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Trump talks Strait to Iran “NO DEAL, NO CASH” · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump holding a cabinet meeting. Now, let me
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Speaker 1: just say, as I was watching the press aspect of
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Speaker 1: this cabinet meeting, it was really impressive to see the
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Speaker 1: President talk about so many different issues. Whether it was
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Speaker 1: the election issues that was something he talked about. He
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Speaker 1: also talked about the economy, gas prices, but then he
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Speaker 1: really focused in on Iran. Now, to be clear, there
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Speaker 1: is a massive problem in Iran's economy right now. Even
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Speaker 1: before the cabinet meeting was taking place, Fox News had
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Speaker 1: this report about what's happening in Tehran.
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Speaker 2: Haris good morning. It should be an eventful cabinet meeting.
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Speaker 3: Those final details are still being discussed for a possible
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Speaker 3: agreement between the United States and Iran, but regional tension
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Speaker 3: has certainly decreased. The hope here is for a deal
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Speaker 3: that ultimately would avert a return to war, but also
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Speaker 3: address Iran's nuclear program and opened the straight upor Mouz.
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Speaker 3: Regional officials say that implementation of an agreement is he
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Speaker 3: more important than what is written in a possible deal.
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Speaker 4: I think there's strong alignment and agreement on what a
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Speaker 4: preliminary draft should look like. I think that like anything
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Speaker 4: with something like this, and it's going to take a
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Speaker 4: couple of days to settle on even down to the
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Speaker 4: disagreements over a word sentence. So we'll have to work
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Speaker 4: through that. There's going to be a deal. We're going
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Speaker 4: to have to work through that. But this is you know,
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Speaker 4: it's either going to be a good deal or there
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Speaker 4: isn't going to be.
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Speaker 3: One insider on, the Internet is starting to be restored
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Speaker 3: after eighty eight days offline. This does follow a decree
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Speaker 3: announced by Iranian President Mustu Pozeskian to restore connectivity for
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Speaker 3: more than ninety million residents of the Islamic Republic.
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Speaker 1: Now, the reason why they're turning back the lights on
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Speaker 1: the internet on is because they're filling the pressure clearly
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Speaker 1: from the President of the United States of America, and
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Speaker 1: Iran's economy is collapsing and President Donald Trump is now
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Speaker 1: turning up the pressure even more than before. Iran's economy
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Speaker 1: is effectively on death row. How I was described by
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Speaker 1: one expert, the regime is not only running out of options,
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Speaker 1: but oil production, they say, is plunging to dangerously low levels.
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Speaker 1: Experts say that this collapse and then inflation is crushing
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Speaker 1: ordinary Iranians. They also said, the economic depression is giving
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump enormous leverage heading into the high stakes negotiations.
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Speaker 1: Tehran knows it cannot survive prolonged economic isolation, and Trump
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Speaker 1: knows it too, and that's why the cabinet meeting mattered
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Speaker 1: so much. President Trump made it very clear at the
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Speaker 1: meeting that America will not allow Ran or anyone else
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Speaker 1: to threaten control of the Strait of Hormuz, one of
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Speaker 1: the most strategically important waterways on Earth, and when asked
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Speaker 1: about reports that Oman could partner with Iran to oversea
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Speaker 1: shipping traffic in the region, Trump issued a warning that
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Speaker 1: stunned the room. The President said this, take a listen.
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Speaker 5: The street's going to be open to everybody. It's international waters.
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Speaker 5: Nobody's going to control it. We're gonna watch over it.
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Speaker 5: We'll watch over it, but nobody's going to control it.
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Speaker 5: That's part of the negotiation that we have. They would
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Speaker 5: like to control it. Nobody's going to control it's international waters.
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Speaker 5: And Oman will behave just like everybody else. So we'll
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Speaker 5: have to blow them up. They understand that they'll be fine.
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Speaker 2: We'll have to blow them up.
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Speaker 1: The President making it crystal clear, not only will America
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Speaker 1: not allow RAN, but anyone else who has the idea
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Speaker 1: that you're going to threaten the control of the Strait
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Speaker 1: of Hormuz.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no way, not gonna happen. Oman.
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Speaker 1: They even said could partner with the RAN to oversee
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Speaker 1: shipping traffic in the region. Is how one international report
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Speaker 1: put it. And that's why Trump issued that warning, shocking
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Speaker 1: he's rapidly losing patients with Tehran, saying the United States
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Speaker 1: is not satisfied yet with the negotiations and made it
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Speaker 1: clear there will be no sanction relief, no money, nothing
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Speaker 1: unless Iran gives into American demands. Here's more, the President
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Speaker 1: talking exactly about that the.
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Speaker 6: Sanctions on Iran to allow Iran to sell its crew
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Speaker 6: to market.
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Speaker 5: No, we're not talking about any easing of sanctions, giving money,
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Speaker 5: No sanctions, no money, no nothing.
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Speaker 7: We have control of money that they claim is Theirs
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Speaker 7: will keep control of.
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Speaker 5: That money, and when they behave properly and when they
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Speaker 5: do what's right, we'll let them have their money. But
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Speaker 5: right now we're not doing that, and it's one thing
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Speaker 5: is not contingent on the other.
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Speaker 1: The President also accused the Iran of trying to drag
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Speaker 1: negotiations out until after the mid terms, while insisting the
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Speaker 1: United States holds all the leverage because Iran's economy is
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Speaker 1: collapsing in real time. Trump also warned that if Tehran
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Speaker 1: refuses to cooperate military action remains firmly on the table.
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Speaker 7: Their economy is in free fall.
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Speaker 5: They have two hundred and fifty percent inflation, their money
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Speaker 5: has no value, and their whole economic system is broken down.
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Speaker 5: They thought they were going to outweait me. You know,
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Speaker 5: we'll outweight him. He's got the midterms. I don't care
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Speaker 5: about the midterms. Look what happened last night. That was
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Speaker 5: the prelude to the midterms. People understand that they know
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Speaker 5: that very simple. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I'm
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Speaker 5: doing that for the world. I'm not doing it just
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Speaker 5: for us now.
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Speaker 1: The President had a very interesting way of putting what
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Speaker 1: he just said, making it abundantly clear that we are
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Speaker 1: not going to be pushed around by Iran. He also
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Speaker 1: talked about the midterms, saying I've got to keep us
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Speaker 1: safe the present, revealing he's good putting America first, and Iran,
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Speaker 1: as he described it, must agree to what we are demanding.
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Speaker 5: At it with Iran, are in is very much intent.
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Speaker 5: They want very much to make a deal. So far,
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Speaker 5: they haven't gotten that we're not satisfied with it, but
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Speaker 5: that we will be.
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Speaker 7: We will be either that or we'll have to just finish.
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Speaker 1: The job, Donald Trump saying over and over again, we
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Speaker 1: will finish the job if we have to. There will
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Speaker 1: be no sanctioned relief, no release funds, no cash payments.
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Speaker 1: And so Donald Trump then wrapped it all up by
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Speaker 1: making it clear that Iran is either going to start
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Speaker 1: giving America what we are demanding or we will have
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Speaker 1: military consequences. Yet again, for those in charge, here's the
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Speaker 1: president on that.
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Speaker 7: Well, I think we're doing very well.
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Speaker 5: They are starting to give us the things that they
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Speaker 5: have to give us. And if they do, that's great.
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Speaker 5: And if they won't, then the men on my left
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Speaker 5: is going to finish them off.
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Speaker 2: Is there a high frame in your mind?
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Speaker 7: What is there a high frame in your mind?
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Speaker 4: For?
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Speaker 7: I mean, it happens quickly.
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Speaker 5: The problem is every time I mentioned in time frame,
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Speaker 5: for instance, I see, you know, we've been doing this
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Speaker 5: for a few months. Via had Latnam lasted nineteen years,
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Speaker 5: Korea lasted eight years, Afghanistan had lasted many years. There
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Speaker 5: were are many many years. And we're into it for
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Speaker 5: a few months. And I read about you people like you,
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Speaker 5: what's taken so long?
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Speaker 7: But we're in it.
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Speaker 5: You know, we lost between two wars, two big wars
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Speaker 5: Venezuela and Iran.
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Speaker 7: We lost thirteen souls.
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Speaker 5: Thirteen great people, met the parents, great people, and it's
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Speaker 5: a terrible thing.
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Speaker 7: But thirteen.
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Speaker 5: If you look at the war casualties and the deaths
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Speaker 5: and wars Vietnamino, that.
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Speaker 7: They lost hundreds of thousands of.
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Speaker 5: People and numbers of these wars. We're very cognizant that
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Speaker 5: we want to lose very few, we want very few
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Speaker 5: to be injured. We're very we're very careful. But war's war,
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Speaker 5: war's dangers. But we've lost thirteen, and so the Democrats
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Speaker 5: took an end putting into thirteen people that were lost,
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Speaker 5: and when you look at one, hundreds of thousands of
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Speaker 5: people that were lost in the Middle East, Iraq, all
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Speaker 5: the different awards we were in, we have done an
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Speaker 5: amazing year. With that being said, I hate to lose thirteen,
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Speaker 5: I hate to lose one. But we've been very we've
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Speaker 5: been very we've been very capable. I mean, when you
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Speaker 5: think of it, we took over Venezuela and one day
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Speaker 5: we have done a similar job.
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Speaker 7: But we said, well give them a little chance.
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Speaker 5: At the request of somebody that we greatly respect from Pakistan,
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Speaker 5: the field Marshall and the Prime Minister.
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Speaker 7: They had been great.
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Speaker 5: They asked us would we pause the war for a
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Speaker 5: little while because they'd like to think so we will
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Speaker 5: do that, but we had them beat.
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Speaker 7: There, you know no better.
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Speaker 5: Now we could close that out very quickly if we
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Speaker 5: can do it in a different way. That it'd be
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Speaker 5: good if we get everything we want. But we could
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Speaker 5: close that out very very quickly, and we may have to.
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Speaker 5: I don't think so, but we may have to.
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Speaker 1: So there's the present, laying it out the world and expectation,
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Speaker 1: basic expectations, and not just demands, but letting Iran know
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Speaker 1: there are certain things America will not negotiate on, especially
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Speaker 1: when they come to national security issues. President Donald Trump's
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Speaker 1: cabinet meeting was more than just routine. He gathered the
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Speaker 1: cabinet inside the White House, and he made it very
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Speaker 1: clear exactly what his administration intends to do, how it
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Speaker 1: intends to govern in the second term. Aggressive, unapologetic, and
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Speaker 1: with a clear message that America is back in charge now.
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Speaker 2: From Iran and.
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Speaker 1: National security to the economy, border security, an America's role
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Speaker 1: on the world stage. President Trump used the meeting to
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Speaker 1: lay out his administration's forecasts as the defining issues he's
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Speaker 1: facing and what the country is facing right now.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 1: The biggest part of the meeting clearly came down to Iran,
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Speaker 1: and it was obvious that Donald Trump was turned up
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Speaker 1: the heat on Iran, making it clear that he believes
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Speaker 1: Iran is in an extremely weak position right now economically,
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Speaker 1: and he also intends to use that weakness for major leverage.
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Speaker 1: Trump described Iran's economy as being on the brink of collapse,
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Speaker 1: pointing specifically to the falling oil production, declining exports, massive
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Speaker 1: inflation that has hit the country, and also growing instability
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Speaker 1: inside of the country's government. The president saying this that
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Speaker 1: Tehran is running out of time and also running out
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Speaker 1: of the money they need. He said that economic pressure
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Speaker 1: is exactly why the United States now has the upper
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Speaker 1: hand in negotiations. The President also made it clear that
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Speaker 1: he's not going to be bullied and if Iran thinks
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Speaker 1: they can wait him out because the midterms, well they're wrong.
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Speaker 5: And we have the strongest military anywhere in the world.
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Speaker 7: As you know, you saw what we did with.
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Speaker 5: Venezuela that worked out very quickly, and we we're doing
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Speaker 5: really equally as well. But again, people don't want to
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Speaker 5: write about it. With Iran is very much intent. They
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Speaker 5: want very much to make a deal. So far they
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Speaker 5: haven't gotten that. We're not satisfied with it, but now
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Speaker 5: we will be. We will be either that or will
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Speaker 5: have to just finish the job. But the Navy is gone,
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Speaker 5: as they've said a thousand times, the Navy is gone,
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Speaker 5: the Air Force is gone.
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Speaker 7: Everything's gone.
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Speaker 5: And they're negotiating on fumes. But we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 5: Maybe we have to go back and finish it. Maybe
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Speaker 5: we don't. Right now. I mean, you can speak to
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Speaker 5: Steve Whitcoff, Jared doing a good job.
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Speaker 7: But right now.
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Speaker 5: I think it looks like they want to just make
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Speaker 5: a deal.
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Speaker 7: They want to.
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Speaker 5: I don't think they have a choice. They're just going
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Speaker 5: back to the internet because they get a club. Or
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Speaker 5: their economy is.
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Speaker 7: In free fall.
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Speaker 5: They have two hundred and fifty percent inflation, The money
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Speaker 5: has no value. Their whole economic system is broken down.
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Speaker 5: They thought they were going to outwait me. You know,
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Speaker 5: we'll outweight him. He's got the midterms. I don't care
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Speaker 5: about the midterms. Look what happened last night. That was
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Speaker 5: the prelude of the midterms. People understand that they know
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Speaker 5: that very simple Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 7: I'm doing that for the world.
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Speaker 5: I'm not doing it just for us, And we've had
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Speaker 5: great support from other nations. By the way, we don't
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Speaker 5: need it at all, but we've had great support from
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Speaker 5: other nations. The problem is you always get the support
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Speaker 5: when you don't need it. When you need it, you
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Speaker 5: don't get the support.
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Speaker 1: Now, the President wasn't done with warnings. He also addressed
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Speaker 1: the growing tension surrounding the Strait of hor Moves. Now,
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Speaker 1: as you know, that's one of the most strategically important
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Speaker 1: shipping lanes in the world. Roughly a fifth of the
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Speaker 1: world's oil supply moves through that region, meaning any disruption
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Speaker 1: sends the global energy markets into chaos. And that is
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Speaker 1: where a moment that everyone is talking about right now,
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Speaker 1: how happen. President Trump was asked about reports involving Oman
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Speaker 1: and regional control over the shipping traffic. Donald Trump had
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Speaker 1: a very blunt response, No, the.
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Speaker 5: Strait's going to be open to everybody. It's it's international waters.
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Speaker 5: Nobody's going to control it. We're going to watch over it.
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Speaker 5: We'll watch over it, but nobody's going to control it.
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Speaker 5: This part of the negotiation that we have, they would
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Speaker 5: like to control it. Nobody's going to control it's international waters,
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Speaker 5: and Oman will behave just like everybody else.
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Speaker 7: So will have to blow them up. They understand that.
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Speaker 7: They'll be fine.
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Speaker 2: They understand it. They'll be fine.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 1: That comment immediately sent shockwaves through the diplomatic circles and
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Speaker 1: cable news networks and also the rest of the world.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 1: Trump also made it clear that he is growing very
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Speaker 1: frustrated with the RAN dragging out the negotiations. The President
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Speaker 1: says there will be no sanctions, relief, no money, no
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Speaker 1: nothing unless it RAN agrees to America demands.
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Speaker 7: The sanctions on or on to allow Eroon to sell its.
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Speaker 6: Crew to market.
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Speaker 5: No, we're not talking about any easing of sanctions, giving money,
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Speaker 5: No sanctions, no money, no nothing.
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Speaker 7: We have control of money that they claim is theirs.
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Speaker 5: Will keep control of that money, and when they behave
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Speaker 5: properly and when they do what's right, we'll let them
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Speaker 5: have their money.
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Speaker 7: But right now we're not doing that. And it's one
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Speaker 7: thing is not contingent on the other.
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Speaker 1: The President making it clear strength first, pressure first, and
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Speaker 1: absolutely no return to what he views as a failed
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Speaker 1: appeasement policy of past administrations. Now the President then moved
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Speaker 1: on to border security and immigration. Another major focus of
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Speaker 1: the cabinet meeting was just that. Trump praised his administration's
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Speaker 1: cracked down illegal immigration and argued that aggressive enforcement measures
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Speaker 1: are finally restoring order after what he described as years
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Speaker 1: of chaos. Officials discussed increased deportation operations, expanded attention capacity,
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Speaker 1: and then efforts to target cartel networks and human trafficking
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Speaker 1: organizations as well. The President again tied border security directly
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Speaker 1: to national security, arguing that weak enforcement policies allowed criminal
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Speaker 1: organizations to gain unprecedented power around the world and inside
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Speaker 1: the United States. Trump also emphasized what he says is
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Speaker 1: a major difference between his administration and the Democrats. He
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Speaker 1: says it's simply to terrents. According to Trump, the message
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Speaker 1: now being sent globally is simple. If you enter illegally
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Speaker 1: into the United States, you will be removed. Administration officials
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Speaker 1: also discuss cooperation between federal agencies and local law enforcement
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Speaker 1: as part of the broader anti cartel operations.
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Speaker 5: We took the most dangerous, unsay violent and open border
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Speaker 5: in the world anywhere in the world has no order
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Speaker 5: like the border we had and created the most secure
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Speaker 5: border in the history of our country. We had no
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Speaker 5: people twelve months now, No people reported in the last
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Speaker 5: twelve months came in illegally.
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Speaker 7: Zero illegal aliens admitted to the United States in the
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Speaker 7: last twelve months.
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Speaker 5: And that's those charts are made by you would say,
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Speaker 5: politically unfriendly people.
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Speaker 7: And the reason they don't come in.
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Speaker 5: Is because nobody comes up because they know that they're
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Speaker 5: going to be turned away and if they get in,
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Speaker 5: they're going to be moved out right away.
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Speaker 7: So it's been zero. You're the one that do you
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Speaker 7: do the reports.
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Speaker 5: I'm actually surprised by the number because I don't know
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Speaker 5: how it can be zero, but they say at zero
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Speaker 5: for the last twelve months and twenty twenty five, we
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Speaker 5: achieved the largest drop.
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Speaker 7: And the murder rate ever recorded.
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Speaker 5: So the murder rate was quite high, and we achieved
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Speaker 5: the largest drop in the murder rate ever recorded to
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Speaker 5: the lowest level one hundred and twenty five years this
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Speaker 5: year nineteen hundred. And that's despite the fact that many
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Speaker 5: people came in from prisons and from very rough countries,
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Speaker 5: and from mental institutions and from lots.
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Speaker 7: Of other places.
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Speaker 5: Drug dealers as they came in illegally during the Biden administration.
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Speaker 5: We've gotten many of them out, but we still have
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Speaker 5: some that we're looking for. Quite a few that were
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Speaker 5: still looking for. But we've gotten over eleven eight hundred
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Speaker 5: and eighty eight murders we're allowed into a country. We've
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Speaker 5: gotten a lot of them out. We've gotten some we
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Speaker 5: put them in jail. We don't even trust the country
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Speaker 5: to send them because come back in.
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Speaker 7: Maybe we put them in jail.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 1: The President was clearly making this a midterm issue, comparing
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Speaker 1: and contrasting the Biden Myorchis DHS that released almost every
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Speaker 1: migrant encounter that would be every legal immigrant encountered into
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Speaker 1: the United States of America. Those days are now over
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Speaker 1: thanks to President Donald Trump. The President then moved on
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Speaker 1: to the Economy and Energy, using the Cabinet meeting to
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Speaker 1: argue that as economic agendas producing seing momentum despite the
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Speaker 1: global oil issue, Trump repeatedly turned to energy dominance as
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Speaker 1: a central theme, arguing that America must increase domestic production
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Speaker 1: while adversaries like Iran continue weakening economically. Cabinet officials discussed inflation, manufacturing, investment, supply,
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Speaker 1: chain issues and the energy pricing as it is going up.
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Speaker 1: Trump argued that America's economic strength comes from producing more
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Speaker 1: at home and reducing dependence on hostile for nations. He
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Speaker 1: also contrasted his administration's policies with what he called radical
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Speaker 1: climate extremism, saying energy restrictions weakened national security and empower
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Speaker 1: our adversaries overseas. The administration framed domestic oil and gas
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Speaker 1: production not only is an economic issue, but as a
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Speaker 1: geopolitical weapon against countries like Iran, Russia and China found
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Speaker 1: at home.
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Speaker 7: So again, it's an amazing transformation.
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Speaker 6: Bottom line is the center of geopolitics around energy has
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Speaker 6: moved from other parts of the world to the Western hemisphere.
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Speaker 7: In the last five months. You turned Venezuela from.
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Speaker 6: A sanctioned adversary into a strategic ally and forty five
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Speaker 6: minutes never happened in history before. And what's going on
20:18
Speaker 6: in Alaska when I was there last week in Alaska
20:21
Speaker 6: in the Nurslop, eighty thousand barrels a.
20:23
Speaker 7: Day coming online at PICCA. That wouldn't have happened with you.
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Speaker 6: It's up by Willow on the Nurslope that's going into
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Speaker 6: the into the Alaska pipeline twenty percent increase just off
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Speaker 6: that one field, so amazing work. It's energy is of
20:37
Speaker 6: high tech industry and those guys that are crushing it
20:39
Speaker 6: and they're loving the fact that they can provide affordable, reliable,
20:43
Speaker 6: secure energy for America.
20:45
Speaker 7: And we're working very hard in California.
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Speaker 5: You know, a lot of people don't know this, but
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Speaker 5: California has tremendous tremendous It's used to be number three
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Speaker 5: in the nation, and the radical left has just wiped
20:57
Speaker 5: it out and we're working very hard to get that
20:59
Speaker 5: open again and get it so the people that they
21:02
Speaker 5: gasoline presses, their lack of energy is just staggering. It's staggering,
21:08
Speaker 5: and we're actually making very good progress. Even people that
21:11
Speaker 5: were against that at one point now they're saying, wow.
21:13
Speaker 7: That'd be great.
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Speaker 5: But people don't realize it was one of the right Chris,
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Speaker 5: It was one of the top drilling states, one of
21:19
Speaker 5: the I would say, in terms of reserves, is among
21:23
Speaker 5: the top in the country.
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Speaker 7: Nobody thinks of that.
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Speaker 5: With calif everything was just closed down, really violently closed down,
21:30
Speaker 5: and we're opening up some of it and we're being
21:33
Speaker 5: met with actually great spirit because they're paying so much
21:37
Speaker 5: for gasoline that they don't have to be doing that.
21:39
Speaker 7: And they have a very.
21:40
Speaker 5: Incompetent group of leaders, like grossly incompetent.
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Speaker 1: So the big takeaway from the cabinet meeting was this,
21:48
Speaker 1: you have a president that believes that the American people
21:51
Speaker 1: are smart enough to understand he's doing big things and
21:55
Speaker 1: making tough choices, and the administration one of the Americans
21:59
Speaker 1: to see a price is it not only fully in command,
22:01
Speaker 1: but surrounded by the cabinet officials who are aggressively executing
22:05
Speaker 1: policy not just on one issue, but across some multiple
22:09
Speaker 1: fronts all at once, whether it's Iran, immigration, energy, or
22:14
Speaker 1: economic policy. The tone of the meeting was confrontational, it
22:19
Speaker 1: was confident, and it was designed to let you know
22:22
Speaker 1: what exactly this White House is doing for you. And
22:26
Speaker 1: perhaps most importantly, Trump made it clear that he believes
22:29
Speaker 1: his administration now holds leverage, leverage over our adversaries, overseas,
22:35
Speaker 1: leverage and negotiations, and leverage politically heading into the midterms.
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Speaker 2: So where are we right now?
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Speaker 1: Well, President Trump is arguing that not only is he
22:45
Speaker 1: in the cabinet, showing exactly why Donald Trump's agenda of
22:49
Speaker 1: America First is so dominant. It's also a moment for
22:53
Speaker 1: the President to remind Americans what is at stake and
22:56
Speaker 1: where we came from under the Biden regime. So, based
23:00
Speaker 1: on these headlines, you may not get a lot of
23:03
Speaker 1: love from the media because they want you to believe
23:05
Speaker 1: this guy is falling. But when you look at what
23:07
Speaker 1: the President had to say, it's pretty clear the America
23:10
Speaker 1: First policies are still moving forward and being implemented as
23:15
Speaker 1: we speak. When Donald Trump ran for president, he made
23:19
Speaker 1: it very clear he was going to put Americans first.
23:22
Speaker 1: That was the top of his agenda, and he was
23:25
Speaker 1: going to make sure that people that had broken in
23:27
Speaker 1: this country, that were here illegally would no longer be
23:31
Speaker 1: put ahead of Americans, they wouldn't be able to get
23:34
Speaker 1: as many government benefits as they've been getting so far,
23:37
Speaker 1: and that he was going to move to deport them. Well,
23:40
Speaker 1: we have a new firestorm of an example of exactly
23:44
Speaker 1: what President Trump was talking about. It's now erupting in
23:47
Speaker 1: Fairfax County, Virginia, and it's rapidly becoming a national symbol.
23:53
Speaker 1: And the debate over immigration as well as the census,
23:56
Speaker 1: as well as political representation and the future ballance of
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Speaker 1: power in Washington, d C. Fairfax County is the largest
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Speaker 1: county in Virginia, sitting just outside of Washington, d C.
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Speaker 1: And according to figures now being discussed by immigration analysts
24:13
Speaker 1: and lawmakers, roughly one in five residents. I want to
24:18
Speaker 1: say that again, roughly one in five residents in Fairfax
24:23
Speaker 1: County could potentially be subject to deportation or removal proceedings
24:29
Speaker 1: under stricter immigration enforcement standards. We're talking about twenty percent
24:35
Speaker 1: of the population in Virginia's largest county, right outside of.
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Speaker 2: Washington, d C.
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Speaker 1: Are individuals that shouldn't be in this country in the
24:44
Speaker 1: first place. Now that staggering number has ignited outrage among
24:50
Speaker 1: critics and current immigration policies. It's also triggered new congressional
24:55
Speaker 1: scrutiny of sanctuary style policies in the region. There was
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Speaker 1: part of this that became very clear and the hearing
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Speaker 1: on Washington DC where a Cato Institute individual said this
25:09
Speaker 1: before Congress.
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Speaker 2: It's the first.
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Speaker 8: Step would be to give up on the mass deportation fantasy.
25:16
Speaker 8: About one in five fairfact residents is someone who could
25:19
Speaker 8: be deported.
25:20
Speaker 7: Or who lives with them.
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Speaker 8: It would destroy neighborhoods rip Americans away from their spouses, parents, friends, families, customers, employees, employers, nurses, nannies,
25:32
Speaker 8: and teachers.
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Speaker 2: This guy is mister Bayer.
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Speaker 1: He's a random guy that tells you that one in
25:40
Speaker 1: five Fairfax residents is someone who could be deported or
25:43
Speaker 1: lives with them. It is not normal the twenty percent
25:47
Speaker 1: of the largest county of Virginia could be deported. What's
25:49
Speaker 1: even more shocking is how not normal it is for
25:53
Speaker 1: the new argument of the left to be, well, there's
25:57
Speaker 1: just too many illegal immigrants, so you cannot deport them.
26:02
Speaker 1: The logic here is now, instead of lying to you
26:05
Speaker 1: about how many illegal immigrants are in America, the Democratic
26:09
Speaker 1: Party in the left are now saying, we'll tell you
26:11
Speaker 1: exactly how many there are to prove a point that
26:15
Speaker 1: there are so many illegal immigrants that are in the
26:18
Speaker 1: United States of America that you need to get rid
26:20
Speaker 1: of the fantasy that we are going to actually deport
26:25
Speaker 1: all of them, and it would destroy communities if you
26:28
Speaker 1: did it, so therefore you cannot do it. I want
26:32
Speaker 1: to play this clip one more time, and now that
26:35
Speaker 1: you understand the messaging here and what their motivation is,
26:40
Speaker 1: listen to how the new argument of the left has
26:43
Speaker 1: completely changed.
26:45
Speaker 8: It's the first step would be to give up on
26:48
Speaker 8: the mass deportation fantasy. About one in five Fairfact residents
26:53
Speaker 8: is someone who could be deported or who lives with them.
26:56
Speaker 8: It would destroy neighborhoods, rip Americans away from their spouse's parents, friends, families, customers, employees, employers, nurses, nannies,
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Speaker 8: and teachers.
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Speaker 1: Let me be clear, Let me be clear, really all right,
27:12
Speaker 1: Republicans on Capitol Hill, now is your opportunity to use
27:16
Speaker 1: the Fairfax County as a case study in what they
27:19
Speaker 1: describe as the consequences of failed immigration enforcement and sanctuary
27:25
Speaker 1: government policies. Hearings have focused on accusations now that the
27:30
Speaker 1: local officials have no or limited cooperation with federal immigration authorities,
27:36
Speaker 1: including ICE, while legal immigrant numbers have surged nationwide, as
27:42
Speaker 1: Democrats seem to be now saying, we want to count
27:45
Speaker 1: all the illegal immigrants, not underplay the number, but actually
27:49
Speaker 1: tell you an honest number. So the problem looks so
27:52
Speaker 1: big that it's inhumane to try to stop it.
27:56
Speaker 5: Now.
27:56
Speaker 1: Behind the controversy is a much larger and an even
27:59
Speaker 1: more explosive national issue. It is how immigration both legal
28:05
Speaker 1: and illegal. Is reshaping political representation in the United States
28:10
Speaker 1: of America. Now, that is the whole plan of the
28:11
Speaker 1: Democratic Party, and right now, under the current Census Bureau policy,
28:17
Speaker 1: every person living in the United States of America is
28:20
Speaker 1: counting the census. That means that all citizens, all legal immigrants,
28:26
Speaker 1: all green card holders, all refugees, all visa holders, all
28:30
Speaker 1: asylum seekers, and this is the most important category for Democrats,
28:36
Speaker 1: all illegal immigrants are counted. The Census explicitly states that
28:42
Speaker 1: congressional appointment is based on counting all persons residing in
28:46
Speaker 1: the country, regardless of citizenship status. That matters because the
28:52
Speaker 1: census determines far more than just population statistics. Every ten years,
28:59
Speaker 1: census total determine something that's extremely important, how many seats
29:03
Speaker 1: each state receives in the House of Representatives. Those same
29:08
Speaker 1: numbers also determine the Electoral College votes in the presidential elections,
29:12
Speaker 1: and they influence the distribution of hundreds of billions of
29:15
Speaker 1: federal dollars. Now, just hit pause for a second and
29:19
Speaker 1: think about this. Is it fair to say that in
29:22
Speaker 1: Virginia there's a very good chance that there are too
29:25
Speaker 1: many representatives in Washington representing people of Virginia based on
29:31
Speaker 1: the number of illegal immigrants. I think the answer is
29:34
Speaker 1: based on the evidence. It's overwhelming. Moved to a place
29:37
Speaker 1: like California. California has a massive number of individuals representing
29:43
Speaker 1: the state in Congress. They have an incredible amount of
29:46
Speaker 1: power as a state. They also have an incredible amount
29:49
Speaker 1: of power in picking the president of the United States
29:51
Speaker 1: of America. California helps Democrats get much closer to the
29:55
Speaker 1: finish line on election night every single time we have
29:58
Speaker 1: a presidential and the reason why there is so much
30:04
Speaker 1: power is based on the fact that we're counting illegal immigrants. Now,
30:09
Speaker 1: more people county means more political power. And that's exactly
30:13
Speaker 1: why you're now hearing people like mister Bayer who are
30:16
Speaker 1: telling you the truth on the illegal immigrant numbers because
30:20
Speaker 1: they want that power. Organizations like the Center for Immigration
30:24
Speaker 1: Studies have argued that immigration levels legal and illegal combined
30:30
Speaker 1: have shifted congressional seats and electoral college votes towards high
30:34
Speaker 1: immigration states for decades. Their analysis claim states with large
30:40
Speaker 1: nonsenisen populations receive additional representation because non citizens are included
30:45
Speaker 1: in the census counts, even though they cannot vote in
30:49
Speaker 1: federal elections. California, as I mentioned earlier, is the perfect
30:53
Speaker 1: example for this debate. California gained enormous political influence because
30:59
Speaker 1: of population that was fueled heavily by illegal immigrants. The
31:03
Speaker 1: state is also now experiencing a major population exodus as
31:07
Speaker 1: residents leave over the high taxes, the housing costs, crime concerns,
31:12
Speaker 1: costs of living pressures. California actually lost a congressional seat
31:16
Speaker 1: after the twenty twenty census for the first time in
31:19
Speaker 1: state history. Yet analysts note that California may have lost
31:25
Speaker 1: even more political representation if non citizens had not been
31:31
Speaker 1: included in the census count, and it brings up an
31:34
Speaker 1: even bigger question. Is it time for the American people,
31:39
Speaker 1: for the Republican Party, for the president United States of
31:42
Speaker 1: America to bring this debate front and center. When you
31:46
Speaker 1: have one in five Fairfax residents is someone that should
31:50
Speaker 1: be deported, you know you've got a massive problem. Twenty
31:54
Speaker 1: percent of the largest county in Virginia not a border state,
31:58
Speaker 1: is a mass red flag for other states. And the
32:03
Speaker 1: question now is not only how many illegals are actually
32:05
Speaker 1: in this country, but how much are they costing you
32:08
Speaker 1: as a taxpayer, and how much are they skewing the
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Speaker 1: election towards Democratic.
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