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GOP Warns of Democrat Plans to Target U.S. Troops as Trump & Hegseth Justify Military Action · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 4: Good Wednesday morning, it's nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 4: on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got one
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  Speaker 4: major story for you. President holding a cabinet meeting and
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  Speaker 4: making it very clear he stands behind the strikes against
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  Speaker 4: the Narco terrorists that are bringing drugs in this country
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  Speaker 4: that are killing us. This as Democrats are now threatening
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  Speaker 4: war crimes against men and women in uniform. So what
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  Speaker 4: did the President and the Secretary of War have to say?
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  Speaker 4: starts right now. Story number one, President Donald Trump had
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  Speaker 4: a cabinet meeting, and it's an important one because it
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  Speaker 4: shows just how transparent the President the United States of
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  Speaker 4: America is. The timing was also very important after Democrats
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  Speaker 4: are saying they smell blood in the water politically right
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  Speaker 4: now as they defend the narco terrorists who are sending
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  Speaker 4: drugs into the United States of America that are killing
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  Speaker 4: Americans at a record rate of almost three hundred a day.
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  Speaker 4: Mark Kelly and many other Democrats are now leading the
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  Speaker 4: attack on the Secretary of War Pete Hedgseth over the
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  Speaker 4: drug boats. And the same people that are now saying
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  Speaker 4: the President doesn't have the right to strike these boats
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  Speaker 4: or the terrorists on the boats are the same people
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  Speaker 4: that literally did nothing after Biden drone attacked children. No,
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  Speaker 4: they did not say that was a war crime. They
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  Speaker 4: did not call for the President to be locked up
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  Speaker 4: or the man in charge at the Pentagon. Instead, they
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  Speaker 4: look the other way. This time, the President has made
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  Speaker 4: it clear we're going after these terrorists in these terrorist
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  Speaker 4: organizations who were killing Americans. And the President also showed
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  Speaker 4: during the cabinet meeting that he has no problem answering
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  Speaker 4: the question as the Secretary of War was sitting literally
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  Speaker 4: right next to him. I want to play for you
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  Speaker 4: this back and forth with the media, and I want
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  Speaker 4: you to actually hear what the President had to say,
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  Speaker 4: not just a SoundBite that the media is putting out,
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  Speaker 4: but the President in his own words. And I want
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  Speaker 4: you to hear what he had to say about the
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  Speaker 4: fog of war, the second strike on the drug boats
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  Speaker 4: survivors as the media has described it, and why he
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  Speaker 4: is going after them now. I'll say it again this
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  Speaker 4: This is an unedited version and it includes a Secretary
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  Speaker 4: of Defense sitting right next to the president. So listen
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  Speaker 4: to the President explain exactly why he's doing this and
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  Speaker 4: why I believe so many Americans are standing behind him.
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  Speaker 5: Good President, thank you so much for taking questions with
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  Speaker 5: your assembled cabinet. I wanted to clarify something that you
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  Speaker 5: had said on Sunday regarding the boat strikes near Venezuela.
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  Speaker 5: And you had said that you didn't know if the
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  Speaker 5: second strike on that one boat had happened, but you
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't have wanted it. Now that your administration has acknowledged
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  Speaker 5: that it happened, do you support that second strike? And
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  Speaker 5: mister Secretary, I want to clarify something you had said
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  Speaker 5: in an interview back in September. I believe on Fox
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  Speaker 5: News you said that you had watched that strike live
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  Speaker 5: on television in real time. Did you know that there
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  Speaker 5: were survivors after the initial strike?
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, all I know is this every boat that
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  Speaker 1: you see get blown up, we saved twenty five thousand,
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  Speaker 1: on average lives, twenty five thousand lives.
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  Speaker 2: They've been sending enough of.
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  Speaker 1: This horror, fentanyl and other things like cocaine and other things.
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  Speaker 2: But Fedol right now is the leader of the pack
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  Speaker 2: to kill our entire nation.
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  Speaker 1: Because a little speck on the head of a pin
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  Speaker 1: could kill somebody is very dangerous stuff. I know so
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  Speaker 1: many people with their sons where drug addicts. They had
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  Speaker 1: one little sample and they died.
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  Speaker 2: They died.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't believe it. As far as the attack is concerned,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't, you know. I still haven't gotten a lot
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  Speaker 1: of information because they rely on Pete.
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  Speaker 2: But to me, it was an attack.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't one strike, two strikes, three strikes. Somebody asked
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  Speaker 1: me a question about the second strike. I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: about the second strike. I didn't know anything about people.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't involved. I knew they took out about but
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  Speaker 1: I would say this, they had a strike. I hear
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  Speaker 1: the gentleman that was in charge of that as extraordinaries,
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  Speaker 1: extraordinary personal, and Pete speak about him. But Pete was satisfied.
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  Speaker 1: Pete didn't know about second at having to do with
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  Speaker 1: two people, and I guess Pete would have to speak
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  Speaker 1: to it. I can say this, I want those boats
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  Speaker 1: taken out and if we have to, will attack on
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  Speaker 1: land also, just like we attack on sea, and they're
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  Speaker 1: very little coming in by sea. I think we've knocked
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  Speaker 1: out over ninety percent of it. There's very little, kid,
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  Speaker 1: I understand that there's very little. We're saving hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: thousands of lives with those pinpoint attacks. It's an amazing thing.
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  Speaker 1: When you see a boat going along and you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the press would like to say they're not.
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  Speaker 1: You see the boat, they're not maybe drugs. You see
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  Speaker 1: these boats first of all, who has five engines on
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  Speaker 1: the back of about going in weird directions and loaded.
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  Speaker 2: Up with lots of white containers.
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  Speaker 1: They're volved their bags or things. Now they've done an
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  Speaker 1: amazing job, and Peter's done an amazing job.
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  Speaker 2: Pete, you could probably better answer the question spot answer.
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  Speaker 6: I think you got to start with the baseline which
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  Speaker 6: Marco laid out.
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  Speaker 2: Was laid out.
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  Speaker 6: Got twenty million people in invading our country over four years.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know where they're coming from.
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  Speaker 6: That includes Trenda Arragua and cartels and violent criminals.
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  Speaker 2: They bring drugs, and you.
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  Speaker 6: Mentioned it, mister president, poisoning and intentional poisoning of the
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  Speaker 6: American people, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. So the
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  Speaker 6: President had the courage to designate these cartels as designated
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  Speaker 6: terrorist organizations. A number of us here served in the
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  Speaker 6: military and spent twenty years fighting terrorists like al Qaeda
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  Speaker 6: and ISIS on the other side of the world.
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  Speaker 2: How do you treat al Qaeda and ISIS.
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  Speaker 6: Do you arrest them and treat them, pat them on
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  Speaker 6: the head and say don't do that again. Or do
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  Speaker 6: you end the problem directly by taking a lethal kinetic approach?
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  Speaker 2: And that's the way.
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  Speaker 6: President Trump has authorized the War Department to look at
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  Speaker 6: these cartels. And I wish everybody could be in the
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  Speaker 6: room watching our professionals, Our professionals.
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  Speaker 2: Like Mitch Bradley, Admiral Mitch Bradley and others at Jaysack
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  Speaker 2: and so Calm and other commanders.
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  Speaker 6: The deliberative process, the detail, the rigorous the intel, the legal,
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  Speaker 6: the evidence based way that we're to with sources and methods.
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  Speaker 2: That we can't reveal here. Make sure that every one.
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  Speaker 6: Of those drug boats is tied to a designated terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 2: We know who's on it, what they're doing, what they're carrying.
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  Speaker 6: All these white bails or not Christmas gifts from Santa,
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  Speaker 6: This is drugs running on four motor fastboats or submarines
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  Speaker 6: that we've also struck. No one's fishing on a submarine,
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  Speaker 6: and I have empowered them to make that call now
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  Speaker 6: the first couple of strikes, as you would, as any
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  Speaker 6: leader would want, you want to own that responsibility. So
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  Speaker 6: I said, I'm going to be the one to make
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  Speaker 6: the call after getting all the information and make sure
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  Speaker 6: it's the right strike.
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  Speaker 2: That was September second.
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  Speaker 6: There's a lot of intelligence that goes into that building
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  Speaker 6: that case and understanding that a lot of people providing information.
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  Speaker 6: I watched that first strike live, as you can imagine,
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  Speaker 6: at the Department of War, we got a lot of
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  Speaker 6: things to do, so I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Stick around for the hour and two hours whatever where all.
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  Speaker 6: The sensitive site exploitation digitally occurs.
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  Speaker 2: So I moved on to my next meeting.
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  Speaker 6: A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander
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  Speaker 6: had made the which he had the complete authority to do.
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  Speaker 6: And by the way, edmal Bradley made the correct decision
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  Speaker 6: to ultimately sink.
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  Speaker 2: The boat and eliminate the threat.
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  Speaker 6: He sunk the boat, sunk the boat and eliminated the threat.
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  Speaker 2: And he was the right call.
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  Speaker 6: We have his back and the American people are safer
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  Speaker 6: because narco terrorists. No, you can't bring drugs through the
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  Speaker 6: water and eventually on land if necessary, to the American people.
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  Speaker 2: We will eliminate that threat, and we're proud to do it.
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  Speaker 2: So you didn't see any survivors. To be clear, after
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  Speaker 2: that first person.
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  Speaker 6: I did not personally see survivors, but I stand because
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  Speaker 6: the thing was on fire.
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  Speaker 2: I was exploded in fire and smoke. You can't see
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  Speaker 2: anything you got digital. This is called the fog of war.
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  Speaker 2: This is what you and the press don't understand.
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  Speaker 6: You sit in your conditioned offices or up on Capitol
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  Speaker 6: Hill and you knit pick and you plant fake stories
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  Speaker 6: in the Washington Post about kill everybody, phrases on anonymous sources,
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  Speaker 6: not based in anything, not based in any true at all,
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  Speaker 6: And then you want to throw up really irresponsible terms
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  Speaker 6: about American heroes, about the judgment that they made. I
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  Speaker 6: wrote a whole book on this topic because of what
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  Speaker 6: politicians and the press does to war fighters. President Trump
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  Speaker 6: has empowered commanders, commanders to do what is necessary, which
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  Speaker 6: is dark and difficult things in the dead of night
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  Speaker 6: on behalf of the American people. We support them and
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  Speaker 6: will stop the poisoning of the American people.
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  Speaker 4: So as you can hear there the President of United
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  Speaker 4: States of America making it very clear why we are
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  Speaker 4: going after these terrorists and what success looks like. There's
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  Speaker 4: also one other warning. Democrats are now playing with the
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  Speaker 4: idea that they may come back when they gain power
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  Speaker 4: and start arresting our men and women in uniform and
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  Speaker 4: even the man in charge of the Department of War,
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  Speaker 4: Pete Headset, for what they are now describing as war crimes.
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  Speaker 4: This is psychological warfare. This is a shock being precedent
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  Speaker 4: by a party that we now know is unhinged. Now
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  Speaker 4: we know what they try to do to President Trump.
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  Speaker 4: We know they tried to lock him up, They try
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  Speaker 4: to overthrow the will of the people. They try to
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  Speaker 4: impeach him on documents a new or a lie, the
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  Speaker 4: Stile dossier that were user generated and paid for by
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  Speaker 4: Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democrat National Committee. We know
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  Speaker 4: they're willing to use the government to intimidate, to try
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  Speaker 4: to lock you and family members up if they don't
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  Speaker 4: like you. But what they're now saying is they're willing
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  Speaker 4: to go a step further. Before it was Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: and his closest allies. Now they're saying it could be
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  Speaker 4: any man or woman in uniform that is carrying out
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  Speaker 4: a strike against these narco terrorists. And what the Democratic
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  Speaker 4: Party is now clearly trying to do is to put
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  Speaker 4: major doubt in the minds of our men and women
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  Speaker 4: that fight these terrorists. This is psychological warfare. And I
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  Speaker 4: am going to make a prediction there's a very good
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  Speaker 4: chance are going to hear even more about this in
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  Speaker 4: the days and weeks ahead. They are going to want
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  Speaker 4: the men and women in uniform to fear them. They
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  Speaker 4: want you to believe that they will come after you,
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  Speaker 4: that they will lock you up, that they will bankrupt you,
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  Speaker 4: that they will arrest you, and that your life, after
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  Speaker 4: serving your country, will be spent in a prison cell.
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  Speaker 4: This is the most shocking part of this entire story.
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  Speaker 4: Is there an actual controversy here? No. I will remind
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  Speaker 4: you there were drone strikes that killed children under the
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  Speaker 4: Biden administration. Democrats didn't bat an eye this time. Republicans
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  Speaker 4: are killing narco terris who are running drugs that are
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  Speaker 4: killing Americans. And what are the Democrats doing. They're threatening
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  Speaker 4: war crimes against men and women for serving the President
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  Speaker 4: of the United States of America with lawful orders. So
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  Speaker 4: that's where we are today. This is the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 4: and we must make sure that our men and women
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  Speaker 4: in a uniform are allowed to do their jobs and
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  Speaker 4: not worried about going to jail because of a psychotic
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  Speaker 4: Democratic Party.
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