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Speaker 1: We all woke to the news that we're sending an

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Speaker 1: aircraft carrier to the region of Iran, and that's why

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Speaker 1: we have invited Mike Lyons, military analysts for CB News

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Speaker 1: CBS News to talk to us about the royal baby. Mike,

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Speaker 1: it's a boy, one of guys that news this morning. Hey, listen,

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Speaker 1: it was always great to talk. So this is well,

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Speaker 1: you tell us, is this clearly a step, a significant step,

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Speaker 1: ratcheting up tensions with Iran? Well, it is. And I'm

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Speaker 1: surprised that the messenger John Boldman as opposed to the Pentagon.

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Speaker 1: Usually troop movements come from the Pentagon comes sort of

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Speaker 1: out of nowhere, and with this, um, you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of masked type of message about the Uranians have stepped

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Speaker 1: up potential attacks on US troops. Now, who are those

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Speaker 1: US troops the ones in Iraq? Or are they going

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Speaker 1: to support terrorist organizations and and go after US forces

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Speaker 1: in places around the world. So I think, um, the

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Speaker 1: administration is going to have to put out a little

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Speaker 1: more information right now, because all we've got now is that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the eight nineties policy gone both diplomacy by

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Speaker 1: moving an aircraft care group that's already in the Mediterranean.

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Speaker 1: It's been on deployment for about seven or eight months,

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Speaker 1: already working with NATO, and actually they were doing things

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Speaker 1: with Israel a few months ago. And they'll just extend

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Speaker 1: their deployment now and come to the Suez Canal and

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Speaker 1: troll around the person golf and see what's going on there. Well.

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Speaker 1: I get that the US is trying to put the

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Speaker 1: squeeze on Iran in a couple of different ways, you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: sanctions and in ending the arms deal and the rest

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Speaker 1: of it. But it's not clear to me exactly why

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Speaker 1: now what's happened. Yeah, I don't know why either. Um,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing that you know, what's been leaked out this

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Speaker 1: morning is this imminent attack on US forces, which would

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Speaker 1: be the dumbest thing Uranians can do because what they're

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Speaker 1: pretty good at is fighting war by proxy. You know

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Speaker 1: that they they've learned from the Russians in some ways

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Speaker 1: to kind of fly below the radar and don't get um,

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Speaker 1: you know, directly accused of doing something in particular. So

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Speaker 1: I think, um, for this to come out like this,

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Speaker 1: there's got to be some other information, um that that

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Speaker 1: forces us to do this or not. It just could

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Speaker 1: be the president wakes up and says, you know what,

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Speaker 1: let's send we have a carrier group that's in the area.

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Speaker 1: Let's send him there. Let's make a big deal about it.

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Speaker 1: Let's go see if we can instigate something. Because now

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Speaker 1: you bring um the ships within that group there, there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot more traffic in the Persian Gulf.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be a lot more opportunity for Iranian

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Speaker 1: naval forces to do what they do, which has harassed them,

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Speaker 1: get close to them and try to instigate a shooting match. Well,

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Speaker 1: Marco Rubio made a statement and I'm not sure why.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know he's on the Senate for a

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Speaker 1: relations committee, but he's not exactly he doesn't run America's

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Speaker 1: you know, military, But he said, we will not distinguish

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Speaker 1: between attacks from Shia Militia's uh in Iraq or the

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Speaker 1: Revolutionary Guard, any any proxy group anywhere that's Iran, and

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Speaker 1: we will respond accordingly. Yeah, that's probably what the administration

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Speaker 1: is kind of hanging on a very weak thread by

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Speaker 1: is this whole proxy concept. And we've already declared I

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Speaker 1: think one of the groups inside of the Iranians, the

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Speaker 1: Republican Guard Unit, a terrorist organization. UM, as they get

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Speaker 1: involved and try to you know, progress their agenda throughout

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Speaker 1: the Middle East, which is opposite of ours and and

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Speaker 1: opposite of democracy and this opposite of peace and freedom. Um,

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Speaker 1: we've got to figure out a way to combat this.

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Speaker 1: And the sanctions that we've applied against them about companies

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Speaker 1: or countries that are continue to buy Iranian oil is

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Speaker 1: all about banking. It's all about shutting down their capability

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Speaker 1: to do banking. If they don't comply, India will be

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Speaker 1: in trouble, and even South Korea, some of our allies

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Speaker 1: who rely on a significant amount of oil coming out

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Speaker 1: of Iran in particular, UM, will be uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna force them to make we have to make

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Speaker 1: it up to them at some point. But is all

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Speaker 1: up and the screws them from a banking perspective. Well,

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Speaker 1: I hope we're not talking to a whole bunch over

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Speaker 1: the couple of coming weeks because there was a dust stop.

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Speaker 1: Let's hope that doesn't happen. Yeah, and these are you know,

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Speaker 1: powder keg type things happen when they get like the

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Speaker 1: fuse like this. I think there's a lot of forces

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Speaker 1: right now acting in the international community. You've got Kim

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Speaker 1: John Own with his um solid booster ballistic missile rocket

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Speaker 1: tests he did over the weekend as well. That's some

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Speaker 1: looking at that. That's a completely different missile system. He's

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Speaker 1: another one going right to the end. He's setting back

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Speaker 1: that the whole diplomacy that's taken place there. You've got

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Speaker 1: the president talking to Vladimir Putin making some crazy comments

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Speaker 1: that I saw him smile over the radio of the

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Speaker 1: telephone US or how that works out. But um so

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of forces I think acting on the

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Speaker 1: administration to try to be tough, act tough. And we've

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Speaker 1: we've gone an election coming up, and I think this

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Speaker 1: president's mentality is he's got to be tough in order

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Speaker 1: to get re elected. Um let's hope he doesn't. You know,

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Speaker 1: he said he doesn't want to get US involved in

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Speaker 1: foreign entanglements, but sure enough doesn't stop us from sending

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Speaker 1: a carrot group to the Middle East. Mikelions, military analyst,

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Speaker 1: CBS News. Thanks Mike, great to talk to you. Thanks guy,

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Speaker 1: Thanks from me, all right,