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Speaker 1: America is at war, and the reason, according to Marco Rubio,

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Speaker 1: is because Israel was going to attack, and since they

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Speaker 1: were going to attack and Iran might retaliate, America must

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Speaker 1: go to war.

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Speaker 2: The second question they've been asked is why now. Well,

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Speaker 2: there's two reasons why now. The first is it was

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Speaker 2: abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone,

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Speaker 2: the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going

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Speaker 2: to respond and respond against.

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Speaker 3: The United States. The orders had been delegated down to

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Speaker 3: the field commanders. It was automatic, and in fact.

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Speaker 2: It bear to be true because in fact, within an

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Speaker 2: hour of the initial attack on the Leadership compound, the

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Speaker 2: missile forces in the South and in the North for

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Speaker 2: that matter, had already been activated to launch.

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Speaker 3: In fact, those that already been prepositioned.

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Speaker 1: Is that the definition of making America great again, America

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Speaker 1: has never looked weaker. We have become a vassal state

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Speaker 1: and our soldiers' passions for the Israelis and the Saudis

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Speaker 1: who cheerleaded Trump and manipulated him into starting a war

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Speaker 1: that is spiraling all over the Middle East, which is

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Speaker 1: in flames. There is no plan, there is no strategy,

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Speaker 1: wars are much easier to start than they are to end.

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Speaker 1: Let's get deeper into the most famous broken promise in

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Speaker 1: American history, which is this. It is Tuesday, March the third,

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Speaker 1: and I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. Why are

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Speaker 1: we fighting this war? Pete Hesath and others say it's

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Speaker 1: for a regime change, Yet others say it's for the

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Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. Some say it's for the Iranian people so

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Speaker 1: they may have democracy. Marc Arubio says it's for Israel.

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Speaker 1: Why are we fighting? There has never been more confusion

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Speaker 1: from the most senior people in the government about why

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Speaker 1: military action has commenced. Ever, it's not that it's a

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Speaker 1: foolish war, which it is. It's a war that the

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Speaker 1: people who accepted it cannot tell you why it is.

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Speaker 1: Young Americans are dying far from home.

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Speaker 4: Here's Trump and we have right from the beginning. We

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Speaker 4: projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to

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Speaker 4: go far longer than that. We'll do it. Whatever somebody

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Speaker 4: said today, they said, oh, well, the president wants to

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Speaker 4: do it really quickly. After that, he'll get bored. I

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Speaker 4: don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this, do you

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Speaker 4: agree with that. Pete. I don't think there's anything mister General,

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Speaker 4: I think there's nothing boring about it. Somebody actually said

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Speaker 4: from the media, I think he'll get bored after about

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Speaker 4: a week or two. No, we don't get bored. I

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Speaker 4: never get bored. If I got bored, I wouldn't be

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Speaker 4: standing here right now. I guarantee you that to go

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Speaker 4: through what I had to go through.

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Speaker 3: Here's Rubia that's in rond despite years of sanction.

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Speaker 2: Imagine a year from now or a year and a

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Speaker 2: half from now, the capabilities they would have to inflict

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Speaker 2: damage on us. It's an unacceptable risk, especially in the

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Speaker 2: hands of a regime that's run.

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Speaker 3: By radical clerics.

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Speaker 2: The Ayahtola is a radical was a radical cleric. That

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Speaker 2: entire regime is led by radical clerics who don't make

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Speaker 2: geopolitical decisions. They make decisions on the basis of theology,

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Speaker 2: their view of theology, which is an apocalyptic one that

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Speaker 2: has to be taken very seriously as well.

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Speaker 3: So that was the purpose for what this operation is

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Speaker 3: all about.

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Speaker 1: Here's Hegsha.

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Speaker 5: We will leave Eran when we complete all of our objectives.

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Speaker 2: What are our objectives and can you share more information

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Speaker 2: on how the soldiers who were killed were killed.

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Speaker 6: Well, I laid out the objectives, as did the chairman.

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Speaker 6: They're completely nested. I mean, Iran has an ability to

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Speaker 6: project power against us and our allies in ways that

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Speaker 6: we can't we can't tolerate. So whether that's ballistic missiles

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Speaker 6: and drones, so offensive capabilities effectively their navy which would

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Speaker 6: attempt to at other terms and impose different costs, drone

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Speaker 6: capabilities which we laid out there, and ultimately they'll just

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Speaker 6: tying it back to Midnight Hammer. The president has been

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Speaker 6: willing to make a deal.

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Speaker 1: Here's mar Kwayne Mullin.

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Speaker 5: But it's up to the Iraqi people, I'm sorry, the

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Speaker 5: Iranian people to choose their next leader. It's up to

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Speaker 5: them to rise up and kick this regime out of place.

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Speaker 5: If they do not, then they will be with a

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Speaker 5: different leader, but the same regime. If they choose to

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Speaker 5: get a different leader that we can have a relationship

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Speaker 5: with which we would love to. Prior to nineteen seventy

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Speaker 5: nine we had a good relationship with a run But

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Speaker 5: if they if they choose to pick up a leader Stuart,

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Speaker 5: we will surround that leader, not necessarily with boots on

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Speaker 5: the ground, but with assets to make sure that that

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Speaker 5: leader can be protected. Rise up, and then the Iranian

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Speaker 5: people will have the opportunity to choose their next leadership.

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Speaker 1: They are like hamsters scrambling on their wheel. Each day

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Speaker 1: that the Iranian regime survives, the American musician will deteriorate.

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Speaker 1: There has never been a successful war fought entirely from

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Speaker 1: the air, which is why Donald Trump said this about

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Speaker 1: American forces being put on the ground. Does anybody remember

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Speaker 1: how long we stayed in Iraq? Iran is a much

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Speaker 1: much larger country, and the truth of the matter is

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Speaker 1: the United States Army, in the United States Marine Corps

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Speaker 1: are not big enough to fight a war alone in

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Speaker 1: Iran without allies. You do know what that means. If

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Speaker 1: you're a mother, a father, a brother, a sister, a spouse,

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Speaker 1: it means that there will be a draft, Yes, a draft.

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Speaker 1: But Baron Trump's not going in Yahoo, is partying in Miami.

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Speaker 1: He's not fighting in the Israeli Army. Don Junior and

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Speaker 1: Eric their kids, they're too good for war, too important

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Speaker 1: for the future of the Trump brand. But your kids,

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Speaker 1: they're good to go. This war will be remembered even

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Speaker 1: in its earliest days it can be seen clearly as

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Speaker 1: among the foremost disasters in American foreign policy history, which

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Speaker 1: is saying something because we've had nothing but disasters for

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Speaker 1: twenty five years, disaster upon disaster upon disaster, which all

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Speaker 1: piled up and led to Trump, and now here we

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Speaker 1: are on the edge of World War three. There are

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Speaker 1: seventeen countries that have had Iranian missiles fall upon them.

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Speaker 1: This was a war of choice, a war of Trump's choice,

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Speaker 1: and every American should understand that when they go to

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Speaker 1: the gas station and fill up, that's on Trump, just

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Speaker 1: like the higher prices are on Trump for everything you

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Speaker 1: try to buy. The Trump presidency is a disaster. It

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Speaker 1: is wrecking America, not making it great again. And more

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Speaker 1: and more people obviously see that clearly, but too few

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Speaker 1: saw it clearly enough when there was time to stop

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Speaker 1: the madness. Donald Trump will be president for almost three

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Speaker 1: more years, and by the time we get to the end,

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Speaker 1: nothing will be the same. And when our children ask

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Speaker 1: how did that happen? Why did it happen, the answer

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Speaker 1: will be because we voted for him. This is the warning.

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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you

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Speaker 1: to join this community where I promise to be honest, blunt,

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Speaker 1: and direct about what is happening in this country. America

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Speaker 1: is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel and

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