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Speaker 1: One of the more unbelievable weekends that we have experienced

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Speaker 1: as an American community and as a global community. We

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Speaker 1: on the Dan o'donald Show. The Ayatola is dead, the

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Speaker 1: Iranian military is in shambles, and it seems as though

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Speaker 1: pretty much every Democrat is furious about this. Why because

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Speaker 1: President Trump has succeeded where presidents of both parties have

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Speaker 1: why all of this was all but inevitable throughout the

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Speaker 1: Just a couple of minutes ago, Secretary of State Marco

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Speaker 2: Have been asked, is why now, Well, there's two reasons

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Speaker 2: why now. The first is it was abundantly clear that

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Speaker 3: The orders had been.

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Speaker 2: Delegated down to the field commanders. It was automatic, and

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Speaker 2: in fact it bare to be true because, in fact,

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Speaker 2: within an hour of the initial attack on the Leadership compound,

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Speaker 2: those that already been prepositioned. The third is the assessment

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Speaker 2: the very wise decision. We knew that there was going

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Speaker 2: precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that

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Speaker 2: the purpose, the purpose of this is to destroy that

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Speaker 2: What they are trying to do and have been trying

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Speaker 3: It under sanction.

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Speaker 2: You see the attacks they're conducting right now. They're attacking airports,

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Speaker 1: How do I know that, Because we thought we were

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Speaker 1: Already, the United States in Israel have established air superiority

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Speaker 4: Our objectives are clear. First, we're.

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Speaker 1: Coming up on the Dan O'Donnell show today, the idea

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Speaker 4: Today, the United States military continues to carry out large

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Speaker 1: And that's fundamentally where the threat lay. As Rubio sort

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Speaker 3: Now. That's why we are going to be waiting.

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Speaker 1: But fundamentally, that's what this was all about. It was

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Speaker 2: There absolutely was an imminent threat, and the imminent threat

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Speaker 3: How we knew that this was going to happen and we.

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Speaker 2: Didn't act preemptively to prevent more casualties and more loss

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Speaker 3: That is exactly true.

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Speaker 1: only presume to be a disingenuous question. Bill, the floor

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Speaker 6: Good, good afternoon, Dan, and thank you for giving me

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Speaker 6: Chess story has changed. According we just heard Mark Rubial

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Speaker 6: less than seventy two hours this was a preemptive strike. Okay,

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Speaker 6: I'm not even going to talk about that. What I'm

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Speaker 3: Wait, hold on a secd hold on a second.

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Speaker 1: Why why bring up something that you're not going to

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Speaker 3: Let you go.

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Speaker 6: In America, there's Iranians in America. One, how are they

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Speaker 6: How are you prepared? How is the rhinos prepared?

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Speaker 3: How are you prepared?

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Speaker 7: Wait?

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Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on a said, hold on

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Speaker 1: a sec. Did you just accuse Iranians in America of

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Speaker 3: Bill?

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Speaker 6: No, you didn't. Damn that's what That's exactly.

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Speaker 1: No, this is exactly what I'm sort of talking about.

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Speaker 1: There's a whole lot of Iranians in the United States.

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Speaker 1: What's going to happen when they let off all their stuff?

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Speaker 1: It seems like what they were letting off was like

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Speaker 3: Bill.

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Speaker 1: I want to play something for you because earlier today

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Speaker 3: Wanted to talk about.

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Speaker 1: You have a tendency to sort of get discombobulated here,

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Speaker 3: It's an excitable time I want to play for you.

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Speaker 1: This is actually just a statement today from a War

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Speaker 8: When US forces engage a limited military mission that involves

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Speaker 3: What do you make of that?

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Speaker 6: Exactly what it is? It's called extraction. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: Wasn't you think Harold Coe was was wrong that this

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Speaker 6: Jim Santel, a US district attorney, who said, and.

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Speaker 1: No, no, I want you to respond. I want you

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Speaker 6: Okay, if we're a limited strike as he just said

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Speaker 3: Okay, what happens.

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Speaker 1: But what happens though we took out the leader of

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Speaker 6: Right, No, Obama and Biden knew why not to do this?

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Speaker 6: Really the guy who just so wait.

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Speaker 1: Obama would have never done something like this. Absolutely okay,

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Speaker 1: because I've actually got news for you, Bill. I mean,

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Speaker 3: This is what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: Barack Obama. This SoundBite was from twenty eleven, when he

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Speaker 1: That would be Melania Trump. Here's actually Nancy Pelosi right

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Speaker 10: Adam, leader, you're saying that the president did not need

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Speaker 6: Any authorization from Congress.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that is actually kind of amazing. You don't need

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Speaker 1: You know, all weekend long, I got liberals up and

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Speaker 3: But then when I call them out and.

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Speaker 3: Half of me felt bad? Should I have felt bad?

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Speaker 1: Would you believe that President Obama in one year dropped

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Speaker 11: To President Trump has the inherent power under our Constitution

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Speaker 1: on national defense. Also said today that there is no

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Speaker 1: need for a congressional declaration of war, just as there

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Speaker 1: hasn't been a single declaration. Would you believe Congress did

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Speaker 1: not declare where an Operation Desert Storm in nineteen ninety one?

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Speaker 1: Was there a single Democrat outside of the radical far left,

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Speaker 1: which was thankfully underground back then, that opposed that war?

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Speaker 1: How about how about the war on Terror that was

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Speaker 1: just sort of unilaterally declared. The last formal declaration of

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Speaker 1: war was the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. It

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't even know what to say

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Speaker 1: at this point. Even Fetterman Densie.

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Speaker 12: Look up and read read the Warp Powers resolution from

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Speaker 12: nineteen seventy three, and what that requires. What that requires

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Speaker 12: is that provide forty eight hours of notification, and President

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Speaker 12: Trump had done that, and then that means after sixty

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Speaker 12: days then they have to withdraw those soldiers or perhaps

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Speaker 12: even for an extra thirty day extension. Neither of those

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Speaker 12: things have been broken.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to j In Mechwan up next on the phones.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the DAN O'Donnell show.

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Speaker 7: Jay, Oh, thank you Dan, the first time listener.

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Speaker 13: Actually, yeah, it's a couple of comments, you know, as

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Speaker 13: far as what Trump does and his critics. Please don't

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Speaker 13: confuse them as facts because it's it's just it's.

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Speaker 14: Nothing you should do. It's too much for anyways.

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Speaker 13: I and also i'll quote to John Lennon.

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Speaker 14: Let me say, let's just give piece of chance dand okay.

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Speaker 13: But aside from that, I want to bring up with

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Speaker 13: a very nuanced argument if you'll give me just a second.

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Speaker 1: Here, sure, so off, you're already setting this up to

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Speaker 1: be a spectacular call, Jay, I'm just gonna let you

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Speaker 1: go possibly till the end of the top of the hour.

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Speaker 1: Till the top of the hour, sir.

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Speaker 14: A lot to live off to you. So let me

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Speaker 14: ask a few questions here.

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Speaker 7: So, who is.

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Speaker 13: The greatest threat to the United States? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Boy, that is that is actually as that's a multifaceted question.

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Speaker 1: The single greatest threat to the United States on a

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Speaker 1: global scale.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean most likely an ascended to China if

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Speaker 3: I had to guess.

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Speaker 13: Exactly, are correct, sir. So my second question, or my

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Speaker 13: second point is, as far as Tucker Carlson's camp is concerned.

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Speaker 13: Everybody said, oh, we are just a lackey of net Yaho. Ever,

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Speaker 13: we're just doing the bidding of the Zionist et cetera,

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Speaker 13: et cetera. But what they don't realize is that countries

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Speaker 13: act for their own benefit. Yes, our president is thank god.

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Speaker 13: Here's my other question for you. Then, who gives China

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Speaker 13: the most oil?

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Speaker 1: That would be Iran. That well, technically it's Iran in Russia.

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Speaker 1: I know they well they faced significant secondary sanctions on that.

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Speaker 1: So yes, it was Iran for a long time. I

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Speaker 1: believe it was Russia. But yes, I think recently it's

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Speaker 1: been Iran.

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Speaker 13: That is very correct. So if you all of a sudden, Oh,

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Speaker 13: by the way, and who was the second second large

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Speaker 13: source of of of oil Tehran happened to be Venezuela

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Speaker 13: at the no mistake, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they were all that was actually I'm sorry to

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Speaker 1: interrupt real quick, that was actually a major and and

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Speaker 1: all of this is seen as a deterrent towards China.

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Speaker 1: That this is to stop what we believe to be

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Speaker 1: potentially going on next year, which would be a full

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Speaker 1: scale military takeover of Taiwan, which China has wanted forever,

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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of this is aimed at

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Speaker 1: economically weakening it in the ongoing trade war, but also

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Speaker 1: such a massive, overwhelming show of force that the Chinese

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Speaker 1: wouldn't dare to act out under Trump's watch, otherwise you'll

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Speaker 1: get Shi jin Ping driving around coked out of his gourd,

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Speaker 1: like Henry Hill driving around watching for helicopters at the

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Speaker 1: end of Goodfellas, keep going though, Jay great, such a

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Speaker 1: great movie and and a good metaphor.

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Speaker 13: By the way, So but what I'm saying, no, so

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Speaker 13: so okay, so excellent, excellent points. So what do we

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Speaker 13: have now?

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Speaker 7: We have a.

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Speaker 13: Situation where the where oil is now the oil that

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Speaker 13: that that flows to China, our greatest enemy is now

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Speaker 13: seemingly after regime change in Iran, which is inevitable. Obviously,

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Speaker 13: we are going to see the flow of oil being

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Speaker 13: controlled by whom, the United States, to China. And and

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Speaker 13: I'm just trying, let's pull it all together. What runs what?

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Speaker 7: What?

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Speaker 6: What?

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Speaker 10: What?

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Speaker 13: What asset runs war? But more than anything, it's oil.

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Speaker 13: You cannot run a a an aggression on any country

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Speaker 13: without energy. So therefore, if we are able, so, if

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Speaker 13: we are able, so.

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Speaker 15: Right, now.

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Speaker 13: So, so my point to you is we are not

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Speaker 13: only are making the world safe from Iran, but top

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Speaker 13: of that, and tuck with Carlson needs to know this,

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Speaker 13: and I'm sure he does, but of course are making

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Speaker 13: we are we are. We are lauding power and control

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Speaker 13: over Red China for for decades to come.

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Speaker 1: As far as the oilers, Okay, I gotta, I gotta

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Speaker 1: just cut you off real quick. You said you were

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Speaker 1: first time listener of the Dan o'donald Show. Uh, Jay,

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Speaker 1: is that because you were spending all your time advising

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Speaker 1: the State Department? Because that was about the best, just

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Speaker 1: way to put it all together. So succinctly, I'm actually

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Speaker 1: scared Jay that the next time you're on the the

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Speaker 1: Dan o'donalds Show, they're going to call it the Jay

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Speaker 1: and Mechwan Show, and I'm going to be calling you brother.

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Speaker 1: That was fantastic and absolutely correct. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for the call. This is This does not exist in

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Speaker 1: a vacuum. It is not an actually you want to

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Speaker 1: you want to use another mob movie metaphor? How about

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Speaker 1: President Trump in twenty twenty six, like Michael corleone right

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Speaker 1: before he takes out all of the other mafia bosses.

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Speaker 1: He says, today, I settle all family business. Well, in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, President Trump is settling all family business.

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Speaker 3: The number one.

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Speaker 1: Bad actor in the world is China, and China, believe

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Speaker 1: it or not, despite all the propaganda coming from the

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Speaker 1: American left and its mouthpieces in traditional media, is remarkably weak.

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Speaker 3: Right now.

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Speaker 1: They are facing a debt bubble that is about to collapse,

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Speaker 1: and even more significantly, they are facing an aging population

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Speaker 1: bubble thanks to their decades long one child policy that

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Speaker 1: has just decimated their ability to grow. It sounds bizarre

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Speaker 1: that a nation with one billion people, and by the way,

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Speaker 1: there are those who are convinced that China has been

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Speaker 1: lying about its population for decades, that it really has

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Speaker 1: far less than a billion people, that it's just dramatically

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Speaker 1: overcounting the number of people in the far off provinces,

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Speaker 1: the rural areas where it's just impossible to verify counts.

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Speaker 1: How the twenty twenty census was run here in the

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Speaker 1: United States, it was just kind of a fraud designed

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Speaker 1: to give more political power to leftists. That, by the way,

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Speaker 1: is a discussion for a different I was actually prepping

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Speaker 1: that for I spent much of Friday evening while I

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Speaker 1: was getting ready to coach a couple of soccer games,

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about the twenty twenty census and how it

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Speaker 1: was essentially rigged by a new formula that was designed

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Speaker 1: in fact, to take political power away from the southern,

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Speaker 1: more conservative states and give it to northern states. And then,

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Speaker 1: of course I woke up in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: night on Saturday night to about fifteen different notifications on

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Speaker 1: my phone that we were apparently at war with a run.

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Speaker 1: That was an absolutely fantastic phone call.

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Speaker 7: Jay.

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Speaker 1: We will take more of your calls throughout the show

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Speaker 1: here on The Dan O'Donnell Show four to one, four seven,

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Speaker 1: nine to nine, eleven thirty and one, eight hundred eighty

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Speaker 1: three eight nine, four seven six more calls, more fun

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Speaker 1: and the unhinged Liberal of the Day coming up next.

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Speaker 1: Sorry to make you wait a little bit there, folks,

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Speaker 1: I just kind of vibe into the bumper music here.

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Speaker 1: By the way, if you like the bumper music you

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Speaker 1: hear on the Dan o'donald Show, we know it's unique.

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Speaker 1: It's designed to be. Check out the Dan o'donald Show

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Speaker 1: Bumper Music playlist on your Spotify app. I'd love to

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Speaker 1: put it on my iHeartRadio app. But well, long story,

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio easily easily. And I am telling you the best

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Speaker 1: podcast app, the best app for news. I was actually

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Speaker 1: while I was watching, I had Fox News on one television.

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Speaker 1: I had CNN on another, just to kind of get well,

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Speaker 1: you know, you got to get the you gotta monitor

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Speaker 1: what it is the enemy is saying. So I'm getting

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Speaker 1: you know, the story from Fox News. Then I'm getting

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Speaker 1: the Iranian propaganda from you know, Mahmoud. I'll Tapper, uh,

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Speaker 1: just providing all of the left. Look, don't believe, folks.

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Speaker 1: If you do not believe that left wingers will side

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Speaker 1: with any American enemy, look no further than this weekend

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Speaker 1: time now for the unhinged liberally, we are in.

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Speaker 3: Pre Nazi Germany.

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Speaker 7: Oh Cofer's dangerous because he's evil.

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Speaker 14: America.

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Speaker 1: Today's unhinged liberal of the day is someone named Zach Jacobsen,

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Speaker 1: who writes about the Green Bay Packers for something called twenty.

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Speaker 3: Four to seven Sports.

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Speaker 1: I'm told it is a big deal and I'm told

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Speaker 1: he is apparently a writer there. Here's what he posted

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Speaker 1: twelve thirty two pm on Saturday, that fat draft dodging

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Speaker 1: slab of dog bleep is drag us into war and

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Speaker 1: sacrificing the lives of Americans and innocent civilians on the

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Speaker 1: ground to distract from the fact that he bleeped kids.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I'd say stick to sports. But someone

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Speaker 1: that truly vile and mentally ill probably is saying that

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Speaker 1: same sort of crazy stuff about Jordan Love whenever he

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Speaker 1: throws an interception not even close.

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Speaker 3: In a weekend of.

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Speaker 1: Truly deranged, awful left wing takes, Zach Jacobson is your

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Speaker 1: unhinged liberal of the day, Stay tuned daily Trump date

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Speaker 1: next here on the Dan o'donald Show. And my deepest

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Speaker 1: condolence is to liberals across the United States of America

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Speaker 1: on the death of the Ayatola Kamine. I know that

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Speaker 1: while you didn't necessarily support everything he did, you were

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Speaker 1: deeply allied with him because he was an enemy of

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Speaker 1: the United States of America, and of course, ultimately that

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Speaker 1: is what matters. Truly, Welcome back to the Dan o'donald.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I have seen a more revealing weekend

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Speaker 1: out of the online left than the one that I

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Speaker 1: saw this past weekend.

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Speaker 3: Have you.

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Speaker 1: Honest to goodness, if you spent any time online, anytime,

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Speaker 1: you would have heard and see. Honestly, I have to

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Speaker 1: go back to, oh the last time a prominent conservative

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Speaker 1: died and was actually gunned down in cold blood?

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Speaker 3: To you, it just it's it's shocking now, folks.

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Speaker 1: I was nine years old when the Gulf War broke out.

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Speaker 1: I came of age politically during nine to eleven. I

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Speaker 1: was twenty years old when nine to eleven happened, and

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Speaker 1: it changed the trajectory.

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Speaker 3: Of my life.

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Speaker 13: It.

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Speaker 3: You know, I didn't really know.

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Speaker 1: I knew I wanted to do something in broadcasting, but

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Speaker 1: I didn't totally know what I wanted, you know, to

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Speaker 1: focus on. Well, that changed it, and ultimately what what

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Speaker 1: did was so when nine to eleven happened, I went

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Speaker 1: into my room right, I went home. I'll never forget this.

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Speaker 1: I really walked out of Paul Joseph's meteorology class at

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Speaker 1: Marquette University because he was just going to go on

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Speaker 1: with class as normal.

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Speaker 3: I did, you know, I didn't.

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Speaker 1: Every other class I had that day on nine e

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Speaker 1: level was canceled. Paul Joseph, God bless him. That man

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Speaker 1: loved meteorology so much. He was going to keep going

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Speaker 1: with the meteorology lesson. I said, you know what, I

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Speaker 1: just I can't today. I'd never skipped. I just I

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Speaker 1: gotta go back. And all I did in my free

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Speaker 1: time for weeks and weeks and weeks was just follow

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Speaker 1: what was going on, and it built sort of this

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Speaker 1: lifelong obsession with learning more about the world around me.

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Speaker 1: And one thing I noticed very very quickly, this is

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Speaker 1: before I started listening to Rush Limbaugh and Mark Belling.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I was sort of generally politically a conservative.

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Speaker 1: I voted for George W.

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Speaker 3: Bush.

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Speaker 1: I just sort of had conservative principles. My family very conservative. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I know, my great uncle was a Democrat. He was

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Speaker 1: the county executive of Milwaukee County. But my god, he

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Speaker 1: be a conservative Republican or all those old Irish Democrats

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Speaker 1: back in the day would be Republicans today too. This

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Speaker 1: is sort of in hyper speed what I noticed back

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Speaker 1: twenty five years my goodness, almost twenty five years ago. Now,

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Speaker 1: what I saw very slowly was Democrats on a you know,

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Speaker 1: you remember when everybody came together and you know, the

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Speaker 1: candlelight vigils and singing God Bless America on the set.

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Speaker 1: Every member of Congress singing God bless America, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we were all behind the militariat. It gradually as we

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Speaker 1: got closer to the two thousand and two mid terms,

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Speaker 1: they couldn't keep up the facade. Democrats just could not

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Speaker 1: keep up the patriotism, the support for the president of

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Speaker 1: the United States, and it just steadily waned. And I

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Speaker 1: was seeing this in real time and say, hey, wait

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Speaker 1: a second, to the point where one of the first

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Speaker 1: ideas I ever had for a recurring bit when I decided,

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Speaker 1: you know, someday I really want to do conservative analysis.

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Speaker 1: I really want to do this on the radio. I

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Speaker 1: think this is just the purest form of broadcasting, of

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Speaker 1: education and entertainment.

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Speaker 3: I said.

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Speaker 1: One of the first bits I ever came, I think

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Speaker 1: the first bit was called democrat or terrorist, and I

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Speaker 1: was just going to read a quote with no context,

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Speaker 1: and you had to decide whether it came from a

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Speaker 1: democrat or a terrorist talking about the United States.

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Speaker 3: It's twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: Ago, and it took months and months and months for

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Speaker 1: them to get to that point where they were literally

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Speaker 1: spewing the exact same propaganda that Oh remember when Osama

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Speaker 1: bin Laden would put out a new video every couple

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Speaker 1: of months. It was like MTV would like debut the

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Speaker 1: new bin Laden track. He was in a cave somewhere

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Speaker 1: and he would say it was shocking to me. It

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Speaker 1: was almost like he was reading the New York Times

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Speaker 1: editorial page and just kind of going from that as

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Speaker 1: to what he was going to talk about to denigrate

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Speaker 1: the United States of America. We went from zero to

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Speaker 1: echoing Bin Laden in about.

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Speaker 3: Three point five hours on social media.

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Speaker 1: And look, folks, the reality is is that the radical socialist,

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Speaker 1: frankly communist leaning left was always out there.

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Speaker 3: It's always out there. Now it's just mainstream.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 1: We had a caller in the last hour referencing Tucker Carlson,

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Speaker 1: who's he's now on the alt right? It is this

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Speaker 1: I think, who is it that calls him the horseshoe right.

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Speaker 1: I think that's Michael Knowles or somebody. And I always

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Speaker 1: talk about how politics, at its extremes, it is not

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Speaker 1: a straight line.

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Speaker 3: It's a circle.

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Speaker 1: The far left and the far right, like the alt right,

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Speaker 1: are shockingly close in their political ideology, and they are

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Speaker 1: both upset because we're supposedly doing the bidding of Israel. This,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is going back to thousand year old

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Speaker 1: tropes about Jews controlling entire kingdoms with their shekels, and

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Speaker 1: neither extreme really has a problem with sharing that same

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Speaker 1: anti sec It never dawned on these morons who said, well,

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Speaker 1: we're just doing Israel's It never dawned on you idiots

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Speaker 1: that maybe Israel is doing the bidding of the vastly richer,

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Speaker 1: vastly technologically and militarily superior country, and that Israel essentially

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Speaker 1: exists because of the protection of the United States of America,

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Speaker 1: and that Israel, which has about the most incredible human

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Speaker 1: intelligence operation I've ever seen. The masade knew exactly where

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Speaker 1: the Ayatola is going to be, and one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons that he was in the same room seems pretty stupid,

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Speaker 1: with not one but two American aircraft carriers right there

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Speaker 1: at your doorstep, two carriers groups, and pretty much the

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Speaker 1: entire air force of the United States, to get in

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Speaker 1: a room with your top commandits. They're terrified of carrying

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Speaker 1: around cell phones or pagers because of what happened to

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Speaker 1: Hamas a couple of years ago, where they got pagers

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Speaker 1: to try to coordinate their terror attacks, and turns out

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Speaker 1: the pagers were bought by a company that was just

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Speaker 1: a front for the masade, and they all simultaneously exploded,

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Speaker 1: killing a whole bunch of terrorists and shall we say,

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Speaker 1: making the rest of them sing soprano for the rest

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Speaker 1: of their days. All right, all right, But my point

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Speaker 1: is that you have people who fundamentally hate this country,

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Speaker 1: and they're not the Uranians.

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Speaker 3: We had, Bill, the token liberal.

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Speaker 1: I'll give him credit for what he lacks in brain cells,

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Speaker 1: he actually lacks in or he makes up for in

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Speaker 1: cahone's because he's the only one who actually is man

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Speaker 1: enough to call and try to debate me. He actually

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Speaker 1: would you believe he said, what are we gonna do

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Speaker 1: when all the Iranians here start blowing things up? A

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Speaker 1: that's super islamophobic. B It sort of makes the point

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Speaker 1: that conservatives have been making for oh, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: several decades, that the borders need to be closed because

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Speaker 1: we have no idea who's coming into this country. But

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Speaker 1: it also denies the reality that the actual Iranians in

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Speaker 1: this country have all been celebrating.

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Speaker 3: This is a brutally repressive regime.

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Speaker 1: The Ayatolas, the Mullahs, the despotic leadership that they have

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Speaker 1: been subjected to has been a living nightmare for nearly

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Speaker 1: fifty years. And we're going to get into later this hour,

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Speaker 1: we are going to get into that long, disturbing history

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Speaker 1: of just how terrible these people have.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: We got to go very very quickly here with the

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Speaker 1: Daily Trump Date, because we're gonna get the impact on markets,

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Speaker 1: the impact on finances with Dave Spono, the CEO of

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Speaker 1: Annex Wealth Management, in just a second.

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Speaker 3: First, though, it is the Daily Trump Date.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna win so much, you may even get tired

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Speaker 5: of winning.

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Speaker 3: Trump just keeps waiting. It is a win for the administration.

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Speaker 14: It's also a big win for the United States.

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Speaker 5: We have to keep winning.

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Speaker 3: We have to win more. We're gonna win Moore.

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Speaker 1: President Trump, addressing the weekend strikes on Iran at a

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Speaker 1: ceremony today giving the Medal of Honor to three soldiers,

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Speaker 1: one from World War Two, and President Trump said that

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Speaker 1: he mourns the four Americans who gave their lives in

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Speaker 1: the Operation Epic Fury.

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Speaker 4: This today, we agree for the four heroic American service

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Speaker 4: members who have been killed in action and send our

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Speaker 4: love and support to their families. In their memory. We

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Speaker 4: continue this mission with ferocious, unyielding resolve to crush the

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Speaker 4: threat this terrorist regime poses to the American people, and

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Speaker 4: a threat indeed, it is.

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Speaker 1: First Lady Milania Trump is echoing those condolences.

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Speaker 9: My heartfelt condolences to the families who have lost their

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Speaker 9: heroes who sacrifice their lives for freedom. Their bravery and

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Speaker 9: dedication will always be remembered. I extend my earnest wishes

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Speaker 9: for a swift and smooth recovery to all those who

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Speaker 9: have been injured. You are in my thoughts and prayers

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Speaker 9: during these challenging times.

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Speaker 1: The First Lady in New York today to chair the

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Speaker 1: meeting of the UN Security Council. It was previously scheduled

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Speaker 1: she was going to talk about education being the bridge

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Speaker 1: to peace. Obviously that changed a little bit. ABC News meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: is now reporting that the American death toll has now

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Speaker 1: increased to six and we here in the News Talk

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Speaker 1: eleven thirty Wis and family urge all of you to

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Speaker 1: pray for our brave men and women who are serving

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Speaker 1: in harms way, especially the son of our morning show

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Speaker 1: host and my dear friend, Ben y Out, who was

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Speaker 1: subject to an Iranian bombing. I did not want to

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Speaker 1: say anything about that, ladies and gentlemen. I guess they

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Speaker 1: turned it into a promo today. I was not listening

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Speaker 1: to Ben's show. I actually unfortunately had a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a health issue this morning that I'm fine, a

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Speaker 1: little battered, but unbroken. I may elaborate on that a

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Speaker 1: little bit longer President Trump.

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Speaker 3: So I didn't get a chance to listen.

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Speaker 1: I listened very briefly to Jason Gotch, but I had

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Speaker 1: known that Ben's son was in harms way, you know,

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Speaker 1: and just say a little prayer for him, because you know,

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Speaker 1: for those of us calling, you know, talk show hosts

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Speaker 1: chicken hawks and what ever, you know, age old insult

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Speaker 1: that they've got left over from the Bush administration, we've

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Speaker 1: got skin in this game as well. And President Trump

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Speaker 1: today at that Medal of Honor ceremony saying, it's going

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Speaker 1: to take as long as it takes to rid the

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Speaker 1: world of this evil Iranian.

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Speaker 4: Regip substantially ahead of our time projections.

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Speaker 3: But whatever the time is, it's okay.

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Speaker 5: Whatever it takes.

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Speaker 16: We will always and we have right from the beginning

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Speaker 16: we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability.

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Speaker 3: To go far longer than that. We'll do it.

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Speaker 4: Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well President wants

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Speaker 4: to do it really quickly. After that, he'll get bored.

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Speaker 4: I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this. Do

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Speaker 4: you agree with that, Pete? I don't think there's anything

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Speaker 4: mister General, there's nothing boring about it.

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Speaker 1: That, ladies and gentlemen, is your daily Trump date. Remember

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Speaker 1: coming up in the five o'clock hour, we are going

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Speaker 1: to debunk pretty much every bit of misinformation that you

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Speaker 1: have undoubtedly heard about Operation Epic Fury over the weekend

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Speaker 1: coming from people on the left and the media mouthpieces

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Speaker 1: that amplify their bile, including that this is somehow going

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Speaker 1: to be a forever war. We don't fight forever wars anymore,

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Speaker 1: our forever war in Venezuela. You remember that this was

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Speaker 1: going to be a quagmire, that we were going to

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Speaker 1: be stuck in Venezuela. How dare we kidnap a sovereign

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Speaker 1: leader of a sovereign nation that lasted all of.

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Speaker 3: Thirty minutes thirty five?

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Speaker 1: Maybe joining us now to make sense of the economic

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Speaker 1: impact that this is already having. Dave Spono, the CEO

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Speaker 1: of Annex wealth management helping us know the difference. Dave,

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Speaker 1: welcome back, sir. What did we see on the markets

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Speaker 1: today because it looked mixed.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. There was no big dip, there was

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Speaker 3: no big spike.

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Speaker 1: So what is it? Is there no more war profiteering?

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Speaker 1: Is Trump no longer going to destroy the economy with

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Speaker 1: his endless wars?

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Speaker 3: What's going on here?

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Speaker 17: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: For sure.

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Speaker 18: So you looked at it, and the S and P

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Speaker 18: five hundred did finish in the green today, and Dan,

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Speaker 18: we went back in. We checked S and P performance

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Speaker 18: with some major historical events over the last save forty years.

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Speaker 18: And you know, Golf War one in nineteen ninety one.

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Speaker 18: If you look three months after that, the markets were

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Speaker 18: up twenty two percent. Golf War two, three months afterwards,

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Speaker 18: the S and P was up twelve percent when it

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Speaker 18: was down. We're for financial major events, things like the

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Speaker 18: dot com, the bear Stearns, the Lehman, you know those issues.

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Speaker 18: So the markets are more concerned about financial crises than

881
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Speaker 18: they are military crises. And so that is the reason

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Speaker 18: why we looked at it. We're not surprised what happened today.

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Speaker 18: We saw oil up six percent, as you know, it

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Speaker 18: could be expected because you know, all of that oil

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Speaker 18: that goes through the straits her moves is a significant amount.

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Speaker 18: And by the way, about forty percent of that oil

887
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Speaker 18: goes to China, so you know they're watching this very closely.

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Speaker 18: But what a week in news. We started obviously with

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Speaker 18: the Supreme Court last week and the AIPA. We all

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Speaker 18: became experts in sections, you know, of the code that

891
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Speaker 18: we haven't heard before. Then we went through, of course

892
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Speaker 18: a two hour State of the Union, we saw Nvidia,

893
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Speaker 18: and then of course we ended on Friday in the

894
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Speaker 18: market with all of that craziness seems to be shrugging

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Speaker 18: it off.

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Speaker 1: That is actually fascinating when you give the history of

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Speaker 1: how markets are just sort of able to okay, I

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Speaker 1: guess there's no more ayatola.

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Speaker 3: Oh well, you.

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00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:48,879
Speaker 1: Know, it's like all right, well, and this is sort

901
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Speaker 1: of the point I'm going to kind of get to

902
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Speaker 1: in the five o'clock hour that wars are no longer.

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Speaker 3: Technology.

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Speaker 1: It has advanced so quickly, Dave, just in the last decade,

905
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Speaker 1: wars are no longer fought, even like they were when

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Speaker 1: the United States invaded Iraq, even like the hunt for

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Speaker 1: Bin Laden in Afghanistan. I am firmly convinced that if

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Speaker 1: nine to eleven were to happen, like let's say nine

909
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Speaker 1: to eleven happened on September eleventh, twenty twenty five, and

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Speaker 1: not September eleventh, two thousand and one, and one hundred

911
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Speaker 1: percent convinced Osama bin Laden would have already been found

912
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Speaker 1: and killed. There's just there's no doubt in my mind.

913
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Speaker 1: There's no doubt in my mind that the invasion of

914
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Speaker 1: Iraq the first of all the and what does this

915
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 1: say about? Just to be clear, this is not Dave

916
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Speaker 1: Spano talking about Dan o'ddell.

917
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 3: What does it say?

918
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:45,320
Speaker 1: I was talking about what kind of shaped my politics.

919
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Speaker 1: It was a situation very similar to this where we

920
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:49,960
Speaker 1: were told in the run up to the Iraq War

921
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 1: invasion that, oh, my gosh, Saddam's troops, these are the greatest,

922
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: best trained forces in the world, and our boys are

923
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 1: gonna they all laid down their arms because they were

924
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Speaker 1: terrified of American Marines and Army rangers, and they should

925
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Speaker 1: be okay. But it is my very strong conviction that

926
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Speaker 1: the Iraq War would have gone very differently because we

927
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Speaker 1: have advanced as a nation technologically so far beyond every

928
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Speaker 1: other that we can just rain death from above with

929
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Speaker 1: pinpoint accuracy pretty much anywhere we want. And I think

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Speaker 1: the Venezuela, uh, the Venezuela situation taught us that we,

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Speaker 1: by the way, are.

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Speaker 3: I don't know did we lose Dave, you're still listening.

933
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Speaker 3: I guess there was the circle.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there is this because I'm here like a little

935
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Speaker 1: what I'm like, Oh, boy, is that his? Is that

936
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Speaker 1: his two way dying on me? I'm gonna like throw

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Speaker 1: it to David. He's not going to be there. Okay, No,

938
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Speaker 1: what Venezuela. What Venezuela taught us is? First of all,

939
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Speaker 1: did you have any idea of the United States as

940
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 1: a weapon called the discombobulator, which basically can uh, it

941
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Speaker 1: basically destroys your inner ear, sense of balance and everything

942
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Speaker 1: and and and it just floors.

943
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Speaker 18: It's a sonic cartoon character. What was the cartoon character

944
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Speaker 18: who had that little gun?

945
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Speaker 15: Right? Oh?

946
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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, okay, so that that exists, would you believe

947
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Speaker 1: that the reason the United States faced no missile defense

948
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Speaker 1: is that we just turned off their missile defense system

949
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 1: before we went in, Like the same thing happened with

950
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Speaker 1: her on It's just like the Israelis just kind of

951
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:45,400
Speaker 1: turned off their missile defense system like that. That's so

952
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:49,920
Speaker 1: beyond the power of any other nation to do that.

953
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,960
Speaker 1: It's almost terrifying. And war just is not fought in

954
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Speaker 1: the same way. And I think what this is.

955
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Speaker 18: Yeah, it doesn't hard to have the Mussad, you know,

956
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Speaker 18: give them.

957
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,839
Speaker 1: I heard a story over the weekend, and I'm still

958
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Speaker 1: not sure if it's entirely verified. One of the ways

959
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Speaker 1: that they were tracking senior leadership of Iran because they

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Speaker 1: don't use technology. They're terrified of using technology because it

961
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Speaker 1: can be tracked.

962
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Speaker 13: Uh.

963
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Speaker 1: That Masad infiltrated dentist's office in Iran and they were

964
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Speaker 1: implanting tracking devices in fillers that they were putting in cavities.

965
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Speaker 3: I love that.

966
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't even like the the technology I have,

967
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: you know.

968
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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, oh god, it's the Masad. The massade

969
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Speaker 3: on the way home. Be careful with your be careful

970
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Speaker 3: with your injury.

971
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Speaker 18: What they're going to implant.

972
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 1: I know, I suppose I should probably I kind of

973
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 1: alluded to it. By the way head to annexwealth dot

974
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Speaker 1: com for.

975
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 3: No other way, have so much to talk about it too, I.

976
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: Could, you know, I could just talk.

977
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 3: I could talk to.

978
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Speaker 1: You for the rest of the hour, but I gotta

979
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: get this history of Iranian terrorism. We got some we

980
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 1: got some other stuff. Go to annix, Yah, honest is

981
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: coming back. My goodness, it's a what a what a

982
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: what a newsy day?

983
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 7: All right?

984
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 1: All right, get the hell out of here. Dave spawna

985
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 1: anixewel dot com. Uh, go to them simply because Dave

986
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: and his teeth, they're just good people.

987
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 3: Uh. They share our values.

988
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:30,080
Speaker 7: Uh.

989
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 1: And you hear Dave every week. He's just a he's

990
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: a very dear friend. And uh unfortunately he outed, Uh

991
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 1: what I think he's violating my hip? Hop, I think

992
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: that you know what it was that beeping was. Don't

993
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: violate Dan O'Donnell's hip. Howrites No?

994
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 13: Uh?

995
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:49,280
Speaker 1: I tore my a c L playing basketball with my

996
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: son on Saturday. It's going to be confirmed in an

997
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 1: mri I next Saturday.

998
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Boy, By the way, I'm telling you people, I'm having

1000
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 1: an mri I on Saturday before. I think even my

1001
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 1: wife knows about that one. And yet Mom and dad,

1002
00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: if you're listening, don't be worried. I'm fine. Producer Doug

1003
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 1: was I not hobbling around just fine.

1004
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 3: Today. They gave me crutches.

1005
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: I'm not using them, but yeah, I've had a bad

1006
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:19,960
Speaker 1: knee for years, and finally it just gave out. My son, Chris,

1007
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: flagrantly fouled me. It was no I went up for

1008
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 1: a jump shot. We were just playing. We were playing

1009
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: one on one, having a great time, and I landed

1010
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: and it was like I didn't even have a left leg.

1011
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: That's the only way I can describe it. It's like

1012
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:37,439
Speaker 1: I landed and it was like I was so off

1013
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 1: balanced because I was only really landing on my right leg.

1014
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: My knee just completely collapsed. It basically pulled. I wouldn't

1015
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: be surprised if there's a tear in the back of

1016
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: my leg because of how it just was sort of

1017
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: flopping around. And yeah, I was kind of laying there

1018
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: on the court for a while. You know what my

1019
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:58,160
Speaker 1: son said, in what very likely could be the last

1020
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: shot I ever take on a basketball court. He goes

1021
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: to me, he goes, he goes to me. He's like, well, Dad,

1022
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 1: at least you made the shot. Like I'm like, thanks, Chris,

1023
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 1: Like that's not helping a lot, buddy.

1024
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:12,360
Speaker 3: But yeah, So I went to the doctor.

1025
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: I spent all morning in the doctor's office and confirmed

1026
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:22,000
Speaker 1: torn ACL. MRI will formally confirm it. But so at

1027
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:24,520
Speaker 1: some point I'm gonna need surgery. I'll be off a

1028
01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 1: couple of days, but I am fine. Don't worry about me.

1029
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 1: On the plus side. On the plus side, it means

1030
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: my wife has got to do all the laundry tonight.

1031
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 1: I am officially out of laundry duty. Back with more

1032
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 1: phone calls coming up after the quick break.

1033
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 3: I got a lot of texts here.

1034
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 1: Hey, Dan, just had to let you know that comment

1035
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:56,560
Speaker 1: your son made made me laugh out loud. Tell him

1036
01:00:56,560 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 1: thanks for the chuckle. My fifteen year old son, Chris

1037
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 1: collapsed in a pile on the basketball court while shooting

1038
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 1: a jump shot. First thing he says to me, at

1039
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: least you made the shot. Dan, Uh, yeah, yeah, I'm

1040
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 1: sort of on the shelf torn ACL. It looks like

1041
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 1: but hey, at least we get Jannis. Bet you know

1042
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:20,320
Speaker 1: what this is.

1043
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 3: This is. This is karmick justice, right.

1044
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: I'd much rather have a healthy y Honis than a

1045
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 1: fully healthy Dan o'donald as producer Spencer just text, if

1046
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: Lindsey Vaughn can ski on a torn ACL, you can

1047
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:39,000
Speaker 1: certainly continue.

1048
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 3: To host a radio show. Thank you, Spencer.

1049
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 1: I get no love, no love. Another Texter says Dan,

1050
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 1: does your wife know about injured reserve? You've got a

1051
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,640
Speaker 1: torn acl You are on injured reserve for laundry duty

1052
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 1: for at least six to nine months. Back to the

1053
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: phones we go. Let's go to Mike in Mechwan. You're

1054
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 1: on the Dan o'donald show. What's going on, Mike, Good.

1055
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 10: Afternoon, Dan. Thanks for having me back on the show.

1056
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 3: Oh, the pleasure is all mine, sir, I call what's.

1057
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 10: That a couple of time caller?

1058
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:09,280
Speaker 3: Okay, well, welcome back, sir.

1059
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 10: I'm gonna have to up my game after j oh.

1060
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Speaker 1: Yes, Jay in mechwan, is is that your neighbor? Because

1061
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 1: like he just if you guys are neighbors. This is

1062
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 1: like the equivalent. His call was so good. It's like

1063
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 1: he just pulled up next to you in like a

1064
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:28,680
Speaker 1: brand new corvette, right, So you got to reclaim you

1065
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:30,000
Speaker 1: got to reclaim mechwan.

1066
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:32,440
Speaker 3: Honor here, Mike. No, I'm teasing you, buddy.

1067
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna have a great call.

1068
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 10: The reason, PAULI is all this stuff is really dragging

1069
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 10: me crazy. And there was a great segment from the

1070
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 10: West Wing where the president's physician and a medical team

1071
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 10: is shot down by a Middle Eastern government and he says,

1072
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:49,920
Speaker 10: I'm going to strike them down with the wrath of God.

1073
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 14: And then he talks.

1074
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 10: About citizen Romans, where citizens of Rome could walk the

1075
01:02:55,040 --> 01:02:59,919
Speaker 10: known world without fear. Yes, because of the because wrong

1076
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 10: rain down on them.

1077
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 3: If they'd heard correct.

1078
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:07,960
Speaker 10: We've had forty seven years of getting our fandkicked in

1079
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 10: our face by s and we just pat them on's head.

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01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 10: We're going to blow up a building, but don't do

1081
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 10: it again. And we've had nine to eleven Marines killed,

1082
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 10: Americans killed, foreign people killed by this mad man and

1083
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:29,720
Speaker 10: the people around him. And to have people in our

1084
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 10: country say, what is he doing when they have convenient memory, Yeah,

1085
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:41,320
Speaker 10: you mentioned it before buying Bush, Clinton, Obama, They've all

1086
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:44,479
Speaker 10: done this, and somehow Trump does it. And he says,

1087
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:46,920
Speaker 10: enough is enough. I gave you ten days. You didn't

1088
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 10: stand up for it. You're going to get your nose wrapped, ye,

1089
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:53,680
Speaker 10: And I'm tired of this. We must stand up for ourselves.

1090
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 10: America first makes everybody better, not that they're one of

1091
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 10: the most perfect country in the world. God knows where

1092
01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:03,960
Speaker 10: not we make mistakes, but we are the best country

1093
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:04,400
Speaker 10: in the world.

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Speaker 1: Amen to that, my friend, And bonus points for bringing

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Speaker 1: up the West Wing in a context that actually makes

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Speaker 1: the West Wing sound rational, believe it or not. That is,

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Speaker 1: I never watched that show because I was always super

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Speaker 1: upset that it would win Emmys when clearly The Sopranos

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Speaker 1: was the best show on television in that era. Sopranos

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Speaker 1: is widely considered that in Breaking Bad, it's like one

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Speaker 1: in one a the best shows in the history of television.

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Speaker 1: Who here would put the West Wing up there, But

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Speaker 1: the West Wing constantly won the Emmy for Best Drama

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Speaker 1: Series because it was just a whole bunch of leftists,

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Speaker 1: And I do wrote that's one of the few clips

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Speaker 1: that I can remember watching because of the concept of

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Speaker 1: Civis Romanas, that citizens of Rome would enjoy the protection

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Speaker 1: of just being Roman, because of the fear of the

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Speaker 1: Lord that the barbarian world had of harming an American citizen.

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Speaker 1: Now we have a president who doesn't just have the result,

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Speaker 1: but also the technology to be able to rain death

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Speaker 1: and fire down upon anybody who threatens American interests, and

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Speaker 1: the idea that somehow. And I'm so glad, Mike that

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Speaker 1: you gave us such a good call because it transitions

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Speaker 1: perfectly into what we're going to get into next. This

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Speaker 1: notion that America just struck Iran out of the blue,

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Speaker 1: that we started this war, you absolute morons. This has

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Speaker 1: been a war that has been going on for forty seven.

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Speaker 3: Years, and we will get.

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Speaker 1: You the history that undoubtedly the rest of the media

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Speaker 1: will not when the Dan O'Donnell show returns coming up

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Speaker 1: in the five o'clock hour. Pretty Much everything you have

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Speaker 1: heard Democrats say about Operation Epic Fury is a complete

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Speaker 1: and demonstrable lie. Absolutely everything from the fact that somehow

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Speaker 1: there needed to be a congressional authorization for any sort

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Speaker 1: of action to the idea that somehow the United States

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Speaker 1: started this war, all of it is a lie. The

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Speaker 1: truth is that the United States has been at war

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Speaker 1: with Iran and has been the victim of terrorist attacks

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Speaker 1: from Iran since literally nineteen seventy nine. On November fourth

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Speaker 1: of seventy nine, Iranian students backed by the new revolutionary

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Speaker 1: government under the Ayatola Komeni, stormed the US embassy in Tehran,

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Speaker 1: looking sixty six Americans hostage.

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Speaker 19: Some sixty Americans, including our fellow citizen whom you just

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Speaker 19: saw bound and blindfolded, are now beginning their sixth day

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Speaker 19: of captivity inside the US Embassy in Tehran. It's Friday

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Speaker 19: morning there now, but throughout this night in Washington, officials

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Speaker 19: will continue their search for some way to negotiate the

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Speaker 19: hostage's freedom.

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Speaker 1: Most of those hostages were diplomats and embassy staff members.

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Speaker 1: Fifty two people were held for four hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: four days. In addition, four Americans died in a failed

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Speaker 1: rescue effort of those hostages. In July of nineteen eighty two,

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Speaker 1: the acting president of American University of Beirut, David Dodge,

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Speaker 1: was also kidnapped. He was held for a year The

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Speaker 1: following year. April of nineteen eighty three, a suicide car

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Speaker 1: bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut by the Islamic Jihad,

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Speaker 1: one of the precursors to hez Belah, killed sixty three people,

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Speaker 1: including seventeen American diplomats and military personnel. October of that

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Speaker 1: same year, one of the deadliest terror attacks in.

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Speaker 3: World history, and now the number is one hundred and

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Speaker 3: ninety one.

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Speaker 19: In the Beayroot massacre, one hundred and ninety.

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Speaker 8: One Marines dead, and the explosion at their headquarters at

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Speaker 8: the Beayroot Airport.

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Speaker 1: The final death toll two hundred forty one American service members,

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Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty Marines and several others, the deadliest

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Speaker 1: attack on US Marines since Ewojima. The following year, March

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, CIA Beirut Station chief William Buckley was kidnapped, tortured,

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Speaker 1: and eventually killed in nineteen eighty five. A video of

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Speaker 1: him being tortured was sent to President Ronald Reagan. June

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Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety six, the Coobar Towers bombing in Dahan,

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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia by the Iran backed Hezbala al Hashaz killed

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Speaker 1: nineteen US airmen and injured nearly five hundred.

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Speaker 19: Sixty Americans, including our fellow citizen whom.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand and three, the Iraq War started, and

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Speaker 1: for the eight years that that was in effect, Iranian

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Speaker 1: backed Shia militias trained and armed by Iran's Kuds Force,

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Speaker 1: including the use of IEDs and improvised devices, killed at

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Speaker 1: least six hundred three American troops, roughly one in six

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Speaker 1: combat deaths in Iraq were two Iranian terrorists. January two

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Speaker 1: thousand and seven, Karbala Provincial Headquarters was raided in Iraq

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Speaker 1: by Kuds Force operatives disguised as American soldiers. Five US

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Speaker 1: soldiers were killed. Flashed forward to January eighth, twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: in response for the attack on Kassam Sulimani, there was

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Speaker 1: a ballistic missile assault on Al Asad Air Base in Iraq.

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Speaker 1: This caused traumatic brain injuries to more than one hundred

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Speaker 1: US service members, but fortunately no deaths were reported. March

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Speaker 1: twenty third, twenty twenty three, a drone strike on an

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Speaker 1: American base near Hasakra, Syria, killed one American contractor injured

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Speaker 1: five American troops. January twenty eighth, twenty twenty four, a

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Speaker 1: drone strike by Kataib Hesbalah on Tower twenty two base

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Speaker 1: in Jordan killed three US soldiers and injured more than

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Speaker 1: forty others. In fact, over the past three years, we've

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Speaker 1: seen a surge in proxy attacks more than one hundred

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Speaker 1: eighty reported on US forces in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan

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Speaker 1: as part of the broader Gaza and Israel conflict, resulting

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Speaker 1: in three US service members being killed in more than

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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty being injured. The end result hundreds

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Speaker 1: of Americans killed, captured, terrorized, brutalized, all by a force

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Speaker 1: that is now decapitated. This was not a strike that

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Speaker 1: came out of the blue. In reality, this past weekend

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01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:33,040
Speaker 1: was forty seven years in the making. You know what

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01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:37,760
Speaker 1: forever confuses me is I get a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: trolls on social media, and I found that one of

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Speaker 1: the best ways to find out whether they actually know

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01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:49,160
Speaker 1: their stuff is to say, hey, you should call into

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Speaker 1: the show three to six pm Monday through Friday four one,

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Speaker 1: four is seven, nine, nine eleven thirty say you want

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Speaker 1: to debate, We'll go you on.

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Speaker 3: You get a minute, I get a minute. We go

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Speaker 3: back and forth.

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Speaker 1: This show is two hours old, and I must have

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Speaker 1: spent an inordinate amount of time while monitoring the situation

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Speaker 1: in Iran, as pretty much every dad did. It is

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Speaker 1: it is an ongoing joke whenever there's something going on

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Speaker 1: in the world that dads all over need to monitor

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Speaker 1: this situation, that pretty much means plopping their butts in

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Speaker 1: front of the TV and putting on Fox News to

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Speaker 1: watch the coverage of whatever it is it's going on.

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Speaker 1: I actually was sort of monitoring to try to determine

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Speaker 1: whether we needed to break in and do live coverage

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Speaker 1: or anything like that. If I needed to do live streaming,

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Speaker 1: then of course that was interrupted by me completely shredding

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Speaker 1: my knee. But while I was doing I was entertaining

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Speaker 1: myself on social media by just saying, look, if if

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Speaker 1: you've got something to say, come on and debate me

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Speaker 1: on the air, user Doug. In the two hours of

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Speaker 1: the three we were on today, has there been anybody

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Speaker 1: calling up who wants to debate? This is so weird.

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Speaker 1: No no one named Mary p No, No, that's weird.

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Speaker 1: No one named Matthew, No, no one named Malcolm. No, hmm,

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Speaker 1: that's so weird, so so weird. Time out a name

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Speaker 1: the unsung hero of the day. Of course, this one's

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Speaker 1: pretty obvious. Our unsung heroes today are all of the

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Speaker 1: heroes engaged in Operation Epic Fury. Those are Americans, those

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Speaker 1: are Israeli's are those from any other country that is

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Speaker 1: joining the fight against the despotic regime in Iran, and

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Speaker 1: that include it's the civilian populations of those countries and

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Speaker 1: here in the United States supporting the war effort, doing

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Speaker 1: whatever it takes to make sure that the single greatest

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Speaker 1: evil in the world, the world's leading sponsor of terrorism

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Speaker 1: for half a century, cannot rise up again and cannot

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Speaker 1: kill or subjugate innocent people. All those taking part and

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Speaker 1: fighting in Operation Epic Fury, your unsung heroes of the

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Speaker 1: debt coming up in the five o'clock hour. I would

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Speaker 1: love love for anybody to call up and give me

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Speaker 1: some of those left wing talking points about the War

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Speaker 1: powers resolution, about the fact that we're all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden super concerned about Congress not issuing a war declaration,

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01:14:52,479 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 1: about the fact that this is going to be a

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Speaker 1: forever war, about the fact that this was just.

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Speaker 3: A war for oil.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like they're dusting off all of the same

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Speaker 1: talking points from the first or the second Bush administration,

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Speaker 1: that this is going to be the Iraq War quagmire

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Speaker 1: all over again. And the bottom line is that, quite simply,

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Speaker 1: wars are not fought like they were fought twenty five

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Speaker 1: years ago. That we have seen such dramatic technological advances

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Speaker 1: that we're just not going to see. And in fact,

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Speaker 1: President Trump has been repeatedly calling on the Iranian people

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Speaker 1: to step up for themselves and to rule themselves to

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Speaker 1: finally have the freedom that they had for eons before

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Speaker 1: these truly insane radicals took over thanks to the ffeckless

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Speaker 1: leadership of what do you know a Democrat president in

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Speaker 1: the White House?

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Speaker 3: In Jimmy Carter?

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Speaker 1: This was I almost said Billy Carter there by the way,

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Speaker 1: I don't know why Billy Carter suddenly popped in my head.

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Speaker 1: We would have been better off with Billy Carter and

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Speaker 1: his Billy beer in the White House. Then, not only

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Speaker 1: did you have Jimmy Carter usher in the Islamic Revolution

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Speaker 1: and basically stand by with the fall of the Shaw

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Speaker 1: and allow dozens of Americans to be held hostage for

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Speaker 1: four hundred and forty four days after he was president,

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Speaker 1: would you believe that he was out there basically through

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Speaker 1: a back channel to the Iranian regime, providing information and

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Speaker 1: doing his best to undermine the United States. All right,

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Speaker 1: we'll take your phone calls. We'll debunk some liberal myths.

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Speaker 1: Four one, four, seven, nine, nine, eleven thirty. When The

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Speaker 1: Dan O'donald's Show returns, Welcome back to the Dano Donald's Show.

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Speaker 1: So as the United States has struck Iran, decapitating the

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Speaker 1: terroristic regime. The Ayatola is dead, so too are many

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Speaker 1: members of his senior leadership team. The US and its

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Speaker 1: Israeli allies have spent much of today actually trying to

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Speaker 1: ensure that there is no power vacuum through which an

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Speaker 1: even worse regime can jump through, essentially destroying Iran's navy,

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Speaker 1: gaining air superiority in the entire region pretty much instantaneously,

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Speaker 1: and ensuring that there are no there are no sort

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Speaker 1: of splinter groups that sort of rise up. What President

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Speaker 1: Trump has been doing all weekend long. He did so

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Speaker 1: in another video posted this morning, directly addressing those in

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Speaker 1: Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and the people on the street. Remember,

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Speaker 1: it was just a couple of weeks ago that Iranians

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Speaker 1: were taking to the streets in massive demonstrations, possibly the

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Speaker 1: single greatest threat to the Iranian regime's power in a

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Speaker 1: long time. Well, what happened these spontaneous protests which were

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Speaker 1: not backed by Israel, they were not backed by the

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Speaker 1: United States, They just sort of sprung up. The proof

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Speaker 1: there is because if this was an astro turfed thing,

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Speaker 1: that was going to sort of be the precursor to

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Speaker 1: the air strikes that ultimately killed Kamene, it would have happened,

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Speaker 1: that the strikes would have happened immediately afterwards. Unfortunately, Iran's

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Speaker 1: cracked down on those protesters, killed upwards of I mean,

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Speaker 1: nobody is quite sure. The most pessimistic estimates are somewhere

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Speaker 1: near thirty two thousand people killed.

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Speaker 3: I mean, think about that.

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Speaker 1: That's the size of like Greenfield in southeast Wisconsin, maybe

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Speaker 1: New Berlin. I don't actually know the populations off hand,

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Speaker 1: but this is a incized city of protesters who just

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Speaker 1: want freedom, killed by this despotic regime. And in a

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Speaker 1: video posted today, President Trump again said, look, we stand

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Speaker 1: with you.

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Speaker 3: Lay down your arms. If you are loyal to the.

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Speaker 1: Past regime, you will have immunity. Now it is up

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Speaker 1: to you to take back your country.

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Speaker 5: I once again urged the Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian military

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Speaker 5: police to lay down your arms and receive full immunity

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Speaker 5: or face certain death.

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Speaker 3: It will be certain death won't be pretty.

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Speaker 5: I call upon all Iranian patriots who yearn for freedom

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Speaker 5: to seize this moment to be brave, be bold, be heroic,

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Speaker 5: and take back your country. America is with you. I

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Speaker 5: made a promise to you, and I've fulfilled that promise.

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Speaker 3: The rest will be up to you, but we'll be

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Speaker 3: there to help.

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Speaker 1: We are on Instagram as well, streaming live pretty much everywhere,

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Speaker 1: o'donald Show. Please do subscribe like thumbs up, follow us

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Speaker 1: a fan of the show, best way to show it

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Speaker 1: is to subscribe to The Dan o'donald Show podcast show

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Speaker 1: the powers that be that we are not just a

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Speaker 1: force on the radio, but also in the podcasting space. Now,

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Speaker 1: the biggest talking point that I have heard emerge over

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Speaker 1: the last forty eight hours or so is that the

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Speaker 1: president somehow did not have the authorization, that this was unlawful,

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Speaker 1: that the president would dare to do something like this

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Speaker 1: without a congressional declaration of war. Can any liberal I

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Speaker 1: will I will give liberals one hundred dollars of my

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Speaker 1: own money if they will call up right now and

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Speaker 1: tell me the last time Congress authorized war. Seriously, just

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Speaker 1: tell me, because we've had let's see War on Terror,

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Speaker 1: Iraq War, We've had Operation Desert Storm, we had the

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Speaker 1: Vietnam War, we had the Korean.

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Speaker 3: War, World War two.

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Speaker 1: It was nineteen forty two the last time Congress declared war.

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Speaker 1: Now we can debate over whether or not this is

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Speaker 1: ultimately a good thing. Do we have the president who

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Speaker 1: does have the inherent authority as commander in chief of

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Speaker 1: the United States Military to engage in limited military action

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Speaker 1: when it is not possible to inform Congress or gain

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Speaker 1: the consent of Congress. For example, let's say we went

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Speaker 1: to Congress very publicly and said, Okay, Congress, Congress, ehm,

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Speaker 1: this thing on. We need you guys to declare war

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Speaker 1: on Iran. We're going to strike Iran. We're going to

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Speaker 1: wait until the Ayatola and all of his top aids

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Speaker 1: are in the same place, and then either US or

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Speaker 1: Israel we're just going to bomb the hell.

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Speaker 3: Out of them.

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Speaker 1: What do you say, What do you think would happen?

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Speaker 1: Would such a thing be possible if you had four

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five people in the United States House.

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Speaker 3: Two of them are Rashida to leave an elon Omar.

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Speaker 1: Is there any doubt that Rashida to leave an elon

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Speaker 1: Omar would tip off the Iranian regime seriously? And I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying they're loyal to the Iranians. I'm saying the

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Speaker 1: two of them have demonstrated that they despise America that much.

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Speaker 1: Would you believe that Rashida Talib actually, in a tweet

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Speaker 1: this weekend, referred to the United States as they they

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Speaker 1: a representative of the government, an elected member of the

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Speaker 1: House in the United States.

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Speaker 3: They referring to the United States the.

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Speaker 1: War Powers Resolution Absolutely Authorized.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 1: War Powers Resolution is a law pass actually over the

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Speaker 1: strenuous objections and veto of Richard Nixon in nineteen seventy three,

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Speaker 1: which accounts for the more modern ways that wars were fought.

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Speaker 1: The War Powers Resolution allows the President, and the wording

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Speaker 1: here is to introduce US forces into hostilities without prior

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Speaker 1: congressional approval in a case of quote national emergency created

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Speaker 1: by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions,

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Speaker 1: or its armed forces. Now, people who support a broad

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Speaker 1: interpretation of the WPR extend this to repelling imminent threats.

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Speaker 1: Ever since the law was passed, presidents have obviously said, hey,

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Speaker 1: we have an imminent threat here. Now you can argue whether, okay,

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Speaker 1: the War Powers Resolution itself just the text would say, okay,

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Speaker 1: is there an attack on American forces?

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Speaker 3: Even then, I ran.

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Speaker 1: Down forty seven years of attacks on American forces. American

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Speaker 1: troops have been killed by Iran and its terror proxies

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Speaker 1: for nearly five decades. Now we've got them attempting to

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Speaker 1: rebuild their nuclear program under the guise of only building

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Speaker 1: up their intercontinental ballistic missile supply, trying to build missiles

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Speaker 1: that could literally hit the United States from Iran bad enough,

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Speaker 1: bad enough that they have choked off the Straits of

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Speaker 1: Hormuz that we've had Houthi militants literally attacking American ships

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Speaker 1: for months and years before Trump finally did something about that,

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Speaker 1: and then threatening and attacking American military and civilian installations

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Speaker 1: across the region.

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Speaker 3: You defy.

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Speaker 1: All logic reason when you suggest there has been no

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Speaker 1: attack by Iran. But let's even use the broader interpretation,

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Speaker 1: as pretty much every president has done since nineteen seventy three.

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Speaker 1: Iran's rapid advancement towards nuclear weapons and long range icb

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Speaker 1: ms necessitated this assault. In fact, Secretary of State Marco

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Speaker 1: Rubio had the best, most succinct answer when asked, Okay,

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Speaker 1: how was there an imminent threat? I want you to

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Speaker 1: listen for two minutes and twelve seconds. This should be

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Speaker 1: required viewing for every single person who doesn't understand the

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Speaker 1: imminent threat that Iran posed and would have continued to

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Speaker 1: pose had the iatolain his top aides been allowed to

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Speaker 1: stay in power.

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Speaker 2: Ersson, I've been asked, is why now? Well, if there's

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Speaker 2: two reasons, why now. The first is it was abundantly

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Speaker 2: clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the

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Speaker 2: United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to

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Speaker 2: respond and respond against the United States. The orders had

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Speaker 2: been delegated down to the field commanders. It was automatic

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Speaker 2: and infect it bare to be true because, in fact,

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Speaker 2: within an hour of the initial attack on the Leadership compound,

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Speaker 2: the missile forces in the South and in the North

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Speaker 2: for that matter, had already been activated to launch. In fact,

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Speaker 2: those that already been prepositioned. The third is the assessment

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Speaker 2: that was made that if we stood and waited for

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Speaker 2: that attack to come first. Before we hit them, we

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Speaker 2: would suffer much higher casualties, and so the President made

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Speaker 2: the very wise decision. We knew that there was going

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Speaker 2: to be an Israeli action, We knew that that would

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Speaker 2: precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that

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Speaker 2: if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched

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Speaker 2: those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even

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Speaker 2: those killed. And then we would all be here answering

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Speaker 2: questions about why we knew that in dact going back

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Speaker 2: to the purpose, the purpose of this is to destroy

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Speaker 2: that missile capability. Why does Iron want that holistic missile capability?

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Speaker 2: What they are trying to do, and have been trying

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Speaker 2: to do for a very long time, is build a

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Speaker 2: conventional weapons capability as a shield where they can hide

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Speaker 2: behind or nuclear ambitions. They are producing, by some estimates,

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Speaker 2: over one hundred of these missiles a month. Compare that

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Speaker 2: to the six or seven interceptors that can be built

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Speaker 2: a month. They can build one hundred of these a month,

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Speaker 2: not to mention the thousands of one way attack drones

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Speaker 2: that they also have. They've been doing this for a

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Speaker 2: very long time, and by the way, they've been.

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Speaker 3: Doing it under sanction.

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Speaker 2: You see the attacks they're conducting right now. They're attacking airports,

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Speaker 2: they're attacking hotels, they're hitting not just military bases, they're

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Speaker 2: attacking our embassies directly. They're attacking facilities that have nothing

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Speaker 2: to do with war or with military And that's a

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Speaker 2: weekend Iran that's in Iran despite years of sanction. Imagine

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Speaker 2: a year from now or a year and a half

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Speaker 2: from now, the capabilities they would have to infer damage

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Speaker 2: on us. It's an unacceptable risk, especially in the hands

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Speaker 2: of a regime that's run by radical clerics. The Ayatola

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Speaker 2: is a radical was a radical cleric. That entire regime

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Speaker 2: is led by radical clerics.

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Speaker 1: So you've got religious fanaticism, a deep abiding hatred of

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Speaker 1: Jewish people, and a repeated desire, stated desire, a blood

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Speaker 1: oath to destroy the state of Israel, one of America's

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Speaker 1: closest allies, where, by the way, a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: people who have duel Israeli and American citizenship live. And

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Speaker 1: you're telling me that Iran, of all nations, Iran posed

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Speaker 1: no imminent danger to the United States. It's almost laughable,

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Speaker 1: the idea that somehow there's no legal or moral justification

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Speaker 1: in striking Iran. But seeing as Democrats don't seem to

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Speaker 1: understand anything until you put it in terms that they

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Speaker 1: can understand, Let's say I'm going to use a hypothetical

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Speaker 1: for you Libs. Let's say the year is twenty twenty eight,

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Speaker 1: Trump's last year in office. He just says, screw it,

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Speaker 1: and he authorizes the United States military to drop twenty

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Speaker 1: six six thousand, one hundred and seventy one bombs on

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Speaker 1: seven different sovereign nations Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan,

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Speaker 1: and Somalia. What would you say to that that would

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Speaker 1: be awful?

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Speaker 3: Right? How dare he?

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Speaker 1: Twenty six thousand, one hundred and seventy one bombs were

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Speaker 1: in fact dropped during the last year of Barack Obama's

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Speaker 1: presidency on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia.

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Speaker 1: The fact that we just dropped bombs on Iran is

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Speaker 1: no different legally, it is no different morally, and if anything,

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Speaker 1: it was far more legally and morally justified than dropping

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Speaker 1: bombs on any of those nations because Iran has been

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Speaker 1: the global leader in terrorism five decades. Now we'll dispel

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Speaker 1: some more myths, some more lies about Operation Epic Fury. Next,

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01:31:13,439 --> 01:31:16,879
Speaker 1: debunking a whole lot of liberal myths and outright lies

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Speaker 1: that you have undoubtedly heard about the Operation Epic Fury

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Speaker 1: that killed the Iatola Kamani, a whole lot of his

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Speaker 1: top aides.

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Speaker 3: Possibly.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting conflicting information about the former President of Iran,

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Speaker 1: Mahmoud Ahmadinijhon. I believe he is dead, but some sources

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Speaker 1: are reporting he's still alive. This is what's known as

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Speaker 1: the fog of war. We won't entirely know, ohthough we do.

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Speaker 1: I mean Iran State TV reported the death of Haminae

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Speaker 1: and that's about his official as it gets. Also, there

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Speaker 1: is a picture floating around social media which I have

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Speaker 1: led to believe is genuine, of the body of Hamani

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Speaker 1: lying in the rubble, obviously and warnings about it. It's

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Speaker 1: not super graphic, but it is a dead old guy

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Speaker 1: lying in a pile of rubble. Let's go out to

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Speaker 1: the phones. Anthony in Brookfield. You're on the Dan O'donnald show.

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Anthony?

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Speaker 3: Hey Dan, thanks for taking me by.

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Speaker 7: Call uh you know, I'm one of those good old

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Speaker 7: not getting involved in foreign interventionless guys. No, George Washington's

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01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:21,519
Speaker 7: fair well addressed style. And what I wanted to bring

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Speaker 7: up here about the I believe that was Marco Rubio.

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Speaker 7: You're playing the clip from so I came in like

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Speaker 7: right when he started.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was Rubio, Secretary of State Rubio.

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Speaker 7: Okay, okay, So he said, well, field commanders of Iran

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Speaker 7: had received orders that if they were to be attacked

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Speaker 7: by anyone, they would attack America. Therefore, when we since

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Speaker 7: America knew Israel was going to attack them, we had

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Speaker 7: to preemptively attack. Therefore we did that. So how come

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Speaker 7: we wouldn't just reach out to Israel and be like, hey,

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Speaker 7: we're still in the middle of negotiation.

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Speaker 1: Great minds, my friend, great minds. I said the same

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Speaker 1: thing when I heard that right before my show. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't like Trump couldn't have been like bb bb

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Speaker 1: my brother, Hold up a second. No, Apparently, as I

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Speaker 1: understand it, Israeli intelligence knew that there was going to

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01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:18,360
Speaker 1: be an imminent attack on Israel, that there was going

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01:33:18,400 --> 01:33:22,400
Speaker 1: to be a massive, deadly attack, and then Israel was

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01:33:22,439 --> 01:33:25,960
Speaker 1: going to necessarily preemptively. This is sort of the old

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01:33:26,120 --> 01:33:27,800
Speaker 1: entangling alliances.

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Speaker 7: Confirm that though because it's difficult, it's difficult to tell

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Speaker 7: it's well to welcome, Welcome to intelligence, Anthony.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it's The reality is is that we

1527
01:33:41,280 --> 01:33:44,479
Speaker 1: can never quite be sure you know what I'm saying, like.

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01:33:46,360 --> 01:33:47,839
Speaker 3: What I can tell you.

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01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:50,280
Speaker 7: And we need to make an appeal to the American Well.

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Speaker 1: Hold hold on a secon hold on a second. What

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01:33:52,640 --> 01:33:55,360
Speaker 1: I can tell you. What I can tell you is

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01:33:55,400 --> 01:33:59,639
Speaker 1: that right the day of Trump's State of the Union address,

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01:34:00,160 --> 01:34:04,520
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio actually briefed members of both parties in Congress

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01:34:04,640 --> 01:34:10,559
Speaker 1: about apparently an imminent threat that Iran was like, this

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01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:14,760
Speaker 1: was the briefing was the day of the State of

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01:34:14,800 --> 01:34:17,880
Speaker 1: the Union. We have obviously no idea. This about as

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01:34:17,960 --> 01:34:22,280
Speaker 1: classified information as classified information gets. But there was a

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01:34:22,320 --> 01:34:27,040
Speaker 1: picture of Chuck Schumer walking out of that meeting looking

1539
01:34:27,240 --> 01:34:31,160
Speaker 1: ashen faced. For the first time in possibly Chuck Schumer's life.

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Speaker 1: He did not want to talk on camera, and it

1541
01:34:33,920 --> 01:34:36,599
Speaker 1: was believed, holy crap, whatever Rubio just told.

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01:34:36,439 --> 01:34:38,360
Speaker 3: Him, it's bad.

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01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:38,920
Speaker 19: Right.

1544
01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:42,080
Speaker 1: We obviously have no idea what has been sent in

1545
01:34:42,320 --> 01:34:44,920
Speaker 1: that what was said in that meeting. What we also

1546
01:34:45,080 --> 01:34:48,640
Speaker 1: know though, with the diplomacy with Iran is they're not

1547
01:34:48,720 --> 01:34:51,640
Speaker 1: a good faith actor. Like they were not negotiating with

1548
01:34:51,800 --> 01:34:56,640
Speaker 1: us in good faith. Essentially they were stringing along American negotiators.

1549
01:34:56,640 --> 01:34:59,320
Speaker 1: And it was either it was either wit Cough I

1550
01:34:59,320 --> 01:35:01,840
Speaker 1: think it was Jared Pishner said, look, all they're doing

1551
01:35:01,920 --> 01:35:04,519
Speaker 1: is a delay tactic, and what we know is that

1552
01:35:04,520 --> 01:35:06,400
Speaker 1: they're trying to rebuild their missives.

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01:35:06,439 --> 01:35:09,479
Speaker 7: Everything we were asking reasonable though as well, like to

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01:35:09,520 --> 01:35:12,080
Speaker 7: get rid of someone's entire missile program. Would America agreed

1555
01:35:12,120 --> 01:35:15,280
Speaker 7: to get rid of their air force if any condition?

1556
01:35:15,320 --> 01:35:16,320
Speaker 3: Ever, if we.

1557
01:35:16,640 --> 01:35:19,680
Speaker 1: Vowed that all Jews were going to die and were

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01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:22,160
Speaker 1: sponsoring terror networks all over the region in.

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01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:27,440
Speaker 7: A public speech, I believe in what twenty ten something.

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01:35:27,120 --> 01:35:33,360
Speaker 1: Like that, buddy, the Iatolahamine, the Iyatolahamine has been calling

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01:35:33,400 --> 01:35:38,560
Speaker 1: for the death of Jews and America for thirty years.

1562
01:35:38,880 --> 01:35:41,280
Speaker 1: You're not going to get very far arguing that this

1563
01:35:41,479 --> 01:35:44,840
Speaker 1: was just some old peacenik who is kicking around the

1564
01:35:44,920 --> 01:35:49,320
Speaker 1: hacky sack in between lectures at Columbia University. This was

1565
01:35:49,360 --> 01:35:53,960
Speaker 1: an evil regime that was not just not just saying.

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01:35:53,760 --> 01:35:56,160
Speaker 3: Oh, hey, you know we're gonna we're gonna kill a back.

1567
01:35:56,840 --> 01:36:00,839
Speaker 1: They were targeting our merchant ship, not military ships, merchant

1568
01:36:00,920 --> 01:36:04,400
Speaker 1: ships through their houthy proxies for years. I mean the

1569
01:36:04,400 --> 01:36:09,479
Speaker 1: Straits of Horrormuz, where where something like twenty percent of

1570
01:36:09,680 --> 01:36:13,120
Speaker 1: the world's oil goes through. That was for a long

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01:36:13,200 --> 01:36:18,160
Speaker 1: stretch impassable. The idea that you can negotiate in good

1572
01:36:18,200 --> 01:36:22,720
Speaker 1: faith or even frankly, I think it's a little insulting

1573
01:36:22,800 --> 01:36:26,080
Speaker 1: that you would equivocate. Well, if someone was saying the

1574
01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:29,840
Speaker 1: United States can't have missiles, yeah, okay, we don't just

1575
01:36:29,920 --> 01:36:32,040
Speaker 1: kind of shoot those missiles. We don't kind of give

1576
01:36:32,080 --> 01:36:35,160
Speaker 1: them to like terror groups. If we were given missiles

1577
01:36:35,160 --> 01:36:39,040
Speaker 1: to the KKK, right, and we were saying, hey, why

1578
01:36:39,120 --> 01:36:42,160
Speaker 1: don't you go shoot those babies at some black churches

1579
01:36:42,200 --> 01:36:46,200
Speaker 1: in Mississippi, I could see other countries stepping in and saying, yeah,

1580
01:36:46,320 --> 01:36:47,880
Speaker 1: you know what, we should probably take.

1581
01:36:47,760 --> 01:36:49,040
Speaker 3: Away America's missiles.

1582
01:36:49,720 --> 01:36:54,000
Speaker 1: That's what Iran has been doing for nine on five decades.

1583
01:36:55,280 --> 01:36:59,439
Speaker 1: And you see how that's a massive, massive problem. You

1584
01:36:59,520 --> 01:37:03,240
Speaker 1: can't allow an actor like that. And what happened, by

1585
01:37:03,280 --> 01:37:07,479
Speaker 1: the way, when Iran was attacked, did it just attack Israel,

1586
01:37:09,000 --> 01:37:12,759
Speaker 1: did it just attack the United States. It launched missiles

1587
01:37:12,800 --> 01:37:17,679
Speaker 1: in every direction, all but ensuring all of its Middle

1588
01:37:17,720 --> 01:37:21,160
Speaker 1: Eastern allies were not going to come to its aid.

1589
01:37:23,040 --> 01:37:27,599
Speaker 1: Negotiations simply couldn't continue because I'm not entirely sure these

1590
01:37:27,600 --> 01:37:33,360
Speaker 1: were actual negotiations. The other myth that has been propagated

1591
01:37:33,400 --> 01:37:37,120
Speaker 1: over the past forty eight hours is that somehow this

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01:37:37,360 --> 01:37:40,720
Speaker 1: is a forever war, that somehow this is going to

1593
01:37:40,720 --> 01:37:45,160
Speaker 1: be a quagmire that you know, we're going to be

1594
01:37:45,320 --> 01:37:49,360
Speaker 1: in forever and ever and ever, like Afghanistan or Iraq

1595
01:37:49,479 --> 01:37:56,400
Speaker 1: or Vietnam. This actually, this myth got kicked into turbo

1596
01:37:56,560 --> 01:38:00,200
Speaker 1: drive because of comments made today by prayer is it

1597
01:38:00,280 --> 01:38:02,479
Speaker 1: in Trump who said, We're going to be in there

1598
01:38:02,600 --> 01:38:03,559
Speaker 1: as long as it.

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Speaker 4: Takes substantially ahead of our time projections. But whatever the

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Speaker 4: time is, it's okay, whatever it takes. We will always

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01:38:12,160 --> 01:38:15,479
Speaker 4: and we have right from the beginning, we projected four

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01:38:15,600 --> 01:38:20,559
Speaker 4: to five weeks, but we have capability to go far

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01:38:20,680 --> 01:38:21,280
Speaker 4: longer than that.

1604
01:38:21,439 --> 01:38:21,920
Speaker 3: We'll do it.

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01:38:21,960 --> 01:38:26,120
Speaker 4: Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, if President

1606
01:38:26,160 --> 01:38:28,519
Speaker 4: wants to do it really quickly after that, he'll get bored.

1607
01:38:28,560 --> 01:38:31,960
Speaker 4: I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this. Do

1608
01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:34,280
Speaker 4: you agree with that, Pete, I don't think there's anything

1609
01:38:34,360 --> 01:38:37,479
Speaker 4: mister General. I think there's nothing boring about it.

1610
01:38:39,120 --> 01:38:43,519
Speaker 1: Okay, So this has people think, well, Trump is saying

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01:38:43,600 --> 01:38:47,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna be. It's gonna be a forever war. Secretary

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01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:50,760
Speaker 1: of War Pete Hegsith shut this down immediately, first thing

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01:38:50,800 --> 01:38:51,520
Speaker 1: this morning.

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01:38:51,320 --> 01:38:54,519
Speaker 20: To the media outlets and political left streaming endless wars.

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01:38:55,200 --> 01:38:55,519
Speaker 14: Stop.

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01:38:56,479 --> 01:38:57,280
Speaker 3: This is not a rack.

1617
01:38:58,200 --> 01:38:59,280
Speaker 20: This is not endless.

1618
01:39:00,080 --> 01:39:01,360
Speaker 3: I was there for both.

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01:39:02,200 --> 01:39:06,320
Speaker 20: Our generation knows better, and so does this president. He

1620
01:39:06,400 --> 01:39:09,080
Speaker 20: called the last twenty years of nation building wars dumb,

1621
01:39:09,960 --> 01:39:15,280
Speaker 20: and he's right. This is the opposite. This operation is

1622
01:39:15,320 --> 01:39:20,479
Speaker 20: a clear, devastating, decisive mission, destroy the missile threat, destroy

1623
01:39:20,520 --> 01:39:25,360
Speaker 20: the navy, no nukes. Israel has clear missions as well,

1624
01:39:25,439 --> 01:39:30,439
Speaker 20: for which we are grateful capable partners. As we've said

1625
01:39:30,520 --> 01:39:35,400
Speaker 20: since the beginning, capable partners are good partners, unlike so

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01:39:35,479 --> 01:39:38,720
Speaker 20: many of our traditional allies who wring their hands and

1627
01:39:38,720 --> 01:39:42,920
Speaker 20: clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force.

1628
01:39:43,439 --> 01:39:46,280
Speaker 1: Here's the thing about our traditional allies. Though, by the way,

1629
01:39:46,439 --> 01:39:49,200
Speaker 1: a great statement by the Secretary of War Pete heg Saith.

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01:39:50,040 --> 01:39:55,960
Speaker 1: Our allies in Europe are well behind US. Mark Rute,

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01:39:56,040 --> 01:39:57,479
Speaker 1: Secretary General of NATO, I.

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01:39:57,439 --> 01:40:01,080
Speaker 17: Really commend what is happening here. Taking out and taking

1633
01:40:01,080 --> 01:40:05,960
Speaker 17: out the nuclear capability in the in iramit also taking

1634
01:40:05,960 --> 01:40:09,240
Speaker 17: out to ballistic missile program in irm This is crucial

1635
01:40:09,280 --> 01:40:11,120
Speaker 17: and what I see in Europe I spoke, is all

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01:40:11,160 --> 01:40:14,040
Speaker 17: the key European leaders over the weekend is wide split

1637
01:40:14,080 --> 01:40:17,160
Speaker 17: supports what the PLEASANT is doing and also making sure

1638
01:40:17,439 --> 01:40:21,280
Speaker 17: that when it comes to logistics access defending key US

1639
01:40:21,280 --> 01:40:24,680
Speaker 17: interests in Europe and in the region, the Europeans are

1640
01:40:24,720 --> 01:40:25,599
Speaker 17: really stepping up.

1641
01:40:26,680 --> 01:40:30,160
Speaker 1: So Europe is behind this. Much of the Middle East

1642
01:40:30,600 --> 01:40:33,720
Speaker 1: is behind this, And if it wasn't before Iran just

1643
01:40:33,800 --> 01:40:37,759
Speaker 1: sort of started randomly firing weapons after it was attacked

1644
01:40:37,800 --> 01:40:42,559
Speaker 1: on Saturday morning, it certainly is right now. Much of

1645
01:40:42,600 --> 01:40:46,719
Speaker 1: the entire world is behind this. Even Iran's so called

1646
01:40:46,760 --> 01:40:51,360
Speaker 1: closest allies in Russia and China. They're suspiciously quiet.

1647
01:40:51,080 --> 01:40:52,840
Speaker 3: Right now, aren't they.

1648
01:40:53,360 --> 01:40:56,160
Speaker 1: We'll bust some more myths, take some more phone calls,

1649
01:40:56,320 --> 01:40:58,960
Speaker 1: and be right back to it when The Dan o'donnald

1650
01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:07,400
Speaker 1: Show returns in just a second. Welcome back to the

1651
01:41:07,479 --> 01:41:11,320
Speaker 1: Dan o'donald Show. We are busting some myths about Operation

1652
01:41:11,520 --> 01:41:14,719
Speaker 1: Epic Fury. Pretty much everything you have heard about it

1653
01:41:14,760 --> 01:41:21,479
Speaker 1: is a lie, including this. Gas prices have gone up today, folks.

1654
01:41:21,920 --> 01:41:26,439
Speaker 1: This you sweet summer children who have never lived through

1655
01:41:26,479 --> 01:41:32,920
Speaker 1: Middle East conflicts. Gas prices always spike national average, according

1656
01:41:32,920 --> 01:41:37,720
Speaker 1: to TRIPAA today two ninety nine for a gallon of

1657
01:41:37,880 --> 01:41:42,920
Speaker 1: regular unleaded gasoline. Now Trump is just, oh god, he's

1658
01:41:42,960 --> 01:41:44,400
Speaker 1: been terrible for gas prices.

1659
01:41:44,680 --> 01:41:45,960
Speaker 3: Guess how many days.

1660
01:41:45,640 --> 01:41:49,599
Speaker 1: Out of the fourteen hundred that Joe Biden was in

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01:41:49,680 --> 01:41:55,040
Speaker 1: office gas prices were higher than they are today. Roughly

1662
01:41:55,080 --> 01:42:00,320
Speaker 1: one thousand, So until we get to year four of

1663
01:42:00,439 --> 01:42:06,360
Speaker 1: three dollars gasoline. Yeah, there's a temporary spike, but don't

1664
01:42:06,360 --> 01:42:10,240
Speaker 1: forget gas prices have dropped by about a dollar in

1665
01:42:10,320 --> 01:42:11,280
Speaker 1: the last year.

1666
01:42:11,360 --> 01:42:13,040
Speaker 3: This is actually kind of surprising.

1667
01:42:13,080 --> 01:42:16,000
Speaker 1: I got to give Matthew in Madison a heck of

1668
01:42:16,080 --> 01:42:19,719
Speaker 1: a lot of credit. I called him out saying, hey,

1669
01:42:19,760 --> 01:42:23,879
Speaker 1: come on in debate, and he actually is right here, Matthew,

1670
01:42:24,280 --> 01:42:25,840
Speaker 1: welcome to the Dan O'Donnell show.

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01:42:27,680 --> 01:42:29,920
Speaker 14: Well. I might not be many things, Dan, but I

1672
01:42:29,920 --> 01:42:31,320
Speaker 14: try to at least be a man of my word.

1673
01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:36,160
Speaker 1: Hey, I appreciate that a lot and you know what.

1674
01:42:36,560 --> 01:42:39,960
Speaker 1: You are a man who has the courage of your convictions.

1675
01:42:40,439 --> 01:42:43,439
Speaker 1: And hope this didn't interfere with your job or anything

1676
01:42:43,560 --> 01:42:45,479
Speaker 1: like that. But the floor is yours.

1677
01:42:45,479 --> 01:42:46,280
Speaker 3: I'm going to give you one.

1678
01:42:46,439 --> 01:42:50,479
Speaker 1: So here's how it works, just so we're clear. I'm

1679
01:42:50,479 --> 01:42:53,080
Speaker 1: going to give Matthew one minute to make a point.

1680
01:42:53,120 --> 01:42:54,599
Speaker 1: I'd love to go longer, Matthew.

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01:42:54,640 --> 01:42:55,000
Speaker 3: I would.

1682
01:42:55,000 --> 01:42:57,240
Speaker 1: It's already five point forty two and we got to

1683
01:42:57,280 --> 01:42:59,360
Speaker 1: keep this thing moving. I'm going to give you a

1684
01:42:59,400 --> 01:43:02,760
Speaker 1: minute it's actually a lot longer than you think, to

1685
01:43:02,880 --> 01:43:05,560
Speaker 1: make your points about Iran. Then i'll refute them, and

1686
01:43:05,600 --> 01:43:07,400
Speaker 1: then I'm going to give you thirty seconds. And I'll

1687
01:43:07,439 --> 01:43:08,360
Speaker 1: get thirty seconds.

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01:43:08,560 --> 01:43:12,760
Speaker 14: Sound good, that's fair. I have one question I want

1689
01:43:12,760 --> 01:43:14,200
Speaker 14: to ask you at the end, and I promise it's

1690
01:43:14,240 --> 01:43:14,719
Speaker 14: not a gotcha.

1691
01:43:15,479 --> 01:43:19,120
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, all right, go ahead, sir. The floor

1692
01:43:19,240 --> 01:43:19,639
Speaker 1: is yours.

1693
01:43:20,840 --> 01:43:22,439
Speaker 14: Okay. Well, I don't know that I'll take a whole

1694
01:43:22,439 --> 01:43:25,880
Speaker 14: minute or not. You might be a little disappointed in

1695
01:43:26,600 --> 01:43:30,320
Speaker 14: my position. I'm probably not the the radical left that

1696
01:43:30,520 --> 01:43:34,639
Speaker 14: maybe if you think I am. But regardless, I think

1697
01:43:34,840 --> 01:43:37,160
Speaker 14: this issue when Iran is very different from some of

1698
01:43:37,160 --> 01:43:41,000
Speaker 14: the other ones you've compared it to with Libya or Syria.

1699
01:43:41,920 --> 01:43:44,680
Speaker 14: I'm not trying to make the argument that this is

1700
01:43:44,680 --> 01:43:48,599
Speaker 14: an illegal war. I'm not trying to defend anything Iran

1701
01:43:48,680 --> 01:43:54,040
Speaker 14: has done. We are obviously better off with without this regime.

1702
01:43:54,360 --> 01:43:54,639
Speaker 3: Sure.

1703
01:43:55,400 --> 01:44:02,439
Speaker 14: My concern was that I think this, this whatever we

1704
01:44:02,479 --> 01:44:05,000
Speaker 14: want to call it, war, whatever we want to call it,

1705
01:44:05,040 --> 01:44:07,799
Speaker 14: I think is more closely aligned with what happens with Iraq.

1706
01:44:08,560 --> 01:44:11,360
Speaker 14: I have obviously major concerns about that, and I think

1707
01:44:11,880 --> 01:44:13,920
Speaker 14: as a country, this should have been debated more. This

1708
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:16,880
Speaker 14: should have been something that should have gone to Congress. Again,

1709
01:44:16,920 --> 01:44:18,760
Speaker 14: I'm not saying it's illegal. I think this is something

1710
01:44:18,760 --> 01:44:21,800
Speaker 14: that should have been debated. I think this administration should

1711
01:44:21,840 --> 01:44:24,479
Speaker 14: have shown up, should have made its case, and we

1712
01:44:24,560 --> 01:44:25,479
Speaker 14: should have gone from there.

1713
01:44:25,960 --> 01:44:31,240
Speaker 1: Matthew, how dare you actually sound perfectly reasonable and make

1714
01:44:31,720 --> 01:44:35,559
Speaker 1: excellent points? Frankly, I don't think there's a whole lot

1715
01:44:35,640 --> 01:44:41,680
Speaker 1: to refute there, because honestly, you take a very rational,

1716
01:44:42,280 --> 01:44:44,479
Speaker 1: moderate understandable position.

1717
01:44:44,640 --> 01:44:46,120
Speaker 3: I will disagree with you.

1718
01:44:47,240 --> 01:44:51,000
Speaker 1: Libya was always about regime change back in twenty eleven,

1719
01:44:51,120 --> 01:44:54,080
Speaker 1: so it is very akin to that. Your fears about

1720
01:44:54,120 --> 01:44:57,680
Speaker 1: a forever war like we had in Iraq and Afghanistan

1721
01:44:57,800 --> 01:45:02,240
Speaker 1: are obviously insanely well founded. Why because we just had

1722
01:45:02,280 --> 01:45:07,959
Speaker 1: forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the reality is

1723
01:45:07,960 --> 01:45:10,880
Speaker 1: is that the War Powers resolution and the history of

1724
01:45:10,960 --> 01:45:14,559
Speaker 1: declarations of conflict going all the way back to nineteen

1725
01:45:14,640 --> 01:45:18,960
Speaker 1: forty two clearly allow this sort of action. Not only

1726
01:45:19,040 --> 01:45:22,679
Speaker 1: that wars are fought very, very differently than they were

1727
01:45:22,800 --> 01:45:26,640
Speaker 1: even twenty five years ago, even fifteen years ago in

1728
01:45:26,760 --> 01:45:29,640
Speaker 1: Libya and in Iraq and in Syria. The reality is

1729
01:45:29,680 --> 01:45:32,479
Speaker 1: we don't need American boots on the ground. We have

1730
01:45:32,640 --> 01:45:36,800
Speaker 1: such vast technological and air superiority. The last war we

1731
01:45:36,880 --> 01:45:41,799
Speaker 1: supposedly fought in Venezuela was over in about thirty five minutes.

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01:45:42,520 --> 01:45:47,400
Speaker 1: So I'm very curious, Matthew, what is the question you

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01:45:47,439 --> 01:45:48,160
Speaker 1: want to ask me?

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01:45:49,520 --> 01:45:51,200
Speaker 14: Yeah, so my question. I don't want this to talk

1735
01:45:51,200 --> 01:45:51,759
Speaker 14: a gotchiu.

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01:45:51,920 --> 01:45:52,720
Speaker 3: No, no, no, not all.

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01:45:52,760 --> 01:45:55,400
Speaker 14: I don't mean it like that. But you know, I mean,

1738
01:45:55,960 --> 01:45:58,479
Speaker 14: I am not a fan of Donald Trump, never have been, sure,

1739
01:45:58,840 --> 01:46:04,040
Speaker 14: probably never will be. He campaigned on America First, no wars,

1740
01:46:04,120 --> 01:46:10,080
Speaker 14: et cetera, et cetera. If to you, do you think

1741
01:46:10,120 --> 01:46:13,000
Speaker 14: that this was what he meant by America First? Back then,

1742
01:46:13,160 --> 01:46:16,200
Speaker 14: or do you think something has changed that this has

1743
01:46:16,240 --> 01:46:19,120
Speaker 14: become America first. Now I'm just trying. I'm not making

1744
01:46:19,160 --> 01:46:21,439
Speaker 14: the connection to No, No, I can't be talked about

1745
01:46:21,439 --> 01:46:24,559
Speaker 14: America first and the lack of wars and now here

1746
01:46:24,600 --> 01:46:26,639
Speaker 14: we are and we're trying to spin this as well,

1747
01:46:26,640 --> 01:46:29,200
Speaker 14: this is America first? Was this what he meant back then?

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01:46:29,360 --> 01:46:30,880
Speaker 3: Sure? Change, Matthew.

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01:46:30,920 --> 01:46:32,679
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, I am really not liking

1750
01:46:32,680 --> 01:46:37,639
Speaker 1: this because I am genuinely liking how thoughtful your questions are,

1751
01:46:37,880 --> 01:46:39,920
Speaker 1: and you seem like a really good dude. I'm not

1752
01:46:39,960 --> 01:46:44,920
Speaker 1: gonna lie. So Hey, you are welcome on this show anytime,

1753
01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:47,880
Speaker 1: my friend, and I really do appreciate you calling up

1754
01:46:47,920 --> 01:46:53,280
Speaker 1: to answer your question. My guess is this obviously is

1755
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:56,439
Speaker 1: so I am much more of the and it's become

1756
01:46:56,479 --> 01:46:59,920
Speaker 1: a slur in conservative circles. I am much more in

1757
01:47:00,160 --> 01:47:03,840
Speaker 1: neo conservative wing. So I came of age politically a

1758
01:47:03,920 --> 01:47:07,800
Speaker 1: quarter century ago with nine to eleven, with the Iraq War,

1759
01:47:08,000 --> 01:47:11,960
Speaker 1: understanding the threat of radical Islam, and also understanding that

1760
01:47:12,000 --> 01:47:18,080
Speaker 1: what underpinned pretty much everything in radical Shia Islam was

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01:47:18,160 --> 01:47:21,599
Speaker 1: coming from Iran. Like Iran does not just exist as

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01:47:21,720 --> 01:47:26,400
Speaker 1: a nation state. Iran has its tentacles in Hezbollah. Before that,

1763
01:47:26,520 --> 01:47:30,599
Speaker 1: Islamic jihad in the Huthi militants, which we're attacking American ships,

1764
01:47:30,720 --> 01:47:35,759
Speaker 1: in Hamas, in the Palestinian authority, in pretty much every

1765
01:47:37,280 --> 01:47:40,800
Speaker 1: entity that has attempted to kill Jews in Israel and

1766
01:47:40,840 --> 01:47:44,839
Speaker 1: across the world, that's all been Iran. I think something

1767
01:47:44,920 --> 01:47:48,000
Speaker 1: did change in President Trump. I mean, the man, the

1768
01:47:48,080 --> 01:47:50,880
Speaker 1: man is the only person I've ever seen brag about

1769
01:47:50,880 --> 01:47:54,120
Speaker 1: the well, is it the FIFA Peace Prize? Like FIFA

1770
01:47:54,280 --> 01:47:57,559
Speaker 1: Soccer gave him a peace prize? Right, he wants that

1771
01:47:57,640 --> 01:48:01,679
Speaker 1: Nobel Peace Prize so badly. But I think what happens

1772
01:48:02,200 --> 01:48:05,439
Speaker 1: is every president and every person who goes in before

1773
01:48:05,520 --> 01:48:09,200
Speaker 1: they know the intelligence that frankly you and I don't see,

1774
01:48:09,479 --> 01:48:11,519
Speaker 1: they say, okay, we can just give piece a chance

1775
01:48:11,560 --> 01:48:13,840
Speaker 1: so we could talk about all of this. I think

1776
01:48:13,880 --> 01:48:19,080
Speaker 1: the issue was Iran was so unspeakably evil and was

1777
01:48:19,240 --> 01:48:24,679
Speaker 1: moving towards the bragging about completely destroying Iran's nuclear program.

1778
01:48:24,960 --> 01:48:26,600
Speaker 1: They put a lot of eggs in the four to

1779
01:48:26,600 --> 01:48:32,000
Speaker 1: dough basket in Tehran, but clearly there were still scientists,

1780
01:48:32,080 --> 01:48:36,000
Speaker 1: there was still enriching capability and the information I think

1781
01:48:36,120 --> 01:48:39,280
Speaker 1: was coming in that Iran was rapidly building up not

1782
01:48:39,400 --> 01:48:44,400
Speaker 1: just its regional ballistic missile technology but also its ICBM technology,

1783
01:48:44,439 --> 01:48:49,919
Speaker 1: and the fear was they could either develop their own

1784
01:48:50,040 --> 01:48:53,479
Speaker 1: enriched uranium or potentially get some from their ally in

1785
01:48:53,600 --> 01:48:59,160
Speaker 1: Russia and deliver a payload on those innercontinental ballistic missiles

1786
01:48:59,360 --> 01:49:02,920
Speaker 1: to the US homeland or at the very least Israel

1787
01:49:03,280 --> 01:49:07,640
Speaker 1: or some other American base in the region. I mean

1788
01:49:07,680 --> 01:49:10,720
Speaker 1: they've been doing this literally since the attack on the

1789
01:49:10,720 --> 01:49:14,320
Speaker 1: Marine barracks in nineteen eighty three. I mean, it's consistently

1790
01:49:14,400 --> 01:49:19,120
Speaker 1: been Iran or its proxies attacking the United States. Ultimately,

1791
01:49:19,200 --> 01:49:23,120
Speaker 1: I think Trump saw, and frankly, there's a sound bite

1792
01:49:23,240 --> 01:49:24,040
Speaker 1: that's going around.

1793
01:49:24,080 --> 01:49:25,639
Speaker 3: I didn't have time to play it today. I think

1794
01:49:25,640 --> 01:49:26,360
Speaker 3: we'll get it tomorrow.

1795
01:49:26,400 --> 01:49:30,400
Speaker 1: Trump in nineteen eighty talking about this was right after

1796
01:49:30,560 --> 01:49:34,000
Speaker 1: the hostage crisis, talking about Iran and what he would do,

1797
01:49:34,120 --> 01:49:38,360
Speaker 1: and he sounded shockingly consistent. Not only that he did

1798
01:49:38,400 --> 01:49:41,800
Speaker 1: say on the campaign trail, to be fair, Matthew, he

1799
01:49:41,920 --> 01:49:44,600
Speaker 1: said something to the effect of I will bomb the

1800
01:49:44,680 --> 01:49:48,240
Speaker 1: bleep out of them. So he's always kind of straddled

1801
01:49:48,240 --> 01:49:53,080
Speaker 1: that line between America first and swinging his you know

1802
01:49:53,120 --> 01:49:54,040
Speaker 1: what around.

1803
01:49:54,560 --> 01:49:55,719
Speaker 3: If that makes any sense.

1804
01:49:57,800 --> 01:49:59,720
Speaker 14: Yeah, it definitely does. And I think that's the hard

1805
01:49:59,760 --> 01:50:03,960
Speaker 14: part that many people on the other side, on the

1806
01:50:04,040 --> 01:50:07,759
Speaker 14: left half is just just trying to square that together

1807
01:50:07,840 --> 01:50:11,519
Speaker 14: and put that together, just the inconsistencies. And that's that's

1808
01:50:11,600 --> 01:50:14,120
Speaker 14: what he is. I mean, he's there's yeah.

1809
01:50:13,960 --> 01:50:17,559
Speaker 1: There's Hey, I am not I will concede the point

1810
01:50:17,880 --> 01:50:22,160
Speaker 1: that there are a lot of consistent inconsistencies about Trump

1811
01:50:22,200 --> 01:50:25,200
Speaker 1: and he seems to sort of waffle day today. Hey, Matthew,

1812
01:50:25,640 --> 01:50:30,839
Speaker 1: really do appreciate your call. See how reasonable minds can disagree.

1813
01:50:30,840 --> 01:50:34,040
Speaker 1: It happens. Hey, you're a good dude, buddy, And drinks

1814
01:50:34,040 --> 01:50:36,559
Speaker 1: are on me next time I'm in Madison. Do we

1815
01:50:36,600 --> 01:50:38,759
Speaker 1: have time to go to Tammy. Let's go to Tammy

1816
01:50:39,120 --> 01:50:41,520
Speaker 1: down in Daytona Beach, Florida.

1817
01:50:42,160 --> 01:50:42,519
Speaker 3: Tammy.

1818
01:50:42,600 --> 01:50:45,320
Speaker 1: I didn't like that last call because he was a

1819
01:50:45,400 --> 01:50:49,880
Speaker 1: really nice guy, making reasonable and very good points. I

1820
01:50:49,960 --> 01:50:52,360
Speaker 1: just don't like you because you're down in Florida and

1821
01:50:52,400 --> 01:50:54,080
Speaker 1: it's like thirty five degrees here.

1822
01:50:55,840 --> 01:51:00,160
Speaker 15: Well, that's okay. We've had we've had four Florida. I've

1823
01:51:00,160 --> 01:51:00,840
Speaker 15: had a hard winter.

1824
01:51:01,200 --> 01:51:02,599
Speaker 3: You know what I used.

1825
01:51:02,680 --> 01:51:04,559
Speaker 15: A lot of my plants are dead.

1826
01:51:04,720 --> 01:51:06,920
Speaker 1: You know, my mom is down in Naples, and she

1827
01:51:07,040 --> 01:51:10,479
Speaker 1: says she's been wintering in Naples forever. And she says

1828
01:51:10,600 --> 01:51:13,960
Speaker 1: it's been the worst winter weather in Naples probably since

1829
01:51:13,960 --> 01:51:15,600
Speaker 1: she's been down there. She's been down there since like

1830
01:51:15,640 --> 01:51:16,400
Speaker 1: twenty twelve.

1831
01:51:18,040 --> 01:51:20,320
Speaker 15: I've been down here since oh four, and this is

1832
01:51:20,360 --> 01:51:21,000
Speaker 15: the worst one.

1833
01:51:21,479 --> 01:51:24,639
Speaker 3: That's it. I feel you. So what's going on, Tammy.

1834
01:51:24,680 --> 01:51:27,400
Speaker 3: I don't really hate you. We love you down in Florida.

1835
01:51:27,520 --> 01:51:29,559
Speaker 15: First, I want to thank you for the commercial break

1836
01:51:29,560 --> 01:51:32,840
Speaker 15: because it helped me pull myself together because I was

1837
01:51:32,880 --> 01:51:35,120
Speaker 15: getting really emotional with your call screener.

1838
01:51:35,680 --> 01:51:37,840
Speaker 3: Oh he wasn't being mean, was he?

1839
01:51:39,200 --> 01:51:41,599
Speaker 15: No, he was not. I got up in the morning

1840
01:51:41,760 --> 01:51:45,880
Speaker 15: after finding out what had happened overnight, and I looked

1841
01:51:45,920 --> 01:51:52,759
Speaker 15: at my husband and said, finally, finally somebody is taking

1842
01:51:53,040 --> 01:51:56,840
Speaker 15: retribution for the friends that we lost. My husband was

1843
01:51:56,920 --> 01:51:59,439
Speaker 15: in Beirut in nineteen eighty three.

1844
01:51:59,760 --> 01:52:00,960
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, was.

1845
01:52:00,920 --> 01:52:05,800
Speaker 15: In the navy. I was nineteen married. I'm sorry of

1846
01:52:05,880 --> 01:52:06,559
Speaker 15: getting water.

1847
01:52:06,400 --> 01:52:07,599
Speaker 3: Eat No, no, that's okay.

1848
01:52:07,720 --> 01:52:10,680
Speaker 15: Three months old and for ten days I didn't know

1849
01:52:10,680 --> 01:52:14,120
Speaker 15: if I was a widow or not. My husband had

1850
01:52:14,240 --> 01:52:16,799
Speaker 15: men shot off the back of his ship. What people

1851
01:52:16,880 --> 01:52:21,800
Speaker 15: don't know is how absolutely evil these people are. They

1852
01:52:21,800 --> 01:52:25,320
Speaker 15: would come out with girls in bikinis and speedboats during

1853
01:52:25,360 --> 01:52:30,080
Speaker 15: the day, waiting to the guys, flashing them, doing all

1854
01:52:30,120 --> 01:52:34,320
Speaker 15: the things to get a bunch of horny sailors to

1855
01:52:34,760 --> 01:52:37,800
Speaker 15: you know, waves. But what they were really doing was

1856
01:52:37,840 --> 01:52:40,960
Speaker 15: tagging where that ship was. And then if anybody went

1857
01:52:41,000 --> 01:52:44,040
Speaker 15: out at night and had a cigarette, which they weren't

1858
01:52:44,080 --> 01:52:47,200
Speaker 15: supposed to do, but people don't always listen. They did

1859
01:52:47,200 --> 01:52:49,000
Speaker 15: after the second guy got shot.

1860
01:52:48,760 --> 01:52:52,280
Speaker 3: And was killed, Oh my goodness, off.

1861
01:52:52,120 --> 01:52:56,720
Speaker 15: The back of the ship. So President Trump is the

1862
01:52:56,800 --> 01:52:59,840
Speaker 15: only person who seems to have.

1863
01:53:01,640 --> 01:53:02,000
Speaker 3: Tired.

1864
01:53:02,680 --> 01:53:06,120
Speaker 15: Debab Root happened. People don't even remember it. I have

1865
01:53:06,280 --> 01:53:09,920
Speaker 15: spent decades with people going, oh, there was something that

1866
01:53:09,960 --> 01:53:12,120
Speaker 15: went on in bab route. I'm like, are you kidding me?

1867
01:53:12,240 --> 01:53:13,520
Speaker 3: Over three massacres?

1868
01:53:13,600 --> 01:53:14,160
Speaker 5: We're killed?

1869
01:53:15,280 --> 01:53:18,519
Speaker 15: And what about the coal people? Just forget about that?

1870
01:53:18,720 --> 01:53:23,120
Speaker 15: So am I am? I thrilled with this?

1871
01:53:23,520 --> 01:53:23,680
Speaker 5: No?

1872
01:53:23,800 --> 01:53:24,880
Speaker 15: No, I'll be honest, I'm not.

1873
01:53:25,680 --> 01:53:27,040
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody happened.

1874
01:53:27,920 --> 01:53:31,560
Speaker 15: No, but did it need to happen? Yes? You know,

1875
01:53:32,479 --> 01:53:34,639
Speaker 15: I have a son in law who did two tours

1876
01:53:34,680 --> 01:53:39,080
Speaker 15: over in the sandbox Kuwait and Afghanistan. Like I said,

1877
01:53:39,120 --> 01:53:42,400
Speaker 15: my husband was in Bei route. None of us are

1878
01:53:42,520 --> 01:53:45,600
Speaker 15: enjoying this. In fact, we are trying to avoid the

1879
01:53:46,000 --> 01:53:50,720
Speaker 15: media because it just ramps up the PTSD to a

1880
01:53:50,800 --> 01:53:54,599
Speaker 15: level twelve. The nightmares my husband's been having the last

1881
01:53:54,600 --> 01:54:00,799
Speaker 15: few nights, they're expected. But thank you, thank you President

1882
01:54:00,880 --> 01:54:02,960
Speaker 15: Trump for finally.

1883
01:54:04,479 --> 01:54:05,200
Speaker 13: Given the darn.

1884
01:54:05,479 --> 01:54:07,639
Speaker 15: I'm sorry. I'm also trying to really watch my language.

1885
01:54:08,600 --> 01:54:09,920
Speaker 3: It's tammy uh.

1886
01:54:10,320 --> 01:54:14,320
Speaker 1: Wow, that that is an incredible story. I can see

1887
01:54:14,320 --> 01:54:19,800
Speaker 1: why I'm getting emotional listening to you. Tammy uh how

1888
01:54:19,800 --> 01:54:24,000
Speaker 1: many of Yeah, Well, that that's the thing that absolutely

1889
01:54:24,000 --> 01:54:27,960
Speaker 1: boggles my mind. In last hour, I kind of ran

1890
01:54:28,080 --> 01:54:32,400
Speaker 1: down all of the various attacks that Iran was responsible for.

1891
01:54:32,520 --> 01:54:34,920
Speaker 1: I even left out I left out the coal, the

1892
01:54:35,040 --> 01:54:36,360
Speaker 1: USS coal that was al Qaeda.

1893
01:54:36,400 --> 01:54:37,040
Speaker 3: Al Qaida was.

1894
01:54:37,000 --> 01:54:39,880
Speaker 1: Getting material support, you could you could include Iran in

1895
01:54:40,000 --> 01:54:42,520
Speaker 1: nine to eleven because they were providing material support and

1896
01:54:42,560 --> 01:54:44,840
Speaker 1: intelligence for al Qaida for pretty much all of al

1897
01:54:44,920 --> 01:54:47,960
Speaker 1: Qaeda's existence, right, you know, al Qaida in Iraq, I

1898
01:54:48,320 --> 01:54:51,760
Speaker 1: all of this, all of this was Iran's doing. And

1899
01:54:51,800 --> 01:54:54,720
Speaker 1: it's like people don't remember, or they don't care, or

1900
01:54:54,760 --> 01:54:57,640
Speaker 1: they just hate Trump so much. And what I think

1901
01:54:57,800 --> 01:55:02,520
Speaker 1: is is more diabolical. They dislike this country so much

1902
01:55:03,280 --> 01:55:10,320
Speaker 1: that fundamentally they just they have tendency to side with

1903
01:55:10,360 --> 01:55:12,600
Speaker 1: our enemies. Tammy, I'll tell you what we are running

1904
01:55:12,680 --> 01:55:15,680
Speaker 1: up against the end of the show. I'm so sorry

1905
01:55:15,720 --> 01:55:17,760
Speaker 1: your husband had to go through that. Give him a

1906
01:55:17,800 --> 01:55:22,240
Speaker 1: big hug, and know that all of our listeners Dan

1907
01:55:22,360 --> 01:55:23,480
Speaker 1: Nation is with you.

1908
01:55:23,560 --> 01:55:23,880
Speaker 4: Guys.

1909
01:55:24,680 --> 01:55:28,000
Speaker 1: We support you, and this one is for all of

1910
01:55:28,040 --> 01:55:33,000
Speaker 1: your and your husband's old buddies. Okay, all right, God

1911
01:55:33,040 --> 01:55:33,800
Speaker 1: bless you, Tammy.

1912
01:55:33,800 --> 01:55:34,040
Speaker 3: Wow.

1913
01:55:34,080 --> 01:55:38,080
Speaker 1: I did not expect for it to be that emotional.

1914
01:55:38,320 --> 01:55:40,240
Speaker 1: Are we out of time for the show man? I

1915
01:55:40,240 --> 01:55:42,720
Speaker 1: guess we got to end a little early by apologies

1916
01:55:43,320 --> 01:55:45,800
Speaker 1: back tomorrow right here on the Dan o'donald Show.

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01:55:45,800 --> 01:55:46,320
Speaker 15: Talk to you though,