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Speaker 1: So we're gonna get you a blind guy as a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yes, make logical sense for anybody who works for

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Speaker 3: I know it wasn't management because I know they've stood

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Speaker 3: watching team at the Critical Threats Project. The twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: Institute of War because here's the money description. This is

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Speaker 2: Oh? Was it the snatching of Nicholas Maduro?

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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you why when we get back RANI

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Speaker 2: What? What you know?

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Speaker 3: You people are just pathetic. You give me this. You

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Speaker 5: Well, I don't want to say that, but a run

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Speaker 5: You have evidence that Iron is behaving badly?

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Speaker 5: They're not going to go back to where they were,

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Speaker 2: Over the country of Iran?

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Speaker 5: The crowds are so big that some of them have

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Speaker 2: But I have.

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Speaker 5: Foot rano noticed that if they start shooting at them.

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Speaker 5: These people are totally unarmed people, and they love their country.

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Speaker 2: They want something to happen. Look at their country.

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Speaker 5: They've gone, They've gone back one hundred.

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Speaker 2: And fifty years.

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Speaker 5: But I've told them that if they do anything bad

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Speaker 5: to these people, we're going to hit them very hard.

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Speaker 2: You stop them.

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Speaker 3: Think that, I know over you think that through the

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Speaker 3: Obama years, even some of the Bush years, obviously the

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Speaker 3: Biden years. Trump one point zero was which was totally

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Speaker 3: derailed because of the Russia, Russia, Russia and impeachments and

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Speaker 3: everything else. Not totally derailed, but.

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Speaker 2: Derailed.

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Speaker 3: And then we elect this guy again, and suddenly you

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Speaker 3: know he's being effected, if for no other reason than

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Speaker 3: the absolute overreaction by all of the Marxist socialist communists

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Speaker 3: on the left. The left has gone apoplectic because he

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Speaker 3: truly is a threat to their power. He's a threat

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Speaker 3: to their agenda. He's a threat to the march of

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Speaker 3: progressivism that started back with Woodrow Wilson. Now take that

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Speaker 3: same thing that we see in this country, and the

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Speaker 3: rest of the world sees that too. Oh here's a

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Speaker 3: guy that he said, you know what to do this,

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Speaker 3: or I'm thinking about doing this, or if you don't

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Speaker 3: do this, I will do that. Whatever it is. He

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Speaker 3: draws the line in the sand, and he actually doesn't.

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Speaker 3: He draws a red line. And it's not with a

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Speaker 3: magic eraser that disappears like Obama and Biden did. He

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Speaker 3: draws a real red line. Now, we may not always

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Speaker 3: like the consequences of that, haven't we always been demanding.

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Speaker 3: We're sick and tired of politicians who say something and

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Speaker 3: they never do anything.

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Speaker 2: At least he's doing something. Hey Michael, we'll always see

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Speaker 2: eye to eye with you. How thoughtful, kind? Nice? Oh oh,

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Speaker 2: he's referring to the Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and you never, for one millisecond thought that a

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Speaker 3: goober was leaving a talk back.

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Speaker 2: There was going to be, you know, nice to me.

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Speaker 2: So far, I've run over state troopers.

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Speaker 3: What else? I'm saggy and draggy. I can't see crap,

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Speaker 3: I can't see my notes, I can't.

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Speaker 2: Read nobody's he bumped into the wall.

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Speaker 1: Nobody talked about your big nose, of your sagging ears,

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Speaker 1: or you're what.

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Speaker 2: Was that earballs? Earballs? Oh yeah, don't get them started

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Speaker 2: on that again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they won't do it because all threatened to not

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Speaker 3: do taxpayer relief shots.

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Speaker 2: You would get lynched. I totally hit lynch if you would.

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Speaker 3: You know what, if taxpayer relief shots were a thing

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Speaker 3: in Iran and the Mullas said, hey, we're not gonna

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Speaker 3: do loose anymore, that would be the fall of the

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Speaker 3: Malas right there. That would be it. So the question,

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't lay that baseline about Trump, because the question

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Speaker 3: is we you know, think about the Shaw's son, who

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Speaker 3: hasn't been there, you know, for forty seven, forty nine years, ever,

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Speaker 3: nineteen seventy nine. And I guess all those people born

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Speaker 3: after the revolution have had children, they've had grandchildren. They've

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Speaker 3: controlled everything, the universities, of the newspapers, everything online. They've

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Speaker 3: lived in a dictatorship. And of course Trump points out indirectly,

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Speaker 3: you know, they're getting shot out. Of course, they don't

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Speaker 3: have any guns. They can't shoot back. Oh yeah, is

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Speaker 3: that what you want?

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Speaker 2: Democrats? Is that what you want? Yes?

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Speaker 3: You want us to be like the people in Iran.

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Speaker 3: You want us unarmed. So when you take over control,

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Speaker 3: you're the people with the guns.

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Speaker 2: Got it? Okay?

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Speaker 3: I understand that now. I've been wondering. Yeah, I've been

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Speaker 3: wondering that for years. So are these people doomed with

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Speaker 3: or without the tyrants?

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Speaker 2: No? I don't think so.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think so because the Uranian people really

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Speaker 3: are a cultured, educated, and a patriotic civilization. Now they

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Speaker 3: hate their current leaders. A lot of people in this country

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Speaker 3: they hate their current leaders too. I hate a lot

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Speaker 3: of our current leaders. There's there's a lot of hate

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Speaker 3: in the world right now, but things could turn out well,

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Speaker 3: especially if the United States is willing to throw its

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Speaker 3: support behind a transition to a non Islamic rule inside Iran. Now,

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Speaker 3: it's not clear to me that Trump is interested in

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Speaker 3: doing that in either Iran or in Venezuela, but he

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Speaker 3: might be. He's he's willing to take and I look,

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Speaker 3: I don't know the man. He's he's what. He's probably

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Speaker 3: the first president since uh Nixon that I've never actually

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Speaker 3: personally met in my life. All the other's I've had some,

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Speaker 3: you know, encounter, even just a handshake.

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Speaker 2: But Trump, no, never.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever even been the same room with him.

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Speaker 3: But I do gather this he really does want to

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Speaker 3: avoid forever. But yet he doesn't like the idea of

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Speaker 3: these dictatorships, and he's really concerned about the global world order.

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Speaker 3: So he is playing all of this. When you call

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Speaker 3: it three D four D five DHS, I don't care.

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Speaker 3: But he really is making all of these strategic moves

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Speaker 3: that are there are probably four or five steps that

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Speaker 3: are taken before we see what he actually does, and

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Speaker 3: then there are four or five more steps and we

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Speaker 3: don't see that he's going to take all of which

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Speaker 3: we just speculate on, and that's kind of where we

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Speaker 3: are now with the Iranians.

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Speaker 2: He did a lot of.

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Speaker 3: Things, for example, after October seven to support the Israelis,

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Speaker 3: much more so than Biden ever did the Democrats ever did.

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Speaker 2: I don't for the life of me.

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Speaker 3: Someday I've had people try to explain to me why

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Speaker 3: so many Jewish people vote Democrat, but it still doesn't

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Speaker 3: make sense to me. So he supported the efforts to

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Speaker 3: read Gaza of Hamas and has the law still ongoing,

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Speaker 3: not finished yet, but still ongoing. And as somebody pointed

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Speaker 3: out on the text line, there probably are Masad or

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Speaker 3: other operatives already inside Iran. We clearly have good intelligence

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Speaker 3: about what's going on in there, so we may just

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Speaker 3: have like we did in Venezuela, we may have CIA

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Speaker 3: agents covertly operating in country already. And all he has

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Speaker 3: to do is, you know, maybe he could with a

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Speaker 3: you know, one missile strike, one drone strike, take out

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Speaker 3: the Moullas, probably know where they're hiding, probably know what

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Speaker 3: tave they're hiding in right now. So I think that

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Speaker 3: Trump may be onto something here. And I don't think

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Speaker 3: that the Iranians are doomed. With or without the tyrants.

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Speaker 3: It'll be messy, it'll be ugly, and it'll take time.

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Speaker 3: But I think that once they're gone, those Iranians could

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Speaker 3: turn their country around. Text player relief shots, I mean

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Speaker 3: up next