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Speaker 1: I really feel like we have to start with the

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Speaker 1: Middle East, because, as you know, President Trump was on

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Speaker 1: the cover of Time magazine. It's being heralded in many

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Speaker 1: quarters by this tremendous accomplishment. On the other hand, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was listening to Rick Stengel say someplace that most

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Speaker 1: diplomats under promise and over deliver, and he felt that

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump was over promising and the fear is he's

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Speaker 1: going to underdeliver, which I thought was a pretty succinct

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Speaker 1: way of saying the proof, you know, the devil's in

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Speaker 1: the details, and the proof will be in the pudding,

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Speaker 1: if you will. So I'm just curious to hear your

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Speaker 1: perspective on this big Mid East victory lap that President

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Speaker 1: Trump was taking earlier.

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Speaker 2: This week's extraordinary that in the aftermath of a war

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Speaker 2: that has rebelized a geography, killed at least sixty thousand

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Speaker 2: people inside of it, and caused so much trauma in

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Speaker 2: Israel that in the end, I guess the war thought

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Speaker 2: it was about Trump, right, And if you look at

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Speaker 2: the magazine covers and you read the pronouncements, what was

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Speaker 2: the war? Though? It was a victory for Donald and

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Speaker 2: it's obscene. I could show you a Life magazine from

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Speaker 2: nineteen forty six. Incidentally, inside of that Life magazine that

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Speaker 2: has the Palestinian on the cover and inside the centerfold

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Speaker 2: shows Jerusalem, and inside that magazine is the photograph of

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Speaker 2: all the top tier a Nazis laid out in their

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Speaker 2: caskets after they got after they got humed. That peace

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Speaker 2: in the Middle East is not a function of Donald's ego.

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Speaker 2: And anybody who thinks that a durable piece will be

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Speaker 2: the fruit of a corrupt commercial transaction between Donald and

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Speaker 2: all of these Arab thugs and a bitcoin transaction has

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Speaker 2: rocks in their head.

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Speaker 1: Well, talk to me more about calling it a corrupt

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Speaker 1: commercial transaction. Tell me why you're characterizing it as such.

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Speaker 1: That's what the abraham Courts, in essence were.

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Speaker 2: That discounted the presence of the Palestinians at all. In

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Speaker 2: the end, there's seven and a half million Palestinians, and

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Speaker 2: there's seven and a half million juice in a tight

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Speaker 2: geographic proximity with a two millennia contestation over the land.

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Speaker 2: And the notion that this will be figured out in

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Speaker 2: riod or in Dubai, or by Jared Kushner and Steve

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Speaker 2: Wikoff in either of those places is absurd, and so

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Speaker 2: there is a temporary ceasefire. Hamas emerged from underground and

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Speaker 2: began executing all of its competitors. We haven't really seen

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Speaker 2: what Gaza looks like inside. But the issue is not

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Speaker 2: about Trump and the egotism and the celebration. And I

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Speaker 2: can explain the Time magazine cover. It's owned by another billionaire,

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Speaker 2: Mark Bennioff. He's quieter and he didn't make the first

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Speaker 2: round cut. He didn't make it into the front row

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Speaker 2: for the inauguration. But whether it's Ellison at CBS, whether

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Speaker 2: it's Bob Iger at ABC, what the American people are

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Speaker 2: served is a thin grule that stressed up as news.

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Speaker 2: There is no independence in these companies. There is no

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Speaker 2: integrity in the morning editorial meeting. And so this is politics,

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Speaker 2: and the politics dictate if you are at a giant

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Speaker 2: corporation that owns a news division, that you celebrate Trump.

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Speaker 2: And that's why Trump is being celebrated, because not on

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Speaker 2: the basis of a real achievement, but on the basis

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Speaker 2: on the corporate strategy, which is now's the time to

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Speaker 2: celebrate them at the proverbial point of a gun. And

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Speaker 2: that's what's happening.

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Speaker 1: But it's not just the media, is it, Steve. I

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Speaker 1: mean I talk to many people. Even Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Speaker 1: was like, he's doing this in a you know, some

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Speaker 1: terrible things. But then I look at what he has

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Speaker 1: done in the Mideast and I find just anecdotally, a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are Steve giving him credit for at least,

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Speaker 1: you know, bringing a temporary into the war and having

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Speaker 1: laying out some kind of plan. I'm not saying I am,

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Speaker 1: I'm just hearing it. And so I know what you're

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Speaker 1: saying about these media entities.

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Speaker 2: I think that I think maybe Andrew Ross Sorkin then

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Speaker 2: knows a lot more about economics than he does the

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Speaker 2: Middle East. And I'll say that, I mean I say

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Speaker 2: that with no I say that with no mouths. Maybe

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Speaker 2: he doesn't understand anything about the Middle East. The reality

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Speaker 2: is is that Bibi Natanyaki profoundly divided Israeli society and

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Speaker 2: he projected the type of weakness that's a provocation. And

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Speaker 2: Hamas was provoked by the division and the weakness, and

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Speaker 2: they attacked and they slaughtered twelve hundred kids who went

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Speaker 2: to a concert, and Israel went to war for two

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Speaker 2: years and that Yahoo is opposed by about two thirds

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Speaker 2: of his country, and his political calculation has been that

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Speaker 2: so long as the war goes on, I get to

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Speaker 2: stay as Prime Minister. And he so closely tied himself

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Speaker 2: to Donald Trump that he put himself into the position

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Speaker 2: that Trump owns him. And what Donald Trump appreciates is

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Speaker 2: that inside his mag of base there is a tremendous schism.

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Speaker 2: There are people who don't understand why we're bailing out

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Speaker 2: Argentinean farmers. American farmers have jumped to the head of

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Speaker 2: the suicide list because the soybean market has collapsed, And

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Speaker 2: there's a big part of his political coalition that is

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Speaker 2: sick of the war. Marjorie Taylor Green understands and represents

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Speaker 2: that position. And so Trump gave an order to Natin

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Speaker 2: Yahoo because Trump is in a position to give an

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Speaker 2: order to exactly one person on the planet, and his

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Speaker 2: name is bib nat Yahu, and he stopped the bombing.

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Speaker 2: But I just wonder, if I think about that Life

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Speaker 2: magazine with the Palestinian on the cover, I wonder what

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Speaker 2: happened to that man's grandchildren and his great grandchildren. I

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Speaker 2: wonder how many terrorists have been produced out of the

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Speaker 2: rubble in Gaza, that what came out of this is

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Speaker 2: peace and the people who pronounce it work on CNBC.

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Speaker 1: No, you know, Steve, I found watching that speech he

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Speaker 1: gave at the Kanesset fascinating, you know. And even that

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Speaker 1: part where he was saying they should pardon be being

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Speaker 1: at in Yahoo? Do you remember that part? It was really,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and it felt like everyone in the Knesse

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Speaker 1: was he had them eating out of the palm of

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Speaker 1: his hand.

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Speaker 2: Israel will rue the day that it has yoked itself

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Speaker 2: in this country to Donald Trump. There is nothing, nothing,

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Speaker 2: that the State of Israel could ever have done that

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Speaker 2: will undermine it security more than by becoming a partisan

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Speaker 2: cause in the United States and celebrating Donald Trump as

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Speaker 2: Cyrus the Great and b bb net and Yahoo accomplish that.

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Speaker 2: And I'm somebody who's a converted Jew is married to

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Speaker 2: a Jewish family, and the idea that in the Jewish

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Speaker 2: diaspora around the world that Donald Trump is a hero,

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Speaker 2: or that the peace is durable, or that Israeli security

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Speaker 2: hasn't been compromised by the yoking of Israel to Maga.

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Speaker 2: I think his delusional.

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