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Speaker 3: Well, I think it's something the President would be quite

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Speaker 4: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.

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Speaker 5: Good Tuesday morning. Nice have you with us on the

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Speaker 5: forty seven Morning Up. Baby, We've got two big stories

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Speaker 5: for you this morning. First up, the President and I

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Speaker 5: can change everything overnight. Plus Secretary of State Marco Rubio,

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Speaker 5: he's now on record talking about what's next, including the

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Speaker 5: straight up Hormuz. But before we get to that, I

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Speaker 5: want to take a moment and ask you to help

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Speaker 5: A sacred season is approaching Passover, when we remember God's deliverance,

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Speaker 5: forty seven Morning Update and it starts right.

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Speaker 2: Now, story number one.

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Speaker 5: Welcome back. It is the Ben Ferguson Show. It is

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Speaker 5: nice to have you with us. Donald Trump has come

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Speaker 5: making it very clear if they do not agree with

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Speaker 5: willing to obliterate Iran's energy infrastructure his exact words, if

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Speaker 6: Let's talk about the President's comments overnight talking about taking

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Speaker 6: Why would he do this? Won't it take ground troops?

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Speaker 7: Well, first of all, it's important to remember the objectives

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Speaker 7: We're going to wipe out their defense industrial base, meaning

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Speaker 7: This Iran that you're seeing now, this is Iran at

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Speaker 7: Obviously, I'm not going to discuss what those options are,

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Speaker 6: Well, let's talk about taking the oil, because the President

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Speaker 7: Well, again, the Iranians are threatening that they're going to

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Speaker 2: That will never be allowed to happen. By the way,

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Speaker 7: Of the world should take note of that they have

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Speaker 2: The rest of the world gets a lot more.

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Speaker 7: That said, the President has several options at his disposal,

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Speaker 6: As you're speaking, though, the President is expanding the objectives.

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Speaker 7: Well, well, I think the first point the president makes

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Speaker 2: Look at this region.

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Speaker 7: Every single terrorist group in this region has a link

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Speaker 7: belah Hamas the Shia militias that are attacking everyone out

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Speaker 7: the Iranian regime. Those things have to be addressed. And

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Speaker 7: if Iron had been willing to address to us in

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Speaker 7: the past, we wouldn't be having this interview on this

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Speaker 7: topic right now. Their refusal to do so, and they're

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Speaker 7: continuing move towards one day acquiring a nuclear capability. These

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Speaker 7: people are lunatics. They are insane. They are religious zelots

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Speaker 7: all of their neighbors know that, by the way, which

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Speaker 6: You call them lunatics with the President just had this

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Speaker 6: post where he says, we're in discussions with a new

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Speaker 6: and more reasonable regime. Let me try to pain you

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Speaker 6: down on that. Who is this new and more reasonable

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Speaker 6: regime is The United States is in direct contact with them?

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Speaker 7: Well, I'm not going to disclose to you who those

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Speaker 7: with some other groups.

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Speaker 2: Of people inside of Iran.

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Speaker 7: Look, there's some fractures going on there internally, and at

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Speaker 7: the end of the day, I think that if there

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Speaker 7: that would be great. Imagine in Iran that and instead

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Speaker 7: have a much different country.

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Speaker 2: So we are.

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Speaker 7: Always hopeful that that would exist over there. It's unfortunate.

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Speaker 7: The people of Iran are incredible people. The people who

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Speaker 7: if there are new people now in charge who have

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Speaker 7: But we also have to be prepared for the possibility,

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Speaker 7: maybe even the probability that that is not the case.

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Speaker 6: But the reston said they are. Is that the case

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Speaker 7: Well, what I mean is, yeah, look, so you have

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Speaker 7: Obviously they're not going to put it out in press releases,

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Speaker 2: We're going to test it. We are hopeful that that's

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Speaker 7: There are clearly people They are talking to us in

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Speaker 2: Obviously they have to go do it.

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Speaker 7: We're going to test that proposition very strongly because we

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Speaker 7: that effort might fail. That we are dealing with a

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Speaker 7: forty seven year old regime that still has a lot

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Speaker 6: And if it fails, the war expands.

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Speaker 2: What's that I'm sorry, if it fails, the war expands.

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Speaker 7: Well, that the war is about this operation, okay, and

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Speaker 7: that's what this is. It's about very specific objectives. The

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Speaker 7: President laid them out on the first night of the operation.

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Speaker 7: I'll repeat them to you now because I hear a

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Speaker 7: objectives are here. They are, you should write them down.

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Speaker 7: Number one, the destruction of their air force. Number two,

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Speaker 7: acquire a nuclear weapon. That was our objective from the beginning,

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Speaker 7: that remains our objective. Now we are on pace, and

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Speaker 7: in fact they're head of schedule in some of those things,

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Speaker 7: and we are going to achieve those things in a

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Speaker 6: Mister check Jerry, thanks for time this morning.

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Speaker 5: It's really interesting to see how much the media is

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Speaker 5: willing to change, alter, and lie to you to try

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Speaker 5: to make you think that somehow what we're doing in

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Speaker 5: Iran is a failure, when clearly, in reality it's a

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Speaker 5: massive success already and the Secretary of Stateming it very

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Speaker 5: clear that Trump Doctrine is working.

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