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Speaker 3: President Trump is joining us live now from Florida.

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Speaker 1: I'm David Brody, I'm Terrence.

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Speaker 3: Breaking news from Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 5: We begin this morning with breaking news. Welcome to American

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Speaker 5: Sunrise everyone. I'm Terrence, Babs, Doctor Gene and David Brody

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Speaker 5: will join us shortly. However, at the moment, we are

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Speaker 5: waiting at press conference involving Secretary of Defense Pete Haigseth.

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Speaker 5: We're also hearing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Speaker 5: We'll be on hand for this news conference. Here's alive.

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Speaker 5: Look at the podiums again. We're expecting both men to

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Speaker 5: take the podium at any moment.

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Speaker 3: The goal of.

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Speaker 5: This presser is to provide irrefutable proof of the damage

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Speaker 5: done toward Ron's nuclear sites and to clarify some of

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Speaker 5: the details of the bombings that were reported incorrectly by

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Speaker 5: both The New York Times and CNN. President Trump claims

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Speaker 5: the pilots who flew the B two bombers are upset

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Speaker 5: that their hard work is being minimized by the mainstream media.

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Speaker 5: It is something the President, Secretary of Defense and Secretary

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Speaker 5: of State addressed on Tuesday before leaving the NATO summit

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Speaker 5: in the Hague, Netherlands. Again, we are waiting for the

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Speaker 5: principles to take the podium. When that happens, will take

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Speaker 5: you there live. In the meantime, let's bring in David

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Speaker 5: and Washington DC doctor Gina in West Palm Beach to

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Speaker 5: discuss this as we wait for the Secretary of Defense

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Speaker 5: to take the podium. This is a really big deal

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Speaker 5: and it's something David that has really perturbed the administration,

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Speaker 5: the coverage of this issue, but also the fact that

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Speaker 5: there was a leak of what should be classified information

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Speaker 5: about the bombing and the impact thereof.

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Speaker 1: That's right, and they think it's coming from the Democrats.

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Speaker 4: What a shock, and so that in other words, a

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Speaker 4: Democrat somewhere in Congress or potentially somewhere else leaking this

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Speaker 4: information out, and so therefore they are clamping down t bates.

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Speaker 1: They are saying, you know what, we're.

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Speaker 4: Going to limit the amount of intelligence now that we

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Speaker 4: provide Democrats in Congress, Democrats are as you might imagine,

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Speaker 4: are up in arms.

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Speaker 1: So that's kind of the story going forward here, Doctor.

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Speaker 6: G Yeah, I think it's bigger than this.

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Speaker 7: Though not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but let's

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Speaker 7: not forget the powers that be. This is not just

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Speaker 7: the Democrats. This is about the entire establishment, the entire

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Speaker 7: military industrial complex, wanting to engage us in a war.

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Speaker 7: If they can get us in a war under President Trump,

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Speaker 7: they know they win.

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Speaker 6: And that's what this is really about.

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Speaker 7: And I take a short exception with my very highly

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Speaker 7: esteemed and beloved colleague David Brodie, who says, look, there

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Speaker 7: will never be boots on the ground. That's what they want.

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Speaker 7: They want boots on the ground, make no mistake about it.

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Speaker 7: They want to cause so many problems that we end

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, David, don't get me wrong. There's no doubt

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Speaker 1: they want boots on the ground, and there's no doubt

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Speaker 1: they want nation building. But that wasn't what I was

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Speaker 1: saying saying.

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Speaker 6: President Trump for that right.

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Speaker 4: President Trump will never do that unless.

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Speaker 7: They back him into it. And that's what they're trying

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Speaker 7: to do. I just want people to see this.

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Speaker 1: Good point.

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Speaker 6: Yes, good, thank you.

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Speaker 5: So look, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I do want

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Speaker 5: to bring in our rav White House Chief White House Correspondent,

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Speaker 5: Brian Glen. He's outside the White House as we continue

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Speaker 5: so we can continue to monitor that. So, Brian, what's

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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, we're on standby for that as well.

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Speaker 3: Good morning.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Brian, I'm sorry we're gonna interrupt you now shown

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Speaker 3: He could you see, mister chairman where there was a

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Speaker 3: historic outcome. I want to start with that real quick.

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Speaker 3: I think there's so much news, so many things happening,

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Speaker 3: that oftentimes big momentous moments get missed. What President Trump

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Speaker 3: accomplished in NATO yesterday was game changing and historic. A

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Speaker 3: second term, we've accelerated that. Thirty two NATO countries committed

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Speaker 3: all the ink spilled, all of your outlets find the

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Speaker 3: time to properly recognize this historic change in continental security

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Speaker 3: that other presidents tried to do, other presidents talked about.

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Speaker 3: President Trump accomplished it. It's a huge deal. I see,

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Speaker 3: we're here this morning because in hunting for scandals all

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Speaker 3: the time, in trying to find wedges and spin stories,

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Speaker 3: this press corps and the press corps miss historic moments.

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Speaker 3: You miss historic moments like five percent at NATO, which

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Speaker 3: you heard the prime ministers and presidents of other countries

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Speaker 3: to a man and to a woman looking at President

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Speaker 3: Trump and saying this never could have happened, never would

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Speaker 3: have happened. Seemed impossible five years ago, two years ago,

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Speaker 3: eight years ago. But here we are because of your leadership.

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Speaker 3: If you ask them the question, I bet they'd say

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Speaker 3: the same thing. But searching for scandals, you miss historic

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Speaker 3: moments like recruiting at the Pentagon historic levels, and the Army,

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Speaker 3: to him as commander in chief, the press corps doesn't

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Speaker 3: want to write about him or bring us to the

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Speaker 3: topic of the moment and the highly successful strikes in Iran.

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Speaker 3: Let me read the bottom line here. President Trump directed

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Speaker 3: the most complex and secretive military operation in history, and

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Speaker 3: it was a resounding success, resulting in a ceasefire agreement

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Speaker 3: a lot of discussions about what happened to what didn't happen.

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Speaker 3: Step back for a second. Because of decisive military action,

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Speaker 3: President Trump created the conditions to end the war, decimating

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Speaker 3: choose your word, obliterating, destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities. I want

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Speaker 3: to read some of the assessments that have been provided

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Speaker 3: York Times. There's been fawning coverage of a preliminary assessment.

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Speaker 3: at it right now again. It was preliminary a day

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Speaker 3: points out that it's not been coordinated with the intelligence

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Speaker 3: it says in the report. There are gaps in the information.

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Speaker 3: It says in the report. Multiple lynchpin assumptions are what

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Speaker 3: this assessment a lynchpin assumption. You know what that is.

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Speaker 3: It means your entire premise is predicated on a lynch pin.

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Speaker 3: If you're wrong, everything else is wrong. And yet still

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Speaker 3: this report acknowledges it's likely severe damage. Again, this is preliminary,

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Speaker 3: strike I wasn't successful. I'm gonna get to the chairman

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Speaker 3: in a moment, because he's going to lay out the

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Speaker 3: here's what other folks are saying. The DiiA that put

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Speaker 3: that report out says, this is a preliminary low confidence

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Speaker 3: becomes available. How about the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission. The

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Speaker 3: devastating US strikes on Fourdeaux destroyed the site's critical infrastructure

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Speaker 3: and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. Have any of these

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Speaker 3: about this one? This is a new one from the UN.

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Speaker 3: The United Nations no friend of the United States or

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Speaker 3: Here's the head of the UN Atomic Energy Agency this morning,

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Speaker 3: Raphael Grossi. US and Israeli strikes caused enorman damage to

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Speaker 3: Iran's nuclear sites. Don't take my word for it. How

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Speaker 3: that the assessment is that we significantly damage the nuclear program,

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Speaker 3: setting it back by years, I repeat years. The Iranian

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Speaker 3: damaged that's for sure. I'm sure that's an understatement. John Radcliffe,

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Speaker 3: intelligence indicates Iran's nuclear program has been severely damaged by

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Speaker 3: recent targeted strikes. This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable,

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Speaker 3: very different than preliminary assessment with low confidence. He's saying,

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Speaker 3: How about DNA Telsea Gabbard Yesterday, she writes, and I

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Speaker 3: Iran's nuclear facilities have been destroyed. Institute for Science and

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Speaker 3: those that see, those that do proper assessments recognize that

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Speaker 3: what the United States military did was historic and again

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Speaker 3: I mean specifically you the press, specifically you the press core,

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Speaker 3: because you cheer against Trump so hard it's like in

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Speaker 3: you want him not to be successful so bad. You

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Speaker 3: cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public mind over

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Speaker 3: whether or not are brave pilots were successful. How many

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Speaker 3: stories have been written about how hard it is to,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, fly a plane for thirty six hours.

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Speaker 3: Has MSNBC done that story, as Fox? Have we done

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Speaker 3: the story how hard that is? Have we done it

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Speaker 3: it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible, and folks in this room

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Speaker 9: you should know that we know what the dimensions of

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Speaker 9: those concrete caps were. The planners had to account for this.

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Speaker 9: They accounted for everything. The cap was forcibly removed by

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Speaker 9: the first weapon and the main shaft was uncovered. Weapons two, three,

443
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Speaker 9: four five were tasked to enter the main shaft, move

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Speaker 9: down into the complex at greater than one thousand feet

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Speaker 9: per second, and explode in the mission space. Weapon number

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Speaker 9: six was designed on each side, so there were six

447
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Speaker 9: on each side. Weapons number six was designed as a

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Speaker 9: flex weapon to allow us to cover if one of

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Speaker 9: the preceding jets or one of the preceding weapons.

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Speaker 8: Did not work.

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Speaker 9: The video I'm about to show you is a culmination

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Speaker 9: of over fifteen years of development and testing. As I said,

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Speaker 9: hundreds of test shots on various models. This is one weapon,

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Speaker 9: So if you take a view of this is five additionals,

455
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Speaker 9: you'll get a sense of what this looks like. Hopefully

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Speaker 9: you can see it and there's not too much reflection.

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Speaker 9: Tom runs our videos out there. We'll run it at

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Speaker 9: full speed so you can see it and then go

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Speaker 9: back through it.

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Speaker 10: Go ahead, Tom, keep it.

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Speaker 8: Going for a minute.

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Speaker 10: You'll see inside the mission space.

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Speaker 9: Unlike a normal surface bomb, you won't see an impact

464
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Speaker 9: crater because they're designed to deeply bury and then function.

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Speaker 9: I know there's been a lot of questions about that.

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Speaker 9: All six weapons at each vent at four doh went

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Speaker 9: exactly where they were intended to go. A bomb has

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Speaker 9: three effects that causes damage, blast, fragmentation, and overpressure. In

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Speaker 9: this case, the primary kill mechanism in the mission space

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Speaker 9: was a mix of overpressure and blast ripping through the

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Speaker 9: open tunnels and destroying critical hardware. The majority of the

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Speaker 9: damage we assessed based on our extensive modeling was a

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Speaker 9: blast layer combined with the impulse extending from the shock.

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Speaker 9: Imagine what this looks like six times over. A point

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Speaker 9: that I want to make here. The Joint Force does

476
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Speaker 9: not do BDA by design. We don't grade our own homework.

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Speaker 9: The intelligence community does. But here's what we know following

478
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Speaker 9: the attacks and the strikes on four DAH. First that

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Speaker 9: the weapons were built, tested and loaded properly. Two, the

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Speaker 9: weapons were released on speed and on parameters. Three, the

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Speaker 9: weapons all guided to their intended targets and to their

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Speaker 9: intended aim points. For the weapons functioned as design, meaning

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Speaker 9: they exploded. We know this through other means, intelligence means

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Speaker 9: that we have that were visibly We were visibly able

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Speaker 9: to see them, and we know that the trailing jets

486
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Speaker 9: saw the first weapons function and the pilots stated, quote this,

487
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Speaker 9: this was the brightest explosion that I've ever seen. It

488
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Speaker 9: literally looked like daylight. Let me now turn to the

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Speaker 9: bomber crews themselves, give you a few details about them.

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Speaker 9: The crews that attacked Fordeaux were from the Active duty

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Speaker 9: Air Force and the Missouri Air National Guard. The crews

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Speaker 9: ranked from captain to colonel, and most were graduates of

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Speaker 9: the Air Force Weapon School, headquartered at Nellis Air Force

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Speaker 9: Base in Nevada. I will state for the record that

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Speaker 9: there is no beach, volleyball, or football at the Air

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Speaker 9: Force Weapon School. They were male and female aviators on

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Speaker 9: this mission, and a crew member told me when I

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Speaker 9: talked to them on video the other day that this

499
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Speaker 9: felt like the Super Bowl, the thousands of scientists, airmen

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Speaker 9: and maintainers all coming together.

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Speaker 8: One last story about people.

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Speaker 9: When the crews went to work on Friday, they kissed

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Speaker 9: their loved ones goodbye, not knowing when or if they'd

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Speaker 9: be home. Late on Saturday night, their families became aware

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Speaker 9: of what was happening, and on Sunday, when those jets

506
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Speaker 9: return from White Men, their families were there, flags flying

507
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Speaker 9: and tears flowing. I have chills literally talking about this.

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Speaker 9: The jets rejoined into a formation of four airplanes, followed

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Speaker 9: by a formation of three, and came up overhead white Men,

510
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Speaker 9: proudly in the traffic pattern, pitching out to land right

511
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Speaker 9: over the base and landing to the incredible cheers of

512
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Speaker 9: their families who sacrifice and serve right alongside their family members.

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Speaker 9: Like I said, there were a lot of flags and

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Speaker 9: a lot of tears. One commander told me, this is

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Speaker 9: a moment in the lives of our families that they

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Speaker 9: will never forget. That, my friends, is what America's Joint

517
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 9: Force does. We think, we develop, we train, we rehearse,

518
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 9: we test, we evaluate every single day, and when the

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Speaker 9: call comes to delay, we do so. I could not

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00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 9: be more proud standing up here today of our joint Force.

521
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Speaker 9: I'm filled with gratitude that I get to tell their story.

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Speaker 9: And as we stand here right now, our forces remain

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Speaker 9: on a high state of readiness in the region, prepared

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Speaker 9: to defend themselves. And one last thing, our adversaries around

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Speaker 9: the world should know that there are other DITRIC Team

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Speaker 9: members out there studying targets for the same amount of

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Speaker 9: time and we'll continue to do so. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 9: I apologize for the length I look forward to your questions.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, mister Chairman. I would just thank you, by

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Speaker 3: the way for that extensive work, the lay down, I

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Speaker 3: mean even you have that laser pointer. Okay, yes, sir,

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Speaker 3: thank you scaring me away as always. I mean even

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Speaker 3: in just the public reporting, if you see the post

534
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Speaker 3: striped shaft of the three holes, the vast majority, and

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Speaker 3: fairly so, the vast majority speculation has been those are

536
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Speaker 3: the three strike points, when in actuality, what you realize

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Speaker 3: is these are the events. These are the caps. The

538
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Speaker 3: first munition took the cap off, and the other five

539
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Speaker 3: went down the center hole, which if you're planning the target,

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Speaker 3: you would want it to be the direct one going

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Speaker 3: to the bottom. These are the types of things that

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Speaker 3: go into the planning for a strike that we wouldn't

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Speaker 3: the Pentagon would not expect, the press corps, the American

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Speaker 3: people that initially understand. So laying this information out is helpful,

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Speaker 3: but it's also why we asked for a beat, for

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Speaker 3: a moment, for a day or two, the opportunity to

547
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Speaker 3: tell that story, because, as the chairman said, these men

548
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Speaker 3: and women that did this mission, they just want to

549
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Speaker 3: do their job. They're not expecting their story to be told.

550
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Speaker 3: They're not expecting the glory. They are grateful for the

551
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Speaker 3: flags and the hugs of family, that's why they do

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Speaker 3: the job. But they also know they were part of

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Speaker 3: something historic. We know how historic it was the Chairman,

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Speaker 3: does I know, Our staffs know, and so that's why

555
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Speaker 3: we are and the President of the United States States knows.

556
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Speaker 3: And that's why it's almost personal when we see the

557
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Speaker 3: way in which leaks are used to try to disparage

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Speaker 3: the outcome or muddy the waters about the impact of

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Speaker 3: what happened without being responsible with information and allowing the

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Speaker 3: professionals to assess and provide that information, just like the

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Speaker 3: Chairman did. So thank you, mister Chairman, for that information.

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Speaker 3: And we welcome a few additional questions.

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Speaker 11: Yes, sir, the General on Sunday you said final battle

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Speaker 11: damage will take some time, and you also said, I

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Speaker 11: think BDA is still pending and it would be way

566
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Speaker 11: too early for me to comment on what may or

567
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Speaker 11: may not still be there at New Qui facility.

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Speaker 8: So that was just over three days ago.

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Speaker 3: So what has changed? Would you use the term obliterated

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Speaker 3: as well, sir?

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Speaker 9: Like I said, we don't do BDA. I'll refer that

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Speaker 9: to the intelligence community and you're.

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Speaker 11: Talking with them. I mean, what changed in the past

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Speaker 11: three days? And make you so you know, sir?

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Speaker 8: I think I I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, I think I explained what changed. Uh, there was

577
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Speaker 3: a great deal of irresponsible reporting based on leaks, preliminary

578
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Speaker 3: information in low confidence. Again, when someone leaks something, they

579
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Speaker 3: do it with an agenda. And when you leak a

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Speaker 3: portion of an intelligence assessment, but just a little portion,

581
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Speaker 3: just a little portion, that makes it seem like maybe

582
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Speaker 3: the strike wasn't effective, then you start us a news cycle,

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Speaker 3: whether it's the Washington Post or Fox News or CNN

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Speaker 3: or MSNBC, you start a news cycle that starts to

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Speaker 3: call into question the ethics. No, that's why. So you

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Speaker 3: bring the chairman here, who's not involved in politics, here,

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Speaker 3: a new politics. That's that's that's my lane to understand

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Speaker 3: and translate and talk about those types of things. So

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Speaker 3: I can use the word obliterate it. He could use defeat, destroyed,

590
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Speaker 3: assess all of those things. But ultimately we're here to

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Speaker 3: clarify what these weapons are capable of, which anyone with uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, two ear, two eyes, some ears in a

593
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Speaker 3: brain can recognize that kind of firepower with that specificity

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Speaker 3: at that location and others is gonna have a devastating effect.

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Speaker 3: So we all recognize there will be days and weeks ahead.

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Speaker 3: That's why yesterday I said, if you want to know

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Speaker 3: what's going on, at four to zero. You better go

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Speaker 3: there and get a big shovel, because no one's under

599
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Speaker 3: there right now. No one's under there able to assess,

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Speaker 3: and everyone's using reflections of what they see. And that's

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Speaker 3: why the Israelis, the Iranians, the IAA, the un to

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Speaker 3: a man and too a woman who recognized the capability

603
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Speaker 3: of this weapon system are acknowledging how destructive it's been.

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Speaker 3: So that's what's that's what's changed just three or four

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Speaker 3: days later. See this is a point. This is how

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Speaker 3: difficult it is to actually manage. You just watched a

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Speaker 3: video of what this weapon is capable of. That's where

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Speaker 3: we find our confidence is in the skill of men

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Speaker 3: and women and the capability of the systems they employed,

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Speaker 3: and the recognition so far on the reflections that it

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Speaker 3: was a highly successful mission.

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Speaker 9: Sure, I think you could, I'd say, got the IC

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Speaker 9: should be able to help you answer that question. They

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Speaker 9: look at a variety as the Secretary is alluded to,

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Speaker 9: we look at a variety of things.

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Speaker 8: I don't do that.

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Speaker 9: They do all different sources of intel, which I'd refer

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Speaker 9: you to them to get clarity on the instill.

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Speaker 3: Again, I go back to the IC, whether it's Director

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Speaker 3: Radcliffe or Odie and I Gabbart. I read the statements

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Speaker 3: at the beginning. They're the ones aggregating the intelligence, and

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Speaker 3: they're saying nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to

623
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Speaker 3: be rebuilt over a number of a year's facilities were destroyed.

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Speaker 3: Where we got right here, So you cited a body

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Speaker 3: of credible intelligence to suggest that the damage at Porto

626
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Speaker 3: and other places.

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Speaker 1: What is that referring to? And when we see it?

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Speaker 3: I was reading from the CIA director's statement which came

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Speaker 3: out last night. CIA again, they do the BDA, they

630
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Speaker 3: do the assessment. CIA can confirm that a body of

631
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Speaker 3: credible intelligence indicates it also goes on to say new

632
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Speaker 3: intelligence from historically reliable and accurate sources and methods. Now

633
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Speaker 3: you can imagine, you can imagine the CIA director is

634
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Speaker 3: going to be very careful about how he articulates things

635
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Speaker 3: of that sensitivity five secret, top secret, compartmentalized. He's going

636
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Speaker 3: to know things that you're not going to know, that

637
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Speaker 3: the press isn't going to know. And he's reflecting that

638
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 3: the sources he's seeing are highly credible. Uh, they've they've

639
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Speaker 3: given credible intelligence. They are those processes of given credible

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Speaker 3: intelligence in the past, and that's what he's basically on.

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Speaker 1: Do you think we need to see that?

642
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Speaker 3: Do you have a top secret clearancer?

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Speaker 1: Eventually the American public see.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah, I wanted to I wanted to ask briefly,

645
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Speaker 3: just not you check it shirt.

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Speaker 12: Oh so, Mike Glennoth Washington, Yes, thanks.

647
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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 12: Anybody who's ever read a battalions to report after a

649
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Speaker 12: fight knows that it's usually the initial report is usually wrong,

650
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Speaker 12: sometimes grossly. So this is what happened in the sense

651
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Speaker 12: that it caused y'all to sort of rethink the intelligence

652
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Speaker 12: process or the dissemination or do you think it's just

653
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Speaker 12: I mean, it's a process itself doesn't require any more adjustment.

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Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you what the chairman told me

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Speaker 3: in the situation room and reminded us all, which is

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Speaker 3: alongside what you just said, sir, is that the first

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Speaker 3: first reports are almost always wrong. They're almost always incomplete,

658
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Speaker 3: right anything, whether it's a squad level operation or strategic

659
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Speaker 3: level operation. The initial reflections you get are coming at

660
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Speaker 3: you at a high rate of speed from a lot

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Speaker 3: of different sources. So your job is to step back

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Speaker 3: and assess them. And that's why we're urging caution about

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Speaker 3: putting it premising entire stories on biased leaks to biased

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Speaker 3: publications trying to make something look bad. How about we

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Speaker 3: take a beat, recognize first the success of our warriors,

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Speaker 3: hold them up, tell their stories, celebrate that wave an

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Speaker 3: American flag, be proud of what we accomplished. And in

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Speaker 3: the meantime, I can assure you the Chairman and his staff,

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Speaker 3: the intelligence community, our staff and others are doing all

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Speaker 3: the assessments necessary to make sure that mission was indeed successful.

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Speaker 13: Yes, right there, so thank you. Mis Run has to

672
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Speaker 13: recognized that their nuclear program was indeed severely damaged, but

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Speaker 13: they also said that the US strikes only strengthened their

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Speaker 13: ability and their determination to complete their nuclear program. How

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Speaker 13: do you respond to us or is that a provocation

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Speaker 13: from Iran?

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Speaker 3: Well, I would say Iron's going to have to say

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Speaker 3: a lot of things right now in order to bolster

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Speaker 3: their image, especially internally. You know, in if the media,

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of things they'll say for domestic consumption,

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Speaker 3: but we're watching very closely what they do. Again, that's

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Speaker 3: the intel community. Our job as the chairman, I mean,

683
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Speaker 3: the chairman laid it up so beautifully. Our job is

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Speaker 3: to be prepared, and how proud are you? How proud

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Speaker 3: am I? I didn't know the full story of those

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Speaker 3: men and women fifteen years ago who've been pointing at

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Speaker 3: that target. It makes me proud to be an American.

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Speaker 3: That's an awesome story. I hope we can tell more

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Speaker 3: aspects of that in an unclassified way in the future.

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Speaker 3: That's a great thing to know. Our job is to

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Speaker 3: be prepared when the commander in chief calls based on

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Speaker 3: those assessments. So of course our i SE Intelligence Committee

693
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Speaker 3: will keep watching what Iran does and pay attention to that.

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Speaker 3: But the President has created the contours the opportunity for

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Speaker 3: a deal for peace in something that the world said

696
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Speaker 3: was intractable, that wasn't possible, and we got that piece

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Speaker 3: that cease fire, that option because of strength, because of

698
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Speaker 3: his willingness to use American military might that no one

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Speaker 3: else on the planet can do with the kind of

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Speaker 3: planners and operators that the Chairman just laid out. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 3: right there.

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Speaker 1: Yep, sir.

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Speaker 3: Just a quick question.

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Speaker 14: There's public imagery available saying that highly enriched uranium was

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Speaker 14: moved out of FOURD before the strikes. Is that accurate?

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Speaker 14: Have you seen that and mister chairman, a question for you.

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Speaker 14: Have you been pressured to change your assessment or given

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Speaker 14: more rosy intelligence assessment to us by any political factors,

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Speaker 14: whether it's a president or the Secretary, And if you were,

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Speaker 14: would you do that?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, that one's easy.

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Speaker 9: No, No, I have not, and no I would not.

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Speaker 9: My job as a chairman is to offer a range

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Speaker 9: of options to the President and the National Command Authority,

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Speaker 9: to deliver the risks associated with each of those, and

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Speaker 9: then take the orders of the National Command Authority and

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Speaker 9: go execute them. I've never been pressured by the President

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Speaker 9: or the Secretary to do anything other than tell them

719
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Speaker 9: exactly what.

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Speaker 10: I'm thinking, and that's exactly what I've done.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing that I've seen that suggests that what we

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Speaker 3: didn't hit exactly what we wanted to hit in those locations.

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Speaker 15: It's about highly enriched uranium. Do you have certainty that

724
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Speaker 15: all the highly enrich uranium was inside the Four Dome

725
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Speaker 15: Mountain or some of it? Because there were satellite photos

726
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Speaker 15: that showed more than a dozen trucks there two days

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Speaker 15: in advance, are you certain none of that highly enriched

728
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Speaker 15: uranium was moved?

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Speaker 3: Of course, we're watching every single aspect. But Jennifer, you've

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Speaker 3: been about the worst, the one who misrepresents the most

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Speaker 3: intentionally what the President says. I'm familiar about.

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Speaker 15: The ventilations chefs on Saturday Night, and in fact, I

733
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Speaker 15: was the first to describe the B two bombers, the refueling,

734
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Speaker 15: the entire mission with great accuracy. So I take issue

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Speaker 15: with that.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you acknowledging that this was the first, the

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Speaker 3: most successful mission based on operational security that this department

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Speaker 3: has done since you be here, and I appreciate that.

739
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Speaker 3: So we're looking at all aspects of intelligence and making

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Speaker 3: sure we have a sense of what was where.

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Speaker 16: Why not acknowledge the female pilots that also participated in

742
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Speaker 16: this mission. The early messages that you sent out only

743
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Speaker 16: congratulated the boys.

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Speaker 3: So when I say something like our boys and bombers, see,

745
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Speaker 3: this is the kind of thing the press does.

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Speaker 8: Right.

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Speaker 3: Of course, the chairman mentioned a female bomber pilot. That's fantastic.

748
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Speaker 3: She's fantastic, she's a hero. I want more female bomber pilots.

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Speaker 3: I hope the men and women of our country sign

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Speaker 3: up to do such brave and audacious things. But when

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Speaker 3: you spin it as because I say our boys and

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Speaker 3: bombers as a common phrase, I'll keep saying things like that,

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Speaker 3: whether they're men or women. Very proud of that female pilot,

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Speaker 3: just like I'm very proud of those male pilots. And

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Speaker 3: I don't care if it's a male or a female

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Speaker 3: in that cockpit, and the American people don't care. But

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Speaker 3: it's the obsession with race and gender in this department

758
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Speaker 3: that's changed priorities. We don't do that anymore. We don't

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Speaker 3: play your little games. Yes, right there.

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Speaker 16: Certainly that the uranium was removed from a facility before the.

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Speaker 3: B two struck, So I'm not aware of any intelligence

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Speaker 3: that I've reviewed that says things were not where they

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Speaker 3: were supposed to be moved or otherwise.

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Speaker 17: Yes, Kelly Meyer with News Nation, and just off the top,

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Speaker 17: when they were grateful for the service of these pilots

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Speaker 17: and everybody that serves I wanted to ask you. The

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Speaker 17: CIA statement said when possible, they will provide updates and

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Speaker 17: information to the public for transparency, and I believe that's.

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Speaker 15: What we're looking for here.

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Speaker 17: Do you commit to share the Defense Intelligence Agency report

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Speaker 17: when it is ready so the American people can understand

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Speaker 17: more about the intelligence assessment.

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Speaker 3: Well whatever, Actually the report that was discussed, this preliminary

774
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Speaker 3: report was a what's called a restrike report, So it

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Speaker 3: comes to us to give us an assessment whether a

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Speaker 3: target would need to be restruck, right, that's the reason why.

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Speaker 3: So based on internal feedback loop that we're supposed to

778
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Speaker 3: have access to. Unfortunately someone took advantage of that. But

779
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Speaker 3: whatever is supposed to be made public will be. But

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Speaker 3: whatever has to say sensitive.

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Speaker 8: Certain it's jump in you know.

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Speaker 9: One of the things that that I'm trying to do

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Speaker 9: through this journey that we're on together, of course transparency,

784
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Speaker 9: but also the requirement to really protect these capabilities.

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Speaker 8: I guess the time's up. But so there's a balance.

786
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Speaker 9: In there, right, we do need to preserve options should

787
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Speaker 9: the nation and the Joint Force be tasked to go

788
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Speaker 9: do something again. So I'm confident we'll find the middle ground.

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Speaker 9: But there are some things that that if asked, I'd

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Speaker 9: want to not release related.

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Speaker 3: So we're gonna leave it right there. I want to

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Speaker 3: thank the heroism of our men and women in military.

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Speaker 3: In the military, what they accomplished is truly historic, setting

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Speaker 3: back the Iranian nuclear program untold number of years. It

795
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Speaker 3: was a devastating attack. We appreciate you covering it.

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Speaker 8: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 18: Thank you talk a little bit more about your Rolso,

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Speaker 18: so you were listening to a news conference there at

799
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Speaker 18: the Pentagon involving Secretary of Defense Pete Heigseth and the

800
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Speaker 18: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff discussing the attack

801
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Speaker 18: on uh that nuclear.

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Speaker 5: Facility in iron also blasting the news media for its

803
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Speaker 5: coverage of how this all was carried out, more importantly,

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Speaker 5: the efficacy of that attack. Let's bring in doctor Gena

805
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Speaker 5: and David uh to offer up a bit more context

806
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Speaker 5: to all of this.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, A.

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Speaker 5: Lot to unpack here, David and doctor Gina. I don't

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Speaker 5: know necessarily where to start. Uh So let's start with

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Speaker 5: the media, I guess, David, and basically the way that

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Speaker 5: they were just dressed down by Secretary Hegseth for their coverage.

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Speaker 5: Let's start there, and then we'll move on to the

813
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Speaker 5: efficacy and the information we're continuing to get about just

814
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Speaker 5: how good the strike was.

815
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Speaker 4: Well, let's specifically talk about someone in the media. If

816
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Speaker 4: you caught that where we all caught it at the

817
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Speaker 4: end when he said, Jennifer, he's talking about Jennifer Griffin

818
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Speaker 4: at Fox News, and of course Pete Hegseeth formerly a

819
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Speaker 4: Fox News some bad blood between both of them, that's

820
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Speaker 4: who he was talking to in the audience there. She

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Speaker 4: pushed back and then he decided to have a few

822
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Speaker 4: words after that. Look, this was a dressed down of

823
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Speaker 4: the media. That was the main reason, I shouldn't say

824
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Speaker 4: the main reason. It was a key reason for what

825
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Speaker 4: they wanted to do here to basically say, how dare you?

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Speaker 1: And it's a good point, it's a great point. Actually.

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Speaker 4: You know, when you don't give all of the facts,

828
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Speaker 4: when you give a partial truth, it becomes false. And

829
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Speaker 4: that's what we're seeing from the media specifically. This is

830
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Speaker 4: a low credibility report, a low credibility report that is

831
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Speaker 4: preliminary at best.

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Speaker 3: And once again that isn't in the CNN.

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Speaker 4: I keep going back to CNN because it's the CNN

834
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Speaker 4: story that started all of this, and so and there's

835
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Speaker 4: a lot more to talk about regarding the media, But

836
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Speaker 4: the point is, and his and Pete Hegsett's point was

837
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Speaker 4: is that they're not telling the full story.

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Speaker 1: Well, that should not shock us at all.

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Speaker 4: And what's interesting to me is the Ratcliffe stuff the CIA,

840
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Speaker 4: Radcliffe stuff and Telsea gabber Bolt saying that they were

841
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Speaker 4: indeed destroyed, and then when they were asked, how do

842
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Speaker 4: you know, basically saying that there is new intelligence according

843
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Speaker 4: to Ratcliffe at the CIA, new intelligence from quote highly

844
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Speaker 4: credible sources saying that nuclear facilities were destroyed. He also

845
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Speaker 4: Hegsith also said this that this was all predicated on

846
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Speaker 4: multiple Lynchpin assumptions. You know, I thought that was interesting

847
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Speaker 4: because you don't get that in the media story. Multiple

848
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Speaker 4: Lynchpin assumptions, you see, because that's the caveat, that's the disclaimer.

849
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Speaker 1: That's like, hold on for a second.

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Speaker 4: Possibly this could have been the case, but we don't

851
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Speaker 4: know because we're assuming X, Y, and Z. See, that's

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Speaker 4: never explained, Gina. The context is never explained in the media. Instead,

853
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Speaker 4: they want the headline. And the reason they want the

854
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Speaker 4: headline is because they want to bash Trump, because Trump

855
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Speaker 4: ultimately is good for business.

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Speaker 6: But it's deeper than that. It's deeper than that.

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Speaker 7: It goes back to what I said initially at the

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Speaker 7: open of the show today, This is not just about

859
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Speaker 7: bashing Trump. This is about the deep state wanting to

860
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Speaker 7: put us in a war. The deep State wanting to

861
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Speaker 7: insinuate that Iran still has nukes, so therefore we must

862
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Speaker 7: put boots on the ground and go back in and

863
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Speaker 7: check about these nukes. How reprehensible when you think about it,

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Speaker 7: It's not only reprehensible, David, because if we put troops,

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Speaker 7: our troops in harm's way again because our bomber pilots

866
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Speaker 7: were obviously in harms way, but if we put boots

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Speaker 7: on the ground, in our troops in harms way again,

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Speaker 7: for the military industrial complex, the deep state to be

869
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Speaker 7: able to take this victory from the American people. They're

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Speaker 7: trying to take it from Trump, as you said, but

871
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Speaker 7: they're trying to take it from the American people.

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Speaker 6: That is reprehensible.

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Speaker 7: Number two on this whole thing that just has me

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Speaker 7: seething this morning, is that what an exercise and futility Terrence.

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Speaker 7: Why does Pete heg Why did we need our top

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Speaker 7: level military officials and secretaries on stage this morning explaining

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Speaker 7: what they know to be true, what they've already done,

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Speaker 7: rehashing on the defense.

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Speaker 6: Why do we need that?

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Speaker 7: Because the Left is willing to compromise us in order

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Speaker 7: to get what they want, as you said, David, to

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Speaker 7: undermine Trump but also to get their way on putting us.

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Speaker 8: In a war.

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Speaker 6: That's the ultimate goal.

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Speaker 7: I don't want to lose sight of that for one second.

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Speaker 7: This isn't a Maga versus democrats kind of a fight.

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Speaker 7: This is literally the deep State versus the American people

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Speaker 7: and our military.

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Speaker 1: Look, guys, there's still a lot to unpack.

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Speaker 5: And you use the word reprehensible, doctor Gina, There's another

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Speaker 5: angle to this story that I find reprehensible, and I'd

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Speaker 5: like to get your guys' take on that. When't we

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Speaker 5: get a chance to come back, but for now, we

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Speaker 5: do have to take a quick break. We're back in

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Speaker 5: a moment.