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Speaker 1: White House insists the strategy is working, but so far

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Speaker 1: it comes amid escalating tensions.

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Speaker 2: In the region.

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Speaker 1: US troops at Alasad Air Base in Iraq came under

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Speaker 1: attack over the weekend. Iranian back militias fed seventeen ballistic

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Speaker 1: missiles and rockets. Most were intercepted, but the Pentagon says

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Speaker 1: at least two US personnels suffered traumatic brain injuries.

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Speaker 2: I like the two back to back sentences. The administration

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Speaker 2: Those two things do not fit together. It became clear

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Speaker 2: to me. I was just thinking about it before we

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Speaker 2: played these clips. The reason the I could call it

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Speaker 2: But if you make it clear to people that you're

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Speaker 2: not going to punch them in the mouth, then the

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Speaker 2: whole don't don't doesn't work. The only way don't doesn't work.

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Speaker 2: It does work is if you've made it clear to

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Speaker 3: Right, I agree one hundred percent. I think now might

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Speaker 3: be a great time to usher in. Mike Clions, military

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Speaker 3: analyst from CNN. Mike, it's always enlightening.

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Speaker 4: How are you taking one of you guys? Good to

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Speaker 3: Thank you. I think it would be fairly safe to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's difficult to see where this administration goes. They

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Speaker 4: and actually deter them and make statements like you just said,

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Speaker 4: any escalation. But the Iranians fingerprints are all over this.

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Speaker 4: They're the ones directing these attacks, they're the ones that's

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Speaker 4: I just think they're confident that we're not going to

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Speaker 2: Well, you said on TV the other day and then

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Speaker 4: Right, it's a globalist mentality that exists on a one level,

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Speaker 2: You also tweeted out the large number of different sorts

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Speaker 3: it seems that the trading of ordinance with Hesbala is

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Speaker 4: You, Yeah, that's the biggest concern in that. The only

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Speaker 2: Well, with Israel losing was it twenty one or twenty

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Speaker 4: Well, they have those units that they had brought up.

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Speaker 3: Interesting. Yeah, from what I've understood, the Israeli the IDF

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Speaker 4: Well, I know they've been given many courses of action

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Speaker 3: to you, Thanks for the time.

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Speaker 4: Thanks guys, thanks for habbing me.

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