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Speaker 1: And for details. Now and more details about what's going

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Speaker 1: oil strategist for a Bloomberg first Word, and I encourage

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Speaker 1: you know, Julian, great to have you with us. It's

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Speaker 1: voted for full independence, and yet Iraq's government doesn't want

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Speaker 1: of history here. The city of Kirkuk has been disputed

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Speaker 1: wasn't under control of the Kurdish regional government. When Iraqi

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Speaker 1: of Iraq's neighbors. So how much of this Julian is

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Speaker 1: a purely economic issue? Who gets control over these oil fields?

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Speaker 1: And how important are these oil fields strategically? I think

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Speaker 1: the issue is is it's certainly for for Iraqis and

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Speaker 1: It is about national destiny and the shape of Iraq

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Speaker 1: But the reason that it's important is that it's delivered

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Speaker 1: keep running. Julian real quick, I'm trying to get an

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining us, and your story was

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Speaker 1: really terrific. I recommend everyone read it. Bloomberg dot Com,

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Speaker 1: slash goad Fly Julian Lee, oil strategist for Bloomberg, First

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Speaker 1: Word and a Gadfly columnists. President Trump last week asked

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Speaker 1: Iranian nuclear agreement saying it doesn't do enough to contain

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Speaker 1: Global Security. Ariel, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Can we just go over what the main issues are

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Speaker 1: Because Trump is consistent. He criticized the deal with Iron

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Speaker 1: because it is not a good deal for the United States. UH.

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Speaker 1: where were you on October nine, eighty seven? Well, some

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Speaker 1: The holy grail in the food industry to create something

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