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Speaker 1: USA, USA, USA, USA, USUS.

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Speaker 2: And good morning everybody on this momentous February twenty eighth,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, please be joined by my friends Malcolm Nance,

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Speaker 2: black Man Spy, and of course Ken Harbaugh of the

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Speaker 2: Ken Harbaugh Show, both veterans of the United States Navy

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Speaker 2: Senior Chief Malcolm Nance and Ken Harbaugh.

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Speaker 3: A naval aviator.

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Speaker 2: We talked not too many days ago about this moment.

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Speaker 2: We didn't know when all of us were sure that

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Speaker 2: it was going to happen. I thought it was going

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Speaker 2: to happen earlier in the week. I think you guys

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Speaker 2: did too. But alas here we are by weeks in

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Speaker 2: the United States is at war and just to get

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Speaker 2: started and to set a base. Maybe someday people will

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Speaker 2: look back at this and they can use it as

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Speaker 2: an evidence of what was happening in the country that,

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Speaker 2: unless I missed it, there was no debate about America

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Speaker 2: going to war.

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Speaker 3: There were no hearings, there were no.

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Speaker 2: Speeches on the floors of either the House or the Senate,

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Speaker 2: and there was no public outcry about any of it.

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Speaker 2: And so with a whimper of descent and a mountain

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Speaker 2: of indifference, America is attacking Iran, and for the third

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Speaker 2: time in the twenty first century, a new war has

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Speaker 2: begun in the Middle East. Ken Harbaugh, how are you

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Speaker 2: feeling this morning?

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Speaker 4: Well, the fact that we had to endure the longest

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Speaker 4: State of the Union speech in history, where the President

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Speaker 4: had the opportunity to explain to the American people the

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Speaker 4: most momentous decision a president can make, the commitment of

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Speaker 4: American lives to an endeavor like this, and chose to

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Speaker 4: have the subject almost entirely is a damning indictment of

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Speaker 4: where this man puts his priorities. Let's not forget that

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Speaker 4: none of his family members have ever had skin in

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Speaker 4: the game, one of the only families in the history

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Speaker 4: of the presidency to literally have zero connection to the military.

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Speaker 4: We know about his disdain for the military itself, the

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Speaker 4: suckers and losers comments, which is absolutely verifiable, and then

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Speaker 4: you have him talking about from behind the Presidential seal

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Speaker 4: the fact that lives might be lost as cavalierly as

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Speaker 4: he did. I took that as a slap in the

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Speaker 4: face and hopefully another wake up call to the American

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Speaker 4: people that this president has absolutely all the wrong priorities.

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Speaker 4: And look, I think You only need to consider the

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Speaker 4: fact that the timing of this was built around stock

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Speaker 4: market openings, not around tactical or strategic considerations. The number

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Speaker 4: one timing issue was making sure it happened at a

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Speaker 4: period in the news cycle, at a time when the

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Speaker 4: markets wouldn't react to negatively, and as a result, lives

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Speaker 4: are going to be lost. Of course, the hypocrisy, which

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Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll get to, is riven throughout this decision.

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Speaker 4: He accused Obama how many times of planning a war

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Speaker 4: with Iran to save his presidency, and yet that is

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Speaker 4: exactly what he is doing.

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Speaker 2: Malcolm, Nance in the early hours of this is anything

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Speaker 2: that you're seeing surprising you in the execution of the attack?

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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I've been going at.

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Speaker 3: This since about Malcolm. We don't have sound from you.

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Speaker 5: Oh that's a surprise, can you not hear me?

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Speaker 2: We'll let Malcolm troubleshoot that for a second. Ken, we

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Speaker 2: were talking about the spike that's registerable in prediction market

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Speaker 2: betting in the moments before the attack commences, and this

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Speaker 2: is something that we've spoken about casually before. But what

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Speaker 2: did you notice there? And comment, if you will, on

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Speaker 2: the implications of that that there might be open air betting,

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Speaker 2: like at the Bizarre in the moments before US military attack,

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Speaker 2: where there's clear fore knowledge that the attack is imminent.

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Speaker 2: What are your observations about all of all of that.

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Speaker 4: It's that part of it that should be most alarming.

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Speaker 4: There are always going to be people betting on horrible

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Speaker 4: things happening, and the markets I'm looking mostly at Polymarket

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Speaker 4: and Kalshi. They have odds, have had odds for a

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Speaker 4: long time on US going to war with Iran. But

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Speaker 4: in the hours and minutes before the strikes, you saw

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Speaker 4: a massive spike, like thousands of percent increases in the

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Speaker 4: volume of betting that America was about to go to war.

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Speaker 4: That's an indication of insider trading. And if this were

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Speaker 4: happening on Wall Street, the investigations would start tomorrow. But

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Speaker 4: the fact that it's happening with the lives of Americans

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Speaker 4: and Iranians as the chips, as the pieces on this board,

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Speaker 4: and I don't know if we'll ever get to the

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Speaker 4: life that people inside the White House and close to

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Speaker 4: Trump are making a fortune on committing Americans to war.

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Speaker 4: When you look at the timing of these bets, the

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Speaker 4: returns on these bets. In literally the hours and minutes

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Speaker 4: before we're going to war, you have a massive spike

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Speaker 4: I would be shocked if these weren't coming from people

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Speaker 4: who knew the American war machine was about to be

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Speaker 4: propelled into action by Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: Extraordinary, extraordinary corruption to fathom. Malcolm, are you with Can

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Speaker 2: you hear me now?

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Speaker 3: I can hear you?

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Speaker 2: Anything surprising to you about the early hours of the

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Speaker 2: execution of the attack.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, like I said earlier, which you couldn't hear, I've

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Speaker 5: been up since three am watching this. As soon as

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Speaker 5: the President made his pre recorded speech, it was pretty

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Speaker 5: clear that the fight was on. Now. The first thing

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Speaker 5: that I want to call your attention to is the

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Speaker 5: very fact that I've spelled this out. I just did

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Speaker 5: a substack for two hours. We are at war with Iran.

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Speaker 5: This is the US Israel Iranian war. But make no

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Speaker 5: bones about it, it is the Donald Trump US versus

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Speaker 5: Iran war. He made that very clear. The primary reason

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Speaker 5: he gave was regime change. He expects the United States

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Speaker 5: somehow to use its air power to kill individuals in

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Speaker 5: the regime enough that the Iranian people can rise up

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Speaker 5: and take over the country. That is a pie in

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Speaker 5: the sky that I've been hearing since my first deployment

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Speaker 5: over there in nineteen eighty five, forty years ago. This

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Speaker 5: belief that we can just bomb our way into getting

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Speaker 5: people to side with us is a fantasy, and it

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Speaker 5: costs maybe as many as ten to fifteen thousand people

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Speaker 5: of their lives last month. Yes, things are difficult in

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Speaker 5: Iran in some sectors, but as a country of ninety

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Speaker 5: three million people, it is four times bigger than all

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Speaker 5: of Iraq. It takes forever. I mean, you start at

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Speaker 5: the bottom of the Arabian Gulf Persian Gulf and steam

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Speaker 5: from you know, Bandorabas all the way up to Bandar

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Speaker 5: Kamani near the Iran Iraq border. That takes a day

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Speaker 5: is an enormous country. Missiles take a long time to

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Speaker 5: fly across it. But the second reason Trump allegedly gave

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Speaker 5: was that this was supposed to get rid of Iran's

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Speaker 5: ballistic missile capability reduce the nuclear weapons stockpiles that they

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Speaker 5: claimed last year were obliterated. We all know here. I mean,

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Speaker 5: I'm an intelligence professional. None of that was obliterated. We

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Speaker 5: just blew up the facilities and they got them nuclear materials.

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Speaker 2: And he said again, he said again in his state

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Speaker 2: of union, Malcolm that the nuclear weapons program was obliterated,

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Speaker 2: if I if I heard that correctly. So we're just

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Speaker 2: days on from him now again obliterated to we're attacking

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Speaker 2: something that was obliterated.

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Speaker 5: So he also said that he was out to destroy

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Speaker 5: the ballistic missile production capability, the sheet Shaheed missile production capability,

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Speaker 5: and that the US Navy was going to do what

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Speaker 5: we have been waiting for since I fought them in

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Speaker 5: nineteen eighty eight. We're gonna savage the Iranian Navy. Great aspirational, wonderful,

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Speaker 5: but you cannot do this in a very short period

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Speaker 5: of time. Initially he said it was a multi day war.

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Speaker 5: Now he is referring to it as a campaign, which

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Speaker 5: means that this is not going to go a week.

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Speaker 5: I believe the technical term he used was several days, right,

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Speaker 5: this is likely going to be several months. The Iranians

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Speaker 5: are going to drag this out, and they played it

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Speaker 5: out first thing this morning. Within an hour of the strikes,

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Speaker 5: they had already prepositioned and launched ballistic missiles into the

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Speaker 5: following countries. They launched them into Israel, which included hits

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Speaker 5: the south, they attacked a US base in Jordan, and

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Speaker 5: there's reports that ballistic missiles had multiple hits on that base.

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Speaker 5: They attacked US forces in Iraq. They attacked US bases

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Speaker 5: US Army Central Command Forward Headquarters near Juffra. They attacked

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Speaker 5: video showing the headquarters communications center blowing up with very

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Speaker 5: facilities there are burning from stem to stern. As we

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Speaker 5: but Fifth Fleet Headquarters moved to a ship and is

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Speaker 5: Northern Indian Ocean. They then hit Doha, Qatar. US bases

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Speaker 5: in Doha, and in one video, the reason they were

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Speaker 5: reporting explosions in Doha is the interceptors were blasting the

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Speaker 5: exploding and releasing sulfuric gas as debris into the city.

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Speaker 5: I've seen at least two videos of that. Then they

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Speaker 5: hit Abu Dhabi, where I lived for ten years, and

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Speaker 5: they hit the Aldafra airbase just south of the city

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Speaker 5: in a regional war. But Steve, you asked a very

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Speaker 5: specific question, what was the most surprising thing to me?

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Speaker 5: Simply that this attack did not occur at three point

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Speaker 5: at high noon Saturday, which is market day in Tehran.

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Speaker 5: Twelve noon is when the first strike started hitting in Iran.

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Speaker 5: The purpose of this is what we would call a

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Speaker 5: demonstration attack. One, we felt that we could attack that

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Speaker 5: country during daylight on a weekend with impunity. Two those

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Speaker 5: mushroom clouds and clouds of the Ayatolas house blowing up

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Speaker 5: would give the Iranian people a visual that the United

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Speaker 5: States was attacking in their in support of their I

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Speaker 5: don't know if you want to call it a revolution,

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Speaker 5: but whatever their protests were. Last month, Donald Trump himself

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Speaker 5: said it that the United States is intending to send

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Speaker 5: human humanitarian aid to Iran. Surprising word, so I think

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Speaker 5: he assumes that these air strikes are humanitarian operation. But

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Speaker 5: what we are getting into now is going to be

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Speaker 5: an extended asymmetric war where Iran is going to show

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Speaker 5: us they don't need ballistic missiles to make things burn.

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Speaker 3: Ken.

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Speaker 2: Do you know if we have control over the Iranian

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Speaker 2: airspace at.

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Speaker 3: This hour.

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Speaker 4: At this hour, I don't know, but we will soon.

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Speaker 4: And look, I think the nuance in Malcolm's analysis is everything.

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Speaker 4: Because we will dominate the Iranian military does not mean

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Speaker 4: we're going to win this thing. I mean, look at

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Speaker 4: our performance in Afghanistan. That military didn't last very long

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Speaker 4: and it didn't ultimately matter. We left the country with

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Speaker 4: our tail between our legs. We are going to defeat

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Speaker 4: the Iranian military conventionally, we are going to achieve air

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Speaker 4: superiority and air dominance, but the Iranians are going to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and two of the things you just predicted just happened.

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Speaker 2: But never ever in American history, and I mean never ever,

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Speaker 4: I think it bears remembering that we couldn't even affect

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Speaker 4: regime change in Venezuela. In our own backyard, the Maduro

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Speaker 4: regime is still in power there. Anything the White House

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Speaker 4: proclaims after the first few days of this is going

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Speaker 4: to likely be a lie. They lie like they breathe,

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Speaker 4: And I think it gets to the fundamental question, which

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Speaker 4: is the Trumpian psychology behind this. I think when you

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Speaker 4: look at the motivating factors, it is probably less about

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Speaker 4: defending Israel from ballistic missile attacks or rising the raising

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Speaker 4: the price of oil, or whatever the state of strategic

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Speaker 4: objectives are. Then the fact that Donald Trump has one

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Speaker 4: thing left he can control. He can't control inflation, he

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Speaker 4: can't control the release of the Epstein files. He can't

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Speaker 4: control the increasing pushback from Democrats in Congress or the iire,

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Speaker 4: the disdain of the American people that is rising like bile.

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Speaker 4: What he can control is American military might. And I

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Speaker 4: feel like that Toddler instinct of his to lash out

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Speaker 4: when he's under threat is what we're seeing now and

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Speaker 4: it's costing lives.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Malcolm, Well, I'm sorry to have to bring this

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Speaker 5: to your attention, and he mentioned it in his speech.

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Speaker 5: American service members will die in this operation. They may

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Speaker 5: not die being shot down. They may be shot down,

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Speaker 5: they may have You know what we call ken knows

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Speaker 5: better than anybody the golden bebe right. It is that

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Speaker 5: one bullet, that stone that's fired into the air that

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Speaker 5: you think cannot hit you, that through some change in

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Speaker 5: physics or lift of the air, hits you you and

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Speaker 5: brings you down right. Fad knocks out your engine. Could

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Speaker 5: be a flock of seagulls that goes through a B

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Speaker 5: two bomber, who knows what it is. Sailors will fall

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Speaker 5: off of ships on air operations. I've worked on the

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Speaker 5: flight deck from when I was a CE cadet. When

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Speaker 5: I was fifteen, I worked on an aircraft carrier flight deck.

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Speaker 5: You can be blown off a flight deck in high

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Speaker 5: intensity operations. You could be a marine training you're a

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Speaker 5: tactical shooting and fall over the side. A aircraft could

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Speaker 5: go off the end of a catapult cold cat and

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Speaker 5: crash or you could be over Iran as a Special

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Speaker 5: Operations soldier. By the way, there are American boots on

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Speaker 5: the ground right now. No, we have Special Operations teams

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Speaker 5: there that are preparing this combat search and rescue mission.

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Speaker 5: We probably have prepositioned helicopters and aircraft, you know, vertical

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Speaker 5: takeoff aircraft there. We have CIA powermilllitaries are definitely their

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Speaker 5: CIA clandestine officers who are supporting some of these air

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Speaker 5: strikes along with the Israelis. But we have an entire

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Speaker 5: structure in place. Special Operations Command was born in the

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Speaker 5: desert of Iran in nineteen seventy nine, and they have

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Speaker 5: been itching to get feedback on the ground there and

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Speaker 5: they are on the ground. I am dead certain without

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Speaker 5: any question. Seals are already carrying out operations along the

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Speaker 5: Iranian coast against any ship missile batteries and where these

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Speaker 5: small craft storage facilities are in the naval bases that

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Speaker 5: are there. We are not hearing about them yet because

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Speaker 5: social media and the videos haven't caught up to this,

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Speaker 5: and they will as ship sink as we start blasting things.

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Speaker 5: As videos start coming in from Iranians like we're seeing,

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Speaker 5: we're going to be seeing a lot more of the

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Speaker 5: kinetic war. But Iran is huge. It is its exceptionally long,

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Speaker 5: large country. This will take a very very long time.

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Speaker 5: The Iranian's asymmetric capability, more than anything, is very simple.

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Speaker 5: They have a very low bar kill an American capture

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Speaker 5: American service members, capture people that they believe are cooperating

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Speaker 5: with the CIA, like they did with the Israelis, and

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Speaker 5: string them up in public. The Iranian regime is not

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Speaker 5: going to fall unless there is a color revolution where

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Speaker 5: fifty percent of that ninety three million people rise up

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Speaker 5: in people power and overthrow the regime. And then it

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Speaker 5: turns into a blood revolution where they get the guns

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Speaker 5: from the cops and they start shooting their way through

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Speaker 5: the regime. This mission is just going to be about

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Speaker 5: Donald Trump risking American service members' lives for whatever it

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Speaker 5: is in his head. He thinks he's the great Caesar

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Speaker 5: here carrying out a major campaign in Germania. Uh, We've

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Speaker 5: I think he's he's just nero fiddling as the country burned.

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Speaker 4: Yep, we've seen this movie before.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's glad, It'll.

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Speaker 2: Be will be a lot to there'll be a lot

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Speaker 2: to talk about this. Also, this is a terrible day

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Speaker 2: for for the State of Israel, the any person who

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Speaker 2: cares about Israel, israel sovereignty and security in the Middle East.

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Speaker 2: The destruction of the affection between Israel and the United

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Speaker 2: States that has happened under net and Yahoo is just

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Speaker 2: a just a just a tragic thing. And there's enormous,

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Speaker 2: enormous political implications attached to that that that are a

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Speaker 2: lot of conversations will be will be talking about in

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Speaker 2: the near future. But we'll watch this unfold. Pay attention,

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Speaker 2: everybody to the lies. Uh nobody speaking to you on

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Speaker 2: behalf of the government of the United States. I say

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Speaker 2: this sadly, but with precision and accuracy. None of them

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Speaker 2: can be trusted. Do not trust a word, do not

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Speaker 2: believe a sentence. All of these people are liared. They

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Speaker 2: are as unfit as a group as any American leadership

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Speaker 2: has ever been that has taken this country to war.

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Speaker 3: They lack moral authority.

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Speaker 2: They have not debated this, they have no plan, they

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Speaker 2: have no vision for how it ends, and so we

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Speaker 2: are in dangerous hours. One thing that I've always said

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Speaker 2: about fascism is that inevitably fascists start wars will promising peace,

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Speaker 2: and so Nobody should be surprised that Donald Trump didn't

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Speaker 2: mean it. His coalition has every potential to fracture over

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Speaker 2: this because some of those voters. Though I think their

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Speaker 2: view of this foolish, they in fact had believe that

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Speaker 2: he meant it when he was awarded the FIFA Peace

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Speaker 2: Prize that a lot of us laughed at. But here

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Speaker 2: we are, and here we go. Dangerous days ahead, Steve

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Speaker 2: Schmidt with the warning Malcolm Nance black Man, Spy Ken Harbaugh,

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Speaker 2: the Ken Harbaugh Show, President of the Valor Media Network,

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Speaker 2: and cash us if you, of course, if you can

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Speaker 2: at the Save America movement channel as well. Thank you everybody,

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Speaker 2: Thank you for getting on this morning. Keep paying attention.

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Speaker 2: The fun, as they say, is just beginning.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Stiff.

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Speaker 3: Thanks good U