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Speaker 1: Good morning, America.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to American Sunrise. Whether it's culture, we have breaking

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Speaker 1: Politics.

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Speaker 3: President Trump is joining us live now from Florida.

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Speaker 1: We've got your couple. This is what it looks like

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Speaker 1: to be a patriot.

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Speaker 4: We have to protect the American family.

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Speaker 2: The American dream is still alive.

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Speaker 5: I'm David Brody, I'm Terrence, and I'm Doctorina.

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Speaker 6: Breaking news from Real America's Voice.

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Speaker 1: We begin with breaking news.

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Speaker 4: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and the Chairman of the

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Speaker 4: Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kine, are set to

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Speaker 4: hold a briefing on the military operations in Iran any

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Speaker 4: minute now. You can see the podium's already set up.

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Speaker 4: Everyone waiting for them to arrive. Will of course take

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Speaker 4: you there live once it does.

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Speaker 7: Begin.

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Speaker 4: In the meantime, today's hearing comes on the heels of

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Speaker 4: Iran hitting a Saudi oil refinery on the Red Sea

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Speaker 4: and simultaneously setting Katari liquefied natural gas facilities as well

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Speaker 4: as two Kuwaiti oil refineries on fire. Iran is lashing

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Speaker 4: out in retaliation for Israeli strikes, taking a true social

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Speaker 4: President Trump also chiming in and threatening to quote massively

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Speaker 4: blow up the entirety of Iran's Pars natural gas field

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Speaker 4: if Iran attacks Cutter again. That South Pars facility, by

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Speaker 4: the way, is the world's largest gas field. Let's bring

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Speaker 4: in David and doctor Gina to discuss this a little

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Speaker 4: bit further as we wait for the Secretary of War

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Speaker 4: Pete Heike Seth to arrive in the Chairman of the

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Speaker 4: Joint Chiefs of Staff, David want to pose his first

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Speaker 4: question to you. If you remember last the last time

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Speaker 4: we heard from the Secretary of War, he really chided

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Speaker 4: the media for saying that the war is expanding. In fact,

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Speaker 4: he said it's contracting. But I'm sorry these attacks on

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Speaker 4: Iran's neighbors seemed to be just the opposite.

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Speaker 8: It seems that this war is in fact expanding.

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Speaker 9: Yep.

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Speaker 3: I have a feeling we're going to see more of

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Speaker 3: that expansion in just mere moments.

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Speaker 1: I have five words. This could go sideways quickly.

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Speaker 3: We're seeing that as everything you just reported Tea Baits

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Speaker 3: in terms of the region and oil fields and the

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Speaker 3: liquiflied natural gas and Trump now threatening to blow up

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Speaker 3: the South Pars oil field there in Iran, and if

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Speaker 3: Cutter is attacked by Iran and specifically the liquified natural gas.

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Speaker 3: Trump is going to just escalate this here and now

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Speaker 3: Gina potential ground troops. We're here Reuters reporting that the

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Speaker 3: administration is weighing ground troops now to bring into Iran.

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Speaker 3: And you wonder if that is going to be announced

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Speaker 3: this morning.

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Speaker 1: We'll wait and see.

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Speaker 9: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Well, David Brady, I'll say, is you called this I

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Speaker 2: believe from like day one of this war. And it's

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Speaker 2: interesting because you're not you're not opposed to the war,

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Speaker 2: but you called how this would expand and how this

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Speaker 2: could really affect the midterms. It really Maga is extraordinary

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Speaker 2: divided over it, and you called it. I don't think

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Speaker 2: there's a person out there that doesn't think that if

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Speaker 2: Iran had the potential to have nukes in the extraordinarily

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Speaker 2: close future, then something needed to be done about it.

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Speaker 2: But this is now going to go beyond that, and

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Speaker 2: we'll see how the public responds.

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Speaker 4: Here is all right, guys, So as we wait for

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Speaker 4: this news conference to start, let's bring in the editor

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Speaker 4: in chief of Just the News, John Solomon, to offer

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Speaker 4: up a little bit more perspective here. John, good morning,

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Speaker 4: appreciate you joining us. We may ultimately have to interrupt

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Speaker 4: you if in fact this if and when this news

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Speaker 4: conference starts. Your thoughts on all of this, the latest developments,

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Speaker 4: and how this is going to play up, and what

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Speaker 4: we're probably going to hear today from the Secretary what well.

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Speaker 10: Here is that the number of Iranian missiles being fired

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Speaker 10: continues to decline by a large number, so their capability

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Speaker 10: tit for tap. There's a psychological capability for iron, but

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Speaker 10: it's military capability is significantly diminished. And the reason they

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Speaker 10: are firing few and fear missiles is that we've destroyed

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Speaker 10: most of their supplies underground. We've dropped these big bunker

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Speaker 10: even two weeks ago. And I think you'll hear that

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Speaker 10: is getting closer to declaring that this is the operation

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Speaker 10: has met its goal, which is to completely degrade Iran.

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Speaker 10: Its leadership is not really in command and control right now,

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Speaker 10: and its military capabilities are greatly diminished. And I think

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Speaker 10: there may be a moment soon next week, week after

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Speaker 10: If not, we can always resume. But I think at

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Speaker 10: this moment that's the trajectory of the war. The strait

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Speaker 10: military operations in between. We'll see how that how that

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Speaker 10: works out. Looks like he's coming in.

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Speaker 1: John, guess he is coming in.

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Speaker 4: So let's take you to the Pentagon right now.

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Speaker 7: Well, good morning.

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Speaker 11: Yesterday at Dover Air Force Base, President Trump, the Chairman,

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Speaker 11: and I stood in solemn silence as heroes came home,

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Speaker 11: flag draped caskets. We honored them, We grieved with their families,

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Speaker 11: and we listened. What I heard, through tears, through hugs,

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Speaker 11: through strength, and through unbreakable resolve was the same from

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Speaker 11: family after family. They said, finish this honor their sacrifice.

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Speaker 11: Do not waver, do not stop until the job is done.

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Speaker 11: My response, along with that of the President, was simple.

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Speaker 11: Of course, we will finish this. We will honor their sacrifice.

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Speaker 11: Their sacrifice only steals our commitment. I wear this bracelet

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Speaker 11: Staff Sergeant Jorge Olivera. He was one of my sergeants,

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Speaker 11: or one of my specialists in Guantanamo Bay. He deployed

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Speaker 11: later to Afghanistan, where he was killed on nineteen October

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Speaker 11: twenty eleven. Killed ten years after nine to eleven, fifteen

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Speaker 11: years ago. He was one of the one percent, the

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Speaker 11: best of America. Not just a guardsman, but a law

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Speaker 11: enforcement offer officer back home, and a family man. I

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Speaker 11: remember him every day, just like so many other men

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Speaker 11: and women of our generation and previous generations who wear.

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Speaker 7: Bracelets like this, just as we will always remember those

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Speaker 7: lost in this conflict.

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Speaker 11: Their names are now etched into our mission and into

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Speaker 11: the soul of a grateful nation. I stand here today

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Speaker 11: speaking to you, the American people, not through filters, not

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Speaker 11: through reporters, not through cable news spin. A dishonest and

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Speaker 11: anti Trump press will stop at nothing. We know this

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Speaker 11: at this point to downplay progress, amplify every cost, and

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Speaker 7: Question every step. Sadly GDS is.

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Speaker 11: In their DNA. They want President Trump to fail. But you,

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Speaker 11: the American people, no better. Yes, there are reporters in

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Speaker 11: front of me, but they are not our audience today.

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Speaker 11: It's you, the good, decent, patriotic American people. You, the

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Speaker 11: hard working, tax paying, god fearing American patriots. The media here,

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Speaker 11: not all of it, but much of it wants you

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Speaker 11: to think, just nineteen days into this conflict, that we're

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Speaker 11: somehow spinning toward an endless abyss, or a forever war

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Speaker 11: or a quagmire. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Speaker 11: Hear it from me, one of hundreds of thousands who

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Speaker 11: fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, who watched previous foolish politicians

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Speaker 11: like Bush, Obama and Biden squander American credibility. This is

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Speaker 11: not those wars. President Trump knows better. Epic fury is different.

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Speaker 11: It's laser focused, its decisive. Our objectives, given directly from

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Speaker 11: our America first President, remain exactly what they were on

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Speaker 11: day one. These are not the media's objectives, not Iran's objectives,

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Speaker 11: not new objectives. Our objectives unchanged on target and on plan,

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Speaker 11: destroy missiles, launchers, and Iran's defense industrial base, so they

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Speaker 11: cannot rebuild, destroy their navy, and Iran never gets a

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Speaker 11: nuclear weapon. Our objectives from day one to the patriotic

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Speaker 11: members of the press. Nobody can deliver perfection in wartime.

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Speaker 11: This building knows that more than anyone, but report the reality.

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Speaker 11: We're winning decisively and on our terms. Iran is a

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Speaker 11: vast country and just like Hamas and their tunnels, they've

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Speaker 7: That's what they did with Hamas.

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Speaker 11: Iran has funneled decades of state resources not to their

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Speaker 11: people but into missiles and drones and proxies and buried facilities.

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Speaker 11: But we are hunting them down methodically, ruthlessly and overwhelmingly,

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Speaker 11: like no other military in the world can do.

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Speaker 7: And the results speak for themselves.

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Speaker 11: Today we've struck over seven thousand targets across Iran and

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Speaker 11: its military infrastructure. That is not incremental, that is overwhelming

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Speaker 11: force applied with precision, and again today will be the

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Speaker 11: larget largest strike package yet, just like yesterday was. As

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Speaker 11: I've said from day one, our capabilities continue to build,

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Speaker 11: Iran's continue to degrade. We're hunting and striking death and

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Speaker 11: destruction from above Iran's air defenses flattened Iran's defense industrial base,

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Speaker 11: the factories, the production lines that feed their missile and

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Speaker 11: drone programs being overwhelmingly destroyed. We've hit hundreds of their

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Speaker 11: missile attacks against our forces, down ninety percent since the

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Speaker 7: The Iridians will still.

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Speaker 11: Shoot, we know that, but they would shoot a lot

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Speaker 11: more if they could, but they can't. The last job

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Speaker 11: the IRGC or besiege temp jobs, all of them. And

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Speaker 11: to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in World

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Speaker 11: War Two, We've decided to share the ocean with Iran.

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Speaker 11: We've given them the bottom half. We've damaged or sunk

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Speaker 11: over one hundred and twenty of their navy ships, with

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Speaker 11: battle damage assessments pending for many more. Oftentimes we have

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Speaker 11: get the real number. Their surface fleet is no longer

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Speaker 11: a factor. Their submarines they once had eleven are gone.

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Speaker 11: Their military ports are crippled. Iran has terrorized United States

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Speaker 11: and our interests for forty seven years. Their core industries

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Speaker 11: not steel or agriculture tourism. Their core industries are state

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Speaker 11: sponsored terrorism, proxy militias, underground networks, ballistic missiles, and a

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Speaker 11: violent messionic Islamist ideology chasing some sort of apocalyptic endgame.

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Speaker 11: A regime like that refusing to abandon its nuclear ambitions

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Speaker 11: is not just a regional problem. It's a direct threat

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Speaker 11: to America, to freedom into civilization the world. The least

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Speaker 11: our ungrateful allies in Europe, even segments of our our

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Speaker 11: own press, should be saying one thing to President Trump.

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 11: Thank you for the courage to stop this terror state

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Speaker 11: from holding the world hostage with missiles while building or

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Speaker 11: attempting to build a nuclear bomb.

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Speaker 7: Thank you for doing the work of the free world.

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Speaker 11: Yesterday's ceremony reminded us why we fight not for nation

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Speaker 11: building or democracy promotion, but to crush direct threats to America,

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Speaker 11: Americans and our interests. We fight to win, and we

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Speaker 11: are winning on our terms. Following our objectives. My thirteen

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Speaker 11: I was editing these remarks. He asked about the war

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Speaker 11: and the families I met at Dover, and I looked

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Speaker 11: at him and I said, they died for you, son,

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Speaker 11: to the that your generation doesn't have to deal with

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Speaker 11: a nuclear Iran. It's the truth, and they did so.

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Speaker 12: In the days of epic Fury, they were shooting, as

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Speaker 12: As the Secretary said, we continue to get busier. I

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Speaker 14: Given the updated degradation in strike target numbers you laid out,

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Speaker 11: Well, we wouldn't want to set a definitive timeframe on that,

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Speaker 11: But we are very much on plan, and that's that's

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Speaker 7: You hear a lot of noise.

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Speaker 7: This is a clear set of objectives.

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Speaker 16: What countries have been the most cooperative with us, including

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Speaker 16: the Gulf States as Europe hedges? And I also wanted

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Speaker 16: to ask you the Internet blackouts by the regime, it's

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Speaker 16: been shut down for weeks. Is a US military playing

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Speaker 16: a role in fighting against the regime blocking v networks

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Speaker 16: and satellites and other things?

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Speaker 15: Is there is there a role for the US military there.

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Speaker 11: Obviously on the allies and partner's side, Israel from day

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Speaker 11: one has been an incredible and capable partner, willing and able.

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Speaker 11: There's nothing like capabilities and partners that are able to

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Speaker 11: use them. The Gulf States have stepped up incredibly. In fact,

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Speaker 11: Iran's sort of reckless attempt to strike civilian infrastructure and

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Speaker 11: other things has brought countries who maybe would have not

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Speaker 11: been as all in as they are today squarely into

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Speaker 11: our orbit orbit, and we're proud to be defending with them,

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Speaker 11: standing with them, you name it, Uae, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait,

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Speaker 11: Saudi Arabia and others who have been right there, and

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Speaker 11: we're grateful for that kind of support. As far as

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Speaker 11: the Internet, we're watching the regime try to tighten its

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Speaker 11: grip as much as possible. We're obviously taking countermeasures, many

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Speaker 11: of which we can't talk about here, to ensure that

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Speaker 11: messaging is delivered not just to the Iranian people writ large,

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Speaker 11: but to the right audiences, certain audiences that need to

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Speaker 11: hear certain things.

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Speaker 7: About what their fate might look like or what their

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Speaker 7: choices are.

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Speaker 11: So even though that regime is trying really hard to

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Speaker 11: ensure the world can't see right want they want to

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Speaker 11: put out fake AI generated images, which, by the way,

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Speaker 11: sometimes our press happens to fall for like the.

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Speaker 7: Abraham Lincoln on fire and turning around.

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Speaker 11: These AI generated images are meant to make it look

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Speaker 11: like something's happening when the exact opposite is so they

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Speaker 11: make up fake reports and fake images to lie to

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Speaker 11: their own people to try to make it. But even then,

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Speaker 11: their own people can barely receive a lot of those

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Speaker 11: messages and communicate because of the blackout that they've imposed

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Speaker 11: upon them.

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Speaker 7: But we work around that for sure, Thank.

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Speaker 17: You, mister Secretary General. Overnight Iron launched missiles across the Gulf.

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Speaker 17: They managed to hit the Saudi oil refinery on the

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Speaker 17: Red Sea. What does it mean that they have that

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Speaker 17: capability now three weeks into the war and mister Secretary

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Speaker 17: you mentioned civilian and for sure sure Aaron seems to

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Speaker 17: be treating US diplomatic outposts, embassy's consulates like they are

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Speaker 17: legitimate hard targets in the region. Now what is the

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Speaker 17: Pentagon doing to I guess secure those assets, stop those

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Speaker 17: attack absolutely?

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Speaker 9: Thanks for the question on the missile strikes.

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Speaker 12: You know, as we said, and have always said clearly,

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Speaker 12: they came into this fight with a lot of weapons.

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Speaker 12: This is why we continue to be as aggressive and

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Speaker 12: assertive as we can against their ballistic missile capability, both

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Speaker 12: their medium range ballistic missile capability and their short range

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Speaker 12: missile capability. So we are continuing to hunt and find

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Speaker 12: them and kill them, and we will continue to do so.

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Speaker 12: So they still retain some capability, and we have layered

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Speaker 12: defenses throughout the region that will allow us to protect

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Speaker 12: those and we're working with our partners across the Gulf

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Speaker 12: region to help them improve any defensive capabilities that they

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Speaker 12: may need.

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Speaker 11: To that point on capabilities, you know, Iran's an energy

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Speaker 11: rich country, could be should be. Instead, like so many

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Speaker 11: other places driven by radical ideology, they've spent that money

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Speaker 11: instead of investing in their people. That's why you had

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Speaker 11: millions of Iranians protesting because they felt like their condition,

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Speaker 11: quality of life didn't match what it could be or

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Speaker 11: should be, and what was the Iranian state. There's a

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Speaker 11: reason we come call Iran the number one state sponsor

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Speaker 11: of terrorism because they took the money they make and

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Speaker 11: they invested in tunnels, and they invested in missiles, and

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Speaker 11: they invested in launchers and UAVs, and we are destroying

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Speaker 11: and degrading that, degrading that in historic proportions, but it

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Speaker 11: doesn't mean they won't still have some and try to

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Speaker 11: hold people at issue, which is why we're fighting every

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Speaker 11: single day to continue to compel. And you mentioned embassies

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Speaker 11: and consulates. Unlike previous administrations, we are doubling and tripling

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Speaker 11: down on ensuring that our people, regardless of their Department

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Speaker 11: of War, Department of State, whatever they do, are secure

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Speaker 11: in those facilities. And the best defense is a good offense,

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Speaker 11: and so we're not afraid to go after and kill anybody.

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Speaker 11: And we have a lot of them attempting to target

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Speaker 11: our diplomatic facilities Iran. You know, we're not surprised that

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Speaker 11: they would indiscriminately target and we're still seeing that Jerry.

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Speaker 18: As part of the justification for the war against Iran,

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Speaker 18: the White House has laid out in fairly comprehensive fashion,

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Speaker 18: the Iran, the Iranian regimes, forty seven years of terrorism

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Speaker 18: named at the US, including pointing to the ergc's provision

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Speaker 18: of weapons and EFPs to help kill Americans in Iraq.

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Speaker 18: The Pentagon in twenty nineteen assessed Iran was responsible for

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Speaker 18: the deaths of at least six hundred and three service

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Speaker 18: members in Iraq, but there hasn't been a similar accounting

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Speaker 18: public accounting by Iran's role helping the Taliban in Afghanistan,

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Speaker 18: and that also hasn't been part of the White House's

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Speaker 18: public argument. I was wondering if you could speak to

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Speaker 18: Iran's role in helping the Taliban during the war in Afghanistan,

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Speaker 18: and Chairman, as you and the Secretary eloquently spoke about

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Speaker 18: thirteen US service members have been killed so far during

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Speaker 18: Operation Epic Fury, I was wondering what lessons have been

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Speaker 18: learned from those deaths, both from Iranian strikes from an

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Speaker 18: aircraft for fueling accident.

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Speaker 1: How are those lessons.

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Speaker 18: Being applied to the current conflict, and how are those

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Speaker 18: lessons going to be applied to a potential conflict into.

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Speaker 7: Pecon Thank you well, thank you for the question.

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Speaker 11: And It's true, in a town that can have a

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Speaker 11: very short memory, President Trump does not. He remembers what

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Speaker 11: this regime, Iranian regime was founded on, what their declaration

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Speaker 11: has been from the beginning, Death to America.

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Speaker 7: Death to Israel.

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Speaker 11: They've stated that they've intended to in every way try

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Speaker 11: to accomplish that, killing Americans in any theater they can embassies.

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Speaker 11: For a long quite a long time in Iraq, that

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Speaker 11: was the deadliest weapon was the EFP, the explosively formed penetrator.

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Speaker 11: There when that tactic and technique started to emerge and

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Speaker 11: the realization was it wasn't just Jihadis putting together one

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Speaker 11: to five five rounds daisy chained. It was an entire state,

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Speaker 11: a country with its apparatus apparas able to mold steel

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Speaker 11: in a way that was specifically designed to penetrate American

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Speaker 11: armor and kill Americans. This was not oh, maybe we

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Speaker 11: send them a couple of thoughts about how to build

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Speaker 11: a momb This was Iran's specifically passing technology and wherewithal

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Speaker 11: and personnel into Iraq to kill Americans specifically.

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Speaker 7: I know the numbers said to be six hundred.

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Speaker 11: A lot of us think it's higher than that, given

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Speaker 11: the amount of capability they brought in. So they have

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Speaker 11: been at war with us, whether we acknowledge it or not,

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Speaker 11: for forty seven years. The same goes in Afghanistan. Name

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Speaker 11: the Islamist enemy, whether they are Sunni or Shia, because

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Speaker 11: this is a Shia regime Sunni or Shia, and Iran's

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Speaker 11: been willing to harbor them as long as that group

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Speaker 11: is willing to try to kill Americans. So the enemy

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Speaker 11: of their enemy has been their friend as well. In

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Speaker 11: the Islamist world to Iran, whether it's Iraq, whether it's Afghanistan,

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Speaker 11: whether it's around the world, has been targeting Americans. And

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Speaker 11: what they wanted in this context, and what President Trump

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Speaker 11: would not tolerate is a regime of that nature being

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Speaker 11: closer and closer to nuclear capabilities, a capability they would

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Speaker 11: have said they would want to use. And we believe

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Speaker 11: what our enemies say they would do if they got

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Speaker 11: the most dangerous weapon in the world. So it's been

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Speaker 11: across every theater that Iran's been a threat to America,

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Speaker 11: and sometimes we have to remind folks of that. But

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Speaker 11: thank goodness, we have a commander in chief who on

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Speaker 11: behalf of this country is internalized that and said, hey,

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Speaker 11: we're going to do something about it.

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Speaker 12: Cherry, I do want to talk about the lessons learned

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Speaker 12: question because it's important to me.

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Speaker 9: I won't share particular tactical.

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Speaker 12: Lessons and the case one th five incident is under investigation,

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Speaker 12: but I do want to talk about how I think

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Speaker 12: about this and how we think about it, and this

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Speaker 12: is something that I'm pretty passionate about.

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Speaker 9: I believe the Joint.

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Speaker 12: Force has to be a very fast learning organization early,

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Speaker 12: often and always, and so in each case, both at

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Speaker 12: the strategic, operational and tactical level, we've charged the Joint

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Speaker 12: Force to look at themselves and say, what was our plan? Well, first,

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Speaker 12: did we have a plan?

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Speaker 9: Yes or no?

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Speaker 12: The answer is always yes, because we plan for literally everything.

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Speaker 12: Did we execute our plan?

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Speaker 9: Yes or no? If we did, did it work? If not?

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Speaker 9: Why not?

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Speaker 12: If we didn't execute our plan but did something better,

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Speaker 12: what's the lesson learned associated with that? And then how

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Speaker 12: do we quickly capture those lessons after every loss or

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Speaker 12: every engagement and quickly adopt those lessons and then share

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Speaker 12: them across the entirety of the Joint Force and inside

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Speaker 12: the Joint Staff. We've tasked our J seven Directorate, under

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Speaker 12: the lead of General Lieutenant Jarl Lezuski, a United States Marine,

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Speaker 12: to be extremely entrepreneurial in harvesting and capturing those lessons

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Speaker 12: in a proactive and not reactive way. In fact, we've

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Speaker 12: got teammates from the j seven who are now spread

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Speaker 12: out across the sentcom theater, both here in the States

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Speaker 12: and forward, to ensure that in every opportunity we do

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Speaker 12: not miss a chance to grab that lesson and quickly

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Speaker 12: accelerate it into the practice that we adopt inside the

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Speaker 12: joint Force, so that if there's a loss or if

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Speaker 12: there's something that we can learn from that we learn

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Speaker 12: it not only in the sencom aor but we adapt

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Speaker 12: it across all of the combatant commands, not just into

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Speaker 12: a pay coom, and it's across all of the war

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Speaker 12: fighting functions. I've asked them to look rigorously, to check

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Speaker 12: our egos at the door, to remember this is about

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Speaker 12: what's right, not who's right, and to be clinical around

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Speaker 12: the way we look at lessons learned because we owe

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Speaker 12: it to the force to do that.

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Speaker 7: Thanks for that question, absolutely, Crown Jack.

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Speaker 1: At the back, Secretary Jonathan Dreerthrocopolitics.

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Speaker 19: As you said, at the end of this war, Iran

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Speaker 19: will be without a missile or drone capability, a navy

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Speaker 19: or the ability.

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Speaker 20: To make nuclear weapons sense.

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Speaker 19: Al largest threat and sponsor of terror in the region

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Speaker 19: will be incapacitated. Are there plans to move assets and

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Speaker 19: troops out of the Middle East. I guess, in a

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Speaker 19: perfect world, a year after the war has ended, what

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Speaker 19: does the military presence in the Middle East look like

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Speaker 19: compared to before the war.

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Speaker 7: Well, I appreciate the question.

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Speaker 11: I do think when you address a real threat head on,

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Speaker 11: it creates new options. On the other side, I think

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Speaker 11: what President Trump refuses to do, who's too often this

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Speaker 11: town does is just sit in the status quo. Oh,

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Speaker 11: nobody could do about that. They've got too much capability.

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Speaker 11: What if this happens, What if that happens. He instead says,

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Speaker 11: what's in the interest of the American people. It's going

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Speaker 11: to take some courage, it's going to take some capabilities.

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Speaker 11: We're going to have to gather some forces there in

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Speaker 11: order to do it. We're not going to tell people

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Speaker 11: how many or how long, or what we're willing to

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Speaker 11: do or what we're not willing to do.

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Speaker 7: But if you do that, and do that to decisively.

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Speaker 11: Then out the other end is a recognition that it

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Speaker 11: opens the aperture of what's possible. I mean President Trump

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Speaker 11: did the same thing in creating an opportunity for the

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Speaker 11: Abraham Accords. Now you've got a situation where a lot

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Speaker 11: of those countries are coming alongside us recognizing the threat

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Speaker 11: of Iran. So I think our posture in the future

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Speaker 11: will be based first and foremost on our own national

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Speaker 11: security power, projection, the ability to defend our people and

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Speaker 11: our interests, but no doubt, working alongside our partners, the

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Speaker 11: President will look at what makes the most sense going forward.

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Speaker 7: I appreciate that question. Yes, right here, Rian, is that.

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Speaker 20: The apolicy of the US military.

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Speaker 21: Now, thank you, Secretary MINIXX. Two questions for you. The

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Speaker 21: Vice President has often emphasized that the goal of this

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Speaker 21: war is to denuclearize Iran while also avoiding a larger quagmire.

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Speaker 22: I know that you touched on this.

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Speaker 21: I'd like you to expand on how do you do that?

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Speaker 21: How do you denuclearize the country while also avoiding this

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Speaker 21: forever war? And then there was a report last night

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Speaker 21: Depenagon asked the White House for two hundred billion for

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Speaker 21: Iran war supplemental. Can you confirm this and can you

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Speaker 21: explain why a package this large is necessary?

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Speaker 11: Well, first of all, none of this would have been

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Speaker 11: possible without Midnight Hammer, without that audacious mission with very

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Speaker 11: clear goals that did obliterate their ability to enrich and

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Speaker 11: the capabilities they have in those facilities. So it created

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Speaker 11: the conditions for Iran to step forward and say, okay,

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Speaker 11: you can reach out and touch us like that in

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Speaker 11: our nuclear ambitions. You can see that we're still trying

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Speaker 11: to do this. Let's make a deal, and the President

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Speaker 11: Trump put our two best folks on it, Stephen Jarrett,

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Speaker 11: and they worked diligently, earnestly. I watched it to try

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Speaker 11: to pursue that deal, and ultimately, I think the whole

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Speaker 11: time Iran sort of said, well, we'll talk as we

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Speaker 11: build more missiles and as we build.

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Speaker 7: More UAVs, and we create this conventional.

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Speaker 11: Umbrella so that if we chose to, we could try

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Speaker 11: to reconstitute the program and sort of naively thinking that

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Speaker 11: President Trump wouldn't do something about it. And that's why,

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Speaker 11: as Secretary Rubio has said and I've said, it's the

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Speaker 11: convention umbrella that was growing and growing and growing, that

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Speaker 11: was meant to protect that nuclear capability. So you had

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Speaker 11: to address both what happened with Midnight Hammer and what

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Speaker 11: happened with that as well as far as two hundred

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Speaker 11: billion dollars, I think that number could move. Obviously, it

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Speaker 11: takes money to kill bad guys. So we're going back

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Speaker 11: to Congress and folks there to ensure that we're properly

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Speaker 11: funded for what's been done, for what we may have

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Speaker 11: to do in the future, ensure that our ammunition is

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Speaker 11: everything's refilled, and not just refilled, but above and beyond.

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Speaker 11: I mean President Trump, as he said, rebuilt the military

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Speaker 11: in his first term. Didn't think he'd use it as

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Speaker 11: dynamically in his second, but he had, so, Thank goodness,

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Speaker 11: he did that. And an investment like this is meant

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Speaker 11: to say, hey, we'll replace anything that was spent. And

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Speaker 11: now that we're reviving our defense industrial base and rebuilding

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Speaker 11: the arsenal freedom and cutting deals like our great deputy

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Speaker 11: secretaries here is doing long lead times on exquisite munitions,

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Speaker 11: we're going to be refilled faster than anyone imagined. And

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Speaker 11: I think we're also still dealing with the environment that

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Speaker 11: Joe Biden created, which was which was depleting those stockhols

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Speaker 11: and not sending him to our own military but to Ukraine,

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Speaker 11: which is when every time we reach back and look

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Speaker 11: at any sort of a challenge we have, it goes

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Speaker 11: back to, well, send it to Ukraine. Ultimately, we think

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Speaker 11: this should be these munitions are better spent in our

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Speaker 11: own interests at this point, and this kind of funding

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Speaker 11: bill is going to ensure that we're properly funded going forward.

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Speaker 7: We'll take We'll take one more, right.

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Speaker 23: Thank you, Sarah, Thank you, mister Chairman Jordan Conrads. And

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Speaker 23: with the Gateway Pundit, So with this strike yesterday on

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Speaker 23: South Bar's gas field, you know, if the US didn't

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Speaker 23: know about it or didn't approve of it, it kind

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Speaker 23: of seems like a trend of Israel apparently pursuing their

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Speaker 23: own objectives over US objectives.

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Speaker 20: I'm not sure if you agree with that, but.

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Speaker 23: The President has said he doesn't want to hit at

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Speaker 23: Rans oil infrastructure. Right now, as you said, the US

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Speaker 23: boyd this ar Park Island oil's nearing a high twenty dollars.

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Speaker 23: Why are we helping Israel prosecute this war if they're

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Speaker 23: going to pursue their own objectives.

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Speaker 7: We hold the cards.

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Speaker 11: We have objectives, those objectives are clear, we have allies

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Speaker 11: pursuing objectives as well.

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Speaker 7: And the truth speaks for itself.

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Speaker 11: I mean, President Trump is very clear about that Iran

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Speaker 11: has weaponized energy for decades. Israel clearly sent a warning

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Speaker 11: and POTUS has made it clear, very clear. Iran knows

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Speaker 11: when you hit carg Island and you hit military capables,

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Speaker 11: capabilities on Cargoland, which is the only thing we hit,

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Speaker 11: we can hold anything at issue. Anything the United States

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Speaker 11: military controls the fate of that country.

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Speaker 7: Iran has the ability to make the right choices.

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Speaker 11: It should not going forward target air of allies Arab

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Speaker 11: countries trying to create pain, the pain that they created themselves.

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Speaker 7: Thank you all very much, appreciate it. Thank you for

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Speaker 7: your time.

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Speaker 9: Make sure you.

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Speaker 4: Were just listening to the Secretary of War Pete Haig

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Speaker 4: Seth and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Speaker 4: Dan Kaine, General Dan Kane updating us on the current

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Speaker 4: situation when it comes to Iran.

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Speaker 20: Let's bring back doctor.

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Speaker 4: Gina David and John Solomon, who was joining us before

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Speaker 4: all of this. John, I want to start with you.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate you sticking around. It seemed the tone, particularly early

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Speaker 4: on to open this news conference was a lot different

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Speaker 4: than what we'd heard in the past, a lot more solemn,

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Speaker 4: but also a conversation directly with the American people using

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Speaker 4: the media as a conduit. You were was this about narrative?

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Speaker 4: Was this about shaping a narrative in your mind, Well.

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Speaker 10: I think it's about correcting a narrative. I think a

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Speaker 10: lot of the people in the media have reported things

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Speaker 10: that are simply not consistent with how war things. You know,

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Speaker 10: what Iron is banking on is the US media, which

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Speaker 10: is depleted of a lot of experience over the.

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Speaker 20: Last few decades, haven't.

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Speaker 10: Covered prior and they can fall for not only an

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Speaker 10: AI image, but the notion that maybe they did a

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Speaker 10: couple of menace attacks, and the American media will see

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Speaker 10: that as Iran is very strong. What the Secretary just did,

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Speaker 10: what General Kane just did, was look into the camera,

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Speaker 10: bypass the media for the first thirty minutes, talk about

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Speaker 10: the extraordinary capabilities of our men and women, the sacrifices

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Speaker 10: they've made, and then give a brutal accounting of what

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Speaker 10: we've done to Iron. I mean it is a brutal accounting.

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Speaker 10: There is no air Force, there is no navy. Their

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Speaker 10: number of missile strikes are down ninety percent.

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Speaker 20: Now.

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Speaker 10: That means they were shooting one hundred and twenty to

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Speaker 10: two hundred and forty missiles on day one. Now they

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Speaker 10: can only shoot ten or twenty a day because They've

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Speaker 10: not only destroyed the current missiles, they've destroyed the factories

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Speaker 10: that will make them in the future or tomorrow or

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Speaker 10: the day after. Same thing with drone strikes. Now, they

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Speaker 10: said Iran has a capability to create menic attacks and

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Speaker 10: that is going to continue. The most important thing I heard,

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Speaker 10: and I've covered five conflicts in my career, most important

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Speaker 10: thing I heard that tells you where the military is

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Speaker 10: in their mission is that they're now using war hogs

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Speaker 10: and close in helicopters to attack small armaments.

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Speaker 20: What does that mean.

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Speaker 10: It means the big hardware is so disabled in Iran

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Speaker 10: that our close in operations are no longer afraid of

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Speaker 10: being shut down. That is a significant milestone when you

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Speaker 10: talk about military dumbins. That's the first time I heard

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Speaker 10: them mention that today blackhawk helicopters, ward hogs and other

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Speaker 10: close in capabilities. That means Iron really has no big

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Speaker 10: stuff left, and now we're cleaning up small things like

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Speaker 10: gunboats and military arsenals and single trucks that might carry

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Speaker 10: a rocket launcher on them. That means we've really advanced far.

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Speaker 10: I think the other headline you heard today they are

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Speaker 10: on schedule, they are on plan they said that about

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Speaker 10: ten times President Trump gave a five week plan you

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Speaker 10: heard today, So they say the president wi ultimately make

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Speaker 10: the decision that they're right on that schedule. And I

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Speaker 10: think that that should give all of us a little

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Speaker 10: bit of comfort. The mistake that all loot in the

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Speaker 10: media have made these last few weeks, and some of

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Speaker 10: it's just by pure lack of experience in reporting r

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Speaker 10: some of it is by Trump derangement syndrome. They simply

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Speaker 10: just want to make it look like Trump's losing the war.

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Speaker 10: Is that Iran is really down to creating small menace attacks.

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Speaker 10: Now they're still alarming, they still kill people, they still

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Speaker 10: destroy things, but they don't have large warfare capabilities anymore.

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Speaker 10: And I think today you heard that in very strong

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Speaker 10: and precise detail. That was one of the most transparent

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Speaker 10: set of numbers effort.

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Speaker 20: John.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you, though a couple of things.

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Speaker 3: First of all, what about what he talked about the

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Speaker 3: Secretary of war. We're talking about underground tunnels. There's a

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Speaker 3: lot of stuff buried underneath. So this idea that the

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Speaker 3: war is going to end in three weeks, four weeks,

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Speaker 3: six weeks, whatever it is, I mean, the truth of

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Speaker 3: the matter is how much do we really know what

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Speaker 3: they have underground?

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Speaker 1: I mean it's a large country, the size of both

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Speaker 1: Texas and Alaska.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we don't know if we're ever going to

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Speaker 3: get everything that they have buried. You know what lies

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Speaker 3: beneath number one and number two. You're telling me John

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Speaker 3: helped me out here. You're telling me the United States

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Speaker 3: had no clue. Not that you're telling me this, but

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Speaker 3: we're supposed to believe that the United States had no

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Speaker 3: clue that the IDF was going to attack the South

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Speaker 3: pars oil field.

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Speaker 1: I mean, so that's a problem if Israel's doing that

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Speaker 1: willy nilly without letting us know.

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine that being the case that Syncom had

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Speaker 3: no clue.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, I haven't done the reporting that. That was a surprising.

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Speaker 10: Moment, and as you saw this morning, the President said,

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Speaker 10: Israel has told us they won't do that again. That

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Speaker 10: does sort of suggest that Israel may have freelance. It

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Speaker 10: also is a reminder that while we are in a

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Speaker 10: joint mission, that sometimes Israel and the United States have

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Speaker 10: different objectives. There are things that Israel wants to achieve

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Speaker 10: that the United States isn't necessarily interested in. That is

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Speaker 10: always the case when you're working with Ally's. Now there's

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Speaker 10: no doubt who's the big dog in this race, right

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Speaker 10: the United States is the big race. There is some

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Speaker 10: suggestion and just the way the communications has been handled,

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Speaker 10: I've not yet been able to make calls this morning

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Speaker 10: that Israel may have freelanced on that, or may have

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Speaker 10: done it with very short notice or at a low

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Speaker 10: level in the military, not going up to the command.

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Speaker 20: But it's very clear that Israel was.

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Speaker 10: Told now by the President of the United States, you're

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Speaker 10: not doing again that because we're staying to military objectives. Now,

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Speaker 10: let me get you to the bunkers. That is exactly

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Speaker 10: what we are targeting right now. We are targeting with

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Speaker 10: these giant five thousand pounds bunker busters, which by the way,

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Speaker 10: are about the equivalent of a quarter to a third

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Speaker 10: of a nuclear weapon that we dropped on Hiroshima. They're

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Speaker 10: very powerful. They collapse in these capabilities. We do know

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Speaker 10: almost all of the tunnels that we have. We have

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Speaker 10: very unique capabilities from the sky to detect things that

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Speaker 10: are four or five hundred feet underground with new capabilities

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Speaker 10: that our satellites have, and so they have a very

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Speaker 10: good sense of weird things have been moving. We've been

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Speaker 10: watching for three years under Joe Biden where these things

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Speaker 10: are being built. Israel has been watching, and so we

875
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Speaker 10: are systematically going in. And you heard yesterday nine hundred

876
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Speaker 10: sorties in attacks for targeting. Yesterday, nine hundred, let's say,

877
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 10: large number in a single day. They seem to know

878
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 10: where these things are. Now will they find every one

879
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 10: of them? We don't know. But at some point, if

880
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Speaker 10: you've destroyed the large share of them, Iran has to

881
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 10: ask itself, what do we got left?

882
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Speaker 20: A few missiles?

883
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Speaker 10: And I think they're trying to get Iran to that

884
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Speaker 10: point of realizing that, all right, we might have one

885
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Speaker 10: hundred here or twenty there, but there's no way to

886
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Speaker 10: win this war. And I think that that is the

887
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 10: goal right now, is to see if Iran will come

888
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 10: to it senses and realize it cannot win this war.

889
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 10: It can continue to run guerrilla tactics in the horror

890
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 10: moves and occasionally fire a missile here and there, but

891
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 10: it does not have the objective capacity to project any

892
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Speaker 10: strength or to project any power other than menace attacks.

893
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Speaker 10: And again, menace attacks are dangerous. They can prolong this,

894
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:02,320
Speaker 10: but I think they're to a point now where Iran

895
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Speaker 10: has to you know, at the end of the day,

896
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Speaker 10: the Iranian regime has always been more pragmatic behind their ideology.

897
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Speaker 10: For one good example, they've never really unleashed their HESBLA

898
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Speaker 10: sales in America.

899
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Speaker 20: They haven't. They're very good those sales.

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Speaker 10: They haven't unleased them what because I think they've decided

901
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Speaker 10: that the pain for that would not be worth the

902
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Speaker 10: political losses that they would have with the American people.

903
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Speaker 20: So at some point, knowing.

904
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Speaker 10: That that's been there thinking all along, the military is

905
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Speaker 10: probably thinking we might get them to a pain point

906
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Speaker 10: where that pragmatism kicks in. And I think that's what

907
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Speaker 10: they're doing. But you know, again, horror moves. That's a

908
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Speaker 10: tricky thing. But I think that the overall destruction Iran

909
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Speaker 10: is so widespread right now, it's going to be hard

910
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Speaker 10: for the Iranians to look and say, what do I

911
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Speaker 10: fire tomorrow in a couple more days, during a couple

912
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Speaker 10: more weeks.

913
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'll tell you what. John, listening to this audience,

914
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Speaker 2: they loved that Secretary Hegseeth opened with talkic fallen.

915
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 22: That was beautiful.

916
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 2: People were we actually sang the star spang of Banner

917
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 2: via chat in our chat today, and they loved that

918
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Speaker 2: he had questions from real media, from people like RAP,

919
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Speaker 2: from people like just the News, from people like Gateway Pundit.

920
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Speaker 2: So a lot of a lot of solid optics there,

921
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Speaker 2: John Solomon.

922
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Speaker 9: Thank you.

923
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Speaker 10: You know, I also love General General Kine also just

924
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Speaker 10: talking about what our pilots do on these long range missions.

925
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Speaker 10: They don't people don't know how grueling and brutal it is.

926
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Speaker 10: I thought the way that he just saluted those young

927
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Speaker 10: men and women. What a great tribute from a from

928
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Speaker 10: a guy that has a lot of bars on his shoulder.

929
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, John Solomon, thanks again for being with us.

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Speaker 4: Thanks John.

931
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Speaker 2: We want to bring in RAP correspondent David Zeer, who

932
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Speaker 2: was at the briefing. David, we heard your question and

933
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Speaker 2: we wanted to play it.

934
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Speaker 15: Here we go, Secretary David Zier rail America's Voice News.

935
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Speaker 16: What countries have been the most cooperative with US, including

936
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 16: the Gulf States as Europe hedges? And I also wanted

937
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Speaker 16: to ask you the Internet blackouts by the regime, It's

938
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Speaker 16: been shut down for weeks. Is a US military playing

939
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Speaker 16: a role in, you know, fighting against the regime blocking

940
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Speaker 16: VPN networks and satellites and other things. Is there is

941
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Speaker 16: there a role for the US military there?

942
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Speaker 11: Obviously on the allies and partners side, Israel from day

943
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Speaker 11: one has been an incredible and capable partner, willing and able.

944
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Speaker 7: There's nothing like capabilities and partners that are able to

945
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Speaker 7: use them. The Gulf States have stepped up incredibly.

946
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Speaker 11: In fact, Iran's sort of reckless attempt to strike civilian

947
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Speaker 11: infrastructure and other things has brought countries who maybe would

948
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 11: have not been as all in as they are today

949
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 11: squarely into our orbit orbit, and we're proud to be

950
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:53,760
Speaker 11: defending with them, standing with them, you name it, Uae, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait,

951
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 11: Saudi Arabia and others who have been right there, and

952
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 11: we're grateful for that kind of support. As far as

953
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Speaker 11: the Internet, we're watching the regime try to tighten its

954
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Speaker 11: grip as much as possible. We're obviously taking countermeasures, many

955
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Speaker 11: of which we can't talk about here, to ensure that

956
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Speaker 11: messaging is delivered not just to the Iranian people writ large,

957
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Speaker 11: but to the right audiences, certain audiences that need to

958
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Speaker 11: hear certain things about.

959
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 7: What their fate might look like or what their choices are.

960
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 11: So even though that regime is trying really hard to

961
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 11: ensure the world can't see right they want.

962
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Speaker 7: They want to put out fake.

963
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:29,800
Speaker 11: AI generated images, which, by the way, sometimes our press

964
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 11: happens to fall for like the Abraham Lincoln on fire

965
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 11: and turning around. These AI generated images are meant to

966
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Speaker 11: make it look like something's happening when the exact opposite

967
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 11: is so they make up fake reports and fake images

968
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Speaker 11: to lie to their own people to try to make it.

969
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 11: But even then, their own people can barely receive a

970
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,800
Speaker 11: lot of those messages and communicate because of the blackout

971
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 11: that they've imposed upon them.

972
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 7: But we work around that for sure.

973
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Speaker 2: David, did you feel like your question was thoroughly answered?

974
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Speaker 16: I do asking because there's word from the People's Majah

975
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Speaker 16: Hydin inside Iran that there's been about fifteen different uprisings

976
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:14,280
Speaker 16: across the country. One is this fire festival campaign against

977
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,919
Speaker 16: the regime, and word is that the regime is still

978
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:20,360
Speaker 16: in control of internet communications. It's about three weeks of

979
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:25,720
Speaker 16: blackout so far, centering information but also targeting private VPN

980
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 16: networks that are easily traceable back by them, and also

981
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:34,359
Speaker 16: other types of things like these satellites. And you know,

982
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 16: looking for dishes around and so I think it's important, right,

983
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 16: because where do we go from here?

984
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 20: Right?

985
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 16: If targets are softened up and the people will take

986
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 16: to the streets, I understand that's starting. I thought it

987
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:49,799
Speaker 16: was an important question to.

988
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:53,320
Speaker 1: Ask, absolutely, David.

989
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,799
Speaker 4: It was very clear from the news conference that the

990
00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 4: operation to dismantle arons, not only nuclear capabilities, but also

991
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 4: missile and drone capabilities is moving forward swiftly and very well.

992
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 4: But one of the things I noticed the Secretary called

993
00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 4: the senior leadership jobs in the in the IRGC, excuse me,

994
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 4: and the besieged temp jobs, which also shows that dismantling

995
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 4: the leadership infrastructure in Iran remains a key part of

996
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 4: this strategy.

997
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:29,800
Speaker 16: Yes, and the targeting overnight in the last few days

998
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,919
Speaker 16: with these five thousand pound bunk or buster te penetrator

999
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 16: bombs has been critical in taking out anti ship cruise

1000
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 16: missile facilities buried underground that dot the coast all over

1001
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:44,280
Speaker 16: the Persian Gulf and out through the Strait of Hermus.

1002
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:48,720
Speaker 16: Because you know, these ships are vulnerable. About seventeen ships

1003
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 16: have been attacked, so anything too weaken the IRGC leadership,

1004
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 16: you know, will go a long way towards that, I

1005
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,360
Speaker 16: also wanted to ask a question about the MEU the

1006
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 16: thirty first the USS Tripoli spotted off the coast of Singapore.

1007
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:07,280
Speaker 16: Singapore will be in theater in about a week, about

1008
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 16: twenty two hundred marines. What role would they play and

1009
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:13,919
Speaker 16: you know, will they take hold of some of these

1010
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 16: islands and you know, monitor what's going on along with

1011
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 16: these A tens given close air support in the Strait

1012
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 16: of her moves another unique role for the A ten,

1013
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 16: which is just an incredible close air support aircraft. But

1014
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 16: you know, what will the role of the Marines be

1015
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 16: to effectively you know, newter the IRGC's ability to attack

1016
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 16: ships in those shipping lanes. So yeah, I think they're

1017
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 16: on the ropes.

1018
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 3: David Syr, do you feel like the Pentagon it's just

1019
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 3: a matter of time before they just say mission accomplished.

1020
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:47,839
Speaker 3: I mean, in other words, they could call this at

1021
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:50,040
Speaker 3: any point. You know, it's kind of like name the score,

1022
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 3: you know, like I just feel like they already have

1023
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 3: like pretty much accomplished a lot of what they need

1024
00:56:57,760 --> 00:56:58,320
Speaker 3: to accomplished.

1025
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 1: So it's just a matter of President Trump going Okay, okay,

1026
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:01,359
Speaker 1: that's it.

1027
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 3: Let's let's uh, we're done here, like to me, like

1028
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 3: it's already kind of just a matter of being a

1029
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 3: done deal. And I know they'll never say that, and

1030
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 3: I know they believe there's a lot more to get

1031
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 3: over there, But at some point, don't you just feel

1032
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 3: like they're just going to say, Okay.

1033
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 1: We're done.

1034
00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 3: Like and that's number one, and that's the mission that

1035
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 3: Higseeth is talking about.

1036
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 1: But there's two missions here. There's the battlefield mission.

1037
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 3: And then what comes next mission, because that's a whole

1038
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 3: different mission, maybe not for the Pentagon specifically, but possibly

1039
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 3: as it relates to figuring out what happens with Iran

1040
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 3: now that you left it in Smithereens.

1041
00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 16: We saw how that went for President George W. Bush

1042
00:57:46,600 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 16: when he flew the A six intruder onto the deck

1043
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 16: of the Abraham Lincoln with that mission accomplished, banner hanging up.

1044
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 24: I don't know if they want to go there quite yet.

1045
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 24: And also, you know, with the plans Wall.

1046
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 16: Street Journal and other out lants, Reuters I believe reported

1047
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 16: there's a plan for boots on the ground, possibly whether

1048
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 16: that's carg Island or whether it's taking some of these

1049
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 16: islands with marine expeditionary unit.

1050
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:13,000
Speaker 17: Also the.

1051
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 16: Role of I'm sorry, there's some noise in the background here,

1052
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 16: but yeah, we'll see where that goes. But also special

1053
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:29,160
Speaker 16: forces may be needed to take control of some of

1054
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 16: these deep enriched uranium sites too, and that's an option

1055
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 16: still on the table, so it's premature. I think we

1056
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 16: got a couple of weeks ahead of us.

1057
00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 2: All right, David Zeer, thank you so much for being

1058
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 2: with us. We want to take you out to the

1059
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:46,400
Speaker 2: House of Representatives where d and I, Telci Gabbert and

1060
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 2: other top intelligence officials are currently testifying.

1061
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 22: Let's listen permanent infrastructure. China, though not an Arctic country,

1062
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 22: is engaged in more limited efforts in the region to

1063
00:58:58,160 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 22: advance the strategic and economic and interests. On the technology front,

1064
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 22: artificial intelligence capabilities are rapidly advancing and changing the threat landscape.

1065
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 22: As this is a defining technology that enables computers and

1066
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 22: machines to simulate human learning, comprehension, problem solving, creativity, and autonomy,

1067
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 22: it'll be critical to ensure that humans remain in control

1068
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 22: of how AI is used and of the machines that

1069
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 22: may threaten to autonomously violate the interests of the American

1070
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 22: people across all domains. The ICSS is that China is

1071
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 22: the most capable competitor in this field and aims to

1072
00:59:33,800 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 22: displace the US as the global AI leader by twenty thirty.

1073
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 22: AI adoption at scale across the spectrum of usage poses

1074
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 22: serious risks. AI has the potential to aid in weapons

1075
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 22: and systems design and has been used in recent conflicts

1076
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 22: to influence targeting and streamline decision making, underscoring the risk

1077
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:57,000
Speaker 22: and likely threats that could manifest on the battlefield. Early

1078
00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 22: developers in quantum computers will give countries and extra extraordinary

1079
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 22: technology technological advantage over others to quickly process national security

1080
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 22: information and break current encryption methodology used to protect sensitive finance,

1081
01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 22: health care, and government information. The global security landscape is

1082
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:20,600
Speaker 22: volatile and complex, with armed conflict growing more common and

1083
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 22: posing potential threats against US interests. The space domain is

1084
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 22: becoming increasingly contested, with China and Russia developing counter space

1085
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 22: capabilities to challenge US space efforts. The threat of nuclear

1086
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:38,479
Speaker 22: proliferation and advancing chemical and biological warfare capabilities continues to grow.

1087
01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 22: Turned now to the Western hemisphere, where flagging economies, high

1088
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 22: crime rates, pervasive organized crime, migration flows, corruption, narcotics trafficking

1089
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 22: present a broad spectrum of risks to US interests and

1090
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Speaker 22: where strategic competitors seek to gain greater influence in the region.

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Speaker 22: The icsses that Latin America and the Caribbean almost certainly

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01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 22: will see hot spots of volatility in the coming year,

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01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 22: with the potential to undermine or distract from countries. Some

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01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 22: countries from improving economies and living conditions and tackling illicit

1095
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:16,680
Speaker 22: drug flows and cartels. The US Mexico Canada Agreement review

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01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 22: in twenty twenty six will likely increase uncertainty in many

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01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 22: Latin American countries, especially those that rely on Mexico as

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01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:27,000
Speaker 22: an export destination for intermediate goods for manufacture and onward

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01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 22: export to the US. China, Russia, and Iran are seeking

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01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 22: to sustain economic, political, and military engagement with Latin America.

1101
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 22: The IC assesses that China's demand for raw materials is

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01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 22: likely to drive continued economic outreach, while Russia likely wants

1103
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:48,440
Speaker 22: to expand its current security and diplomatic ties with Cuba

1104
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 22: and Nicaragua. The IC assesses that China aims to elevate

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01:01:53,560 --> 01:01:57,680
Speaker 22: its own political, economic, military, and technological power to increase

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01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 22: its own regional positioning global influence, and to fend off

1107
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:05,640
Speaker 22: threats to their interests. While there are challenging areas where

1108
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 22: interests diverge, President Trump's diplomatic engagements with President She have

1109
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 22: enabled progress on areas where mutual interests align. The icssses

1110
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 22: that China continues to rapidly modernize its military forces across

1111
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 22: all domains in pursuit of its goal to achieve world

1112
01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 22: class status by mid century. This includes building a force

1113
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 22: with the aim of being capable of deterring US and

1114
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 22: allied forces in the region and to achieve their stated

1115
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 22: objective of having the capability to seize Taiwan by force

1116
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:40,720
Speaker 22: if necessary. However, the ic assesses that China likely prefers

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01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 22: to set the conditions for an eventual, peaceful reunification with

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01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 22: Taiwan short of conflict. An increasingly confident North Korean regime

1119
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 22: remains a source of concern regionally and globally. Its weapons

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Speaker 22: of mass destruction, conventional military capabilities, illicit cyber activities, and

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01:02:57,360 --> 01:03:02,040
Speaker 22: demonstrated willingness to use asymmetric abilities poses a threat to

1122
01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 22: the US and its allies, particularly South Korea and Japan.

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01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 22: North Korea's partnership with Russia is growing, and in twenty

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01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 22: twenty five, Kim took steps to improve ties with China,

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01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 22: still North Korea's most important trading partner and economic benefactor.

1126
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:21,800
Speaker 22: The ICSS is that North Korea's support for Russia and

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01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 22: the war against Ukraine has increased North korea capabilities as

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01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 22: their forces have gained combat experience in twenty first century

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01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:33,240
Speaker 22: warfare along with equipment. Yung Yang continues to develop and

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01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 22: expand its strategic weapons programs, including missiles that can evade

1131
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:42,840
Speaker 22: US and regional missile defenses. Russia retains the capability to

1132
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 22: selectively challenge US interest globally by military and non military means.

1133
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:50,320
Speaker 22: The ICSSS is that the most dangerous threat posed by

1134
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 22: Russia to the US is an escalatory spiral in an

1135
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 22: ongoing conflict such as Ukraine, or a new conflict that

1136
01:03:57,800 --> 01:04:01,480
Speaker 22: led to direct hostilities, including the deployment of nuclear weapons.

1137
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:05,440
Speaker 22: The ICSS is that Putin continues to invest in Russia's

1138
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:08,960
Speaker 22: defense industrial base, as well as novel capabilities that may

1139
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:12,000
Speaker 22: pose a greater threat to the US homeland and forces

1140
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 22: abroad than conventional weapons. The ICSS is Russia has advanced systems,

1141
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:23,080
Speaker 22: hypersonic missiles, and undersea capabilities designed to negate US military advantage.

1142
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 22: Russia is also building extensive counter space capabilities to contest

1143
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:33,080
Speaker 22: US space dominance. Its development of a nuclear counter space

1144
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 22: weapon poses the greatest single threat to the world's space

1145
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 22: architecture during the past year. The ICSS is that Russia

1146
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:44,000
Speaker 22: has maintained the upper hand in its war against Ukraine.

1147
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 22: Ongoing US led negotiations between Moscow and Kiev continue until

1148
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 22: such an agreement is met. If an agreement is found,

1149
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:55,920
Speaker 22: Moscow is likely to continue fighting a slow war of

1150
01:04:55,960 --> 01:05:00,440
Speaker 22: attrition until they view their objectives have been achieved. Italy's

1151
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:04,440
Speaker 22: conflict and instability will shape security, political and economic dynamics

1152
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:08,680
Speaker 22: in a variety of ways. The ICSS is that Operation

1153
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 22: Epic Fury is advancing fundamental change in the region that

1154
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:15,480
Speaker 22: began with Amas's attack on Israel on October seventh, twenty

1155
01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 22: twenty three, continued with the Twelve Day War last year,

1156
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:23,680
Speaker 22: resulting in weakening Iran and its proxies. The icssses that

1157
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:27,560
Speaker 22: the regime in Iran appears to be intact but largely

1158
01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:30,800
Speaker 22: degraded due to attacks by Israel and the US on

1159
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 22: its leadership and military capabilities. Its conventional military power projection

1160
01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:41,680
Speaker 22: capabilities have largely been destroyed, leaving limited options. Iran's strategic

1161
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:46,480
Speaker 22: position has been significantly degraded. The US led maximum pressure

1162
01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 22: campaign and snapback of European sanctions added additional pressure to

1163
01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:55,160
Speaker 22: an already bleak Iranian economy, resulting in mass protests earlier

1164
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 22: this year that Tehran suppressed by killing thousands of protesters.

1165
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 22: Even if the regime remains intact, internal tensions are likely

1166
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 22: to increase as Iran's economy worsens. Even so, Iran and

1167
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 22: its proxies continue to attack US and allied interests in

1168
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 22: the Middle East. If a hostile regime survives, it will

1169
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 22: likely seek to begin a year's long effort to rebuild

1170
01:06:18,600 --> 01:06:24,320
Speaker 22: its military, missiles and UAV forces. Prior to Operation Epic Fury,

1171
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:27,280
Speaker 22: the IC assesses Iran was trying to recover from the

1172
01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:30,959
Speaker 22: severe damage to its nuclear infrastructure sustained during the Twelve

1173
01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:35,280
Speaker 22: Day War. Iran maintained the intention to rebuild its infrastructure

1174
01:06:35,360 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 22: and nuclear enrichment capability, and continued to refuse to comply

1175
01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 22: with its nuclear obligations, with the IAEA, refusing them access

1176
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 22: to key facilities. The IC assesses that China, Russia, and

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01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:51,240
Speaker 22: North Korea see the United States as a strategic competitor

1178
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 22: and potential adversary. Iran has long viewed the US as

1179
01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:58,680
Speaker 22: an adversary and has engaged in active conflict with the US.

1180
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 22: As of this writing, these four countries are likely to

1181
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 22: continue their selective cooperation with each other, which could bolster

1182
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:10,920
Speaker 22: their individual capabilities and threats to US interests. More broadly, however,

1183
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:15,560
Speaker 22: these currently these relationships are primarily bilateral on selective issues

1184
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:20,120
Speaker 22: and depend on broader circumstances, divergent sovereign interests, and in

1185
01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 22: some cases, concerns over directly confronting the US. These factors

1186
01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:29,520
Speaker 22: are likely to constrain their relationships. Finally, conflicts on the

1187
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 22: continent of Africa are likely to persist through twenty twenty

1188
01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:36,040
Speaker 22: six due to poor governance, economic demands, and external support.

1189
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:41,600
Speaker 22: Tensions continue between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which could rapidly accelerate

1190
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:46,400
Speaker 22: to conflict. Contentious national and federal elections in Somalia could

1191
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 22: distract the federal government away from counter terrorism actions against

1192
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 22: al Shabab, which continues to conduct terror attacks while providing

1193
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 22: funding and propaganda support to other elements of al Qaeda

1194
01:07:57,200 --> 01:08:00,680
Speaker 22: in Yemen, the civil war in Sudan in use even

1195
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:04,440
Speaker 22: as external negotiations occur, and ISIS in West Africa and

1196
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:07,720
Speaker 22: the Sahel have increased the intensity of their attacks against

1197
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:11,800
Speaker 22: local security forces, expanding their areas of operation and moving

1198
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:16,760
Speaker 22: closer to cities. With the US presence, African governments will

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01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:19,600
Speaker 22: use their wealth and critical minerals to seek partnerships that

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01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 22: deliver them meaningful benefit. Concurrent conflicts and crises across the

1201
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:27,479
Speaker 22: continent will continue to put US citizens at risk and

1202
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:32,480
Speaker 22: cause further instability. In closing, as leaders of the intelligence community,

1203
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:38,600
Speaker 22: we remain committed to providing the President and policymakers with timely, unbiased,

1204
01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:42,439
Speaker 22: relevant intelligence to ensure the safety, security, and freedom of

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01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:43,360
Speaker 22: the American people.

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01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 25: Thank you, Thank you for your comments, Director Gabard.

1207
01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 26: We appreciate that we'll now move to member questions five

1208
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 26: minute increments. With that, I recognize myself for five minutes,

1209
01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:58,080
Speaker 26: Director Btel, Our state and local officials are on the

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01:08:58,080 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 26: front lines of increasingly dangerous unders strict warfare activities being

1211
01:09:01,400 --> 01:09:05,280
Speaker 26: undertaken by Chinese nationals, such as marijuana grow operations protected

1212
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:09,880
Speaker 26: by ourmed militants, secret police stations engaged in transnational repression

1213
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:13,760
Speaker 26: Chinese operated sim farm sites, crypto mining facilities, and land

1214
01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:18,240
Speaker 26: purchases near strategic locations. The CCP is exploiting legal gray

1215
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 26: areas and the lack of awareness at the state and

1216
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 26: local level to establish strategic footholes. Two states, in fact,

1217
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:28,080
Speaker 26: New Hampshire and Florida are now advancing legislation to establish

1218
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:32,400
Speaker 26: offices of Counterintelligence, which would bolster state's ability to confront

1219
01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:34,679
Speaker 26: foreign adversaries without relying on the federal government.

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01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:36,200
Speaker 25: Do you support that?

1221
01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:39,800
Speaker 26: What can be done to better support the states and

1222
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:40,679
Speaker 26: local officials?

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01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 27: Absolutely, thank you, mister Chairman.

1224
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 28: So we have infused funding into our entire entire program

1225
01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:50,960
Speaker 28: taking on the CCP. And while we are well versed

1226
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 28: in the fact that we have our capabilities with folks

1227
01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:56,599
Speaker 28: like Syphius, when it comes to the purchases of land

1228
01:09:56,840 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 28: around military bases, that only extends one mile under the

1229
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 28: and law. So the FBI had to get creative. So

1230
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:04,040
Speaker 28: what we did was directly engage with our state and

1231
01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:04,839
Speaker 28: local partners.

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01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:06,320
Speaker 27: And I'll give you two examples.

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01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 28: A four hundred acre farm in the state of Texas

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01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:11,920
Speaker 28: was owned by a CCP official, but because he was

1235
01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:15,600
Speaker 28: outside the reach of the Cyphias law. The FBI executed

1236
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:20,479
Speaker 28: a unlawful possession of firearms a criminal complaint and received it.

1237
01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:23,960
Speaker 28: We seize the land in its entirety, and that CCP

1238
01:10:24,120 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 28: national is back in mainland China and we are working

1239
01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 28: to get him back here. In another example, off the

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01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:31,800
Speaker 28: coast of Louisiana, we worked with Governor Landry's team on

1241
01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 28: drilling sites off the coast of Louisiana because again they

1242
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 28: were outside the whole of Syphius in the one mile radius,

1243
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:39,320
Speaker 28: and with the intelligence we were able to provide our

1244
01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:44,000
Speaker 28: state and local authorities, they shut down that CCP drilling center,

1245
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:46,559
Speaker 28: which we believed was actually used to provide and steal

1246
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:48,720
Speaker 28: data and intelligence from American lives. So that's just a

1247
01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:51,160
Speaker 28: little bit of an example of the marijuana growhouses. We

1248
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:55,080
Speaker 28: have six active ongoing investigations in six multiple jurisdictions for

1249
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:58,880
Speaker 28: specifically taking down CCP of eight affiliated growhouses from Maine

1250
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:00,200
Speaker 28: to Georgia and across the country.

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Speaker 26: So it sounds like from your characterization of Sophius it's

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01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:05,560
Speaker 26: inadequate at this point. Maybe we could do something legislatively

1253
01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:08,640
Speaker 26: here in this body to provide some broader authority to

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01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:09,679
Speaker 26: address that challenge.

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01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:10,320
Speaker 27: I would love that.

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Speaker 26: Okay, great, excellent, Thank you, Director Ratcliffe. In January twenty

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01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:17,280
Speaker 26: twenty one, in your role at d and I as

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01:11:17,280 --> 01:11:19,599
Speaker 26: the Director, you sent this committee a letter outlining your

1259
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:22,799
Speaker 26: concerns about an intelligence community assessment in which, among other things,

1260
01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:27,799
Speaker 26: analysts tailored their analysis towards a preferred policy outcome. CIA

1261
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:31,320
Speaker 26: management pressured analysts to withdraw their support from an alternative viewpoint,

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01:11:31,680 --> 01:11:35,240
Speaker 26: and the full body of intelligence reporting wasn't considered. Now,

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01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:37,719
Speaker 26: in your role as CIA Director, you have retracted several

1264
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 26: reports for political bias and not meeting IC analytics standards,

1265
01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:45,040
Speaker 26: which that's good progress. Retracting faulty reporting is a critical step,

1266
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:47,840
Speaker 26: but I remain concerned about that it maybe doesn't get

1267
01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:49,599
Speaker 26: to the root of the problem. How many analysts were

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01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:52,040
Speaker 26: involved in the products you recently retracted.

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01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:56,240
Speaker 29: I don't know the specific number, Chairman.

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01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:00,880
Speaker 25: What remediation actions have taken place as.

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Speaker 30: A result, Well, I've made the focus of as you,

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01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:06,960
Speaker 30: as you pointed out, both as d and I and

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01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:12,320
Speaker 30: now as CIA Director, focused on the importance of analytic objectivity.

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01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:15,200
Speaker 29: As you, as you.

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01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:17,040
Speaker 30: Pointed out, when I was when I was the d N,

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Speaker 30: I when I saw conduct from Russia and China, the

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Speaker 30: exact same conduct result in different assessments. That's not a

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01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:31,200
Speaker 30: good reflection on the the analytic judgments. Uh what you

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01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 30: referenced in my role as CIA director withdrawing reports that

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01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 30: we went back and looked that that didn't reflect the

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01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:44,040
Speaker 30: analytic standards that we would expect. I retracted those judgments

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01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:48,320
Speaker 30: because they show bias and influence for political reasons or otherwise.

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01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:51,360
Speaker 30: So that has continued to be a focus and and

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01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:55,120
Speaker 30: will be. I think that that message has been received

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01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:58,600
Speaker 30: within our analytic community, within the c i A and

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01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:01,800
Speaker 30: really across the c i A because this administration has

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01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:05,720
Speaker 30: put a focus on taking politics out of our analytic judgments.

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Speaker 26: Excellent, Thank you, Director, I appreciate that. I want to,

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01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:11,920
Speaker 26: as I make clear my opening statement, I'm just trying

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01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:13,240
Speaker 26: to get this done in the little time that I

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01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:16,960
Speaker 26: have remaining. The intelligence community assessment on HI is deeply

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01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 26: flawed and and I've called for its recall immediately to

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01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:23,559
Speaker 26: start for for a fresh start, similar to my question

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01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:27,360
Speaker 26: my question in the last year's session. But I'd like

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01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:28,920
Speaker 26: to get a yes or no answer from each of

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01:13:28,920 --> 01:13:30,679
Speaker 26: you on whether you agree this i c A should

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01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:35,840
Speaker 26: be retracted. Director Gabbard, Yes, Director Ratcliffe.

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Speaker 30: The the ice say it again the page I I

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Speaker 30: c A yeah, so uh for the I c A.

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Speaker 30: I understand the Director Gabbard is is reviewing that, and

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01:13:46,960 --> 01:13:50,839
Speaker 30: I've deferred all A h I investigations to her review.

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01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 30: So if in her judgment that is something that should

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Speaker 30: be retracted, then then uh, then I would agree with that.

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Speaker 26: And yes, okay, Director Patel, yes, thank you, General Hartman, yes,

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01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:06,559
Speaker 26: and General Adams yes, sir.

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Speaker 8: Thank you.

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Speaker 26: I appreciate that. Thank you all for your responses. I'm

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01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:11,840
Speaker 26: going to recognize the ranking member for five minutes.

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Speaker 31: Thank you, Chairman, Director Gabbard. As was well covered yesterday.

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01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:20,400
Speaker 31: In January, you were present at the execution of an

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01:14:20,439 --> 01:14:24,439
Speaker 31: FBI warrant at the Fulton County, Georgia election office at

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01:14:24,439 --> 01:14:27,040
Speaker 31: the direction of the President and to all appearances in

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01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 31: connection with the president's false claims about the twenty twenty election.

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01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:34,799
Speaker 31: The unsealed affidavit submitted by the FBI made zero reference

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01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:38,120
Speaker 31: to foreign powers or outside interference. I don't want to

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01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 31: relitigate the reasons why you were there, but I do

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01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:43,120
Speaker 31: want to know whether, as a result of your visit,

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01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:46,679
Speaker 31: there is credible intelligence in your possession pointing to foreign

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01:14:46,800 --> 01:14:49,200
Speaker 31: interference in Georgia in the twenty twenty election.

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Speaker 22: Thank you for the question, Ranking Member. As you know,

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01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 22: over each of the previous elections, there is an ongoing

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01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:01,320
Speaker 22: effort buy different foreign antimy.

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Speaker 13: It's a very specific question.

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01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:07,440
Speaker 31: Is there intelligence in your possession relative to foreign interference

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01:15:07,479 --> 01:15:08,599
Speaker 31: in the twenty twenty elections?

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01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 13: Very simple, straightforward question.

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01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:13,120
Speaker 22: We are continuing to look at previous attempts to interfere

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01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 22: in our elections and any ongoing threats that may exist

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01:15:16,160 --> 01:15:17,280
Speaker 22: for the upcoming elections.

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Speaker 31: Okay, But can I assume that the answer to my

1331
01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:23,759
Speaker 31: question is no, that you have no specific intelligence related

1332
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:25,639
Speaker 31: to foreign meddling in the Georgia election.

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01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:29,400
Speaker 22: We are continuing to look into this matter.

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01:15:29,520 --> 01:15:29,880
Speaker 13: Okay.

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01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:34,639
Speaker 31: Director the ode and I has confirmed on the record

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01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:39,559
Speaker 31: that your office took custody of voting machines from Puerto

1337
01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:43,479
Speaker 31: Rico last May. I'm not aware of any previous DNI

1338
01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:48,280
Speaker 31: taking similar actions. Did your office promptly notify the committee

1339
01:15:48,280 --> 01:15:51,040
Speaker 31: about taking custody of Puerto Rico's voting machines?

1340
01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:56,080
Speaker 22: I don't believe we did. However, this was done at

1341
01:15:56,120 --> 01:16:00,240
Speaker 22: the request of the Puerto Rico a USA attornam yes

1342
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:00,880
Speaker 22: or no question.

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01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 31: The answer, as you have acknowledged, is no. You did

1344
01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:05,880
Speaker 31: not inform the committee about the taking of a territory's

1345
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:09,320
Speaker 31: voting machines. Is therey specific foreign threat? And I've read

1346
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 31: the reporting that you were looking for possible foreign threats,

1347
01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:14,840
Speaker 31: But is there a specific foreign threat that drove you

1348
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:15,679
Speaker 31: to take this action.

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01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:19,640
Speaker 22: There were questions about whether or not there were vulnerabilities

1350
01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:21,960
Speaker 22: that a threat could have taken advantage of, and that

1351
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:25,160
Speaker 22: was the purpose for their requesting us to look into

1352
01:16:25,160 --> 01:16:26,280
Speaker 22: those vulnerabilities.

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01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 13: Where are those voting machines now?

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01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:31,880
Speaker 22: I believe they are held in a secure facility at

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01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:32,400
Speaker 22: od and.

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01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:36,479
Speaker 31: I have you or other OD and I officials taken

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01:16:36,600 --> 01:16:40,439
Speaker 31: any other state or territories voting equipment into custody.

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01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:41,599
Speaker 22: Not to my knowledge.

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01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:45,720
Speaker 31: I want to turn in the subject of elections to

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01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:49,000
Speaker 31: a paradoxical thing. You will all be aware that the

1361
01:16:49,080 --> 01:16:51,719
Speaker 31: US government is apparently going to grind to a halt.

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01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 31: The President is going to sign no more bills. The

1363
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:58,639
Speaker 31: Senate will spend two weeks apparently debating the Save Act.

1364
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:02,799
Speaker 31: The Save Act, of course, would make illegal foreigners voting

1365
01:17:02,840 --> 01:17:05,840
Speaker 31: in US elections, which is already illegal. So we are

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01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:09,240
Speaker 31: to do no more business because of apparently the existential

1367
01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 31: threat to our democracy associated with foreigners voting in our elections.

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01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:16,400
Speaker 31: I am therefore puzzled by the fact that neither the

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01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:21,680
Speaker 31: unclassified nor the classified Threat Assessment makes any reference to

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01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:27,120
Speaker 31: risk or danger associated with foreigners voting in our elections.

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01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:31,760
Speaker 31: Director Patel, how many non citizens have been convicted of

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01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:34,160
Speaker 31: voting in US elections in the last ten years?

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01:17:35,439 --> 01:17:38,280
Speaker 27: The conviction stats are with the Department of Justice. I

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01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:39,160
Speaker 27: defer to them on them.

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01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:42,519
Speaker 13: You are the director of the FBI.

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01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:46,040
Speaker 31: Give me a guess how many convictions in the last

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01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:48,000
Speaker 31: one year, five year or ten year ballpark?

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01:17:48,640 --> 01:17:50,120
Speaker 27: I don't have that with me, Sir, Again, it's with

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01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:50,639
Speaker 27: the department.

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01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:53,599
Speaker 13: You don't have that with Okay, Director Patel.

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01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:58,799
Speaker 31: How many active investigations does the FBI have into foreign

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01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:02,040
Speaker 31: individuals voting in US elections?

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01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:09,679
Speaker 28: We have a number of investigations, generally speaking, ongoing about

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01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:11,320
Speaker 28: individuals across the country.

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01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:12,679
Speaker 13: I'm asking for that number.

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01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:14,640
Speaker 27: I don't have that number with me, but I have

1387
01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:15,599
Speaker 27: a number of them.

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01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:19,080
Speaker 31: You have a number of investigations, okay. Is that number

1389
01:18:20,360 --> 01:18:22,840
Speaker 31: ten thousand? Is it closer to ten thousand or closer

1390
01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:23,240
Speaker 31: to ten.

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01:18:24,200 --> 01:18:25,479
Speaker 27: It's probably somewhere in between.

1392
01:18:25,960 --> 01:18:28,719
Speaker 13: Okay. Will you please provide the committee with that number?

1393
01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:32,080
Speaker 31: Yes, sir, okay, Director Patel, would it since you don't

1394
01:18:32,080 --> 01:18:36,240
Speaker 31: have the numbers? Would it surprise you to know that

1395
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:40,720
Speaker 31: the Heritage Foundation, which is not exactly the Columbia University

1396
01:18:40,760 --> 01:18:46,040
Speaker 31: Faculty Lounge, found only seventy seven instances of non citizen

1397
01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:49,400
Speaker 31: voting in the twenty four years between nineteen ninety nine

1398
01:18:49,439 --> 01:18:52,400
Speaker 31: and twenty twenty three, each of which faced investigation by

1399
01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:55,759
Speaker 31: the appropriate authorities. So Heritage has a number of seventy

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01:18:55,840 --> 01:19:02,160
Speaker 31: seven examples in twenty four years, Mber, surprise you?

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01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:03,160
Speaker 27: No, because it's low.

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01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:06,559
Speaker 13: I don't understand your answer.

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01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:08,480
Speaker 27: You ask me, are you disputing?

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01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:11,080
Speaker 31: Are you disputing that the number is in the range

1405
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:14,479
Speaker 31: of seventy seven examples of non US citizens voting in

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01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:15,839
Speaker 31: US elections in a twenty.

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01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:16,400
Speaker 13: Four year period?

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01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:17,720
Speaker 27: I just said that number is low.

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01:19:18,200 --> 01:19:19,920
Speaker 13: You think that number is low? Okay?

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01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:24,200
Speaker 31: So why, if this is a meaningful issue, do we

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01:19:24,320 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 31: have known? I guess I direct this to Director Gabbard.

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01:19:26,960 --> 01:19:28,880
Speaker 31: Why is there no mention of this thing that will

1413
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:30,840
Speaker 31: grind the American government to a halt for a two

1414
01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:33,520
Speaker 31: week period in the worldwide threats analysis.

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Speaker 22: This annual threat assessment was shaped around the national security

1416
01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:44,799
Speaker 22: strategies prioritization of threats to our nation and our nation's interests.

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01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 22: There are multiple platforms and venues where there have been

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01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:51,800
Speaker 22: and there will be reporting on threats to our foreign

1419
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 22: threats to our elections.

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01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:56,599
Speaker 25: Feel back, gentleman, yields fast Chairman Kelly.

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01:19:57,520 --> 01:20:02,760
Speaker 32: I'd first just like to say, direct Or gabbered, you

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01:20:02,880 --> 01:20:06,200
Speaker 32: being in Georgia was a party of your duties as

1423
01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:09,280
Speaker 32: D and I to make sure that our elections remained safe, secure,

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01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:13,320
Speaker 32: and free from every type of influence. That was why

1425
01:20:13,320 --> 01:20:13,760
Speaker 32: you were there.

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Speaker 9: Is that correct?

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01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:16,080
Speaker 33: Yes?

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01:20:16,439 --> 01:20:20,479
Speaker 32: Okay, I would argue, I want to talk about some

1429
01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:23,599
Speaker 32: of the points about the strikes on Iran, the current

1430
01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:28,280
Speaker 32: attacks epic fury, and I would state that not only

1431
01:20:28,439 --> 01:20:31,479
Speaker 32: are there imminent threats from Iran, but there are actual

1432
01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 32: threats and I've been on the receiving end of those threats.

1433
01:20:34,320 --> 01:20:37,479
Speaker 32: I was in Iraq in two thousand and five where

1434
01:20:37,520 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 32: Iranian based and manned and equipped units attacked American soldiers,

1435
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:46,920
Speaker 32: including me multiple times. I will also tell you I

1436
01:20:46,960 --> 01:20:50,800
Speaker 32: went back in ninety ten where EFPs developed by the

1437
01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:55,320
Speaker 32: Iranians struck my soldiers and our equipment. I would tell

1438
01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:59,120
Speaker 32: you the Hohothies have continued to strike Saudi Arabia. I

1439
01:20:59,120 --> 01:21:02,400
Speaker 32: will tell you Hama and Hezbala has continued to strike

1440
01:21:02,439 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 32: throughout the Middle East. And although we're not in armed

1441
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:07,679
Speaker 32: services here and we had that yesterday, but I will

1442
01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 32: tell you, because we took out their ballistic missiles and

1443
01:21:10,600 --> 01:21:13,320
Speaker 32: their ability to defend from the air, that Europe is

1444
01:21:13,400 --> 01:21:16,599
Speaker 32: no longer under threat from Iran, who showed they will

1445
01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:19,559
Speaker 32: strike everyone that they can by striking all of their

1446
01:21:19,600 --> 01:21:23,559
Speaker 32: Arab neighbors and Azerbaijan in Turkey and everywhere else. Well,

1447
01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:27,200
Speaker 32: that being said Director Ratcliffe, I think the CIA has

1448
01:21:27,240 --> 01:21:32,280
Speaker 32: had a great year in providing intelligence, whether that's in Venezuela,

1449
01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:36,000
Speaker 32: the initial midnight hammer strikes or also the current strikes

1450
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:37,519
Speaker 32: in Iran. Can you tell us kind of some of

1451
01:21:37,560 --> 01:21:40,200
Speaker 32: the things the CIA has done over the past year

1452
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 32: that you're proud.

1453
01:21:40,920 --> 01:21:44,639
Speaker 30: Of, Congressman, Good to see again, thank you for the question.

1454
01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:46,479
Speaker 30: Good to see all of you, and be back back

1455
01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:51,040
Speaker 30: in the house. I guess I'll start by saying, I

1456
01:21:51,040 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 30: think you all know there was bipartisan concern when I

1457
01:21:54,479 --> 01:21:58,439
Speaker 30: took over the CIA that our human collection was in

1458
01:21:58,479 --> 01:22:01,760
Speaker 30: a downward spiral and had been for some period of time,

1459
01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:05,760
Speaker 30: and you all wanted a more aggressive CIA, one that

1460
01:22:05,800 --> 01:22:09,880
Speaker 30: was focused on core mission, one that was collecting the

1461
01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:12,360
Speaker 30: kind of intelligence and stealing.

1462
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:15,000
Speaker 29: Secrets that would provide a decisive.

1463
01:22:14,520 --> 01:22:19,759
Speaker 30: Strategic advantage that can contribute to national security and foreign

1464
01:22:19,800 --> 01:22:20,960
Speaker 30: policy successes.

1465
01:22:23,439 --> 01:22:25,040
Speaker 29: I do think that the CIA.

1466
01:22:24,720 --> 01:22:27,720
Speaker 30: I agree with you, has had a great year, and

1467
01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:30,400
Speaker 30: that's a credit to our workforce. You talked about some

1468
01:22:30,439 --> 01:22:35,120
Speaker 30: of the very public successes like Operation Midnight Hammer and

1469
01:22:35,200 --> 01:22:40,920
Speaker 30: Operation Absolute Resolve, where our agency contributed to a frankly

1470
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:45,720
Speaker 30: flawless intelligence picture that allowed for flawless military operations. And

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Speaker 30: I want to credit everyone here. There's been bipartisan praise

1472
01:22:49,960 --> 01:22:53,280
Speaker 30: from this committee, even from those of you who may

1473
01:22:53,400 --> 01:22:55,240
Speaker 30: disagree with the underlying policies.

1474
01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:57,600
Speaker 29: But I think those successes.

1475
01:22:57,120 --> 01:23:01,559
Speaker 30: Are really emblematic of success that the agencies had across

1476
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:05,519
Speaker 30: the board on all national security matters, in all national

1477
01:23:05,600 --> 01:23:06,759
Speaker 30: security spaces.

1478
01:23:06,800 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 29: It's not just an opinion.

1479
01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:12,439
Speaker 30: It's reflected in our statistics. So when we talk about

1480
01:23:13,320 --> 01:23:17,679
Speaker 30: stealing secrets, you need assets and sources on the ground

1481
01:23:17,720 --> 01:23:20,679
Speaker 30: around the world. We're up twenty five percent in that regard,

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01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:25,240
Speaker 30: just in the past year. Our foreign intelligence reporting, meaning

1483
01:23:25,280 --> 01:23:28,719
Speaker 30: the intelligence that really matters to you as decision makers

1484
01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 30: and the president is commander in chief, that's up across

1485
01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:33,120
Speaker 30: the board twenty five percent.

1486
01:23:33,520 --> 01:23:35,479
Speaker 29: Other categories specific.

1487
01:23:36,600 --> 01:23:39,960
Speaker 30: Targets and adversaries like China, it's up one hundred percent.

1488
01:23:40,040 --> 01:23:43,680
Speaker 30: Areas like technology, it's up one hundred percent. Issues like

1489
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:47,360
Speaker 30: counter narcotics. Our operations are up by seventy percent. With

1490
01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:51,240
Speaker 30: regard to counter terrorism, those are classified numbers that we'll

1491
01:23:51,240 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 30: get into in the.

1492
01:23:51,880 --> 01:23:54,479
Speaker 29: Classified portion, but those are triple digits.

1493
01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:57,200
Speaker 30: We've accomplished more on the counter terrorism front in the

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01:23:57,240 --> 01:24:02,240
Speaker 30: past year than in the prior four years. Come again,

1495
01:24:02,439 --> 01:24:06,840
Speaker 30: really a credit to the CIA workforce. Morale at the

1496
01:24:06,840 --> 01:24:09,559
Speaker 30: agency is high because people are doing the work that

1497
01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:13,160
Speaker 30: they signed up to do, and this administration is calling

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Speaker 30: on them to do more.

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Speaker 32: I would say there, if I can steer back the

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Speaker 32: final forty five seconds, I have one question for Director

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01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:24,400
Speaker 32: of Patail. Director of Patail, the current shutdown that is

1502
01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:28,800
Speaker 32: caused by US not funding TSA, Border control, DHS and

1503
01:24:28,840 --> 01:24:31,400
Speaker 32: all those things. How hard has that made the job

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01:24:31,479 --> 01:24:35,240
Speaker 32: of Counterintelligence FBI to protect us here in the homeland

1505
01:24:35,479 --> 01:24:38,840
Speaker 32: from threats that came through our borders or internally and

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01:24:38,880 --> 01:24:40,519
Speaker 32: already existing in the United States.

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Speaker 8: Director of Patail, thank you.

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01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:42,559
Speaker 27: For the question.

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01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:45,640
Speaker 28: When it comes specifically to the combination efforts between the

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01:24:45,640 --> 01:24:47,679
Speaker 28: Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. We have fifty

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01:24:47,760 --> 01:24:50,120
Speaker 28: nine Homeland Security Task Forces that we have stood up

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01:24:50,160 --> 01:24:53,000
Speaker 28: in every single state and then some then it's co

1513
01:24:53,080 --> 01:24:56,360
Speaker 28: led by the FBI and HSI, and obviously having a

1514
01:24:56,400 --> 01:24:58,800
Speaker 28: stop gap in funding is hurting those abilities to go

1515
01:24:58,880 --> 01:25:02,160
Speaker 28: out there and fight crime and pick up violent offenders

1516
01:25:02,160 --> 01:25:05,400
Speaker 28: across the country. Even though the DHS Warforce shows up

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01:25:05,400 --> 01:25:07,679
Speaker 28: every day, I think they've gone one month without a paycheck.

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01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:08,000
Speaker 27: Now.

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01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:11,160
Speaker 28: We also have things like our Southern Border Intelligence Center

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01:25:11,200 --> 01:25:14,479
Speaker 28: in Tucson, Arizona, that is our hub for intelligence collection

1521
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:21,080
Speaker 28: operations on foreign terrorist organizations, specifically the NARCO traffickers down

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Speaker 28: in Mexico.

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Speaker 9: Thank you, My time's expired.

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Speaker 25: Mister Carson's recognized.

1525
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:27,320
Speaker 20: Thank you, Chairman.

1526
01:25:27,479 --> 01:25:31,280
Speaker 6: The Trump administration has justified this war with Iran as

1527
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:34,559
Speaker 6: necessary to stop an imminent threat, but the administration has

1528
01:25:34,600 --> 01:25:38,479
Speaker 6: not provided this committee with any intelligence indicating Iran was

1529
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:42,160
Speaker 6: preparing a nuclear weapon, planning a preemptive attack on the

1530
01:25:42,240 --> 01:25:45,600
Speaker 6: United States, or possessed any immediate capability to strike the

1531
01:25:45,720 --> 01:25:49,240
Speaker 6: US homeland. That raises very serious questions about what the

1532
01:25:49,280 --> 01:25:51,559
Speaker 6: analysis of the IC provided before the.

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01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:53,080
Speaker 13: Decision to go to war was made.

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Speaker 6: Directors Gabbard and Radcliffe, is there any evidence that Iran

1535
01:25:58,040 --> 01:26:02,000
Speaker 6: attended to conduct a preemptive attack on the United States?

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01:26:02,040 --> 01:26:05,000
Speaker 6: And I asked this because thirteen service members have been

1537
01:26:05,040 --> 01:26:09,200
Speaker 6: killed in Trump's war, including Captain Seth Coval, a husband

1538
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:13,080
Speaker 6: and a dad from my state of Indiana and my constituents.

1539
01:26:13,120 --> 01:26:16,679
Speaker 6: One answers, so, is there any evidence that Iran intended

1540
01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:19,240
Speaker 6: to conduct a preemptive attack on the US prior to

1541
01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:20,080
Speaker 6: beginning this war?

1542
01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:20,800
Speaker 20: Yes? Or no?

1543
01:26:25,160 --> 01:26:29,240
Speaker 22: Congressman, the answer to this question needs to be reserved

1544
01:26:29,240 --> 01:26:33,560
Speaker 22: for closed hearing. I will say, however, the intelligence community

1545
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:38,840
Speaker 22: does provide the assessments of the threats that exist to

1546
01:26:38,920 --> 01:26:41,679
Speaker 22: the president so that he can make that determination within

1547
01:26:41,760 --> 01:26:45,720
Speaker 22: the body of information and intelligence and activities within the

1548
01:26:45,760 --> 01:26:49,280
Speaker 22: region that ultimately he is responsible for what is an

1549
01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:52,160
Speaker 22: imminent threat and if there is an imminent threat, what

1550
01:26:52,280 --> 01:26:53,559
Speaker 22: actions need to be taken.

1551
01:26:56,960 --> 01:27:01,000
Speaker 30: Congressman, as the d and I said, there's a body

1552
01:27:01,000 --> 01:27:03,320
Speaker 30: of intelligence that we'll be able to cover in the

1553
01:27:03,360 --> 01:27:05,360
Speaker 30: classified portion of this hearing.

1554
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:08,880
Speaker 29: That reflects that does reflect.

1555
01:27:08,479 --> 01:27:11,280
Speaker 30: That in the likely event of a conflict between Iran

1556
01:27:11,320 --> 01:27:15,520
Speaker 30: and Israel, that the US would be immediately attacked, regardless

1557
01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:18,720
Speaker 30: of whether the United States stayed out of that conflict.

1558
01:27:19,600 --> 01:27:22,840
Speaker 6: Shifting gears to Ranking Memberheim's point, let me read to

1559
01:27:22,920 --> 01:27:26,840
Speaker 6: you from the twenty twenty five Annual Threat Assessment under

1560
01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:31,120
Speaker 6: your watch last year, quote Moscow's maligned influence activities will

1561
01:27:31,120 --> 01:27:35,000
Speaker 6: continue for the foreseeable future and will almost certainly increase

1562
01:27:35,120 --> 01:27:41,479
Speaker 6: insophistication volume. Moscow probably believes information operations efforts to influence

1563
01:27:41,560 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 6: US elections are advantageous, regardless of whether they affect election outcomes.

1564
01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:50,680
Speaker 6: By contrast, this year's Threat assessment makes no mention of

1565
01:27:50,760 --> 01:27:54,200
Speaker 6: foreign threats to elections. Meanwhile, the IC has been publicly

1566
01:27:54,360 --> 01:27:58,160
Speaker 6: warning about foreign powers interfering in our elections for nearly

1567
01:27:58,200 --> 01:28:01,240
Speaker 6: a decade. So the omission is very striking. And to

1568
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:04,040
Speaker 6: that point, sitting here today, I'm not aware of any

1569
01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:09,479
Speaker 6: intelligence products in the past year dedicated to foreign plans

1570
01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:15,519
Speaker 6: and intentions toward current and future US elections. Director Gabbard,

1571
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:18,320
Speaker 6: yes or no, ma'am. Have you directed or been directed

1572
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:23,160
Speaker 6: to stop or limit dissemination of intelligence reports or finished

1573
01:28:23,160 --> 01:28:29,160
Speaker 6: intelligence reporting concerning foreign plans and intentions about upcoming US elections.

1574
01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:30,280
Speaker 9: Or foreign threats to the midterms.

1575
01:28:30,800 --> 01:28:33,000
Speaker 29: No, Director Patel.

1576
01:28:33,120 --> 01:28:36,000
Speaker 6: Same question for the FBI, Sir, yes or no, sir No, Sir,

1577
01:28:36,680 --> 01:28:39,360
Speaker 6: Director Ratcliffe, Same question for the CIA, Sir Yes or

1578
01:28:39,400 --> 01:28:43,360
Speaker 6: no no. General Hartman, Same question for NSA, Yes or no,

1579
01:28:43,439 --> 01:28:47,040
Speaker 6: sir No, Sir, General Adams, Same question for THEDIA, Yes

1580
01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:48,599
Speaker 6: or no, sir no, Sir.

1581
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:53,840
Speaker 25: I yield back, Chairman, gentleman yields MI staphonic thank you,

1582
01:28:53,880 --> 01:28:54,519
Speaker 25: mister Chairman.

1583
01:28:54,640 --> 01:28:55,639
Speaker 22: Director Gabbard.

1584
01:28:57,479 --> 01:29:01,400
Speaker 5: When you begin your testimony, you stayedd that your remarks

1585
01:29:01,439 --> 01:29:05,000
Speaker 5: do not represent your personal beliefs. That's the first time

1586
01:29:05,040 --> 01:29:08,160
Speaker 5: I've heard that at a committee hearing.

1587
01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:09,880
Speaker 22: Why did you say that?

1588
01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:12,439
Speaker 5: Or is there anything in the threat assessment that you

1589
01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:13,680
Speaker 5: personally disagree with?

1590
01:29:15,640 --> 01:29:18,000
Speaker 22: You're the question, congressom And the reason I've said that

1591
01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:22,719
Speaker 22: is twofold. Number one is when I assumed this role

1592
01:29:22,760 --> 01:29:27,040
Speaker 22: as Director of National Intelligence, through the confirmation process and beyond,

1593
01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:31,840
Speaker 22: many members of Congress rightly said, your personal views and

1594
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:34,479
Speaker 22: your politics in this role get checked at the door.

1595
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:37,880
Speaker 22: And as Director of National Intelligence, my responsibility is to

1596
01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:43,000
Speaker 22: report the intelligence communities assessments objectively and to make sure

1597
01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:46,960
Speaker 22: that they are not politicized in any way, shape or form. Unfortunately,

1598
01:29:47,160 --> 01:29:51,040
Speaker 22: there are those who for one reason or another, have

1599
01:29:51,160 --> 01:29:55,960
Speaker 22: tried to mischaracterize the intelligence community's assessments and saying well,

1600
01:29:56,000 --> 01:29:59,799
Speaker 22: this is just a political view or trying to misdirect

1601
01:29:59,800 --> 01:30:02,000
Speaker 22: from what the intelligence community is reporting. So I took

1602
01:30:02,040 --> 01:30:04,599
Speaker 22: the opportunity to state that from the outset that this

1603
01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:06,680
Speaker 22: is the intelligence community's assessments.

1604
01:30:07,479 --> 01:30:07,840
Speaker 33: Thank you.

1605
01:30:08,160 --> 01:30:10,720
Speaker 5: I also wanted to ask this because this week there

1606
01:30:10,720 --> 01:30:14,800
Speaker 5: was a high profile resignation of director of National counter

1607
01:30:14,880 --> 01:30:17,360
Speaker 5: Terrorism Center. Now, I want to be clear from the outset,

1608
01:30:17,439 --> 01:30:20,639
Speaker 5: I've communicated directly with President Trump my support for Operation

1609
01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:25,240
Speaker 5: Epic Fury, and I was very not only disappointed, but

1610
01:30:25,400 --> 01:30:27,320
Speaker 5: how inappropriate.

1611
01:30:26,640 --> 01:30:27,360
Speaker 22: This letter was.

1612
01:30:27,400 --> 01:30:31,479
Speaker 5: And I want to read a statement that and get

1613
01:30:31,640 --> 01:30:34,240
Speaker 5: your personal assessment whether you agree or disagree with that.

1614
01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:35,360
Speaker 22: And that's this.

1615
01:30:35,840 --> 01:30:39,080
Speaker 5: Early in this administration, high ranking Israeli officials and influential

1616
01:30:39,120 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 5: members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that

1617
01:30:42,320 --> 01:30:46,479
Speaker 5: wholly undermined your America First platform and pro war sentiments

1618
01:30:46,520 --> 01:30:49,599
Speaker 5: to encourage war with Iran. This echo chamber was used

1619
01:30:49,640 --> 01:30:52,200
Speaker 5: to deceive you into believing that Iran posed no imminent

1620
01:30:52,200 --> 01:30:54,280
Speaker 5: threat to the United States and that you should strike

1621
01:30:54,680 --> 01:30:56,920
Speaker 5: now there was a clear path to a swift victory.

1622
01:30:57,000 --> 01:30:59,320
Speaker 5: This was a lie and it's the same tactic the

1623
01:30:59,360 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 5: Israelis to draw us into a disastrous to rock war. Now,

1624
01:31:03,400 --> 01:31:07,120
Speaker 5: I cannot say how much I disagree with that statement.

1625
01:31:07,439 --> 01:31:10,000
Speaker 5: Do you agree or disagree with what this letter was

1626
01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:11,679
Speaker 5: put out by former Director Kent?

1627
01:31:13,800 --> 01:31:16,520
Speaker 22: He said a lot of things in that letter. Ultimately,

1628
01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:20,880
Speaker 22: we have provided the president with the intelligence assessments, and

1629
01:31:20,960 --> 01:31:25,360
Speaker 22: the president is elected by the American people and makes

1630
01:31:25,360 --> 01:31:28,360
Speaker 22: his own decisions based on the information that's available to him.

1631
01:31:28,400 --> 01:31:30,800
Speaker 5: But do you agree with Does that statement he made

1632
01:31:31,240 --> 01:31:32,559
Speaker 5: blaming Israel concern you?

1633
01:31:33,120 --> 01:31:33,400
Speaker 22: Yes?

1634
01:31:35,080 --> 01:31:37,200
Speaker 5: My next question is I want to touch on the

1635
01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:40,240
Speaker 5: rise of terrorist attacks on the homeland. In the month

1636
01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:45,160
Speaker 5: of March alone, there were multiple high profile Islamic terrorist attacks.

1637
01:31:45,160 --> 01:31:49,240
Speaker 5: You had Temple Israel Synagogue in Michigan, you had in Texas,

1638
01:31:49,240 --> 01:31:52,200
Speaker 5: you had an Isis inspired attack where they threw an

1639
01:31:52,200 --> 01:31:55,400
Speaker 5: ied in New York City. What is your assessment as

1640
01:31:55,479 --> 01:31:58,800
Speaker 5: to the rise of Islamic terrorism on the homeland.

1641
01:31:59,560 --> 01:32:03,080
Speaker 22: As you've pointed to Congressome and this continues to be

1642
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:06,920
Speaker 22: an extreme concern, not only because of the rise of

1643
01:32:06,920 --> 01:32:11,120
Speaker 22: these attacks, but the mechanisms which they're carried out and

1644
01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:14,719
Speaker 22: the challenges that the intelligence community has in being able

1645
01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:17,879
Speaker 22: to try to detect some of these threats and attacks

1646
01:32:17,880 --> 01:32:20,920
Speaker 22: in advance. I'd like to defer to the FBI Director

1647
01:32:20,960 --> 01:32:24,120
Speaker 22: on some of this, because they have been very successful

1648
01:32:24,120 --> 01:32:27,240
Speaker 22: in many cases over the last year in detecting them

1649
01:32:27,280 --> 01:32:31,200
Speaker 22: and preventing these attacks. But due to the nature of

1650
01:32:33,640 --> 01:32:38,480
Speaker 22: the challenge in many of these attackers not having contact

1651
01:32:38,520 --> 01:32:44,000
Speaker 22: with known foreign terrorist entities or individuals makes this a

1652
01:32:44,080 --> 01:32:47,320
Speaker 22: much more challenging threat to deal with. And I want

1653
01:32:47,320 --> 01:32:47,719
Speaker 22: to turn.

1654
01:32:47,600 --> 01:32:50,479
Speaker 5: To Director Patel. I think that's a good important segue

1655
01:32:50,760 --> 01:32:53,080
Speaker 5: to get your assessment. And I also want to add

1656
01:32:53,080 --> 01:32:55,160
Speaker 5: another aspect of the question. We're working on a nine

1657
01:32:55,200 --> 01:32:58,679
Speaker 5: to eleven commission review, twenty five year review. What other

1658
01:32:58,800 --> 01:33:00,960
Speaker 5: tools do you need to make sure that we are

1659
01:33:01,040 --> 01:33:04,479
Speaker 5: able to have the most robust effective CT efforts?

1660
01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:06,040
Speaker 27: Yeah, thank you, Congressman.

1661
01:33:06,120 --> 01:33:08,080
Speaker 28: Just real quick, So last year, we had twenty three

1662
01:33:08,160 --> 01:33:11,160
Speaker 28: hundred arrests related to foreign terrorist organizations. We had seven

1663
01:33:11,280 --> 01:33:14,320
Speaker 28: hundred counter terrorism arrest and the FBI had six hundred

1664
01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:17,600
Speaker 28: and forty counter terrorism disruptions where we stopped attacks on

1665
01:33:17,640 --> 01:33:21,400
Speaker 28: the homeland. Specifically, in December, we stopped four in an

1666
01:33:21,400 --> 01:33:25,960
Speaker 28: eighteen day span. What I need is specifically highlighted.

1667
01:33:25,520 --> 01:33:26,360
Speaker 27: The Norfolk attack.

1668
01:33:26,520 --> 01:33:30,360
Speaker 28: In Norfolk, an individual who was convicted of terrorism and

1669
01:33:30,479 --> 01:33:34,559
Speaker 28: sentence based upon that conviction should have still been in prison.

1670
01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:37,920
Speaker 28: The Department of Justice in the first Trump administration sought

1671
01:33:37,920 --> 01:33:40,439
Speaker 28: a sentence of two hundred and forty months. The judge

1672
01:33:40,479 --> 01:33:43,200
Speaker 28: in that case downward departed and gave a variance to

1673
01:33:43,280 --> 01:33:46,200
Speaker 28: nearly half that sentence. If that had not occurred, that

1674
01:33:46,280 --> 01:33:49,080
Speaker 28: individual would still be in prison and a member of

1675
01:33:49,120 --> 01:33:52,240
Speaker 28: our uniform military service would still be alive. I want

1676
01:33:52,240 --> 01:33:54,320
Speaker 28: to work with the legislation to figure out how to

1677
01:33:54,360 --> 01:33:57,360
Speaker 28: increase the sentencing for convicted terrorists and also work on

1678
01:33:57,360 --> 01:34:00,360
Speaker 28: the denaturalization process for someone who should not be in

1679
01:34:00,400 --> 01:34:03,400
Speaker 28: this country who wants to attack and kill American citizens

1680
01:34:03,439 --> 01:34:04,519
Speaker 28: and American service members.

1681
01:34:04,560 --> 01:34:08,000
Speaker 25: Thank you, yield Back, Jim Yields, mister Castro.

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01:34:08,520 --> 01:34:10,599
Speaker 34: Thank you, thank you Chairman, and thank you for your

1683
01:34:10,600 --> 01:34:14,960
Speaker 34: testimony today. I want to start with a question about

1684
01:34:15,040 --> 01:34:17,200
Speaker 34: Iran and discuss firus.

1685
01:34:17,240 --> 01:34:18,479
Speaker 8: How the war began.

1686
01:34:19,840 --> 01:34:23,040
Speaker 34: Secretary Rubio told us that Israel was going to strike

1687
01:34:23,080 --> 01:34:27,320
Speaker 34: Iran regardless, and that doing so would have triggered Iranian

1688
01:34:27,360 --> 01:34:30,920
Speaker 34: retaliation against US forces already in the region, and Director

1689
01:34:30,960 --> 01:34:33,320
Speaker 34: Ratliff who seem to affirm that in comments just a

1690
01:34:33,360 --> 01:34:37,080
Speaker 34: few moments ago. So rather than tell Israel to stand down,

1691
01:34:37,160 --> 01:34:40,360
Speaker 34: the President joined the war. The Congress and the American

1692
01:34:40,400 --> 01:34:43,400
Speaker 34: people still don't know what the president's actual goals are,

1693
01:34:44,200 --> 01:34:49,120
Speaker 34: and yet we have lost thirteen US service members. But

1694
01:34:49,200 --> 01:34:51,640
Speaker 34: here's what we do know. The President has said that

1695
01:34:51,680 --> 01:34:54,360
Speaker 34: he wants a deal. He said Iran wants to make

1696
01:34:54,400 --> 01:34:56,360
Speaker 34: a deal, and that he's not ready because quote the

1697
01:34:56,439 --> 01:35:01,480
Speaker 34: terms aren't good enough yet. Yet they just kill Ali Larijani,

1698
01:35:01,680 --> 01:35:04,160
Speaker 34: the de facto leader of Iran, who, while not a

1699
01:35:04,200 --> 01:35:06,559
Speaker 34: friend of the United States, would have been the person

1700
01:35:06,600 --> 01:35:10,920
Speaker 34: to negotiate any agreement with the President, explicitly said that

1701
01:35:10,960 --> 01:35:14,519
Speaker 34: the United States did not strike Iran's energy infrastructure because,

1702
01:35:14,880 --> 01:35:18,599
Speaker 34: in his words, having to rebuild it quote would take years.

1703
01:35:19,479 --> 01:35:22,559
Speaker 34: Yet this morning, Israel struck the South Pars gas field,

1704
01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:26,840
Speaker 34: the world's largest natural gas reserve, triggering Iranian attacks on

1705
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:31,800
Speaker 34: Katari gas facilities. Oil prices are up fifteen percent in

1706
01:35:31,840 --> 01:35:35,120
Speaker 34: the last twenty four hours. In San Antonio, my hometown

1707
01:35:35,160 --> 01:35:38,040
Speaker 34: where I represent, The cost of gas has gone up

1708
01:35:38,080 --> 01:35:42,679
Speaker 34: nearly forty percent in three weeks. Last night, the President

1709
01:35:42,760 --> 01:35:45,080
Speaker 34: said that the United States knew nothing about the attack

1710
01:35:45,520 --> 01:35:48,599
Speaker 34: and called on Israel to stop similar attacks on energy.

1711
01:35:49,240 --> 01:35:52,000
Speaker 34: Israel denies this and says that the attack was cleared

1712
01:35:52,400 --> 01:35:56,080
Speaker 34: by the United States. So my question is, what does

1713
01:35:56,080 --> 01:35:58,960
Speaker 34: the intelligence community assess Israel's goals in this will in

1714
01:35:59,000 --> 01:36:02,479
Speaker 34: this war to be and are those goals aligned with

1715
01:36:02,520 --> 01:36:03,759
Speaker 34: the goals of the United States.

1716
01:36:13,840 --> 01:36:16,000
Speaker 22: I'm thinking carefully here about what can be said in

1717
01:36:16,040 --> 01:36:18,000
Speaker 22: this open setting versus a closed setting.

1718
01:36:19,800 --> 01:36:20,839
Speaker 8: Are the goals aligned?

1719
01:36:23,439 --> 01:36:25,880
Speaker 22: The objectives that have been laid out by the President

1720
01:36:26,240 --> 01:36:28,720
Speaker 22: are different from the objectives that have been laid out

1721
01:36:28,760 --> 01:36:30,680
Speaker 22: by the Israeli government.

1722
01:36:31,320 --> 01:36:32,160
Speaker 8: And how do they differ.

1723
01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:37,040
Speaker 22: We can see through the operations that the Israeli government

1724
01:36:37,120 --> 01:36:43,519
Speaker 22: has been focused on disabling the Iranian leadership and taking

1725
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:46,960
Speaker 22: out several members, obviously beginning with the Ayatola and the

1726
01:36:47,000 --> 01:36:51,160
Speaker 22: Supreme Leader, and they continue to focus on that effort.

1727
01:36:51,760 --> 01:36:53,280
Speaker 8: How does that differ from our goals?

1728
01:36:53,680 --> 01:36:58,360
Speaker 22: The President has stated that his objectives are to destroy

1729
01:36:58,520 --> 01:37:04,879
Speaker 22: Iran's ballistic misis soul launching capability, their ballistic missile production

1730
01:37:05,320 --> 01:37:10,800
Speaker 22: capability and their navy, the IRGC navy and mind lank capability.

1731
01:37:12,240 --> 01:37:16,040
Speaker 34: So the death and destruction continues, the economic costs the

1732
01:37:16,160 --> 01:37:18,760
Speaker 34: United States to Israel, to the Gulf States, and to

1733
01:37:18,840 --> 01:37:22,000
Speaker 34: the world continues to increase. So I want to ask you,

1734
01:37:22,360 --> 01:37:24,400
Speaker 34: to the best of your knowledge, do you know whether

1735
01:37:24,520 --> 01:37:26,840
Speaker 34: Israel is supportive of the President's call to make a

1736
01:37:26,880 --> 01:37:27,479
Speaker 34: deal with Iran.

1737
01:37:31,120 --> 01:37:33,559
Speaker 22: I don't know the answer to that. I don't know

1738
01:37:33,640 --> 01:37:34,720
Speaker 22: Israel's position on that.

1739
01:37:36,439 --> 01:37:38,759
Speaker 34: And to what do you attribute Israel's decision to strike

1740
01:37:38,840 --> 01:37:43,160
Speaker 34: Iranian energy infrastructure despite President Trump's call to keep those

1741
01:37:43,160 --> 01:37:44,439
Speaker 34: facilities off limits.

1742
01:37:46,400 --> 01:37:47,519
Speaker 22: I don't have an answer for that.

1743
01:37:55,920 --> 01:37:58,680
Speaker 8: So they ignored the president. Do you agree with that.

1744
01:38:01,439 --> 01:38:05,640
Speaker 22: I'm not privy to any of their deliberations or what

1745
01:38:05,840 --> 01:38:10,160
Speaker 22: went into their calculus and launching this or other attacks.

1746
01:38:12,120 --> 01:38:14,160
Speaker 22: I'm not we are we are not involved with the

1747
01:38:14,320 --> 01:38:17,960
Speaker 22: in the operational element of this. We're providing continuously on

1748
01:38:18,000 --> 01:38:21,120
Speaker 22: a daily basis, the intelligence assessments of the events that

1749
01:38:21,200 --> 01:38:22,960
Speaker 22: are occurring. Uh.

1750
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:26,559
Speaker 34: And I guess I know the FBI can't because they're domestic,

1751
01:38:26,600 --> 01:38:29,799
Speaker 34: But can anybody else at the table provide any insight

1752
01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:30,160
Speaker 34: into that?

1753
01:38:35,040 --> 01:38:38,520
Speaker 30: And I guess I'm not sure what the question you're asking, Uh,

1754
01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:41,639
Speaker 30: Congressman Castro, I guess a couple of things.

1755
01:38:42,400 --> 01:38:42,519
Speaker 13: Uh.

1756
01:38:43,200 --> 01:38:45,439
Speaker 30: The goals that the President set out are clearly defined

1757
01:38:45,479 --> 01:38:47,240
Speaker 30: the D and I related those.

1758
01:38:47,840 --> 01:38:52,200
Speaker 29: What was not included is a goal of the US. Well, Director,

1759
01:38:52,280 --> 01:38:53,360
Speaker 29: let me start with the painless.

1760
01:38:53,400 --> 01:38:57,320
Speaker 8: Let me with this question you asked, which let me

1761
01:38:57,320 --> 01:38:58,000
Speaker 8: reclaim my time.

1762
01:38:58,000 --> 01:39:02,360
Speaker 34: Director, Come on, do you know why Israel decided to

1763
01:39:02,360 --> 01:39:04,479
Speaker 34: strike that infrastructure. I wouldn't like the fact that the

1764
01:39:04,520 --> 01:39:06,280
Speaker 34: President said it should be off limits.

1765
01:39:07,400 --> 01:39:08,759
Speaker 29: I wouldn't speak for Israel.

1766
01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:13,080
Speaker 8: And what do you guys know, We're at war? What

1767
01:39:13,120 --> 01:39:13,760
Speaker 8: do you guys know?

1768
01:39:14,640 --> 01:39:15,880
Speaker 25: Lot to take that for the record.

1769
01:39:16,479 --> 01:39:17,799
Speaker 8: Yeah, let's take it for the record.

1770
01:39:18,840 --> 01:39:19,759
Speaker 24: Thank you, Miss Chairman.

1771
01:39:19,880 --> 01:39:24,000
Speaker 35: I want to welcome the panelists here today. Today is

1772
01:39:24,080 --> 01:39:29,000
Speaker 35: March nineteenth. On April nineteenth, Pisa goes dark. Seven oh

1773
01:39:29,040 --> 01:39:35,120
Speaker 35: two goes dark. And it's been talked about many times,

1774
01:39:35,160 --> 01:39:38,280
Speaker 35: but up to sixty percent of the President's daily briefing

1775
01:39:38,760 --> 01:39:40,840
Speaker 35: is derived from FIZA seven oh two.

1776
01:39:42,120 --> 01:39:44,439
Speaker 24: And we look at the successes that we've had.

1777
01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:48,040
Speaker 35: In protecting the homeland and also the conflicts the US

1778
01:39:48,040 --> 01:39:52,280
Speaker 35: has been involved with. The Flawless Operation in Venezuela, Operation

1779
01:39:53,960 --> 01:39:59,000
Speaker 35: Fury in Iran, true protection. The successes we've had on

1780
01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:05,720
Speaker 35: the battlefield, and you the recovery and release of the

1781
01:40:05,760 --> 01:40:09,920
Speaker 35: Hamas hostages in the tunnels in Israel all derived from

1782
01:40:09,920 --> 01:40:11,480
Speaker 35: Pisas seven oh two.

1783
01:40:11,800 --> 01:40:12,400
Speaker 24: There is not.

1784
01:40:13,000 --> 01:40:17,400
Speaker 35: A military operation that we've been involved with where PHISIS

1785
01:40:17,400 --> 01:40:20,559
Speaker 35: seven oh two was not, as Director Ratcliffe has said,

1786
01:40:20,600 --> 01:40:24,360
Speaker 35: been indispensable to the United States and the protection of

1787
01:40:24,400 --> 01:40:28,200
Speaker 35: our country. Director Patel has also said Phisis seven oh

1788
01:40:28,200 --> 01:40:32,080
Speaker 35: two is indispensable. We're thirty days away from it going dark.

1789
01:40:33,880 --> 01:40:37,800
Speaker 35: Director Ratcliffe, can you clarify the President's position on an

1790
01:40:37,800 --> 01:40:41,719
Speaker 35: eighteen month clean reauthorization and how that's going to proceed

1791
01:40:41,800 --> 01:40:43,479
Speaker 35: moving forward.

1792
01:40:44,760 --> 01:40:47,960
Speaker 30: Congressman, thank you and thank you for highlighting this issue.

1793
01:40:48,000 --> 01:40:51,200
Speaker 30: So the President is in favor of an eighteen month

1794
01:40:51,280 --> 01:40:55,640
Speaker 30: clean reauthor clean reauthorization of FISA seven oh two, and

1795
01:40:55,680 --> 01:40:58,960
Speaker 30: I would add to that, I'm heartened by the fact

1796
01:40:59,240 --> 01:41:02,080
Speaker 30: to hear that the chair of this committee and the

1797
01:41:02,160 --> 01:41:04,800
Speaker 30: ranking member are in agreement with that. And I know

1798
01:41:04,840 --> 01:41:07,920
Speaker 30: there's biparties in support for that, and there should be,

1799
01:41:08,360 --> 01:41:10,840
Speaker 30: and I know this is an important vote for you

1800
01:41:10,960 --> 01:41:13,040
Speaker 30: to take, but I would ask that you all consider

1801
01:41:13,120 --> 01:41:16,200
Speaker 30: when you do that, that when you look at the

1802
01:41:16,240 --> 01:41:20,719
Speaker 30: fact that former DNA's and former CIA directors, and former

1803
01:41:20,840 --> 01:41:27,000
Speaker 30: FBI directors and DEIA directors and NSA directors across Republican

1804
01:41:27,720 --> 01:41:33,000
Speaker 30: and Democrat administrations are in support of FAIZA seven h

1805
01:41:33,040 --> 01:41:35,360
Speaker 30: two in its current form, these are the people that

1806
01:41:35,400 --> 01:41:39,439
Speaker 30: are making the decisions to keep Americans safe, and so

1807
01:41:39,920 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 30: I wish the reauthorization was longer than eighteen months.

1808
01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:44,160
Speaker 29: Congressman.

1809
01:41:44,200 --> 01:41:45,800
Speaker 30: I think that this is something that I wish you

1810
01:41:45,880 --> 01:41:49,320
Speaker 30: all would consider for longer than that, so that regardless

1811
01:41:49,320 --> 01:41:52,000
Speaker 30: of who the president is, who the president is in

1812
01:41:52,040 --> 01:41:54,640
Speaker 30: the future, he or she would have the benefit of,

1813
01:41:54,680 --> 01:42:00,600
Speaker 30: as you said, a tool that's indispensable across administrations provide

1814
01:42:00,640 --> 01:42:05,120
Speaker 30: more than half of the important actionable intelligence that the

1815
01:42:05,160 --> 01:42:08,120
Speaker 30: president and the commander in chief relies upon.

1816
01:42:08,640 --> 01:42:10,320
Speaker 24: Thank you for that, Director Gabbert.

1817
01:42:10,320 --> 01:42:13,120
Speaker 35: You're supportive of the eighteen month extension the presidents seeking

1818
01:42:13,160 --> 01:42:14,280
Speaker 35: without a warrant requirement.

1819
01:42:15,600 --> 01:42:17,920
Speaker 22: That is the president's position, and that is the position

1820
01:42:17,960 --> 01:42:19,760
Speaker 22: of the intelligence community.

1821
01:42:19,280 --> 01:42:20,400
Speaker 24: And you will be supporting that.

1822
01:42:20,439 --> 01:42:20,839
Speaker 9: Correct.

1823
01:42:21,160 --> 01:42:24,960
Speaker 22: I will support the President's decision to execute this correct.

1824
01:42:24,600 --> 01:42:26,799
Speaker 24: Thank you, Director Gabert.

1825
01:42:27,880 --> 01:42:31,320
Speaker 35: We implemented two years ago a number of reforms, actually

1826
01:42:31,320 --> 01:42:33,559
Speaker 35: fifty six of them that were part of the Reforming

1827
01:42:33,600 --> 01:42:37,559
Speaker 35: Intelligence and Securing America Act RISA, and that was done

1828
01:42:37,600 --> 01:42:41,160
Speaker 35: in a bipartisan way that was a reflection of what

1829
01:42:41,200 --> 01:42:44,679
Speaker 35: we thought were problems with FIZA seven h two going

1830
01:42:44,760 --> 01:42:47,600
Speaker 35: back during the first Trump administration and even before that.

1831
01:42:48,320 --> 01:42:52,120
Speaker 35: These reforms that have been put in place and that

1832
01:42:52,280 --> 01:42:54,400
Speaker 35: you have helped implement, and we wonder if you could

1833
01:42:54,439 --> 01:42:58,080
Speaker 35: talk specifically about those reforms on the cutting down of

1834
01:42:58,320 --> 01:43:01,959
Speaker 35: FBI agents having acts us to querying of PHIZA information,

1835
01:43:02,920 --> 01:43:06,040
Speaker 35: the fact that there are criminal penalties now for FBI

1836
01:43:06,080 --> 01:43:09,679
Speaker 35: agents that are engaged in inappropriate activity as it relates

1837
01:43:09,680 --> 01:43:12,320
Speaker 35: to FAIZA. Please tell us some of those reforms and

1838
01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:13,520
Speaker 35: how those have been implemented.

1839
01:43:17,040 --> 01:43:20,479
Speaker 28: Director Patel, sorry, I thought you were asking Dy, and

1840
01:43:20,520 --> 01:43:23,719
Speaker 28: I absolutely so. We've gone above and beyond what RISER

1841
01:43:23,800 --> 01:43:27,720
Speaker 28: requires since I became director thirteen months ago. We not

1842
01:43:27,880 --> 01:43:33,240
Speaker 28: only require supervisory special agents to approve the query request

1843
01:43:33,280 --> 01:43:36,840
Speaker 28: of US persons, we also require the General Counsel's Office

1844
01:43:36,840 --> 01:43:38,759
Speaker 28: and lawyers to come in and agree with that request

1845
01:43:38,760 --> 01:43:43,320
Speaker 28: before we can proceed. Also that we used to before

1846
01:43:43,400 --> 01:43:47,040
Speaker 28: this had a default which allowed queries when we were

1847
01:43:47,080 --> 01:43:49,479
Speaker 28: usually it in our system to say it automatically searches

1848
01:43:49,560 --> 01:43:52,240
Speaker 28: seven zero two. You now have to actually opt in

1849
01:43:52,439 --> 01:43:55,559
Speaker 28: and select that box to make sure that you are

1850
01:43:55,600 --> 01:43:59,040
Speaker 28: intentionally doing so. On top of that, we've reduced the

1851
01:43:59,160 --> 01:44:01,840
Speaker 28: number of personal the FBI from sixty six hundred before

1852
01:44:01,840 --> 01:44:04,559
Speaker 28: I got there to thirty five hundred that have access

1853
01:44:04,600 --> 01:44:06,839
Speaker 28: to it, not that use it, but that have access

1854
01:44:06,880 --> 01:44:10,000
Speaker 28: to it. And we've also gone above and beyond what

1855
01:44:10,439 --> 01:44:14,000
Speaker 28: riser requires in terms of if you misuse it unintentionally

1856
01:44:14,080 --> 01:44:17,440
Speaker 28: or recklessly. If you use it unintentionally, misuse it unintentionally

1857
01:44:17,880 --> 01:44:19,960
Speaker 28: like you typed the name wrong in terms of spelling

1858
01:44:20,080 --> 01:44:22,960
Speaker 28: or whatnot, you have your access is suspended and be retrained.

1859
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:26,879
Speaker 28: If you recklessly use it, you're immediately terminated your access forever.

1860
01:44:28,040 --> 01:44:34,000
Speaker 33: Thank you, mister Crow, Thank you, Chairman, Director Gabbard.

1861
01:44:34,680 --> 01:44:37,560
Speaker 36: It is your job and the job of your agency

1862
01:44:37,640 --> 01:44:41,120
Speaker 36: and department to assess the views of Iranian leadership, their

1863
01:44:41,200 --> 01:44:43,960
Speaker 36: policy beliefs and policy positions.

1864
01:44:43,960 --> 01:44:44,320
Speaker 33: Correct.

1865
01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:49,680
Speaker 36: Yes, that includes now deceased Ali Komene of Iran correct. Yes,

1866
01:44:49,920 --> 01:44:52,320
Speaker 36: and it is not in the now leader his son,

1867
01:44:52,400 --> 01:44:56,120
Speaker 36: mush Taba Komene correct. Yes, the son is considered more

1868
01:44:56,160 --> 01:45:00,800
Speaker 36: of a hardliner than his father, isn't that correct? Yes,

1869
01:45:01,880 --> 01:45:04,320
Speaker 36: so hardline that even some of Iran's leaders thought he

1870
01:45:04,400 --> 01:45:05,160
Speaker 36: was too aggressive.

1871
01:45:05,200 --> 01:45:05,920
Speaker 33: Isn't that correct?

1872
01:45:06,520 --> 01:45:08,320
Speaker 22: That is the intelligence community assessment.

1873
01:45:08,400 --> 01:45:11,799
Speaker 36: Yes, Mushtaba the Sun is particularly close to the brutal

1874
01:45:11,840 --> 01:45:15,040
Speaker 36: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and their most hardline commanders.

1875
01:45:15,080 --> 01:45:17,760
Speaker 22: Correct, that is the intelligence community assessment.

1876
01:45:18,240 --> 01:45:21,760
Speaker 36: He was involved in ordering violent crackdowns and Iranian protesters,

1877
01:45:21,840 --> 01:45:22,719
Speaker 36: including their murder.

1878
01:45:22,760 --> 01:45:25,759
Speaker 33: Correct. Yes, And we don't know if the son.

1879
01:45:25,640 --> 01:45:28,639
Speaker 36: Will continue his father's religious ban on developing nuclear weapons.

1880
01:45:28,720 --> 01:45:29,200
Speaker 33: Is that correct?

1881
01:45:29,200 --> 01:45:30,280
Speaker 22: It's unknown at this time.

1882
01:45:30,720 --> 01:45:34,679
Speaker 36: You testified before this committee last year that the elder

1883
01:45:34,760 --> 01:45:39,639
Speaker 36: now deceased Komene had in two thousand and three banned

1884
01:45:39,800 --> 01:45:41,760
Speaker 36: the nuclear weapons program or suspended it.

1885
01:45:41,800 --> 01:45:42,160
Speaker 8: Correct.

1886
01:45:42,200 --> 01:45:44,720
Speaker 22: There was a fatua in place that stated.

1887
01:45:44,360 --> 01:45:47,120
Speaker 36: That, and that fatwah remained in place last year when

1888
01:45:47,120 --> 01:45:50,160
Speaker 36: you're testified before this committee. Correct, Yes, and that fatwah

1889
01:45:50,240 --> 01:45:52,519
Speaker 36: remained in place recently.

1890
01:45:52,520 --> 01:45:55,960
Speaker 22: Correct, As far as I know, it has not been lifted.

1891
01:45:56,120 --> 01:45:59,000
Speaker 36: Yeah, you're aware of no information that would lift that fatwah.

1892
01:46:00,120 --> 01:46:03,519
Speaker 22: Not aware of any intelligence supporting that states that. To

1893
01:46:03,880 --> 01:46:07,519
Speaker 22: be clear. On the Mojtaba, the son who has been

1894
01:46:07,600 --> 01:46:11,680
Speaker 22: named to replace him. It is unclear of his status

1895
01:46:11,840 --> 01:46:15,960
Speaker 22: or his involvement. He was injured very severely through one

1896
01:46:16,000 --> 01:46:19,840
Speaker 22: of the Israeli strikes, and so the decision making is

1897
01:46:20,240 --> 01:46:22,559
Speaker 22: unclear about what's happening in the Iranian leadership.

1898
01:46:22,600 --> 01:46:23,120
Speaker 33: It's unclear.

1899
01:46:23,200 --> 01:46:26,480
Speaker 36: So we're less certain of the positions of Iranian leadership

1900
01:46:26,680 --> 01:46:29,040
Speaker 36: and their intentions than we were sixty days ago.

1901
01:46:29,120 --> 01:46:31,400
Speaker 22: Correct, that's an accurate assessment.

1902
01:46:32,720 --> 01:46:38,559
Speaker 36: One of your jobs is to create products assessing Iran

1903
01:46:38,640 --> 01:46:40,200
Speaker 36: and the threats opposes the United States.

1904
01:46:40,200 --> 01:46:40,559
Speaker 33: Correct.

1905
01:46:41,160 --> 01:46:45,639
Speaker 36: Yes, that includes potential outcomes for military action.

1906
01:46:45,840 --> 01:46:47,040
Speaker 33: Correct.

1907
01:46:48,240 --> 01:46:51,880
Speaker 22: It includes potential outcomes of a variety of scenarios.

1908
01:46:52,160 --> 01:46:53,800
Speaker 33: In the likelihood of those outcomes.

1909
01:46:55,240 --> 01:46:55,559
Speaker 22: Yes.

1910
01:46:55,960 --> 01:47:00,360
Speaker 36: Generally, when you make assessments about threats facing the United States,

1911
01:47:00,880 --> 01:47:03,920
Speaker 36: you will look at in Iran, in any instance, the

1912
01:47:04,080 --> 01:47:06,200
Speaker 36: likely scenarios that have come out of military action.

1913
01:47:06,320 --> 01:47:06,679
Speaker 33: Correct.

1914
01:47:07,320 --> 01:47:10,559
Speaker 22: The intelligence community takes all of those factors into account

1915
01:47:10,560 --> 01:47:12,400
Speaker 22: when they create these assessments.

1916
01:47:12,760 --> 01:47:15,560
Speaker 36: When you look at the threats posed by foreign countries,

1917
01:47:15,920 --> 01:47:18,479
Speaker 36: you also assess timelines to those threats.

1918
01:47:18,479 --> 01:47:18,839
Speaker 33: Correct.

1919
01:47:20,840 --> 01:47:22,840
Speaker 22: What do you mean by timelines.

1920
01:47:22,439 --> 01:47:25,000
Speaker 36: Like a breakout time, for example, for nuclear weapons, the

1921
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:26,520
Speaker 36: development of ballistic missiles.

1922
01:47:26,920 --> 01:47:29,679
Speaker 22: Yes, based on the information available at any given time.

1923
01:47:29,560 --> 01:47:30,440
Speaker 33: In the timeline.

1924
01:47:30,479 --> 01:47:37,000
Speaker 36: Also for potential terrorist attacks. Correct, broadly, Yes, assess it

1925
01:47:37,040 --> 01:47:40,360
Speaker 36: is common matters available the ICE to assess the timeline

1926
01:47:40,400 --> 01:47:45,439
Speaker 36: of all threats nuclear weapons development, ballistic right, Yes, ballistic

1927
01:47:45,479 --> 01:47:46,760
Speaker 36: weapons development.

1928
01:47:46,920 --> 01:47:52,160
Speaker 22: Based on the information available. Yes, terrorist attacks. Same applies

1929
01:47:52,439 --> 01:47:57,320
Speaker 22: cyber attacks timelines for all of those. Correct, when there

1930
01:47:57,400 --> 01:47:59,200
Speaker 22: is information available that point to that.

1931
01:47:59,240 --> 01:48:03,280
Speaker 33: Yes, likelihood as well as the timeline.

1932
01:48:02,880 --> 01:48:05,519
Speaker 22: Correct based on the information available.

1933
01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:07,120
Speaker 33: Timing is important, is it not.

1934
01:48:09,200 --> 01:48:12,040
Speaker 22: It is an important factor that goes into the assessment.

1935
01:48:12,960 --> 01:48:16,400
Speaker 36: So it is your position sitting here today that you

1936
01:48:16,520 --> 01:48:22,479
Speaker 36: made no timeline determination as to threats that Iran had

1937
01:48:22,520 --> 01:48:23,559
Speaker 36: facing the United States.

1938
01:48:23,600 --> 01:48:23,960
Speaker 33: Correct.

1939
01:48:25,960 --> 01:48:27,840
Speaker 22: It's a very broad statement. But where the.

1940
01:48:32,040 --> 01:48:35,640
Speaker 36: Assessment probuct you or the I see make any assessments

1941
01:48:35,680 --> 01:48:39,120
Speaker 36: as to the timing of potential threats facing the United

1942
01:48:39,200 --> 01:48:43,600
Speaker 36: States from Iran in the last ninety days.

1943
01:48:44,120 --> 01:48:48,640
Speaker 22: I'm sure there was timelines factored into the intelligence assessments

1944
01:48:48,680 --> 01:48:49,880
Speaker 22: that were delivered.

1945
01:48:50,000 --> 01:48:51,400
Speaker 33: Did an't of them show imminence?

1946
01:48:52,880 --> 01:48:57,000
Speaker 22: The imminent nature of a threat is provided is determined

1947
01:48:57,000 --> 01:48:59,720
Speaker 22: by the president based on a totality of the intelligence

1948
01:48:59,720 --> 01:49:01,240
Speaker 22: and information provided to.

1949
01:49:01,479 --> 01:49:04,920
Speaker 36: Any of the show that there were attacks anticipated within

1950
01:49:04,960 --> 01:49:07,080
Speaker 36: the next ninety days from Iran.

1951
01:49:07,760 --> 01:49:10,479
Speaker 22: It's too simplistic of a statement to say that, because

1952
01:49:10,520 --> 01:49:13,519
Speaker 22: it depends on various scenarios occurring or not occurring.

1953
01:49:13,960 --> 01:49:18,599
Speaker 36: Did those assessments show timelines for the threats that are

1954
01:49:18,640 --> 01:49:22,559
Speaker 36: on posed to the United States the totality.

1955
01:49:21,960 --> 01:49:25,200
Speaker 22: Of threats, Yes, there were timelines involved where it applied

1956
01:49:25,240 --> 01:49:27,479
Speaker 22: and where that information was available. But again to your

1957
01:49:27,560 --> 01:49:31,160
Speaker 22: question about the determination of imminence, the President makes that

1958
01:49:31,240 --> 01:49:34,920
Speaker 22: determination based on the totality of information and intelligence.

1959
01:49:34,920 --> 01:49:37,320
Speaker 36: The bottom line is there is no eminent thread, and

1960
01:49:37,360 --> 01:49:40,200
Speaker 36: you know that, and there's no product that shows that.

1961
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Speaker 25: I yield back mister.

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Speaker 37: Fitzpatrick, thank you, missus Sherman, thank you all for being

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Speaker 37: here today. I want to expand on the questioning from

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Speaker 37: my colleague, mister the Hood regarding five seven oh two. Obviously,

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Speaker 37: it is the imminet issue right before us. We'll expire

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Speaker 37: in a month. Unequivocally the most critical national security tool

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Speaker 37: ornation has to keep us safe from fentanyl, from foreign wars,

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Speaker 37: and everything in between. Mainly to Director rat Cliff, but

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Speaker 37: any of you can answer this. One of the most

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Speaker 37: perplexing debates that I've been subject to in my time,

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Speaker 37: here is this debate over what warrants are and when

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Speaker 37: they're needed. In the two hundred and fifty year history

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Speaker 37: of this country, and going back to the very origins

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Speaker 37: of law enforcement, we have always had a warrant requirement,

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Speaker 37: always had a warrant requirement on the collection of evidence.

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Speaker 37: We have never had a warrant requirement on the querying

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Speaker 37: of already lawfully collected data. Which is why we don't

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Speaker 37: require police officers to get warrants when they run license plates,

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Speaker 37: querying off of already lawfully collected DOT data. It's why

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Speaker 37: we don't require police officers to get a warrant to

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Speaker 37: enter the evidence locker in their police precincts which contains

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Speaker 37: already lawfully collected data.

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Speaker 22: It would literally.

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Speaker 37: Shut down the system. And that's not a warrant requirement.

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Speaker 37: That's a secondary warrant requirement. That's a warrant requirement on steroids. So,

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Speaker 37: Director Ratcliffe, for any of you, I know you've been

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Speaker 37: subject to these questions as well. Is it just a

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Speaker 37: confusion over the difference between the collection of evidence versus

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Speaker 37: the querying of our already lawfully collected data. Is it

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Speaker 37: a lack of understanding of what incidental collection is, which

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Speaker 37: is a fundamental precept.

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Speaker 1: Of law enforcement.

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Speaker 37: But if we have a warrant requirement on steroids for now,

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Speaker 37: the querying of already lawfully collected data just by the numbers,

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Speaker 37: that would require an expansion of the federal judiciary by

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Speaker 37: a factor of one hundred. It would literally shut down

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Speaker 37: our law enforcement apparatus at perhaps the most dangerous time

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Speaker 37: in our nation's history. So, Director Ratcliff, for any ofview,

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Speaker 37: if you could just walk me through your analysis.

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Speaker 30: There, well, I'll start Congressman, thanks for the question again,

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Speaker 30: thanks for highlighting this important issue. And as a been

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Speaker 30: pointed out, reforms should be implemented where they're necessary. And

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Speaker 30: I think, speaking for myself, and I know Director Patel

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Speaker 30: supported the reforms from two years ago to make improvements,

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Speaker 30: and they did, and so some reforms should be considered

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Speaker 30: A warrant isn't one of them. And with respect to

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Speaker 30: the reforms that have been implemented we're talking about when

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Speaker 30: we talk about Fourth Amendment rights and privacy concerns, we're

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Speaker 30: at a ninety nine point nine percent compliance rate with

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Speaker 30: respect to that, So I would I would start by saying,

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Speaker 30: why are you trying to fix what's not broken with

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Speaker 30: something that I can tell you from this seat, the

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Speaker 30: fix would not work. And I go back to my

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Speaker 30: comment before D and I's CIA directors, FBI directors. The

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Speaker 30: people have been in all of these chairs before, on

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Speaker 30: a bipartisan basis, agree that a warrant won't work and

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Speaker 30: don't advocate for it.

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Speaker 29: You're again, Congressman, You're correct. This is lawfully collected.

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Speaker 30: Information, and we have these things come at you very fast,

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Speaker 30: and you have to make decisions very quickly, and sometimes

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Speaker 30: in a matter of hours. You have to act on

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Speaker 30: the information that you have lawfully uh you know that

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Speaker 30: has been lawfully collected to interdict drug shipments or terrorist activities.

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Speaker 29: And a warrant requiring you to go to the court

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Speaker 29: to seek probable.

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Speaker 30: Cause for information that has already been lawfully collected only

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Speaker 30: prevents that from happening.

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Speaker 29: I don't understand.

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Speaker 30: I understand that it's well meaning for people that are

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Speaker 30: proposing it, but again, I would defer to the people

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Speaker 30: who sit in these chairs and make these decisions who

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Speaker 30: would tell you that it doesn't work.

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Speaker 37: Anybody else want to comment on the water.

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Speaker 38: Requirement, So Congressman, I'd love to comment. Thanks, thanks for

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Speaker 38: the question. Do you just want to add a couple

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Speaker 38: of points? Agree with everything? Director Radcliffe said, you know not.

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Speaker 38: Not only is this already collected data on foreign personnel

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Speaker 38: outside of the United States, but the data that is

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Speaker 38: being queried has also already been analyzed to ensure that

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Speaker 38: it contains foreign intelligence value, which I think is a.

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Speaker 13: Very important part of this.

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Speaker 38: And then when we querry a US person term, we're

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Speaker 38: not querying for US person information, We're querying for foreign

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Speaker 38: intelligence that has already been evaluated at least once to

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Speaker 38: contain foreign intelligence in the database it's being access And

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Speaker 38: then the final piece that I think is important is

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Speaker 38: that both the FISK and the Department of Justice have

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Speaker 38: established robust legal and compliance rules that we adhere to

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Speaker 38: and that is audited by DOJ for every query that

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Speaker 38: we make.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, Ayo Beck, Doctor Barra.

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Speaker 13: Thank I'm Sherman.

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Speaker 39: Director Gobert. We've known each other for a long time.

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Speaker 39: We were both elected to Congress in twenty twelve, serve

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Speaker 39: together for a while. I may not have always agreed

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Speaker 39: with your positions, but I respected the consistency of some

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Speaker 39: of your positions, Director Gabbert. Following the January third, twenty twenty,

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Speaker 39: drone strike that killed Kassam Sulimani. You gave a speech

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Speaker 39: on the Houst floor six days later, on January ninth,

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Speaker 39: twenty twenty. In this speech that is currently in the

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Speaker 39: Congressional record and available for anyone to view, you stated, quote,

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Speaker 39: President Trump has committed an illegal and unconstitutional active war,

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Speaker 39: pushing our nation headlong into a war with Iran without any.

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Speaker 9: Authorization from Congress.

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Speaker 39: War that would be so costly and devastating it would

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Speaker 39: make our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan look like a picnic.

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Speaker 39: On February twenty eighth, twenty twenty six, the Trump administration,

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Speaker 39: under which you are the President's principal Intelligence advisor, launched

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Speaker 39: an illegal and unconstitutional active war, pushing our nation headlong

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Speaker 39: into a war with Iran without any otherthorzation from Congress.

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Speaker 39: This war has already been costly and devastating. Thirteen American

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Speaker 39: service members have lost their lives, including Chief Warrant Officer

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Speaker 39: Robert Marsan from my home of Sacramento, California. Approximately two

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Speaker 39: hundred service members have been wounded. The Pentagon reported that

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Speaker 39: the first six days of Operation Epic Fury cost eleven

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Speaker 39: point three billion dollars. That averages almost two billion dollars

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Speaker 39: per day. That was the first six days, and now

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Speaker 39: we're in the nineteenth day of this war that's wounded

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Speaker 39: into regional conflict, putting the lives of Americans and our

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Speaker 39: allies throughout the Red least in danger. Director Gabbard, do

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Speaker 39: you still believe that strikes against Iran that don't have

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Speaker 39: congressional authorization constitute an illegal and unconstitutional active war.

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Speaker 22: Congressman, thank you for the question. The cost of war

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Speaker 22: weighs very heavily upon me and my colleagues here, especially

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Speaker 22: for those of us who experienced and seen the cost

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Speaker 22: of war firsthandka my own personal and political views, as

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Speaker 22: I mentioned earlier, I was asked and required by Congress

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Speaker 22: and by the President in this role as the Director

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Speaker 22: of National Intelligence to check those views at the door,

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Speaker 22: to ensure that the intelligence assessments are not colored by

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Speaker 22: my personal views directory and that's exactly what I am responding.

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Speaker 39: I still believe the war what the round, would be

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Speaker 39: so costly and devastating that it would make our wars

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Speaker 39: in Iraq and Afghanistan look like a picnic.

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Speaker 22: Once again, in this role, it is essential that I

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Speaker 22: do not allow any of my personal views on any

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Speaker 22: issues to color or bias the intelligence reporting that we

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Speaker 22: deliver to you and to the president.

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Speaker 39: Director Gabert, in this hearing one year ago, I asked

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Speaker 39: some questions, and I'll paraphrase my exact question. It's like,

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Speaker 39: we should keep politics out of this, even if the

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Speaker 39: President disagrees with a directive, if it goes against his

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Speaker 39: personal wishes, if he's considering an order that potentially is

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Speaker 39: unconstitutioned or illegal or compromises our security, I want your

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Speaker 39: word that we will you will always provide and give

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Speaker 39: the honest advice to the president, even if it will

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Speaker 39: make him angry. I asked you that question. I'm going

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Speaker 39: to read your answer and to your specific question, the

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Speaker 39: answer is yes. I will inform the President of that accurate, timely,

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Speaker 39: unbiased intelligence reporting, whether it is something that agrees with

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Speaker 39: an assumption or a view, or an.

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Speaker 9: Objective or not.

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Speaker 39: That's my responsibility to him and to the American people.

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Speaker 1: Director Gabbard, did.

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Speaker 39: You there is no imminent threat of nuclear breakout? Did

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Speaker 39: you deliver that assessment to the president.

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Speaker 22: I have delivered the intelligence communities assessments to the President.

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Speaker 39: There was no imminent nuclear threat to the United States.

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Speaker 39: There was no evidence of imminence that was going to

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Speaker 39: attack American assets that was different from anything they've done

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Speaker 39: over four decades, that was going to attack our homeland.

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Speaker 39: There was no imminent threat. Imminent is defined in the

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Speaker 39: dictionary as something that is about to happen, not something

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Speaker 39: that's been happening for four decades, not something that is

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Speaker 39: going to happen three months from now, not something that's

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Speaker 39: going to happen a year from now. Imminent said, this

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Speaker 39: is about to happen. Did you deliver that assessment to

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Speaker 39: the President?

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Speaker 22: I delivered the intelligence communities objective analysis of the threats,

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Speaker 22: the severity of those threats, and the scope, along with

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Speaker 22: assessments of the different scenarios and contexts that exists within

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Speaker 22: the Middle East.

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Speaker 39: The President owes it to the American people to go

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Speaker 39: on television to explain to the American people, to the

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Speaker 39: service members who have died in action serving our country,

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Speaker 39: why we are at war with Iran. He needs to

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Speaker 39: go on television and explain that directly to the