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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you,

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Speaker 2: and obviously this is a very big show. Man. If

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Speaker 2: we want to welcome you as we're obviously going to

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Speaker 2: be talking a lot about the attack on Iran and

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Speaker 2: what is happening. So if you're joining us for the

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Speaker 1: Center.

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Speaker 2: This is obviously a very big show, and it's an

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Speaker 2: important one because the world is changing before our very eyes.

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Speaker 3: On Saturday, President Trump launched a major military attack on Iran,

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Speaker 3: a bombing, bombing from the sky, bombing from naval vessels.

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Speaker 3: It was done in close coordination with Israel, that likewise

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Speaker 3: launched a bombing attack. In the opening minutes and hours

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Speaker 3: of the attack, the Ayatola Kameinee was killed. Other major

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Speaker 3: leaders of Iran were killed. The bombing is ongoing. You

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Speaker 3: and I are recording this Sunday afternoon, and of right now,

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Speaker 3: over nine hundred bombing strikes have been carried out by

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Speaker 3: the United States. Over one two hundred bombing strikes have

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Speaker 3: been carried out by israel I. Spent the entire day

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Speaker 3: on Friday with President Trump. The day before the attack,

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Speaker 3: we spent much of the time discussing the attack that

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Speaker 3: was coming. This podcast, we're going to try to explain

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Speaker 3: exactly what's happening, why President Trump attacked Iran, what is

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Speaker 3: likely to happen as a result, and what the next

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Speaker 3: stages are. We're also going to talk about the mass

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Speaker 3: shooting that occurred at two am Sunday morning in Austin, Texas,

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Speaker 3: in a bar on Sixth Street, where a gunman murdered

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Speaker 3: two other people and injured seventeen. That gunman, in turn,

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Speaker 3: was shot and killed by Austin police early in dish

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Speaker 3: ye make it appear that this was a terrorist attack.

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Speaker 3: He was wearing a sweatshirt that said property of Allah.

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Speaker 3: He was wearing a shirt with the Iranian flat on it.

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Speaker 3: It is still early. I spoke today with Cash Patel,

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Speaker 3: the director of the FBI. We're gonna break that down

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Speaker 3: as well. This is gonna be a podcast where we

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Speaker 3: try to examine everything you need to know about what

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Speaker 3: is happening in Iran, how it is going to impact

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Speaker 2: Promo code verdict. So, Senator, you mentioned earlier that you

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Speaker 2: were on the plane with President Trump air Force one.

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Speaker 2: We're going to get to that and what was discussed

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Speaker 2: talk about the biggest news now. And you actually were

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Speaker 2: it's been so far. So take a listen to what

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Speaker 2: Senator Cruise had to say earlier today on Face the Nation.

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Speaker 4: Senator, just looking at the global environment right now. Saint

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Speaker 4: Com announced three Americans were killed and five seriously wounded

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Speaker 4: in this operation. President Trump and President Vice President Vance

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Speaker 4: campaigned on not getting America involved in new wars. What

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Speaker 3: President Trump's decision to launch this decisive action against Iran

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Speaker 3: of Iran is a profound and malign influence. They have

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Speaker 3: been the leading state sponsor of terrorism for forty seven years.

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Speaker 3: They have over that time killed nearly one thousand Americans.

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Speaker 3: They provide more than ninety percent of the funding for Hamas.

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Speaker 3: They provide more than ninety percent of the funding for Hesbolah.

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Speaker 3: The Iranian Ayatola was until yesterday, actively trying to murder

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Speaker 3: the President of the United States Donald J.

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Speaker 3: I spent the entire day with President Trump on Friday,

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Speaker 3: right before he launched these attacks. He and I discussed

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Speaker 3: acted boldly, He's acted decisively, and Iran no longer being

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Speaker 3: led by a theocratic, murderous dictator. That makes America much

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Speaker 4: Senator, you are not going to find a lot of

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Speaker 4: people in any way defending the Supreme Leader, that is

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Speaker 4: for sure. However, putting Americans in harm way is what

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Speaker 4: I'm pressing you on.

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Speaker 4: Did the President explain to you why he called off

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Speaker 4: active diplomacy Because at the very same time he was

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Speaker 4: to one. Why not choose diplomacy.

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Speaker 3: Because the diplomacy was an abject failure. The Iranians approached

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Speaker 3: the diplomacy with arrogance, which with absolute hubris. They said

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Speaker 3: they would not stop enriching. No matter what, they were

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Speaker 3: going to continue to enrich uranium. They would not discuss

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Speaker 3: zero enrichment. They claimed a right to enrich uranium in

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Speaker 3: do so. Anything else is unacceptable, and COMMANI made his choice.

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Speaker 4: Well, there's disputes there in terms of your characterization of

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Speaker 4: now obviously so margin what I.

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Speaker 1: Just told you.

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Speaker 3: What I just told you is almost word for word

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Speaker 4: Can you tell us now if you believe that there

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Speaker 4: there should be an immediate priority on rapid response operations

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Speaker 4: to secure Iran's nuclear stockpiles right now, can you assure

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Speaker 4: who is doing it? If there are no Israeli or

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Speaker 3: So there is no doubt that a year ago Iran

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Speaker 3: had an active and ongoing nuclear weapons program. We took

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Speaker 3: the Twelve Day war.

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Speaker 4: US intelligence assessment was not made public. If that is

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Speaker 4: what was brief to you.

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Speaker 3: We took out We launched targeted bombs at the end

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Speaker 3: Israel doesn't have those bombs. No other country has those bombs.

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Speaker 3: We took them out last year. The Iranians were still

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Speaker 3: hell bent on rebuilding them. And one of the things

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Speaker 3: in particular the Southern missile belt. Right now, Iran is

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Speaker 3: building roughly one hundred missiles a month. They're actively building

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Speaker 4: Some of them right now at their neighbors.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, at our allies.

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Speaker 3: They're illustrating powerfully. They're attacking virtually every Arab neighbor that

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Speaker 4: But in terms of containing the risk, who's securing the

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Speaker 4: nuclear material that you say still exists within Iran? Who's

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Speaker 3: Look the quantity of nuclear material. I didn't say one

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Speaker 3: I urged President Trump. Now is the time. You know,

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Speaker 3: dictatorships survive because they're perceived as invulnerable, and in this instance,

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Speaker 3: Iran decisively lost the twelve day war that week in

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Speaker 1: Now, Senter.

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Speaker 2: I found it very interesting just how much she wanted

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Speaker 1: Her sources are better than your sources.

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Speaker 2: When you were just with the President United States of

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Speaker 1: It was pretty hilarious.

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Speaker 2: She's like, well, that's not why all the intelligence says,

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Speaker 2: and you're like, no, like, I just talked to the

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Speaker 2: This is what they do. By the way, we saw

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Speaker 2: this with headlines today New York Times is a great

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Speaker 2: example of the propaganda of how they're like still standing

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Speaker 2: there acting like the Iatola was some sort of like

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Speaker 2: the narrative, and you witnessed it right there in that

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Speaker 3: Well, the New York Times headline says, Ayatola Ali Kameni,

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Speaker 3: hardline cleric who made ran a regional power, is dead

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Speaker 3: at eighty six, which is just redics And and I'll

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Speaker 3: say Mark Alprin had had an amusing take on it.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: He said that headline was a little bit like a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's not far off.

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Speaker 3: While technically accurate, it conveys, you know, approval of the conduct.

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Speaker 3: And and in fact, I want to in fact that

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Speaker 3: that New York Times headline is as ridiculous as as

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Speaker 3: FBI as of Sunday afternoon, they do not have clear

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Speaker 3: evidence of motive from so they're right now carrying out

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Speaker 3: the search warrants on his residence. They're examining his social media,

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Speaker 3: they're examining phone calls. That that they're putting together the evidence.

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Speaker 3: That putting together the evidence to to determine what went on,

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Speaker 3: if he acted alone, what the precise motivation was. That

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Speaker 3: being said, Uh, given the sweatshirt and shirt he was wearing,

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Speaker 3: and and given given his origin from Senegal, I think

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Speaker 3: it is very likely this is terrorism. That that that

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Speaker 3: that it is not a coincidence. I believe that he's

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Speaker 3: wearing an Iranian flag while he is opening fire. That

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Speaker 3: evidence has not conclusively been proven yet, but I expect

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Speaker 3: that it will be. Interestingly, he did not enter the bar.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: He opened fire from outside, from from the street and sidewalk,

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Speaker 3: opened fire and shot into the bar uh and and

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Speaker 3: three Austin police officers took him out, killed him, shot

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Speaker 3: him on the street.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: The mayor told me that the Austin police was there

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Speaker 3: within a minute. So it was very fast, very fast

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Speaker 3: response and took him.

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Speaker 1: Out, Thank goodness, saved a lot of lives, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, and I'm told the video there's videos that will

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Speaker 3: be released, show chaos, show people running, and in fact,

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Speaker 3: some of the people are running actually towards the shooter

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Speaker 3: because they heard gunshots but did not know where they

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Speaker 3: were coming from, and so they were running, but accidentally

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Speaker 3: running the wrong way. I think it is very clear

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Speaker 3: if law enforcement had not acted quickly, many more people

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Speaker 3: would have been killed and injured.

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Speaker 1: But this.

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Speaker 3: Look from his clothing, it certainly appears this is terrorism.

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Speaker 3: And tragically, this may not be the last incident of

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Speaker 3: terrorism that occurs. That's one of the real dangers of escalation,

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Speaker 3: either from hamas Hezbelo the Who East or from sympathizers

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Speaker 3: in the United States.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's go back to the Middle East for a moment.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that we talk about, you know,

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Speaker 2: the Iotolin and his team they're there. They're homicidal and

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Speaker 2: and you could also even say suicidal.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: And their obsession with killing you know, innocent people in

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Speaker 2: their own country, uh, going after Americans, going after Israelis

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Speaker 2: as well. But one of the things that I was

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Speaker 2: even a little bit shocked by was how quickly they

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Speaker 2: decided to bring in every other country on the side

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Speaker 2: of Israel in the US by attacking these other Middle

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Speaker 2: Eastern nations around them that weren't involved, right, they were,

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Speaker 2: they were outside. I were you as shocked as I

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Speaker 2: was that they just decided, all right, like whoever's still

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Speaker 2: left standing, let's just go after Bahrain, Let's go after Guitar,

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Speaker 2: let's go after I mean, the list is pretty long.

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Speaker 2: Now if countries they've attacked, and now they brought them

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Speaker 2: into the fold. I I mean that that to me

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Speaker 2: just seems like a suicidal mission on their port.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I will admit I was surprised by that. There's

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Speaker 3: been a lot of public reporting that suggested that other

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Speaker 3: Middle Eastern nations were discouraging President Trump uh from going

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Speaker 3: after Iran. I'm a little bit skeptical of that. I

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Speaker 3: have not recently had those conversations with other Middle Eastern nations,

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Speaker 3: but I've had many conversations with the Saudis, Yue Bahrain,

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Speaker 3: and and they have always been very focused on number one,

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Speaker 3: doing everything necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

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Speaker 3: The Saudis have said publicly if Iran ever got a

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Speaker 3: nuclear weapon, that they would do everything possible to get

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Speaker 3: a nuke themselves. To defend themselves from Iran. Uh And

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Speaker 3: so I don't know if it's true or not that

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Speaker 3: in the recent weeks Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern

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Speaker 3: countries were urging Trump not to attack. But but I

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Speaker 3: do know that Iran's behavior so they fire, fired missiles

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Speaker 3: and sent drones and had attacks at almost every single

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Speaker 3: Arab country all throughout the Middle East. So they've attacked

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Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia, they've attacked UAE, they've attacked Kuwait, they've attacked Cutter,

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Speaker 3: they've attacked Bahrain, they've attacked Jordan. And we've seen statements

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Speaker 3: from many of those other Middle Eastern countries, mostly Arab countries,

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Speaker 3: expressing condemning, condemning Iran's response. And and you know, in

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Speaker 3: my view that they're just indiscriminately firing, firing abroad. And

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Speaker 3: I think their reasoning was that if the United States

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Speaker 3: and or Israel hit them, that they wanted to make

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Speaker 3: it as painful as possible for the entirety of the region.

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Speaker 3: What they have ensured is is that there's basically nobody

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Speaker 3: standing up and siding with the Iranians. They're demonstrating essentially

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Speaker 3: they're willing to kill anybody and everybody. I got to say,

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Speaker 3: that's also a really powerful illustration if that's what they

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Speaker 3: do now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they have done with a nuclear weapon.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, can you imagine how much worse if they had

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Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon. And during the whole go back to

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Speaker 3: Obama and the debates on Obama's terrible Iran nuclear deal,

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Speaker 3: I always said, most of the debate rotated around, well,

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Speaker 3: if they had a nuclear weapon, it would change the

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Speaker 3: balance of power, it would make them more aggressive, they

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Speaker 3: would fund more terrorism. And I always said, look, that's

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Speaker 3: the best case scenario. The best case scenario is a

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Speaker 3: horrible situation. The worst case is that they would actually

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Speaker 3: use the nuclear weapon. And everyone operates under an assumption

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Speaker 3: while having a nuclear weapon doesn't mean you use it.

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Speaker 3: Listen when the Iotola chance death to Israel and death

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Speaker 3: to America. I believe him when he calls Israel the

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Speaker 3: little Satan and America the great Satan. I believe him.

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Speaker 3: And I think the odds are unacceptably high. I don't

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Speaker 3: know what they were, but they were unacceptably high that

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Speaker 3: the Iotola, if he had a nuclear weapon, would detonate it,

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Speaker 3: maybe in Tel Aviv, or maybe in New York or

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles, and I don't want to wake up and

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Speaker 3: discover uh oh, the predictions were wrong because we have

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Speaker 3: a mushroom cloud and hundreds of thousands, even millions of

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Speaker 3: Americans being killed the reason and by the way, I've

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Speaker 3: got to say a lot of the the news reporting

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Speaker 3: is challenging. Why would Trump do this attack? You heard

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Speaker 3: Margaret Brennan there say say Trump campaigned on on not

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Speaker 3: getting in wars. I did after Face the Nation. I

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Speaker 3: also did State of the Union with Dana Bash, and

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Speaker 3: Dana Bash asked a question of me. She said, you know,

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Speaker 3: President Trump campaigned on no more wars. And I in

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Speaker 3: my response, I said, well, Danna, you actually misquoted what

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Speaker 3: the president said. What the President said was no more

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Speaker 3: forever wars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can in Afghanistan totally, and troops on the ground.

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Speaker 2: This completely different doctrine, you can tell.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I said, listen, we're not going to see

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Speaker 3: troops on the ground in Iran. We're not going to

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Speaker 3: see hundreds of thousands of Americans there for an extended

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Speaker 3: period of time. I don't think we'll see that at all.

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Speaker 3: That is very different. And I said, look, they're isolationists

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Speaker 3: who want want America to withdraw from the world. Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump has never been an isolationist, and he is acting

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Speaker 3: to protect America. This is America first. The reason we

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Speaker 3: are striking Iran right now is because the odds are

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Speaker 3: unacceptably high. Iran has already killed nearly a thousand Americans

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Speaker 3: and they have every desire to kill more. As I

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Speaker 3: told the President driving in the beast, I said, if

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Speaker 3: the Iyatola could kill the two of us right.

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Speaker 1: Now, he would.

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Speaker 3: The only thing that is preventing him is that he's

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Speaker 3: not able to because he is trying. And so if

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Speaker 3: we have an opportunity to take out this regime, and look,

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Speaker 3: my hope is we see a new government in Iran

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Speaker 3: that wants to be friends with America. That would make

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Speaker 3: and replacing them with anything resembling a normal government would

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Speaker 3: massively improve the safety of every American.

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Speaker 1: Two questions to wrap things up.

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Speaker 2: Number one, I thought it was really interesting to see

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Speaker 2: the comparing contrasts of the women standing up for themselves

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Speaker 2: in Iran on the streets, risking their lives, while women

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Speaker 2: The disconnect from reality from some of these leftists is amazing.

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Speaker 2: I want to get your take on that real quick.

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Speaker 2: And then also I want to talk about the possible

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Speaker 2: what America's role could be in that as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so today, Comrade Mandami put out a statement that

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Speaker 3: I want to read to you. Today's military strikes on Iran,

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Speaker 3: carried out by the United States and Israel, mark a

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Speaker 3: catastrophic escalation of an illegal war of aggression, bombing cities,

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Speaker 3: killing civilians, opening a new theater of war. Americans do

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Speaker 3: not want this. They do not want another war in

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Speaker 3: pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis.

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Speaker 3: They want peace. I am focused on making sure every

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Speaker 3: New Yorker is safe. I've been in contact with our

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Speaker 3: Police Commissioner and emergency management officials. We are taking proactive steps,

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Speaker 3: including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive

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Speaker 3: locations out of an abundance of conscience caution. Additionally, I

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Speaker 3: want to speak directly to Iranian New York. You are

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Speaker 3: part of the fabric of this city. You are our

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Speaker 3: neighbor's small business owner, students, artist, workers, and community leaders.

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Speaker 3: You will be safe here. Look, this is Comrade Mondami

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Speaker 3: cheering for the Ayatola. Yeah, because they are both Jahadists,

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Speaker 3: and they both want to see the great Satan of America.

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Speaker 3: They want to see this country fundamentally change and to

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Speaker 3: become an Islamic caliphate. That was the Iatola's objective. That

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Speaker 3: what that, sadly, I believe is Comrade Mandami's objective. And

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Speaker 3: I want to contrast that with the reaction of protesters

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Speaker 3: Iranians like his line to Iranians, you will be safe here.

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Speaker 3: The the I know a great many Iranians. Every every

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Speaker 3: Iranian I know hates the regime is cheering and I

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Speaker 3: want you to watch in particular, this scene that played

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Speaker 3: out on the ground in Austin, Texas, and and and

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Speaker 3: a CBS news reporter who was told, don't cover the

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Speaker 3: protests celebrating the Iatola being killed. Cover that up, and

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Speaker 3: this brave reporter didn't do that. Give a listen, give

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Speaker 3: a watch made on one of the books on I am.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible there.

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Speaker 2: And again for people that can't see the video, you

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Speaker 2: have this Austin CBS reporter. He was handed the phone

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Speaker 2: from his cameraman and he reads it and he's like,

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Speaker 2: what does that mean? And the cameraman responds, they don't

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Speaker 2: want us to focus on this, and this brave local

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Speaker 2: reporter said, all right, well I am. And now it's

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Speaker 2: out there on the Internet of him having this moment.

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Speaker 2: It's sad that you've got to be this brave in

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Speaker 2: America a local affiliate to report the news, which was

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Speaker 2: the news that you had people's celebrating and waving American

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Speaker 2: flags and Iranian flags and standing out for the people

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Speaker 2: in the innocent people in Iran. And they're like, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: we don't want you to focus on that.

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Speaker 1: At CBS.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, this is happening all all over the country,

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Speaker 3: all over America. It's happening on the ground, on the

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Speaker 3: streets of Iran, It's happening around the world. You know.

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Speaker 3: Kamala Harris today put out a statement quote, Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: is dragging the United States into a war the American

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Speaker 3: people do not want. Let me be clear, I am

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Speaker 3: opposed to a regime change war in Iran, and our

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Speaker 3: troops are being put in harm's way for the sake

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Speaker 3: of Trump's war of choice. Now, I will tell you

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Speaker 3: I responded to her on X and I said, your

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Speaker 3: administration gave over one hundred billion dollars to the Ayatola

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Speaker 3: who kept killing Americans. We know you're sad that your

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Speaker 3: friend isn't with us anymore. Look, the Democrat Party was

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Speaker 3: all in in support of the Ayatola. Now some some

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Speaker 3: times they pretended they weren't. But when Joe Biden and

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Speaker 3: Kamala Harris sent over one hundred billion dollars flowed that

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Speaker 3: money into the Ayatola, they funded his terror.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: The the Obama Iran nuclear deal was designed to inevitably

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Speaker 3: lead to a nuclear Iran to the Ayatola with nuclear weapons.

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Speaker 3: And and so this is I'll tell you and and

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Speaker 3: and folks that that deal with with conflict in the

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Speaker 3: Middle East, and that that deal with foreign policy. UH

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Speaker 3: frequently refer to Iran as quote the head of the snake.

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Speaker 3: Why do they call it the head of the snake

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Speaker 3: because it's it is what is leading and directing and

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Speaker 3: funding the vast majority of the terrorism you see. Without Iran,

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Speaker 3: Hamas has no resources. Without Iran, Hesbeal and the Huthis

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Speaker 3: have no resources. And so what what President Trump is

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Speaker 3: doing here is is being a strong commander in chief

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Speaker 3: and making Americans safer.

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Speaker 2: Final question on this shra of the horror moves and

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Speaker 2: the reality of what's happening there, give us your your

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Speaker 2: thoughts and and perspective on that and what you think

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Speaker 2: can happen moving forward.

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Speaker 3: So we don't know that there is reporting that the

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Speaker 3: Iranians may have mine the Straits of Hormuse. So we

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Speaker 3: don't have an answer to that right now. Right now,

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Speaker 3: there's not shipping. There are not ships going through the

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Speaker 3: Straits of Hormus until it is determined whether or not

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Speaker 3: they have mined it.

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Speaker 1: To be clear, that's significant.

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Speaker 2: People that just don't understand how important it is a

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Speaker 2: significant amount of oil world which probably goes through there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so right now that is shut down. By the way,

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Speaker 3: right now, civilian air traffic is shut down throughout the

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Speaker 3: Middle East. You can't get on an airline and fly

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Speaker 3: into and out of most of the cities in the

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Speaker 3: Middle East because you've got missiles flying everywhere, and so

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Speaker 3: and so all of the countries have understandably shut their

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Speaker 3: airspace down. And so I am confident that we will

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Speaker 3: have mind sweepers go into the straits of Horm moves

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Speaker 3: that may be happening now, I don't know, and examine

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Speaker 3: and determine if their mind's there. But at least right

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Speaker 3: now you're not seeing ships go through there because these

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Speaker 3: guys are just crazy enough to have put minds there,

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Speaker 3: and so no one wants to risk it until it's

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Speaker 3: determined one way or another whether it's safe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is incredible. Well, we're going to keep

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