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Speaker 1: This is your twenty four to seven US update. The

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Speaker 1: latest use this hour in just four minutes. Director of

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Speaker 1: National Intelligence Tulsea Gabbert says the US and Israel have

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Speaker 1: different objectives in the Iran War. In a House Intelligence

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Speaker 1: Committee hearing Thursday, Gabartt said the Israeli government has been

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Speaker 1: focused on disabling the Iranian leadership and taking out several members.

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Speaker 1: She said President Trump's objectives are to destroy Iran's ballistic missiles,

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Speaker 1: their navy, and their mind laying capability. Isueli Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: Benjamin Etna, who says his country did not mislead the

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Speaker 1: US into entering the Iran War. Does anyone really think

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Speaker 1: that someone can tell President Trump what to do? Come on,

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Speaker 1: President Trump always makes his decisions on what he thinks

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Speaker 1: is good for America. Netnyaho, was asked the question yesterday,

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Speaker 1: insisting he did not drag the US into the war.

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Speaker 1: The question could have been in reference to ex US

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Speaker 1: senior Intelligence official Joe Kent, who resigned in protest over

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Speaker 1: the war. Kent posted, the US started this war due

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Speaker 1: to pressure for from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

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Speaker 1: The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier is headed back

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Speaker 1: home after the ship caught fire while in the Middle East.

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Speaker 1: Fill fer Our.

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Speaker 2: Reports flames broke out on March twelfth while the ship

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Speaker 2: was operating in the northern portion of the Red Sea.

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Speaker 2: For nearly thirty hour. Sailors battled the fire in the

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Speaker 2: ship's main laundry facility before it was finally put out.

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Speaker 2: There was heavy damage to the USS Ford, the nation's

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Speaker 2: newest carrier. At least three crew members were injured and

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Speaker 2: flown off the ship. The carrier made its way to

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Speaker 2: Crete for repairs. Zero at time.

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Speaker 1: Phil farrr On Friday, the White House reportedly will give

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Speaker 1: Congress its ideas for regulating artificial intelligence. Calls for regulation

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Speaker 1: have been growing as a piece of AI development and

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Speaker 1: use has accelerated. The Trump administration plan reportedly involves safeguards

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Speaker 1: to protect children online. There's also a desire in the

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Speaker 1: White House to make sure that federal regulations supersede any

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Speaker 1: patchwork of laws passed by states. And the money of

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Speaker 1: a missing University of Alabama student has been found in Spain.

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Speaker 1: James Paul Gracie went missing on Tuesday after a night

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Speaker 1: out at a Barcelona beachfront club. A Markneyfield. President Trump

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Speaker 1: hosted Japan's Prime minister for dinner last night. Speaking ahead

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Speaker 1: of the dinner, Trump welcome Prime Minister's Sunday, Takeiichi for

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Speaker 1: her first visit to the White House.

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Speaker 3: We become very close, so close that I endorsed her

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Speaker 3: for her election. And then she did what she got

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Speaker 3: the greatest the highest number ever gotten by somebody running

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Speaker 3: for the highest position in Japan.

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Speaker 1: During an Oval Office meeting earlier, Takeichi backed Trump in

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Speaker 1: the war with Iran, saying she has faith in Trump's

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Speaker 1: ability to maintain global peace. She stopped short of pledging

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Speaker 1: any military support to secure the straight offor moves. President

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Speaker 1: Trump says he's not putting troops in Iran. Trump was

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Speaker 1: asked about the possible boots on the ground during a

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Speaker 1: meeting with the Japan's Prime Minister in the Oval Office.

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Speaker 1: President said, no, I'm not putting troops anywhere, adding if

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Speaker 1: I were, I certainly wouldn't tell you. But I'm not

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Speaker 1: putting troops. Last week, reports that a marine expeditionary unit

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Speaker 1: with twenty five hundred marines and three amphibious assault ships

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Speaker 1: was being sent to the region. Affordable Care Act enrollees

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Speaker 1: are reportedly cutting back on spending as healthcare costs have

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Speaker 1: become more expensive. Tammy tru Heeo has details.

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Speaker 4: A new KFF poll released this week found fifty five

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Speaker 4: percent of returning ACA marketplace enrollies say they're already or

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Speaker 4: are planning to cut back on food or basic household

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Speaker 4: items in order to afford healthcare related costs. According to

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Speaker 4: the findings, seventy eight percent of respondents thought Congress did

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Speaker 4: the wrong thing by letting the enhanced Premium tax credits expire.

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Speaker 4: Polling results also show nearly two thirds of those surveyed

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Speaker 4: said looking at health insurance options for twenty twenty six

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Speaker 4: made them feel worried, while fifty two percent said it

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Speaker 4: made them feel angry and forty six percent said it

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Speaker 4: made them feel confused. I'm Tammy Tricheo and.

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Speaker 1: The NCAA Men's basketball Tournament is off to a hot start.

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Speaker 1: Number twelve seed High Point upseed five seed Wisconsin and

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Speaker 1: ninth seed at TCU tombled eight seed Ohio State. Overall

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Speaker 1: number one seed Duke held on to beat Siena. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: South Region number one seed Michigan took down Howard last

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Speaker 1: year years runner up. Houston capped off Thursday's action by

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Speaker 1: beating Idaho. I'm Mark Neefield