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Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Wednesday, March fourth, and we

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Speaker 1: just listened to the first White House press briefing since

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Speaker 1: was asked, what was the imminent threat from Iran? And

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Speaker 1: with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't the question, Robes. It was the answer that

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Speaker 1: has everybody already buzzing. And the answer is.

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Speaker 2: The President just felt it, he had a feeling.

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Speaker 1: We're not joking, folks, and we're gonna let you hear

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Speaker 1: it yourself and make your own judgments. But Robes, that

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Speaker 1: as a slip. She said it several times.

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Speaker 2: She actually doubled down and slightly qualified it. But her

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Speaker 2: first address, like her first way of phrasing it, was

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Speaker 2: that the President had a good feeling that the Iranian

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Speaker 2: regime was going to strike.

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Speaker 1: US assets now on its own. How does that sound?

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Speaker 2: It sounds bad, It sounds terrible. You don't want anyone,

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Speaker 2: especially when it comes to making a decision about war,

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Speaker 2: to make a decision based on a feeling. Now, she

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Speaker 2: based on fact, and she kept saying that over and

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Speaker 2: over again. It is one of those moments where you're

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Speaker 2: if you've ever been to therapy, you always hear your

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Speaker 2: therapists tell you feelings are not facts, and so it's

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Speaker 2: interesting she didn't say anything about facts. Initially, she just

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Speaker 1: It would want to try to be very fair here, Robes.

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Speaker 1: But the problem with this, folks, is that after the

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Speaker 1: war started, we heard from the President, then the President,

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Speaker 1: then Hegseeth, then Secretary of Rubio in that came out

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Speaker 1: and made very big statements press conferences. The answers we

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Speaker 1: in this administration didn't necessarily go together. Robes, especially with

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Speaker 1: Rubio correct.

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Speaker 2: And it's been described as shifting explanations as to why

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Speaker 2: though the American people, and frankly members of the media

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Speaker 2: with the explanation. It hasn't been consistent, it has shifted,

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Speaker 2: and none of it makes a tremendous amount of intellectual sense.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so if we even stopped sharp short of the

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Speaker 1: intellectual part robes, we just take it on what they

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Speaker 1: have said. It has not been consistent and hot, I

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Speaker 1: on Rubio. That was the clearest one because we've been

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Speaker 1: hearing from Hegseth and the President over the weekend, and

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Speaker 1: then we hear from him with this, Oh yeah, we

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Speaker 1: did it because Israel was going to attack, That's what

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Speaker 2: It was jaw dropping when we heard it yesterday. We

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Speaker 2: because it was such a departure from what we had

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Speaker 2: I hate to use the word satisfying, but it wasn't

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Speaker 2: satisfying to talk about all of the egregious behavior going

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Speaker 2: back forty seven years ago, talking about hostages, talking about

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Speaker 2: things I remember from my childhood as a reason to

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Speaker 2: justify going to war now and just that now we

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Speaker 1: If he would just say, yeah, I am the president,

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Speaker 1: and I'm doing it, we would go woof okay, But Robes,

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Speaker 1: that's not just what they did. They came out and

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Speaker 1: said this reason, this reason, this reason, and this reason.

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Speaker 1: All of those initial reasons Robes had to do with us,

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Speaker 1: avenging stuff that happened nearly fifty years ago. He just

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Speaker 1: why we had to attack. It then started evolving Robes

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Speaker 1: from Carolyn Levitt in a press room that was as

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Speaker 1: pack as you're going to get it. Getting asked questions

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Speaker 1: from who they would theme adversarial, would they not?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, And she started off I before she started

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Speaker 2: talking about President Trump's good feeling, she made a point

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Speaker 2: questions from the mainstream media. And she said, there has

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Speaker 2: been a lot of misreporting and intellectual dishonesty from the

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Speaker 2: American media on why President Trump decided to launch this operation.

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Speaker 2: So there was even an acknowledgment that there was confusion.

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Speaker 2: I would say in the nicest way, but she was

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Speaker 2: But the point being the administration was saying different things

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Speaker 1: That's not being critical, that's just we are hearing what

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Speaker 1: we were hearing. It's okay, the message hasn't been consistent.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna let you hear. Now what Carolyn Levitt said,

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Speaker 1: do you remember who the reporter, what outlet? I don't

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Speaker 1: remember what outlet he was from, but it was a

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Speaker 1: of that question, Robes was we've been hearing different things

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Speaker 1: but we haven't gotten clarity exactly what was that imminent

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Speaker 1: to act? Now? That's a fair question, yes.

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Speaker 2: And I believe it came from a reporter from the Independent.

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Speaker 2: At least that's what the Independent is saying that our

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Speaker 2: reporter pressed Carolyn Levitt on her explanation of these varying

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Speaker 1: Look, we there have been some reporters in that room

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Speaker 1: that I've taken issue with before and can get a

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Speaker 1: about it. He was not that. He asked a straight

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Speaker 1: us further clarity about what the imminent threat was that

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Speaker 1: say we have to act now or else? And this

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Speaker 1: was her answer. It's about two and a half three

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Speaker 1: Take a listen to Carolyn.

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Speaker 3: Leven completely reject the premise of your question, you have

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Speaker 3: had the President of the United States, the Secretary of War,

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Speaker 3: led the President to make the decision to launch Operation

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Speaker 3: Epic Fury. And President Trump does not make these decisions

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Speaker 3: in a vacuum. This decision to launch this operation was

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Speaker 3: based on a cumulative effect of various direct threats that

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Speaker 3: the President's feeling based on fact that Iran does pose

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Speaker 3: an imminent indirect threat to the United States of America,

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Speaker 3: based on the fact that they are the world's leading

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Speaker 3: this is the President found that through these extensive, exhaustive

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Speaker 3: to be just another president on a very long list

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Speaker 3: launch Operation Epic Fury based on all of those reasons.

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Speaker 3: And I would like the media to actually report on

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Speaker 3: the other person. No, again, these decisions are not made

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Speaker 3: in a vacuum. They are made by the president's feeling

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Speaker 3: and that has obviously been proven to be the right

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Speaker 2: One at that.

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Speaker 1: What does feeling based on fact actually mean? And I

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to be fair to everybody. Rogue, but we

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Speaker 1: are just taking what we're being told. And she said

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Speaker 1: She didn't have to put it that way. He had

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Speaker 1: a feeling, you're looking at facts. Why didn't she just say, well,

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Speaker 1: it pointed all to this happening. She literally is saying

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Speaker 2: It is an odd choice of words, not only and look,

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Speaker 2: I can understand why she might have said it once,

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Speaker 2: refusal to sit down and negotiate in good faith. A

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Speaker 1: She used that, So should we leave room for her

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't a hard thing to pick up on

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Speaker 1: the idea what they are people are dying based on

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Speaker 1: the whims of one man's feelings. Are is the conversation

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Speaker 1: being had? We are not suggesting that, but Rhodes, is

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Speaker 1: it possible. I'm trying to leave room for just that

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Speaker 1: being a clunky way of describing it. But others will say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this goes in line for them. Now start a war,

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Speaker 1: then figure out a way to justify it. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The thing is, I absolutely could give space for that.

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Speaker 2: But it's just interesting. She kept doubling down on the word,

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Speaker 2: feeling like she didn't let it go. She kept reusing

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Speaker 1: So it sounds like it was strategic, it was planned.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like President Trump gave her that phrase, and

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Speaker 2: I think he wanted maybe he I can't get inside

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Speaker 2: his hands, nobody can't.

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Speaker 1: We should speculate about thought.

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Speaker 2: It did seem deliberate, I guess, is my point. It

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Speaker 2: she chose when she could have chosen ten others. That

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Speaker 1: to the White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levity give the

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Speaker 2: When I hear you say war with Iran, I actually

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Speaker 2: he said Iran, because my brain immediately goes to a rock.

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Speaker 2: many times for so long that in my brain to

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Speaker 1: We literally said that on air for years in cable

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Speaker 1: I think they have been pretty consistent. At least they

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Speaker 2: And look when we hear from the president himself saying

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Speaker 2: That was the question asked of Carolyn Love is the

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Speaker 1: You achieve everything on your list, but the regime is

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Speaker 2: And you can't look. I can't imagine, just from a

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Speaker 2: to not have a plan about what happens after you

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Speaker 1: But do know, folks, right now, the fighting all of

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Speaker 1: we will hop back on anytime news dictates, but we

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Speaker 1: always appreciate you spending some time with us on TJ.

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Speaker 1: Holmes along time. My dear Amy Robach, we will talk

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Speaker 1: to y'all soon