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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks, Monday, April sixth, Continuation Part two here

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Speaker 1: of the President's press conference. Told you I was going

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Speaker 1: to split this up into two parts. This second part

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Speaker 1: is focused on the war and the update the President

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Speaker 1: gave us, and this was part of his update. Every

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Speaker 1: bridge decimated, every power plant will be out of business.

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Speaker 1: And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 1: Still know Amy on this one. She's got the day off,

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Speaker 1: taking a moment. But the President the episode before this

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Speaker 1: on the feed had talked about the things The President said.

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Speaker 1: He was having a press conference and he was given

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Speaker 1: an update on the rescue that daring, harrowing rescue as

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Speaker 1: they say, of that to us US airmen that was

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Speaker 1: behind enemy lines had to evade for forty eight hours

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Speaker 1: almost before being rescued. Given all the details of that

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Speaker 1: and that stuff is pretty heroarchic. You want to hear

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Speaker 1: more about that. That's in the episode right before this one.

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Speaker 1: But the second part of that press conference involved a

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Speaker 1: lot of Q and A with reporters and mostly about

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Speaker 1: the war with Iran, and some interesting stuff came out

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Speaker 1: of that, and that is what I want to go

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Speaker 1: the update as I promised. But the President still not

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Speaker 1: giving a timeline necessarily for the end of the war.

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Speaker 1: But he is standing by his timeline of tomorrow, Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: and a part of the deal needs to be them

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Speaker 1: opening up the straight of horror moves. That is the deadline. Now.

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Speaker 1: The President has moved deadlines a couple of times for

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Speaker 1: the Iranians. Several times there was a forty eight hour

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Speaker 1: and then there was a five days, there's a ten day,

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Speaker 1: and now this ten day, it looks like it's going

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Speaker 1: giving them an extra day. The reason he gave them

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Speaker 1: an extra day is because essentially, he says he's a

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Speaker 1: nice guy. The President says he's a he's a nice guy.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want to blow everything up because it was

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Speaker 1: it was easter. He actually said that. He said, it's

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Speaker 1: an easter. I'm an it's easter. I'm a nice guy.

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Speaker 1: So he wanted to give them an extra day and

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Speaker 1: not blow everything up so close to Easter. The President

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Speaker 1: he's talking to, he gave us an update. He says

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Speaker 1: he's dealing with a new regime and he says they're smarter, sharper,

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Speaker 1: and far less radical. However, he is still threatening to

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Speaker 1: blow them off the face of the earth. Now, the

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Speaker 1: President did raise some eyebrows in the room and some

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Speaker 1: headlines you'll see about it. He was asked about blowing

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Speaker 1: up civilian infrastructure. Now, the President has been threatening to

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Speaker 1: blow up everything. Specifically, he is going after power plants,

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Speaker 1: even get clean drinking water. He is threatening to take

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Speaker 1: that away, to blow all of that up. Some have

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Speaker 1: suggested that doing so would amount to war crimes. You're

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Speaker 1: he said this quote. They would be willing to suffer

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Speaker 1: that in order to have freedom. Now, that was the

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Speaker 1: President suggesting that Iranians would prefer that you wipe their

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Speaker 1: suffering in order to have freedom. The President did say

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Speaker 1: ages as he's been saying, but he says he'll even

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Speaker 1: So that is what he's threatening to do. Now. On

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Speaker 1: the negotiation front, he didn't give much of an update,

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Speaker 1: but says those negotiations do continue to come. Now. He

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Speaker 1: I have good instincts. He kind of left it at

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Speaker 1: including things going along in this war. Now, the ten

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Speaker 1: That's why he moved the deadline one day because it

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Speaker 1: a good person. Then in the same press conference, he

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Speaker 1: and he continued, every bridge decimated, every power plant will

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Speaker 1: acceptable to me. That's the detail he gave today. And

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Speaker 1: if he not taking this action with Iran right now

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Speaker 1: the comment that the President made. But there was in

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Speaker 1: There all right, continuing here, and last thing quickly raising

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Speaker 1: The President ends up going back up doing a Q

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Speaker 1: So the President was about to publicly in front of

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Speaker 1: He just quickly said, I'd love to keep that a secret,

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Speaker 1: and he said in the most polite ways, and the

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Speaker 1: He said, hey, I love this guy. But it was

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Speaker 1: so he still let something out. It's been an interesting

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Speaker 1: But this rescue mission, yes, there's something to be proud

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Speaker 1: as a reminder of the danger that our men and

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Speaker 1: don't even completely understand. And this war continues. And tomorrow Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: now looking to be a very big day. Hopefully it's

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Speaker 1: some pretty devastating action. Appreciate you all spending some time

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