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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold, how are you? I'm so, where are we

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Speaker 1: going with us? Is this a war crime? Who's to blame?

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Speaker 1: Who made the call? Where are we at?

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Speaker 2: Well? It's ongoing. Higgs Seth is growing facing growing questions

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Speaker 2: over this deadly second strike on the alleged Venezuelan and

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Speaker 2: drug boat. After two men survived the initial US attack,

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Speaker 2: a follow up strike like this could be a war crime,

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Speaker 2: as you've been indicating in a similar incident. After this

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Speaker 2: September attack, survivors were rounded up as is the standard procedure,

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Speaker 2: with some Republicans along with Democrats now joining the call

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Speaker 2: for an investigation. Higgs Seth posted a cartoon joke featuring

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Speaker 2: a Canadian kids book cartoon character, Franklin the Turtle. The

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Speaker 2: higgs Seth post includes the quote Franklin targets Narco terrorists.

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Speaker 2: In his past in Iraq, HIGs Seth has railed against

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Speaker 2: the Geneva Conventions and the legal rules of engagement. He

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Speaker 2: wrote in his book The War on Warriors that soldiers

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Speaker 2: should ignore such legal advice. Now, higgs Seth has pointed

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Speaker 2: the finger at an Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley, who he

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Speaker 2: says is responsible for US attack on the boat bombing survivors,

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Speaker 2: says Carolyn Levitt, the Trump spokesperson.

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Speaker 3: Secretary Haig Seth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes.

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Speaker 3: Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority and the law

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Speaker 3: directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and

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Speaker 3: the threat to the United States of America was eliminated.

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Speaker 2: Higgs says, tweeted his supposed support for this admiral quote,

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Speaker 2: he has my one hundred percent support, but hereing the

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Speaker 2: Folktion News analysts and response quote. How to point the

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Speaker 2: finger to someone while pretending to support him Democrats, says

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Speaker 2: Molten says.

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Speaker 1: He's throwing his commander under the bus. That's what's going

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Speaker 1: on here. Haig Seth doesn't want to take responsibility for

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Speaker 1: this war crime himself, so he's immediately passing the book. Higgs.

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Speaker 2: Syth told Falktioneers that he was monitoring all this during

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Speaker 2: the attack.

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Speaker 3: I watched it live.

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Speaker 2: We knew exactly who was in that boat, we knew

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Speaker 2: exactly what they were doing, and we knew exactly who

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Speaker 2: they represented. So what did he see watching this live?

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Speaker 2: Did he see a war crime or a murder? Say.

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Speaker 2: Some Democrats give that the US has provided no evidence

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Speaker 2: that these individuals were NARCO terrorists. There are some accounts

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Speaker 2: of civilians being forced on to boats like this under

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Speaker 2: threat that if they don't, their family members might be killed.

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Speaker 2: Is that a story these survivors might have told Republicans

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Speaker 2: Speaker Mike Johnson says he will wait until he hears

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Speaker 2: all the facts.

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Speaker 3: I haven't reviewed the scope of the mission.

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Speaker 2: I haven't reviewed that particular strike.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what went in the admiral's decision matrix.

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Speaker 2: You know, whatever is being said right now, there are

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Speaker 2: recordings of these attacks, so we can anticipate that what

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Speaker 2: happened and the roles of individuals will at some point

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Speaker 2: income public.

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Speaker 1: And Hernandez out, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now, the former president of Honduras has just been released

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Speaker 2: from prison now, where he had been serving a forty

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Speaker 2: five year term. The ex president, One Hernandez once boasted

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Speaker 2: he would quote stuff for the cocaine drugs up the

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Speaker 2: gringoes noses. He was convicted of being the key to

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Speaker 2: a drug smuggling scheme that sent more than five hundred

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Speaker 2: tons of cocaine onto American streets. That's more than four

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand kilos. He took a million dollar

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Speaker 2: bribe from El Chapo, directed police in the military to

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Speaker 2: protect other smugglers who paid him off. A man was

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Speaker 2: killed in prison in a bid to protect him. Now today,

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Speaker 2: New York Times has just released a four page letter

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Speaker 2: he wrote to Trump saying he quotes sends his highest respect,

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Speaker 2: esteem and blessings to Trump. He says he is an

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Speaker 2: innocent man targeted by the Biden Harris administration for political

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Speaker 2: purposes only, while Trump says that seems a reasonable one

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Speaker 2: to him, that this fellow Hernandez were treated unfairly. So

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Speaker 2: a dozen warships and fifteen thousand US troops off oil

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Speaker 2: rich Venezuela and I get out of jail free card

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Speaker 2: for the former Hondurant leader see product.

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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold stateside by the way, I'll come back to

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Speaker 1: the Honduras on the bone in just a couple of moments.

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Speaker 1: Trump's lawyer harbor Elena. She got boodaedat yesterday. She's another

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Speaker 1: one who was unlawfully appointed. So I don't know where

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Speaker 1: that got. I mean, I'm assuming they're appealed the decision.

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Speaker 1: But he's not going well in that particular Department costc

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Speaker 1: meantime as suing Trump or the Trump administration to get

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Speaker 1: a full refund on the tariffs they've already paid. Now,

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Speaker 1: what's interesting about this, They've filed in the US Court

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Speaker 1: of International Trade, but they claim or worry that they're

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Speaker 1: risk losing the money they've already paid, even if the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court goes with or against the Trump administration. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know which plays out first. Because the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court said they were going to act fairly judiciously. Starbucks,

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Speaker 1: they're going to have to hand out thirty five million

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Speaker 1: bucks to fifteen thousand workers who will get fifty dollars

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Speaker 1: for each week they worked during the July twenty one

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Speaker 1: through July twenty four period. Came out of the New

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Speaker 1: York Department of Consumer and Worker Protection alleged violations of

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Speaker 1: city law requiring predictable schedules for workers. So if you

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Speaker 1: don't like your roster, you can sue and clearly win.

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Speaker 1: And Meta as an Instagram specific to Instagram This Morning,

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Speaker 1: are now requiring all US based employees to return to

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Speaker 1: the office five days a week. So that's still looking

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Speaker 1: in that part of the world. So bit going on

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Speaker 1: there isn't it.

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