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Iran's Attack on Israel Was FUNDED by Biden & The Dems-and They're Pressing Israel to do NOTHING! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: It is verdict with Senator Ted Kruz Ben Ferguson with
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Speaker 2: you and Senator Israel under attack yet again. Unfortunately, this
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Speaker 2: was predictable, especially since the United States of America i'd
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Speaker 2: taken its hand off of Israel with the Biden administration
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Speaker 2: leading the way on that.
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Speaker 3: Well, we are right now talking a couple of minutes
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Speaker 3: before eleven pm on Sunday, and the eyes of the
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Speaker 3: world are on Israel and Iran. As in the last
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Speaker 3: twenty four hours, over three hundred drones and cruise missiles
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Speaker 3: from Iran went into Israel. Now, to Israel's credit, the
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Speaker 3: Iron Dome and its missile defense systems intercepted virtually all
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Speaker 3: of them. But it was the first direct attack on
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Speaker 3: Israel from Iran in history, and it is an extraordinary
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Speaker 3: escalation of what has been going on. This tragically is
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Speaker 3: the result of the Biden foreign policy of appeasement and
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Speaker 3: the entire Democrat Party backing away from Israel and sending
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Speaker 3: billions of dollars to Iran. In a very real sense,
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Speaker 3: the missiles that Iran fired at Israel were paid for
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Speaker 3: by the Biden administration. At this point, the safety and
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Speaker 3: security of the men and women in Israel, the men
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Speaker 3: and women in the Middle East, and potentially more broadly,
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Speaker 2: moving quickly. If you're taking notes, get ready when it
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Speaker 2: comes to the money. There are two things the Biden
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Speaker 2: administration has done that has helped the Iranian economy and
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Speaker 2: the Iranian ilatola commit these atrocites against Israel, and also
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Speaker 2: work with any terrorist organizations they want to support, whether
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Speaker 2: it's Amas or HESBLA, it doesn't really matter. Those two
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Speaker 2: things one or We do technically have sanctions on Iranian oil,
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Speaker 2: but we're not enforcing those. And we've also allowed direct
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Speaker 2: access to cash that Iran and can now grab that
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Speaker 2: we had basically seized and locked up. How much money
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Speaker 2: do they have now because of Biden's policies.
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Speaker 3: It is well one hundred billion dollars, but sadly been
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Speaker 3: there are a lot more than two things that they
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Speaker 3: have done. From the beginning, the Biden administration has simultaneously
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Speaker 3: flooded our enemies with cash. Their approach to every enemy
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Speaker 3: of America from day one has been appeasement and usually
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Speaker 3: in the form of billions of dollars. And simultaneously they
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Speaker 3: have undermined our friends and allies and especially Israel again
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Speaker 3: from day one. Let's break them down, piece by piece.
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Speaker 3: To Iran itself, you have number one, sixteen billion dollars
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Speaker 3: in direct fund, six billion dollars that everyone talked about.
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Speaker 3: That was ransom for five Americans that was widely denounced
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Speaker 3: by me and many others. On top of that, there
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Speaker 3: was another ten billion dollars of money that was frozen
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Speaker 3: in Iraq that the Biden administration unfroze to allow to
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Speaker 3: flow back to Iran. That takes you up to sixteen
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Speaker 3: billion dollars. The biggest component is refusing to enforce oil
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Speaker 3: sanctions that has caused Iran in oil exports to skyrocket.
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Speaker 3: That is an excess of eighty billion dollars. We're going
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Speaker 3: to come back back to that one in a minute,
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Speaker 3: but not just that. You have to understand the Biden
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Speaker 3: administration has lifted sanctions on Iran's proxies on the Huthis
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Speaker 3: in Yemen who were funded by Iran. If you look
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Speaker 3: at Gaza and Hamas that carried out the October seventh
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Speaker 3: terror attack, Hamas over ninety percent of its funding comes
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Speaker 3: from Iran. And what did Biden do. He sent hundreds
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Speaker 3: of millions of dollars into Gaza that went directly into
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Speaker 3: the hands of Hamas that in all likelihood was used
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Speaker 3: to finance Summer all of the October seventh terror attack.
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Speaker 3: The same thing is true with flooding money into Lebanon,
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Speaker 3: much of which ends up in the hands of Hesbela.
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Speaker 3: Hesbela again over ninety percent of its budget comes from Iran.
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Speaker 3: On top of that, even more amazingly, the Biden administration
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Speaker 3: allowed the UN sanctions, the international sanctions on missiles in Iran,
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Speaker 3: to expire. They did this in the midst of Iran
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Speaker 3: funding Hamas funding has Bela funding October seventh and launching
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Speaker 3: over one hundred attacks on US service men and women.
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Speaker 3: On October seventh, more than twelve hundred Israelis were murdered.
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Speaker 3: That included roughly thirty Americans who were murdered. We still
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Speaker 3: have American hostages, We still have Israeli hostages. Not only that,
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Speaker 3: we have three service men and women the Iranians have
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Speaker 3: murdered in their more than one hundred attacks. And what
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Speaker 3: does the Biden administration keep doing shoveling cash to this
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Speaker 3: theocratic lunatic Ayatola.
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Speaker 2: Senatri the Zionoa also chanced death to America. There's also
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Speaker 2: another problem, and that is that the weapons inspectors that
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Speaker 2: deal with nuclear weapons, they've been kicked out of Iran,
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Speaker 2: and yet we still have this Iranian nuclear deal. And
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Speaker 2: I can't believe for a second that Iran wouldn't use
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Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon if they have one or if they
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Speaker 2: get one, based on what they just did with this indiscriminate,
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Speaker 2: massive attack on Israel.
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Speaker 3: Well, we don't know if they have a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 3: If they don't have one, they are very very close.
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Speaker 3: And they are very very close because Joe Biden has
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Speaker 3: flooded so much cash into them to put them in
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Speaker 3: a position to have this kind of money. Let's look
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Speaker 3: at oil exports, and I said, I wanted to come
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Speaker 3: back to this. So during the Trump administration, when President
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Speaker 3: Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, which was
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Speaker 3: absolutely the right thing to do. At the time, Iran
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Speaker 3: was exporting roughly a million barrels of oil a day.
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Speaker 3: When Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, he
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Speaker 3: kept in place an oil waiver. That waiver allowed Iran
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Speaker 3: to continue selling a million barrels a day of oil.
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Speaker 3: I thought that was an enormous mistake. So once we
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Speaker 3: pulled out of the Obama Nuclear deal, I I pressed
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Speaker 3: President Trump repeatedly to end the oil waiver. There was
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Speaker 3: a fight between the State Department and the Energy Department.
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Speaker 3: The State Department under Trump wanted to keep the oil
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Speaker 3: waiver in place. They said that if we ended the
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Speaker 3: oil waiver, the price of oil and the price of
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Speaker 3: gasoline with skyrocket. The Department of Energy under Trump, which
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Speaker 3: presumably our experts and energy said, that's ridiculous. There's plenty
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Speaker 3: of global oil. This won't affect the price. As I said,
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Speaker 3: I leaned in repeatedly with Trump on Air Force one
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Speaker 3: in the Oval Office.
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Speaker 1: He agreed with me.
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Speaker 3: He overruled as Secretary of State Mike Mike Pompeo. He
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Speaker 3: ended the oil waivers. And it turns out we now
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Speaker 3: know that the Department of Energy was right in state
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Speaker 3: was wrong. That the Iranian oil exports cratered. They felled
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Speaker 3: roughly three hundred thousand barrels a day, but the price
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Speaker 3: of oil had barely a blip. It had a negligible effect. Well,
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Speaker 3: fast forward to Joe Biden coming into office. Joe Biden
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Speaker 3: came in office and almost immediately he stopped in forcing
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Speaker 3: those oil sanctions, and again almost immediately, as a direct result,
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Speaker 3: Iran's oil sanctions skyrocketed. Now at the time of October seventh,
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Speaker 3: do you know what Iran's oil exports were, or production.
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Speaker 1: Rather was what was it?
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Speaker 3: Two million barrels a day? Yeah, more than double what
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Speaker 3: it had been before the oil waivers were ended, nearly
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Speaker 3: eight times seven times what they were when Biden came
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Speaker 3: into office. Do do you know what their oil exports?
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Speaker 3: Their production is right now in April of twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 3: what is it? Three point four million barrels a day?
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Speaker 2: So let's talk cash. What type of cash are we
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Speaker 2: now dealing with it? They have their hands on because
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Speaker 2: we are not enforcing our embargo on their oil right now.
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Speaker 3: So we're looking at easily in excess of one hundred
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Speaker 3: billion dollars. Depends on the prices they're getting. They're selling
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Speaker 3: it primarily to the Chinese communists. You have to assume
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Speaker 3: they're selling it it's something of a discount. But even so,
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Speaker 3: this is easily one hundred billion dollars that Joe Biden
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Speaker 3: just handed to the Iatola. And mind you didn't just
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Speaker 3: hand before October seventh. After October seventh, he continues handing. Today.
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Speaker 3: Iran just launched all these missiles. You know what, Joe
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Speaker 3: Biden hadn't done anything to enforce the oil sanctions. The
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Speaker 3: number of three point four million barrels a day is
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Speaker 3: from right now, that's April of twenty twenty four. The
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Speaker 3: Iatola is rolling in cash, which is why he can
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Speaker 3: afford to send three hundred roans and three hundred cruise missiles.
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Speaker 3: And I will tell you it is not just Biden.
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Speaker 3: This is one of the most important points. A lot
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Speaker 3: of folks focus on the squad. They focus on AOC
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Speaker 3: and Omar and to Leeb and the radicals in the House.
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Speaker 3: Those guys are a problem. Yes, they're rabidly anti Israel,
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Speaker 3: they make anti Semitic tropes constantly. But the problem is
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Speaker 3: not the fringe. The problem is the so called mainstream Democrats.
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Speaker 3: Is Joe Biden, The problem is Chuck Schumer. The problem
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Speaker 3: is Nancy Pelosi. After October seventh, just recently, just a
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Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago, I forced a vote on the
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Speaker 3: Senate floor to bar the Biden administration from sending billions
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Speaker 3: of dollars to Iran. Now, this should be easy. Iran
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Speaker 3: funded October seventh. Iran is still actively trying to kill
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Speaker 3: US servicemen and women. Iran is still trying to actively
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Speaker 3: murder former US senior officials, including Mike Pompeo, the former
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Speaker 3: Secretary of State, including John Bolton, the former National Security Advisor,
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Speaker 3: including Brian Hook, the former Assistant Secretary of State. I
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Speaker 3: forced to vote on the Senate floor every single Democrat,
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Speaker 3: all of them except Bob Benendez. Every Democrat but one
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Speaker 3: voted no. They voted to continue sending Iran billions of dollars.
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Speaker 1: That was just a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: So you look at the cash and then let's move
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Speaker 2: to the second part here, and that is is all right?
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Speaker 2: So their UNS and the Security Council emergency meeting right now,
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Speaker 2: they're demanding that Israel show restraint. We're also getting reporting
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Speaker 2: now from Axios that Biden told apparently Netanyahu the US
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Speaker 2: won't support an Israeli counterattack on his Iran, which is
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Speaker 2: unfortunately not shocking.
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Speaker 1: I actually you talked about this.
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Speaker 2: It's very clear now actions speak louder than words in
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Speaker 2: this present and the Biden administration and their foreign policy
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Speaker 2: is Israel bad. Everybody else can do what they want
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Speaker 2: to do. What is a response now going to be
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Speaker 2: when you go back to Washington this week and you
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Speaker 2: can't say, hey, we need to put sanctions on Ranio. Oh,
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Speaker 2: We've already done that, So do you say we want
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Speaker 2: to enforce it? And what about the White House?
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Speaker 3: Well, the Biden Administration's message and the message of every
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Speaker 3: Democrat in Congress is there is no military solution for
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Speaker 3: our allies. But our enemies are allowed to win. Our
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Speaker 3: enemies are allowed to attack, an attack, and attack, and
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Speaker 3: our allies have to do nothing about it. Understand the
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Speaker 3: money that they fled to Iran, you know who, They're
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Speaker 3: not flooding money to Israel.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Remember, there's a fourteen billion dollar Israel aid package came
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Speaker 3: out of the House of Representatives. And what did Chuck
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Speaker 3: Schumer do. He refused to allow a vote on it.
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Speaker 1: He blocked it.
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Speaker 3: He said, we will not vote on this unless it's
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Speaker 3: tied to Ukraine and the rest of the Democrat priorities. Now,
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Speaker 3: if you'll recall, several months ago, I and several other
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Speaker 3: Republicans forced a vote on emergency military aid Israel on
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Speaker 3: the Senate floor. We released yesterday on Sunday that podcast
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Speaker 3: that we did several months ago describing exactly what happened.
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Speaker 3: We put that out as a bonus pod because it
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Speaker 3: is incredibly relevant. Now, if you didn't listen to yesterday's podcast,
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Speaker 3: you got to go back and listen to it. The
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Speaker 3: day of that vote was the day of the March
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Speaker 3: for Israel. There were worth three hundred thousand people that
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Speaker 3: came to the mall that were out there marching in
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Speaker 3: support of Israel.
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Speaker 1: I was there.
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Speaker 3: I was on the mall, marching in support for Israel.
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Speaker 3: A number of Democrat senators were there, including Democrat senators.
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Speaker 3: Jackie Rosen, Democrat from Nevada, was on the stage speaking
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Speaker 3: in support of Israel. Immediately after that march, I and
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Speaker 3: several other Republican senators, we forced a vote on emergency
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Speaker 3: military aid to Israel. Chuck Schumer was furious. We used
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Speaker 3: a parliamentary technique that's called a rogue cloture petition, which
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Speaker 3: is a method that the minority can seize control of
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Speaker 3: the floor.
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Speaker 1: It's rare to use, and frankly.
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Speaker 3: Schumer was sloppy as majority leader to let us use it,
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Speaker 3: but we succeeded in using it, and we forced that vote.
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Speaker 3: Every single Democrat, all of them, with no exceptions, voted
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Speaker 3: against emergency military aid to Israel. They literally left a
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Speaker 3: march for Israel, came back and said no money for Israel.
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Speaker 1: None.
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Speaker 3: And by the way, their stated justification was because the
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Speaker 3: House had paid for it by removing that money from
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Speaker 3: the eighty billion dollars the Democrats had given to hire
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Speaker 3: eighty seven thousand new IRS agents. So because instead the
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Speaker 3: IRS was only getting sixty sixty six billion instead of
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Speaker 3: eighty billion. The Democrats said, no, we care more about
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Speaker 3: adding IRS agents than we do about supporting Israel against
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Speaker 3: our terrorist enemies. Now, I will say, in the last
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Speaker 3: twenty four hours, Chuck Schumer sent out a tweet saying,
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Speaker 3: we stand strongly with Israel. We will have your backs,
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Speaker 3: to which I immediately responded, well, I'm glad you're saying
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Speaker 3: that because you're the one who blocked emergency military aid
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Speaker 3: to Israel, and every single Democrat senator voted with you.
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Speaker 3: So you know what we ought to do today Monday.
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Speaker 3: We ought to come back and we ought to take
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Speaker 3: that bill up and we ought to pass emergency military
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Speaker 3: aid to Israel. I'm confident the House is going to
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Speaker 3: do that again. The House is going to send it
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Speaker 3: to us, and we'll see what the Democrats do. My
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Speaker 3: suspicion is the Democrats will line up as they did before,
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Speaker 3: to say no, no, no, no, no. We only give money to
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Speaker 3: the enemies of America. We only give money to Iran,
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Speaker 3: we only give money to Hamas, we only give money
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Speaker 3: to people who want to kill us, our actual friends
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Speaker 3: we won't give money to. But you know what, every
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Speaker 3: Democrat will have a chance to put action to their words.
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Speaker 3: A bunch of Democrats have been tweeting out right now
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Speaker 3: we stand with Israel, Well, talk's cheap. Are you willing
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Speaker 3: to fund the response? And we know that Biden's answer
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Speaker 3: is lee at least as is being widely reported, as
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Speaker 3: he told Dan Yahoo, do not attack, do not strike back,
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Speaker 3: take the win. He said, what a bizarre can you
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Speaker 3: imagine if America, if somebody fired three hundred missiles in
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Speaker 3: America and some foreign leader called up the US president said, hey,
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Speaker 3: take the win the missiles. You guys were able to
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Speaker 3: intercept them, so people didn't die. Just say well, we're
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Speaker 3: fine and do nothing. I mean, that's that's what Biden
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Speaker 3: is saying, the Israel do nothing.
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Speaker 2: Believe you even saw this on TV today. There was
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Speaker 2: many of the commentators on TV that we're saying exactly that, Well,
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Speaker 2: if this's a big success and a big test for
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Speaker 2: the Iron Dome, and it's clear that Israel can defend itself,
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Speaker 2: and there's no reason to escalate this because now, and
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Speaker 2: this was set on TV today, I think it was
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Speaker 2: on CBS. They literally said so because now you got
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Speaker 2: to assume this is their words that Iran is probably
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Speaker 2: out of them, out of missiles, and couldn't do the
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Speaker 2: same type of attack today even if they wanted to,
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Speaker 2: So therefore Israel should do nothing, just celebrate the win.
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Speaker 3: At every stage, Biden and Schumer and the Democrats have
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Speaker 3: had the same message. Number one, no matter what Iran does,
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Speaker 3: no matter what our enemies do, they want to keep
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Speaker 3: sending the money. I generally, I genuinely do not understand it.
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Speaker 3: It's pathological when someone chance death to America and death
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Speaker 3: to Israel. My reaction is not I'm going to send
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Speaker 3: you money. That apparently is Joe Biden, Dan's reaction, Chuck
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Speaker 3: Schuber's reaction, that apparently is Nancy Pelosi's reaction, and that's
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Speaker 3: every other Democrat's reaction. I don't get that. But secondly,
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Speaker 3: at every stage, their position has been to Israel, don't
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Speaker 3: defend yourself, don't do anything. Remember when October seventh was happening,
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Speaker 3: Literally at three in the morning on the day of
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Speaker 3: October seventh, when the bodies of the twelve hundred Israelis
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Speaker 3: who had been murdered were still warm, the Biden State
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Speaker 3: Department tweeted out urging Israel not to retaliate. This is
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Speaker 3: after the murder of twelve hundred civilians, This is after
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Speaker 3: the rape of women and children, this is after infants
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Speaker 3: were slaughtered. The position of the Biden State Department was
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Speaker 3: do not retaliate. I blasted that at three in the morning,
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Speaker 3: and thankfully they deleted it. They realized, oh, we can't
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Speaker 3: say this quite yet, but to be clear. The next day,
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Speaker 3: that would be October eighth, Tony Blinken, with his own
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Speaker 3: Twitter account, sent out another tweet saying he had just
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Speaker 3: talked with a Turkish foreign minister and Israel should not retaliate.
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Speaker 3: That was their message. The day after, again I blasted
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Speaker 3: the Biden State Department. Again they deleted that tweet. There
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Speaker 3: were two tweets within twenty four hours of the October
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Speaker 3: seventh massacre, and the immediate knee jerk reaction of Biden
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Speaker 3: was do not retaliate. Do not retaliate now. What have
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Speaker 3: they said every day since then? Their position has been stop,
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Speaker 3: we need a ceasefire, We need a pause. Stop killing hamas,
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Speaker 3: stop killing terrorist, stop going after the bad guy. Now,
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Speaker 3: their position after Iran launches three hundred missiles and drones
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Speaker 3: into Israel, do not retaliate we will not support you.
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Speaker 3: It is asinine. And you asked what Congress is doing, Well,
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you one thing. This coming week, We've got
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Speaker 3: a mark up in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and
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Speaker 3: I've got a number of Iran related amendments that I've
19:45
Speaker 3: already filed. I have one that I'm looking to get
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Speaker 3: a vote on to sanction all Hamas members. I have
19:50
Speaker 3: another to sanction the Huthis for using Iranian missiles. I
19:53
Speaker 3: have another amendment to sanction the IRGC in Iran for
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Speaker 3: using Iranian missiles against the United States. I have another
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Speaker 3: one to tag Iran's vessels to shut down their oil money.
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Speaker 3: And I have another one that says no suspending sanctions
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Speaker 3: to send money to Gaza. I got to tell you,
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Speaker 3: I think I know what's going to happen. We're going
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Speaker 3: to see the Democrats vote against those amendments because their
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Speaker 3: position is, no matter how much you hate America, no
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Speaker 2: quick about the United Nations. It seems very clear that
22:14
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22:19
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22:22
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22:25
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22:29
Speaker 2: what they may do in response protecting Iran.
22:34
Speaker 1: Well, that's exactly right.
22:35
Speaker 3: As we're sitting here today, it is a few minutes
22:38
Speaker 3: before midnight, Sunday night, and there's an Emergency Security Council
22:42
Speaker 3: meeting going on as we speak, and Israel called it.
22:48
Speaker 3: Israel called it seeking to discuss to force a vote
22:53
Speaker 3: to urge the United Nations to impose sanctions on Iran
22:56
Speaker 3: in response to the attack. And the response to that
23:01
Speaker 3: is the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres,
23:05
Speaker 3: told the Council that it was quote time to step
23:08
Speaker 3: back from the brink, and that its members had the
23:12
Speaker 3: collective responsibility quote to actively engage all parties concerned to
23:16
Speaker 3: prevent further escalation. You notice they never say this about Hamas,
23:20
Speaker 3: They never say this about Iran. It's always Israel. Just
23:23
Speaker 3: don't retaliate. Just take people mass murdering your citizens, Just
23:26
Speaker 3: take missiles being fired into your cities if you look
23:30
Speaker 3: at it. So on Sunday, both Israel's and Iran's ambassadors
23:34
Speaker 3: gave fiery comments that Israel's ambassador said that Iran's attack
23:40
Speaker 3: had quote crossed every red line and that Israel reserved
23:43
Speaker 3: the right to retaliate, and he urged the UN to
23:48
Speaker 3: take severe actions, including crippling sanctions. And here's one thing
23:51
Speaker 3: he said, quote the fact that Israel's air defense proved
23:54
Speaker 3: to be superior does not change the brutality of Iran's attack.
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Speaker 3: Iran's ambassador, on the other hand, argued that Iran had
24:03
Speaker 3: a quote inherent right to self defense after Israel's attack
24:08
Speaker 3: on its diplomatic compound, and understand Iran is very upset
24:11
Speaker 3: that Israel, in fighting back, took out a senior general
24:16
Speaker 3: in several Iran military officials. But understand, Iran is who
24:20
Speaker 3: funded October seventh, Iran is who funds Hamas, Iran is
24:24
Speaker 3: who trained the Hamas terrorists, and so Iran has this
24:27
Speaker 3: very strange view that it can pay people to attack
24:30
Speaker 3: and murder other countries and not have them strike back.
24:35
Speaker 3: The Iranian ambassador said, Iran quote does not seek escalation
24:39
Speaker 3: or war in the region, but that if his interest
24:42
Speaker 3: came under attack, it would quote respond to any such
24:44
Speaker 3: aggressions vigorously and an accordance with international law. Nothing Iran
24:49
Speaker 3: does is in accordance with international law. Now, Robert Wood,
24:53
Speaker 3: who is a US representative of the United Nations, told
24:57
Speaker 3: the Security Council that the Biden administration said quot vote,
25:00
Speaker 3: the US is not seeking escalation. Our actions have been
25:05
Speaker 3: defensive in nature. The US goal is to de escalate
25:08
Speaker 3: and then get back to securing an end to the
25:11
Speaker 3: to the war and the Gaza strip. This is now.
25:17
Speaker 3: On the other hand, you know who argued in favor
25:21
Speaker 3: of Iran.
25:22
Speaker 2: Who is that?
25:24
Speaker 3: Russia and China. And let's be clear when I said
25:29
Speaker 3: that Joe Biden. The Democrats have a policy of giving
25:32
Speaker 3: billions of dollars to our enemies. That's not just Iran,
25:36
Speaker 3: it's not just Hamas, it's not just Hesbela. They also
25:39
Speaker 3: give billions of dollars to Venezuela. They also give billions
25:43
Speaker 3: of dollars to China, and they've also given billions of
25:45
Speaker 3: dollars to Russia. You know, the Democrats love to talk
25:48
Speaker 3: about Russia, but we've talked a lot on this podcast
25:50
Speaker 3: about the nord Stream two pipeline, which I authored, the
25:54
Speaker 3: bipartisan sanctions that shut the nord Stream two pipeline down.
25:57
Speaker 3: Donald Trump signed those sanctions into law, and Joe Biden,
26:00
Speaker 3: when he came into office, waived those sanctions, gave Vladimir
26:03
Speaker 3: Putin billions and billions of dollars that effectively caused the
26:07
Speaker 3: war in Ukraine. And when I forced to vote in
26:10
Speaker 3: January of twenty twenty two to reimpose those sanctions on Russia,
26:14
Speaker 3: forty four Democrats flipped their votes. They had voted with
26:16
Speaker 3: me previously and voted in favor of Russia and Putin In,
26:20
Speaker 3: giving them billions of dollars, and within a month Russia
26:25
Speaker 3: invaded Ukraine. So this is a pattern over and over again.
26:28
Speaker 3: And by the way, Russia is actively in Iran helping
26:33
Speaker 3: them with nuclear technology.
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Speaker 1: One of another area that I battled.
26:37
Speaker 2: Oh, say that again, that's big news.
26:40
Speaker 3: It is big news. So Russia and Iran have a
26:43
Speaker 3: very close relationship. I mentioned when Trump pulled out of
26:47
Speaker 3: the Obama nuclear deal, there was an oil waiver. There
26:52
Speaker 3: were also what were called civilian nuclear waivers, and there
26:56
Speaker 3: were seven civilian nuclear waivers that remained in place. I
27:00
Speaker 3: argued vociferously, we should end the civilian nuclear waivers.
27:04
Speaker 1: Now.
27:05
Speaker 3: Once again, the State Department, and I will say the
27:07
Speaker 3: State Department has a long history of being wrong, especially
27:10
Speaker 3: under Biden, but sadly with some frequency under Trump. The
27:13
Speaker 3: State Department argued, no, no, no, no, don't end the civilian
27:17
Speaker 3: nuclear waivers. Well, Trump agreed with me. He overruled his
27:21
Speaker 3: own State Department.
27:22
Speaker 1: He ended them.
27:22
Speaker 3: Among those civilian nuclear waivers, they were allowing Russia to
27:26
Speaker 3: work with Iranian nuclear scientists to develop nuclear technology in
27:32
Speaker 3: an underground bunker called Fordoh which is underneath a mountain,
27:37
Speaker 3: and it's built under a mountain precisely to be able
27:39
Speaker 3: to develop nuclear weapons, so that it would be harder
27:42
Speaker 3: to take out in a military conflict. Now, what happened
27:45
Speaker 3: when Joe Biden came into office. He immediately reimposed the
27:48
Speaker 3: civilian nuclear waivers. So we've literally got Russia that is
27:53
Speaker 3: providing nuclear technology to Iran. By the way, this is
27:57
Speaker 3: a quid pro quo. Iran may drones is a critical
28:02
Speaker 3: weapons supplier to Russia. So understand when Biden is flowing
28:06
Speaker 3: one hundred billion dollars now more than one hundred billion
28:09
Speaker 3: dollars to Iran. They're using them to make drones and
28:13
Speaker 3: to make cruise missiles to attack Israel. They're using them
28:16
Speaker 3: to make weapons to attack US servicemen and women. They're
28:18
Speaker 3: using them to fund Hamas and Hesbela to murder Israelis
28:22
Speaker 3: and murder Americans. But on top of that, they're manufacturing
28:26
Speaker 3: enormous numbers of drones that are going to the Russians,
28:28
Speaker 3: and the Russians are using to fight the Ukrainians. This
28:32
Speaker 3: is a pattern. If you are an enemy of America,
28:35
Speaker 3: lucky you because Joe Biden the Democrats will give you
28:38
Speaker 3: billions of dollars.
28:41
Speaker 2: There's some new reporting that's just come out as well
28:43
Speaker 2: from Politico, and it says the US to Israel don't
28:46
Speaker 2: do something you'll regret it, says quote. The Biden administration's
28:49
Speaker 2: main message for Israel following an attack that is massive
28:55
Speaker 2: their quote aerial assault, comes down to this stop and think.
29:00
Speaker 2: Officials expect Israel to respond in some fashion to Saturday's
29:04
Speaker 2: massive strike, but in both public and private ways, they
29:07
Speaker 2: are taking steps they hope will convince Israel to choose
29:10
Speaker 2: a limited response as opposed to an all out armed
29:14
Speaker 2: counter attack, the latter they feel will plunge the region
29:17
Speaker 2: into a major war. In President Joe Biden, in particular,
29:19
Speaker 2: quote wants to avoid any battle that could drag in
29:23
Speaker 2: US troops, and he made that clear to Israeli's Prime
29:26
Speaker 2: Minster net Netnyahu's saying quote, this is again we're advising
29:30
Speaker 2: him to take a breath before responding. A US official
29:33
Speaker 2: familiar with the Middle East one of ten people granted
29:36
Speaker 2: aminity to freely discuss closed door diplomacy. If Israel does respond, quote,
29:42
Speaker 2: it needs to be proportional and bring this cycle to
29:47
Speaker 2: an In Senator, this may be the biggest pipe dream
29:50
Speaker 2: I've ever heard of. Bring this cycle to an end.
29:53
Speaker 2: What makes you think that Iran would just stop now?
29:58
Speaker 2: Knowing that they can basically get away with literally murder.
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Speaker 3: The only way to bring the cycle to an end
30:04
Speaker 3: is number one, to take away the resources from the
30:07
Speaker 3: Iranian regime that are funding these terror attacks. It's why look,
30:11
Speaker 3: during the whole Trump administration, I was deeply involved in
30:14
Speaker 3: pressing the administration to enforce what was called the maximum
30:19
Speaker 3: Pressure strategy, to put the maximum pressure to defund the
30:23
Speaker 3: Iranian regime, and it succeeded. Understand, when Joe Biden came
30:28
Speaker 3: into office, the Iranian economy was in shambles. They were
30:32
Speaker 3: facing rampant inflation, rampant unemployment, they were facing unrest in
30:36
Speaker 3: the streets. The regime was in danger of being toppled,
30:39
Speaker 3: and very few things would be better for the safety
30:41
Speaker 3: of America and the safety of the world than for
30:43
Speaker 3: these theocratic lunatics to be out of power. Part of
30:46
Speaker 3: the problem is if God forbid, the Iyatola had a
30:50
Speaker 3: nuclear weapon. It's one thing when you have tyrants who
30:54
Speaker 3: are secular who have weapons of mass destructions. It's another
30:59
Speaker 3: thing when you have people who are motivated by religion
31:02
Speaker 3: that glorifies death and suicide. That means the ordinary cost
31:06
Speaker 3: benefit analysis doesn't necessarily work. And I want to share
31:09
Speaker 3: something that was put out recently by the Institute for
31:14
Speaker 3: the Study of War, and it's an analysis of the attack,
31:18
Speaker 3: and I want to read. It's a nine part tweet
31:20
Speaker 3: thread that I think is actually worth worth reading in full.
31:25
Speaker 3: The Iranian April thirteenth missile drone attack on Israel was
31:29
Speaker 3: very likely intended to cause significant damage below the threshold
31:33
Speaker 3: that would trigger a massive Israeli response. The attack was
31:37
Speaker 3: designed to succeed, not to fail.
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Speaker 1: And that's in bold. Here's the second tweet.
31:42
Speaker 3: The strike package was modeled on those the Russians have
31:46
Speaker 3: used repeatedly against Ukraine to great effect. The strike consisted
31:52
Speaker 3: of approximately one hundred and seventy drones, thirty cruise missiles,
31:57
Speaker 3: and one hundred and twenty ballistic missiles. The drones were
32:01
Speaker 3: launched well before the ballistic missiles were fired, very likely
32:05
Speaker 3: in the expectation that they would arrive in Israel's air
32:08
Speaker 3: defense window at about the same time as the cruise
32:12
Speaker 3: missiles and drones. The Russians have used such an approach
32:16
Speaker 3: against Ukraine repeatedly. Only a few ballistic missiles penetrated Israeli
32:22
Speaker 3: air defenses and struck near Israeli military bases. Out of
32:27
Speaker 3: the one hundred and twenty or so the Iranians fired.
32:31
Speaker 3: Ukrainian air defenses have averaged interception rates of only about
32:35
Speaker 3: forty six percent of Russian ballistic missiles during recent large strikes.
32:41
Speaker 3: The Iranians likely expected that Israeli rates would be higher
32:45
Speaker 3: than the Ukrainian rates, but not above ninety percent against
32:49
Speaker 3: such a large but ballistic missile salvo. The Russians, after all,
32:54
Speaker 3: have never fired close to that many large ballistic missiles
32:58
Speaker 3: in a single strike against Ukraine. Israel's air defense system
33:03
Speaker 3: has several obvious advantages over Ukrainian air defense, but the
33:08
Speaker 3: full implications of some of those advantages might well have
33:11
Speaker 3: been unclear to Iranian strike planners. Ukraine has in particular,
33:18
Speaker 3: been unable to use combat aircraft to shoot down Russian
33:22
Speaker 3: drones and cruise missiles at scale, and Ukrainian President Zelenski
33:27
Speaker 3: recently observed that Kiev will likely use the F sixteens
33:32
Speaker 3: Ukraine will receive this summer. In those roles. Iran will
33:37
Speaker 3: learn additional lessons from the failed attack that it can
33:41
Speaker 3: leverage to launch more successful attacks in the future.
33:46
Speaker 2: So you look at all of that and then you
33:48
Speaker 2: see this that just came out from the National Security
33:52
Speaker 2: Council statement on Iranian attacks on Israel, and I'm quoting
33:55
Speaker 2: it says President Biden has been clear. Our support for
33:59
Speaker 2: is iss security is ironclad. The US will stand with
34:04
Speaker 2: the people of Israel and support their defense against these
34:07
Speaker 2: threats from Iran.
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Speaker 1: Okay, senter.
34:09
Speaker 2: If that's true, then they have to give them what
34:13
Speaker 2: they need this week.
34:14
Speaker 1: Am I wrong?
34:16
Speaker 3: Well, if there was anything like coherence and logic, then yes.
34:21
Speaker 3: And Number one, I'm going to predict right now, Chuck
34:24
Speaker 3: Schumer is going to do everything he can to block
34:26
Speaker 3: a vote on emergency military aid to Israel. I've called
34:29
Speaker 3: on it, I forced her already once. My guess is
34:32
Speaker 3: that he will put in place parliamentary tools to prevent
34:36
Speaker 3: us from using the same technique again.
34:39
Speaker 1: And I think the.
34:41
Speaker 3: House, we've seen the Speaker of the House and the
34:43
Speaker 3: Majority leader both say that they're going to vote out
34:46
Speaker 3: an emergency military aid bill this week, So we'll get
34:48
Speaker 3: another one that comes over to us, and my prediction
34:52
Speaker 3: is the Democrats won't back it. They don't want to
34:55
Speaker 3: send military aid to Israel. And part of the problem
34:58
Speaker 3: is they've got a crisis in their caucus, and their
35:01
Speaker 3: crisis is that the radicals, the teleibs and omars, they
35:06
Speaker 3: more and more represent the mainstream of the Democrat Party,
35:09
Speaker 3: and so Schumer is terrified of Michigan. Biden is terrified
35:12
Speaker 3: of Michigan. They're terrified of the radicals, and so they
35:17
Speaker 3: may put out statements. But remember this is the same
35:22
Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer that not long ago stood on the Senate
35:24
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35:28
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35:31
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35:33
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35:37
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35:39
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35:42
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35:44
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35:48
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35:51
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37:47
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37:49
Speaker 2: said he should step down. There's been a lot of
37:51
Speaker 2: people in the media that have been really attacking him,
37:53
Speaker 2: saying that he is a warmonger, that he's that he's
37:57
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37:59
Speaker 2: should not be in charge. I don't believe we're going
38:02
Speaker 2: to see any of that stop, but at least in
38:05
Speaker 2: the Middle East right now and specifically in Israel. How
38:09
Speaker 2: important is his leadership.
38:12
Speaker 3: It's extraordinarily important. I will say I'm blessed to know
38:15
Speaker 3: Prime Minister Netanyah, who very well. I think he is
38:19
Speaker 3: a remarkable man. When he came and addressed a joint
38:24
Speaker 3: session of Congress, and that this was during the Obama administration,
38:28
Speaker 3: it was on the verge of Obama pushing through the
38:31
Speaker 3: Iran nuclear deal at the time, and this was a
38:34
Speaker 3: decade ago. Multiple Democrats boycotted the speech. They refused to
38:39
Speaker 3: listen to him speak. The Democrats hatred for Benjamin Netanyah,
38:44
Speaker 3: who is nothing new, and understand that when he was
38:49
Speaker 3: re elected Prime Minister Joe Biden made clear he was
38:53
Speaker 3: not welcome in the White House, that he would not
38:54
Speaker 3: be invited in the White House. He could not come
38:56
Speaker 3: to the White House. This is long before October seventh,
38:59
Speaker 3: This is long before the war in Gaza. They hate
39:02
Speaker 3: Natan Yahoo, but understand they undermine every Israeli government. They
39:07
Speaker 3: have done so from the very first days of this administration.
39:10
Speaker 3: But net Yahoo, they have a particular loathing too, because
39:15
Speaker 3: he actually understands the gravity of the threat he is facing.
39:19
Speaker 3: He understands that when the Ayahtola says death to Israel,
39:23
Speaker 3: he's not playing around. He actually means it. When he
39:26
Speaker 3: says death to America, he's not playing around. He actually
39:29
Speaker 3: means it. And listen, I've been blessed. In twelve years
39:34
Speaker 3: in the Senate, I've met many world leaders. That's one
39:37
Speaker 3: of the most incredible parts of the jobs. You get
39:39
Speaker 3: to sit down with people that are leading our friends,
39:43
Speaker 3: leading other countries, leading our competitors. There is no world
39:47
Speaker 3: leader who has impressed me more. There's no world leader
39:50
Speaker 3: who frankly has taken my breath away more than Benjamin
39:55
Speaker 3: Netanyaho because he has a seriousness of purpose. He is
39:59
Speaker 3: the only world leader reader for whom I have used
40:02
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40:06
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40:10
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40:13
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40:17
Speaker 3: three busts because they are all men who had extraordinary vision.
40:20
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40:24
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40:26
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40:30
Speaker 3: extraordinary courage, and clarity, And I have to tell you,
40:35
Speaker 3: I think net Nyah who has that same courage and clarity. Now,
40:40
Speaker 3: it is not my role to tell the people of
40:43
Speaker 3: Israel who their prime minister should be. So when Netanyahu
40:48
Speaker 3: was prime minister, when I started in the Senate, I
40:51
Speaker 3: dealt with him because he was the leader, the elected
40:54
Speaker 3: leader of Israel. When the people of Israel elected, enough
40:58
Speaker 3: tolly about it, I dealt with him. Whomever the people
41:01
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41:04
Speaker 3: But the people of Israel re elected Benjamin Netnaho, and
41:08
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41:10
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41:16
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41:19
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41:22
Speaker 3: friends and allies, that they can do what Chuck Schumer did,
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Speaker 3: which is tell the people of Israel, tis tisk, you
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Speaker 3: have no business electing net Yah who throw them out now?
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Speaker 3: And they treat them like the voters, the people of
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Speaker 3: Israel like the red haired step children. It is ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: It's much like. Look, there have been long debates in
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Speaker 3: Washington about a two state solution, and that they're Every
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Speaker 3: Democrat says we must have a two state solution. Many
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Speaker 3: Republicans say we must have a two state solution.
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Speaker 1: My view on that.
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Speaker 3: Is that's a decision for the people of Israel to make.
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Speaker 3: They care acutely about their security. If the people of
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Speaker 3: Israel decide that a two state solution is workable, I
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Speaker 3: respect that decision. If they decide it's not because the
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Speaker 3: terrorists with whom they are dealing, the Hamas and Hesbela,
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Speaker 3: will not accept Israel's right to exist and will wage
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Speaker 3: war on them, I respect that decision as well, And
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Speaker 3: so I will say when it comes to Prime Minister
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Speaker 3: net and Yahoo, it's the choice of the people of
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Speaker 3: Israel that he should be their leader. I respect their choice.
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Speaker 3: But at the same time, I think he is a
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Speaker 3: leader who understands the seriousness of these threats and is
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Speaker 3: not cowed by the aggression of Hamas or Hesbela, or
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Speaker 3: Iran or anyone else. He is bound and determined to
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Speaker 3: protect the people of Israel.
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