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Speaker 1: not endless nation building under those types of quagmuiers we

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning. Nice to have you with us on

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Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got one big

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Speaker 3: story for you. It is day eleven of Operation Epic Fury.

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Speaker 3: The question that so many Americans are asking is are

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Speaker 3: we winning? And what's going to be happening with gas prices.

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Speaker 3: We have answers to all of that. Having just come

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Speaker 3: back from Israel, I want to paint you a picture.

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Speaker 3: It's midnight, sirens are blearing, and you have only seconds

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Speaker 3: Your legs don't work like they used to, Getting downstairs

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Speaker 3: feels impossible, and after all of that, you end up

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Speaker 3: can't the trek again. This is what's happening across Israel

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Speaker 3: as Operation Epic Fury continues. Children are being traumatized. Families

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Speaker 3: are just exhausted and homes have been destroyed. And that's

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Speaker 3: why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is there

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Speaker 3: on the ground, bringing food, emergency equipment, care for those children,

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Speaker 3: and medical centers for critically needed essentials. If you've ever

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Speaker 3: wondered what it looks like to stand for Israel and

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Speaker 3: stand for good against evil, this is it. And that's

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Speaker 3: why I'm asking to now please act, give forty five

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Speaker 3: vulnerables under fire. You can also call eight eight eight

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Speaker 3: difference online at IFCJ. That's IFCJ dot org. It's a

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Speaker 3: forty seven morning update and it starts right now.

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Speaker 2: Story number one.

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Speaker 3: It is day eleven of Operation Epic Fury. The United

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Speaker 3: States and its allies are continuing to deliver overwhelming blows

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Speaker 3: to the Iranian regime's military infrastructure, and by nearly every measure,

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Speaker 3: the coalition is gaining the upper hand in a major way.

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Speaker 3: As President Donald Trump and the White House continue to

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Speaker 3: go all out in our attacks on the Iyatola in

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Speaker 3: the infrastructure there. This operation, as you know, began on

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Speaker 3: February the twenty eighth, when the United States and Israel

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Speaker 3: launched coordinated strikes designed to dismantle Iran's missile capabilities, cripple

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Speaker 3: American forces or develop or deliver a nuclear weapon. That

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Speaker 3: is something that the President has laid out from day one,

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Speaker 3: and the results so far have been staggering. According to

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Speaker 3: Pentagon officials, more than five thousand Iranian military targets have

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Speaker 3: the US forces hit nearly two thousand pre planned targets,

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Speaker 3: over the past several days are showing big victories. Iran's

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Speaker 3: Iran's ability to strike US bases and allies across the region,

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Speaker 3: which they did early on. The second big thing that's

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Speaker 1: You see, this is not two thousand and three. This

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Speaker 1: Our generation of soldier will not let that happen again,

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Speaker 1: and nor will this president, who very clearly ran again

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Speaker 1: against those kinds of never ending, nebulously scoped missions. Those

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Speaker 1: days are dead. Instead, we're winning decisively with brutal efficiency,

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Speaker 1: total air dominance, and an unbreakable will to accomplish the

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Speaker 3: The Secretary of War wasn't done there, also saying this.

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Speaker 1: On day ten of Operation Epic Fury. We are winning

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Speaker 1: three permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons forever. It's a laser focused,

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Speaker 3: Now, the Secretary of War also made it clear what

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Speaker 1: The President is leading. He's determining where we want to go,

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Speaker 1: yes we're clear eyed about it, but my job is

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Speaker 3: This is exactly why the President of United States of

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Speaker 3: So as we move into day eleventh, the strategic picture

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Speaker 3: the region. To put it plainly, Operation Epic Fury, and

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Speaker 3: the mastermind of it, President Donald J. Trump. He has

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Speaker 3: exactly what the President is focused on right now, and

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Speaker 3: he's also doing it for another reason, to make sure

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