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Trump Bombs Iran-Decisive Strike Obliterates Iran's Nuclear Weapons Capacity · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome in is verdicous center. Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, Senator,
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Speaker 1: we got really not a lot to talk about today.
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Speaker 2: It is America.
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Speaker 1: First, you got sixty days to figure out what you
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Speaker 1: want to do, and after that, we don't play around.
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Speaker 2: What a message to the world with what just happened
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Speaker 2: in Iran?
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Speaker 3: Well, this weekend was incredibly consequential. President Trump made the
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Speaker 3: decision to take out Iran's nuclear capability. Israel had been
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Speaker 3: bombing Iran for over a week, and yet there were
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Speaker 3: certain facilities, particularly the ford All facility under a mountain
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Speaker 3: in Iran, that Israel lacked the capability to take out.
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Speaker 3: And we talked about this at great length. Tucker Carlson
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Speaker 3: and I went round and round on this. Tucker did
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Speaker 3: not want the United States to engage in this bombing.
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Speaker 3: I believed that we should act decisively to stop Iran
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Speaker 3: from developing nuclear weapons that they could use to murder Americans.
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Speaker 3: And this weekend, President Trump resolved the issue by ordering
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Speaker 3: an inc vitibly successful attack, a quite credibly beautifully orchestrated
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Speaker 3: attack that devastated Iran's nuclear capability with no casualties on
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Speaker 3: our part. We're going to break it down. We're going
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Speaker 3: to talk about what exactly happened, what the consequences are,
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Speaker 3: and what to expect in the days and weeks coming up.
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Speaker 1: It truly was consequential and it was one that I
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Speaker 1: think made not only America safer, but the rest of
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Speaker 1: talk about the sixty days was the deadline? Uh, clearly
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Speaker 1: i RAN didn't want to work on a deal, and
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Speaker 1: there was a consequence for those actions, and it was
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Speaker 1: the fact that they were so close to being able
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Speaker 1: to get a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's exact exactly right. President Trump gave a Ran
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Speaker 3: sixty days to reach a deal. The deal. The terms
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Speaker 3: he set out was that the deal must entail complete
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Speaker 3: and total dis dismantlement of their nuclear weapons capability, every
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Speaker 3: centrifuge being dismantled, being shut down. Iran took the entire
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Speaker 3: sixty days, and then on the sixtieth day, the IATOLA
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Speaker 3: announced nothing. We give you nothing. We will not dismantle
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Speaker 3: a single centrifuge. We will build more centrifuges. We're going
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Speaker 3: to keep enriching weapons, keep enriching uranium. And the entire
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Speaker 3: purpose is to develop a nuclear weapon to be able
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Speaker 3: to use it against Israel, or more to the point,
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Speaker 3: against the United States of America. On the sixty first day,
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Speaker 3: Israel began the aerial assault with incredible precision. I got
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Speaker 3: to say, by the way, the precision of the Masad
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Speaker 3: in terms of identifying senior military officials in Iran taking
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Speaker 3: out one after the other after the other. You know,
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Speaker 3: every person that got named the chief of staff of
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Speaker 3: the RGC, it seemed within hours they were taken out.
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Speaker 3: Then they named the new chief of staff of the RGC,
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Speaker 3: and within hours he got taken out, one after the
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Speaker 3: other after the other. I got to tell you that
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Speaker 3: call saying, hey, Ben, you're the new chief of staff
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Speaker 3: of the RGC. I think people stopped answering their phone calls.
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Speaker 3: It was almost like they were hesibal a terrorist getting paid.
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Speaker 3: That was their reaction to it. However, as incredibly effective
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Speaker 3: as Israel's attack was on the senior military leadership, as
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Speaker 3: incredibly effective as Israel's bombing attack was on nuclear facilities,
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Speaker 3: there were certain facilities they did not have the equipment
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Speaker 3: to take out, and chief among those was Fordau. Fordau
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Speaker 3: was built into the base of a gigantic mountain, and
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Speaker 3: it was built to withstand aerial assaults. So at midnight
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Speaker 3: on Friday, the B two strike package left the continental
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Speaker 3: United States. Part of the package went east, the other
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Speaker 3: part went west as a decoy. The main strike package
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Speaker 3: was comprised of seven B two bombers, which flew for
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Speaker 3: eighteen hours into the target area. Those seven B two
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Speaker 3: bombers dropped fourteen bunker buster bombs. Each of those bombs
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Speaker 3: weighs thirty thousand pounds. By the way, this is the
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Speaker 3: first battle use of these bombs in history. In addition
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Speaker 3: to that, seventy five precision guided weapons were used during
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Speaker 3: the operation. More than one hundred and twenty five US
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Speaker 3: aircraft participated in the mission, including B two stealth bombers,
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Speaker 3: multiple flights of fourth and fifth generation fighters, dozens of
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Speaker 3: air refueling tankers, a guided missile submarine, and a full
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Speaker 3: array of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft, as well as
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Speaker 3: hundreds of maintenance and operational professionals. This attack was a
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Speaker 3: spectacular success. We had no American casualties. The Iranians did
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Speaker 3: not know what was coming, and suddenly the crown jewel
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Speaker 3: of their nuclear weapon operation was destroyed, was devastated, was
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Speaker 3: on fire. Let me start by saying congratulations to the
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Speaker 3: incredible airmen who led this attack, the fighting servicemen and
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Speaker 3: women who us their lives this was a dangerous combat
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Speaker 3: operation and who carried it out with absolute precision. But
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Speaker 3: I also want to praise President Trump for having the
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Speaker 3: strength of resolve to say we will not allow Iran
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Speaker 3: to have a nuclear weapon, and we will do whatever
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Speaker 3: it takes to stop it. He was exactly right. I
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Speaker 3: stand with President Trump, and tonight we are saluting our
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Speaker 3: brave servicemen and women and the commander in chief who
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Speaker 3: sent them out to keep America safe.
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you a question, and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: go backwards and talk more obviously about this attack and
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Speaker 1: how important it is. But there is a new headline
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Speaker 1: and a real concern that has come up, and that
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Speaker 1: is about, Okay, how will I ran retaliate?
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Speaker 2: Senator?
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Speaker 1: And one of the big concerns that's really been brought up.
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Speaker 1: It's being written about right now. I'm seeing articles of
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Speaker 1: pop left and right on this is the possibility of
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Speaker 1: Iranian sleeper sales in the US. You and I have
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Speaker 1: been talking about this now Unfortunately for years that the
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Speaker 1: wide open southern border was allowing for people on the
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Speaker 1: terrorists watch list to get into this country. And the
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Speaker 1: numbers are also I think shocking of how many Iranians
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Speaker 1: came across our southern border that we just are the
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Speaker 1: Biden administration. I say, just let them in to this
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Speaker 1: country and let him walk freely, and we just let
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Speaker 1: him go. And that is something that every American should
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Speaker 1: be really concerned about right now.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, it is a very dangerous time. And understand I
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Speaker 3: am not remotely pollyannish about the threats we are facing.
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Speaker 3: You know. You and I talked in the last podcast
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Speaker 3: about the interview I did with Tucker Carlson where he
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Speaker 3: got all agitated and said, well, it could be dangerous
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Speaker 3: if we attack Iran, that all sorts of bad things
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Speaker 3: could happen. I don't deny that. Yes, it is very
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Speaker 3: very dangerous right now. I just think it is more
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Speaker 3: dangerous to have a theocratic lunatic like the Ayatola who
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Speaker 3: chanced death to America and death to Israel, who calls
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Speaker 3: Israel the Little Satan and calls America the Great Satan.
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Speaker 3: To let a lunatic like that have nuclear weapons which
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Speaker 3: could kill millions of Americans. One of the things to
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Speaker 3: understand You know, a lot of the commentators, particularly those
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Speaker 3: who don't want to see US stand up to Iran,
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Speaker 3: they say, this is all for Israel, This is all
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Speaker 3: for Israel. Listen, I agree with President Trump, we should
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Speaker 3: stand unshakably with Israel. But understand what happened this weekend.
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Speaker 3: This was not for Israel. This was for the United
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Speaker 3: States of America. Why because the Iyatola is actively developing
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Speaker 3: an ICBM program. What does ICBM stand for intercontinental ballistic
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Speaker 3: missile Ben You don't need an ICBM to go from
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Speaker 3: Iran to Israel. That's not intercontinental. Iran is right now
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Speaker 3: firing hundreds of ballistic missiles into Israel. They need an
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Speaker 3: ICBM for one purpose and one purpose only, which is
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Speaker 3: to carry a nuclear warhead from Iran to the United
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Speaker 3: States of America. They were actively developing the capability to
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Speaker 3: detonate a nuclear bomb over a major American hit city,
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Speaker 3: whether New York or Washington, d C. Or Los Angeles.
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Speaker 3: And the President acted decisively to say he's not willing
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Speaker 3: to wake up on mourning and discover that millions of
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Speaker 3: Americans have been murdered because the commander in chief didn't act.
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Speaker 2: This was a.
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Speaker 3: Threat to America. Now, what are the potential escalations. They're
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Speaker 3: really threefold. The most likely is a continued and even
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Speaker 3: an escalated barrage on Israeli civilians. More ballistic missiles being
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Speaker 3: launched into Israel, targeting civilians, and I think there's a
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Speaker 3: very real possibility that we will see potentially hundreds of
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Speaker 3: Israelis killed in the days ahead. That that's Iran striking back.
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Speaker 3: Israel and the United States both targeted military facilities, military leaders.
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Speaker 3: Iran is not doing that. Iran is not targeting military facilities.
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Speaker 3: They're deliberately targeting civilians. They're trying to kill little ladies,
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Speaker 3: They're trying to kill children, they're trying to kill babies.
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Speaker 3: They're lobbing missiles into densely populated urban environments, hoping to
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Speaker 3: kill as many Jews as possible. That's one escalation. A
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Speaker 3: second escalation that is a very real possibility is an
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Speaker 3: attack on US servicemen and women in the Middle East.
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Speaker 3: And we have thousands of servicemen and women's station in
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Speaker 3: the Middle East. Now, I will tell you President Trump
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Speaker 3: has made unequivocally clear to Iran, do not do this.
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Speaker 3: If you kill American servicemen and women, the consequences will
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Speaker 3: be massive. I spoke with President Trump just over a
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Speaker 3: week ago, and I said, as President, thank you, thank
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Speaker 3: you for making that clear. You are keeping our servicemen
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Speaker 3: and women alive because Iran knows the consequences of attacking
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Speaker 3: them and trying to kill them are massive. But that's
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Speaker 3: a second escalation that is entirely possible. We could face
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Speaker 3: that in the coming days. The third escalation, ben is
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Speaker 3: the one you referenced, which is terrorism here in the
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Speaker 3: United States or abroad. But in the United States in particular,
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Speaker 3: we had four years of open borders under Joe Biden.
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Speaker 3: We had twelve million Elie immigrants flood into this country.
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Speaker 3: And I think there is the very real risk of
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Speaker 3: sleeper cells, of Iranian sleeper cells carrying out an active terrorism,
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Speaker 3: whether targeted at US servicemen and women, are targeted at civilians,
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Speaker 3: targeted at a shopping mall, targeted as a sporting event,
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Speaker 3: targeted at some place where they could commit a significant,
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Speaker 3: active mass murder. I pray that that does not happen.
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Speaker 3: I am confident that the Trump administration is doing everything humanly
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Speaker 3: possible to protect against it. But the odds of that
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Speaker 3: have gone up, and so all of us need to
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Speaker 3: number one, be praying, Be praying for our friends in Israel,
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Speaker 3: be praying for our servicemen and women in harm's way,
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Speaker 3: and be praying here in America that we not face
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Speaker 3: a major active terrorism. But secondly, we need to be vigilant.
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Speaker 3: We need to be watching because it is dangerous right now.
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Speaker 3: But understand, even if some or all of these escalations happen,
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Speaker 3: these escalations are less dangerous than what the world would
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Speaker 3: be like with the Ayatola with a nuclear weapon that
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Speaker 3: he could use to murder millions of Americans. The chances
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Speaker 3: of that scenario have dropped dramatically this weekend because of
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Speaker 3: President Trump's strong, decisive leadership.
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Speaker 1: You know, you hear the numbers, by the way, and
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Speaker 1: I just want everyone to hear what Tom Homan had
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Speaker 1: to say on Fox News Sunday morning. He was talking
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Speaker 1: about the number of nationals of Iran released into the
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Speaker 1: interior of this country. We don't know where they are.
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Speaker 1: Here's what he said about it.
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Speaker 5: So I put numbers this morning just from a CBP
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Speaker 5: under Joe Biden, who was one two hundred and seventy
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Speaker 5: two nationals Iran releasing the country between OFO and and
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Speaker 5: the Borbtrow and you compare that to the Trump administration.
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Speaker 5: Zero right, zero releases and right now, because of President
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Speaker 5: Trump's leadership, we have the most secure border in my lifetime,
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Speaker 5: most secure border in history of this nation. So we
13:50
Speaker 5: have a secure border. So that was a President Trump's
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Speaker 5: big win on secure of this nation. So we're not
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Speaker 5: releasing people in this country, especially interests Aliens. I don't
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Speaker 5: crossed that border undetected. But under Joe Biden, we had
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Speaker 5: over ten million people across that border. But my biggest
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Speaker 5: concern from day one, beyond the fat and all beyond
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Speaker 5: the sex trafficking women and children, were the two man
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Speaker 5: known godaways. Over two million people cross that border. We
14:12
Speaker 5: don't know who they are, where they came from, because
14:14
Speaker 5: they got away because Bordatal was so overwhelmed with the
14:17
Speaker 5: humanitarian crisis that Biden created that over two million people
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Speaker 5: across the border and got away. That is my biggest concern,
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Speaker 5: and that's what created the biggest national security vulnerability this
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Speaker 5: country's ever seen.
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Speaker 1: You listen to the way he describes this center and
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Speaker 1: he's talking about look Iran wanting to hurt us and
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Speaker 1: the possibility of sleeper sells here directly is a border
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Speaker 1: security issue. And so this brings two of the biggest
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Speaker 1: reasons why so many people listening to the show voted
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Speaker 1: for Donald Trump. Why you advocated and supported him and
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Speaker 1: voted for him as well? And I did too, And
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Speaker 1: it seems like, Look, Iran is in essence been waging
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Speaker 1: a slow war on the US and our allies. The
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Speaker 1: Biden administration was asleep, the EU was asleep, how the
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Speaker 1: UN was asleep, and advocate for ran now and literally
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Speaker 1: we now understand how vulnerable we are because of their actions.
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Speaker 3: Twelve hundred Iranian illegal immigrants released into this country by
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Speaker 3: Joe Biden. The Democrats in any sane world, every Democrat
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Speaker 3: in Congress tomorrow would be asked, why did you release
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Speaker 3: one thousand, two hundred Iranian illegal immigrants into America? Are
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Speaker 3: you worried about terrorism from the one thousand, two hundred
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Speaker 3: Iranian illegal immigrants you released into America? What possible interest
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Speaker 3: did America have in releasing these? The contrast, under President Trump,
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Speaker 3: the number is zero, which is what Tom Homan just
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Speaker 3: said there. Look, this is an enormous difference. And by
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Speaker 3: the way, twelve hundred does not limit it. Those are
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Speaker 3: the ones we know they released, as as Homan rightly noted,
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Speaker 3: the even more troubling number is two million got aways.
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Speaker 3: So it could be thousands, it could be tens of
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Speaker 3: thousands of Iranians.
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Speaker 4: We don't know.
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Speaker 3: We just know there are over two million people that
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Speaker 3: we have signs they crossed the border and they got away,
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Speaker 3: they evaded detection. So some combination of those are murderers,
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Speaker 3: some are rapists, some are child molesters, some are gang
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Speaker 3: members from Venezuela or elsewhere. And some of those, in
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Speaker 3: overwhelming likelihood are terrorists, whether Hamas terrorists, Hesbola terrorist, Palestinian
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Speaker 3: Islamic jihad terrorist, or specifically Iranian terrorists. But the danger
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Speaker 3: is serious, and I will say this is a time
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Speaker 3: for law enforcement and every jurisdiction to be vigilant and
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Speaker 3: for citizens to be vigilant, to watch. And you know,
16:36
Speaker 3: in the wake of nine to eleven, it was frequently repeated,
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Speaker 3: if you see something, say something, this is a dangerous time.
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Speaker 3: I wish it were not so dangerous, but four years
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Speaker 3: of open borders exposed real vulnerabilities to us. And the
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Speaker 3: one thing I'll say is I have confidence that the
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Speaker 3: Trump administration is doing everything humanly possible to keep us safe,
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Speaker 3: and I think that's important.
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Speaker 1: Especially now, Let's talk a little bit about the liberal
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Speaker 1: logic that has been coming out of so many Democrats
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Speaker 1: since this attack took place. And the people who seem
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Speaker 1: to be obsessing over Iran's response, implying that their response
17:13
Speaker 1: is Donald Trump's fault that they're going to respond, are
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Speaker 1: the same idiots that we're not afraid of Iran getting
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Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon. Can you explain that liberal logic please?
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Speaker 3: Sadly, today's Democrat party sides with every enemy of America.
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Speaker 3: They side on the other side.
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Speaker 6: Look.
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Speaker 3: Jk Rowling tweeted this weekend about this person, India Willoughby.
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Speaker 3: Now I'll confess I have no idea who India Willoughby is.
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Speaker 3: But JK Rowling tweeted, India a fan of women, hating
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Speaker 3: gay hating, authoritating authoritarian regime. Color me astonished. So I
17:49
Speaker 3: went and googled who is this India Willoughby person? And
17:52
Speaker 3: it turns out, according to Wikipedia quote, she is Britain's
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Speaker 3: first transgender national television newsreader. Now pause for a second.
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Speaker 3: Ben Iran murders transgender people. They throw them off buildings.
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Speaker 3: If you are gay, they murder you and think about
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Speaker 3: the mindset of a leftist who this transgender newsreader in
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Speaker 3: I guess the UK is like, even though the Iahtola
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Speaker 3: wants to murder me, I stand with the Ayatola rather
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Speaker 3: than America. That is how messed up leftists are right now.
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Speaker 3: They're like, oh, homicidal theocratic women are pressing gay murdering, torturing,
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Speaker 3: genocidal lunatics. Those are my people.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense to me. And then you
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Speaker 1: go back to also the quotes that people have been posting,
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Speaker 1: and I think it's really important that history reflect. You
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Speaker 1: go back to Bill Clinton, senator and he said that
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Speaker 1: Iran couldn't get a nuclear way. Hillary Quinton when she
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Speaker 1: was a senator, Secretary of State and running for president,
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Speaker 1: said Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. Barack Obama said
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Speaker 1: that he cannot get a nuclear weapon. You had Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden that said they couldn't get a nuclear weapon, and
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Speaker 1: then they're at sixty plus percent and Donald Trump stops them,
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Speaker 1: and then all of the lefts like, you can't do that.
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Speaker 1: You're going to start World War three. This is somehow
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Speaker 1: your fault. You're the aggressor.
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Speaker 3: And understand the reason we are here is because of
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Speaker 3: Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Barack Obama negotiated the disastrous
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Speaker 3: Iran nuclear deal that flooded billions and billions of dollars
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Speaker 3: into Iran. Listen, remember Obama literally flew one point seven
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Speaker 3: billion dollars of cash unmarked bills on a pallet to
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Speaker 3: deliver to the Iyahtola. That agreement set the stage for
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Speaker 3: Iran to get nuclear weapons. Donald Trump when he came
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Speaker 3: in as president.
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Speaker 1: For a second, and just now, in hindsight, what really
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Speaker 1: was that was that dal a, Hey, I don't want
20:02
Speaker 1: to have to deal with you guys, so let's just
20:04
Speaker 1: you kind of play nice with me and then I'll
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Speaker 1: kick the can down the road to another administration.
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Speaker 2: Like, in hindsight, what was that? Why did we do
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Speaker 2: that deal?
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Speaker 3: It was radical ideology. You know, when Barack Obama first
20:16
Speaker 3: became president, he went and gave a speech at the
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Speaker 3: University of Cairo in Egypt, and in that speech he
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Speaker 3: said Iran has a right and he used the word right,
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Speaker 3: a right to nuclear technology. Now that is nutty. That
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Speaker 3: that is, I'm familiar with the right to the pursuit
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Speaker 3: of happiness. I'm not familiar with a right to possess
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Speaker 3: thermonuclear weapons. And at the end of the day, I
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Speaker 3: think Barack Obama and his entire team came in with
20:44
Speaker 3: an ideological view that America's role in the world is
20:48
Speaker 3: fundamentally illegitimate, that we are colonial oppressors. Look, as you know,
20:52
Speaker 3: my last book was Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism
20:55
Speaker 3: in America. These are the cultural Marxists. They view America
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Speaker 3: as illegitimate and therefore they viewed that we have no business,
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Speaker 3: we have no right stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons. Listen,
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Speaker 3: the Obama Ran nuclear deal would inevitably lead to a
21:12
Speaker 3: Ran with nuclear weapons. These guys are not idiots. They
21:15
Speaker 3: knew that They're fine with that outcome because they believe
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Speaker 3: America has no right to prevent it. My view is,
21:22
Speaker 3: yes we do. If you've got a lunatic who's saying
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Speaker 3: death to America and we have the power to stop
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Speaker 3: him from getting nuclear weapons, we will use that power
21:30
Speaker 3: because the commander in chief is not going to fail
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Speaker 3: to protect America. And I got to say, by the way,
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Speaker 3: the useful idiots across the globe a You've got the
21:39
Speaker 3: Democrats today who are all chirping about how dare you
21:42
Speaker 3: act to stop I Ran from getting a nuclear weapon.
21:45
Speaker 3: We also had the Secretary of the United Nations, Antonio Guterras,
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Speaker 3: who put out a statement. I'm going to read it
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Speaker 3: to you. Quote I am gravely alarmed by the use
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Speaker 3: of force by the United States against Iran today. This
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Speaker 3: is a dangerous escalation in a region already on the edge,
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Speaker 3: and a direct threat to international peace and security. There
22:06
Speaker 3: is a growing risk that this conflict could rapidly get
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Speaker 3: out of control, with catastrophic consequences for civilians, the region,
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Speaker 3: and the world. I call on member states to de
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Speaker 3: escalate and to uphold their obligations under the UN Charter
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Speaker 3: and other rules of international law. At this perilous hour,
22:24
Speaker 3: it is critical to avoid a spiral of chaos. There
22:28
Speaker 3: is no military solution. The only path forward is diplomacy.
22:32
Speaker 3: The only hope is peace. What a blithering idiot. I'll
22:37
Speaker 3: tell you what I tweeted today. I tweeted, of course,
22:41
Speaker 3: the UN sides with Iran. Clown face emoji clown face,
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Speaker 3: emoji clown face emergent. The only thing they couldn't decide
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Speaker 3: is which chant they agree with more strongly. Quote death
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Speaker 3: to Israel or quote death to America. And then I
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Speaker 3: asked a simple question, uestion, Remind me again why we're
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Speaker 3: paying their bills.
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Speaker 1: It's a fair question, and you've got to wonder what's
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Speaker 1: the even point of being involved that this is? This
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Speaker 1: is how insane they actually are, so what's.
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Speaker 3: Move But by the way, Ben I also observed, I
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Speaker 3: think Tehran would make a lovely UN headquarters just located
23:19
Speaker 3: right there. Maybe on the smoldering ashes of Fida. We
23:23
Speaker 3: can put put the UN there and they can all
23:25
Speaker 3: get together with their anti Israel hate and their anti
23:28
Speaker 3: American hate and they can sit there and glow radioactive
23:31
Speaker 3: while they talk about developing developing nuclear weapons to bomb America.
23:37
Speaker 2: At least it would be intellectually honest, like where's the UN.
23:39
Speaker 2: It's in Tehran. Okay, that makes sense.
23:42
Speaker 3: Look, that's who they This should not be complicated.
23:49
Speaker 2: Iran.
23:50
Speaker 3: Like, let me ask you, Ben, seriously, put yourself in
23:54
Speaker 3: the head of the UN Secretary General. How do you
23:57
Speaker 3: look at this and say where do I stand with Iran?
24:02
Speaker 3: Like what thought pressis goes through your brain?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's the upside of doing that? And why?
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Speaker 1: Especially if you know what Iran just did and how
24:09
Speaker 1: many terrorist organizations they've supported that are just beyond I mean,
24:14
Speaker 1: factually accurate hamas Hesbah and the UN's like, we got you,
24:18
Speaker 1: We're going to cover for you. Don't worry, we got
24:20
Speaker 1: your back is And that's the reason why I think
24:23
Speaker 1: it delegitimizes the United Nations to the point where I
24:26
Speaker 1: just roll my eyes at them. Now I don't pay
24:27
Speaker 1: attention to what they say.
24:29
Speaker 3: No, no, they're complete zealots.
24:31
Speaker 5: Now.
24:31
Speaker 3: In contrast, I want you to listen to President Trump's
24:34
Speaker 3: Saturday Night as soon as the bombing run was complete,
24:37
Speaker 3: give a listen to his address to the nation.
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Speaker 6: A short time ago, the US military carried out massive
24:43
Speaker 6: precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the
24:48
Speaker 6: Iranian regime, Fodeaux, Natance, and s Fahan. Everybody heard those
24:56
Speaker 6: names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.
25:03
Speaker 6: Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear and richment
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Speaker 6: capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by
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Speaker 6: the world's number one state sponsor of terror.
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Speaker 4: Tonight, I can report to the world that.
25:17
Speaker 6: The strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear
25:24
Speaker 6: and Richmond facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran,
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Speaker 6: the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.
25:33
Speaker 6: If they do not, future attacks would be far.
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Speaker 4: Greater and a lot easier.
25:37
Speaker 6: For forty years, Iran has been saying death to America,
25:41
Speaker 6: death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing
25:45
Speaker 6: off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs,
25:49
Speaker 6: that was their specialty. We lost over a thousand people,
25:53
Speaker 6: and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around
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Speaker 6: the world have died as a direct result of their hate,
25:59
Speaker 6: and particular so many were killed by their general Cassem Solomoni.
26:06
Speaker 6: I decided a long time ago that I would not
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Speaker 6: let this happen. It will not continue. I want to
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Speaker 6: thank and congratulate Prime Minister bb netan Yahoo. We worked
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Speaker 6: as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before,
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Speaker 6: and we've gone a long way to erasing.
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Speaker 4: This horrible threat to Israel.
26:26
Speaker 6: I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful
26:30
Speaker 6: job they've done, and most importantly, I want to congratulate
26:33
Speaker 6: the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight
26:38
Speaker 6: and all of the United States military on an operation
26:41
Speaker 6: the likes of which the world has not seen in many,
26:44
Speaker 6: many decades. Hopefully we will no longer need their services
26:48
Speaker 6: and this capacity.
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Speaker 4: I hope that's so.
26:51
Speaker 6: I also want to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint
26:54
Speaker 6: Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisin Kane, spectacular General, all
27:00
Speaker 6: of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack. With
27:04
Speaker 6: all of that being said, this cannot continue. There will
27:07
Speaker 6: be either peace or there will be tragedy for a
27:10
Speaker 6: ran far greater than we have witnessed over the last
27:13
Speaker 6: eight days. Remember, there are many targets left. The night's
27:19
Speaker 6: was the most difficult of them all by far, and
27:22
Speaker 6: perhaps the most lethal. But if peace does not come quickly,
27:27
Speaker 6: we will go after those other targets with precision, speed
27:31
Speaker 6: and skill. Most of them can be taken out in
27:35
Speaker 6: a matter of minutes. There's no military in the world
27:38
Speaker 6: that could have done what we did tonight, not even close.
27:42
Speaker 6: There has never been a military that could do what
27:45
Speaker 6: took place just a little while ago. Tomorrow, General Kine,
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Speaker 6: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will have a press conference
27:53
Speaker 6: at eight am at the Pentagon, and I want to
27:56
Speaker 6: just thank everybody, and in particular God.
28:01
Speaker 4: I want to just say we love you God.
28:04
Speaker 6: And we love our great military, protect them. God bless
28:08
Speaker 6: the Middle East, God bless Israel, and God bless America.
28:12
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, thank you.
28:15
Speaker 1: I do got to I have to say. At the
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Speaker 1: very end there his part was so sincere about thanking God.
28:20
Speaker 1: You could tell he was very concerned about the safety
28:23
Speaker 1: of our men and women in uniform. He was so
28:25
Speaker 1: thankful for what they did and accomplish. And there was
28:29
Speaker 1: also I think a warning in there. We hope that
28:31
Speaker 1: they're done right, that their service is finished. That in
28:36
Speaker 1: other words, don't mess with us, because if you do,
28:40
Speaker 1: you may meet these people. Yet again, we don't want
28:43
Speaker 1: to do that. But if you come after American interests,
28:47
Speaker 1: we will defend ourselves and we will come after you,
28:50
Speaker 1: which brings us to the question center. All right, what's
28:53
Speaker 1: next moving forward?
28:55
Speaker 3: Well, let me say one thing that struck me listening
28:57
Speaker 3: to President Trump on Saturday night, which is the president
29:01
Speaker 3: is old enough and I'm old enough to remember the
29:04
Speaker 3: nineteen seventies. And Ben, you're ten years younger than I am,
29:07
Speaker 3: so you don't remember the seventies. But when Iran took
29:14
Speaker 3: American hostages at the embassy, when the Iranian Revolution happened,
29:17
Speaker 3: and they took American hostages. Jimmy Carter was president. Jimmy
29:21
Speaker 3: Carter sent a military operation, a US military operation to
29:25
Speaker 3: rescue the Americans from the embassy. And not all military
29:30
Speaker 3: operations happened like the one did this weekend. The Jimmy
29:34
Speaker 3: Carter military operation, he sent in helicopters, and the helicopters
29:39
Speaker 3: crashed in the desert with no opposing fire. And it
29:44
Speaker 3: was a level of ineptitude and incompetence on the part
29:47
Speaker 3: of the Carter administration. It played a pivotal role in
29:51
Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan winning in nineteen eighty because the inability of
29:55
Speaker 3: the president to protect our nation was perfectly encapsule by
30:01
Speaker 3: our troops crashing in the desert. When the President, with
30:04
Speaker 3: the Commander in chief, gave this order, he didn't know
30:06
Speaker 3: what the result would be. It could have resulted in
30:09
Speaker 3: an American plane crashing. It could have resulted in an
30:12
Speaker 3: American bomber being shot down by a fighter plane. It
30:15
Speaker 3: could have resulted in an American bomber being hit by surface
30:19
Speaker 3: to air missiles. These are dangerous operations. We had these
30:23
Speaker 3: stealth bombers fly halfway around the world carry out an
30:27
Speaker 3: incredibly precise precision bombing attack. By the way, it also
30:31
Speaker 3: could have resulted in one of the bombs going awry
30:34
Speaker 3: and instead of taking out one of these facilities, hitting
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Speaker 3: a civilian location and killing a large number of innocent people.
30:42
Speaker 3: None of that happened. And I want to credit the military,
30:45
Speaker 3: the military for their precise execution of this. But I
30:49
Speaker 3: think when the President was thanking God, listen, you and
30:53
Speaker 3: I have never been in the position of ordering our
30:57
Speaker 3: servicemen and women into combat and circumstance where you know
31:01
Speaker 3: that that that order could could literally be sacrificing their lives.
31:04
Speaker 3: And I think the President was feeling feeling really real
31:07
Speaker 3: gratitude that this this operation proceeded so successfully. It was
31:11
Speaker 3: the right thing to do, and even if it had
31:13
Speaker 3: proceeded with American casualties, we obviously would not want those casualties.
31:17
Speaker 3: But I think the President was very much focused on
31:20
Speaker 3: his responsibility to protect American civilians from the threat of
31:26
Speaker 3: an Ayatola with a nuclear weapon. That's what he was
31:28
Speaker 3: acting decisively to do. This could escalate further, but I
31:32
Speaker 3: think the President has laser focused on his job. And
31:35
Speaker 3: let me be clear, there's some voices chirping on the
31:38
Speaker 3: internet Oh, it's World War three. Oh we're going to
31:40
Speaker 3: get drawn into a long foreign entangle. The odds, right,
31:48
Speaker 3: the odds of American boots on the ground in Iran
31:51
Speaker 3: are essentially zero. No one is advocating that. No one
31:54
Speaker 3: wants to see it. I do not believe President Trump
31:57
Speaker 3: has any interest in American boots on the ground. I
32:00
Speaker 3: don't have any interest in American boots on the ground.
32:03
Speaker 3: This was a limited and very targeted bombing run to
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Speaker 3: take out Iran's capability to develop nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons
32:12
Speaker 3: they could use to murder Americans. That is peace through strength,
32:16
Speaker 3: that is focusing on defending this nation. And so the
32:20
Speaker 3: prospect people are saying, oh, this is another Iraq war. Listen,
32:24
Speaker 3: I opposed the Iraq War. Donald Trump opposed the Iraq War.
32:28
Speaker 3: Nobody wants a long American war in the Middle East.
32:32
Speaker 3: But what we do want is what we have a
32:34
Speaker 3: commander in chief who is strong and who will act
32:37
Speaker 3: decisively to protect our nation. That's what the President did,
32:41
Speaker 3: and I for one, am immensely grateful that Donald J.
32:44
Speaker 3: Trump is the commander in chief.
32:46
Speaker 1: Tonight, final question, and this is what is next. It's
32:50
Speaker 1: very clear there's a warning from this president don't screw
32:53
Speaker 1: with us moving forward. If Iran is dumb enough to
32:57
Speaker 1: retaliate against Americans in the Middle East, maybe even shutting
33:02
Speaker 1: down the Straight of hor Moos, what is the presence
33:05
Speaker 1: obligation moving forward on that.
33:08
Speaker 3: Well, one of the consequences of the bombing run is
33:10
Speaker 3: the parliament in Iran did vote to shut down the
33:13
Speaker 3: Straits of her Moos. Now, the parliament's not the decision
33:16
Speaker 3: maker at the end of the day, the Iatola's the
33:18
Speaker 3: decision maker. So it's not clear if Iran is going
33:20
Speaker 3: to do so or not. If it did so, it
33:23
Speaker 3: would impact America, but it would impact China even more.
33:26
Speaker 3: Roughly half of the oil that China uses travels through
33:29
Speaker 3: the Straits of hor Moos. A very small percentage of
33:32
Speaker 3: American oil travels through there. But that being said, if
33:36
Speaker 3: the Straits of her Moves were shut down, it would
33:38
Speaker 3: impact America's because it would drive up global oil prices,
33:42
Speaker 3: it would drive up gasoline prices at home, and that
33:44
Speaker 3: would impact Americans. I hope that doesn't happen. I think
33:48
Speaker 3: if they try to shut down those major trade routes
33:51
Speaker 3: and commerce fruits, I think we will see we will
33:54
Speaker 3: see force to open them. Up because Iran does not
33:57
Speaker 3: have the right to shut down the ability of America
34:00
Speaker 3: and the rest of the world to engage in trade
34:01
Speaker 3: and commerce. That is a possible escalation. I think the
34:05
Speaker 3: most likely escalation is going to be continued attax on
34:10
Speaker 3: civilians in Israel, because at the end of the day,
34:13
Speaker 3: I think the Iatola and the Mullahs they hate the
34:15
Speaker 3: Jewish people, and murdering innocent civilians is something that they
34:21
Speaker 3: believe in. I worry, as I said, about the risk
34:26
Speaker 3: of terrorist attacks as well. I think those are, sadly
34:29
Speaker 3: the two most likely the people of Israel. I know
34:32
Speaker 3: the government of Israel that the Iron Dome, they're working
34:35
Speaker 3: hard to protect their civilians. America is assisting in that,
34:39
Speaker 3: and here at home, law enforcement and Homeland Security in
34:42
Speaker 3: the Department of Justice are all working hard to intercept
34:48
Speaker 3: and stop any terrorist attack before it occurs. But understand,
34:52
Speaker 3: these are dangerous times. But they're dangerous times because we
34:56
Speaker 3: have enemies that wish to do harm to America. And
34:59
Speaker 3: that's why the responsibility that the President has is so
35:03
Speaker 3: grave and serious. And I will say, listening to President
35:06
Speaker 3: Trump speak Saturday night, I think there are times where
35:09
Speaker 3: the weight of the job really falls on his shoulders
35:13
Speaker 3: and he feels it. And I think Saturday night was
35:15
Speaker 3: one of them because it was an incredibly consequential moment
35:21
Speaker 3: in our nation's history and a very positive moment of
35:24
Speaker 3: the President standing up and saying, my first responsibility is
35:28
Speaker 3: to defend America and I will not shirk from that responsibility.
35:32
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