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Speaker 1: That welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. That

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Speaker 2: It was bizarre.

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Speaker 3: There were several moments when you and I were listening

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Speaker 2: Talk about being at war with Iran.

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Speaker 3: This is the first time we've heard from him live

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Speaker 3: this is the first time we're seeing him live. This

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And we always want to give space for President

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Speaker 1: This is kind of an important distinction here. Didn't take

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Speaker 1: This was a metal of honor ceremony, had families had,

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Speaker 3: Yes, And in fact, Pete hegseth Or earlier today was

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Speaker 3: Clear what those objectives were, and the first one was

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Speaker 3: we'll get to that second, your missile capabilities, But there

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Speaker 3: were other objectives as well.

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Speaker 1: Yes, take out their navy, that was once stated by

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Speaker 1: Hexeth as well also keep them Basically, this is what

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Speaker 1: they've been saying, and every administration for years has been saying,

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Speaker 1: but he's also said another objective is to make sure

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Speaker 1: They want to keep them from having their direct proxies

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Speaker 1: apparently now Ron was the gravest of grave threats and

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Speaker 2: Yes, we discussed that, maybe a takeaway.

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Speaker 2: Why we're going to war.

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Speaker 3: We've already been at war now for two days, I believe,

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Speaker 1: They starting to they are starting to get a kind

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: We certainly heard it from Hegseth, We heard it from

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: He said they were close. He even said something about

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely. He made it sound as though it

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Speaker 1: They were on the road to getting a nuclear weapon

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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, and also a little puzzling. He did try

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Speaker 2: To take out the nuclear facilities.

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Speaker 3: And he said it again today that we obliterated Iran's

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Speaker 1: But again, Babe, you don't have to be the way

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Speaker 1: you just laid it out. You don't have have to

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Speaker 1: just common sensically. You're just you just obliterated it. And

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Speaker 3: To ask, yes, because as a lay person, I have

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Speaker 2: It seems crazy to me, But what do I know?

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Speaker 1: But he's saying new locations, different locations than the ones

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Speaker 1: But Robes, a nuclear program they've been working on for decades,

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Speaker 1: that just doesn't make a whole toilet a person.

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Speaker 4: You know what?

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Speaker 3: You you just hit something that that resonated with me,

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Speaker 3: because anyone who has ever had new construction, whether it's

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Speaker 2: A matter of months.

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Speaker 3: But maybe if you have an entire country devoted to

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Speaker 1: Okay, So how long is this going to take? This

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Speaker 1: is these were headlines already wrote even before today and

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Speaker 3: H As long as necessary is what we were told.

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Speaker 3: I thought it was interesting this one was one of

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Speaker 3: But he started talking about how some folks, and I don't.

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Speaker 2: Know who these people are, suggested that he would get.

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Speaker 3: Bored with the war with Iran after a few weeks

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Speaker 3: There's nothing boring about it. That was bizarre to me.

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Speaker 2: Boring to go to war? I don't know what he

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he saw some things where I actually do

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Speaker 1: not know, but you could imagine that, right they think, oh,

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Speaker 1: We were in Venezuela. We moved on to the next thing,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was slumping on that podium at times,

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Speaker 3: That's a good way to put it, and I would

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Speaker 3: That's just internationally, so to speak. We're talking about DHS

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Speaker 2: Of this world.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's I can't even get my head around

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Speaker 2: And then we'll get into how he brings.

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Speaker 3: Up the ballroom construction on top of it all, because

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Speaker 3: that must be top of mind, because hey, he's got

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Speaker 2: Project going on right around him with all of.

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Speaker 1: Hey, the dude can walk at your gun at the

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Speaker 1: same time apparently, and play the banjo and moonwalk and

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Speaker 1: every whatever you need him to do. He can do

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Speaker 1: it all at the same time. He gets bored, and

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Speaker 1: he does not get bored. It doesn't seem like he does,

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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, but yes, everything she just

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Speaker 1: listed that the President is keeping an eye on right now,

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Speaker 1: including war. He still has time for the drapes. We'll

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Speaker 1: let you here for yourself. A turn that the President

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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ,

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Speaker 3: where we are discussing hearing from the President of the

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Speaker 3: war with Iran, and the President had a lot to say.

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Speaker 3: but he was suggesting four to five weeks or maybe

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Speaker 2: War and move on to something new.

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Speaker 3: He is certainly prepared to go the distance to see

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know what, I guess maybe we're coming

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes it was.

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Speaker 3: And look, it was interesting because he started talking.

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Speaker 2: You know, everyone wants to know how long. Oh, and

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Speaker 3: He made a very specific point to say that he,

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Speaker 2: I mean, he flat out said I am.

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Speaker 3: Not ruling out boots on the ground, that he's not

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Speaker 3: He said it took them about an hour. Is that

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Speaker 2: That was a breeze, so to speak.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, we just started to get into his mindset

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Speaker 1: Not nation building, but building. At the White House he

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the actual transition he made, but he

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Speaker 1: He absolutely did. Now wrote we have to remember this

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think that's that's a very generous way to

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Speaker 3: look at it. Absolutely that this would be the tone

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Speaker 3: be a tone of I do think you're celebrating the service,

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Speaker 2: That's a good way to put it, of these.

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Speaker 1: You know what that helps me better? It was warmth.

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Speaker 1: What the president was doing was something warm just in

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Speaker 4: The building a little bit. We're improving the building. See

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Speaker 4: that nice drape. When that comes down right now, you

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Speaker 4: see a very very deep hole. But in about a

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Speaker 4: year and a half from now, you're going to see

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Speaker 4: a very very beautiful building. And there's your entrance to

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Speaker 4: it right there. In fact, it looks so nice, I

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Speaker 4: don't think i'll even I think I'll save money on

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Speaker 4: the doors, because you can't get more beautiful than that.

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Speaker 4: I picked those drapes in my first term. I always

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Speaker 4: like gold. But I think we can save a lot

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Speaker 4: of money I just saved I just saved curtains. But

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Speaker 4: it will be it'll be spectacular, be the most beautiful

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Speaker 4: bull I believe it's because I built many a ballroom.

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Speaker 4: I believe it's going to be the most beautiful ballroom

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Speaker 4: not thrilled exactly? She said, Well, the pile drivers ever stop.

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Speaker 4: You know, they go from six in the morning till

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Speaker 4: know what? To me, that's a beautiful sound. She doesn't

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Speaker 4: like it. I love it, you know what? To me?

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Speaker 4: Other than here, because we're donating it not a penny

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Speaker 4: It'll be four hundred million or less. Most people say

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Speaker 4: four hundred million or more. No, it'll be less. But

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Speaker 4: when I hear that sound, that beautiful sound behind me,

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Speaker 4: it means money. So I like it. But my wife

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's classic kind of Trump.

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Speaker 3: Yes, And I think in any other moment, it just

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Speaker 3: came directly after talking about Americans and sacrifice and taking

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Speaker 2: We call it in the news business.

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Speaker 1: A transition. You hate when some producer puts you in

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Speaker 1: the position where you're talking about death and destruction that

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Speaker 1: I have to turn to puppies surfing it. That's it

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Speaker 1: was that kind of a it just feels weird. And

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Speaker 1: that was kind of classic Trump. He literally just looked

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Speaker 1: right and to your point, unfocused kind of today. But no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: that's it just happened, and it just kind of threw

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Speaker 1: kind of changed again. He went to these cracking jokes

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Speaker 1: sacrificed for these middles of honor. So I guess this

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Speaker 1: is what we've come to expect and roller coasters, and

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Speaker 1: he took us kind of on an emotional one in

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Speaker 2: Yes, it was.

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Speaker 4: It was.

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Speaker 3: I will say this he liked to say he wasn't boring,

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Speaker 3: or he wasn't bored. It wasn't a boring press conference.

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Speaker 3: I was waiting for the next thing that was going

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Speaker 3: I didn't know where he was going and what he

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Speaker 1: And again we'd need to at least a reminder here

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Speaker 1: that as of this recording, the President did mention as well,

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Speaker 1: we've lost service members in this war, at least four

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Speaker 1: at this point, and this is war. We are at

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Speaker 1: war right now. We don't think I haven't seen robes

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Speaker 1: if there were any other plan press conferences today, but

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Speaker 1: at this point we do not believe so. But the

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