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Speaker 1: from the Oval Office at nine pm. He now has

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Speaker 1: told everyone that Iran, the regime, whatever, the remnants of

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Speaker 1: the regime, have now asked for a cease fire. President

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Speaker 1: no cease fire until the regime reopens the Strait of Hormouse.

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Speaker 1: If they do that, yes, there will be a cease

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Speaker 1: fire now. No matter what President Trump says, within about

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Speaker 1: two weeks, give or take a few days, the war

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Speaker 1: had one goal, he said, and that was to end

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Speaker 1: for at least fifteen to twenty years. So my question

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Speaker 1: Was the war worth it? And President Trump? Will he

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Speaker 1: go down in history as the great liberator or as

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Speaker 1: Six one seven two, six, six sixty eight sixty eight

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Speaker 1: and welcome.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for taking my call, my pleasure, Eddie.

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Speaker 3: Two things I'd like to say. Number One, not too

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Speaker 3: long ago, didn't we take out a dictator in Venezuela.

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Speaker 3: Where's all that oil going? The administration should be going

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Speaker 3: But by removing a dictator, let's make a deal here,

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Speaker 3: give us some oil at a bargain price. They will

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Speaker 3: That's the first thing. Venezuela is more productive than the

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Speaker 3: Middle East. Number two, NATO hasn't been with us for

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Speaker 3: forty five years. Since I've been over there in the

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Speaker 3: We waste a lot of money. And let's not forget

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Speaker 3: about no one's talking about the United Nations. The United

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Speaker 3: sees that are threatened, the rural security. Where were they

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Speaker 3: Everybody's sitting on their butts doing nothing, Eddie.

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Speaker 1: That is a great point. That is a really good point.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I don't want to get too inside baseball

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Speaker 1: Bahrain and Qatar. They're lobbying the President saying no, no, please,

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Speaker 1: And they're basically it's like paying off a mobster. They're

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Speaker 1: Their argument is, aren't you guys supposed to guarantee the

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Speaker 1: whatever you think of the war, the Mollahs have mined

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Speaker 1: unblocking the Strait of Hormouse. In other words, to the UN,

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Speaker 1: And to your point thatdie. All they're doing is sitting

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Speaker 1: So that's where we are right now, Eddie, Eddie, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much for that call.

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Speaker 2: Bob in Plymouth. Thanks for holding Bob and welcome.

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Speaker 5: You know, about thirty five years ago a group of

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Speaker 5: These people are sick. I'm sorry, I just don't understand

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Speaker 2: Can you do me a favor? I'm so with you.

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Speaker 1: The Ingrats, Bob obviously is disgusted with the way the

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Speaker 1: don't want to help us clear the strait of Hormouse.

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Speaker 1: They want us to protect them, but they don't seem

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Speaker 2: Bob, what say you.

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Speaker 5: A long time ago, I said that they should take

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Speaker 5: The Europeans, for example, they seem like they have no

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Speaker 1: Oh, they need us to protect them. You know, they

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Speaker 2: But when we.

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Speaker 1: Need them suddenly not so much, Bob. You know, Bob,

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Speaker 1: have you ever had a friend, and I put friend

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Speaker 1: you know what, Bob, this time it's on me. No,

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Speaker 1: every freaking time you got to pick up the tab.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever had a friend like that?

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Speaker 5: Oh? Never, never, never. If I did, they wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: Well, that's the Europeans. I'm talking about NATO, and in

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for that call, Joe in Beverly.

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Speaker 4: Welcome corner man. How are you doing this ball?

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Speaker 2: Very good? How are you, Joe?

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Speaker 4: I'm not too bad. I'm just getting a little tired

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Speaker 4: of you know, people, you know, you're not in the

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Speaker 4: got to trust in Trump just a little bit. Every

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Speaker 4: You know. I would say, let it play out, and

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Speaker 4: if it's a disaster, then we can panic. But let

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Speaker 4: Trump do his job. Because every time he steps to

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Speaker 4: So I would say, everybody just relaxed a little bit

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Speaker 4: he's not only playing three dimensional chess, he's playing four

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Speaker 1: Well, Joe, look, to me, he's one of the greatest

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Speaker 1: And so this is a huge story, and you know,

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Speaker 1: My question to you, and I think this is the

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Speaker 1: my goal was never regime change. My goal was to

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Speaker 1: make sure that Iran would never develop a nuclear weapon again.

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Speaker 1: And I thought, you know, I believe there was an

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Speaker 1: I did what I had to do. The fact that

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Speaker 1: possibility that the strait of Hormouse will be closed, We'll see.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's still two or three weeks to go.

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Speaker 1: For you, is that a victory? Is that does that

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Speaker 1: justify the war? And that does that justify Trump's decision?

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Speaker 1: Or because there are many who are texting me who

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Speaker 1: that he shouldn't be leaving the Mullahs in power, and

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Speaker 1: that this is a huge missed opportunity on his part.

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Speaker 1: So they support him and the war. They just feel

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Speaker 4: What say you, Well, the thing is, we don't know yet,

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Speaker 4: because you know Trump, he says one thing on the

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Speaker 4: something completely different. Because you can't show your hand to

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Speaker 4: We don't know yet what is going to happen, because

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Speaker 1: Oh that was a slaughter, Are you're right? I mean

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Speaker 1: And they were just cut down, just cut down to ribbons,

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Speaker 4: But see the thing is the military. Everybody is joining, okay,

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Speaker 4: I mean, when you sign up for the military, there's

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Speaker 4: But that's part of the game, Jeff. In the world,

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Speaker 4: know why the Republicans battle each other, because we battle.

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Speaker 4: You've got to trust in the commander in chief, and

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Speaker 1: What say you, Jeff, Joe, thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: there's still two weeks left to go. Trump is the

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Speaker 1: keep the Mulla's off balance. It's not over till it's over.

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Speaker 1: And you have no idea. Trump may unblock the Strait

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Speaker 1: the next punch is gonna come from. So until this

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Speaker 7: Welcome Chump supporter. I just want to ask you, like

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Speaker 7: Trump said a long time, well, we have all the

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Speaker 8: Gall in California high here? And if we have all

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Speaker 1: that's ultimately this is Trump's point. He goes, well, how

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Speaker 1: I mean it's sort of how do I say this?

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Speaker 1: It's like, and Chuck, please hang on, okay, because I'm

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Speaker 1: Just keep bombing things over and over again once they've

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Speaker 1: East Boston. He's a Trump supporter all the way. Chuck,

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Speaker 1: I think, look, this is what I think Trump is

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Speaker 1: And so in a way, you're dealing with such a fanatical,

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Speaker 1: almost like, yeah, the Americans are bombing us. There's almost

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Speaker 1: Because I want him to kill me, because then you

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Speaker 1: And look, I think there's no question Chuck I misunder

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Speaker 1: I underestimated it. Trump underestimated it, the Israelis underestimated it,

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Speaker 1: He's got to pivot, and he's got to pivot quick

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Speaker 2: A final word to you.

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Speaker 9: Chuck, Yeah, well we should take Venezuela oil because there's

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Speaker 9: no there's no point. I mean, we have all the

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Speaker 2: The final word to you.

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Speaker 8: Check, oh, we should take Venezuela oil.

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Speaker 6: And you know how we always liberate everybody else, like, kwait, what's.

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Speaker 4: In it for us? Jeff?

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Speaker 6: We always help everybody. What's in it? For us.

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Speaker 8: Nothing.

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Speaker 4: We don't even get.

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Speaker 6: A bottle galloy gas anymore. We help the world, there's

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Speaker 6: nothing for us. Why there's nothing for us?

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Speaker 4: Get a bunch of Iranian people to call in. They'll

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Speaker 8: There's nothing for us, Jeff. It's a one way street.

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Speaker 8: What's in it for us?

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Speaker 4: The United States? Not?

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Speaker 6: We help everybody. You don't want to screw everybody, Screwnato,

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Speaker 6: pull out. There's nothing for us for us Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you, Chuck. I'm with you all the way,

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Speaker 2: all the way.

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Speaker 5: Cal.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for that call. Cal in youber report. I

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Speaker 2: hate to do this to you.

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Speaker 4: Cal.

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Speaker 2: One minute, go.

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Speaker 5: Hi Jeff.

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Speaker 4: Basically, Jeff, I'm really upset about.

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Speaker 3: About thinking that our military the brightest, the smartest, the

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Speaker 2: Mike, What did you do? Mike?

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Speaker 1: Mike, you cut her off. I need you to complain now.

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Speaker 1: Cooner's tip for Toad. Can you please call in