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Speaker 1: He was extremely serious in my conversation with him just now,

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning.

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Speaker 4: Nice to have you with us on the forty seven

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Speaker 4: Morning Update, and we've obviously got one very big story today,

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Speaker 4: a last minute pivot from war to a ceasefire. It

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Speaker 4: was one of the most dramatic eleventh hour decisions of

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Speaker 4: President Trump's presidency, and it pulled the world back from

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Speaker 4: the brink of a potentially catastrophic escalation for a ran.

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Speaker 3: So what happens next, We have it all for you,

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Speaker 3: But first.

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Speaker 4: I want to take a moment and talk to you

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Speaker 4: about what you can do to help the people in

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Speaker 4: Israel right now who are literally under fire as we speak,

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Speaker 4: taking rockets even as the ceasefire has been announced, and

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Speaker 4: That's if CJ dot org. It's a forty seven morning

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Speaker 4: update and it starts right now.

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Speaker 3: Story number one.

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Speaker 4: A Ran has agreed to an immediate opening of the

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Speaker 4: Strait of hor Moves. This is now what is being

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Speaker 4: described by President Trump as a two week double sided ceasefire.

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Speaker 4: And it happened just minutes before the President was seeing

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Speaker 4: the military end to do exactly what he promised. Now

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Speaker 4: for weeks, the world has been watching at a ticking clock.

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Speaker 4: Trumpet issued that stark ultimatum reopen the Straight of hor

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Speaker 4: Moves or face devastating US strikes targeting Iran's infrastructure. The

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Speaker 4: and officials had signaled that a large scale operation was imminent.

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Speaker 4: And then with less than two hours ago, everything changed.

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Speaker 4: Why the Straight of hor Moves matters is a question

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Speaker 4: magnitude of this moment, you have to understand the strategic

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Speaker 4: choke point at the center of all of this. Now,

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Speaker 4: this narrow waterway is not just another shipping lane. It

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Speaker 4: is the artery of the global energy system. Roughly twenty

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Speaker 4: At the height of the crisis, traffic dropped to nearly zero,

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Speaker 4: The ceasefire deal is what could change all of this,

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Speaker 4: and the breakthrough were being told came through back channel diplomacy,

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Speaker 4: Fox News announced it on Laura Ingram's show, Take a Listen.

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Speaker 1: We start tonight with a very big Fox News alert.

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Speaker 1: The deadline is off and we have what's being called

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Speaker 1: a double sided ceasefire, a live report from the region

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Speaker 1: The script started like this TikTok t minus fifty nine

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Speaker 1: We'll read the whole post later. He literally just had

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Speaker 3: And then there's the bigger picture.

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Speaker 4: Yes, you have a war that's paused but has not ended,

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Speaker 3: Now, finally, let me also say one other thing.

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Speaker 4: The Strait of Hormoes reopening after Trump announces two week

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Speaker 4: you're dealing with a terish regime and Tehran can do

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Speaker 3: To blow up this entire ceasefire.

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Speaker 4: It's part of the reason why Israel may be going

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Speaker 4: after the President spoke with Pakistan's Prime minister, he understood

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Speaker 4: I promise you this, We'll watch it closely for you

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Speaker 4: and keep you updated on exactly what's happening moving forward.

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