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Trump Says Iran Is ‘No Longer a Threat’ to the Free World as Objectives Near Completion · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump delivered a prime time address to the
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  Speaker 1: nation about the conflict with Iran. We're thirty one days
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  Speaker 1: in and the President announced earlier Wednesday that Irana requested
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  Speaker 1: a cease fire, which you would consider once the straight
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  Speaker 1: up her moves was reopen now. A head of Trump's
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  Speaker 1: prime time address, the Secretary of State Marco Rubio also
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  Speaker 1: released a video explain the timing of the US military
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  Speaker 1: strikes on Iran, explaining the decision was made to prevent
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  Speaker 1: Iran from building up enough conventional weapons that keeping them
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  Speaker 1: from developing nuclear arms would become impossible in the future.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to first hear what Marco Rubio had
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  Speaker 1: to say.
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  Speaker 2: Many Americans are asking why did the United States have
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  Speaker 2: to attack Iran? Now, well, let me explain, Iran wants
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  Speaker 2: to have nuclear weapons. Of that there is zero doubt.
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  Speaker 2: If what they truly wanted, which is what they claim
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  Speaker 2: is nuclear energy, well they could have nuclear energy like
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  Speaker 2: all the other countries in the world have it, and
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  Speaker 2: that is you import the fuel and you build reactors
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  Speaker 2: above ground. That's not what Iran has done. They build
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  Speaker 2: their reactors and their facilities deep in mountains, away from
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  Speaker 2: the public glare, and they want to enrich that material.
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  Speaker 2: The same equipment that they could use to enrich material
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  Speaker 2: for energy, they could use to quickly enrich it to
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  Speaker 2: weapons grade. So it is clear that they've been offered
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  Speaker 2: every opportunity to have a nuclear program that allows them
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  Speaker 2: to have energy, not weapons, and every single time they
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  Speaker 2: have turned it down. But why the attack now will
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  Speaker 2: What was Iran trying to do? Iran was trying to
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  Speaker 2: build a conventional shield, in essence, have so many missiles,
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  Speaker 2: have so many drones that no one could attack them,
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  Speaker 2: and they were well on their way. We were on
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  Speaker 2: the verge of an Iran that had so many missiles
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  Speaker 2: and so many drones that no one could do anything
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  Speaker 2: about their nuclear weapons program in the future. That was
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  Speaker 2: an intolerable risk. Under no circumstances can a country run
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  Speaker 2: by radical Shiah clerics with an apocalyptic vision of the
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  Speaker 2: future ever possess nuclear weapons, And under no circumstances can
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  Speaker 2: they be allowed to hide and protect that program and
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  Speaker 2: their ambitions behind a shield of missiles and drones that
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  Speaker 2: no one can do anything about. This was our last
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  Speaker 2: best chance to eliminate that conventional threat, that conventional shield
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  Speaker 2: that they were trying to build, and the President made
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  Speaker 2: the right decision to wipe it out. Now, that is
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  Speaker 2: the goal of this operation, to destroy their conventional missiles
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  Speaker 2: and their drone program so they can't hide behind it
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  Speaker 2: and finally have to deal with the world seriously about
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  Speaker 2: never ever having nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: That was Secretary of State Marco Rubio, And after thirty
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  Speaker 1: one days of this operation epic Fury, here's what we
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  Speaker 1: do know. The objective number one, the President said was
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  Speaker 1: to destroy the regime's deadly ballistic missiles and completely raise
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  Speaker 1: their missile industry to the ground. Has that been successful. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Ballistic missile attacks are down ninety percent, Drone attacks are
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  Speaker 1: down ninety percent. More than eleven thousand targets have been hit,
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  Speaker 1: Overwhelming aired deal dominance over Iran flying deeper and deeper
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  Speaker 1: into the country, and strike packages from different directions are
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  Speaker 1: launching every hour. We also know that we have damage
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  Speaker 1: are destroyed more than sixty six percent of Iran's missile,
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  Speaker 1: drone and naval production facilities and shipyards. The second objective,
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  Speaker 1: the White House said was to annihilate Iran's regime's navy.
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  Speaker 1: So far that has happened, destroying or sinking more than
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty Iranian vessels, including forty four ships
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  Speaker 1: that were what were described as mine layers that is
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  Speaker 1: important for them to control the Strait of Hormuz. The
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  Speaker 1: Iranian Navy has been assessed as combat ineffective. With ninety
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  Speaker 1: two percent of their largest vessels also destroyed, Iran has
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  Speaker 1: lost the ability to project naval power. No Irdian vessels
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  Speaker 1: are currently operating in major regional waterways in the world,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the largest elimination of a navy over
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  Speaker 1: a three week period, literally since World War Two. Objective
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  Speaker 1: number three, the White House said, was to ensure the
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  Speaker 1: regime's terrace proxies can no longer destabilize the region or
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  Speaker 1: the free world and attack our armed forces. And Objective
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  Speaker 1: number four was to guarantee that Iran can never obtain
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon. President Trump has been unequivocal and consistent
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  Speaker 1: literally for decades that Iran will never be permitted to
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  Speaker 1: obtain a nuclear weapon, and that's part of the reason
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  Speaker 1: why the President decided to address the nation. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to hear everything that the President had to say.
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  Speaker 4: My fellow Americans, good evening. Let me begin by congratulating
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  Speaker 4: the team at NASA and our brave astronauts on the
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  Speaker 4: successful launch of Artimists too.
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  Speaker 3: It was quite something.
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  Speaker 4: It would be traveling further than any manned rocket has
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  Speaker 4: ever flown, and will very substantially pass the Moon, go
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  Speaker 4: around it, and come back home from a distance that
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  Speaker 4: has never been done before. It's amazing. They are on
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  Speaker 4: the way, and God bless them. These are brave people
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  Speaker 4: who God blessed us for unbelievable astronauts. As we speak
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  Speaker 4: this evening, it's been just one month since the United
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  Speaker 4: States military began Operation Epic Fury, targeting the world's number
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  Speaker 4: one state sponsor of terror, Iran. In these past four weeks,
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  Speaker 4: our armed forces have delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on
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  Speaker 4: the battlefield, victories like few people have ever seen before.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight, Iran's navy is.
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  Speaker 4: Gone, their air forces in ruins, Their leaders, most of
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  Speaker 4: them terrorist regime they led, are now dead, their command
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  Speaker 4: and control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps being decimated
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  Speaker 4: as we speak. Their ability to launch missiles and drones
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  Speaker 4: is dramatically curtailed, and their weapons factories and rocket launchers
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  Speaker 4: are being blown to pieces.
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  Speaker 3: Very few of them left.
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  Speaker 4: Never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered
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  Speaker 4: such clear and devastating, large scale losses in a matter
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  Speaker 4: of weeks. Our enemies are losing in America as it
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  Speaker 4: has been for five years under my presidency, is winning,
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  Speaker 4: and now winning bigger than ever before.
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  Speaker 3: Before discussing this.
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  Speaker 4: Current situation, I also want to thank our troops for
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  Speaker 4: the massiful job they did in taking the country.
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  Speaker 3: Of nizuel in a matter of minutes.
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  Speaker 4: That it was quick, lethal, violent, and respected by everyone
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  Speaker 4: all over the world. After rebuilding our military during my
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  Speaker 4: first term, we have by far the strong military anywhere
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  Speaker 4: in the world.
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  Speaker 3: And now we're working.
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  Speaker 4: Along with Venezuela and our in a true sense joint
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  Speaker 4: venture partners. We're getting along incredibly well in the production
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  Speaker 4: and sale of massive amounts of oil and gas, the
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  Speaker 4: second largest reserves on Earth after the United States of America.
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  Speaker 4: We're now totally independent of the Middle East, and yet
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  Speaker 4: we are there to help.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have to be there.
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  Speaker 4: We don't need their oil, we don't need anything they have,
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  Speaker 4: but we're there to help our allies. Tonight, I want
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  Speaker 4: to provide an update on the tremendous progress our warriors
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  Speaker 4: have made in a run and discuss why Operation Epic
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  Speaker 4: fury is necessary for the safety of America and the
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  Speaker 4: security of the free world. From the very first day
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  Speaker 4: I announced my campaign for president in twenty fifteen, I
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  Speaker 4: have vowed that I would never allow Iran to have
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  Speaker 4: a nuclear weapon. This fannacular regime has been chanting death
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  Speaker 4: to America, death to Israel for forty seven years. Their
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  Speaker 4: proxies were behind the murder of two hundred and forty
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  Speaker 4: one Americans and the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, the
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  Speaker 4: slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs.
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  Speaker 4: They were involved in the attack on the USS coal
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  Speaker 4: and they're carried out the countless other heinous acts, including
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  Speaker 4: the blood just horrible, bloody atrocities of October seventh in Israel,
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  Speaker 4: something that most people have never seen anything like it.
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  Speaker 4: This murderer's regime also recently killed forty five thousand of
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  Speaker 4: their own people who were protesting in Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Forty five thousand dead.
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  Speaker 4: For these terrorists to have nuclear weapons would be an
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  Speaker 4: intolerable threat.
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  Speaker 3: The most violent and thuggish.
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  Speaker 4: On Earth would be free to carry out their campaigns
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  Speaker 4: of terror, coercion, conquest, and mass murder from behind a
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  Speaker 4: nuclear shield. I will never let that happen, and neither
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  Speaker 4: should any of our past presidents. This situation has been
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  Speaker 4: going on for forty seven years and should have been
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  Speaker 4: handled long before I arrived in office. I did many
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  Speaker 4: things during my two terms and offers to stop the
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  Speaker 4: quest for nuclear weapons by Iran. First, and perhaps most importantly,
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  Speaker 4: I killed General Cassem Solomoni in my first term. He
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  Speaker 4: was an evil, genius, brilliant person, a horrible human being, however,
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  Speaker 4: the father of the roadside bomb, and he lived just horrible.
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  Speaker 4: What he did, Iran would have been perhaps in far
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  Speaker 4: better stronger position he lived. We would have had Probab
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  Speaker 4: a different conversation tonight, but you know what, we'd still
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  Speaker 4: be winning and winning big. And then, very importantly, I
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  Speaker 4: terminated Barack Hussein Obama is a rand nuclear deal, a disaster.
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  Speaker 4: Obama gave them one point seven billion dollars in cash,
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  Speaker 4: green green cash, took it out of banks from Virginia,
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  Speaker 4: DC and Maryland all the cash they had, flew it
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  Speaker 4: by airplanes in an attempt to buy their respect and loyalty.
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  Speaker 4: But it didn't work. They laughed at our president and
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  Speaker 4: went on with their mission to have a nuclear bomb.
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  Speaker 4: His Iran deal would have led to a colossal arsenal,
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  Speaker 4: massive nuclear weapons for Iran. They would have had them
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  Speaker 4: years ago, and they would.
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  Speaker 3: Have used them. Would have been a different world.
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  Speaker 4: There would have been no Middle East and no Israel
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  Speaker 4: right now, in my opinion, the opinion of a lot
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  Speaker 4: of great experts, had I not terminated that terrible deal,
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  Speaker 4: I was so honored to do it. I was so
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  Speaker 4: proud to do it. It was so bad right from
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  Speaker 4: the beginning. Essentially, I did what no other president was
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  Speaker 4: willing to do. They made mistakes, and I am correcting them.
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  Speaker 4: My first preference was always the path of diplomacy. Yet
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  Speaker 4: the regime continued their relentless quest for nuclear weapons and
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  Speaker 4: rejected every attempt at an agreement. For this reason, in June,
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  Speaker 4: I ordered a strike on Iran's key nuclear facilities, an
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  Speaker 4: Operation Midnight Hammer. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Those
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  Speaker 4: beautiful B two bombers performed magnificently. We are systematically dismantling
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  Speaker 4: the regime's ability to threaten America or project power outside
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  Speaker 4: of their borders.
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  Speaker 3: That means eliminating Iran's navy.
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  Speaker 4: Which is now absolutely destroyed, hurting their air force and
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  Speaker 4: their missile program. At levels never seen before and annihilating
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  Speaker 4: their defense industrial We've done all of it. Their navy
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  Speaker 4: is gone, their air force is gone, their missiles are
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  Speaker 4: just about used up or beaten. Taken together, these actions
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  Speaker 4: will cripple Iran military, crush their ability to support terrorist proxies,
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  Speaker 4: and deny them the ability to build a nuclear bomb.
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  Speaker 4: Our armed forces have been extraordinary. There's never been anything
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  Speaker 4: like it. Militarily. Everyone is talking about it, and tonight
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  Speaker 4: I'm pleased to say that these core strategic objectives are
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  Speaker 4: nearing completion. As we celebrate this progress, we think especially
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  Speaker 4: of the thirteen American warriors who have laid down their
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  Speaker 4: lives in this fight to prevent our children from ever
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  Speaker 4: having to face a nuclear Iran. Twice this past month,
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  Speaker 4: I have traveled to Dover Air Force Base, and it's
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  Speaker 4: been something I wanted to be with those heroes as
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  Speaker 4: the return to American soil. When I was with them,
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  Speaker 4: their families, their parents, their wives, husbands. We salute them,
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  Speaker 4: and now we must honor them by completing the mission.
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  Speaker 3: For which they gave their lives.
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  Speaker 4: At every single one of the people they loved, one said,
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  Speaker 4: please please finish the job, every one of them and
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  Speaker 4: We are going to finish the job, and we're going
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  Speaker 4: to finish it very fast.
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  Speaker 3: We're getting very close.
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  Speaker 4: I want to thank our allies in the Middle East, Israel,
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  Speaker 4: Saudi Arabia, Guitar, the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain. They've been
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  Speaker 4: great and we will not let them get hurt or
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  Speaker 4: fail in any way, shape or form. Many Americans have
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  Speaker 4: been concerned to see the recent rise in gasoline prices.
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  Speaker 3: Here at home.
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  Speaker 4: The short term increase has been entirely the result of
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  Speaker 4: the Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil
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  Speaker 4: tankers and neighboring countries that have nothing to do with
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  Speaker 4: the conflict. This is yet more proof that Iran can
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  Speaker 4: never be trusted with nuclear weapons. They will use them,
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  Speaker 4: and they will use them quickly. It would lead to
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  Speaker 4: decades of extortion, economic pain, and instability worse than we
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  Speaker 4: can ever imagine. The United States has never been better
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  Speaker 4: prepared economically to confront this threat. You all know that
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  Speaker 4: we built the strongest economy in history. We're going through
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  Speaker 4: it right now, the strongest in history. In one year,
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  Speaker 4: we've taken a dead and crippled country. I hate to
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  Speaker 4: say that, but we were dead and crippled country after
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  Speaker 4: the last administration and made it the hottest country anywhere
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  Speaker 4: in the world by far with no inflation, record setting
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  Speaker 4: investments coming into the United States over eighteen trillion dollars,
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  Speaker 4: and the highest stock market ever with fifty three all
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  Speaker 4: time record highs in just one year. It all was
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  Speaker 4: does to get rid of a cancer that has long simmered.
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  Speaker 4: It's known as the nuclear Iran and they didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: What was coming. They've never imagined it.
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  Speaker 4: Remember, because of our drill, baby, drill program, America has
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  Speaker 4: plenty of gas.
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  Speaker 3: We have so much gas.
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  Speaker 4: Under my leadership, we are number one producer of oil
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  Speaker 4: and gas on the planet, without even discussing the millions
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  Speaker 4: of barrels that were getting from Venezuela. Because of the
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  Speaker 4: Trump administration's policies, we produce more oil and gas than
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  Speaker 4: Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Think of that, Saudi Arabia
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  Speaker 4: and Russia combined, and that number will soon be substantially
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  Speaker 4: higher than that. There's no country like us anywhere in
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  Speaker 4: the world. And we're in great shape for the future.
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  Speaker 4: The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormos
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  Speaker 4: Strait and won't be taking any in the future.
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  Speaker 3: We don't need it. We haven't needed it, and we
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  Speaker 3: don't need it.
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  Speaker 4: We've beaten and completely decimated Iran. They are decimated, both
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  Speaker 4: militarily and economically and every other way. And the countries
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  Speaker 4: of the world that do receive oil through the hormone
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  Speaker 4: strait must take care of that passage. They must cherish it.
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  Speaker 4: They must grab it and cherish it. They can do
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  Speaker 4: it easily. We will be helpful, but they should take
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  Speaker 4: the lead in protecting the oil that they so desperately
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  Speaker 4: depend on. So to those countries that can't get fuel,
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  Speaker 4: many of which refuse to get involved in the decapitation
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  Speaker 4: of Iran, we had to do it ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: I have a suggestion.
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  Speaker 4: Number one, buy oil from the United States of America.
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  Speaker 4: We have plenty, we have so much. And number two,
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  Speaker 4: build up some delayed courage. Should have done it before,
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  Speaker 4: should have done it with us as we asked. Go
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  Speaker 4: to the strait and just take it, protect it, use
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  Speaker 4: it for yourselves. Iran has been essentially decimated. The hard
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  Speaker 4: part is done, so it should be easy. And in
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  Speaker 4: any event, when this conflict is over, the strait will
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  Speaker 4: open up naturally.
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  Speaker 3: It'll just open up naturally. They're going to want to
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  Speaker 3: be able.
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  Speaker 4: To sell oil because that's all they have to try
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  Speaker 4: and rebuild. It will resume the flowing, and the gas
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  Speaker 4: prices will rapidly come back down.
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  Speaker 3: Stock prices will rapidly go back up.
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  Speaker 4: They haven't come down very much, Frankly, they came down
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  Speaker 4: a little bit, but they've had some very good days
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  Speaker 4: over the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: We've done actually much better than I thought.
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  Speaker 4: But we had to take that little journey to a
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  Speaker 4: Ran to get rid of this horrible threat. With our
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  Speaker 4: historic tax cuts, where people are just now talking about
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  Speaker 4: receiving larger refunds than they ever thought possible. They are
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  Speaker 4: getting so much more money than they thought. That's from
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  Speaker 4: the great, big, beautiful bill. Our economy is strong and
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  Speaker 4: improving by the day, and it will soon be roaring
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  Speaker 4: back like never before. It will top the level that
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  Speaker 4: it was a month ago. I've made clear from the
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  Speaker 4: beginning of Operation Epic Fury that we will continue until
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  Speaker 4: our objectives are fully achieved. Thanks to the progress we've made,
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  Speaker 4: I can say tonight that we are on track to
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  Speaker 4: complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly. We
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  Speaker 4: are going to hit them extremely hard. Over the next
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  Speaker 4: two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back
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  Speaker 4: to the Stone ages where they belong. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 4: discussions are ongoing. Regime change was not our goal. We
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  Speaker 4: never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because
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  Speaker 4: of all of their original leader's death.
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  Speaker 3: They're all dead.
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  Speaker 4: The new group is less radical and much more reasonable. Yet,
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  Speaker 4: if during this period of time no deal is made,
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  Speaker 4: we have our eyes on key targets. If there is
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  Speaker 4: no deal, we are going to hit each and every
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  Speaker 4: one of their electric generating plants very hard, and probably simultaneously.
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  Speaker 4: We have not hit their oil, even though that's the
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  Speaker 4: easiest target of all because it would not give them
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  Speaker 4: even a small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we
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  Speaker 4: could hit it and it would be gone and is
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  Speaker 4: not a thing they could do about it. We are
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  Speaker 4: unstoppable as a military force. The nuclear sites that we
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  Speaker 4: obliterated with the B two bombers have been hit so
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  Speaker 4: hard that it would take months to get near the
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  Speaker 4: nuclear dust, and we have it under intense satellite surveillance
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  Speaker 4: and control. If we see them make a move, even
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  Speaker 4: a move for it, will hit them with missiles very hard.
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  Speaker 3: Again.
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  Speaker 4: We have all the cards, they have none. It's very
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  Speaker 4: important that we keep this conflict in perspective. American involvement
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  Speaker 4: in World War One lasted one year, seven months and
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  Speaker 4: five days. World War Two lasted for three years, eight
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  Speaker 4: months and twenty five days. The Korean War lasted for
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  Speaker 4: three years, one month, and two days. The Vietnam War
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  Speaker 4: lasted for nineteen years, five months, and twenty nine days.
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  Speaker 4: Iraq went on for eight years, eight months and twenty
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  Speaker 4: eight days. We are in this military operation, so powerful,
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  Speaker 4: so brilliant, against one of the most powerful countries for
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  Speaker 4: thirty two days, and the country has been eviscerated and
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  Speaker 4: essentially is really no longer a threat. They were the
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  Speaker 4: bully of the Middle East, but they're the bully no longer.
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  Speaker 4: This is a true investment in your children and your
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  Speaker 4: grandchildren's future.
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  Speaker 3: The whole world is.
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  Speaker 4: Watching, and they can't leave the power, strength, and brilliants.
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  Speaker 4: They just can't believe what they're seeing. They leave it
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  Speaker 4: to your imagination, but they can't believe what they're seeing
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  Speaker 4: the brilliance of the United States military. Tonight, every American
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  Speaker 4: can look forward to a day when we are finally
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  Speaker 4: free from the wickedness of Iranian aggression and the specter
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  Speaker 4: of nuclear blackmail. Because of the actions we have taken,
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  Speaker 4: we are on the cusp of ending iran sinister threat
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  Speaker 4: to America and the world. And I'll tell you, the
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  Speaker 4: world is watching. And when we do, when it's all over,
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  Speaker 4: the United States will be safer, stronger, more prosperous, and
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  Speaker 4: greater than it has ever been before. May God bless
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  Speaker 4: the men and women of the United States Armed Forces,
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  Speaker 4: and may God bless the United States of America.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much, and good night.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: The present's message is obviously very clear. US combat capabilities
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: are increasing, and they're growing more lethal and dominant by
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  Speaker 1: the day, while the Iranian terrorist regime's ability to reopen
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and to respond has in essence declined rapidly. The President said,
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  Speaker 1: we will not relent until the Iranian teris regime is
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  Speaker 1: in a place of complete and unconditional surrender. We will
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  Speaker 1: do so on our timeline, he said, and at our
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  Speaker 1: choosing now. RAN's new leader has already asked for a ceasefire.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: President Trump also being clear that he will consider this
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  Speaker 1: only if the Strait of Hormus is open again. President
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Trump is committed to keeping oil flowing and his entire
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: team has moved quickly to address any temporary disruptions while
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: our military successfully completes their objectives, which he says are
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: non negotiable. We're offering political risk insurance for tankers passing
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: through the Strait of Hormus, coordinating releases from the Strategic
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Patrolum Reserve, the President said, and international reserves, as well
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: as issuing targeted waivers deep oil and energy flowing freely. Now,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the temporary disruption will deliver massive long term benefits is
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: what the White House wants you to understand. Once a
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: RAN's threat is eliminated, global energy supplies will be more
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: secure and prices will drop significantly. President Trump remains confident
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: that the objectives of this operation will be accomplished in
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: swift fashion. The bottom line is this, As the President
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: addressed the nation, you need to understand, he said, he's
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: not only not going to back down from killing terrorists
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: and finally having the courage to do with American presents
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  Speaker 1: for nearly fifty years, have all contemplated but failed to execute.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: The rogue Iranian regime is killed and maimed thousands of
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: US soldiers over the years. Their brutal attacks and threats
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  Speaker 1: will end. Under President Trump, America will win and the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: terrorists Iranian regime, he said clearly, will be defeated, and
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: that is non negotiable. Now as the President had all
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: of this to say from the White House, there's also
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: another question about our ally. What is Israel saying? Well?
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: In recent remarks, Net and Yahoo has framed this conflict
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: as an existential threat for Israel's survival, warning that a
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Ram's regime posed a direct and growing threat through its
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: nuclear ambitions, its ballistic missile programs, and its network of
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: terrorist proxies across the region. Israeli leadership making one thing
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: very clear. This war, in their mind, is far from
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: over and it is entering a sustained aggressive phase. According
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: to Israeli officials, their strategy is not limited to short
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: term strikes. This is a multi week I'm going to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: say that again, a multi week ongoing military campaign. In fact,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Israel's military spokesman confirmed that operations are expected to continue
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: for weeks to come, emphasizing that they have the targets,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: the resources, demand power to sustain a prolonged defensive if necessary. Now,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: what is exactly is Israel doing right now? Well, they
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: are continuing their large scale air strikes deep into Iran,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: including multiple waves of attacks on key infrastructure and strategic targets.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: They're doing this also with the United States of America.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: These strikes are aimed at weakening Iran's military capabilities, disrupting
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: command structures, and targeting leadership within Iran's network, including groups
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: like Hezbolah. The second thing is Israel's pursuing a broader
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: strategy that goes just beyond military assets. According to net Yahoo,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the goal is to decimate the Ranian regime's ability to operate,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: whether through direct strikes, weakening its military, or increasing internal
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: pressure on the regime itself. There are essentially three parallel
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: tracks and Israel's strategy military pressure, sustaining air strikes and
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: targeted operations. Leadership targeting is part two that would mean
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: eliminating key figures tied to Iran as well as its
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: proxy networks, and three regimed destabilization, creating conditions that could
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  Speaker 1: weaken or even collapse the leadership in Tehran now Netna,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: who has also been cleared. Just like President Trump, these
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: strategies are not separate. They're being executed at the same
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: time and at the same time, Israel is also expanding
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: its position regionally. Netna Who says Israel is building new
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: alliances with countries in the region that share concerns about Iran,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: signaling that this conflict could reshape the Middle East power
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: structure moving forward. Israel officials also say the war has
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: already passed the halfway point, but they are not putting
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: a fixed timeline on the end of this conflict. Instead,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the timeline, they say, well be driven by one thing,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: the results. That means continued strikes on Iranian infrastructure, continued
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: targeting of proxy forces, and leadership sustained push to eliminate
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: what Israel calls the Iranian threat entirely, saying this is
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: their moment. Netnah Who has also struck a confident tone,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: claiming that Israel has already delivered major strategic blows to
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Iran and its allies in what he described as a
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: series of powerful but important strikes that have significantly weakened
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: their capabilities, and in a symbolic message as well, netnah
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  Speaker 1: Who recently compared the campaign to historic moments of survival
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: for Israel, arguing that the country is once again facing
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: down a major threat and emerging stronger. So from Israel's perspective,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: this is very clear. Israel is not slowing down. The
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: strategy is clear, sustained pressure, expand operation, and keep striking
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: until Iran's military capability, regional influence, and long term threat
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: are fundamentally reduced significantly, And according to net Yahoo and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Israeli leadership, the next several weeks could be some of
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the most decisive and intense attacks of the entire conflict.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: That also seems to be echoing much of what President
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump was warning could come as well. So the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: two countries seem to be communicating extremely well and the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: President is obviously the one leading the way. Make sure,
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