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Speaker 1: To allow a flawed, self centered, and shameless candidate like

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Speaker 2: John Cornan has failed this time and time again. In

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Speaker 2: his over forty years of office, you cannot name one

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Speaker 3: So the runoff there is May twenty sixth, in The

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Speaker 3: winner will face state Lawmaker James Tallerco who won the

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Speaker 4: Control of the Senate could be at stake here. The

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Speaker 4: Texas race could be a tipping point.

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Speaker 5: The Republican side. We are expecting this to be quite

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Speaker 5: a contentious battle. Things have already been heated between Cornant

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Speaker 5: and Paxton, and that is expected to continue in the

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Speaker 5: coming weeks. We heard Cornyn and Paxton both preview some

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Speaker 5: of their lines of attack last night. Paxton decried the

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Speaker 5: amount of money that was poured into the state to

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Speaker 5: try to boost Cornn That was more than seventy million

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Speaker 5: dollar behalf of Cornin efforts, really adding to why this

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Speaker 5: became one of the most expensive Senate primaries in US history. Cornan, meanwhile,

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Speaker 5: has really warned about Paxson's past controversies, his legal and

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Speaker 5: personal scandals that Cornan believes will be a drag on

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Speaker 5: Republicans if he becomes the nominee in November. One big

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Speaker 5: question going forward, though, is whether President Donald Trump decides

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Speaker 5: to get it into this runoff, decides to endorse a candidate,

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Speaker 5: something he declined to do in the primary, but he's

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Speaker 5: left the door open to you. That's certainly something that

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Speaker 6: Over to Ran flying over Iran, flying over their capital,

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Speaker 4: B twos B fifty twos.

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Speaker 6: B ones, predator drones, fighters controlling the skies, picking targets,

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Speaker 6: death and destruction from the sky all day long. We're

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Speaker 6: playing for keeps. Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally

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Speaker 6: by the President and yours. Truly, our rules of engagement

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Speaker 6: shackle it. This was never meant to be a fair fight,

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Speaker 6: and it is not a fair fight. We are punching

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Speaker 6: them while they're down, which.

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Speaker 4: Is exactly how it should be.

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Speaker 6: Thus far, Operation Epic Fury has delivered twice the air

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Speaker 6: power of Shock and Awe of Iraq in two thousand

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Speaker 6: as President Trump said, more and larger waves are coming.

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Speaker 6: We are just getting started. We are accelerating, not decelerating.

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Speaker 6: Iran's capabilities are evaporating by the hour, while American strength

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Speaker 7: Just today, I think overperformed Senator Corner overperformed. Early on

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Speaker 4: Get more votes.

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Speaker 7: But now people are just assuming Cornon's going to win.

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Speaker 7: a lot of alarm bells going off right now. First

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Speaker 7: of all, he's an establishment figure. Secondly, this is a runoff,

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Speaker 7: and I know better than anybody I lost my initial primary.

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Speaker 7: I won my runoff easily. First time I ran because

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Speaker 7: Also something else that you can speak to very well,

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Speaker 7: the twenty twenty election. Ken Paxton led Texans and stirring

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Speaker 7: Ted Cruz supported stirring up the conspiracy theories see Unproven

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Speaker 7: unproven and he voted to actually go along with a

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Speaker 6: And can you broadly describe our decisive point in this operation? Oh?

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Speaker 10: I won't describe the decisive point in the operation because

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Speaker 10: I appreciate the question. Their C two structures in a

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Speaker 6: And now with complete control of the skies, we will

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Speaker 6: As well as Patriots remains extremely strong. The enemy can

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Speaker 6: In fact, yesterday in the Indian Ocean, and we'll play

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Speaker 4: It was safe in international waters. Instead it was sunk

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Speaker 6: The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo

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Speaker 11: One of the strange things about Trump's presidency. And this

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Speaker 4: His main aim is to win the current moment.

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Speaker 8: Whatever that is.

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Speaker 11: So whether it's a confrontation with a journalist or whether

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Speaker 4: And it looks like that's.

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Speaker 8: What he did here.

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Speaker 11: In other words, there was no particular plan, there was

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Speaker 8: You know, instead he's speaking about.

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Speaker 11: Oh, well, there were some other military leaders, there were

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Speaker 11: they would take over, as in Venezuela. So it's this

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Speaker 11: personalist way of running the country. You know, there's no

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Speaker 6: Now, this is not a mission accomplished situation. This is

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Speaker 4: They are terrorists after all.

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Speaker 6: And they need to target civilians because they can't fight

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Speaker 6: We've taken control of Iron's airspace and waterways without boots

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Speaker 4: We control their fate.

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Speaker 6: But when a few drones get through or tragic things happen,

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Speaker 6: The press only wants to make the president look bad,

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Speaker 6: but try for once to report the reality. The terms

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Speaker 4: Us at every step.

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Speaker 9: It's a real litmus test and a dilemma for Trump

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Speaker 9: because the twenty twenty Big Lie is still at the

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Speaker 9: heart of so much when he's talking about to this day,

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Speaker 9: he's still you talking about it now and raising fears

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Speaker 9: Congressman Dan Crenshaw, who also spoke out against to stop

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Speaker 9: the steel effort, lost Republican primary yesterday in Texas, so

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Speaker 9: he will be out. He crossed Trump. Cornyn also disagreed

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Speaker 9: political people. Trump's advisors are saying Cornyon's the safest pick

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Speaker 9: Dave Weigel, because they believe he has a better shot

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Speaker 9: to win in the general election.

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Speaker 9: I have been talking to the advisor in the last couple

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Speaker 9: days say there's some momentum for Trump to do that.

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Speaker 9: I think David Drucker's right that if Cornan had lost

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Speaker 9: even by any number, maybe Trump can't. But because he's

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Speaker 9: more or less pulled even he could justify it and say.

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Speaker 4: I'll put you over the top.

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Speaker 9: But I'm not one hundred percent sure he will for

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Speaker 9: all the points that Joe just raised, and Democrats are

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Speaker 9: simply salivating at the possibility of taking on.

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Speaker 6: As I said Monday, the mission is laser focused. Obliterate

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Speaker 4: We salute your.

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Speaker 6: Courage and your contribution. Four days in, we have only

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Speaker 15: Well, Steve, I say that we are with Admiral Cooper,

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Speaker 13: through what objectives are are the Israelis the ones targeting

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Speaker 15: From what I've seen, the Israelis are attacking military forces

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Speaker 15: as well. I think we're I think there's a shared

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Speaker 15: intelligence there. I think they have better awareness of maybe

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Speaker 15: some of the senior government officials, maybe some of the

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Speaker 15: IRGC and Islami Iranian Revolutionary Guard leadership, military leadership. So

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Speaker 15: I don't know this specific divvying up of the percentages.

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Speaker 15: I'm guessing that it's more likely that the Israelis are

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Speaker 15: doing more of the leadership of Iran and the military

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Speaker 15: and the government, and we're doing more of the conventional

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Speaker 15: military targets, especially the ballistic missile launchers, ballistic missiles, the

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Speaker 15: command and control of their military forces, their radar sites.

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Speaker 15: That's why you're not seeing any firings of their coastal

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Speaker 15: defense cruise missiles because their radars have been destroyed.

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Speaker 13: Hang on one second, We'll take a short commercial break.

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Speaker 13: Captain James Fanel Brandon Wiker. Next in the military situation, here's.

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Speaker 13: institutions in Washington, DC or the CIA, the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 13: and Sencom. He's come. We've still never had as hard

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Speaker 13: as as hard as Captain Fanel ourselves the first term.

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Speaker 13: We've never really had the pivot to Asia. I'd like

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Speaker 13: to say we pulled it off.

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Speaker 6: We did.

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Speaker 13: Sencom is all powerful. Ermal Cooper is the Sencom commander.

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Speaker 13: Let's have a quick update by Erma Cooper. We have

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Speaker 13: a short package share and I'll bringing Brandon.

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Speaker 3: Then one hundred hours into this operation and we've already

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Speaker 3: struck nearly two thousand targets with more than two thousand munitions.

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Speaker 3: We have severely degraded Iran's air defenses and destroyed hundreds

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Speaker 3: of Iran's ballistic missiles, launchers and drones. And in simple terms,

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Speaker 3: we're focused on and shooting all the things that can

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Speaker 3: shoot at us. They are also sinking the Iranian navy,

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Speaker 3: the entire navy. Thus far, we've destroyed seventeen Iranian ships,

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Speaker 3: including the most operational Iranian submarine that now.

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Speaker 4: Has a hole in its side.

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Speaker 3: For decades, the Iranian regime has harassed international shipping. Today

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Speaker 3: there's not a single Iranian ship underway in the Arabian

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Speaker 3: Gulf Straight of Hormuz or Gulf of Oman, and we

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Speaker 3: will not stop. We will continue to conduct dynamic targeting operations.

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Speaker 3: We're hunting Iran's last remaining mobile billistic missile launchers to

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Speaker 3: eliminate what I would characterize is their lingering launch capability. Now,

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Speaker 3: in retaliation, the Iranian regime has launched over five hundred

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Speaker 3: ballistic missiles and over two thousand drones. To be clear,

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Speaker 3: Iran is indiscriminately targeting civilians as they've launched these missiles

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Speaker 3: and drones. You've seen it on TV. The evidence is

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Speaker 3: crystal clear and overwhelming. Having said this, we are seeing

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Speaker 3: Iran's ability to hit us and our partners is declining,

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Speaker 3: while our combat power, on the other hand, is building.

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Speaker 3: And my overall operational assessment is that we are ahead

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Speaker 3: of our game plan.

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Speaker 13: I think you see the type of people President Trump selects. Ermalcoper.

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Speaker 13: I would say Ermic Cooper and General Dan Kine are

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Speaker 13: no brag, just fact. They just stick to it. Brandon Wikert,

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Speaker 13: your assessment, your assessment of where we are and where

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Speaker 13: we're going.

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Speaker 14: Well, as I said yesterday, the next twenty four to

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Speaker 14: forty eight hours are going to be key for determining

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Speaker 14: exactly how this thing is going to shake up. In

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Speaker 14: terms of the air war, I certainly agree that we

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Speaker 14: have degraded significant capabilities within the Islamic Republic. I agree

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Speaker 14: with the claim that we have gone after those missile launchers.

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Speaker 14: We have degraded those C two that's command and control functions,

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Speaker 14: This is all very good for Team USA. However, I

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Speaker 14: do think the transition munition the transition in munitions is

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Speaker 14: an interesting story that might not be be not might

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Speaker 14: being told very well. Essentially, we were relying on standoff weapons.

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Speaker 14: Now the argument is is because we are now switching,

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Speaker 14: because the Iranians have been so thoroughly degraded, we're able

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Speaker 14: to now enjoy local dominance. My concern is the real

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Speaker 14: reason we are switching is because we blew through four

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Speaker 14: hundred Tomahawk land attack missiles in about four days. And

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Speaker 14: I would remind your audience we've only got about four thousand,

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Speaker 14: according to open source information, of those systems totally, and

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Speaker 14: it takes eighteen to twenty four months to procure about

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Speaker 14: one hundred every eighteen to twenty four months. And right

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Speaker 14: now we've been building at most ninety, which is considered

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Speaker 14: low end. So if you're sitting in the Pentagon, you're

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Speaker 14: probably having conniptions because we're blowing through those Tomahawks too fast.

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Speaker 14: So in a way, we don't have a choice but.

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Speaker 13: To switch over Hangar For one second, though, last night,

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Speaker 13: when we were doing the Texas election night, Roders broke

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Speaker 13: a story I think you got it to me and

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Speaker 13: a couple other people I want to talk about people

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Speaker 13: understand that this is a potential issue or an issue.

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Speaker 13: There's going to be five of the senior defense industry

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Speaker 13: yes leaders CEOs, come to the White House on Friday

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Speaker 13: to have a senior level meeting. I assume the President

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Speaker 13: United States is going to be in there because he's

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Speaker 13: very focused on this. What is key to the timing.

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Speaker 14: That timing's key because this weekend. As I told you,

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Speaker 14: the original assessment was after eight days of full conflict,

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Speaker 14: we would have to begin cannibalizing indo pay common I

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Speaker 14: think the President is savvy enough to know I don't

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Speaker 14: really want to do that unless I have to. So

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Speaker 14: this is a smart move to have these guys come

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Speaker 14: in and read them the Riot Act.

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Speaker 13: When you say, read them right at what what can

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Speaker 13: they do? Can they go to full Do we have

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Speaker 13: the capacity? Is it just is it funding? Is it

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Speaker 13: as going twenty four to seven, it's a little capacity.

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Speaker 13: What's the solution.

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Speaker 14: It's a little bit of all of that. But in

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Speaker 14: my opinion, the defense industrial base, our defense contractors are

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Speaker 14: some of the most corrupt people in the world. So

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Speaker 14: they you know, they've been taking gobs of money, nearly

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Speaker 14: trillion dollar defense budgeting. Yet somehow we're worried that after

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Speaker 14: eight days of conflict we're going to be out of

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Speaker 14: weapons in sentcom. How is that possible unless there's a

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Speaker 14: lot of mismanagement. I know Hegseeth is trying to address that.

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Speaker 14: He's got a great acquisitions guy in the Pentagon, but

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Speaker 14: it's not moving fast enough. That's just the nature of

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Speaker 14: the bureaucracy. So my hope is that Trump can sit

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Speaker 14: them down and say, look, this has got to get done.

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Speaker 14: Like he did with the COVID personal protective equipment production

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Speaker 14: when he kind of took control over that. Maybe that

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Speaker 14: will be enough to keep us going because otherwise the

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Speaker 14: we can't do anything more than we're doing, which means

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Speaker 14: that that's going to start dictating the outcome of this war,

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Speaker 14: which had been saying it's a race to depletion.

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Speaker 13: These did these was the Irrain war and excuse me,

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Speaker 13: Ukraine and in Gaza and other places we've had to

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Speaker 13: use these. Is this what led to this draw down?

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Speaker 14: One hunt hundred percent Steve one hundred percent. In fact,

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Speaker 14: there was the final year of Biden. I thought this

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Speaker 14: year of Biden's presidency, even though he was shipping all

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Speaker 14: where they were doing god knows what with They certainly

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Speaker 14: weren't winning the war. So this is another reason why

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Speaker 14: the Ukraine War should be ended tomorrow. But anyway, this

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Speaker 14: is the real crisis, and I suspect that is also

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Speaker 14: informing this transition in munitions. Last night, around midnight, I

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Speaker 14: chain open up from the Middle East to the United

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Speaker 14: going back and forth because they were starting now to

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Speaker 14: pull the new forms of munitions that are needed. And

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Speaker 14: I think the reason that they're doing this is because

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Speaker 14: they're very worried in the Pentagon about having to pull

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Speaker 14: from the greater resources in Indo pay Com. Because the

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Speaker 14: if we do this and pull from us, we're never

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Speaker 14: going to get that back, and China's going to have

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Speaker 14: open season on the region. And so I think Trump

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Speaker 14: is smartly saying, let's pull from whatever we can do

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Speaker 14: in the United States. He's going to I hope pressure

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Speaker 14: these defense guys. Something that they should be talking about

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Speaker 14: is invoking the Defense Production Act because I'm telling you

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Speaker 14: right now, this war is not ending by this weekend.

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Speaker 14: It's going to go beyond and they're going to have

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Speaker 14: to start cannibalizing those existing stockpiles in Indo pay coom

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Speaker 14: Aoar the worst possible scenario.

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Speaker 13: That's what Peter. That's what Peter. You used the example

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Speaker 13: in COVID. That's what they used in COVID. They stepped

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Speaker 13: in with the Defense Production Act. Hangar for one second,

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Speaker 13: just they made a We've launched two thousand weapons on

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Speaker 13: two thousand targets and we got them. They've only come

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Speaker 13: back with five hundred and it's getting more scattered gun

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Speaker 13: all the time. Do you buy that theory? Do you

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Speaker 13: think this is not as organized on the Iranian side.

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Speaker 13: They're still able to launch, but you're not seeing the

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Speaker 13: kind of systematic launches they which this gets back.

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Speaker 14: To what my yeah, which this gets back to my

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Speaker 14: buddy Colonel Rob Maynis, who was talking about this with

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Speaker 14: guys popping off the missiles in Iran are a bunch

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Speaker 14: and that's that. You know, it definitely has drawn down

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Speaker 14: in the last twelve to fourteen hours. But to me,

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Speaker 14: the fact is the regime was savvy enough to disaggregate

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Speaker 14: the command and control functions locally. That way, when we

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Speaker 14: did come in to take out their centralcy to they

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Speaker 14: would still be in the fight. I want to make

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Speaker 14: it clear the Iranians are not out of the fight yet.

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Speaker 14: They've killed one thousand innocent people in the Middle East

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Speaker 14: with these missiles. But more importantly, Steve, they have managed

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Speaker 14: to blockade the Strait of hor Moves and more importantly

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Speaker 14: than that, they are targeting and effectively destroying Saudy and

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Speaker 14: Katari oil production. It will take years and months to

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Speaker 14: get those systems back online. So this is part of

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Speaker 14: a wider, longer term strategy on the part of Iran

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Speaker 14: to hurt the American economy and the global economy beyond

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Speaker 14: even the next few weeks. So that indicates to me

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Speaker 14: that the Iranian leadership may be degraded, but the Iranian

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Speaker 14: regime is still in this fight, and I don't know

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Speaker 14: if they're going to be able to be thrown out

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Speaker 14: with airpower alone. Which gets me to my fear, which

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Speaker 14: is that we're going to be putting a large number

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Speaker 14: of special forces groups to try to coordinate with the

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Speaker 14: MK on the ground, and I think that would be

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Speaker 14: a grave mistake at this point.

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Speaker 13: Let's play hang on, I got you a few minutes.

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Speaker 13: Do we have pete HEKX had answered that question or

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Speaker 13: attempted to answer that question this morning? Can we play

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Speaker 13: the Can we play the Kurds? Can we play the

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Speaker 13: Kurds club?

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Speaker 16: The administration is considering arming Iranian Kurdish groups, so could

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Speaker 16: you please clarify that whether in such plant has been

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Speaker 16: authorized or and whether Congress or regional partners has been

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Speaker 16: notified and consulted.

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Speaker 6: All I would say is none of our objectives are

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Speaker 6: premised on the support or the arming of any particular force.

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Speaker 6: So what other entities may be doing, we're aware of,

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Speaker 6: but our objectives aren't centered on that.

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Speaker 13: Does other entities mean the Central Intelligence Agency in the

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Speaker 13: israelis I mean? I love Pete. I'm not so sure

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Speaker 13: that got us to an answer. The Kurds are a

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Speaker 13: wild card here, right because I think a Turkey they

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Speaker 13: just shut down a missile. The Turk shut down a missile.

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Speaker 13: People are talking about their NATO maybe invoke Article five.

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Speaker 13: The Turk can't be sitting there being wild about. First off,

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Speaker 13: the last time I looked, and folks, remember I didn't

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Speaker 13: say I agreed with this, but the reality in Gaza

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Speaker 13: is the Turks are supposed to be head of the

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Speaker 13: security force. I know people don't like hearing that, but

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Speaker 13: that's just reality. At least what President Trump says. You

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Speaker 13: got the Kurds. The Curds are a wildcard because they

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Speaker 13: want peace, they want a piece of Iran they want

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Speaker 13: they say is their territory, and they want to turn

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Speaker 13: pivot and take on the Turk. Sir.

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Speaker 14: Well, not only that, but they're also still smarting over

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Speaker 14: what they say is our betrayal of the Syrian Kurds.

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Speaker 14: We allowed three or four weeks ago Jilani or Sharrav

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Speaker 14: Syria to go in and annihilate the Kurds of Syria

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Speaker 14: that we were backing, and he released all those ISIS fighters.

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Speaker 14: And it is my opinion. And William van Wagenen, who's

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Speaker 14: a colleague of mine in Syria, he tells me that

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Speaker 14: the Jilani is reconstituting the ISIS fighters to go into

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Speaker 14: Iraq and attack the Iranian back militias there on our behalf.

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Speaker 14: So you've got that story as well, that's not being told.

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Speaker 14: But with the Kurds in particular, they only want a

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Speaker 14: small sliver of Iran. So if they do open up

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Speaker 14: another offensive, they're not going to go in to change

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Speaker 14: the regime the way we want them to. They don't

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Speaker 14: have the manpower for that. They're just going to target

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Speaker 14: that little slice. And that's going to trigger the mother

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Speaker 14: of all reactions from our NATO partner Turkey, because they

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Speaker 14: do not want to see that at all, because they

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Speaker 14: know that's the beginnings of state building for a Kurdish

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Speaker 14: independent country and they do not want that. They will

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Speaker 14: go to war over that, and so this is a

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Speaker 14: potential flash point that I think is unnecessary. Again, we

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Speaker 14: don't have the ground forces. I know Eric Prince said

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Speaker 14: this to you recently. We don't have the relevant ground

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Speaker 14: forces needed to overthrow the regime. President Trump has killed Kamani,

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Speaker 14: he has gotten the bad guy He has gotten the

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Speaker 14: people that not even Reagan could get, So in my opinion,

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Speaker 14: that's a golden off ramp for him. He can declare

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Speaker 14: victory right now and say, Okay, we've done it, We've won.

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Speaker 14: We're gonna pull back now, we're gonna rebuild, We're going

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Speaker 14: to reconstitute, and we're gonna focus on Western hemispheric defense

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Speaker 14: and space dominance.

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Speaker 13: Brandon, we got a bounce. Where do they get your

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Speaker 13: book and where do they get your writing?

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Speaker 14: Anywhere on Amazon you can find me and I'm the

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Speaker 14: nat set guy at Emerald dot tv. And I'm also

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Speaker 14: the senior editor at nineteen forty five dot com at

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Speaker 14: we The Brandon is my Twitter.

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Speaker 13: Thank you, sir, Thank you, sir, Thank you, Thank you

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Speaker 13: for coming on short commercial breaks Steven Mosher and Captain

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Speaker 13: Fanel too old Chinahans.

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Speaker 3: Next, here's your host, Stephen K bas.

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Speaker 13: So, Captain fanew. If you do listen to Amiral Cooper,

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Speaker 13: if you listen to General Kine, you think about what

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Speaker 13: they're talking about potentially for the next twenty four to

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Speaker 13: forty seventy two hours. Brandon Wiker does make a compelling case.

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Speaker 13: Not that you would choose it, oh, you'd have the opportunity,

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Speaker 13: given the degradation of the Iranian command structure, military navy

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Speaker 13: to the bottom of the Persian Gulf. The air defense

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Speaker 13: is gone, They're air force gone, that the president would

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Speaker 13: have a possibility of an off ramp. Do you agree

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Speaker 13: just with the military, let's leave the politics aside. But

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Speaker 13: do you think that gets enough down the path that

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Speaker 13: some I don't want to say hawkish, but people are saying, no,

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Speaker 13: you have to destroy it. Root and branch would be satisfied. Sir.

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Speaker 15: I'm a rooting branch person. I do not think that

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Speaker 15: we have destroyed and not.

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Speaker 13: Call it cappanel. You did not need to tell us

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Speaker 13: that you have a role to play here. We know that.

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Speaker 13: So it is the root and branch crowds wouldn't be happy.

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Speaker 15: We'll also have a little bit of a study of history.

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Speaker 15: I can go back to Sherman in his March to

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Speaker 15: the Sea. I can go back to the Desert Storm

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Speaker 15: and Trainer and book the General's War. When we didn't

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Speaker 15: finish because of the line of death or the highway

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Speaker 15: of death. History is replete of when military endeavors have

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Speaker 15: been undertaken and we different generals, different leaders have backed

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Speaker 15: off and allowed their enemy to get off the map.

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Speaker 15: There's no going back from this. The Iranians were already

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Speaker 15: at war with us beforehand. They've declared war against us

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Speaker 15: for forty seven years, and they are now. Certainly this

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Speaker 15: regime will never ever accept anything left except to destroy us.

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Speaker 15: So why would we stop now when they still have

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Speaker 15: combat capability sect war? The Chairman and the Operational Commander

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Speaker 15: EDML Cooper have all said, we're still working at and

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Speaker 15: chipping away and getting after the rest of their military capabilities.

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Speaker 15: So let's do that. The increasing risks to our forces

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Speaker 15: diminishes as their ballistic missile launches go down, as their

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Speaker 15: drone attacks go down.

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Speaker 13: Hang in our attacks. Let me make sure the audience.

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Speaker 13: Let me make sure the audience understands that. Maybe you

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Speaker 13: got to understand it first. Kushner and Witkoff and the

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Speaker 13: president's been adamant saying, hey, look, they're really tapping us along.

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Speaker 13: They weren't serious, given what we've done to the command structure,

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Speaker 13: of what we've done to the leadership, what we try

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Speaker 13: to eradicate the Islamic Republic part of this. When you

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Speaker 13: say there's no going back, you say you can't have

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Speaker 13: a half measure here, and I think Pete used that

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Speaker 13: term that these now, if they weren't your mortar enemies before,

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Speaker 13: you're never going to You're not going to go to

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Speaker 13: a negotiating table and cut a deal because the hardcore

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Speaker 13: that are still there are going to realize that their

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Speaker 13: power comes from not from capitulation, but to fight down

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Speaker 13: to the last man.

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Speaker 15: Essentially, we have to defang them. We have to declaw them.

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Speaker 15: They can think whatever they want. I don't really care

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Speaker 15: what they think. If they if they hate us but

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Speaker 15: they don't have any weapons, then go ahead and hate

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Speaker 15: on us. We're not going to give you any more weapons,

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Speaker 15: whether they're nuclear weapons or conventional weapons. That's the mission.

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Speaker 15: It's not regime change, that's not the mission. The mission

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Speaker 15: is to declaw them, to take away their ability to

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Speaker 15: hurt us. If you take off all the teeth and

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Speaker 15: the claws from a tiger, you can walk into a

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Speaker 15: tiger's cage and be safe. So that's what we have

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Speaker 15: to do. We have to remove their claws and their

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Speaker 15: their fangs. That's the mission.

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Speaker 13: Captain a hangar for a second. I want to you

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Speaker 13: always taught me. I'm well trained by you to always

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Speaker 13: keep the main thing, the main thing I want to

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Speaker 13: bring in Steven Mosher, one of our top experts on

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Speaker 13: the Chinese Commis party. Stephen, I was so glad in

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Speaker 13: the in the fog of war here you had an

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Speaker 13: incredible piece up of the New York Post that said, hey,

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Speaker 13: when when tru thanks doing this, his his real target

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Speaker 13: is Beijing? Can you explain We've got about three minutes

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Speaker 13: here to keep you through the break. Can you explain

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Speaker 13: what you meant, sir.

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Speaker 8: Well, I mean seeve that it's it's shock and on Beijing.

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Speaker 8: It has been since Trump took office, the tariffs took

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Speaker 8: a huge bite out of their their ill gotten you know,

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Speaker 8: trade profits. And then it was Panama, We're going to

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Speaker 8: kick Hutchinson Wampo out of Panama. That has now happened.

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Speaker 8: In fact, the Panamanian Supreme Court has said that that

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Speaker 8: that the contract was void ab initio, which means from

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Speaker 8: the beginning, so all of their investment in the Panama

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Speaker 8: Canal ports at each end, Atlantic and Pacific is gone

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Speaker 8: as if it never existed. Big blow to China.

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Speaker 13: Uh.

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Speaker 8: Then we have Venezuela taking away that particular footprint in

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Speaker 8: South America. Now we have the advances in Cuba. Can

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Speaker 8: anyone doubt that Cuba is going to negotiate a deal

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Speaker 8: rather than live in the dark for the next century.

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Speaker 8: We have Iran, the oil from Iran not going to China.

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Speaker 13: Now.

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Speaker 8: The first thing I looked at Steve when we attacked

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Speaker 8: Iran to see what happened to carg Island. Carg Island,

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Speaker 8: Iran's main oil export terminal was in flames, and that

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Speaker 8: means China's oil lifeline from the Ayatola was going up

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Speaker 8: in smoke. That's very important because it means a lot

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Speaker 8: of things. It means, first of all, the Iranians can't

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Speaker 8: get money from China, which was half of their budget.

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Speaker 8: It means secondly that bricks is probably dead because they

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Speaker 8: were paying Iran in red me and be cheap Chinese

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Speaker 8: currency they could print it at will. Now that that

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Speaker 8: is gone, they'll have to pay in dollars again. They'll

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Speaker 8: need bill tens of billions of dollars to pay for oil.

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Speaker 8: Trump is smiling said, we'll be happy to sell them oil.

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Speaker 8: Well yeah, and they'll be paying in dollars. So bricks

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Speaker 8: is dead. The dollar will remain the dominant currency, so

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Speaker 8: every all roads in my view, lead to Beijing. I mean,

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Speaker 8: people should see the pattern. From Panama to Venezuela, from

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Speaker 8: Greenland to Iran. All the pieces of the puzzle are

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Speaker 8: falling into place. Trump is thinking very very bigly here.

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Speaker 8: You know, the premiere win jab Ao ten years ago,

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Speaker 8: the premiere of China from two thousand and two to

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Speaker 8: twenty twelve. Once said Americans are naive and innocent and

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Speaker 8: easily deceived. Think about that. The Chinese leadership think that

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Speaker 8: Americans are naive and innocent and easily deceived. Well, I

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Speaker 8: think they've met their match in Donald Trump. And one

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Speaker 8: of the things he's doing is he's using one of

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Speaker 8: China's ancient stratagems against them. It's called taking the firewood

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Speaker 8: out from under the pot. Well, what does that mean. Well,

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Speaker 8: that meant in traditional Chinese warfare, you took some vital

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Speaker 8: resource away from your enemy in order to prevent them

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Speaker 8: from being able to mobilize an army and fight you. Well,

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Speaker 8: we're literally taking the firewood from away from the teapot

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Speaker 8: refineries in China that we're using it to fuel China's

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Speaker 8: industry and fuel war machine. We're literally taking Trump is

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Speaker 8: taking the firewood out from under the pot alove and

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Speaker 8: that's really hurting China.

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Speaker 13: And now we got hang on, hang on, hang on,

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Speaker 13: hang on, hang on, hang on. We're gonna get to

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Speaker 13: all that. We're gonna take a short commercial break. Steven

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Speaker 13: Mosher's with It's Captain Fanel. We're also gonna get into

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Speaker 13: what happened in Texas last night in this how do

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Speaker 13: you say it? Historic victory for the prop ten the

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Speaker 13: proposal quite simply to a prohibit Trea law the great

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Speaker 13: State of Texas. We're gonna talk all about that. We've

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Speaker 13: got tons of people associated with Texas and politics and

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Speaker 13: conservatism and Maga. Short commercial break. We're going to be

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Speaker 13: back in the warm in just a moment.

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Speaker 4: You know, we still need help from the boss. We

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Speaker 4: need help from the Boss.