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Speaker 1: So you've got the New York Times reporting that the

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Speaker 1: what is happening here. They're talking about sending in airborne

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Speaker 1: used for high risk missions. No decision has been made yet,

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Speaker 1: but plans are being actively discussed. According to the New

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Speaker 1: York Times, some of the possible missions of the paratroopers

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Speaker 1: would be seizing key areas like oil hubs or even islands,

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Speaker 1: speed matters. They're very quick. They go in fast and hard.

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Speaker 1: And that shows that if they're talking about this, is

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Speaker 1: is coming to the table and talk. But then the

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Speaker 1: New York Times is reporting that we're considering sending in

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Speaker 2: Well, we talked about a lot about this yesterday. We're

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Speaker 2: at war right now, and there's a lot of countries

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Speaker 2: as well. And when you're at war, you can't necessarily

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Speaker 2: take everything your leaders say at face value because the

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Speaker 2: element of surprise is so important during war. And I

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Speaker 2: mentioned yesterday the famous Bagdad Bob from the two thousand

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Speaker 2: middle of Bagdad saying, now, everything's fine, We're doing great. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: of course Donald Trump when he said he's not sending

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Speaker 2: troops anywhere, but told the reporter.

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Speaker 1: He would keep his options open.

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Speaker 2: So he said, if I were, I certainly wouldn't tell you.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what's going on. This is negotiation. This is

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Speaker 2: making sure that the Pentagon gives Donald Trump every option

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Speaker 2: for whatever decision he wants to use. So we take,

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Speaker 2: you know, the twenty five hundred Marines in the Marine

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Speaker 2: the Middle East. And we have the eighty second Airborne

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Speaker 2: who and again, like you mentioned, these are fast acting,

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Speaker 2: you know troops. These are people that can get in

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Speaker 2: there really fast and really quick. And so if he

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Speaker 2: wants to take carg Island. Great, wonderful. By the way,

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Speaker 2: you know who's getting all this information to the Iranians.

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Speaker 2: They know American marines are coming there, they know the

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Speaker 2: eighty second Airborn is coming there.

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Speaker 3: They know that.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump can put them on the ground in a

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Speaker 2: is giving Trump options for whatever he needs going forward

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Speaker 2: to actually accomplish the objectives, win this war and then

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Speaker 2: bring everybody home.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's true. I mean the administration, they're keeping their

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Speaker 1: options open. They're not committed publicly to ground troops, but

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes, according to The New York Times, the

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Speaker 1: Pentagon is actively preparing for that possibility. You also do

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Speaker 1: have to question the New York Times, is this just

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Speaker 1: fear mongering from them? But a ground move could lead

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Speaker 1: And public support for any escalation is very low according

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Speaker 3: They want very much to make a deal. We'd like

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Speaker 3: to make a deal too. We're going to get together

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Speaker 3: today by probably phone, because it's very hard to find

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Speaker 3: I guess. But well, at some point, very soon meet

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Speaker 3: we're doing a five day period. We'll see how that goes,

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Speaker 1: Okay, we'll keep bombing our little hearts out. Unhinged diplomacy,

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Speaker 1: But is it working five days to make a deal? See?

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Speaker 1: Kind of aggressive, But you have to keep pressure on

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Speaker 1: because that's how you get results. Well, give them a deadline.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And again, this is all the negotiation. You never

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Speaker 2: well then you're just going to get negotiated down into

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Speaker 2: here by saying, look, I've got all this in front

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Speaker 3: I thought.

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Speaker 2: One of the interesting things in this New York Times

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Speaker 2: if we all of a sudden capture prisoners of war?

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Speaker 2: Do we have detention facilities for them? How are we

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Speaker 2: just sending these troops to the region, will they won't

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Speaker 2: they sort of thing. No, we're actually seven steps ahead

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Speaker 1: Guys.

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Speaker 2: So this is not a bluff here. We're not bringing

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Speaker 2: a tool if we need it, and we're not afraid

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Speaker 1: I saw some people saying that the original forty eight

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Speaker 1: five more days was a play to get certain people

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Speaker 2: And I can completely see that. Again, there's an incredible

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Speaker 2: There's always a lot the fog of war is real.

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Speaker 2: all of what you're seeing and all of this is

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Speaker 1: So you've got the USS gerald Ford aircraft carrier. It's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, these aircraft carriers, they take an incredible

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't read too much into this about it being

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Speaker 2: last month.

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Speaker 1: It is still operational, just needs a bit of reset

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Speaker 1: after some heavy use.

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Speaker 2: Well, and we've already done most of the heavy work.

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Speaker 2: I mean, most of the heavy bombing that has already

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Speaker 2: some of the Arab countries are now starting to let

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Speaker 2: the United States use their air force bases to send planes.

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Speaker 2: So again we don't need two aircraft carriers and all

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Speaker 2: their support groups there. We're getting more runways and some

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Speaker 2: friendly foreign bases that can launch our planes from. It's

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Speaker 2: just a situation where it's gerald Ford just isn't as

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Speaker 2: necessary to what's going on anymore.

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Speaker 1: One last thing, Donald Trump said, we're giving our ran

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Speaker 1: five days, and he thinks it could end very well.

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Speaker 3: So we're giving it five days and then we're going

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Speaker 3: to see where that takes us. And I would say,

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Speaker 3: at the end of this period, I think it could

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Speaker 3: very well end up being a very good deal for everybody,

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Speaker 3: as good as if we went all the way and

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Speaker 3: just literally annihilated the place, which which if we don't

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Speaker 3: have to do that, that would be a good thing,

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Speaker 3: not a bad thing.

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Speaker 1: Whether it works or not, we'll find out. But if

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Speaker 1: the Iranians are at the table, that's more than the

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Speaker 1: last administration was ever able to manage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or the.

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Speaker 1: Administration before that, or before that or before that.

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Speaker 2: Exactly all that Trump needs to do. However this ends, However,

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Speaker 2: this wraps up in a couple of weeks, couple of months,

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Speaker 2: whatever it is, Trump can declare victory and then sell

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Speaker 2: that as a victory to the American people. All of

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Speaker 2: this pearl clutching and ringing of hands and concerns and

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Speaker 2: all that, all of that magically disappears and everybody's happy.

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Speaker 2: It's just like what happened with Maduro in Venezuela. Everybody

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Speaker 2: was shocked that it happened. It was so fast. You

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Speaker 2: it turned out that was such a massive victory that

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Speaker 2: there's no way you can make any political ground by

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Speaker 2: being against it. Donald Trump can get that sort of

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Speaker 2: victory in Iran and sell that to the American people

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Speaker 2: that Democrats have absolutely nowhere to go at opposing this.

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