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Speaker 2: Do you intend to lift sanctions on Iradian oil?

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Speaker 6: Plus, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, throws down

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Speaker 4: Story number one.

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Speaker 6: Democrats are pushing a new narrative right now that Iran

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Speaker 6: was not an imminent threat to the United States of America. Therefore,

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Speaker 6: Donald Trump jumped the gun and should not have acted

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Speaker 6: to go after the regime. Well after the strikes and

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Speaker 6: the broader military operations have been a massive success, Democrats

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Speaker 6: this narrative that this was a war of choice, arguing

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Speaker 6: there's no credible intelligence to justify the actions. Some lawmakers,

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Speaker 7: Having been briefed now not once, but twice, there is

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Speaker 7: zero evidence of that. In fact, many members of the

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Speaker 6: Now Democrats are using the death of those soldiers to

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Speaker 4: And here's what she had to say about.

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Speaker 6: The only person that opinion matters really on what an

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Speaker 8: Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there

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Speaker 2: The intelligence community assessed that Iran maintained the intention to

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Speaker 8: Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there

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Speaker 2: Yes? Or no, Senator, the only person who can determine

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Speaker 8: This is the Worldwide this is the Worldwide Threats Hearing

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Speaker 8: community's assessment is that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated,

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Speaker 2: Yes or no, it is not the intelligence community's responsibility

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Speaker 8: Here's the problem is? It is precisely it is precisely

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Speaker 6: You can hear there Democrats honing in and now they've

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Speaker 9: Sources are saying that Joe Kent, the former director of

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Speaker 6: Defensive officials have said this operations about finishing a fight

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Speaker 4: Let's be honest about what's happening here.

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Speaker 6: Democrats are debating process and President Trump is acting on prevention.

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Speaker 6: They're arguing about whether the threat was imminent enough. The

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Speaker 4: In fact, it's really simple. If you threaten Americans, if you.

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Speaker 6: And that's exactly what this administration believes it has done

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Speaker 4: How is that not an imminent threat?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great question. I'm not sure what Joe

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Speaker 1: I've seen. Look, I'm on the Gang of Eight. We

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Speaker 1: and the Commander in chief did exactly the right thing.

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Speaker 3: All right, And Speaker Johnson, I think you would confirm

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Speaker 4: That that's right. We appreciate You're exactly right.

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Speaker 1: And he's restoring peace through strength and in America's better

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Speaker 4: Well, okay, peace through strength.

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Speaker 3: He learned the lesson of the last century, where over

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Speaker 4: Much Speaker Johnson is absolutely right.

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Speaker 6: Joe Kent, Well, he's not reading the same intel that

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Speaker 6: So yeah, he's a useful idiot to our enemies and

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Speaker 4: But the reality is the majority of.

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