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Speaker 1: Welcome in his Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson

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Speaker 1: with you, and if you're listening on the radio around

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Speaker 1: the country, it's really nice to have you with us. Senator.

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot to talk about on this show

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Speaker 1: And the President addressed the nation this week made it

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Speaker 1: very clear we're going to wrap things up with Iran,

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Speaker 1: but we also got some works till they get done well.

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Speaker 2: The President gave a national address talking about Iran, what

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Speaker 2: we're accomplishing, what the goals are, and I got to say,

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Speaker 2: if you're a caveman, the president's address was very very

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Speaker 2: good news. But if you're an Ayatola, if you are

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Speaker 2: a radical mulla who chanced death to America, the President's

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Speaker 2: address was terrible news. We're going to break it down,

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Speaker 2: tell you exactly what he said, what it means for

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Speaker 2: the Iran war, where things are going. We're also going

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Speaker 2: to talk about the fact that that this week the

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Speaker 2: President asked Pam BONDI for a resignation. He's going to

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Speaker 2: move to a new attorney general. Pam a good friend,

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Speaker 2: she has been a guest on this show. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: talk about Pam's record, and we're going to talk about

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Speaker 2: what's next at DOJ. And finally, The New York Times

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Speaker 2: has a bombshell report that Act Blue, the big Democratic

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Speaker 2: face criminal liability, could be shut down. This is from

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Speaker 2: the New York Times. We're gonna break that story down

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Speaker 2: because it has potentially enormous consequences for the midterms.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a really big story and it's really interesting

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Speaker 1: President trump came. Out he addressed nation about thirty one

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Speaker 1: days after he kind of told us what was going

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Speaker 1: to go on when we were going Into iran and

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Speaker 1: what the goals and objectives. Were he was giving an

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Speaker 1: update to The american. PEOPLE i really genuinely love this

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Speaker 1: level of transparency and also explaining where we, are what

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Speaker 1: is still. Left AND i think it landed pretty, well

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Speaker 1: especially with people that voted for The.

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Speaker 2: President, YEAH i think that's. Right The president said exactly

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Speaker 2: what we're doing and what's coming next, here give a.

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Speaker 3: Listen thanks to the progress we've, MADE i can say

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Speaker 3: tonight that we are on track to complete all Of

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Speaker 3: america's military objectives, shortly very. Shortly we're going to hit

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Speaker 3: them extremely hard over the next two to three. Weeks

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Speaker 3: we're going to bring them back to The Stone ages

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Speaker 3: where they. Belong.

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Speaker 1: Center for anybody that wants, transparency you don't get any

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Speaker 1: more transparent than this. President he's, like, yes we have

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Speaker 1: the upper hand to the level where he can literally

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Speaker 1: just say To, iran this is what we're going to

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Speaker 1: do to. You if you don't agree to, this if

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Speaker 1: you don't open the straight of their Horn, moons well guess.

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Speaker 1: What we're gonna bomb the living snot out of. You

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Speaker 1: and we're not. BLUFFING i love the fact that this

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Speaker 1: president is just being like this, transparent not just with,

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Speaker 1: us but like with the rest of the world as.

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Speaker 2: Well look that that's important for our enemies to. Hear

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Speaker 2: it's important for our friends to. Hear imagine for a,

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Speaker 2: second you are the Current. Iatola the Previous iahtola has

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Speaker 2: gone to meet his. Maker you're the New, iahtola and you're, Thinking,

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Speaker 2: okay we've made it through four weeks of. This this

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Speaker 2: is about to be over The americans are about to.

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Speaker 2: Stop and then you turn on THE, tv you turn

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Speaker 2: on the, internet and you see him, say we're going

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Speaker 2: to bomb you back to The Stone. Age, look that's

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Speaker 2: not encouraging for the people who chant death To. America

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Speaker 2: that is that that is extremely. Dismaying they're holding on

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Speaker 2: by their. Fingernails and he's being clear that they're gonna hit,

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Speaker 2: very very. Hard now he's also being clear this is

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Speaker 2: gonna last a couple of. Weeks it's not gonna last months,

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Speaker 2: more it's not gonna last a year or. Longer he's

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Speaker 2: gonna pound the hell out of for the next couple of.

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Speaker 2: Weeks and and you, know for the handful of online,

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Speaker 2: critics AND i do want to, say the press loves

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Speaker 2: to say there's a civil war Among republicans On President

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Speaker 2: trump Attacking. Iran that is objectively. False if you look

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Speaker 2: at the, polling the support is between eighty five percent

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Speaker 2: and ninety percent Of republicans support what the president is.

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Speaker 2: Doing that's not a civil. War they're just a handful

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Speaker 2: of really loud, voices self proclaim influencers and. Podcasters by the,

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Speaker 2: way can you stand a podcast? Podcaster what are an annoying

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Speaker 2: class of human. Being the.

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Speaker 1: Podcasters, yeah they quoted a lot when you need, them

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Speaker 1: right like. That, well there's a lot Of republican podcasters

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Speaker 1: THAT i describe as useful idiots for the left whenever

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Speaker 1: People it's like they raise their hand, like, Oh i'll

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Speaker 1: do that for, You Like i'll say that for you

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Speaker 1: as long as you get my name out. There it's truly.

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Speaker 2: Incredible, yeah these self proclaimed podcasters are fond of, saying,

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Speaker 2: Oh President trump has changed his. View he's changed his

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Speaker 2: view because he's a puppet that others are pulling his. Strings, well,

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Speaker 2: look the president Was claire also in his national. Address

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Speaker 2: this has been his view for a long long. Time,

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Speaker 3: Listen from the very first DAY i announced my campaign

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Speaker 3: for president in twenty, FIFTEEN i have vowed THAT i

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Speaker 3: would never Allow iran to have a nuclear. Weapon this

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Speaker 3: fannacular regime has been chanting death To, america death To

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Speaker 3: israel for forty seven. Years their proxies were behind the

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Speaker 3: murder of two hundred and forty One americans and The

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Speaker 3: marine barracks bombing In, beirut the slaughter of hundreds of

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Speaker 3: the attack on THE uss coal and they're carried out

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Speaker 3: the countless other heinous, acts including the blood just, horrible

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Speaker 3: bloody atrocities Of october seventh In, israel something that most

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Speaker 3: people have never seen anything like. It this murderer's regime

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Speaker 3: also recently killed forty five thousand of their own people

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Speaker 3: who were protesting In. Iran forty five thousand. Did for

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Speaker 3: these terrorists to have nuclear weapons would be an intolerable.

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Speaker 3: Threat the most violent and thuggish regime on earth would

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Speaker 3: be free to carry out their campaigns of, terror, coercion,

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Speaker 3: conquest and mass murder from behind a nuclear. SHIELD i

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Speaker 3: will never let that, happen and neither should any of

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Speaker 3: our past. Presidents you, know.

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Speaker 1: The only difference Between Donald trump and the past presidence

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Speaker 1: they just mentioned there is every other president has said

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Speaker 1: that you can't allow a ray to get a nuclear

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Speaker 1: weapon and that they are a threat to this country.

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Speaker 1: Directly the only difference Is Donald trump actually did what

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Speaker 1: he said he was going to, do and he was

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Speaker 1: going to stop. Them the other ones did. Not they tried,

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Speaker 1: appeasement they tried just kind of looking the other. Way

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Speaker 1: none of it. Works since nineteen seventy, Nine so now

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Speaker 1: he's doing. It that's literally the only difference.

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Speaker 2: Here, well, Listen President trump has been absolutely, clear as

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Speaker 2: he pointed, out going back to when he launched his

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Speaker 2: first presidential campaign in twenty. Fifteen twenty fifteen was eleven years.

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Speaker 2: Ago so the naysayers online who claim there's some like

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Speaker 2: magical Realization Donald trump has, had have not listened to

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Speaker 2: him year after year after year for more than a.

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Speaker 2: Decade when he Said iran will not get nuclear, weapons

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Speaker 2: he meant, it and he's. Acting he's carrying out on.

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Speaker 3: That right.

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Speaker 1: NOW i want to Play devil's advocate with you because

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Speaker 1: the right that have said this, like we didn't need

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Speaker 1: to go, now this was Just Donald trump wanting to

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Speaker 1: get into some sort of war and this was bad

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Speaker 1: timing by. Him so let me ask. You for people

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Speaker 1: that are saying why, now explain why now made?

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Speaker 2: Sense, well there were two factors that were really. Critical Number,

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Speaker 2: one As President trump mentioned just a minute, ago and

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Speaker 2: as he said for eleven, years we cannot Allow iran

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Speaker 2: to get nuclear. Weapons that when The iyatola chanted death To,

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Speaker 2: america we have every reason to believe. Him The iranian

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Speaker 2: regime is killed nearly a Thousand. Americans they have been

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Speaker 2: the number one state funder of terrorism. Worldwide if they

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Speaker 2: Now a month, ago they were not on the verge

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Speaker 2: of acquiring nuclear. Weapons last, year during The Twelve Day,

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Speaker 2: War President trump ordered OUR b two bombers to fly

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Speaker 2: their nuclear weapons research, facilities PARTICULARLY, fordao WHICH fordao is

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Speaker 2: a secret research. Bunker it was built under a mountain

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Speaker 2: and it was built to withstand bombing attacks Because israel

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Speaker 2: ones that had the bunker busters big enough to take it.

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Speaker 2: Out the ordinance we dropped on their nuclear research facilities

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Speaker 2: last year where the equivalent of one third of a nuclear.

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Speaker 2: their nuclear weapons. Facilities so a month ago they were

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Speaker 2: not on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons facilities or nuclear. Weapons,

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Speaker 2: rather why Did President trump? Act Because iran was building,

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Speaker 2: missiles short range and medium range ballistic missiles at an

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Speaker 2: incredibly rapid, clip over one hundred missiles a month they were.

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Speaker 2: Building they were also.

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Speaker 1: Building, okay put that, RESPECTIVE i think people need to

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Speaker 1: understand building one hundred a, month that is like warp

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Speaker 1: speed in the ballistic missile. World people need to understand, that,

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Speaker 1: like if you're building that, many it's for a. Reason

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Speaker 1: you're going to. Ward it's not even a defensive that's

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Speaker 1: like an offensive. Posture and everybody in the world basically

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Speaker 2: That, well we also know now that they had missiles

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Speaker 2: that were sufficient that they could go all the way

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Speaker 2: From iran To Diego, garcia because during this war they

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Speaker 2: fired a missile At Dieo, garcia which is A British

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Speaker 2: america military base in The Chagos islands in the middle

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Speaker 2: of The Indian. Oceans that's a couple thousand miles. Away

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Speaker 2: that is the same distance From iran That paris And london,

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Speaker 2: are which meant they had missiles far enough to get

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Speaker 2: to the capital cities In. Europe they were building over

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Speaker 2: one hundred missiles a. Month they were also building vast

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Speaker 2: numbers of, drones and their plan was to have so

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Speaker 2: listen the regime has never been more. Vulnerable it is,

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Speaker 1: Can all, right let me go back to another big,

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Speaker 2: Heard, look we weren't doing it For iran's. Neighbors we

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Speaker 3: Tonight iran's navy is, gone their air forces in, ruins their,

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Speaker 1: Weeks President trump being very clear THERE i want to

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Speaker 1: headline from The New York. Post pambondi speaks out for

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Speaker 2: Quick, yeah, Listen pambondy is a good friend of. MINE

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Speaker 2: pam had to. Say over the next, MONTH i will

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Speaker 2: to the Amazing Todd blanche before moving to an important

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Speaker 2: private sector ROLE i am thrilled about and WHERE i

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Speaker 2: will continue fighting For President trump in this. Administration Leading

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Speaker 2: President trump's historic and highly successful efforts to Make america

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Speaker 2: five we have secured the lowest murder rate in one

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Speaker 2: i remain internally grateful for the trust That President trump

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Speaker 2: i Think pam served. Honorably it is The president's prerogative

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look at least right, now what's been announced That Todd,

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Speaker 2: in that. Role that would not shock. Me todd is

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Speaker 2: Podcast he's the administrator of THE. Epa we had.

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Speaker 1: THAT i didn't realize he's a. LAWYER i had multiple

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Speaker 2: Well, Listen lee has done a very effective job AT.

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Speaker 2: suspect that's one REASON i haven't had this conversation With President,

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Speaker 2: Christy if they want to be, ag you probably should

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Speaker 2: Conversation The president made the decision to go With Jeff.

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Speaker 2: CONVERSATION i have been grateful every day since then THAT

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Speaker 2: i did not go down that, path because let's be,

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Speaker 2: clear IF i had become, ag you're.

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Speaker 1: like did you ever look back and you're, like that

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Speaker 1: was the best conversation ever to be laid on the?

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Speaker 2: Uh, oh, yes, yes, Yes and LOOK i made a

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Speaker 2: half hearted play on. PURPOSE i know how to make

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Speaker 2: a full throat at, play BUT i THOUGHT i perceived

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Speaker 2: the downsides of the, job AND i liked WHAT i

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Speaker 2: was doing, Then SO i was, like but to be,

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Speaker 2: honest the REASON i made that the half hearted play

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Speaker 2: is is just for love of the. GAME i, mean,

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Speaker 2: frankly the job Of attorney. GENERAL i would really enjoy that.

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Speaker 2: Job it didn't make any, sense it wasn't consistent with

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Speaker 2: WHAT i wanted to, do but it just would be fun.

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Speaker 3: In.

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Speaker 2: Hindsight SO i will tell. You nine months into, it

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Speaker 2: there was a story in The New York. Times this

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Speaker 2: is would have BEEN i Think august of twenty. Seventeen,

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Speaker 2: OH i, REMEMBER i, remember well where you're?

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Speaker 1: Going it is keep?

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Speaker 2: Going and the story Said trump is thinking about Firing

452
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Speaker 2: Jeff's sessions and he's talking To cruise about replacing, him and,

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Speaker 2: Look sessions has been a friend of mine. Forever SO

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Speaker 2: i Called. Jeff and by the, Way jeff knew THAT

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Speaker 2: i talked to him about. It he was In Trump

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Speaker 2: tower the DAY i was there talking to about. It

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Speaker 2: we were very open and transparent with each. Other AND

458
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Speaker 2: i Called jeff the day that story came out AND i, said, Hey,

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Speaker 2: JEFF i just wanted you to hear from. Me this

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Speaker 2: IS bs LIKE i have. NOT i, said you. KNEW

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Speaker 2: i had a conversation with The president Back november of last,

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Speaker 2: YEAR i. Said since, Then i've not had another conversation

463
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Speaker 2: ABOUT ag AND i just Told JEFF i want you

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Speaker 2: to hear from. ME i don't want the job AND

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Speaker 2: i wouldn't take it if, Offered so this is not

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Speaker 2: coming from. Me and, Listen jeff had a rough time

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Speaker 2: in that. Position Bill, barr who succeeded, him started out really,

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Speaker 2: well but at the end he had a rough time

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Speaker 2: in that. Position that has been a. Job Pam bondy

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Speaker 2: did a lot of, good but getting fired in front

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Speaker 2: put out a statement saying saying how MUCH i support

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Speaker 2: and like, her AND i sent her a text just, saying,

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Speaker 2: Hey i'm praying for you and thinking for thinking of,

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Speaker 2: you and thank you for being a patriot and answer

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Speaker 2: in the. Call but all of which is to, SAY

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Speaker 2: i am immensely glad THAT i stayed in The. Senate

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Speaker 2: i've Been Donald trump's single strongest ally in The senate

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Speaker 2: for more than a. Decade BUT i very much like

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Speaker 2: the arrangement of working hand in hand with The president

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Speaker 2: from The senate rather THAN Dj whoever gets the, nod

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Speaker 2: whether It's Todd blanche Or Lee zelden or, WHOEVER i

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Speaker 2: will work with them to help them get. CONFIRMED i

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Speaker 2: will work hand in hand with, them just LIKE i

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Speaker 2: did With Pam bondy And Bill barr And Jeff, sessions

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Speaker 2: because the mission OF doj is massively important And President

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Speaker 2: trump deserves a, strong, effective incredibly Principled Attorney.

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Speaker 1: General Mark wain got. Confirmed it was actually pretty. Easy

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Speaker 2: Majority, probably although Like Mark, WAYNE i think it'll be

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Speaker 2: democrats who voted for. HIM i think no matter who

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Speaker 2: who The president, appoints The democrats will will will party

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Speaker 2: line vote against, them with a possible exception of one or.

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Speaker 2: Two but if it's anything like if it's any reasonable appointment,

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Speaker 2: APPOINTMENT i think you'll see The republicans line up and

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Speaker 1: radical leftist organization At blue may have Misled congress on

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Speaker 2: Reported The democratic fundraising group is facing investigations from The

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Speaker 2: twenty three letter explaining how the organization vetted donations to

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Speaker 2: Quote this presents a substantial risk For Act, blue the

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Speaker 2: All, look there could be people criminally, prosecuted there could

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Speaker 2: political consequence would be if a criminal investigation shuts Down

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Speaker 2: And and by the, way, look the foreign money is

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Speaker 2: is objectively in your interest to Have democrats win In.

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Speaker 2: November Donald trump has made your life a living. Hell

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Speaker 2: and so you Want congress to declare war On President.

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Speaker 2: Trump you want A Democrat house And senate that impeaches the,

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Speaker 1: Right you've been listening To verdict With Ted Cruz Ben

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Speaker 1: ferguson with. You we'll see on the podcast this. Week