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Trump Teases ‘Other Things Happening’ After Bold Tanker Seizure · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You hold a drug here.
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  Speaker 2: No, I haven't already thought too much about him. He's
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  Speaker 2: been fairly hostile to the United States, and he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: have himself some big problems if he doesn't wise up.
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  Speaker 2: Columbia's producing a lot of drugs. They have cocaine factories
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  Speaker 2: that they make cocaine, as you know, and they sell
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  Speaker 2: it right into the They say, so he better wise up,
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  Speaker 2: or he'll be next. He'll be next. So he said,
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  Speaker 2: hope he's listening.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna be next.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 1: Good Thursday morning. It's so nice to have you with
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  Speaker 1: us on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got
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  Speaker 1: one big story for you. Donald Trump made a promise
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  Speaker 1: to keep us safe, especially from the drugs that were
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  Speaker 1: killing countless Americans with fetnyl overdoses. Well, now the President
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  Speaker 1: is going after some of those cartel individuals, including Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: Trump now says the US has seized an oil tanker
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  Speaker 1: off the coast of venezul whale up in a massive move.
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  Speaker 1: I've got all the details for you and what this
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  Speaker 4: Story number one.
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  Speaker 1: You can file this story under this is exactly what
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  Speaker 1: I've voted for when I voted for President Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: The United States has seized a large oil tanker off
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  Speaker 1: the coast of Venezuela in a major escalation of tensions
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  Speaker 1: between Washington and Caracas. Is how the mainstream media put it.
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  Speaker 1: In reality, this is a huge victory for law and order.
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump publicly announced the seizure at the White House,
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  Speaker 1: describing the vessel as a very large tanker. Here's the
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  Speaker 1: President in his own words, Well.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. It's been an interesting day from
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  Speaker 2: the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just
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  Speaker 2: seized a tanker on the coast of VENEZUELA large tanker,
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  Speaker 2: very large, largest whatever, seass and other things are happening,
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  Speaker 2: So you'll be seeing that later and you'll be talking
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  Speaker 2: about that later with some other neahble.
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  Speaker 1: The president's grinn on his face at the White House
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  Speaker 1: for this moment where he decided to talk to the
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  Speaker 1: media for a second and tease them about exactly what
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  Speaker 1: had happened. The largest ever seized oil tanker by US
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  Speaker 1: forces truly is law and order. The operation was executed
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  Speaker 1: by US authorities including the US Coast Guard, the FBI,
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  Speaker 1: Homeland Security Investigations, Navy support assets, and these forces coordinated
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  Speaker 1: the boarding of the tanker, even shown in a public
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  Speaker 1: video that has been released. Now, let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: tanker itself. It is called the Skipper. It was formerly
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  Speaker 1: known as Idisa and flagged in Panama. The ship was
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  Speaker 1: sanctioned by the United States for years because US officials
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  Speaker 1: say it was involved in transporting illicit Venezuelan and potentially
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  Speaker 1: Iranian oil in violation of US sanctions. He was reportedly
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  Speaker 1: heading towards Cuba carrying Venezuelan crude oil. US authorities justified
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  Speaker 1: the Caesar by saying the tanker was transporting oil in
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  Speaker 1: violation of US sanctions and part of an ellistic oil
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  Speaker 1: shipping network that it supports sanctioned entities, including direct ties
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  Speaker 1: to Iran. President Trump also stated publicly that the tanker
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  Speaker 1: was seized for a very good reason. He didn't publicly
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  Speaker 1: disclose full legal grounds or the ship's ownership in detail.
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  Speaker 1: That will be coming in the days ahead. But what
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  Speaker 1: we do know is Venezuela's reaction is exactly what you
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  Speaker 1: would expect. The Venezuelan government, led by Nicholas Maduro, strongly
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  Speaker 1: condemned the actions, called the seizure theft an Act of
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  Speaker 1: international Piracy. Caracas says the move violates a sovereignty and
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  Speaker 1: is driven by US interests in Venezuela's natural resources and
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  Speaker 1: oil wealth. Venezuela has valid to raise the issue at
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  Speaker 1: the International quote Forums now. The seizure has heightened geopolitical
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  Speaker 1: tensions between the US and Venezuela to a new level,
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  Speaker 1: is how Reuters put it this evening. It contributed to
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  Speaker 1: a rise in global oil prices because of concern about
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  Speaker 1: disruptions to Venezuelan oil exports which are in bargot, admitting
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  Speaker 1: now in the world market that yes, these black ships
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  Speaker 1: and this oil that is not supposed to be sold
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  Speaker 1: is happening each and every day, which brings me to
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  Speaker 1: part two of the story. As the Left is trying
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  Speaker 1: to act like this is some shocking move, even CNN
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  Speaker 1: security analysts says that America seizing an oil tanker is
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  Speaker 1: quote absolutely normal. Yes, even on CNN they're saying that
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  Speaker 1: this is normal and law and order.
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  Speaker 5: Listen carefully bring in CNN national security analyst Beth Sanner. That's,
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  Speaker 5: first of all, a lot of people don't understand the
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  Speaker 5: basic idea of what's going on here. Nicholas Maduro, who
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  Speaker 5: is in charge of Venezuela, president of Venezuela. He's there
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  Speaker 5: because of fraud, like he should not be the leader
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  Speaker 5: of Venezuela.
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  Speaker 6: He lost the election.
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  Speaker 5: He lost the election and he kept power instead President
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  Speaker 5: Trump is My larger point is that President Trump is
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  Speaker 5: it's not wild for people in the West to think
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  Speaker 5: Madora is not there legitimately, and there has been this
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  Speaker 5: pressure campaign from President Trump for him to step down.
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  Speaker 5: Seizing an oil tanker, that's a much bigger deal and
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  Speaker 5: a much bigger than these narco terrorist boats, as the
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  Speaker 5: President calls them, people shooting them, seizing a tanker. How
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  Speaker 5: could this escalate the conflict with Venezuela.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, we've had sanctions on Venezuelan oil since
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  Speaker 6: the first Trump administration and kept them, kept them, So
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  Speaker 6: to me, this is absolutely normal.
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  Speaker 5: I mean seizing an oil tanker.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we've been seizing Iranian oil tankers in the past.
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  Speaker 6: We also, according to the law that I've read, we
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  Speaker 6: can that oil is up for forfeiture, so we could
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  Speaker 6: keep that. We've kept Iranian oil in the past. So
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  Speaker 6: I actually think that this is less controversial in terms
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  Speaker 6: of law and sanctions and what has been you know,
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  Speaker 6: disputed or not disputed. Like I think this is actually
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  Speaker 6: a pretty you know, check the box case. Now, you know,
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  Speaker 6: what will this mean in terms of escalation?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: You know, what is he going to do? What is
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  Speaker 6: Maduro gonna do? Is he gonna step aside because we're
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  Speaker 6: sanctioning this oil. I mean, you know, we pick up
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  Speaker 6: this oil tanker, it's one oil tanker.
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  Speaker 5: Probably not, and it's unlikely that he would.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to CNN and the analyst there I love
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  Speaker 1: how Jake Tapper acts like he's shocked when she says,
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  Speaker 1: America sees as oil tankers and we've done this in
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  Speaker 1: the past. It's absolutely normal. But they're trying to act
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  Speaker 1: like this is some shocking move. By the way, the
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  Speaker 1: President United States of America made it clear this was
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  Speaker 1: going to be something they were going to do, which
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  Speaker 1: comes down to the video that has come out showing
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  Speaker 1: just how powerful the United States military can be and
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement can be when they decide to act and
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  Speaker 1: are able to do their job because of a president
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  Speaker 1: of the United States of America that's willing to allow
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  Speaker 1: them to do their job. Here's how Fox News described
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  Speaker 1: the taking of that oil tanker.
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  Speaker 7: Dramatic new video as the US seizes an oil tanker
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  Speaker 7: off of the Venezuelan coast. President Trump did not say why,
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  Speaker 7: but he did say, quote, other things are happening. The
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  Speaker 7: administration has been striking alleged Narco terrorist vessels near Venezuela
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  Speaker 7: and is putting heavy pressure on disputed President Nicholas Maduro.
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  Speaker 7: Senior foreign policy correspondent Jillian Turner starts us off tonight
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  Speaker 7: from the State Department.
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  Speaker 3: Even Jillian good evening to you bat President Trump confirms
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  Speaker 3: the United States military has seized this crude oil tanker
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  Speaker 3: off the coast of Venezuela. After insisting for months now
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  Speaker 3: that the US is in fact at war with drug
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  Speaker 3: cartels that are running these boats in the US southcom region.
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  Speaker 3: We've obtained this video that the Attorney General Pambondi posted
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  Speaker 3: on social media just a moment ago. You can see
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  Speaker 3: here during this seizure. She says, the FBI, the Homeland
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  Speaker 3: Security Departments, and Coast Guard executed this operation with support
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  Speaker 3: from the War Department. You can see here US service
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  Speaker 3: members landing a military helicopter on this vessel before then
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  Speaker 3: disembarking and entering. The US had issued a warrant we
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  Speaker 3: are learning for this crude oil tanker, alleging it had
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  Speaker 3: been used to transport illegal oil from Venezuela and Iran
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  Speaker 3: in support of foreign terrorist organizations. The seizure comes after
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  Speaker 3: senior official presented the President with potential war plans and
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  Speaker 3: then deployed major navy assets to the region. While the
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  Speaker 3: President himself declined to state a reason for today's seizure,
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  Speaker 3: which could very well constitute an act of war, he
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  Speaker 3: did say this could we see American troops on the
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  Speaker 3: ground in Venezuela.
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  Speaker 2: I don't come, and I wouldn't say that one way
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  Speaker 2: or the other.
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  Speaker 3: In this case, President Trump says, the victor will in
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  Speaker 3: fact take the spoils.
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  Speaker 2: When you have to follow the tanker, you know here
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  Speaker 2: a good Desmond.
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  Speaker 1: Just followed the tanker.
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  Speaker 2: A helicopter followed the tanker. I assume we're.
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  Speaker 8: Going to keep the The US military strikes on these
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  Speaker 8: alleged drug boats in the region have so far killed
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  Speaker 8: at least eighty seven people, a death toll that's become
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  Speaker 8: increasingly the focus of scrutiny on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers
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  Speaker 8: have zeroed in on this so called double tap strike
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  Speaker 8: that was carried out on September second.
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  Speaker 3: Now yesterday, the Secretaries of State and wore briefed key
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  Speaker 3: lawmakers on Capitol Hill about these September second boat strikes.
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  Speaker 3: They indicated reportedly that they are at least considering the
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  Speaker 3: option to release the full unedited video footage of those strikes.
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  Speaker 3: That day, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer told reporters after the
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  Speaker 3: briefing that Secretary Hegsat said to him they need to
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  Speaker 3: study these tapes before they make a determination Brett, Jillian
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  Speaker 3: Turner love the State Department, Jillian, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So there it is a president standing up for this country,
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  Speaker 1: holding these narco terraces accountable, seizing the oil and the
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  Speaker 1: tankers that are being used to prop up a regime
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  Speaker 1: that is coming after America, and also working with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: And what's the point of having I would say to
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  Speaker 1: those on the left sanctions if you don't actually enforce them.
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  Speaker 1: These sanctions, by the way, have been around in Democrats administrations,
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  Speaker 1: including Biden, including Barack Obamas. But if you don't enforce
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  Speaker 1: the sanctions on these countries, they're meaningless. So really, what
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  Speaker 1: the President's doing is something pretty simple. He's saying, we
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  Speaker 1: have sanctions, we are going to take them seriously, we
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  Speaker 1: are going to enforce them, and we're going to make
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  Speaker 1: them pay a major price. And all of this is
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that we keep this country safe from
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  Speaker 1: these narco terras that have been flooding this country. Venezuela's
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  Speaker 1: a great example with drugs and fetnyl that is killing
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  Speaker 1: tens of thousands of Americans. Well done, President Trump.
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