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Speaker 1: Good evening, America, Happy Monday. Welcome to the latest edition

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Speaker 1: of Just the News, No Noise. I'm your host, John Solomon,

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Speaker 1: reporting to you as always from the nation's capital, and

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Speaker 1: I'm always amaze. Oh also always a joined by my

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Speaker 1: amazing co host, a man they had now to say

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Speaker 1: that the world changed dramatically this week and is an understatement. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Iatole Kamani, a man who presided over thirty seven years

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Speaker 1: of the forty seven years of terram that Iran has

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Speaker 1: inflicted on the world and against the United States, eliminated

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Speaker 1: in a split second by bombs from the United States.

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Speaker 1: Large numbers of the Iranian leadership eradicated by the first

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Speaker 1: rounds of attacks from the air by the United States.

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Speaker 1: And we were going to have comprehensive reporting all throughout

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Speaker 1: the night on that extraordinary operation. I want to get

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Speaker 1: to a couple of things that are quite significantly just

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Speaker 1: happened in the last hour or so, Marco Rubio and

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Speaker 1: President Trump back to back telling Iran you ain't seen

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Speaker 1: nothing yet. In other words, the most explosive attacks, the

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Speaker 1: most powerful attacks, are still ahead.

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Speaker 2: It's not going to bode well for.

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Speaker 1: The Iranians who've already lost a large part of their navy,

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Speaker 1: a large part of their command and control structure, a

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Speaker 1: large part of their commanders in leadership, including several people

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Speaker 1: who were deemed to be successors to the Isla Tola.

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Speaker 1: They're gone to and now more fierce attacks on the way,

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Speaker 1: according to Marco Rubio, just a little bit ago, in

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Speaker 1: conjunction with that, Marco Rubio announced that he's asking all

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Speaker 1: Americans to leave the Middle East.

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Speaker 2: Wherever you are in the Middle East, it's time to

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Speaker 2: get out. He said. That is something we're keeping a

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Speaker 2: close eye on tonight.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the toll of our heroes, those who are on

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Speaker 1: the front lines of this conflict. A total of six

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Speaker 1: American soldiers now have died in this operation, about twenty

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Speaker 1: who have been injured or wounded in various aspects of

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Speaker 1: the combat. We're keeping a close eye on that. Families

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Speaker 1: are learning the fate of their loved ones just as

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Speaker 1: we speak. Right now now, I want to turn to

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Speaker 1: one other thing, because over the weekend you saw ferocious

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Speaker 1: and quick efforts by the whole Land Security Department, the

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Speaker 1: Federal Bureau of Investigation, and others to make sure that

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Speaker 1: we are on the highest alert when it comes to

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Speaker 1: violence on our soil. That violence could come in the

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Speaker 1: form of protests like those that are being waged by

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Speaker 1: far left Marxists on our soil right now, ironically in

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Speaker 1: support of Iran.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what that's about.

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Speaker 1: But there's also the possibility of sleeper sell something that

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Speaker 1: FBI directors past and present.

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Speaker 2: Have talked about, how bad or big is the potential

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Speaker 2: for iron to strike on our soil.

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Speaker 1: Well last summer, a lot of people didn't pay attention

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Speaker 1: to this, but I sure did, and I've kept this

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Speaker 1: kept just for this moment. Congressman Tony Gonzalez of Texas

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Speaker 1: was questioning the Attorney General, Pam Bondy, have them listen

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Speaker 1: to the question and answer that they got out of this.

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Speaker 3: Last year, there was a report, you know, over fifteen

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Speaker 3: hundred Iranian nationals that have entered the country illegally over

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Speaker 3: the last several years. Do we know out of those

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Speaker 3: over fifteen hundred, how many of those have been convicted

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Speaker 3: of a crime?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't have the number of the conviction, but

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Speaker 4: it's well over one thousand have entered. Yes, I don't

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Speaker 4: know if it's quite up to fifteen hundred, but yes,

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Speaker 4: it's well over one thousand have entered our country, and

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Speaker 4: I can tell you we are on high alert and

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Speaker 4: everyone is looking at that very closely.

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Speaker 3: Just some things just don't line up as far as

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Speaker 3: us I see. The world is on fire now more

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Speaker 3: than ever before. Right once again, when this budget was submitted,

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Speaker 3: we're a nation at peace, and now things have changed.

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Speaker 2: The world is on fire more than we ever have

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Speaker 2: seen it.

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Speaker 1: And yet they we led a thousand Iranians to sneak

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Speaker 1: across the border. We allowed Iran to start its nuclear program,

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Speaker 1: then gave them money, and they kept marching forward even

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Speaker 1: though they were supposed to stop.

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Speaker 2: And now even in.

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Speaker 1: The midst of the board, Democrats have kept the Homeland

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Speaker 1: Security Department closed, meeting TSA and others who could fight

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Speaker 1: the potential threat on our soil are not getting paid

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Speaker 1: for doing their job right now, that is the Democratic

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Speaker 1: agenda compared to what President Trump is doing right now.

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Speaker 1: With that thought, let me turn to my amazing coast,

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Speaker 1: Amanda head. He's got some other headlines. Reare you tracking, Amanda?

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Speaker 5: Indeed, yes, I'm actually going to stay on Iran because

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Speaker 5: critics continue to question whether President Trump's decision to authorize

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Speaker 5: a coordinated strike against Iran.

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Speaker 6: Was constitutional or not.

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Speaker 5: At the same time, the reported death of Iran Supreme

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Speaker 5: leader Ali Kamani has triggered sharp reactions around the globe,

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Speaker 5: but in New York City, crowds of Iranian Americans took

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Speaker 5: for a new future for their country, and supporters have

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Speaker 5: said that this operation sent a direct message to America's adversaries,

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Speaker 5: including Larry Kudload, the Economist.

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Speaker 6: He reacted to it as well.

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Speaker 7: Check it out.

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Speaker 8: I make one more point. You know, not only all

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Speaker 8: the Gulf states supporting it, the European the big European

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Speaker 8: country is finally coming around. But not a peep, almost

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Speaker 8: not a peep from China or Russia, almost virtually silenced

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Speaker 8: from them. And you know what, Russia's gonna think twice

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Speaker 8: about Ukraine. China's gonna think twice about Taiwan. This is

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Speaker 8: a huge change.

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Speaker 9: You think in the world.

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Speaker 8: Jaopoulow's an enormous change in world.

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Speaker 6: Geopolitan Jim and Larry is right.

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Speaker 5: Our adversaries will think twice before making any moves. And meanwhile,

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Speaker 5: Democratic Congressman at Gregory Meeks of New York is pushing back,

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Speaker 5: criticizing the administration's actions and raising concerns about the broader consequence.

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Speaker 7: This president cannot act in an individual Basi's creating wars

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Speaker 7: around the world without coming to Congress. Look, he's breaking

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Speaker 7: his own promise where he said that he would not

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Speaker 9: And it's seeing that he's moving in that direction.

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Speaker 10: And I guess that's why he wanted to rename the

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Speaker 10: Defense Department, where we're talking about defending America, to the

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Speaker 10: war with everyone, which is what this administration seems to

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Speaker 10: be doing, all right.

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Speaker 5: So as lawmakers debate the decision here at home, the

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Speaker 5: focus is also on the men and women in uniform,

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Speaker 5: and First Lady Milania Trump spoke at a UN Security

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Speaker 5: Council meeting offering condolences to the American service members who

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Speaker 5: lost their lives in connection with the conflict.

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Speaker 11: My heartfelt condolences to the families who have lost their

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Speaker 11: heroes who sacrifice their lives for freedom. Their bravery and

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Speaker 11: dedication will always be remembered. I extend my earnest wishes

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Speaker 11: for a swift and smooth recovery to all those who

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Speaker 11: have been injured. You are in my thoughts and prayers

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Speaker 11: during this challenging times. The US stands with all of

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Speaker 11: the children through dowt the world. I hope soon peace

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Speaker 11: will be yours.

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Speaker 6: John.

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Speaker 5: It is historic for any first lady to speak before

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Speaker 5: that body. But I also just love her tenderness when

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Speaker 5: she's speaking about our troops.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, very powerful moment today in a very busy newsday.

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Speaker 12: All right, Well, in the middle of that busy newsday,

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Speaker 12: we had a chance to talk to the brand new

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Speaker 12: director of the Office of National Drug Control inside the

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Speaker 12: White House, the White House Drugs are She's a close friend.

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Speaker 2: Great reporter now turned drug fighter, Sarah Carter. We talked

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Speaker 2: all about it.

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Speaker 1: She just got back from Mexico where they struck those

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Speaker 1: cartel leaders last week. Have a watch to what she

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Speaker 1: told us some big news in this interview.

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Speaker 2: Go check it out.

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Speaker 1: I have a very blessed in my life to work

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Speaker 1: alongside of two extraordinary work sisters, one of them you

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Speaker 1: see every day, the amazing Amanda Head right here on

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Speaker 1: the show. Earlier, I got to work in the trenches

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Speaker 1: with Sarah Carter, one of the great gatest investigative journalists

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Speaker 1: I've ever seen, tenacious, courageous, brilliant as always. Today she

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Speaker 1: is the head of the war on drugs inside of

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Speaker 1: to the show for the first time. Sarah, great to

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Speaker 13: Great to be with you, John, Great to be with you, Amanda.

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Speaker 13: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: All Right, you are fresh off of trip down south

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Speaker 1: below the southern borders the great country of Mexico where

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Speaker 1: we had a big win against the cartels last week.

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Speaker 2: Bring us up to.

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Speaker 1: Speed on how our cooperation with Mexico is going and

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Speaker 1: what sort of strides we're making against those violent cartels.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, thank you so much, John.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, we've made enormous, enormous strides against the cartels, and

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Speaker 14: a lot of that is due wholeheartedly to President Trump's

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Speaker 14: policy in the Western hem bringing back the focus to

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Speaker 14: the Western hemisphere and targeting these nefarious organizations that are

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Speaker 14: now designated foreign terrorist organizations. And as you know, John,

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Speaker 14: going way back to twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, I had

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Speaker 14: testified in Ohio that these organizations the cartels, particularly Sinaloa

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Speaker 14: what we're doing. I was just in Mexico. I met

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Speaker 14: who heads CJNG. The battle was very intense, it was fierce.

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Speaker 13: We were there as the battle was ongoing.

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Speaker 14: And I can tell you that the Mexican government is

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Speaker 13: This is the first.

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Speaker 14: Time that we will have an opportunity, unlike any time

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Speaker 13: It's not going to be easy. There's going to be

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Speaker 14: There is a lot of concern about sovereignty of course,

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Speaker 14: Mexico has been very adamant about that. But Mexico is

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Speaker 14: doing its part, and this past week was an example

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Speaker 5: You're doing such incredible work down there. I want to

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Speaker 5: ask you about the taking out of Almentia because I

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Speaker 5: think for Americans, they saw what happened, they saw the

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Speaker 5: attacks in Hillisco on Portavarta, and so they assume that

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Speaker 5: this had wide reverberations in Mexico. But when it comes

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Speaker 5: to the impact that it had on other cartel members

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Speaker 14: Yeah, like this reverberated across all of Mexico. We are

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Speaker 14: sharing intelligence with our Mexican counterparts. That is very important,

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Speaker 14: and in this process we have these incredible operations. The

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Speaker 14: Mexican government was able to target Elmencho. We have been

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Speaker 14: looking for him for quite some time. Remember this requires

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Speaker 14: of this magnitude. His nickname is Elmencho the Ghost, and

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Speaker 14: the reason they call him the Ghost is because he

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Speaker 13: We were able to do that.

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Speaker 14: Everybody now knows pretty much that it was targeting one

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Speaker 14: of his girlfriends, and that those officials in Mexico were

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Speaker 1: To deal with this sort of scoge will be extraordinary. Sarah,

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Speaker 5: Welcome back everybody to just the news no noise. Affordability

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Speaker 5: to the President's efforts to bring back affordability, houses are

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Speaker 9: Attributing of course, thank you guys. Director.

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Speaker 15: Payments, Well, under Joe Biden breaks for it like eight percent,

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Speaker 9: And so thank god, we have President Trump.

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Speaker 15: Can you imagine where we'd be at if we had

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Speaker 5: How important is it for the American people to see

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Speaker 5: accountability when it comes to mortgage fraud because I think

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Speaker 5: a lot of people think it's a relatively victimless crime.

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Speaker 9: Is not. No, it's not a victimless crime.

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Speaker 15: And look, there can't be one rules for THEE and

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Speaker 15: rules for you know, somebody else. It's just it's just

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Speaker 15: not fair. And so you know where we identify mortgage fraud.

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Speaker 15: Irrespective of political party, whether it's Republican or Democratic, if

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Speaker 15: you commit mortgage fraud, that is a problem.

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Speaker 9: And it's like we either have laws or we don't

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Speaker 9: have laws.

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Speaker 15: And so you know, obviously you've seen some of our

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Speaker 15: mortgage referrals have led to prosecutions and the like, and look,

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Speaker 15: that's up to the DOJ what they want to do.

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Speaker 9: But what we can do is say, look.

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Speaker 15: We want to have a safe mortgage market, we want

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Speaker 15: low costs, and why are we letting people rip off

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Speaker 15: the system.

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Speaker 9: It's complete nonsense.

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Speaker 15: And so whether you see it in Minnesota with what

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Speaker 15: they're dealing with or mortgages, especially politicians, these public figures,

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Speaker 15: and these public figures, many of them are lawyers, why

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Speaker 15: are they lying and cheating on their loan applications.

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Speaker 9: It doesn't make any sense to me.

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Speaker 2: It should be said that the gold standard for behavior

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Speaker 2: not breaking.

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Speaker 6: It market standard for your behavior.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, well it should be so, yeah, I'd say they work,

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Speaker 16: They should be Yeah, they're clearly are. Yeah, let me

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Speaker 16: ask about some other things you can do on that front.

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Speaker 16: There are civil actions that Manny and Freddie and others

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Speaker 16: can take. You could borrow someone from future fany of

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Speaker 16: Freddie and Trip mortgages. You could sue them civily, even

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Speaker 16: though we can't get it if they can't be prosecuted criminally.

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Speaker 16: Do you have some other tools in your two box

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Speaker 16: you might be employing.

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Speaker 15: Yes, we are actually looking at commencing I'd say, some

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Speaker 15: fairly interesting civil litigation. But remember, we have to do

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Speaker 15: what's in the best intersts of Fanny and Freddie and

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Speaker 15: also work with to the extent that it involves DJ

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Speaker 15: and other law enforcement officials. We have to work, you know,

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Speaker 15: properly in that system. But we do actively sue people

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Speaker 15: civil and we'll probably be making some of those.

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Speaker 9: Things more public sometime soon. So they tuned on that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a bookmark for so forg ahead, you have

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Speaker 1: spring is.

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Speaker 15: And criminal sheet the system. We will come after you

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Speaker 15: as hard as we can.

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Speaker 6: Yep, as you should.

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Speaker 5: Spring big home buying season. I know a lot of

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Speaker 5: people are looking at that. They're seeing the mortgage price

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Speaker 5: is under six percent when it comes to mortgage rates

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Speaker 5: under six percent?

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Speaker 6: Is there a four for you guys?

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Speaker 9: What's the goal as low as humanly possible. We have

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Speaker 9: a new fed Share coming in.

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Speaker 15: You know, Scott Beston has worked with the fed Share before,

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Speaker 15: so this is a very exciting time for him and

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Speaker 15: the fed Share to focus on the tenure. We focus

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Speaker 15: on the mortgage spread because the tenure plus the spread

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Speaker 15: is the mortgage rate.

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Speaker 9: So we'll keep driving those downs.

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Speaker 15: But I just encourage people when they go to buy

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Speaker 15: a home, don't.

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Speaker 9: Just look at the mortgage rate. Also look at what

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Speaker 9: the price of the home is.

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Speaker 2: It's very important.

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Speaker 15: And specifically as it relates to location, make sure you

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Speaker 15: get in a good location because if God forbid there

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Speaker 15: ever was something in the economy, you want to have

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Speaker 15: a good location. You know, it's an age oled thing. Location, Location, Location,

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Speaker 15: You get it for a right price, you get it

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Speaker 15: at a good mortgage rate, get a good location, you

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Speaker 15: should be pretty good to go. I mean, home ownership

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Speaker 15: was dead under Joe Biden. We need to get it back.

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Speaker 1: Two thousand and eight. We all remember the big financial crisis.

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Speaker 1: Fort and Frandy were right at the medal of that.

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Speaker 1: Give us the state of those two very important mortgage giants.

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Speaker 1: They seem to have pretty solid books right now.

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Speaker 15: They're solid, they're stronger than ever. President Trump came in

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Speaker 15: and he said, people are going to be not working

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Speaker 15: from their home anymore.

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Speaker 9: They're going to be working back in the office.

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Speaker 15: We had eighteen thousand people at these two companies, depending

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Speaker 15: on the day, seventeen eighteen thousand people at these companies.

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Speaker 9: Working from home.

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Speaker 15: You go into these big structures, nineteen twenty story buildings,

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Speaker 15: nobody was in a vacant, air conditioning spewing everywhere. The

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Speaker 15: cafeteria is full with food, nobody to eat it. It was

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Speaker 15: totally insane. And so we've really brought back discipline, bringing

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Speaker 15: back people to work, and we're going to keep doing it.

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Speaker 15: So I think the businesses will generate more cash than

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Speaker 15: ever in the future. And these businesses are worth you know,

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Speaker 15: half a trillion to a trillion dollars. So yeah, the

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Speaker 15: President was turned down very smartly, an offer to sell

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Speaker 15: them for one hundred billion in his first term, if

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Speaker 15: you can imagine that, and now they're worth you know,

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Speaker 15: five to ten times that.

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Speaker 9: So that's where we go.

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Speaker 6: Those workers getting shipped out of state to Alabama.

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Speaker 9: Some of them are getting moving to Alabama. Look, we

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Speaker 9: have nothing against California.

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Speaker 15: Well, we do a lot of loans in California, and

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Speaker 15: there's Americans in California. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 15: if these cities are going to be prohibitive to our operations,

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Speaker 15: we have to do it in the best interests of

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Speaker 15: Fanny and Freddie and Alabama.

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Speaker 9: We're very excited about that too.

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Speaker 5: Great move, absolutely, Director Poulti, thanks so much for being

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Speaker 5: with us, and absolutely all right, everybody, we've got to

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Speaker 5: take a very quick break, but we've got much more

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Speaker 5: for you coming up on the other side, including the

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Speaker 5: US Oil and Gas Association president, dear friend of the

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Speaker 5: show him start.

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Speaker 2: Hey, America.

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Speaker 1: The FBI has been warning about a type of real

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Speaker 1: estate fraud on the rise called home title theft, and

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Speaker 1: your equity is the target.

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Speaker 2: Here's our works.

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Speaker 1: Criminals forge your signature on a single document, use a

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Speaker 1: home using your ownership. They didn't take out loans against

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Speaker 1: your equator, even sell your property, and you're not going

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Speaker 1: to know about it. And to get a foreclosure or

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Speaker 9: Welcome back, America.

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Speaker 2: So much to talk about.

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Speaker 1: In the energy sector of gas prices we're going down

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Speaker 1: under President Trump's watch. Drilling has been going up, exporting

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Speaker 1: of liquid natural gas at all time highs. America was

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Speaker 1: on an energized role. Now the operation in Iran could

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Speaker 1: change things for a few weeks helping here to help

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Speaker 1: us understand what the short and long term prospects are.

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Speaker 1: Is the president of the sol Gas Association, a good

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Speaker 1: friend of our show, our buddy, Tim Stewart. Tim, welcome back.

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Speaker 17: Great to be with you.

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Speaker 9: John.

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Speaker 17: How are you doing.

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Speaker 2: We are good? All right, So let's walk through Iran.

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Speaker 1: We'll try to inflict financial pain by striking any ship

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Speaker 1: that's in their capabilities. They want to create any harm

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Speaker 1: they can to us. How well insulated are we for

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Speaker 1: energy short and long term with an Iran conflict?

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Speaker 17: You know, it's fascinating. I was checking the numbers this

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Speaker 17: morning on the opening of the markets, you know, Brent

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Speaker 17: and West Texas Center Media Crew to open at eight

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Speaker 17: percent in terms of a one day price shock to

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Speaker 17: the market, John, that opening didn't even register on the

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Speaker 17: top fifty. And so I think we're pretty well in soul.

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Speaker 17: There's a lot of reason for that. I mean, it's

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Speaker 17: not nineteen seventy ninety more. The world's changed. The prices

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Speaker 17: go modestly higher, there's due to stress in the system,

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Speaker 17: but energy dominance, you know, if in America, it provides

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Speaker 17: a buffer. So we're in pretty good shape.

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Speaker 2: I think good deal Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Tim, I want to ask you about our other suppliers

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Speaker 5: in that region, because iron has threatened to compromise the

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Speaker 5: straight of horn Moves and obviously.

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Speaker 6: That affects the transportation of it.

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Speaker 5: What happens if it's not able to get to US

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Speaker 5: and those supply containers get full.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, it is interesting. Again, I think we've got probably

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Speaker 17: it depends on how long this thing goes. You know,

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Speaker 17: if it can be resolved in a couple of days,

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Speaker 17: you know, in terms of the straight being shut down

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Speaker 17: or the container ships being paused, I don't think you're

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Speaker 17: going to see much impact. If this goes on for

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Speaker 17: longer than twenty or twenty five or thirty days, you're

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Speaker 17: going to see some significant impact to the global markets.

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Speaker 17: And again the US is not completely insulated against that,

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Speaker 17: but you may see the significant increase in global prices

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Speaker 17: in the US will be a tail on that as well.

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Speaker 17: So it is a cause for concern. You know, I've

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Speaker 17: been telling people all day long, this is not just

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Speaker 17: a military issue. It's an insurance issue. And the insurance

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Speaker 17: that the ships have been they have been sort of

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Speaker 17: a laying anchor waiting to see what happens because their

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Speaker 17: insurance have told them, we're not going to cover you

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Speaker 17: in a wartime and we're not going to pull your

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Speaker 17: wartime coverage. And so they just sort of laid anchor

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Speaker 17: until things settled down, and they're waiting to see what happens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I forget that one day, maybe that insurance industry

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Speaker 1: issue go away, because there won't be the threat in

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Speaker 1: the Gulf that there is today. I'm thinking back now

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Speaker 1: to that moment when President Trump struck that deal with

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Speaker 1: the Venezuelan government. Eighty million barrows of royal ship to

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Speaker 1: the United States. That's a pretty big shipment, pretty historic

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Speaker 1: by Venezuelan. It seems like the Venezuela chip falling earlier

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Speaker 1: gave us some additional security on our side because Venezuela

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Speaker 1: can also move more oil to US rather than be

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Speaker 1: at loggerheads with us. How important was Venezuela as a

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Speaker 1: precursor to the Iran operation.

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Speaker 17: It's fascinating to watch how this has played out. I've

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Speaker 17: got to hand it to the President because he's sort

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Speaker 17: of been thinking three or four steps ahead of the

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Speaker 17: rest of the world. You know, the US is the

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Speaker 17: world's top oil producer. We're producing thirty million barrels a day. Domestically,

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Speaker 17: we're next we're net exporter overall, and we are bringing

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Speaker 17: in far less imports than we have over the past decades.

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Speaker 17: The most important crew do we bring in is actually

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Speaker 17: from Canada, and then Venezuela is only about two hundred

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Speaker 17: and fifty thousand barrels a day. What that has done

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Speaker 17: is that has significantly release reduced our vulnerability to Middle

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Speaker 17: East disruptions. It's something to be said for almost like

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Speaker 17: it's fortress North America. We've been able to fortify ourselves

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Speaker 17: against any global unrest, particularly in the Middle East. To

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Speaker 17: the President's credit, that action in Venezuela, which is sort

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Speaker 17: of a ford per to China and a message to

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Speaker 17: China and then followed up with Iran, I really have

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Speaker 17: put China in a difficult position and put the US

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Speaker 17: in a really, really strong position.

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Speaker 5: Amazing, Tim, I oftentimes talk to you about California because

671
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Speaker 5: they are kind of this belligerent child when it comes

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Speaker 5: to a state that has the resources, but they won't

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Speaker 5: put them out, and they as a result, import oil

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Speaker 5: from sometimes dirty countries.

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Speaker 6: But you and I were actually talking about this earlier, and.

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Speaker 5: It's strange because California is blue state, so is New Mexico.

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Speaker 6: But New Mexico is doing.

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Speaker 5: A grand job of producing oil. What can be a

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Speaker 5: catalyst to get California to pull its own weight? Can

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Speaker 5: states like Arizona and Nevada be an impetus for that?

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Speaker 18: Yeah?

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Speaker 17: The big difference in both California and New Mexico have

683
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Speaker 17: large public lands. Their public lands states. New Mexico obviously

684
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Speaker 17: is far more progressive when it comes to oil and

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Speaker 17: gas extraction off the federal lands. California is not so.

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Speaker 17: But the pressure that comes on California is for decades,

687
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Speaker 17: we've been letting California have be dictating its own energy policy,

688
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Speaker 17: and I don't think we can afford to do that anymore.

689
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Speaker 17: If you look at Nevada and Arizona, for example, Nevada

690
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Speaker 17: gets eighty eight percent of its refined product out of

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Speaker 17: California and Arizona is about forty percent, And so bad

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Speaker 17: energy policy in California reflects upon the economies in Nevada

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Speaker 17: and in Arizona. And I think there comes a point

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Speaker 17: where the federal impetus and needs to weigh more heavily

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Speaker 17: on the California decision makers. I think it's going to

696
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Speaker 17: be a number of different issues. You know, the shutdown

697
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Speaker 17: of the refineries is clearly going to have an impact

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Speaker 17: on the California economy, and sort of the pipeline constraints

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Speaker 17: that they put in place as well. I think we

700
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Speaker 17: don't have the luxury of just letting California be California anymore.

701
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Speaker 17: I think we're going to have to have some federal

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Speaker 17: oversight in the work that's in the events that are

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Speaker 17: happening out there. I think if Arizona and Nevada, the

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Speaker 17: federal government way in the economy starts to fill the

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Speaker 17: pinch of bad California energy policy, that will hopefully move

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Speaker 17: them off the dime a little bit. And then Governor

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Speaker 17: Newsom's running for California, that's a bad policy to have

708
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Speaker 17: to defend. He may actually be forced to recognize the

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Speaker 17: mistakes of the past.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if the flop the

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Speaker 1: flip follows the flop.

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Speaker 2: I'll have the wait and see how that goes before

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Speaker 2: we let you go.

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Speaker 1: When you and I were growing up, one of the

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Speaker 1: most feared words or acronyms in the world was opec

716
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Speaker 1: because if they moved the needle, everybody paid more. Of

717
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Speaker 1: the problem today with Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, America.

718
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Speaker 2: So neatly you're not line together.

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Speaker 1: You've come up with a big idea that's not quite

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Speaker 1: OPEQ but kind of like and tell.

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Speaker 2: Us about it.

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Speaker 17: Well, it's kind of a joke, you know. It's right now.

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Speaker 17: OPEK is OPEC plus. It's the It's the OPEC countries

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Speaker 17: plus Russia. So what I what I propose is an

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Speaker 17: OPEC A plus, which is the plymic sporting countries of

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Speaker 17: the Americas, including Canada, the United States, Venezuela, and Argentina.

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Speaker 17: And if Mexico and Brazil start to play nice, they

728
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Speaker 17: can be the plus. It is. It's interesting because that's

729
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Speaker 17: about forty forty five percent of all the global capacity

730
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Speaker 17: right there. We could theoretically be an offset to what

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Speaker 17: happens in the Middle East. The one caveat John is

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Speaker 17: I would make sure that we don't wear white robes,

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Speaker 17: we wear Hawaiian shirts and flip flops, and we have

734
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Speaker 17: rooms at our meetings.

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Speaker 9: That would be fine.

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Speaker 17: That would be my idea.

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Speaker 9: So I love it, sounds good, it works for me.

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Speaker 2: I'm all in on that. Tim.

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Speaker 1: We always learned so much from you every time you

740
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Speaker 1: come on. We also smile a lot. You always make

741
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Speaker 1: us laugh. Great to have you on the show today.

742
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 17: Great to be with you. Thanks you guys.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, how about that oil and oil conference

745
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Speaker 1: in flip flops and Hawaiian shirts.

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Speaker 2: I'm in on that one, all right.

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Speaker 1: Coming out of texts, we continue our discussion iron and

748
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Speaker 1: what's next for the country with a member of the

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Speaker 1: Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of

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Speaker 1: are On, doctor Ali Safabi.

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Speaker 2: Next messages.

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Speaker 6: Welcome back everybody.

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Speaker 5: As we have been discussing today, the president's coordinated attack

754
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 5: on Iran nearly destroyed the Iranian regime by taking out

755
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Speaker 5: Supreme Leader Ali Kamani. So is this the end for

756
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Speaker 5: the Iranian regime as we know it? Joining us to

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Speaker 5: discuss this and more As a member of the Foreign

758
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Speaker 5: Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran,

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Speaker 5: Doctor Ali Safabi joining us again.

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Speaker 6: So great to see you.

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Speaker 19: Thank you very much. Great to be with you.

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Speaker 6: And John, It's great.

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Speaker 5: To have you and you know, we three have had

764
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Speaker 5: many conversations over the years about freedom for Iran. Those

765
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 5: conversations were hypothetical, but now it feels like we are

766
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 5: so close we can taste it. If there's anybody in

767
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Speaker 5: this town who has their eyes and ears and intelligence

768
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Speaker 5: coming straight from inside Iran, it is you, So tell

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Speaker 5: us what you're hearing.

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Speaker 19: Well, Quite frankly, the Iranian people, after the massive slaughter

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Speaker 19: mark in January, are ever more resolved and determined to

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Speaker 19: bring down this regime. Ironically, during the funeral processions of

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Speaker 19: those who were killed by this regime their families, you

774
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Speaker 19: would expect them to be in despair, to have, you know,

775
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Speaker 19: have a feeling of gloom and grief, but the exact

776
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Speaker 19: opposite transpired. You saw a sense of resolve and rage,

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Speaker 19: and in fact, in every one of those funeral processions,

778
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Speaker 19: you saw a chance against the regime, against howmonies and

779
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 19: we're chanting this is the month of blood, and how

780
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Speaker 19: many would be overthrown others chanted We haven't given martyrs

781
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Speaker 19: to compromise with the leader, with the murderous leader. So

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Speaker 19: I think, if anything, the people I beround now feel

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Speaker 19: that victory day is drawing closer and closer. After forty

784
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Speaker 19: seven years of tormentful, painful years that saw Iran basically

785
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Speaker 19: submerge in blood and the kind of oppression that the

786
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Speaker 19: witness at the hands of this regime, the economic malaies,

787
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Speaker 19: the runaway inflation, unemployment, and I must say that amid

788
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Speaker 19: all of this, they em case resistance were quite active

789
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Speaker 19: in the country. First of all, based upon what missus

790
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Speaker 19: Rajavi said the other day in a statement that they

791
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Speaker 19: should take care of the earlerly, the young, make sure

792
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Speaker 19: that they're all protected. And she also called on the

793
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Speaker 19: parties involved in this conflict to exercise maximum restraint in

794
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Speaker 19: terms of civilians and in terms of Iran's infrastructure. So

795
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Speaker 19: in this sense, I think the mood of the country

796
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Speaker 19: is quite upbeat. You saw in many areas of the

797
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Speaker 19: capitol and other cities. People were very, very happy that

798
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 19: harmony had been eliminated, obviously, and I think they would

799
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Speaker 19: have preferred him to be arrested by the reading people

800
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Speaker 19: and put on trial and be held accountable for the

801
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Speaker 19: crimes that he committed. But that said, not that he's

802
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Speaker 19: no longer here and you know, spending probably his time

803
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Speaker 19: in hell. They are happy. They feel that they do

804
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 19: set feel a sense of justice being done. So, as

805
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 19: you said at the outset of the show, I think

806
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Speaker 19: Iranians feel that that final victory day is coming, something

807
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 19: that they have yearned for for so many years, and

808
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Speaker 19: I'm paid for with so much blood and treasure.

809
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Speaker 2: That they have.

810
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Speaker 1: Perseverance for freedom has been an extraordinary and inspiring thing

811
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Speaker 1: to watch from the ground in Iran against very tough circumstances.

812
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: Ali give us a sense of how much the command

813
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Speaker 1: and control structure of Iran was decapitated this week. And

814
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Speaker 1: you lose comedy, you lose the defense secretary, lose a

815
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Speaker 1: lot of the generals and leadership that seems to continue

816
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: day two or three, and Marco Rubio saying, just a

817
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 1: few minutes ago you ain't seen nothing yet. The worst

818
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Speaker 1: attacks for coming in the next few days. What is

819
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Speaker 1: the hold on power that the Iranian regime has right now?

820
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Speaker 19: Compared to Friday, it has severely been weekend, There's no

821
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Speaker 19: question about it. Of course, the key element of all

822
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Speaker 19: of this basically the glue that held the system to

823
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 19: together with Hamedy and of course with him out of

824
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Speaker 19: the picture, I think the regime will scramble to put

825
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Speaker 19: things together again. They have, of course formed a three

826
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Speaker 19: man council that will determine who the future supreme leader is,

827
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Speaker 19: but that's not gonna do them much good. This regime

828
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 19: is on its last legs, and you see why it

829
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Speaker 19: is doing what he's doing in terms of sending missiles

830
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Speaker 19: all over the region. It is basically grasping at the straws,

831
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Speaker 19: but that will not help it from going down. So

832
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 19: from what we hear, of course, the security forces are disrated,

833
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 19: with some unconfirmed reports that some members of the IRGC

834
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 19: were fleeing through the border of Pakistan or saw some

835
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Speaker 19: video clips of them holding the passport in civilian clothes going,

836
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Speaker 19: and of course the command and control has suffered heavily,

837
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Speaker 19: although of course the regime has brought his plain clothes

838
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Speaker 19: officers to the streets waving the Iranian regime flag, basically

839
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 19: intimidating the people and to try to prevent them from

840
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 19: coming out. But naturally, with the bombing that is going on,

841
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 19: of course the Iranian people are very careful so that

842
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Speaker 19: they're not put in harm's way, and that's what Missus

843
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Speaker 19: Rajab interstatement instructed them to do.

844
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Speaker 6: Ali.

845
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Speaker 5: I think so many Americans they see the human rights

846
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Speaker 5: abuses and the tyranny that that regime inflicted on the

847
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Speaker 5: people of Iran, and they then they see these images

848
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Speaker 5: on some new services showing allegedly Iranians who are mourning

849
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Speaker 5: the death of Khamani, the death, you know, the following

850
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Speaker 5: of the regime. Possibly, who are these people who are

851
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 5: supposedly doing that?

852
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Speaker 6: Are they? Are they family of the regime?

853
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Speaker 19: Well, you know, one very interesting story that we have

854
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 19: received from Iran is that the regime has told the

855
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Speaker 19: families whose loved ones had been slaughtered by the regime

856
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 19: that if they want the bodies of the children back,

857
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Speaker 19: they must come and take part in these processions. You

858
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 19: can see how inhuman that is. But be that as

859
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Speaker 19: it may. The people that you see the streets, these

860
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,719
Speaker 19: are people who have been in the service of this

861
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Speaker 19: regime for so many years, and of course the regime

862
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Speaker 19: have paid them handsome salaries to keep them do what

863
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Speaker 19: they have been doing in all these years. But they

864
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Speaker 19: are not part of the Iranian people. You know, I

865
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Speaker 19: run in the country of ninety three million, and if

866
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Speaker 19: elections in Iran are any indication, during the last presidential election,

867
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Speaker 19: ninety two percent of all eligible voters stayed away. So

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Speaker 19: you're talking about a very small minority, and the regime

869
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 19: brings them to the streets to project power. But even

870
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Speaker 19: they are demoralized now because how many is no longer there,

871
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Speaker 19: some of the key leaders are no longer there, some

872
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Speaker 19: of the commanders of the iogist is no longer there. So,

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Speaker 19: at least in the lower echelance of the security forces

874
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 19: suppressing forces, they are beginning to have second thought as

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Speaker 19: to whether they want to tie their faith with the

876
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 19: fate of this regime which is fast moving toward That

877
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 19: has been up history. So people should not take these

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Speaker 19: pictures serious. Remember that Nicolas chow Shesco had a million

879
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:22,879
Speaker 19: people in the streets of Romania and then the next

880
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Speaker 19: day he was gone. And even the Shaw's regime, I

881
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Speaker 19: remember at the height of the Iranian revolution, like there

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Speaker 19: was a rally in the northwestern city of Tabreeze, like

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Speaker 19: about one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand people showed up,

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Speaker 19: and the Shaw said, see, these are my supporters. But

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Speaker 19: we all know what happened to him when he was

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Speaker 19: thrown out of the country and of course died in exile.

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Speaker 19: So the real picture is entirely different. Naturally, with the

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Speaker 19: announcement by the NCRA of the formation of the provisional

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Speaker 19: government based upon Missus Rejavi's ten point plan and basically,

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Speaker 19: you see what the roadmap will be when this regime

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Speaker 19: will be overthrown and when the Iranian people will take

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Speaker 19: the reigns of power. There will be three elections within

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Speaker 19: six months of the regime's overthrow, at which point a

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Speaker 19: legislative Constituent Assembly will be elected and that assembly will

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Speaker 19: take over the effairs of the country. The provisional government

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Speaker 19: will step aside and they will draft a new constitution

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Speaker 19: and naturally that will be put to vote, and Iranians

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Speaker 19: will elect their president and the Prime minister, whatever form

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Speaker 19: of government might be. But of course the key point

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Speaker 19: in that is that it will be a republican form

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Speaker 19: of government. No theocracy and no monarchy. These are relics

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Speaker 19: of the past, and I think Iranians have a very

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Speaker 19: very good memory of what the Parlami dynasty did to

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Speaker 19: Iran Rezasha and of course Mohammad Asasha, and so they

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Speaker 19: have absolute no appetite to replace the crown. I'm sorry

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Speaker 19: to replace the turbine with a crown. And that was

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Speaker 19: evident in the chance in January, where people said, dees

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Speaker 19: to the dictator, whether the show or the Supreme leader.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, doctor Ali Safava, you have fought so long for this,

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Speaker 5: and we've had so many conversations. We knew it would

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Speaker 5: we knew that it had the best chance under President Trump.

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Speaker 5: So I'm so glad that we were talking about this.

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Speaker 5: Thanks so much for being with us tonight.

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Speaker 19: Thank you very much, and thank you for giving me

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Speaker 19: the opportunity not only this time, but in all these years.

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Speaker 19: It's great to have friends like you.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, we love having you on all right, everybody. Coming

918
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Speaker 5: up next as the conflict with the Iranian regime persis

919
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Speaker 5: the discussion. We'll focus on the impact of war on

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Speaker 5: US soldiers and what's being done to support our veterans.

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Speaker 5: More on that after the break. Welcome back everybody. Whether

922
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Speaker 5: it is limited engagement or conflict or full blown war,

923
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Speaker 5: the toll of that falls squarely on the shoulders of

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Speaker 5: the men and women who serve this country and put

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Speaker 5: their lives on the line. So naturally that is a

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Speaker 5: part of this conversation about Iran as well. So joining

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Speaker 5: us now to discuss this is CEO and founder of

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Speaker 5: Level Government Services and retired United States Marine Corps Major

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Speaker 5: Chris Level. Chris, thanks so much for being back with us.

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Speaker 18: Thanks, Amanda, great to be on again with you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we love having you, and I have to ask you.

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Speaker 5: You know, Americans are still fatigued from OE F and

933
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Speaker 5: O IF so they see what's happening in Iran and.

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Speaker 6: They're a little bit leery of it.

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Speaker 5: Talk to us about the impact in the veterans community.

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Speaker 18: Sure, you know, you know, obviously we've gotten the terrible

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Speaker 18: news that six service members have passed, and I think

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Speaker 18: we have over eighteen last count that are injured in

939
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Speaker 18: a kind of a counterattack after our initial salvo into Iran.

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Speaker 18: But you know, these six family members, they're going to

941
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Speaker 18: get you know, their family members back home, whether their

942
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Speaker 18: parents or their spouses. UH, they're gonna get knocks on

943
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Speaker 18: the door, right, and you know, the casualty assistant officers

944
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Speaker 18: are are going to be UH in for a an

945
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Speaker 18: emotional roller coaster, right. They're gonna have to tell them

946
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Speaker 18: that their their spouse or their their child has passed.

947
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Speaker 18: And what a lot of people don't realize is that

948
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Speaker 18: the military UH is committed to these families, regardless of

949
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Speaker 18: the branch and service. They're committed to these families long term.

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Speaker 18: A lot of these casualty assistance officers still stay in

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Speaker 18: touch with these family members.

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Speaker 8: UH.

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Speaker 18: That one time they had to step onto the porch

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Speaker 18: and knock and give the terrible news. But for other

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Speaker 18: service members, you know that are that are watching the news,

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Speaker 18: and for the family members that have lost you know,

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Speaker 18: service members uh in conflict, it brings up a lot

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Speaker 18: of memories. They come back, they're vivid and are you know, heartfelt.

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Speaker 18: You know, thoughts and prayers go out to these families

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Speaker 18: as they're they're just in the days really uh, And

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Speaker 18: so a lot of people uh don't realize that, you know,

962
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Speaker 18: there's a lot of things that have to happen once uh,

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Speaker 18: you know, a loved one's past, a service member. You know,

964
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Speaker 18: there's uh, you know, there's the funeral planning, there's logistics.

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Speaker 2: People don't realize that.

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Speaker 18: You know, some of these people, uh, some of these

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Speaker 18: spouses have young children and so uh, you know, the

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Speaker 18: military member's spouse has to deal with the shock of

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Speaker 18: uh and the just kind of they're in a daze

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Speaker 18: over the news and and they've got young children, they

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Speaker 18: may have pets, and so you know, the casually assistant

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Speaker 18: officers are going to kind of be wary of their needs, uh,

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Speaker 18: you know, even just basic getting meals. And so you know,

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Speaker 18: I think it's important to, uh, you know, come around

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Speaker 18: these families, be physically present for them. A lot of

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Speaker 18: people ask me, they're like, what do you do when

977
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Speaker 18: a you know, what do you say to a you know,

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Speaker 18: a gold Star family when they've lost someone?

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Speaker 2: What do you say?

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Speaker 18: And I always respond is, well, just be physically present,

981
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Speaker 18: sit with them, a grieve with them, listen more than

982
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Speaker 18: you talk, and acknowledge their grief. And then also really

983
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Speaker 18: be you know, be cognizant and pay attention to the

984
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Speaker 18: little things of daily life. They may get missed while

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Speaker 18: they're dealing with this tragic loss, Like, yeah, they may

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Speaker 18: need a meal, right if you're if you're in the community,

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Speaker 18: and you can pass a meal. And then also think about,

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Speaker 18: you know, the gold Star families who have lost loved

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Speaker 18: ones in the past. This brings up a lot of

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Speaker 18: vivid memories for them, so it's okay to check in

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Speaker 18: on them too. I remember, uh, you know, Lance Corporal

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Speaker 18: Jason Fry passed in October sixth of two thousand and five.

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Speaker 18: He was from Landisburg, Pennsylvania, and I remember, you know,

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Speaker 18: I wasn't a casually assistance officer, but I helped his

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Speaker 18: mother and father with a memorial, Gary and Connie.

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Speaker 6: Great times, that's all they need. I just mean, I'm

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Speaker 6: so sorry.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, running up against the end of the show. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: thank you so much for being with us tonight, Chris

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Speaker 5: lovel all right, everybody that's going to do it for

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Speaker 5: us tonight, but we'll be back here tomorrow Night six

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Speaker 5: Jamies