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Speaker 1: Michael and Dragon.

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Speaker 2: What do you call an irishman that is bouncing off

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Speaker 2: the walls?

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Speaker 3: Rick? Oh shame, I see you laughing over there.

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Speaker 1: I find that funny.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was another.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard that one before.

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Speaker 3: There was another joke that was sent in but by

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Speaker 3: a talkback. I can't play that one on the air,

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Speaker 3: but you will hear it in the podcast form of

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Speaker 3: the Daily Todd podcast sections. Yeah, there's different rules online

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Speaker 3: than there are over the air. Yes, go ahead, listened,

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Speaker 3: there significantly different rules, and I would say, very good judgment.

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Speaker 3: But I think a twelve year old would have to

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Speaker 3: play the other one on air. In fact, it was

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Speaker 3: kind of directed toward twelve year old, which is predominantly

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Speaker 3: our audience. Exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go to the straight up, and let's start

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Speaker 2: with Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat Connecticut, his now famous post

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Speaker 2: on X quote on the straight of her moves, They

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Speaker 2: meaning the Trump administration, meaning America had no plan.

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Speaker 1: In all caps, he says.

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Speaker 2: I can't go into more detail about how Iran comes

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Speaker 2: up the straight but suffice it to say right now,

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Speaker 2: they don't know how to get it safely back open

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Speaker 2: close quote. Now, that single quote about three lines is

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Speaker 2: doing an awful love of heavy lifting politically, but before

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Speaker 2: you accepted as gospel, understand what it is. Strategically. It's

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Speaker 2: encouraging the Iranians to hold firm by suggesting that American

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Speaker 2: public opinion is fracturing. It's usuring European governments to distance

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Speaker 2: themselves from Washington, and it provides domestic critics in this

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Speaker 2: country with a seemingly credible frame to attack the president

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Speaker 2: in the middle of an active military operation. I find

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Speaker 2: Chris Murphy despicable. Now, Murphy is a Democrat in wartime

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Speaker 2: saying quote, we have no plan, and saying it out

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Speaker 2: loud in public against an active adversary. Now, I think

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Speaker 2: that's worth noting before we treat his briefing leak as

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Speaker 2: some sort of authoritative military analysis, because it's utter bull crap.

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Speaker 2: We have always had plans the tanker Wharf nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: I know. My guess is most of you don't even

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Speaker 1: remember this.

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Speaker 2: It culminated in something called Operation Praying Mantis, and that

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Speaker 2: demonstrated the pattern that would become institutionally characteristic, multiple pre

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Speaker 2: approved strike and retaliation contingencies rapidly adapted after Iranian escalation

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Speaker 2: at sea, and the after action analysis from the Praying

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Speaker 2: Mandis operation explicitly records that tactical air contingencies had already

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Speaker 2: been task planned and approved by the Joint Chiefs before

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Speaker 2: the mining incidents occurred in ninety seven, nineteen eighty seven,

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Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty eight. Now that is not improvisation. That's

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Speaker 2: exactly what deliberate contingency planning followed by adaptive execution is

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Speaker 2: supposed to look like in military terms. Back in twenty twelve,

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Speaker 2: the Congressional Research Service produced a formal analysis of Iranian

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Speaker 2: threats to the Strait of Hormos. That analysis laid out

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Speaker 2: closure at harassment scenarios in very granular detail. It described

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Speaker 2: outright closure as likely to trigger a US and coalition

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Speaker 2: military response, and quote of the Chairman of the Joint

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Speaker 2: Chiefs at the time, General Martin Dempsey, directly, this is

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Speaker 2: not classified material. I'm disclosing, its congressional testimony and its

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Speaker 2: public doctrine, and it's all public record. Chris Murphy is

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Speaker 2: an idiot, and quite frankly, he's serving the enemy. As

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Speaker 2: for the current operation, the opening round of strikes appears

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Speaker 2: calibrated toward degrading Iran's retaliatory capacity and their security apparatus.

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Speaker 2: IRGC apparently has been assassinated or at least killed in

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Speaker 2: some strikes overnight. The current operation, the opening round of

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Speaker 2: strikes towards degrading their retaliatory capacity and their security apparatus,

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Speaker 2: realistic missile infrastructure, drone production launch sites. Government military leaders

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Speaker 2: like I say the IRGC head's gone and the key

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Speaker 2: naval facilities all tied to potential attempts to close the

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Speaker 2: Strait of her moves here where that comes from the

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Speaker 2: Atlantic Council not exactly a bastion of right wing you know.

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Speaker 1: You know, just going to rend the war.

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Speaker 2: The Strait of Her Moves was baked into the targeting

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Speaker 1: The surprise.

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Speaker 2: Let me talk about the surprise dilemma, because the supply

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Speaker 2: operational security versus strategic objective tension. If you preposition a

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Speaker 2: a technical military term, that's a massive tell. Throughout February,

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Speaker 1: Watching every move.

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Speaker 2: On February sixteenth, the IRGC began live fire naval drills.

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Speaker 2: Announcing back on February a temporary closure of sections of

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Speaker 2: Iranians were already in hair trigger mode. So if they're

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Speaker 2: the core strategic bet becomes this decapitation and degradation. First,

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Speaker 2: the underlying theory of this operation was that the correct

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Speaker 2: sequencing was this destroy the regime's capacity to threaten the strait,

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Speaker 2: then secure the strait. The strategic logic is straightforward. Nuclear

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Speaker 2: negotiations had frozen over non negotiable red lines, so rather

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Speaker 2: than accept incremental stalemate, Washington and Jerusalem appear to have

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Speaker 2: concluded that oftering the players, not just the terms, was

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Speaker 2: the necessary step. In other words, If the strikes succeeded

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Speaker 2: in their primary mission, which was degrading missile infrastructure, the

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Speaker 2: drone capacity, the naval assets, and the leadership, the Hormuze

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Speaker 2: problem potentially solves itself. You won't need to sweep minds

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Speaker 2: if the regime collapses or capitulates. Now that bet has

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Speaker 2: the strategic wrinkle that I don't think gets enough attention.

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Speaker 2: Clearing minds is always slow and difficult. Doing it during

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Speaker 2: a full blown war while facing threats from land based

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Speaker 2: anti ship cruise missiles, the drones, any other Ranian naval

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Speaker 2: assets that might still be left intact would be exceedingly dangerous.

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Speaker 2: In other words, pre securing the strait of her moves

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Speaker 2: before the bombing wod have required fighting your way through

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Speaker 2: Iranian coastal defenses while simultaneously trying to conduct mind clearing operations.

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Speaker 2: And that's all before you have knocked out those same

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Speaker 2: coastal defenses with the air campaign. So the sequencing of

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Speaker 2: bomb first, clear the straight second makes tactical sense because

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Speaker 2: the bombing campaign should, at least in theory, degrade the

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Speaker 2: very assets that make horrmus clearance so dangerous in the

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Speaker 1: The problem is.

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Speaker 2: That campaign has not moved fast enough to get there,

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Speaker 2: and there is a horrifying geography problem. The US Navy

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Speaker 2: can deny the Iranians the ability to operate on the

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Speaker 1: The Strait is twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Nautical miles wide at the narrowest point. Iran has more

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Speaker 2: galloply ten times with the difference that the Iranians could

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Speaker 2: dominated by Iranian real estate. Now here's where the plan

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Speaker 2: arguably failed. Here would be my steel man of the

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Speaker 2: want to give you both sides before I destroy one

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Speaker 2: of them. The plan appears to assumed either a faster

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Speaker 2: regime collapse or b that's striking the IRGC naval assets

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Speaker 2: on day one would sufficiently degrade the interdiction capacity. Now,

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Speaker 2: whether Iran can and will conduct this mining operation campaign

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Speaker 2: depends on which targets along Irand's southern coast we have

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Speaker 2: already destroyed, as well as how extensively Iran plan and

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Speaker 2: for that contingency before the way even began. This is

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Speaker 2: what the answer appears to be. The Iranians planned for

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Speaker 2: it extensively. As of March twelve, five days ago, Iran

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Speaker 2: Oil exports from the Gulf have dropped by at least

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Speaker 2: sixty percent, so the degradation campaign is working. The Israeli

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Speaker 2: does remain effectively closed. So there's a real operational gap,

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Speaker 2: and that real operational gap, truly, if there is one,

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Speaker 2: may not be no plan. It may be that the

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Speaker 2: plan assumed a timeline to degradation, that Iran's preposition coastal

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Speaker 2: sc are currently outrunning our plan. But the no plan

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Speaker 2: narrative that's being used as a political weapon, it's not

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Speaker 2: a military assessment. The United States has had Hormuz contingency

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Speaker 2: plans since the Carter administration. They're literally in congressional testimony.

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Speaker 2: So the decision not to presecure the Straight before the

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Speaker 2: bombing was strategically defensible because you don't telegraph a surprise attack.

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Speaker 2: You can't physically hold a twenty one mile maritime choke

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Speaker 2: there was no plan, it's that the timeline assumption underlying

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Speaker 2: the plan probably were optimistic, and Iran's horizontal escalation strategy

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Speaker 2: eliminating the capacity to impose those costs. That's not no plan,

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Speaker 2: that's war not going according to plan. Those are very

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Speaker 2: We've been here before. This is nothing new. And the

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Speaker 2: fact that we see oil prices increasing, huh wow. It

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Speaker 2: seems like when oil prices increase during Democrats, nobody says

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Speaker 2: that's ignoring the the economics of what's going on, and

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Speaker 2: to the Democrats. I was saying, well, they didn't have

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Speaker 2: we know exactly what we're doing, and we're going to

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Speaker 2: continue to do it. I don't like paying three you know,

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Speaker 1: Pissed me off, and I filled up the car.

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Speaker 2: Now, I know for some that might be a difficult

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Speaker 2: this is Trump's fault and it's because he didn't have

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Speaker 2: a plan. No, because I know we have a plan,

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Speaker 2: Nobody's willing to go back and realize that, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we did have a plan, and we've actually done this

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Speaker 2: quite easily, the Tanker War nineteen eighty seven, in nineteen

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Speaker 1: The airlines.

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Speaker 2: They have the greatest invested interest, which means that they

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Speaker 2: Now, I understand that as long as we have TSA,

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Speaker 2: when I'll give you a personal example. So it's spring

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Speaker 1: Trip for spring break.

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Speaker 2: While she's doing that, I would guess I don't know

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I would have strongly encouraged them to do that. Now.

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Speaker 2: I know that you cannot reduce the remuneration of a

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Speaker 2: I think I may have mentioned that I despise members

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Speaker 2: If you haven't heard that, let me just tell you

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Speaker 2: that again. So Congress sitting here doing nothing while all

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Speaker 2: it truly indefensible. This is not an emergency that snuck

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Speaker 1: They were right there.

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Speaker 2: And what was Congress doing what it always does when

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Speaker 2: to expand the indictment, because what I've just described isn't

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Speaker 2: an isolated failures to a berry Cates to live will well,

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Speaker 4: Brother.

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Speaker 2: Oh these are your people, I know, I know we

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Speaker 1: And of course we're grateful for them, and we love

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Speaker 1: to make fun of them.

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Speaker 2: So what can I say, Congress Michael Brown's listeners, You

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Speaker 2: know it's the same group of dufices, just the same

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Speaker 3: Careful that's suiting the dufices, it.

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Speaker 2: Really, it really is. That's that's almost bordering a libel

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Speaker 1: Uh, some of you, some of you almost as bad

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Speaker 1: you might be as right. Or if you're a Jewish

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Speaker 2: We got Jews and we've got truck drivers. So surely

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Speaker 3: Get the farmer's daughter too.

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Speaker 2: You don't get the farmer's daughter, by the way, go

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Speaker 2: the farmer's daughter is having an auction.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about buying that farm.

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Speaker 3: I saw that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm thinking about buying that farm. You know, I

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Speaker 2: get paid so much money farmer Brown, and considering what

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Speaker 2: about fifty an acre. Now, like the old Louisiana purchase,

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Speaker 2: this is a symptom. Everything going on right now is

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Speaker 2: something that's far more corrosive, and that is, it's a

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Speaker 2: do nothing more radical than just verify that the people

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Speaker 2: voting in a US election are actually US citizens. It's

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Speaker 2: sitting in the US Senate not because it lacks support,

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Speaker 2: not because it's constitutionally defective, but because Senate rules allow

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Speaker 2: a determined minority to kill any bill through the procedural

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Speaker 2: nicety called the filibuster, A bill with extraordinary public support,

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Speaker 2: languishing not on the merits, but on the parliamentary technicality

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Speaker 2: that the people who benefit from its defeat know exactly

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Speaker 2: which lever to pull democracy, they tell.

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Speaker 1: Us, working as design.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, outside the marbled hall of the legislative branch, the

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Speaker 2: rest of this country is drowning. Higher education costs have

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Speaker 2: more than doubled in inflation of justice turns over six decades.

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Speaker 2: That has produced a student debt load north of one

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Speaker 2: point seven trillion dollars, affecting forty three million borrowers. The

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Speaker 2: mechanism is straightforward and obvious to anyone willing to say

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Speaker 2: it out loud. When the federal government guarantees that someone

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Speaker 2: will somebody will always pay loans, grants, subsidized financing. Then

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Speaker 2: the universities, the collegists face exactly zero market pressure to

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Speaker 2: control their costs till they build, They spand they hire,

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Speaker 2: they charge, And the answer Washington keeps reaching for debt forgiveness,

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Speaker 2: the equivalent of mopping the floor, and the faucet's still running.

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Speaker 2: The root cause ooh, we haven't talked about roote cause

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Speaker 2: since Biden. That goes untouched because the institution's profiting from

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Speaker 2: the current arrangement. They write checks to the same politicians

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Speaker 2: who would need to fix this. K twelve education continues

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Speaker 2: to operate on a mid twentieth century chassis. In a

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Speaker 2: twenty first century world. We group children by age rather

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Speaker 2: than by ability or aptitude, as if the calendar year

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Speaker 2: of the kid's birth is the relevant variable for learning anything.

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Speaker 2: We ask teachers to memorize and recite in the era

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Speaker 2: when every nentwer is on phone screen away, and we

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Speaker 2: do it in buildings where the quality of instruction is

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Speaker 2: determined entirelyboy' zip code. The technology exists right now to

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Speaker 2: deliver the best teacher in any subject in America to

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Speaker 2: every child in America. We simply don't want to deploy

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Speaker 2: it because the system that exists serves the adults who

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Speaker 2: run it instead of the children who are supposed to

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Speaker 2: benefit from it. Healthcare costs, Oh hang, known for that one.

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Speaker 2: We'll do that one next