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Speaker 1: From this moment, we must be crystal clear. We stand

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Speaker 1: with Israel. We stand with Israel. We will make sure

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Speaker 1: Azho has what it needs to take care of its citizens,

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Speaker 1: defend itself and respond to this attack. There's no justification

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Speaker 1: for terrorism, there's no excuse.

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Speaker 2: And I don't remember if Joe Biden mentioned it or

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Speaker 2: the National Security Advisor did in the press conference afterwards,

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Speaker 2: but we are replenishing the Iron Dome because we brought

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Speaker 2: that up on the show yesterday. Huh. Is Amas just

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Speaker 2: going to wear out the Iron Dome to where they

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Speaker 2: don't have, but we're going to replenish it. I guess.

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Speaker 3: Well. Let's discuss all of those topics and more, including

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Speaker 3: some breaking news with doctor Jeff mccauslan. Jeff is a

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Speaker 3: CBS News military consultant for TV and radio. Jeff, good

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Speaker 3: to have you back. How are you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I would be okay, but busy day to say

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Speaker 4: the last.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll bet. There are reports that Hesbalah is officially

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Speaker 3: opened to northern front against israel Is CBS A that

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Speaker 4: I have not seen that I have In the last

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Speaker 4: few days, there has been exchange of artillery and mortar

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Speaker 4: fire between Israeli forces in Hitswella in an area called

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Speaker 4: Shiva Farms, which is right along the northern border of

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Speaker 4: Israel and that contested area. I've actually fisically been up

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Speaker 4: there a couple of times, and literally, if Hitsball becomes involved,

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Speaker 4: this is kind of a game changer because in terms

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Speaker 4: of their military capabilities, they are far more sophisticated than

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Speaker 4: larger than Hamas number one, number two. They literally have

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Speaker 4: ends of thousands of rockets and missiles already prepositioned instead

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Speaker 4: of Lebanon to hit targets all across Israel. So this

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Speaker 4: would be a massive change in the war. It caused

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Speaker 4: Israel to a divert significant amount of its military forces.

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Speaker 4: And as you guys are saying, before we began threaten

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Speaker 4: I think perhaps just overwhelming Iron Dome in terms of

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Speaker 4: the number of missiles and rockets to be getting towards Israel.

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Speaker 2: Can we replenish the Iron Dome missiles in time to

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Speaker 2: keep Israel sustained.

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Speaker 4: It's unclear if we can. To me, we can resupply

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Speaker 4: Iron Dome, that's an Israeli produced weapon system. We can

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Speaker 4: provide them other weapon systems of an air defense character

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Speaker 4: that might be very valuable. There are six pre positioned

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Speaker 4: weapons storage sites belonging to the United States Canada across

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Speaker 4: Israel with about two billion dollars with the munitions that

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Speaker 4: are already positioned there. They're positioned there for two reasons.

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Speaker 4: One frankly, for American continuencies that might occur across the

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Speaker 4: already there. And number two, to provide access to the

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Speaker 4: Israelis during a national crisis by the Israelis, and I

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Speaker 4: would imagine those particularly stock files, are already being access

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Speaker 4: But again, the United States could provide additional military support

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Speaker 4: for I think air defense systems, probably smart nitions. There

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Speaker 4: have been some reports that Boeing already has delivered additional

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Speaker 4: military supplies to ISRAELMA like a thousand smart bombs being

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Speaker 4: overed to Israel. But frankly, any uptick in US military

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Speaker 4: assistance to Israel is going to provide going to require

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Speaker 4: congressional action. Oh, by the way, right now, we don't

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Speaker 3: So speaking of the US role in this, the gerald Ford,

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Speaker 3: the massive aircraft carrier, was moving across the Mediterranean to

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Speaker 3: Hesbela has said yeah, we're in h is that an

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Speaker 4: Well, clearly the Jerald Ford is there to deter, as

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Speaker 4: you said, other people getting involved, most notably it's Balah

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Speaker 4: Number three, it could be there as well to provide

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Speaker 4: potential evacuation of Americans. Did the situation worse even far

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Speaker 4: underscores with President Biden that they talked about in the speech,

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Speaker 4: to the state of Israel. Would the United States become

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Speaker 2: I want to get back to that. But while we

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Speaker 2: on Twitter and everywhere I read, So I just want

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Speaker 2: to hear you address it. Does US resupplying Israel have

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Speaker 2: anything to do whatsoever with our helping arm Ukraine? Like

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Speaker 4: Well? Could potis has got an endless supply? Is you

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Speaker 4: know my weapon? Let's just let's face it. In US

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Speaker 4: more times talks have been drawn down to a degree goodbye.

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Speaker 4: The assistance human have been provided to Israel and how

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Speaker 4: One of the challenges we have, however, is in terms

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Speaker 4: of defense budgeting, the Congress is voted a continuing the

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Speaker 4: Resolution as opposed to a new budget. Well, that kind

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Speaker 4: now in modern industrial warfare, artillery, ammunition, air defense weapons

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Speaker 3: Jeff McCausland, CBS News, military consultant on the line. Jeff, Well,

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Speaker 3: just keep you for another minute or two, but I'm

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Speaker 3: sure you know Ian Bremer of the Eurasia Group, he

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Speaker 3: is tweeting that has the militants have entered northern Israel

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Speaker 4: Number one, and second, as I mentioned a moment ago,

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Speaker 2: Well, how long do we bend over backwards we in

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Speaker 2: the Israeli government to pretend that we don't know Iran

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean it's yeah, that's a good question. But

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Speaker 4: So do you want in the middle of all that

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Speaker 4: no doubt about it that Iran has provided military assistance

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Speaker 4: rockets that are striking Israel were produced in Iran, or

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Speaker 4: the try out from Iran was used to have them

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Speaker 4: produced locally. But again, the United States provides three billion

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Speaker 4: annual basis. That is a far cry from direct iraniant

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Speaker 4: involvement in the actual planning and execution of this attack.

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Speaker 4: Though there have been reports Wall Street journalm Ticker suggesting

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Speaker 3: Doctor Jeff mccolson, CBS News Military consultant, Jeff, thanks so

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Speaker 3: much for the time. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Always a pleasure, guys. A