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Speaker 3: Story number one.

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Speaker 4: The US is now sending an aircraft carrier to South

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Speaker 4: America as the Narco strikes are intensifying. This as Democrats

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Speaker 4: are claiming that, well, we don't really know if the

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Speaker 4: people on these boats are actually Narco terrorists. Congressman McCormick,

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Speaker 4: who is a veteran that served as country, set the

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Speaker 4: record straight on that on Newsmax with credevn Sustra. Listen

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Speaker 4: to what he said about these strikes, including the submarine

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Speaker 1: A lot of this is due with our intelligence gathering capabilities. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: we don't take out people just based on a hunch.

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Speaker 1: be very careful in selection. When we used to be

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Speaker 1: So these are confirm targets. These aren't just we hope

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Speaker 2: Why don't we there's no effort to contact them and

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Speaker 1: Guns and we've done it in the past. Two things

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Speaker 4: You listen to Congress from McCormick there, he's absolutely right,

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Speaker 4: Which brings us to the new point. The US military

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Speaker 4: The Pentagon announcing this on Friday, in the latest escalation

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Speaker 4: Pentagon spokesman Sean Pernell. The USS Ford, which has five

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Speaker 4: Hours before Parnell announced the news, the Secretary of War

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