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Speaker 1: Good Friday morning. So nice to have you with us

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Speaker 1: on the forty seven Morning Update. And here are the

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Speaker 1: the DoD chief Pete Headseth, He's coming out and having

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Speaker 4: Story number one.

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Speaker 1: In a scathing report, the CIA director John Radcliffe ripping

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Speaker 2: You know what that is. It means your entire premis

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Speaker 5: And yet still this report acknowledges it's likely severe damage. Again,

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Speaker 2: On his professional military experience. But here's what other folks

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Speaker 5: Israeli Atomic Energy Commission. The devastating US strikes on Fourdeaux

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Speaker 2: How about this one? This is a new one from

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Speaker 5: Here's the head of the UN Atomic Energy Agency this morning,

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Speaker 5: Rafael Grossi, US and Israeli strikes caused enormous damage to

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Speaker 5: I can say here that the assessment is that we've

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Speaker 2: It back by years. I repeat years.

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Speaker 5: The Iranian foreign minister, the spokesman, our nuclear instrations have

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Speaker 2: That's for sure. I'm sure that's an understatement.

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Speaker 5: John Radcliffe, the director of the CIA, putting out a

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Speaker 2: This includes new intelligence from.

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Speaker 5: A historically reliable very different than preliminary assessment with low confidence.

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Speaker 5: US attacks have effectively destroyed un Iran's centrifuge enrichment program

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Speaker 1: Isn't it nice to know that President Donald Trump has

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Speaker 4: Now story number two, there is a new.

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Speaker 1: Classified report that is suggesting that Iran's nuclear program still intact,

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Speaker 1: some of them referred to the DIA as the discount

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Speaker 1: intelligence agency. It's basically messaging by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard,

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Speaker 1: messaging by Tehran. That is what a former intelligence officer

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Speaker 1: East for nearly thirty years said. In fact, CNN actually

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Speaker 1: had to report on this, and here's what it sounded

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Speaker 1: like when a former Biden official had this to say

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Speaker 1: about Iran's nuclear program.

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Speaker 6: Usteine, a longtime diplomat who served as President Biden's senior

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Speaker 6: advisor for Energy and Investment. And I think one question

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Speaker 6: that regular people will have, you know, listening to what

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Speaker 6: came out of that briefing today on Capitol Hill from

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Speaker 6: Republicans from Democrats, is what should they take away when

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Speaker 6: there is such a divide between the politicians over what

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Speaker 6: is the fate of Iran's nuclear capacity and where that

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Speaker 6: stands tonight? What do you think?

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Speaker 7: Well, first, Caitlin, it's good to be with you. Look,

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Speaker 7: I think the most important thing is to separate out

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Speaker 7: what's politics and what is happening on the ground over

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Speaker 7: the last year a year and a quarter. Last April,

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Speaker 7: Iran launched a missile attack against Israel, which was one

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Speaker 7: hundred ballistic missiles company by two hundred or so UAVs.

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Speaker 7: The United States military coordinated a response and defeated that attack.

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Speaker 7: But that was really the first time that Iran and

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Speaker 7: used its own territory to attack Israel. They did it

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Speaker 7: again in October and again in the United States supported

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Speaker 7: Israel and with regional partners as well as European countries

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Speaker 7: to defeat it. And now since then, Iran has lost

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Speaker 7: most of its deterrence power. They had three things going

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Speaker 7: for them. They had proxies, meaning terrorist organizations in Lebanon,

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Speaker 7: in Syria and Iraq and Yemen that supported them. The

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Speaker 7: second was the missiles, and the third was the thread

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Speaker 7: of a nuclear weaponization. Of their nuclear capabilities, most of

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Speaker 7: their proxies are either weakened to the point they can't

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Speaker 7: respond or are choosing now to distance themselves from Iran.

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Speaker 7: Their missile capability has been proven to be less effective

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Speaker 7: because of the United States ability to defend the region,

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Speaker 7: and now their nuclear capability is likely at least set back.

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Speaker 7: Now the whole idea of obliterated or destroyed. These are

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Speaker 7: political terms that are not really relevant, and I would

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Speaker 7: urge Americans not to really pay attention to those words.

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Speaker 7: What we do know, we know that as a result

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Speaker 7: of the both the Israeli the American strikes, the nuclear

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Speaker 7: program was set back significantly. How much we don't really know.

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Speaker 7: Most Israeli military analysts and generals that I've spoken to

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Speaker 7: over the last twenty four to forty eight hours, I

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Speaker 7: think this has gone from a six months breakout to

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Speaker 7: year delay in their program. But here's the thing. They

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Speaker 7: have also lost other capabilities they've lost their command of control,

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Speaker 7: they've lost military leaders, they've lost scientists, and they lost

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Speaker 7: their conversion so they're clearly weakened. And lastly, Israel has

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Speaker 7: proven that they have an intelligence givability inside Iran that

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Speaker 7: if they tried to reconstitute will we the United States, Israel,

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Speaker 7: other European allies will know about it.

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Speaker 1: Yet again, more proof of the propaganda coming from the

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Speaker 1: media trying to convince you that somehow one of the

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Speaker 1: most successful missions in modern military history was a failure,

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Speaker 1: all because Donald Trump is the one that's said to

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Speaker 1: do it.

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