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Elite U.S. Scientists w Top Clearance Disappearing Nationwide plus Enemies at the Table · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: On this show.
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  Speaker 2: Several weeks ago, we sounded the alarm about an interesting story,
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  Speaker 2: and that was missing or dead American scientists. Now Fox
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  Speaker 2: News and the show Outnumbered is now talking about this
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  Speaker 2: suspicious pattern of mysterious disappearances and deaths of at least
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  Speaker 2: ten high profile American scientists, many with top security clearance
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  Speaker 2: with the White House, and they say that they are
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  Speaker 2: now at the White House officially investigating this. The White
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  Speaker 2: House quote, we are investigating the wave of missing or
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  Speaker 2: dead American scientists, including astrophysicists and nuclear researchers, vanishing or
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  Speaker 2: dying since mid twenty twenty four. These scientists held top
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  Speaker 2: security clearance and possessed vast knowledge of America's top secrets.
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  Speaker 2: and the out Number panel discussed the deserving pattern and
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  Speaker 2: I want you to hear part of what they had
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  Speaker 2: to say.
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  Speaker 3: Now, these deaths and disappearances include several high level astrophysicists,
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  Speaker 3: as well as research scientists, college professors, military leaders, and
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  Speaker 3: administrative assistants, and many on this list having top security
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  Speaker 3: clearance and a vast knowledge of America's top secrets.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: The most recent official to disappear, retired Air Force General
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  Speaker 3: William McCasland, was last seen leaving his New Mexico home
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  Speaker 3: in February without his phone or prescription glasses. His disappearance
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  Speaker 3: came after aerospace engineer Monica Raisa went missing in June
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  Speaker 3: while hiking in the Angelus National Forest in California. McCasland
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  Speaker 3: and Rasa had been working together on a government funded
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  Speaker 3: rocket materials project, which McCasland was overseeing. Our Peter Doocy
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  Speaker 3: asked White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt about the suspicious
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  Speaker 3: pattern watch.
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  Speaker 5: There are now ten American scientists who have either gone
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  Speaker 5: missing or died since mid twenty twenty four. They all
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  Speaker 5: reportedly had access to classified nuclear or aerospace material. Is
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  Speaker 5: anybody investigating this to see if these things are connected.
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  Speaker 6: I've seen the report, Peter, I haven't spoken to our
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  Speaker 6: relevant agencies about it. I will certainly do that and
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  Speaker 6: we'll get you an answer if true. Of course, that's
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  Speaker 6: definitely something I think this government and administration would deem
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  Speaker 6: worth looking into.
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  Speaker 1: So let me do that for you, all right, guy Benson.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of alarm bells ringing, certainly, and especially the
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  Speaker 3: concentration on shared projects as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is mysterious.
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  Speaker 7: It is concerning you think about like police detective procedurals
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  Speaker 7: on TV where the grizzled detective says, I don't believe
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  Speaker 7: in coincidences. And this is a lot right, These are
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  Speaker 7: a lot of different names. Who knows if these are
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  Speaker 7: connected in any way. Like one of the names up
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  Speaker 7: there was an MIT professor was killed during that Brown
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  Speaker 7: University shooting scenario, which is very bizarre, which to my
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  Speaker 7: knowledge has no connection to some sort of wider sinister plot.
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  Speaker 7: But I think we definitely need answers on this. I
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  Speaker 7: would hope that our relevant agencies intelligence, Homeland security, FBI,
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  Speaker 7: et cetera are well aware of this because if there
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  Speaker 7: is something sinister going on and this is connected to
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  Speaker 7: some sort of potential foreign plot, not to get way
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  Speaker 7: out over our skis. Our government needs to know about
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  Speaker 7: that and protect others who might conceivably be at risk
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  Speaker 7: if there's something afoot.
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  Speaker 3: Well, right, because here's to that point, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: law enforcement investigations, the whole point is to rule out,
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  Speaker 3: so you start sort of with everything and rule out.
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  Speaker 3: So at this point any type of foreign espionage or
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  Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff, it hasn't been ruled out
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  Speaker 3: as they seek a pattern.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm just curious about how hard it is to
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  Speaker 8: work a case like this when you have deaths in
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  Speaker 8: different states, and you've got, you know, mysterious situations, you know,
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  Speaker 8: across the country in different areas with people I'm looking
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  Speaker 8: here mit NASA JPL engineer frank Man Wilde. I think
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  Speaker 8: is how you say his name? That was twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 8: These people are all over the place, So how do
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  Speaker 8: you do a top down investigation and take a look
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  Speaker 8: at what the nexus of things that they have in common?
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  Speaker 1: That's difficult.
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  Speaker 8: So I think there are enough people missing or who've
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  Speaker 8: been murdered in mysterious ways or died in mysterious ways,
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  Speaker 8: or maybe we know how they die, but we don't
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  Speaker 8: know why. There are enough of them on the screen
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  Speaker 8: right now to begin some sort of a task force
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  Speaker 8: to pull this together to figure out what we're really
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  Speaker 8: looking at now.
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  Speaker 3: And definitely Americans would be on board with that. That
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  Speaker 3: is exactly how our tax dollars should be stewarded. I
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  Speaker 3: note too that perhaps in that way of research, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know enough about the research to articulate it specifically,
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  Speaker 3: but to see perhaps is it popping up in other countries.
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  Speaker 3: Has there been a development amongst our enemies in the
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  Speaker 3: fields of research that these now decease or missing scientists
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  Speaker 3: were working on.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, and if they're missing, were they objected by a
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  Speaker 9: nefarious actor who has them and is using them against
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  Speaker 9: their will in order to ascertain what level of expertise
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  Speaker 9: they might have that might help them. But I think
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  Speaker 9: Harris is absolutely right. What this reminds me of is
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  Speaker 9: when you have victims in different areas who seem to
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  Speaker 9: die in different ways or you know, mysteriously go missing,
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  Speaker 9: and then you realize you have a serial killer. But
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  Speaker 9: you know, it takes a while to connect those dots,
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  Speaker 9: and you need a task force, you need a wider
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  Speaker 9: and more focused net in order to figure out, you know,
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  Speaker 9: and it's harder when it's classified information because in order
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  Speaker 9: to figure out if they were studying the exact same things,
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  Speaker 9: you know, if they were working together, it's much harder
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  Speaker 9: to have the experts who also have that sort of
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  Speaker 9: clearance to be able to figure out, you know, what
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  Speaker 9: the patterns are and what they were working on, if
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  Speaker 9: they knew each other, if they were working together, and
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  Speaker 9: what was it specifically about their field of study that
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  Speaker 9: would make them an attractive target for either, you know,
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  Speaker 9: a terrorist organization or a rogue nation who wants that
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  Speaker 9: sort of information. Although General mcasm's wife was very clear
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  Speaker 9: to point out on Facebook that he had no information
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  Speaker 9: about UFOs and to stop badgering her about that.
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  Speaker 2: It's very interesting how this conversation is unfolding, and that's
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  Speaker 2: why the White House says, Look, we're going to probe
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  Speaker 2: the wave of missing or dead scientists. They're all over
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  Speaker 2: the country. They're not directly connected to one another. Is
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  Speaker 2: another part of the conversation clearly here that the White
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  Speaker 2: House is making it like abundantly clear. We don't know
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  Speaker 2: if there's a connection, but when there are this many
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  Speaker 2: people who have either died or gone missing that are
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  Speaker 2: in these types of expertise, these types of fields, it
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  Speaker 2: would be ridiculous to not ask real questions.
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  Speaker 1: That is, I couldn't agree more by the way.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is just one of those moments where
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  Speaker 2: why not ask and why not look into this and
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  Speaker 2: why not just see for a moment if there is
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  Speaker 2: some sort of connection.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that was interesting about this was
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  Speaker 2: they were talking about missing like could they have been
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  Speaker 2: kidnapped against their will? And if they were kidnapped against
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  Speaker 2: their will, are they being used by a nefarious organization,
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  Speaker 2: a country, a terrorist organization, or if they were killed.
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  Speaker 1: Some have said, well, why would they be killed?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's because they thought they were doing work and
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  Speaker 2: giving America an edge. They're certainly a reason to want
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  Speaker 2: to kill scientists that are helping the US government or
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  Speaker 2: a defense contractors. If you're a foreign adversary, you would
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  Speaker 2: immediately be like, yeah, like get rid of them, because
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  Speaker 2: you're killing off a researcher, someone that has a brain,
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  Speaker 2: someone that understands and is getting closer to something that
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  Speaker 2: they don't want the United States of America to have.
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  Speaker 2: And in fact, you could also look at this like
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  Speaker 2: what's happened in Iran. You don't want to Ran to
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  Speaker 2: get a nuclear weapon, right, you don't want Iran to
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  Speaker 2: be able to produce them.
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  Speaker 1: You go off the facilities and people that were doing it.
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  Speaker 2: In many ways, you could have other countries that are
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  Speaker 2: looking at our researchers the same exact way. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's the reason why this is an important moment
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  Speaker 2: that we mentioned on this show several weeks ago, and
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  Speaker 2: now we're seeing the White House take the lead on it,
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  Speaker 2: which I think.
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  Speaker 1: Is a great thing.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about what's happening in the Middle
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  Speaker 2: East right now, and this time it is between Israel
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  Speaker 2: and Lebanon. Now I want to take you back in time.
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  Speaker 2: You may remember this Vice President JD. Vance when the
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  Speaker 2: original ceasefire was called between Iran and the US. Then
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  Speaker 2: Iran was mad and said we're going to be out
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  Speaker 2: to sease fire because we thought that included Lebanon and
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  Speaker 2: it did not. That was a lie. Now it became
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  Speaker 2: an issue moving forward. But let me remind you of
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  Speaker 2: what JD. Van said speaking to reporters after heading over
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  Speaker 2: to Hungary to campaign for Victor Orbun who lost in
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  Speaker 2: that election.
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  Speaker 1: There. Listen carefully. There seems to.
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  Speaker 10: Be a disagreement about whether Lebanon was included in this proposal.
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  Speaker 10: And the Speaker of the Parliament you're going to sit
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  Speaker 10: across from the table from an Islamabad, it's just said
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  Speaker 10: that he thinks negotiations would be unreasonable while that war
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  Speaker 10: is on going. So would you ask Israel to hold
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  Speaker 10: off strikes to allow some face for these songs.
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  Speaker 11: Well, first of all, I know there's been some conversations
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  Speaker 11: between the Israelis and the leadership of our country today.
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  Speaker 11: I haven't been involved in that because I've been busy
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  Speaker 11: doing stuff in Hungary. I'm justly supposed to get an
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  Speaker 11: update when I get on the plane. But let me
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  Speaker 11: say a couple things. First of all, I actually think
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  Speaker 11: and there's a lot of bad faith negotiation and a
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  Speaker 11: lot of bad faith, you know, propaganda going on. I
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  Speaker 11: think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding. I think the
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  Speaker 11: Iranians thought that the ceasefire andcled Lebanon, and it just didn't.
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  Speaker 11: We never made that promise, We never indicated that was
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  Speaker 11: going to be the case. What we said is that
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  Speaker 11: the ceasefire would be focused on Iran, and the ceasefire
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  Speaker 11: would be focused on America's allies, both Israel and the
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  Speaker 11: Golf are of States. Now that said, the Israelis, as
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  Speaker 11: I understand it, again, I'm supposed to get a full
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  Speaker 11: of report when I get on the plane, have actually
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  Speaker 11: offered to be frankly to check themselves a little bit
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  Speaker 11: in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our
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  Speaker 11: negotiation is successful. That's not because that is part of
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  Speaker 11: the ceasefire. I think that's the Israelis try to set
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  Speaker 11: up us up for success. And we'll, of course see
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  Speaker 11: how that unfolds in the next few days. But look,
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  Speaker 11: if Iran wants to lead this negotiation fall apart in
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  Speaker 11: a conflict where they were getting hammered over Lebanon, which
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  Speaker 11: has nothing to do with them, and which the United
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  Speaker 11: States never once said was part of the ceasefire, that's
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  Speaker 11: ultimately their choice. We think that would be dumb, but
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  Speaker 11: that's their choice.
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  Speaker 1: Now. You listen to Vance there.
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  Speaker 2: He said that on the eighth fast forward to where
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  Speaker 2: we are are now and look at the calendar. So
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  Speaker 2: what he was describing in the future was something that
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  Speaker 2: well became a reality this morning. Officials then came out
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  Speaker 2: and said they believed that the Trump Rubio spearheaded talks
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  Speaker 2: could lead to Lebanon also joining and this is big
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  Speaker 2: news President Trump's Abraham Peace Accords.
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  Speaker 1: That would be huge.
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  Speaker 2: Now, these were the first direct Israel Lebanon talks in
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  Speaker 2: decades in DC, and that means that major piece could
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  Speaker 2: also break out soon. I want you to hear that
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  Speaker 2: report on Fox News channel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, guys, good morning.
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  Speaker 12: A historic opportunity unfolding right now in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: Israeli sources telling.
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  Speaker 12: Fox News they believe that talks between Israel and Lebanon
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  Speaker 12: could lead to Lebanon joining the Abraham Accords. It's still early,
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  Speaker 12: but following direct conversations in Washington earlier this week, President
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  Speaker 12: Trump overnight on True Social posted quote trying to get
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  Speaker 12: a little breathing room between Israel and It has been
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  Speaker 12: a long time since the two leaders have spoken, like
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  Speaker 12: thirty four years.
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  Speaker 1: It will happen tomorrow. Nice.
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  Speaker 12: As Israeli ground forces continue to operate in southern Lebanon,
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  Speaker 12: Hesbela is still firing rockets and drones over the border,
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  Speaker 12: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's saying this about the situation Anajumda.
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  Speaker 13: We are about to overcome the southern Lebanon town of Benjevil.
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  Speaker 13: We are in effect about to eliminate this great stronghold
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  Speaker 13: of Hezbolah. At the same time, I gave instructions to
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  Speaker 13: the IDF yesterday to continue widening the security zone and
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  Speaker 13: to also spread it eastward toward the slopes of Mount Hermon,
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  Speaker 13: so we can better assist our Druze brothers in their
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  Speaker 13: time of distress.
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  Speaker 12: New video released by a Lebanese paramedic group shows an
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  Speaker 12: evacuation of wounded men, clearly marked medic vest they're wearing,
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  Speaker 12: taking place in Nabatia, southern Lebanon. While the wounded are
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  Speaker 12: being loaded into ambulances, another Israeli strike hits just outside
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  Speaker 12: of the vehicle. The Lebanese Health Ministry said four rescue
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  Speaker 12: workers were killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: The Israelis responded to a.
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  Speaker 12: Request for comment from Fox News saying, quote, overnight, the
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  Speaker 12: IDF targeted Hesbela combatants who we're wearing paramedic vests and
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  Speaker 12: using ambulances to move Hesbela fighters and weapons. We can
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  Speaker 12: confirm that four hesbel Of combatants were successfully killed in
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  Speaker 12: the strikes, and so a difference there in the statements
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  Speaker 12: from the Lebanese government and the Israeli government. But moving forward,
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  Speaker 12: there is optimism in the region about the possibility of
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  Speaker 12: these direct talks leading to a normalization agreement between the
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  Speaker 12: two countries.
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  Speaker 2: Now you listen to just that news report there. And
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  Speaker 2: by the way, this is what terrorists do hesblon Hamas.
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  Speaker 2: They will absolutely act like they're in an ambulance or
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  Speaker 2: delivering food or some sort of peacekeepers or whatever, and
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  Speaker 2: that's how they'll move the fighters. They've been doing that
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  Speaker 2: for years. So I have no reason to doubt exactly
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  Speaker 2: what you just heard there. But what we now have
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  Speaker 2: in this announcement is Israel and Lebanon have agreed to
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  Speaker 2: a ten day ceasefire starting at five pm Eastern Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump has just confirmed.
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  Speaker 2: He put it out there in a statement saying, I
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  Speaker 2: had an excellent conversation with the highly respected President of
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  Speaker 2: Lebanon and Prime Minister net and Yahoo, and these two
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  Speaker 2: leaders have agreed that in order to achieve peace between
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  Speaker 2: their countries, they will formally begin a ten day seas
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  Speaker 2: fire at five pm Eastern time. The President obviously very
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  Speaker 2: proud of this moment and understanding just how important it is.
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  Speaker 2: Net and Yahoo coming out after that tweet, and I
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  Speaker 2: want you to hear what he had to say in
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  Speaker 2: another report.
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  Speaker 13: We are about to overcome the southern Lebanon town of Benjebil.
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  Speaker 13: We are in effect about to eliminate this great stronghold
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  Speaker 13: of Hees below. At the same time, I gave instructions
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  Speaker 13: to the IDF yesterday to continue widening the Securiti zone
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  Speaker 13: and to also spread it eastward toward the slopes of
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  Speaker 13: Mount Hermon, so we can better assist our Druze brothers
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  Speaker 13: in their time of distress.
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  Speaker 12: This comes as we get a major update from the
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  Speaker 12: Pentagon this morning on Operation Epic Fury. While diplomatic efforts
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  Speaker 12: do play out, the Secretary of War, the Joint Chiefs Chairman,
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  Speaker 12: and the Sentcom Commander Admiral Brad Cooper spoke about how
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  Speaker 12: the United States remains prepared should cos resume.
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  Speaker 14: Our troups are highly motivated, they're focused, they're vigilant, and
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  Speaker 14: they're ready, and they're using this time to do a
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  Speaker 14: couple of things. We're rearming, we're retooling, or we're adjusting
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  Speaker 14: our tactics, techniques and procedures. There's no military in the
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  Speaker 14: world that adjusts like we do, and that's exactly what
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  Speaker 14: we're doing right now.
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  Speaker 12: We're also hearing today from the Iranians who have indicated
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  Speaker 12: that messages are being sent between the United States and
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  Speaker 12: Iran aimed at closing gaps toward a broader ceasefire deal.
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  Speaker 4: Therefore, now that the war has taking place, the negotiation
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  Speaker 4: that follows should be one in which the rights and
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  Speaker 4: interests of the Iranian nation are acknowledged. If Iran's rights
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  Speaker 4: and interests, which are the legal rights of a nation,
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  Speaker 4: are recognized and its dignity respected, naturally the negotiation can
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  Speaker 4: be fruitful.
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  Speaker 12: Regional sources are optimistic about the possibility of an agreement
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  Speaker 12: between the United States and Iran. They know how badly
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  Speaker 12: the Iranian military was decimated during Operation Epic Fury, and
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  Speaker 12: they say this lays the foundation for an agreement to
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  Speaker 12: be reached.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this also comes as President Trump came out and
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  Speaker 2: was asked a question about this deal, and I want
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  Speaker 2: you to hear what President Trump also had to say
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  Speaker 2: about this.
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  Speaker 15: Full at that I think they will. I think it's
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  Speaker 15: going to be Actually it's very exciting because it's forty
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  Speaker 15: eight years. We're going to be meeting with bb Net, Yahoo,
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  Speaker 15: as you know, and the President of Lebanon, and I
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  Speaker 15: had a great talk with both of them today. They're
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  Speaker 15: going to be having a cease fire and that'll include Hezbollah,
• 17:35
  Speaker 15: and I think I think it could be number ten
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  Speaker 15: for me.
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  Speaker 1: So you go back and you just look at history here.
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  Speaker 2: This is the first time that these countries have talked
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: in a long time, directly, the first direct agreement between
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: the two countries literally in decades. And President Trump saying, look,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: I had this excellent conversation with the President of Lebanon
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: and the Prime Minister at Yahoo, and these two leaders
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: have agreed that in order to achieve peace between their countries,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: that they will have this ceasefire. Now how long it
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: will last, we will see, but clearly this is a
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: step in the right direction. President Trump also slamming Europe
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: as well for not leading on these issues and even
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: taking a shot at them on windmills instead of buying
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: more gas and oil from the US. The President asked
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: about that as well. And just a little side note,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: it was pretty funny listen to President Providence screen that
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Europeans should be buying more gas and oil from the
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: United Spool.
• 18:31
  Speaker 15: They should be buying more from US, and what they
• 18:34
  Speaker 15: should be doing is using the Northsea. I can tell
• 18:36
  Speaker 15: you UK, I've been telling that to your Prime minister.
• 18:40
  Speaker 15: UK should open up the North CEOs, one of the
• 18:42
  Speaker 15: greatest in the world, and they should use it instead
• 18:46
  Speaker 15: of buying oil from Norway and other places that use
• 18:49
  Speaker 15: the same source.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: They should use it, and they're not doing it.
• 18:52
  Speaker 15: They're doing windmills and windows.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Windmills do one thing, you know what they do. Look
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: at a business puts you out of business.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: So the President of United States of America clearly on
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: offense on multiple different issues. Tax Day has come and gone.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: But what you may not realize is just how many
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Americans saved massive amounts of money because of Donald Trump
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: winning re election and his leadership. Now, due to President
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Trump in the passage of the Working Family's tax cuts,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Americans will see the largest refunds in history this tax week.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: The legislation made permanent and reduced income tax rates that
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: were implemented under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. It
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: also restored and strengthened business tax cuts as well, and
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: increased refunds through added benefits on top of the already
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: low rates. This is something that Democrats wanted to see expire,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: and they did not want to enhance things like no
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: tax on tips and no tax on overtime and no
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: tax on Social Security benefits for example. Now these new
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: and enhanced provisions include no taxes I mentioned on tips,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, no
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: tax on car loans. That is another big one that's
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: having a huge impact for working families. Having no tax
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: on those car loans can be thousands of dollars per
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: family depending on how many drivers you have. And we
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: also know that we had the enhanced child tax credit
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: as well and increased in the standard deduction. Countless Americans
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: are taking these deductions, resulting in hundreds, if not thousands
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: of dollars per year in extra tax savings per family.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Now here's what we know.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Initially, over fifty three million filers, nearly forty five percent
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: claimed at least one of President Trump's signature new tax cuts.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: The average refund this filing season is now over thirty.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Four hundred dollars.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: That is a massive increase of eleven percent compared to
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: the last filing season. Meaning for the average American, you
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: have real money back in your pocket. Because Donald Trump
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: was reelected and the policies he's implemented, The average tax
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: cut for filers benefiting from one of President Trump's signature
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: tax cuts is now over eight hundred dollars. Again, money
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: in your pocket. Here's something else, It's very interesting Over
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: six million filers have claimed no tax on tips and
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: an average deduction of over seven thousand, one hundred dollars.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: So if you're a family, that's seventy one hundred dollars
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: more in your pocket if you were one of those
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: working on mostly tips. Over twenty five million filers have
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: claimed no tax on overtime, with an average deduction per
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: family of over thirty one hundred dollars.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: That's real money in hard work.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: King Americans pockets over thirty million, and this may be
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: the biggest one of all. Seniors have claimed the Enhanced
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Deduction for seniors, with an average deduction savings of over
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: seven thousand, five hundred dollars if you are a senior
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: on a fixed income. This is literally a lifeline for
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: more than thirty million seniors, and an average reduction over
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: seven thousand, five hundred dollars is truly incredible. Over one
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: million filers have also claimed no tax on car loan interest,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: and they expect that number to go up, with an
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: average reduction of over eighteen hundred dollars. Now, let's just
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: talk about that eighteen hundred dollars real quick. Imagine if
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: you're a family of four that's almost eight thousand dollars
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: and benefits to you. And what are many Americans doing
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: with that money? Filling up their gas tanks, buying new tires,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: and basic maintenance on their vehicles. Over five million million
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Trump accounts have also been opened for children. One point
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: two million were eligible for the one thousand dollars pilot
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: program contribution. That is going to be compounding interest. And
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: hopefully there'll be parents that add even more money or
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: businesses that I have even more money to those Trump accounts.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: And what does that mean for children?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: It means they're getting a real nest egg to start
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: their future decades down the road. Over thirty four million
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: families have also claimed the Enhanced Child Tax Credit, which
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: is permanently doubled and expanded by the Working Families Tax
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: cuts the present Trump led More than one hundred and
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: five million filers have claimed the permanent Double Standard Deduction,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: simplifying tax filings for millions of Americans, and per the
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: CEA analysis, households received an average tax cut of almost
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: eleven hundred dollars relative to if the TCJA were not
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: to expire, And that's about twenty four hundred dollars relative
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: to if it were to have expired, meaning another massive
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: savings for Americans. Now, the lower individual rates as well
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: as the reduced rates on businesses are also bringing strong
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: investment and enticing workers to come off the sidelines and
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: into the labor force as well. As a result of
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: these policies, prime age males and females in the labor
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: force participation have reached and this is historic, their highest
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: level in decades. Female prime age labor force participation reached
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: its highest level ever in March. Thanks to Presidentald Trump's policies,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the American economy is experiencing higher employment and faster GDP growth,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: setting the nation on a path to physical balance and prosperity.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: The CEA found in its reports on the tax reforms
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: last summer that relative to the TCJA expiration at the
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: end of twenty twenty five, implementation of the bill would
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: number one, raise the level of GDP by almost five
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: percent over the next coming four years. That is also incredible. Now,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: if you look at what the president has done, not
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: only is he allowed for job growth, and I'll give
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: you an example, Factory construction is soared under President Donald Trump,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: gains an employment non essential specialty trade construction. Let me
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: just tell you where they were in the first quarter
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five at nine thy three hundred. Where
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: were they in the first quarter of twenty twenty six.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Because of President Trump's leadership and the tax benefits, that
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: number skyrocketed to fifty four thousand, two hundred. The President
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: putting America first. And here's something else that you might
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: want to look into as well and celebrate. Non supervisory
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: construction workers wages rose sharply as well.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: The prod and non supervisoral construction jobs well, they were
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: up two point six percent, and construction was up as
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: well in general one point three percent. These are incredible
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: numbers for the President of the United States of America.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: All of this is because of the President's leadership. With
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: the passage of the Working Families Tax Cuts, Americans are
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: now going to see the largest refunds in history this
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: tax week. The legislation making it permanent to reduce income
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: tax rates implemented under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: restored and strengthen business taxes as well, and tax cuts
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: that are allowing for businesses to expand as well as
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: increase refunds through added benefits on top of the already
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: low rates for small businesses as well. All of these
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: new enhanced provisions include the no tax on tips, which
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: American workers are really getting to celebrate, no tax on overtime,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: and no taxes on Social Security as well as the
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: no tax on car loans, and on top of that,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: the enhanced child tax credit. All of this comes together
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: with the increase in the Center deduction and countless Americans
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: are taking these deductions, resulting in hundreds, if not thousands
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: of dollars per year and exer tax savings for hard
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: working Americans. So this, yes, may be a frustrating week
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: in general, a lot of people paying a lot of taxes,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: but if you look at the data, you should be
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: beyond thrilled right now at what the president has done
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: compared to what you would have paid if Democrats were
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: in office. So let's just imagine the alternative and what
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: that reality would have looked like if Kamwa Harris had won.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: She made it clear that she was going to roll
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: back portions of the tax cuts and increase rates on
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: higher earners. Remember this was all about going after hard
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: working Americans. The ripple effects could have pushed taxes higher
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: across the board. Historically, when tax rates go up at
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: the top, it often impacts small businesses and job creators,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: and ultimately workers who lose their jobs or have their
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: hours cut the tax season. When you look at what
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: you just did, well, imagine how different it would have
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: looked for many Americans that were desperate for relief. We
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: know the cost of living has also gone up, and
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: if Democrats would have been in office right now in
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: the White House, they made it clear this tax season
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: would have been a historically high tax rate for virtually
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: every American that made over one hundred thousand dollars a year.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: And if you think that the Democrats were going to
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: give you no tax on tips and no tax on overtime,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: you're also wrong. They also weren't going to give you
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: the tax break on the interest on car loans, and
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: they were not going to expand that deduction the basic
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: standard deduction as the Republicans did. So I will say
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: one thing real quick. There's never a fun time in
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: general to pay taxes. But when you're paying a hell
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: of a lot less than you would have if the
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: other guys had won, it is worth celebrating and realizing
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: just how significant the savings are for countless Americans.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: And when I say countless, I.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Literally mean millions of Americans that saw some of the
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: biggest refunds in their lifetime. Don't forget to share this podcast,
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