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No Nation-Building, No Quagmire—Trump has an Exit Strategy · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I think the most important thing is to continue the
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  Speaker 1: systematic destruction of the Iranian war making capabilities. So it'll
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  Speaker 1: continue them for some period of time. But I think
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  Speaker 1: we've got to stay the course here and now that
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  Speaker 1: we are engaging this and is he gonna achieve ours?
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  Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got a big
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  Speaker 3: story for you. The world. Wall Street and even those
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  Speaker 3: around the White House are now reacting to the new
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  Speaker 3: news that President Trump is looking to wind down the
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  Speaker 3: war with Iran. He's trying to stay within the parameters
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  Speaker 3: it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: Over the last thirty days, the United States and Israel
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  Speaker 3: have carried out more than eleven thousand strikes against Iran
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  Speaker 3: military infrastructure. We're now learning from the White House translation,
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  Speaker 3: this mission the President is doing is working. The strikes
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  Speaker 3: have been against Iran's military infrastructure that include missile systems,
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  Speaker 3: naval assets, weapons depots, and systemically dismantling the regimes a
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  Speaker 3: bill to threaten the region and more importantly, threaten US.
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  Speaker 3: The US and now President Trump is signaling very clearly
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  Speaker 3: that this war is nearing its end. He said this directly,
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  Speaker 3: this won't last much longer. Why because Iran has been,
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  Speaker 3: in his words, significantly debilitated. Their military capability has been crippled,
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  Speaker 3: their ability to launch sustained attacks has been severely reduced,
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  Speaker 3: their leverage gone. And now because of the overwhelming show
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  Speaker 3: of force, something else is happening behind the scenes that
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  Speaker 3: matters just as much as the bombs and the strikes.
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  Speaker 3: Iran is really feeling the pressure. The White House is
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  Speaker 3: now saying negotiations are progressing quickly. That is something that
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  Speaker 3: the White House has said that the media can't believe,
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  Speaker 3: and Democrats don't want you to believe because they want
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  Speaker 3: this to be a quagmire. They want this to be
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  Speaker 3: a never ending war. They want to use it to
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  Speaker 3: hurt President Donald Trump. Now, after weeks of decisive military action,
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  Speaker 3: the regime, the chance death to America is now signaling
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  Speaker 3: they may be willing to come to the table. That
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  Speaker 3: doesn't happen, by the way, by accident, and it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: happen by weakness from President Trump either. This happens because
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump made it clear the United States while he's
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  Speaker 3: in charge, leads through strength, not through appeasement or sending
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  Speaker 3: pallets of cash like the Obama administration did. And President
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  Speaker 3: Trump is also making it clear there is a deadline.
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  Speaker 3: Iran now has until early April to comply, and if
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  Speaker 3: they don't, the presidents also made it very clear what
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  Speaker 3: comes next will be even more devastating. Now, let's talk
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  Speaker 3: about the strategy a little bit more, because this is
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  Speaker 3: where this administration is drawing a very sharp contrast to
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  Speaker 3: the past. Number One, they've said they are not in
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  Speaker 3: favor of an endless war. And number two, the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration has made it clear this is not nation building,
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  Speaker 3: this is decisive action, the White House says, with a
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  Speaker 3: clear objective to eliminate the threat, force a resolution, and
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  Speaker 3: then get the hell out. In fact, President Trump is
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  Speaker 3: already saying that once the job is done, the US
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  Speaker 3: can step back, and even the straight of Hormuz, one
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  Speaker 3: of the most critical shipping lanes in the world, will
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  Speaker 3: stabilize once Iran backs down. That's called understanding leverage, and
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  Speaker 3: that's called understanding power as well. Now let's also not
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  Speaker 3: forget this. Israel is fully aligned with a strategy. They
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  Speaker 3: see this moment for what it is a historic opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to eliminate what they've called next essential threat to them,
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  Speaker 3: and together the US and Israel now have total air superiority,
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  Speaker 3: and Iran's ability to project power is collapsing in real time.
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  Speaker 3: Even Israel is starting to put timelines on their own action,
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  Speaker 3: saying they believe that they have about two more weeks
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  Speaker 3: of strikes and then they will probably end up wrapping
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  Speaker 3: things up. Israel even said in another statement today they
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  Speaker 3: are prepared for strikes for several weeks to come, but
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  Speaker 3: they understand that the window is also closing, and this
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  Speaker 3: was not about actual invasion. Israeli's military spokesman saying on
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  Speaker 3: Tuesday that Israel is prepared to keep operating for several
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  Speaker 3: weeks to come. The Prime Minister hinted that the war
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  Speaker 3: against Iran was definitely beyond the halfway point, as it
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  Speaker 3: has now entered its fifth week. We are prepared to
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  Speaker 3: keep operating for weeks to come if need be. We
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  Speaker 3: have the targets for that, the munitions for that, demand
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  Speaker 3: power for that, and it's up to the leadership to decide,
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  Speaker 3: is what was said from Israeli's government. The Israeli Defense
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  Speaker 3: Force said on Tuesday that all of it's critical and
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  Speaker 3: essential targets in Iran will have been destroyed by Passover,
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  Speaker 3: which begins on Wednesday. The IDF to find critical targets
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  Speaker 3: as Iranian weapons that directly threaten Israel, including key elements
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  Speaker 3: of its nuclear program, while essential quote unquote targets are
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  Speaker 3: key elements of the Iranian military industrial complex that do
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  Speaker 3: not pose an imminent threat by themselves, such as satellite
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  Speaker 3: launch facilities. So you add all this together, and critical
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  Speaker 3: and essential targets make up about thirty to forty percent
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  Speaker 3: of the bombing objectives set by Israeli leadership before the
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  Speaker 3: operation began. The IDF said it would be possible to
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  Speaker 3: declare victory after eliminating the remaining critical and essential targets,
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  Speaker 3: but it would prefer to continue degrading Iran's military industrial
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  Speaker 3: complex to weaken the regime. This goal seems consistent with
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  Speaker 3: Israel's hint that a few more weeks of airstrikes are
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  Speaker 3: obviously being planned. Israeli warplaying struck major Iranian weapons factories
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  Speaker 3: in Tehran over the weekend, including plants that manufacture key
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  Speaker 3: ballistic missile components and drone engines. As well. The IDF
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  Speaker 3: said it was also able to destroy several of Iran's
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  Speaker 3: temporary command centers, eliminating high ranking officers who were inside,
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  Speaker 3: as well as some of Iran's remaining anti air weaponry.
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  Speaker 3: On Friday, the IDF set a massive attack involving over
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  Speaker 3: fifty warplanes, inflicted severe damage on their heavy water reactor
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  Speaker 3: and an uranium enrichment facility that produced yellow cake uranium
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  Speaker 3: powder for nuclear fuel. Netnyahu even set on Newsmax on
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  Speaker 3: Monday that the operation in Iran is beyond the halfway
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  Speaker 3: point in terms of mission success, although he did not
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  Speaker 3: say or wished to put a schedule on the remainder
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  Speaker 3: of the war. We've already degraded their missile capabilities, destroyed factories,
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  Speaker 3: and eliminated key nuclear scientists, he noted, praising the steady
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  Speaker 3: progress of the mission so far.
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  Speaker 4: We're into this war just over a month now. You're
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  Speaker 4: the war Prime Minister, and I think i'd like to
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  Speaker 4: understand what you feel you've achieved Israel and the United
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  Speaker 4: States working together so far in this war. And when
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  Speaker 4: do you think we might see light at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the tunnel mission accomplished.
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  Speaker 5: Look, if you remember what happened before the war, Iran
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  Speaker 5: was the great bully of the Middle East and the world.
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  Speaker 5: It was the prime sponsor of state terrorism across many continents,
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  Speaker 5: including in the Western Hemisphere, including by the way, with
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  Speaker 5: Venezuela and with others. And they killed and named more
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  Speaker 5: Americans than any other force in recent decades. Thousands and
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  Speaker 5: thousands killed and maimed in Afghanistan by Iranian IED's. They
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  Speaker 5: bombed your embassies. They tried to kill President Trump twice,
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  Speaker 5: and so trying to kill them. Most importantly is they
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  Speaker 5: chant death to America. They also say death to Israel,
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  Speaker 5: but they say America is the great Satan. They're religious zealots,
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  Speaker 5: and they have to wipe out Western culture led by America,
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  Speaker 5: and Israel is considered the little Satan because we're just
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  Speaker 5: standing in their way of conquering the Middle East, which
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  Speaker 5: is their preliminary step of getting to America and hitting America.
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  Speaker 5: So this is a regime that has been targeting America
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  Speaker 5: for forty seven years. It's their rezone detroits, the reason
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  Speaker 5: for being. They're completely you know, ideological fanatics who are
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  Speaker 5: not necessarily responsive to the careful calculation of costs and benefit,
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  Speaker 5: so they do things that other countries don't do. You
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  Speaker 5: have countries that are adversarial to you, but I don't
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  Speaker 5: hear North Korea chanting death to America. I don't hear
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  Speaker 5: China chanting both Korea. I don't hear Russia. You know,
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  Speaker 5: these are all countries which you have which are adversarial
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  Speaker 5: to you, but they're not seized by this fanaticism. But
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  Speaker 5: Iran is. So. Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons and
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  Speaker 5: the means to deliver them to every American city. And
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  Speaker 5: this is what this is about, preventing them from having
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  Speaker 5: this intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear weapons to tip them,
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  Speaker 5: which could threaten the life of every America. That's why
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  Speaker 5: President Trump chose to act to prevent them from doing this.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you can obviously hear there from Bennette Yahoo that
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  Speaker 3: he understands he has a mission that he's trying to accomplish.
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  Speaker 3: That mission is a little bit different than the US's mission.
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  Speaker 3: It may take a little bit longer for him to
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  Speaker 3: be able to do what he needs to do to
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  Speaker 3: protect his people, and clearly the President understands that. What's
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  Speaker 3: also interesting is what we said earlier today on Fox
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  Speaker 3: News Channel. Take a listen to Brian Mask. He's the
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  Speaker 3: Republican from Florida, the House Foreign Affairs Chairman, and this
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  Speaker 3: is what he had to say about what's happening not
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  Speaker 3: only on Wall Street, but also the price of crude
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  Speaker 3: oil and the Strait of Hormuz, as well as Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump's outline for what he's trying to do.
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  Speaker 6: So let's bring in now our House Foreign Afairs Committee Chairman,
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  Speaker 6: Florida Republican Brian Mass. Welcome to you, sir. First, I
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  Speaker 6: want to ask you about the breaking news that seems
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  Speaker 6: to be sending markets much much higher at this moment.
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  Speaker 6: The Dow up nine and twenty points. It's a big
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  Speaker 6: turnaround for where it was earlier today, and it seems
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  Speaker 6: to be hinging on this report to reports, one from
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  Speaker 6: the Wall Street Journal, one from the New York Post. First,
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  Speaker 6: the Wall Street Journal reporting that President Trump is telling
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  Speaker 6: AIDS reportedly that he's willing to end the war without
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  Speaker 6: fully reopening the Strait of Horror Mooz. The concern, apparently
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  Speaker 6: from the President is that this would push the Epic
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  Speaker 6: Fury operation past its six week deadline. I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: get your thoughts in your reaction first to that.
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  Speaker 7: A couple of reactions. Just Number one, the President had
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  Speaker 7: outlined a goal from the beginning. He's trying to stay
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  Speaker 7: within the parameters of what he outlined. Number Two, you have,
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  Speaker 7: of course golf partners in the golf partners in the
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  Speaker 7: region that are unwilling to see the Straits of Horror
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  Speaker 7: Mouz be this toll road for around where they can
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  Speaker 7: simply charge for anything that goes in or out of there.
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  Speaker 7: They're not going to allow that to take place. And
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  Speaker 7: so there's conversations, debate everything going on with that as well.
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  Speaker 7: And if the United States accomplished is its mission of
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  Speaker 7: destroying every single piece of Iranian military hardware, the drones,
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  Speaker 7: the Navy, the Air Force, the ballistic missiles, everything that
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  Speaker 7: can reach out and touch us, as has been our goal.
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  Speaker 7: Then we've essentially controlled the straits and the way that
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  Speaker 7: we decided from the onset that we wanted to control this.
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  Speaker 3: It is very clear that Wall Street and also the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the world is reacting to President Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: making it very clear he does not believe this war
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  Speaker 3: is going to last that much longer. He also believes
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  Speaker 3: that we are accomplishing our mission, and that is about
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  Speaker 3: safety and security. We'll see what happens in the days ahead,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll cover it all for you.
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