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Speaker 1: Hey, there's folks. It is Saturday, February twenty eighth, and

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Speaker 1: while you were sleeping, your country went to war with that.

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Speaker 1: Welcome through this Saturday, February twenty eighth, Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 1: And Robes. This is a morning now. We are waking

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Speaker 1: up a lot of people are just finding this out,

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Speaker 1: including members of Congress. That Operation Epic Fury is underway.

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Speaker 1: The US has attacked Iran, and Robes. This is different

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Speaker 1: from last time.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and we had been hearing about the threats of this.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that any of us were anticipating waking

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Speaker 2: up this morning to that news. Certainly, I can speak

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Speaker 2: for myself saying I wasn't I had I even popped

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Speaker 2: up and you said, babe, were at war. That's a

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Speaker 2: fairly ominous thing to hear on a Saturday morning after

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Speaker 2: just the last couple of months.

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Speaker 3: And yet according to President Trump, necessary.

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Speaker 1: It's necessary. It's what he says. But this is a

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Speaker 1: much different justification than we've heard in the past. Now, folks,

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Speaker 1: we are hopping on here, yes on a Saturday morning,

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Speaker 1: because just wanted to give you a quick update. There's

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Speaker 1: going to be news coverage. You're going to see all

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Speaker 1: day long. But we just want to get you caught

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Speaker 1: up on what happened overnight. And as we're recording this, Robes,

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Speaker 1: this has only been going on for the past five

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Speaker 1: or six hours. That in fact, the US began a

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Speaker 1: major military operation against Iran overnight in coordination with Israel.

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Speaker 1: And while as we are recording, Robes and the President

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Speaker 1: used the word war, we're at war. And right now,

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Speaker 1: missiles are flying all over the Middle East. Missiles are

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Speaker 1: flying into and out of Iran. We are getting reports

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Speaker 1: early of some of the first reports of deaths associated

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Speaker 1: and the President is also warning us Robes that there

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Speaker 1: could be American deaths and casualties as a part of this.

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Speaker 1: This sounds like not just a quick, one and done

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Speaker 1: for a more protracted and a wider ranging, if you will,

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Speaker 1: conflict in that twelve day war we had last summer.

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Speaker 2: Wow, stomach was in knots just hearing you describe all

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Speaker 2: of that. And the President has been warning people in

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Speaker 2: Iran that bombs will be dropping everywhere and that when

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Speaker 2: the dust settles, he said, Iranians should then overtake their government. Now,

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Speaker 2: as you might imagine you just pointed out Iran is

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Speaker 2: retaliating launching missiles at Israel where air raids sirens have

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Speaker 2: been going off. Look, I can't imagine what the Israelis

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Speaker 2: have been through just over the past several years, and

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Speaker 2: now to be at war with Iran and having incoming

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Speaker 1: It's crazy to think they're used to this as almost

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Speaker 1: a way of life. To a certain degree. They know

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Speaker 1: what to do. Here come the sirens. We know where

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Speaker 1: to go, we know what to do. And explosions are

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Speaker 1: being heard in Israel, and they will tell you most

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Speaker 1: of those are familiar. We know those sounds of the

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Speaker 1: interceptor system knocking down so many of the missiles and

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Speaker 1: drones that have been sent their way. This is where

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Speaker 1: we are, folks. And you said it, Robes, don't anybody anticipating, No,

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Speaker 1: it's yes. He's been talking about it. If he's talking

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Speaker 1: about it for weeks, is it ever going to happen?

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Speaker 1: He's gonna make a decision. I guess we should have

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Speaker 1: all been on standby. This could happen at any time.

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Speaker 1: But Robes, to wake up. Here we go again on

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Speaker 1: a Saturday morning. People are waking up in this country,

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Speaker 1: dealing with weather, with travel, with Epstein, with everything that's

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Speaker 1: been coming at us, and you wake up and go,

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Speaker 1: wait what, We're at war? And that's and robes a

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Speaker 1: lot of people, including members of Congress. You're gonna wake

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Speaker 3: That is wild to think about? And the big question

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Speaker 3: is why?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: And why now?

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Speaker 2: President Trump is saying that it is because Iran has

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Speaker 2: refused to make a deal regarding its nuclear ambitions, and

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Speaker 2: so he's you know, yes, he's been warning Iran publicly

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Speaker 2: for weeks, and he warn of US involvement if protesters

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Speaker 1: And he did let everyone know that. He put out

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Speaker 1: a mini speech. It went eight minutes, but He did

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Speaker 1: used to the presidencying announcing that this was going on,

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Speaker 1: and the justification for it, which we should mention Robes,

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Speaker 1: is a much different justification and a much different objective.

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Speaker 1: Last time it was about just shutting down nuclear ambition.

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Speaker 1: He has flat outset regime change is what's wanted through

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Speaker 1: this one, and he the onus on the Iranians. They say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're doing this for you, Now take your government. He

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Speaker 1: is flat out saying this is a move to change

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Speaker 1: the regime in Iran. That, dear lady, is going to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because once you take out a government sometimes it's

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Speaker 2: part of your responsibility to then build.

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Speaker 3: The new government back up.

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Speaker 2: But you're hearing Trump and the speech, and we'll get

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Speaker 2: into the exact wording that he used. Yes, say we're

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Speaker 2: doing this for you. You've been asking us for years.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm the president who's actually going.

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Speaker 3: To do it for you.

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Speaker 2: But you have to be ready to step in, pick

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Speaker 2: up the pieces and rebuild your own country.

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Speaker 3: That has never really ever happened before.

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Speaker 2: When a country is in shambles, typically it needs that nation,

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Speaker 2: especially the one who broke it down to help build

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Speaker 3: And we've always said as.

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Speaker 2: A country, we're not into nation building, but we're certainly

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Speaker 1: Apparently, Yeah, we're just getting Venezuela squared away right now

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Speaker 1: and now here. I swear rose when this I first

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Speaker 1: We don't think at least I said, wow, is Ayatola?

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Speaker 1: How many gonna be over in Brooklyn at the MBC

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Speaker 1: with Madua here in the next war crimes. Yes, this

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Speaker 1: is not the suggestion at all, and they are absolutely

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Speaker 1: telling will not be any boots on the ground related

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Speaker 1: to this operation. But the question starts to get asked

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Speaker 1: by the security exports robes, how are you going to

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Speaker 1: change regime? How are you gonna do this without having

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Speaker 1: lay out roads, which is much different than what he

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Speaker 1: laid out before. But this was a video he posted

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Speaker 1: two thirty in the morning. Uh, he's standing there by

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Speaker 1: this nobody else around him. He stayed to his remarks

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Speaker 1: in this prepared speech. I didn't see him ad live

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Speaker 3: No, No, he stuck to his notes.

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Speaker 2: And it was a little bit of a It felt

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Speaker 2: like a little bit of an ominous setting. Seemed like

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Speaker 2: with a darker background. Yes it was. It definitely felt ominous,

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Speaker 2: and it was pre taped. I don't think it was

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Speaker 2: at two thirty in the morning that he put this

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Speaker 2: this video it was.

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Speaker 1: I think he released it the operations start at maybe

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Speaker 1: an hour hour and a half before they're saying. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: he gets the word out there, and it sounds like

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Speaker 1: and again, these are important. We're not going to read

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Speaker 1: the whole thing to you, but these were the important

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Speaker 1: nuggets here and robes he does. He sounds like he

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Speaker 1: is preparing us for a larger scale engagement than we

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Speaker 1: saw the last time.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he began with this. The United States military began

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Speaker 2: major combat operations in Iran. Our objective is to defend

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Speaker 2: the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now that's something that's general, that's something we've heard before.

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Speaker 1: But we've always been told, right, Brobes, that it's their

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Speaker 1: nuclear ambitions, the nuclear ambitions. We can't let them go

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Speaker 1: a step further. That's why we had to attack last summer.

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Speaker 1: We can't let them go further. This is now sounding

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Speaker 1: like a different justification. This next line, for sure, he

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Speaker 1: goes back in history for why this moment is why

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Speaker 3: Yes, this is what the President said.

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Speaker 2: For forty seven years, the Iranian regime has chanted death

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Speaker 2: to America and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and

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Speaker 2: mass murder, targeting the United States, our troops, and the

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Speaker 2: innocent people in many many countries. Among the regime's very

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Speaker 2: first acts was to back a violent takeover of the

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Speaker 2: US embassy in Tehran, holding dozens of American hostages for

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Speaker 2: four hundred and forty four days. In nineteen eighty three,

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Speaker 2: Iran's proxies carried out the Marine Barracks bombing in Beirut.

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Speaker 2: They killed two hundred and forty one American military personnel.

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Speaker 2: The regime's proxies have continued to launch countless attacks against

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Speaker 2: shipping lines. It's been mass terror and we're not going

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Speaker 1: And he goes back to our history like you've all

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Speaker 1: been agitating us for a long time. This really did

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Speaker 1: sound like we've just been keeping these receipts we're adding

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Speaker 1: up and finally we're sick of this, and you got

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Speaker 1: the wrong president. You're messing with the wrong dude. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's unclear though what the straw that broke the camel's

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Speaker 2: far in history to detail all of the transgressions that

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Speaker 2: Iran has committed against America. I yet I don't understand

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Speaker 2: what this latest thing was that created now now being

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Speaker 2: the moment or the knee for an actual attack.

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Speaker 1: And we should mention we didn't say the top negotiations

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Speaker 1: have been going on the US and Iran have been talking,

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Speaker 1: actively negotiating even as late as Thursday. Jared Kushner and

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Speaker 1: said the envoy we should know with cough, we should know,

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Speaker 1: these are the phusiest two dudes on the planet, along

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Speaker 1: with Rubio. Just we're talking. On Thursday, President said he

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Speaker 1: didn't like how those negotiations necessarily went, and here we are,

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Speaker 1: but wrote the justification now is much much different, and

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Speaker 1: he is saying that part of it, yes, is those negotiations.

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Speaker 1: But like you just laid out history, he went back

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Speaker 1: to the hostage. He said, that is part of the

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Speaker 1: justification for today.

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Speaker 2: Something happened in nineteen eighty three.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're going back to. So he's using this justification.

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Speaker 1: He said. They rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions,

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Speaker 1: and we can't take it anymore. Instead, they attempted to

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Speaker 1: rebuild their nuclear program and to continue developing the long

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Speaker 1: range missile that can now threaten our very good friends

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Speaker 1: and allies in Europe. Are troops stationed overseas and could

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Speaker 1: soon reach the American homeland. That sounds scary. Security experts

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Speaker 1: say something else that they don't have that capability and

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Speaker 1: they won't anytime soon fine, but still to put that

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Speaker 1: they go, hell, yeah, we got to stop that. We

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Speaker 2: Yes, but what's interesting is he mentioned our good friends

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Speaker 2: If you're closer logistically to said country that is building

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Speaker 3: But it's of note. Great Britain not involved. I know

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Speaker 1: Absolutely is, so this next line here, But the President

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Speaker 2: Oh that's right, he says, for these reasons, the United

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Speaker 1: We always knew about that part. But he lays out

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Speaker 1: This is like they have made a decision. It sounds

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Speaker 2: Oh no, when you make a move like this, you

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Speaker 3: And that's the question.

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Speaker 2: Can you do it without He claims he's not putting

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Speaker 1: But stay here, folks. He had a warning, a warning

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Speaker 1: The President warned of that in his speech, and I

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Speaker 2: Just even this is a Saturday morning shocker, just to

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Speaker 3: We doing the right thing?

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Speaker 2: We've joined with Israel, and even members of our own government,

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Speaker 2: as you pointed out, are waking up and saying, wait,

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Speaker 3: Who gave the green light to this?

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Speaker 2: Does the President even need congressional approval these days?

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Speaker 1: Obviously that's going to be the debate. Ah way, he's

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Speaker 1: And some will say he has the power to do this.

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Speaker 2: They're not awake, they're sleeping, and they went to bed

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Speaker 3: Yes, we'll continue to read part of what the press.

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Speaker 2: He said, I do not make this statement lightly. The

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Speaker 1: Maybe if Americans believe that. Okay, but he's essentially saying

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Speaker 1: This next part here roped. We don't exactly know what

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Speaker 3: So lay down your arms.

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Speaker 2: You will be treated fairly with total immunity, or you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just give up your weapons to whom and then

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Speaker 1: maybe that sounds attractive. We don't know how that would work,

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Speaker 1: I don't know who are they going to? He didn't

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Speaker 2: Yes, and then so then he goes on to address

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Speaker 2: Look easy to say, but now, if you're not getting

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Speaker 1: But this next, this last part here, he really went

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Speaker 2: Yes, he says, for many years you have asked for

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Speaker 1: We chall see it was a weird thing. You've been

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Speaker 1: The tone sounded I get what he's saying, but it

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Speaker 1: Do they? I don't know. There is obviously robes the

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Speaker 2: The change is scary, Change is hard, and change usually

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Speaker 1: death and chaos, And this is not how anybody wants

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Speaker 1: to wake up. Nobody wants war and robes. You said it.

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Speaker 1: What has been the week? The Clinton's right Epstein.

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Speaker 3: Testimony calls for Trump to testify.

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Speaker 1: Missing files all these things. Now, this has been talked

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Speaker 1: about obviously with Iran for weeks and these negotiations going on.

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Speaker 1: But of course you're going to have some people like, wow,

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Speaker 1: wag the dog. He really changed the topic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he did. He certainly did. I mean that is

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Speaker 2: I believe what I said to you jokingly. I was like, Wow,

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Speaker 2: what a wag the dog moment. I mean, there will

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Speaker 2: of course be folks and critics who do say that

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Speaker 2: the timing is suspicious. But regardless of what everyone wants

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Speaker 2: to think, it is happening right now as we record this,

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Speaker 2: and it is going to continue, and as we heard

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Speaker 2: the President say, it is going to be massive and ongoing,

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Speaker 2: and of course we will keep our eye on this

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Speaker 2: developing story in the meantime, though, we appreciate you listening

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Speaker 2: to us. As always, I'm Ami Roebuck alongside TJ.

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Speaker 3: Holmes. We will talk to you soon