and the

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Speaker 1: project basically collapsed. Cost several hundred million dollars. That was

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Speaker 1: only a here to deliver humanitarian aid. Now he's talking

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Speaker 1: about what and the American versus into an area roughly

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Speaker 1: the size of twice the district of Columbia, with one

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Speaker 1: of the highest population densities in the world. It would

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Speaker 1: take Israeli fifteen months operating there. Couldn't suppress a moss.

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Speaker 1: What makes Trump think that American forces to face with

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Speaker 1: an insurgency and they will be faced with an insurgency

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Speaker 1: and the part of the mass it'll it'll stand the

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Speaker 1: stock way up. Yeah. No, it's a non starter and

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Speaker 1: it's not to be taken seriously.

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Speaker 2: Aaron, I really appreciate you Tom this morning. Thanks very

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