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Speaker 3: dot com. There was actually a crazy crash that happened

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Speaker 3: in Philadelphia. Let's go ahead and put some of the

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Speaker 3: video up there on the screen as I talk over it,

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Speaker 3: so you can see there were these insane ring camera

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Speaker 3: videos that were coming out that are just showing a

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Speaker 3: major fireball that erupted literally as a crash, as this plane,

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Speaker 3: small plane carrying six passengers actually literally crash there in

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Speaker 3: the middle of the See the emergency.

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Speaker 1: Lights, the fires that were all happening.

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Speaker 3: This is a particularly insane one because he's standing out

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Speaker 3: there and he literally happens right outside of his front door.

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Speaker 3: You can see the fireball that was right behind him.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely terrifying. What we know about the crash so far

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Speaker 3: is it's a little weird some of the details, so

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Speaker 3: I'm just going to go ahead and read them to

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Speaker 3: some of you. So they've named the crew and there

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Speaker 3: was actually a patient. It was an air ambulance in

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Speaker 3: the northeastern Philadelphia area, so it was a medical jet

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Speaker 3: and it was including a girl from Mexico who had

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Speaker 3: received treatment for life threatening illness. But it plummeted to

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Speaker 3: the ground in Northeast Philly, causing obviously a massive explosion,

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Speaker 3: killing everybody on board and at least one person who

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Speaker 3: was on the ground. We don't know anything else. What

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Speaker 3: we basically know is that they left Northeast Philadelphia Airport.

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Speaker 3: It was headed for Springfield Branson National Airport, stopping in

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Speaker 3: Missouri before eventually traveling to its final destination of Tijuana, Mexico.

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Speaker 3: The girl was returning to Mexico after receiving treat in

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Speaker 3: the United States, and the victims of the crash are

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Speaker 3: the captain as well as several other Mexican nationals. So

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Speaker 3: definitely a tragedy. And still some open questions as to

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Speaker 3: what the hell was happening. You know, with all of this,

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Speaker 3: can we put the next one please up on the screen.

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Speaker 3: Just read some of the details out that I was

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Speaker 3: talking about. It's called a quote unquote angel flight en

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Speaker 3: route to Mexico. All of the occupants were Mexican nationals.

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Speaker 3: Plane was headed to Tijuana. So still some major stuff.

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Speaker 2: There, but a number of injuries in the areas too,

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Speaker 2: just because of it, which this major urban area, which

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Speaker 2: is you know, between that and then the fact that

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Speaker 2: I had just come on the heels of this horrific

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Speaker 2: crash in DC is why true?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot why everyone's paying attention, I mean rightfully,

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Speaker 3: right yeah, this is the people are on edge.

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Speaker 1: People are afraid to fly.

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Speaker 3: And Donald Trump addressed some of the crash on Thursday,

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Speaker 3: blaming DEI as I'm sure we'll talk about it afterwards.

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Speaker 3: Let's take a listen to what he had to say.

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Speaker 4: You can't have regular people doing that job. They won't

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Speaker 4: be able to do it. But we'll restore faith. American

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Speaker 4: air traveler have more to say about that. I do

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Speaker 4: want to point out that various articles that appeared prior

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Speaker 4: to my entering office. And here's one. The FAA's diversity

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Speaker 4: push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and

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Speaker 4: psychiatric disabilities. That is amazing. And then it says FAA

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Speaker 4: says people with severe disabilities the most underrepresented segment of

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Speaker 4: them they can be air traffic controllers. I don't think so.

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Speaker 5: This was.

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Speaker 4: In January fourteenth, so that was a week before I

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Speaker 4: entered office. They put a big push to put diversity

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Speaker 1: On DEI and the claims that you've made.

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Speaker 6: Are you saying this crash was somehow caused and the

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Speaker 6: result of diversity hiring, and what evidence have you seen

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Speaker 4: It could have been. We have a high standard. We've

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Speaker 4: had a much higher standard than anybody else. And there

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Speaker 4: are things where you have to go by brain power,

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Speaker 4: very powerful tests that we put to use, and they

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Speaker 4: were terminated by Biden, and Biden went by a standard

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Speaker 4: that's the exact opposite.

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Speaker 1: So there we owe from Trump. I was watching it live.

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Speaker 3: I was telling Crystal Wise and I was like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: And they immediately starts pulling out d articles.

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Speaker 3: My personal favorite was a response to that question whenever

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Speaker 1: Like not at this time, we don't, So Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: there we go. That's trump.

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Speaker 3: Let's put some of the details up here on the

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Speaker 3: screen about the crash, because this is what's actually important.

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Speaker 3: Where we are learning a couple of things. Number one

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Speaker 3: the correct height.

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Speaker 1: Now there's various reasons for that.

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Speaker 3: It could be that the screen the air traffic controller

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Speaker 3: two that is currently under investigation. But the most important

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Speaker 3: shortage of staffing in the tower had one person doing

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Speaker 3: that air traffic controller was juggling two jobs at the

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Speaker 3: the plane separated.

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Speaker 1: It does seem crystal that this has.

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Speaker 3: Been going on for years now at Reagan National Airport,

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Speaker 3: that they have had a major shortage in air traffic control,

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Speaker 3: and we have also learned of a previous close call

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Speaker 3: incident between a helicopter and a plane. So unfortunately, just

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Speaker 3: seems like it was a matter of time. Two crowded airport,

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Speaker 3: not a non air traffic control.

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Speaker 1: Again, the helicopter thing, I still can't get over.

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Speaker 3: I have no idea why they are constantly doing helicopter

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Speaker 1: The entire United States. It's crazy.

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Speaker 3: I've been landing there from my entire adult lives, as

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Speaker 3: I moved to Washington, DC when I was eighteen.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even know that was a thing.

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Speaker 3: They suspended the flights luckily, but it just it's like,

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Speaker 3: how much does this happen in all over the country?

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Speaker 2: Completely insane. I had no idea same that this was

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Speaker 2: a thing that happened, and it seems completely insane. A

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Speaker 2: lot of conspiracy theorists are making a lot of the

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Speaker 2: fact that the helicopter, Pete Hegseth, our Secretary of Defense,

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Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth said, was on a continuation of government training mission.

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Speaker 3: But that is a little weird, right, So what is

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Speaker 3: that content? Continuity of government mission?

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Speaker 1: Is it?

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Speaker 3: You know, for what purpose? What were you doing flying

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Speaker 3: in the middle.

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Speaker 6: I'm with you on that one. I'm with you on

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Speaker 6: that one.

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Speaker 2: But the factors that we know, so first of all, nationwide,

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Speaker 2: there's a massive air traffic controller shortage, some three thousand

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Speaker 2: air traffic controllers we are short on. There's an airport

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Speaker 2: in the Bay Area that about to have zero air

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Speaker 6: This is a crisis.

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Speaker 2: Because you can see potentially the results here because what

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Speaker 2: happened at Reagan is that, like you said, Zager, for years,

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Speaker 2: they've been operating in this shorthanded position where one person

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Speaker 2: has been doing the job of two, having to both

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Speaker 2: direct the passenger jets in and also manage the helicopter traffic.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that seems that's insane, but they were only

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Speaker 2: doing it only they shouldn't be doing it at all, okay,

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Speaker 2: but they were forced into this situation for a shortage.

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Speaker 2: They were doing it after nine thirty PM, because that's

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Speaker 2: when the traffic really starts to ease up. On this

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Speaker 2: in the evening, So the crash occurred just before nine pm.

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Speaker 6: This should have been a time when.

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Speaker 2: Typically they would have had two people in, you know,

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Speaker 6: Then you also had, as you.

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Speaker 2: Mentioned, the helicopter flying above its approved path. The fact

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Speaker 2: begin with, but these are some of the factors that

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Speaker 2: go in. The Other thing is, you know, I learned

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Speaker 6: It's closed easy, it's not.

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Speaker 2: That big of an airport facility, so it's very easy

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Speaker 2: the busiest in the country. Then you couple that with

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Speaker 6: That are nearby.

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Speaker 2: So it effectively forces all of the air traffic into

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Speaker 2: But one indication we got is that the screens that

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Speaker 2: term in the helicopter. The black Hawk helicopter was flying

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Speaker 2: were misreading the height. That could have been a factor.

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Speaker 2: But you know, to go back to like Doge and

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Speaker 2: all of this sort of stuff, the air traffic controllers

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Speaker 2: got the same fork in the road email pushing them

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Speaker 2: to retire, as everybody else.

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Speaker 6: In the federal government did.

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Speaker 2: Then there was another like Q and a email that

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Speaker 2: federal government, including air traffic controllers. Hey, now would be

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Speaker 2: the time to take this buy on, go on like

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Speaker 2: the dream vacation. This shows you, right, federal government is

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Speaker 2: not a business. Okay, maybe it made sense a Twitter

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Speaker 2: for Eland to just like acts however whatever eighty percent

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Speaker 6: Et cetera.

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Speaker 2: But I'm sure there are some areas in the federal

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Speaker 2: government where you could definitely trim the staff back and

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Speaker 2: where it wouldn't make that much of a difference and

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Speaker 2: it wouldn't be that impactful.

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Speaker 6: This is not one of them.

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Speaker 2: Right, This is a place where we need to hire

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Speaker 6: All this stuff is like, maybe we should do some

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Speaker 6: more online cooking.

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Speaker 2: It's like, oh Jesus Christ, they're so lost.

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Speaker 3: And they've also they're not ditching their cartoonish identity politics either.

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Speaker 3: There were a lot of great clips coming out. Let's

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Speaker 3: take a listen to one of them.

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Speaker 7: Specify that when we have a gender non binary candidate

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Speaker 7: or officer, the non binary individual is counted as neither

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Speaker 7: male nor female, and the remaining six offices must be

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Speaker 7: gender balanced. With the results of the previous four elections,

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Speaker 7: our elected officers are currently too male and to female.

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Speaker 7: In order to be gender balanced, we must we must

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Speaker 7: elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender.

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Speaker 7: So again, this is what we.

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Speaker 8: Have to do for this vice chair race. We have to.

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Speaker 7: Elect one male, one female, and one person of any gender.

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Speaker 7: To ensure our process accounts for male, female, and non

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Speaker 7: binary candidates, we conferred with our RBC co chair, our

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Speaker 7: LGBT Caucus co Chair, and others to ensure that the

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Speaker 7: process is inclusive and meets the gender balance requirements. In

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Speaker 7: our rules, any candidate male, female, and non binary can

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Speaker 7: be elected on that ballot. After a candidate is elected

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Speaker 7: on the first ballot, we'll have one officer of the three,

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Speaker 7: so we will now so then we will know which

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Speaker 7: position is filled of the one male, one female, and

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Speaker 7: one vice chair of any gender.

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Speaker 6: Oh my god, who is this even for it?

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Speaker 1: So that's where we're got, that's where we're at.

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Speaker 3: And Faz Shakir said, this is the kind of identity

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Speaker 3: politics in fighting that I was urging us against. Focus

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Speaker 3: on fighting against oligarchy through solidarity. He got two votes,

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Speaker 3: so that's the decision. There was a land acknowledgement too

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Speaker 3: with the DNC.

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Speaker 2: So you know, look, you know, folks, I want to

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Speaker 2: give Faz credit even though you know whatever, I don't

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Speaker 2: think he ever had a shot even if he got in,

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Speaker 2: got in early, et cetera. Because this isn't like, you know,

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Speaker 2: a Democratic base alike. This is literally just DNC members.

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Speaker 2: These are I mean, they're not like some of them

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Speaker 2: are insider insiders.

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Speaker 6: Some of them are just like local county chairs.

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Speaker 2: But these are just you know, these are Democratic Party

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Speaker 2: operatives whatever.

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Speaker 6: But he had asked at one of.

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Speaker 2: The forums, you know, do you think we should have

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Speaker 2: a can't remember what identity group caucus? It was maybe

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Speaker 2: a Muslim caucus. I can't I think it was a

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Speaker 2: Muslim caucus. And he was like, no, I think we

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Speaker 2: need to stop doing this like division by identity. I

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Speaker 2: think we need to focus on like class solidarity and

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Speaker 2: delivering for all people. And he gets two votes. We

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Speaker 2: have a DNC vice chair who was elected as well.

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Speaker 2: We can put D four up on the screen, David Hogg,

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Speaker 2: who's you know, gun safety activist. And one thing I

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Speaker 2: will say here to defend David a little bit is

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Speaker 2: at least David understands new media, like at least he

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Speaker 2: knows how to communicate on social media platforms himself.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's of course.

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Speaker 6: To be vice president of the United States.

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Speaker 1: We also became a senator.

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Speaker 2: So I haven't seen the Democrats need more posters on

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Speaker 2: their side.

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Speaker 6: And at least he understands the social media.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, mister David, I can show you, David.

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Speaker 2: He's had more fight in him than like ninety percent

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Speaker 2: of having fight.

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Speaker 3: Okay, having the fight in you is not a skill.

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Speaker 3: Having the fight in you in the right direction is

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Speaker 3: an appropriate skill.

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Speaker 6: Of the right direction.

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Speaker 2: He's been no for real, he he has I agree,

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Speaker 2: the bars on the frickin floor, but at least he

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Speaker 2: has been forceful aggressive. Some of his post election analysis

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Speaker 2: has been correct. He does understand at least the new

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Speaker 2: media landscape.

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Speaker 6: So yeah, it could be worse.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it could be worse.

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Speaker 3: I think they should hire Parker Parker Short, the kid

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Speaker 3: who's been on our show.

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Speaker 6: Oh I love God, that'll be good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: See he's he's the type of person.

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Speaker 3: Hey, David, if you're listening, uh, you should hire Parker Short.

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Speaker 3: That that is an an immediate endorsement as far as

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Speaker 3: that's going to carry from me.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to Tucker Carlson.

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Speaker 3: He had an interesting exchange with Piers Morgan where the

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Speaker 3: topic of Gaza and Israel came up calling out Ben

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Speaker 3: Shapiro on the topic of war.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.

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Speaker 9: If you're intentionally killing civilians, you probably shouldn't beat your

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Speaker 9: chest and brag about it.

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Speaker 8: You know, maybe you could make it agree with that.

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Speaker 9: Maybe you make the case that we had to do

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Speaker 9: it or whatever, but you should you should weep.

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Speaker 8: And that's evil and you should just say it's evil.

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Speaker 9: And I know it's like really threatening to is it evil,

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Speaker 9: Ben Shapiro to say that or whatever?

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Speaker 8: But is it evil to kill civilians on purpose? Yet

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Speaker 8: it is?

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Speaker 9: I think it is kids and children? Well, how is

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Speaker 9: it not? Actually we can call it whatever you want.

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Speaker 9: How is it right to kill women and children?

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Speaker 8: I didn't say, well, because I think there's a moral

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Speaker 8: right behind you. If you are literally to kill women

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Speaker 8: and children, if as a world war that threatens the

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Speaker 8: entire if it threatens the entire world, Yes.

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Speaker 9: Some people killed your kids, like your eight year old

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Speaker 9: children justifiable because actually you have to well, by your cristire,

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Speaker 9: it's disgusting.

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Speaker 8: Okay, it's nothing. So no war is morally justified. I

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Speaker 8: mean I think it's pretty hard to justify.

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Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, you know, a pure defensive action, sure,

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Speaker 9: but all I'm saying, Look, it's all ugly, it's all

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Speaker 9: hard to stomach.

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Speaker 8: I've actually seen some of it up close. Super ugly.

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Speaker 8: You say you hate let me mat Mafo the fact.

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Speaker 9: Justified to intentionally kill noncombatants, women and children. I think

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Speaker 9: we can say that's wrong. In fact, I thought that

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Speaker 9: was the thing we were fighting against.

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Speaker 1: Hmmm, very interesting.

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Speaker 3: This is, of course invited now some serious pushback from

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Speaker 3: the Daily Wire. Let's put this up there on the screen.

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Speaker 3: CEO Jeremy Boring. Anyone still blind to what Tucker is

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Speaker 3: doing is wilfully so.

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Speaker 1: He isn't hiding it.

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Speaker 3: When a man has worse things to say about Winston

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Speaker 3: Churchill and Ben Shapiro.

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Speaker 1: Notice the Churchill and Ben Shapiro.

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Speaker 3: Then Vladimir putin a Nazi apologists.

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Speaker 1: He's making his position pretty clear.

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Speaker 3: Somebody followed up and replied to him saying, Tucker is

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Speaker 3: actually spot on. Any life lost in war is a tragedy.

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Speaker 3: That's what he's trying to express. Jeremy says, that is

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Speaker 3: not what he's trying to express. Tucker is one of

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Speaker 3: the most gifted communicators of his generation. He isn't just

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00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 3: misunderstood and anyway, Yeah, this is just the latest in

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Speaker 3: this break between the two. But I thought it was

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Speaker 3: fascinating to see Peers there. I guess it actually fits

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Speaker 3: with his British heritage. They are the people who really

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Speaker 3: were the original pushers of area bombing otherwise known as

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Speaker 3: strategic sorry the counter true strategic bombing, which is bombing

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Speaker 3: of unch people in World War Two in the middle

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Speaker 3: of the night. They stuck by that position, bomber Harris

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Speaker 3: and their admirals and others. It's something or sorry. They're

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Speaker 3: generals and others. They're very proud of that legacy, and

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00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 3: it seems that that's trickled here into some of these debates.

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Speaker 3: But I think it's fascinating to watch for Peers and

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Speaker 3: others whenever they get pushed on that position, especially with

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Speaker 3: that last thing that he said.

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Speaker 1: He goes, I thought that's what.

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Speaker 3: We were fighting against, and you're like, oh, hold on

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Speaker 3: a second. It's like, well, actually, you know, you can

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Speaker 3: be quote pro Israel or whatever and also just be like, hey,

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Speaker 3: some of the way that this war has been conducted

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Speaker 3: is totally outside of the norms of the way that

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Speaker 3: any modern West in power fights. But that situation, like

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Speaker 3: if you know, you and I have experienced this. If

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Speaker 3: you talk about that, you're really smeared as an anti Semite.

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Speaker 1: It's great. The whole thing is crazy.

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Speaker 2: Well, Pierce has really tried to hold on to this

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Speaker 2: sort of like both sides middle ground in the you know,

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Speaker 2: post October seventh world, and you can see pretty clearly

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Speaker 2: there how that just falls apart, Like at this point,

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Speaker 2: really all of Gaza is destroyed. We have no idea

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Speaker 2: how many people were killed. The majority of them were women,

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Speaker 2: children and the elderly. Like, it's just undeniable at this point.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he says this thing that's so preposterous that

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Speaker 2: like the entire world was threatened.

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Speaker 6: Like, give me a break.

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Speaker 2: What happened on October seventh is the absolute maximal amount

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Speaker 2: that Hummas.

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Speaker 6: Would be able to ever pull off.

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Speaker 2: They were, by a lot of reports, like stunned at

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Speaker 2: what they were able to, you know, the damage they

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Speaker 2: were able to inflict on that day. So the position

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Speaker 2: is just preposterous. I guess what I'll say is it's

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Speaker 2: good Tucker is very influential on the right. It's good

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Speaker 2: that you have a very influential voice on the right

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Speaker 2: who is expressing concern about women and children in Gaza.

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Speaker 2: It would if if I think this is a big if,

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Speaker 2: I think it's unlikely. But we'll say, and we're about

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Speaker 2: to talk to as Israeli journalists from how Rat's talking

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Speaker 2: about the ceasefire deal and what Trump is likely to do,

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Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera, if he were to further buck

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Speaker 2: the like pro Israel hardliners, many of whom are in

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Speaker 2: his own government now by his choice, by the way,

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Speaker 2: and you know, push BB to continue with this ceasefire deal.

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Speaker 2: It's good that there will be people like Tucker that

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Speaker 2: are there to.

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00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:40,479
Speaker 6: Back him up.

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Speaker 2: I just see, you know, it's always irritating to me.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to go after Ben Shapiro for his pro

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00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 2: Israel position, like Trump has already rolled back the restrictions

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Speaker 2: on the use of two thousand pound bombs, rolled back

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00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 2: the restrictions on the you know, the sanctions on the

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00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 2: violent settlers, said we're going to clean that whole thing out,

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00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 2: referencing like ethnic cleansing of all of Gaza, and you

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00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 2: never hear any criticism of him. So, you know, Ben

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Speaker 2: Shapiro is ultimately powerless really in this situation. He's not

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Speaker 2: in government he's not the president, he's not Elon Musk,

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Speaker 2: So you know, I will have a lot more respect

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Speaker 2: if there is actually some criticism that's leveled at the

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Speaker 2: guy who actually has the power in the situation.

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Speaker 3: What I am worried about. Here's the thing right now.

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00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 3: And Tucker did this luckily with my friend Kurt Mills.

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Speaker 1: He did a video.

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Speaker 3: Remember we were talking about the Mike Demino thing and

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00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 3: the attack on him and Steve Witcotck. They did a

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Speaker 3: whole podcast actually defending the two of them. Steve Wikoff

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Speaker 3: is the key. I am the most worried about him.

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Speaker 3: The amount of fire that the Pro Israel lobby and

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Speaker 3: Washington has on him right now is insane. They are

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Speaker 3: trying to smear him as a Katari agent. They're like

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Speaker 3: literally calling which again we're talking about the Pro Israel

658
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Speaker 3: lobby is accusing somebody else of being a foreign.

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Speaker 6: Age sharing water.

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Speaker 1: Shall we talk about do we all want to settle

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Speaker 1: on that. You guys want to talk about foreign influence?

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Speaker 3: Should we start talking about go through your ten ninety

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Speaker 3: nines and you'r ng o's and who's uh, who's donating

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Speaker 3: to all of you? If you guys want to play

665
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 3: that game. We can play that game.

666
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: But that's that.

667
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 3: And then Mike Demino other Mark Levin literally called him

668
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 3: a creep. I think he called an anti semi creep

669
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 3: Mike Demino for saying that we should not want to

670
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 3: go to war with Iran. That's what it is as currently,

671
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 3: the state of things, where things fall.

672
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: I have no idea.

673
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, my hope hope is that because wick Cough and

674
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 3: Trump are such old buddies, Trump will hopefully not let

675
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 3: you know, Net and Yahoo and his government sway him

676
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 3: to fire Witcough.

677
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: But let's all be honest.

678
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 3: You know about Miriam Adelson is there, She's give him

679
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 3: a hundred You know, she didn't give you one hundred.

680
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: Million for free.

681
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 3: There's a lot of people who are in this government

682
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 3: right now who have the ear of the pret Marco Rubio,

683
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 3: I mean, look at all the stuff that the guys

684
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 3: said previously about Israel. Mike Waltz, the stuff that he

685
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 3: said previously, hegseeth exactly.

686
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 2: Stephan, I mean her position is not that important, but

687
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 2: the whole reason she got the position is because of

688
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 2: her crazy like mccarthyites, smears of propound el Teime demonstrators.

689
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: Oh, it's de Finnic. Yes, it's fine.

690
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 5: Yeah.

691
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 6: And Mike Kakabe is the ambassador Israel.

692
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 2: I mean that you could not find a more psycho

693
00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 2: like End Times Israel, no matter what kind of a guy.

694
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 6: So there's a lot there.

695
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 8: Yeah.

696
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. I am not optimistic that any of

697
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: this will happen.

698
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 3: We're about to talk with this Israeli journalists about the

699
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 3: sy op and all those but in general, it is

700
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 3: good at least that somebody is calling some of this

701
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 3: stuff out. I really truly hope so, because if not,

702
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 3: we all know what the path of that looks like,

703
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 3: basically the Biden path with even more just open and

704
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 3: pro support, which I don't think is good for any

705
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 3: of us. Let's get to the Israeli journalists who's going

706
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 3: to talk to us about net Yahoo and Gaza.

707
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 2: We are very fortunate to be joined this morning by

708
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Speaker 2: a journalist for Haretzi Israeli newspapers reporting. By the way,

709
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 2: we have relied on quite a bed throughout the coverage

710
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 2: post October seventh, Amir t Bone.

711
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Speaker 6: He is also the author of a book called The

712
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 6: Gates of Gaza. Great to see you, Amir, Good to

713
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 6: see you, Hi.

714
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me.

715
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's our pleasure. Let's go and put your reporting

716
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 2: here up on the screen. Prime Minister Natya who is

717
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 2: traveling to the US. He will be the first foreign

718
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,959
Speaker 2: leader to visit Trump in his new term. And your

719
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 2: headline here is Natnya who comes to Washington to kill

720
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 2: Trump's Gaza deal?

721
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 6: Will the President let him?

722
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: So?

723
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Speaker 2: What have you been able to learn about the dynamics

724
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 2: between Trump and BB in advance of this meeting.

725
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 5: Well, it's clear that President Trump picks great pride in

726
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 5: getting the Gaza cease fire that the previous president failed

727
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 5: to achieve for more than a year. And President Trump

728
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 5: secured a ceasefire in hostage release deal even before entering

729
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 5: the White House. He and his special envoice, Steve Whitcock,

730
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 5: who has earned a lot of respect here in Israel,

731
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 5: did a lot of hard work to get this deal.

732
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 5: But this deal is built in a very very sophisticated,

733
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 5: perhaps too sophisticated, of away. And a month from today

734
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 5: it is supposed to move from the first phase of

735
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,760
Speaker 5: the deal, during which Mass is supposed to release thirty

736
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 5: three of our hostages. We've already released more than ten.

737
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 5: We are waiting for more and more of the hostages

738
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 5: to arrive. But then we're supposed to move into phase two,

739
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 5: during which all the remaining living hostages, more than twenty

740
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 5: of them, including two personal friends of mine, are supposed

741
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,399
Speaker 5: to be released and Israel is supposed to complete its

742
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 5: withdrawal from Gaza. And this phase of the deal threatens

743
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 5: the survival of Nataniao's governing coalition, which relies on several

744
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 5: extremist fanatic parties that are threatening to blow up the

745
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 5: governing coalition and basically end Nathaniel's hold on power if.

746
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 8: He goes through.

747
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 5: So he's caught in a situation where on the one hand,

748
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,399
Speaker 5: there is the survival of his coalition, on the other hand,

749
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 5: the survival of the hostages, and smack in the middle

750
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 5: is President Trump, who wants the still to continue and

751
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 5: wants it to be the basis for a broader Middle

752
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 5: East agenda centered around Israeli Saudi peace that really, first

753
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 5: of all, requires an end to the war in Gaza.

754
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 3: So, Amir, can you pair this with some comments you've

755
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 3: reported on there that Trump had floated. For example, He's like, oh, well,

756
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 3: maybe the Palestinians can temporarily go to Jordan or Egypt.

757
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 3: And I believe since that comment the governments of all

758
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 3: of those countries have come forward and said that's an

759
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 3: absolute non starter. So in terms of the fork in

760
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,760
Speaker 3: the road, I guess, if you will, for the actual

761
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 3: decisions that the Trump administration has to make, they have

762
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 3: to decide whether Steve Witkoff and others will continue negotiations

763
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 3: and push for a Phase two or to support a

764
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,720
Speaker 3: continuation of the war in Gaza.

765
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: Are there any other options on the table? Realistically?

766
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 5: I think the idea that Trump floated that some of

767
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 5: the Palestinians in Gaza will, from my understanding, temporarily seek

768
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 5: residence in a neighboring country until all the destruction in

769
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 5: Gaza can be removed and new housing can be built.

770
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 5: And the reconstruction in Gaza from this war is going

771
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 5: to take years. This is a very difficult situation. That's

772
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 5: obviously a suggestion that none of the neighboring Arab countries

773
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 5: like Egypt and Jordan, are willing to hear about right now.

774
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 5: But if it is presented as part of a package

775
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 5: that ends the war, that moves us toward Palestinian statehood,

776
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 5: that includes guarantees that all of these people will be

777
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 5: able to return to Gaza. No Israeli settlements built in

778
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 5: Gaza completely is rarely Withdrew. Maybe then it will sound

779
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 5: different when he just sends it on the plane, and

780
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 5: you know, with some reporters who don't really know the

781
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 5: nuance of this issue, and to be frank, I'm not

782
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 5: sure he knows all the nuance at this point. Either

783
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 5: he comes and says, oh, we want them to move

784
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 5: to Egypt. So of course everybody's rising up and saying,

785
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 5: no way we're going to accept that. The Egyptians, the Jordanians,

786
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 5: the Palestinians, we saw over the weekend, the CDs and

787
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 5: the poweries, you know, very important countries in this whole

788
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 5: process also coming out against it. So I think if

789
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 5: Trump has a real idea here that he wants to

790
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 5: sell to the relevant art countries, it needs to be

791
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 5: part of a broader package, and it needs to be

792
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 5: explained as part of a move to end the war,

793
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 5: reconstruct Gaza, and put us on a path to Palestinian statehood,

794
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 5: which is supposed to be part of this brand Israeli Saudi.

795
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 8: Deal that he's trying to take.

796
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,879
Speaker 5: So there's a lot of diplomatic ideas floating around right now,

797
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 5: and I think we should bread every statement we hear

798
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 5: with a bit of caution at this moment.

799
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can put up two up on the screen,

800
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 2: which you know, underscores what you all were saying that

801
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:52,479
Speaker 2: there was a widespread rejection from Saudi Arabia, UAA, Cutar, Egypt, Jordan,

802
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 2: and Palestinian Authority and the Arab League all said in

803
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 2: a joint statement they oppose President Trump's plan to move

804
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:03,399
Speaker 2: Palestinians from Gaza under any excuse the language, of course

805
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 2: that he used, saying we need to quote clean that

806
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 2: whole thing out, something along those lines.

807
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,839
Speaker 5: That's like real estate language. That's not diplomatic.

808
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 2: Language, right, Well, I mean it's ethnic cleansing language, is

809
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 2: effectively what it is. And how could anybody given that

810
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 2: you have within you know, THENT Nyaho Coalition, NET Nyaho himself,

811
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 2: these extremists who are quite open about we want to

812
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 2: push out the Palestinians, we want to completely settle and

813
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 2: take over not just Gaza but also the West Bank,

814
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 2: how could you ever have any assurance that this wasn't just,

815
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 2: you know, an attempt at a final complete ethnic cleansing

816
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 2: of both Gaza and the West Bank.

817
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 5: I think one of the things President Trump is going

818
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 5: to learn as he navigates this issue is that the

819
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 5: current coalition in Israel is not going to make his

820
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 5: life easier in any way, because that's just the example

821
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,800
Speaker 5: you gave now. Where an idea that to be presented

822
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 5: with the right language, with the right assurances, with the

823
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 5: right funding, as a temporary solution that allows to rebuild

824
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 5: Gaza and then prepare beggers housing for all the people

825
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,919
Speaker 5: who lost their homes in this war, and we're thinking

826
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 5: about hundreds of thousands, potentially more than a million people

827
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 5: who lost their homes. That kind of plan will immediately

828
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 5: run into a wall of suspicion because it is being

829
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 5: associated with people like Betzellar's Mootridge, the far right finance

830
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 5: minister of the current Natanial government, who is openly celebrating

831
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 5: the idea of emptying Galazza from its residents. And once

832
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 5: he makes that kind of statement, then automatically you're going

833
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 5: to see all of the relevant Arab countries coming and

834
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 5: saying we want nothing to do with it. And Smotridge

835
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 5: is right now pressuring NATANIAO. You know, as we're speaking,

836
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 5: he put out a statement that if NATANIAU agrees to

837
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 5: end the war so that we can go into phase

838
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 5: two of the hostage negotiations and save the remaining hostages.

839
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 5: He's blowing up the government. It's important to understand that

840
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 5: for the hostage families in Israel, and I know many

841
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 5: of them personally, and you know I'm talking here about

842
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 5: friends of mine and their families, they see President Trump

843
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 5: and Stephen Wickock as their last source of hope, literally

844
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 5: literally the light at the end of the tunnel, because

845
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 5: we know some of these hostages are being held in

846
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 5: inhumane conditions in tunnels underground, being starved, being tortured. And

847
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 5: then comes President Trump and Stepping Whitkof and they put

848
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 5: together this deal that says, within three phases, all the

849
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 5: hostages are released, the war ends, Israel withdraws from Gaza.

850
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:40,919
Speaker 8: And this is over.

851
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 5: And instead of saying, well, okay, this is the way

852
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 5: to do it, now, we're seeing politicians from within our

853
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 5: government pressuring Natanielle to say no, and not only that,

854
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:55,959
Speaker 5: to try to convince Trump himself to disregard the deal

855
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 5: that he was so proud of just two weeks ago

856
00:40:58,719 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 5: when he entered office.

857
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 3: So, Amir, this is my big question then is if

858
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 3: does Trump have the political ability Steve Wikoff and others

859
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 3: so well, by the way, I'm not sure if you're aware,

860
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 3: I'm under major attack in our country.

861
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 1: Also, people who are aligned with the.

862
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 3: With the is really far right, Well, do they have

863
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 3: the ability to force any of that, because, as you said,

864
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 3: if the government falls, there's no guarantee what comes next.

865
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 3: What does that scenario look like or is there some

866
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 3: thread the needle scenario where Trump does force Nataiaou to

867
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 3: take this deal, continue the Steve wid Cooff and other

868
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 3: negotiations that does not lead to the falling of the government,

869
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:38,320
Speaker 3: or is that just simply inevitable.

870
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 5: So I think President Trump is surrounded by a lot

871
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 5: of people who are blind admirers of Nataniel and are

872
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:51,800
Speaker 5: perhaps not giving the president the best advice possible. For example,

873
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 5: Netaniao and his right hand man Ron Dermer will probably

874
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 5: tell President Trump that can't follow through with the feasefire

875
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 5: because the government will fall apart, and that this is

876
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 5: bad for Trump because it will cause a stalemate in

877
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 5: the Middle East. But if you actually check very simple

878
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,720
Speaker 5: press statements being made out in the open in Israel,

879
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 5: you will see that the leaders of the important opposition

880
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 5: parties today today, not a month ago, came out and

881
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 5: said that if Natanieu loses his majority because of the

882
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,879
Speaker 5: hostage deal, because of the ceasefire, they will give him

883
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 5: temporary support for at least several months so that he

884
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 5: doesn't lose power and the hostage and ceasefire deal collapses. Wow,

885
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 5: which means that any other claim is a lie. Now,

886
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 5: Nataniel prefers the far right coalition that is against the

887
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 5: hostage deal because that gives him the potential to hold

888
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 5: power for another two years. That's why he prefers it.

889
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 5: But from President Trump's point of view, he should know

890
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 5: that if Nataniel comes and said I can't do this

891
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 5: still for political reasons, that's not true. He will get

892
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,240
Speaker 5: a few months of support from the opposition to complete

893
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 5: the hostage release and cease fire deal. Because for the

894
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 5: vast majority of Israelis, the release of the hostages is

895
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 5: today the number one priority. This is something that unites

896
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 5: a huge percentage of the population. We want to see

897
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 5: them come back home and end this night. Now, I

898
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,680
Speaker 5: don't know if there will be enough people around President

899
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 5: Trump who are strong enough and knowledgeable enough about our

900
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 5: internal politics to present the facts to him in a

901
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 5: way that overcomes the spin and the excuses that he

902
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 5: will hear from Nataniel. But I'm confident that if President

903
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:38,879
Speaker 5: Trump insists on this, we will see the deal come through.

904
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 5: There will be ceasefire, the hostages will return, and Nathaniel

905
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 5: will find a way to manage it politically with the

906
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 5: opposition parties here in Israel.

907
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 2: He seems to always find a way to survive, if

908
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 2: one way or another. I mean, thank you so much

909
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 2: for your analysis today.

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00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 1: Thank you Mary, very helpful.

911
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me, It's our pleasure.

912
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 3: Thank you guys so much for watching. Well, a great

913
00:43:58,040 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 3: jow for everybody tomorrow and we'll see you all then.

914
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 4: But speak, speak to