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Speaker 1: dear Team Gully, and I want to address this morning's

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Speaker 2: Now, that's what they said.

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Speaker 1: Whether this is because the gravy train has been turned

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Speaker 1: Politico, which is a like quote legitimate news company quote unquote,

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Speaker 1: going to Politico. Now, let's go back to one of

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Speaker 1: You remember that company named Meta, You know, the company

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Speaker 5: President Trump, we've learned has signed an agreement with Meta

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Speaker 1: By the way, can we just pause and just celebrate

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Speaker 1: the fact that the Trump Presidential Library is an essence

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Speaker 1: Find more things like common cause with Hamas and some

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Speaker 1: of these folks in the region that are responsible for

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Speaker 1: the October seventh attack. If you recall this last summer,

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Speaker 1: the last time Prime Minster Netya, who was in the Capitol,

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Speaker 1: there were a lot of Democrats, including the Vice Vice

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Speaker 1: President Harry, who boycotted his appearance.

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Speaker 2: This time.

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Speaker 1: The Prime Minister's visit follows the Democrats vote last week

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Speaker 1: to prop an illegitimate court, the ICC up because Democrats

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Speaker 1: didn't want to defend Israel's sovereignty or American troops have

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Speaker 1: been targeted by the ICC in the past. So if

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Speaker 1: and when they decide that they want to take real

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Speaker 1: action to protect our allies and prevent future targeting of

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Speaker 1: American citizens, we're here for that.

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Speaker 2: Then went on to say, but.

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Speaker 1: Until then, we're going to continue to do everything we

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Speaker 1: I think tomorrow that will be revisited in the meeting

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Speaker 1: with the Prime Minister. Now, President Trump back in the

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Speaker 1: White House has made it clear that there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of Middle Eastern leaders from across the region that

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Speaker 1: are hopeful there is a pathway to peace. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: has said he wants there to be peace. Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: as we saw it in his first term through things

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Speaker 1: like the Abraham Accords, this is an individual that doesn't

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Speaker 1: like war. This is the guy who says, I'm also

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Speaker 1: fighting very hard to end the war between Ukraine and Russia.

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Speaker 1: And so when you look at what the president is

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Speaker 1: actually trying to do, I think it's pretty darn clear.

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Speaker 1: There's also something else that was said in this interview,

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Speaker 1: and Thune put it this way. He said, quote, of course,

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Speaker 1: Abraham Accords, negotiated by President Trump in his first term,

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Speaker 1: were historic in terms of some of the relationships they

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Speaker 1: built out in the region of the world. I think

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Speaker 1: my focus in this visit is in being a reliable,

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Speaker 1: unwavering partner too, and a friend of Israel, something that

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Speaker 1: they did not have clearly in the last administration. He

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Speaker 1: went on to say, we want to talk about getting

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Speaker 1: all the hostages home and how we support Israel as

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Speaker 1: it works to end once and for all the threats

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Speaker 1: from hamas Hesblah and the hoodies. He went on to

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Speaker 1: say that Iran and its shadow of terror government in

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Speaker 1: the region is another problem, and we've got to make

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Speaker 1: sure they can't expand we've got to make sure we

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Speaker 1: expand on the historic success of the Abraham Accords to

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Speaker 1: try to create a safer and more prosperous future in

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Speaker 1: that region. So he said this is what they're going

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Speaker 1: to be talking about now. To be clear, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of senators on Thursday that are going to be

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Speaker 1: meeting with net Yahoo. Many of them are also going

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Speaker 1: to have we not many, a few that I know

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Speaker 1: personally are going to be even having one on one

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Speaker 1: meetings with net Yahoo. And this is I think a

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Speaker 1: very big turning point in America's foreign policy. What we're

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Speaker 1: going to see here and what we're witnessing is when

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Speaker 1: you let Israel hang out to dry the way that

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Speaker 1: the last administration did for four years, and then you

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Speaker 1: see what happened on October the seventh, and then you

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Speaker 1: see the Democratic Party still not backing Israel, our most

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Speaker 1: important ally in the region. There is going to have

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Speaker 1: to be something that changes moving forward. There is going

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Speaker 1: to be something that has to change for them to

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Speaker 1: know that, look, A, we trust America again. B. We

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Speaker 1: know you stand with us and not against us, which

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Speaker 1: is what the last administration was doing. And so this

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Speaker 1: is I think a clear message of the world from

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Speaker 1: and this Trump administration. Do not screw with our ally

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Speaker 1: because we have their back. We are not gonna let

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Speaker 1: them be out there by themselves. The last administration did

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Speaker 1: that we're not. So you mess with Israel, you're messing

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Speaker 1: with America. I think that's part of the messaging we're

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Speaker 1: seeing here, and it's an important one. The second one

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Speaker 1: is we absolutely want there to be piece in the

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Speaker 1: Middle least, and we're gonna work for that. We know

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Speaker 1: there's gonna need to be rebuilding and we're gonna help

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Speaker 1: brok those deals. Is Amir gonna pay the whole bill

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Speaker 1: or part of the bill or a large part of

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Speaker 1: the bill. Probably not, But we're willing to sit down

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Speaker 1: and say for others in the region, like you need

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Speaker 1: to step up. This is your next door neighbor, this

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Speaker 1: is your uh, this is an area that you need

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Speaker 1: to be rebuilt. And unfortunately, the terrorists did this to themselves,

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Speaker 1: and many of the people that support the terrorists did

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Speaker 1: this to themselves. They lost their homes because they stood

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Speaker 1: with the terrorists. And that is also a reality of

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Speaker 1: the situation. But these meetings and standing there with Netanyahu

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Speaker 1: and the way that the President talked with them in

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Speaker 1: the joint press conference and talking about a hope in

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Speaker 1: the future where there's peace, that's something everybody should be

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Speaker 1: excited about, Like everyone should be fired up for that

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Speaker 1: they should be excited. I also think Netnahoo coming here

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Speaker 1: so quickly and being the first foreign leader to sit

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Speaker 1: down in this way with Donald Trump was no accident.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump and netnaw who knew this needed to be

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Speaker 1: the first one. It needed to be a clear change

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Speaker 1: in America's foreign policy, a new warning to the rest

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Speaker 1: of the world. And also I think it's a very

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Speaker 1: clear message to the anti Semitic individuals in Congress that

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Speaker 1: your time being in the majority is over. Now shut

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Speaker 1: up and sit down at the back of the room.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to do that, Okay. I

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Speaker 1: think they're going to still be anti Semiticas they've always been.

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Speaker 1: I think the Squad's going to be anti Semitica as

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Speaker 1: they've always been. They'll probably get louder, and I think

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Speaker 1: you're going to have a lot of protesters on college

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Speaker 1: campuses that are going to stand with the terrorists and

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Speaker 1: stand against America against Israel. That's gonna happen, but there

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Speaker 1: may be real consequences for those actions.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: There wasn't before, but there's probably gonna be real consequences

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Speaker 1: moving forward. We're going to cover it all every day

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