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Speaker 1: I see the Tucker Carlson and Senator Ted Cruz interview.

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Speaker 2: It seems like this issue on whether or not the

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Speaker 2: United States should strike is kind of dividing a lot

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Speaker 2: of your supporters. No, my supporters for me, My supporters

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Speaker 2: are America first. They make America great again. My supporters

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Speaker 2: don't want to see around have a nuclear weapon. Tucker's

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Speaker 2: a nice guy. He called and apologized the other day.

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Speaker 2: Ted Cruz is a nice guy. I mean, he's been

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Speaker 2: with me for a whole time.

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Speaker 3: But very simple.

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Speaker 2: If they think that it's okay for Iran to have

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Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon, and then they should oppose me. But

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Speaker 2: nobody thinks it's okay.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 3: Good Friday morning. It's the forty seven Morning Update. Nice

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Speaker 3: to have you with us, and we've got two big

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Speaker 3: stories for you this morning. First up, Donald Trump giving

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Speaker 3: diplomacy more time when it comes to Iran, as there's

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Speaker 3: major meetings in Geneva directly with European countries and Iran. Also,

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Speaker 3: the former leadership of Iran's Sun telling the people in

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Speaker 3: Iran it is time for you to rise up and

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Speaker 3: topple the current regime. Is there a real chance that

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Speaker 3: Iran's leadership could collapse? We'll explain that for you as well.

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Speaker 3: It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.

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Speaker 3: Story Number one major news coming out of the White House,

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Speaker 3: and that is that Donald Trump is now saying that

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Speaker 3: he may take up to two weeks to side whether

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Speaker 3: he is going to hit the main site of Iran's

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Speaker 3: nuclear program. Now what does this mean, Well, multiple different things.

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Speaker 3: Number One, it's shifting towards diplomacy. According to the Washington Post,

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Speaker 3: has temporarily stepped back from immediate military action, allowing up

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Speaker 3: to two weeks to exploit a new opportunity for diplomacy

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Speaker 3: ahead of the planned talks in Geneva with European foreign

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Speaker 3: ministers and Iran's foreign minister. That is happening, by the

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Speaker 3: way today. One of the reasons why the President said, okay,

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Speaker 3: I can maybe wait another twenty four forty eight hours,

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Speaker 3: see if you guys can talk. So sends into Iran's leadership. Now,

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Speaker 3: these European led negotiations could be significant. The Financial Times

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Speaker 3: right now reporting the European powers, including the UK, France

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Speaker 3: and Germany. We'll meet with the Iranian officials in Geneva.

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Speaker 3: This is the first quote formal diplomatic engagement since Israel's strike,

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Speaker 3: and Trump is giving diplomacy this window before deciding. Now,

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Speaker 3: there are some that are criticizing Donald Trump in the

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Speaker 3: media on the left, saying, oh, he's lying, he's you know,

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Speaker 3: he was telling the people who ran that they must

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Speaker 3: leave now, and now he's backing down. He's being a

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Speaker 3: ws No, he's being responsible president that is allowing for

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Speaker 3: negotiations while also having pressure on them to hurry up

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Speaker 3: and get a deal done. You have to remember that

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump gave them sixty days referring to Iran to

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Speaker 3: get a deal done, and they didn't. In what happened

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Speaker 3: on day sixty one, their site started to be attacked

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Speaker 3: when the Wall Street journal is also noting that Trump's

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Speaker 3: two week deadline is a strategic delay aiming to compel

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Speaker 3: Rand towards negotiations or collapse under mounting global pressure. Now,

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Speaker 3: this timeframe also shifts immediate responsibility to Israel. That is

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Speaker 3: something that Israel is more than happy to have because

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Speaker 3: it's clear that their work and hitting certain targets they

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Speaker 3: believe is not done yet. And this also reflects Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump's campaign promise to avoid US war commitments. Now, the

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Speaker 3: White House signals are also very clear. At this hour.

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Speaker 3: The AP is confirming the White House via the pre

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Speaker 3: Secretary Caroline Levitt framing this two week period as driven

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Speaker 3: by quote a substantial chance of negotiations and Geneva. Trump

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Speaker 3: emphasized he's always interested in a diplomatic solution while maintaining

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Speaker 3: military strength as a backup. Now, why is this a

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Speaker 3: positive development? Is the question that many of you may

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump's been in favor of the entire time he's

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Speaker 3: from immediate military escalation, something we were expecting honestly over

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Speaker 3: the last twenty four to forty eight hours, and it

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Speaker 3: signals Trump's openness to diplomatic engagement, especially through the European mediation,

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Speaker 3: but not actually involved in it. We also know there's

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Speaker 3: no immediate US strike at least at this moment. Military

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Speaker 3: options we have been told have been laid out and

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Speaker 3: wants to avoid war. The bottom line is this. Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump's announcement of a two week decision window reflects a

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Speaker 3: major pivot. It's a pivot from what we thought was

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Speaker 3: to negotiations, and without that brinksmanship and without that threat

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Speaker 3: four hours from Donald Trump, it is bringing a RAND

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Speaker 3: So if you take a step back and you look

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Speaker 3: is good news for America and our interests. I think

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Speaker 3: at the end of the day, many Americans don't want

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Speaker 3: also overwhelming support in new polling for making sure that

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Speaker 3: Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. And the only person

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Speaker 3: clearly the United States of America with our bunker busting bombs.

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Speaker 3: Now there's also one other person that can admit, defeat,

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Speaker 3: that's the hope in these meetings is that diplomacy will

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Speaker 1: Now story number two.

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Speaker 3: The exiled Crown Prince is now saying the Islamic Republic

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Speaker 3: is collapsing as we speak in Iran. The exile Crown

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Speaker 3: urged Iranians on Tuesday to prepare for the impeding fall

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Speaker 3: the Islamic Republic has reached its end and is in

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Speaker 3: the process of collapsing. The Supreme Leader is like a

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Speaker 3: The future is bright and together we will pass through

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Speaker 3: this sharp turn in history. Now, the military conflict between

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Speaker 3: Iran and Israel stretched into its sixth day, with little

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Speaker 3: They ruled Iran from nineteen twenty five to nineteen seventy nine.

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Speaker 3: That's when it was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution. That

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Speaker 3: to social media in English and Farsi and directed the

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Speaker 3: messages to his fellow countrymen and encouraged a full out uprising,

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Speaker 3: saying this now is the time to rise, the time

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Speaker 3: to reclaim Iran. Let us all come forward and bring

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Speaker 3: Islamic Republic. He also urged military, law enforcement, security forces,

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Speaker 3: government under the leadership that is currently there in Iran,

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Speaker 3: saying this, do not stand against the Iranian people for

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Speaker 3: the sake of a regime whose fall has begun and

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Speaker 3: is inevitable. Do not sacrifice yourselves for a decaying regime.

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Speaker 3: By standing with the peace, you can save your lives,

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Speaker 3: play an historic role in the transformation of the Islamic Republic,

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Speaker 3: and take part in building the future of Iran. Now

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Speaker 3: you hear this and is it real? There's a chance

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Speaker 3: that all of it could come cut tumbling down around

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Speaker 3: the leadership in Iran. Yes. Why because we know that

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Speaker 3: the leader of Iran is in hiding. We also know

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Speaker 3: that millions of people in Iran fled Tehran when Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump said you need to leave. Now another example of

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Speaker 3: just how fragile the current regime may be. And finally,

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Speaker 3: regime may realize they're not as powerful as they thought,

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Speaker 3: especially knowing the air superiority was toppled in a matter

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Speaker 3: of hours by Israel, and Israel can do basically whatever

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Speaker 3: there's a lot of reasons to give diplomacy and other

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Speaker 3: things like this few more days before the present makes

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Speaker 3: a decision, and that clearly is good for all Americans

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Speaker 3: and also the Middle East.

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