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War in the Middle East: Israel Strikes Iran-What's Next? · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Center.
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  Speaker 2: We've got breaking news and it is a major world event,
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  Speaker 2: Israel going after Iran, hitting targets there. This is obviously
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  Speaker 2: woken a lot of people up around the world. As
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  Speaker 2: we're doing this show.
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  Speaker 3: We are gathered right now at a time of war,
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  Speaker 3: that time when Israel is striking back at Iran, striking
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  Speaker 3: back to ensure that Iran does not acquire nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 3: And you and I are recording this podcast at is
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  Speaker 3: twelve oh seven am on Friday morning, So the events
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  Speaker 3: may change in the next forty eight hours, but at
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  Speaker 3: twelve oh seven am, the war is just unfolding and
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  Speaker 3: we're seeing what's happening, and what's happening so far. Israel
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  Speaker 3: strikes by by the early reports, have been enormously effective.
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  Speaker 3: Israel has taken out the chief of the IRGC Israel
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  Speaker 3: has taken out the successor to the chief of the IRGC.
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  Speaker 3: Israel has decimated the Tons, a major nuclear site in Iran,
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  Speaker 3: and Israel is carrying out multiple military strikes right now
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  Speaker 3: as we speak. Now, I will say, by the time
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  Speaker 3: you listen to this podcast, it may be Friday during
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  Speaker 3: the day and you're listening to the podcast. It may
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  Speaker 3: be Saturday or Sunday and you're listening to this show
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  Speaker 3: on the radio. Things may have changed by then. But
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  Speaker 3: right now we are seeing war in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 3: We are seeing Israel acting decisively to protect herself. And
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  Speaker 3: I will say there are several messages that every one
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  Speaker 3: of us need to hear, but the two that are
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  Speaker 3: most important. Our number one, America stands unequivocally with the
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  Speaker 3: state of Israel. We are with Israel and her right
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  Speaker 3: to defend herself with no daylight whatsoever. Two a message
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  Speaker 3: to the Iyatola.
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  Speaker 1: We have an.
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  Speaker 3: Enormous number of American servicemen and women in harm's way
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  Speaker 3: in the Middle East. The Iatola needs to understand if
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  Speaker 3: you strike out and attack American servicemen and women, if
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  Speaker 3: you kill even a single American servicemen or women, I
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  Speaker 3: am absolutely confident President Trump will respond with overwhelming force,
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  Speaker 3: and so the Iyahtola should know, do not attack America
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  Speaker 3: as a response to this military assault.
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  Speaker 1: Amen to that.
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  Speaker 2: And look, this is such a hard time right now
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  Speaker 2: for so many in Israel, and so many that listen
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  Speaker 2: How do I stand with the people in Israel? They
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  Speaker 2: been targeted, synagogues that have been threatened, families that are
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  Speaker 2: so let's start with the basic question, and that is
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  Speaker 2: what how did this begin? What have you learned being
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  Speaker 2: in Washington, d C. About this strike on these Iranian
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  Speaker 2: nuclear sites and military targets. What do you know tonight
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  Speaker 2: that that you can tell people listening.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let me say, first of all, I believe this
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  Speaker 3: attack was inevitable, that Iran was hell bent on acquiring
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  Speaker 3: nuclear weapons. President Trump said repeatedly and unequipped that the
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  Speaker 3: only option for Iran was a complete and total dismantlement
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  Speaker 3: of their centrifuges, of their enrichment capacity, of their ability
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  Speaker 3: to enrich uranium. I led a letter with fifty two
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  Speaker 3: Republican senators where we said, united, we agree with President Trump.
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  Speaker 3: This is the red line, complete and total dismantlement of
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  Speaker 3: their nuclear capacity. Now, what President Trump said is there's
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  Speaker 3: two ways they can do this. One they can do
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  Speaker 3: so peacefully through negotiations, and that's what the Trump administration
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  Speaker 3: was trying to do. Or two, if they refuse to dismantle,
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  Speaker 3: they will have the centrifugees dismantled through warfare. Well, this morning,
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  Speaker 3: the Iranian regime announced it was not going to shut
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  Speaker 3: down even a single centrifuge. Instead, it was going to
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  Speaker 3: build more. That they were hell bent on building more centrifuges,
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  Speaker 3: enriching more uranium, and they were on the path to
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  Speaker 3: a nucle weapon. And I got to say, Ben, the
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  Speaker 3: consequences of the statements this morning were Number one, there
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  Speaker 3: were a gigantic middle frank finger to President Trump. They
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  Speaker 3: were saying, we don't care what you say. We want
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  Speaker 3: nuclear weapons, and we're not gonna be dissuaded. We're not
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  Speaker 3: gonna be deterred. But number two, they were a very
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  Speaker 3: clear message to Israel, attack us now, because we are
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  Speaker 3: barreling towards acquiring a nuclear weapon, and if you wait,
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  Speaker 3: you may find yourself with an enemy that has a
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  Speaker 3: nuclear weapon and that can detonated over the skies of
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  Speaker 3: Israel and kill millions of Israelis. And so Iran set
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  Speaker 3: us on this course, and the government of Israel is
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  Speaker 3: acting to keep the people of Israel safe. But it
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  Speaker 3: is nonetheless an extraordinarily perilous time for Israel, for America,
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  Speaker 3: and for the world.
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  Speaker 2: Sara, you just mentioned that this was inevitable, and it
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  Speaker 2: does feel like it was a long time coming, and
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  Speaker 2: there was a question of who was going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Was it gonna be America, was it going to be Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Clearly now we know this is Israel that is launching
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  Speaker 2: this preempt to strike, and some would even argue this
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  Speaker 2: was long overdue.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and I will say President Trump announced on April twelfth,
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  Speaker 3: that Iran has sixty days to negotiate and agree to
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  Speaker 3: this sixty days. This attack was launched on June twelfth, Thursday,
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  Speaker 3: June twelfth, exactly sixty days after that. That is not
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  Speaker 3: an accident. Iran understood they had a timeframe, but you
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  Speaker 3: got to understand the Iranians when they negotiate, they want
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  Speaker 3: to delay. They want to delay, they want to continue
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  Speaker 3: to reap the benefits of Joe Biden and the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: weakness and appeasement and fuel the money that they received
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  Speaker 3: into developing nuclear weapons. And so Israel made the decision.
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  Speaker 3: They made the decision they were going to attack. They
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  Speaker 3: were going to attack on exactly the sixty day expiration
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  Speaker 3: of President Trump's deadline. And I think that was driven
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  Speaker 3: by Iran beginning Thursday by saying we're not changing a
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  Speaker 3: damn thing. We're gonna keep building centrifuges and effectively we
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  Speaker 3: want a nuclear weapon and there's nothing you can do
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  Speaker 3: to stop us. Israel acted to demonstrate that was not right.
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  Speaker 2: Senator, I want to also remind people we do the
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  Speaker 2: subscribed to vertict with Ted Cruz. And let's get into
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  Speaker 2: what Netnya who had to say as well, Senator netna
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  Speaker 2: who came out and was and spoke very boldly, not
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  Speaker 2: just to the people in Israel, but also to the world.
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  Speaker 3: So on Thursday evening, as the military strike was beginning,
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  Speaker 3: Prime Minster Netnyah who addressed Israel and addressed the world.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what he had to say.
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  Speaker 4: Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military
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  Speaker 4: operation to roll back the Uranian threat to Israel's very survival.
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  Speaker 4: This operation will continue for as many days as it
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  Speaker 4: takes to remove this threat. For decades, the tyrants of
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  Speaker 4: Tehran have brazenly openly called for Israel's destruction. They've backed
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  Speaker 4: up their genocidal rhetoric with a program to develop nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 4: In recent years, Iran is produced enough highly enriched uranium
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  Speaker 4: for nine atom bombs. Nine In recent months, Iran has
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  Speaker 4: taken steps that it has never taken before, steps to
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  Speaker 4: weaponize this enriched uranium, and if not stopped, Iran could
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  Speaker 4: produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time. It
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  Speaker 4: could be a year, it could be within a few months,
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  Speaker 4: less than a year. This is a clear and present
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  Speaker 4: danger to Israel's very survival. Eighty years ago, the Jewish
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  Speaker 4: people were the victims of a holocaust perpetrated by the
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  Speaker 4: Nazi regime. Today, the Jewish state refuses to be a
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  Speaker 4: victim of a nuclear holocaust perpetrated by the Uranian regime.
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  Speaker 4: Now its prime minister. I've made it clear time it again.
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  Speaker 4: Israel will never allow those who call for our annihilation
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  Speaker 4: to develop the means to achieve that goal. Tonight, Israel
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  Speaker 4: backs those words with action. We struck at the heart
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  Speaker 4: of Iran's nuclear enrichment program. We struck at the heart
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  Speaker 4: of Iran's nuclear weaponization program. We targeted Iran's main enrichment
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  Speaker 4: facility in Atans. We targeted Iran's leading nuclear scientists working
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  Speaker 4: on the Iranian bomb. We also struck at the heart
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  Speaker 4: of Iran's ballistic missile program. Last year, Iran fired three
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  Speaker 4: hundred ballistic missiles at Israel. Each of these missiles carries
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  Speaker 4: a ton of explosives and threatens the lives of hundreds
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  Speaker 4: of people. Soon, those missiles could carry a nuclear payload,
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  Speaker 4: threatening the lives not of hundreds, but of millions. Iran
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  Speaker 4: is gearing up to produce ten thousands of those ballistic
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  Speaker 4: missiles within three years. Now, just imagine imagine ten tons
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  Speaker 4: of TNT landing on a country the size of New Jersey.
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  Speaker 4: This is an intolerable threat. It too must be stopped.
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  Speaker 2: You listen to Netnahu there, and not only was he
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  Speaker 2: very queer and direct, but it was I think a
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  Speaker 2: argument that if you're a sane person wherever you are
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  Speaker 2: in the world, and you're looking at the position that
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  Speaker 2: Israel is in with a Ran next door, they had
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  Speaker 2: no choice but.
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  Speaker 1: To do this.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Look, as you know, I know Prime Minister Netne who
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  Speaker 3: very well. He is a friend. We've spent a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time together. When he was in DC last month,
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  Speaker 3: he and I spent two almost two and a half
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  Speaker 3: hours together, just one on one. I will tell you,
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  Speaker 3: in the thirteen years i've been in the Senate, I've
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  Speaker 3: met a lot of world leaders. That's part of the job,
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  Speaker 3: as you meet the leaders of foreign countries. There is
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  Speaker 3: only one who has taking my breath away, Prime Minister Netna,
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  Speaker 3: who the adjective I've used for him I've not used
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  Speaker 3: for anyone else is Churchillian. Because I think he has
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  Speaker 3: a seriousness of purpose. I think he has a gravitas.
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  Speaker 3: He understands that he is facing literally a threat to
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  Speaker 3: annihilate the people of his country, and he is committed
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  Speaker 3: to doing everything necessary to prevent it. You know, I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you when Obama was president, and when Obama was
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  Speaker 3: negotiating and announcing the Obama Iran nuclear Deal, which was
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  Speaker 3: catastrophically devastating, the House of Representatives invited Prime Minister Netna
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  Speaker 3: who to come and address a joint session of Congress.
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  Speaker 3: And when that happened, I invited Ellie Wizel, who is
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  Speaker 3: the Nobel Laureate, incredible, incredible man, to come participate in
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  Speaker 3: a conversation with me on what the threat of a
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  Speaker 3: nuclear Iran was.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Ellie, he wanted it to be very mache bipartisan event.
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  Speaker 3: So I invited Chuck Schumer to participate.
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  Speaker 1: He said no.
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  Speaker 3: I invited multiple Democrats to participate, one after the other
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  Speaker 3: after the other. They sayed said no. Finally I told Ellie,
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  Speaker 3: no Democrat will participate. We did a gathering in the Capitol.
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  Speaker 3: We had over five hundred people come in the Capital.
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  Speaker 3: Listen Ellie Wizzel talk about his experiences seeing the horrors
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  Speaker 3: of the Holocaust, seeing the horrors of evil and Nazi Germany.
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  Speaker 3: And I got to say when Ellie was l talked
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  Speaker 3: about never again means never again and the greatest threat
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  Speaker 3: of another holocaust on planet Earth is a nuclear Iran
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  Speaker 3: where these theocratic lunatics use nuclear weapons to murder millions
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  Speaker 3: of Israelis.
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  Speaker 4: It was powerful.
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  Speaker 3: It took my breath away to be sitting at the
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  Speaker 3: table with him. But it also spoke volumes that not
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  Speaker 3: a single Democrat was willing to be in the room.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you about so. On that speech on
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  Speaker 3: the Senate floor, I was there. I listened to Prime
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  Speaker 3: Minister net Yahu's speech, which was powerful, it was incredibly important,
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  Speaker 3: and we saw a vast number of Democrats boycott the speech,
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  Speaker 3: refuse to attend. We saw that again when when when
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  Speaker 3: the Prime Minister addressed Congress more recently, and again Democrats
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  Speaker 3: boycott of the speech. Kamala Harris boycott of the speech,
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  Speaker 3: refused to listen to the democratically elected leader of Israel.
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  Speaker 3: And it is a sad dynamic that today's Democrat party
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  Speaker 3: is dominated by the Prohamas faction. Today's Democrat Party isn't
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  Speaker 3: panic because right now, far too many of their radicals
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  Speaker 3: sympathize with Iran over Israel and that that may sound
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  Speaker 3: like hyperbole, but you know what we are going to see.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to predict this, you and I. This is
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  Speaker 3: this is early Friday morning. We are going to see
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  Speaker 3: Democrat after Democrat saying to Israel, un need to restrain yourself,
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  Speaker 3: not calling out Iran, but calling out Israel, because that
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  Speaker 3: is where the dank on Israel that party is.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, after the attack, they've came out and said
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  Speaker 2: they must show restraint, before they'd even been able to
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  Speaker 2: figure out what had happened in Israel're like, well, they
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  Speaker 2: need to show restraint, They must show restrained.
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  Speaker 3: Everything the Biden administration over and over again said, do
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  Speaker 3: not kill the terrorists, do not kill the terrorists. They
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  Speaker 3: cut off weapons to Israel. The radical left in the
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  Speaker 3: Democrat Party hates Israel, and that battle is only.
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  Speaker 1: Going to get worse.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things I love about doing the show
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  Speaker 2: Center is moments after this attack took place Israel on Iran,
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  Speaker 2: you were actually on the phone with the ambassador from Israel.
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  Speaker 2: What did he tell you about this attack? How long
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  Speaker 2: had they been planning this, What was the final decision
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  Speaker 2: that made this happen in the last several hours.
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  Speaker 3: Well, understand, this show happens real time. It happens real
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  Speaker 3: time in real life. You and I are recording this
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  Speaker 3: early in the morning Friday morning. This podcast will come
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  Speaker 3: out later in the day on Friday. So some of
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  Speaker 3: you will be listening to this on Friday, others of
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  Speaker 3: you will be hearing this on radio on Saturday or Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: And so the world may have changed forty eight hours.
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  Speaker 3: At the time when a war is initiating, it is
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  Speaker 3: a mountain of time. What I can tell you is
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  Speaker 3: late Thursday night, as Israel was launching it its attacks,
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  Speaker 3: before Iran has engaged in a counterattack, I was on
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  Speaker 3: the phone with the Israeli ambassador of the United States
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  Speaker 3: and he told me that the attack at least so far,
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  Speaker 3: had gone extraordinarily well, that they'd taken out senior leadership
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  Speaker 3: of the IRGC. And I got to say, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: that's a huge victory for the United States of America.
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  Speaker 3: The IRGC has murdered over six hundred American servicemen and women.
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  Speaker 3: They are grotesquely hostile to the United States, and for
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  Speaker 3: Israel to take them out, it has enormous bend fit
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  Speaker 3: to America. But at the same time, the Israeli ambassador
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  Speaker 3: told me that the instruction had gone out in Israel
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  Speaker 3: to the people of Israel go to a bomb shelter,
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  Speaker 3: either be in a bomb shelter or be very near
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  Speaker 3: a bomb shelter, because they are anticipating early in the
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  Speaker 3: morning Friday morning, that Iran is going to launch a
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  Speaker 3: massive counterattack with ballistic weapons. And Israel has extensive anti
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  Speaker 3: missile defenses, but Iran has sufficient volume that if they
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  Speaker 3: launch everything, they have the capacity to overwhelm the defenses,
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  Speaker 3: and so there is a very real possibility. The people
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  Speaker 3: of Israel are braced. They understand. Look, look that they're
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  Speaker 3: not playing they're not playing games that they are playing
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  Speaker 3: with real stakes. They're playing with live rounds. The people
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  Speaker 3: of Israel understand right now, as you and I are
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  Speaker 3: recording this, that we may see Israeli's die right now,
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  Speaker 3: because Iran has enough missiles that if they launched them all,
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  Speaker 3: there will be Israeli's murdered in the minutes and hours
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  Speaker 3: ahead of us. But at the same time, Prime Minister Netanyah,
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  Speaker 3: who made the decision, it's a decision I agree with.
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  Speaker 3: It's a decision that I think was right, which is
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  Speaker 3: the risk of Israelis dying and of Americans dying if
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  Speaker 3: Iran acquires a nuclear weapon is qualitatively different that we
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  Speaker 3: could face. With an Iranian nuclear weapon, we could face
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  Speaker 3: millions murdered. And so listen, I want to underscore what
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  Speaker 3: I said at the beginning of this podcast. Pray for
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  Speaker 3: the people of Israel and pray for our servicemen and
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  Speaker 3: women in har harm's way, because this is a very
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  Speaker 3: very dangerous time.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, Well, let's talk about who is targeted and
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  Speaker 2: what this looks like moving forward from the standpoint of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the objective here is clearly to put them
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  Speaker 2: back when it comes to a nuclear program, but they
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  Speaker 2: also went after people that were involved in that program,
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  Speaker 2: which is a really big way to move things backwards.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Look, this was a decapitation strike. It was targeted the
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  Speaker 3: senior military leaders in Iran. It was targeted at the
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  Speaker 3: nuclear facilities in Iran, it was targeted at the anti
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  Speaker 3: air assault facilities in Iran. It was a very targeted
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  Speaker 3: but massively effective strike. Now Iran is going to strike back.
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  Speaker 3: Understand that that that's not a possibility or a probability
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  Speaker 3: it is a certainty that Iran will hit back. Now,
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  Speaker 3: what I hope Iran understands is they should not hit
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  Speaker 3: back at America. Hitting back at America would escalate this dramatically.
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  Speaker 3: And I will say the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,
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  Speaker 3: he put out a statement Thursday night. Let me read
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  Speaker 3: his statement. Quote tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran.
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  Speaker 3: We were not involved in strikes against Iran, and our
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  Speaker 3: top priority is protecting American forces in the region. Israel
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  Speaker 3: advised us that they believe this action was necessary for
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  Speaker 3: its self defense. President Trump and the Administration have taken
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  Speaker 3: all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in
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  Speaker 3: close contact with our regional partners. Let me be clear,
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  Speaker 3: Iran should not target US interests or personnel. Now. Look,
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad that the Secretary of State was putting out
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  Speaker 3: that statement defending our servicemen and women. I wish there
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  Speaker 3: had been more in that statement saying we stand with Israel.
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  Speaker 3: That was missing from the statement, and it shouldn't have been.
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  Speaker 3: From my perspective, we stand unequivocally with Israel. But I
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  Speaker 3: understand why the Secretary of State didn't do that, which
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  Speaker 3: is that he's concerned that Iran may strike at US
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  Speaker 3: military forces. Now, in my view, the way to prevent
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  Speaker 3: that is not to say to Iran, hey, we had
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  Speaker 3: nothing to do with That was the main theme of
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  Speaker 3: the Secretary of State's statement, but rather to say, if
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  Speaker 3: you attack US forces, the consequences will be overwhelming. I
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  Speaker 3: think Iran responds more to stick than the carrot. But
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  Speaker 3: we shall see, and it is any way you look
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  Speaker 3: at it, on unbelievably dangerous time.
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  Speaker 2: Senator, Let's talk about some of the people that have
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  Speaker 2: been taken out here. There's two aspects of these strikes. One,
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  Speaker 2: nuclear scientists are being reported that they were targeted and
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  Speaker 2: have been killed, and that is the brains of the
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  Speaker 2: nuclear program. If you want to stop Iran from doing this,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: taking out new nuclear scientists is absolutely brilliant. It's the
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  Speaker 2: computer system, the nervous system of everything they're trying to accomplish.
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  Speaker 2: That's incredible. But we also now know from virtually every
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  Speaker 2: news agency is reporting this that the IRGC tear chief Salami,
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  Speaker 2: has also been eliminated.
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  Speaker 1: That is significant as well.
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  Speaker 3: Well. We now know that Hussein Salami is lunch meat,
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  Speaker 3: and I feel a little cheesy making fun of him.
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  Speaker 3: But then again, the guy is a racist, genocidal, homicidal, lunatic.
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  Speaker 3: So I hope after Salami, Beloni and Pastrami both get
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  Speaker 3: eliminated as well. And if you look at the head
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  Speaker 3: of the IRGC, he has responsibility for murdering over six
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  Speaker 3: hundred US servicemen and women. So if you love the
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  Speaker 3: men and women of the Armed Services, if you are
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  Speaker 3: grateful for friends, family, loved ones who serve defending this nation,
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  Speaker 3: then you ought to say tonight to the nation of Israel,
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  Speaker 3: thank you, thank you for taking out the head of
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  Speaker 3: the IRGC that is responsible for murdering hundreds of American
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  Speaker 3: servicemen and women. President Trump when he was president the
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  Speaker 3: first time, he took out General Solimani, and now today
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  Speaker 3: the Israelis have taken out Solami a successor who is
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  Speaker 3: the terror chief of the IRGC, and he is now
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  Speaker 3: with his seventy two versions. So that I will tell you,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: much to his dismay, those virgins are all Gomer Pyle
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  Speaker 3: and it's not what he hoped for.
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  Speaker 1: I got to say. One of the best parts about
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  Speaker 1: this story.
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  Speaker 2: Just side note, if you look up Insamami on his
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: pages on the Wikipedia, it already says, he's like the
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  Speaker 2: former guy in charge of the IRGC.
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  Speaker 1: I love the Internet when they get it right really quickly. Center.
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  Speaker 2: It is amazing to see this moment in history, because
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: this is a moment in history. And I got to
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  Speaker 2: ask you this, Aran now is going to respond. I'm
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: sure in some way. I'm sure Israel is expecting that.
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  Speaker 2: You made it very clear to night America's warning and
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  Speaker 2: from this administration. What happens next and what is Israel
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  Speaker 2: expecting in your mind.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it depends on the escalation. I think it is
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  Speaker 3: one hundred percent certain that Iran will respond by firing
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  Speaker 3: missiles at Israel. Israel gets that, they understand that they're
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  Speaker 3: ready for that. There is some real possibility that Iran
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  Speaker 3: will respond by firing missiles or other weapons at Americans.
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  Speaker 3: And I think if they do that, they will dramatically
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  Speaker 3: escalate this conflict. I think they will provoke. If they
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: murder American servicemen and women, I think you will see
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: President Trump respond with devastating force. And so again my
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  Speaker 3: message to the IATOLA is, do not do that. Their
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  Speaker 3: response to Israel, I don't know what it will be.
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  Speaker 3: There is a risk that their response is devastating that
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  Speaker 3: it is overwhelming. They have a massive number of ballistic missiles,
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  Speaker 3: so if they fire them, all the odds are significant
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: that we will see a very large number of Israelis murdered.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm saying, Prime Minister Netanyah, who understands he knows that.
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  Speaker 3: He knows that, but by virtue of engaging this attack tonight,
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  Speaker 3: there's a real risk of a significant number of Israelis
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  Speaker 3: being murdered. But he did this because he knows that
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  Speaker 3: if Iran has a nuclear weapon, many many more Israelis
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  Speaker 3: and many many more Americans are at risk of being murdered.
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  Speaker 3: Look the iatola chance death to America and death to Israel.
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  Speaker 3: I believe he believes that, and so acquiring a nuclear
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  Speaker 3: weapon is not just an academic question. If he gets
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  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon, I believe he is trying to acquire
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  Speaker 3: one because he wants to carry out his promises of
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: death to Israel and death to America. And that's precisely
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: why Israel has launched this attack, to stop him from
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: getting that capability.
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  Speaker 2: I also center want to play for you what the
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Israeli ambassador the United Nations had to say on CNN earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Here is what he had to say when he was
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  Speaker 2: asked a couple of different questions about this.
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  Speaker 5: Also joining me is Reel's ambassador to the United Nations.
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  Speaker 5: They need to know and ambassador, it's great to have
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  Speaker 5: you here, sir. Just first on the strike that we
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: were seeing play out tonight and what this means should
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  Speaker 5: we now consider is real to be at war with Iran.
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  Speaker 6: Now was very clear. We took a preemptive attack to
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  Speaker 6: defense ourselves, to defend ourselves, and we are targeting the
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: nuclear facilities and the badistic mission centers in Iran. So
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: we don't go into declaration now, we take actions. We
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  Speaker 6: decided not to wait for Iran to attack us with
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  Speaker 6: nuclear capabilities. We knew that they were plotting to do that,
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  Speaker 6: and while they were talking with many countries and negotiating,
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: they move secretly with a military plan to attack as well.
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  Speaker 6: And what we did was an act of self defense.
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  Speaker 6: And we have abilities, you know, Okayatelean. Eighty years ago
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  Speaker 6: when Oswitz was liberated, we required the support of the
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  Speaker 6: Allies to protect our people. But today we have our
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  Speaker 6: own stage, our own military, our own alfos, and today
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  Speaker 6: we are protecting ourselves from another holocaust.
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  Speaker 5: I mean these are much wider than the preemptive strikes
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  Speaker 5: based on what we've seen so far, especially in terms
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: of targeting around top military leaders as well as senior
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  Speaker 5: nuclear scientists, kind of a mass based on what we
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: have heard, do you know how many of those those
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: top military leaders and nuclear scientists and Iran the strikes
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  Speaker 5: against the more successful, how many of them have been
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  Speaker 5: eliminated tonight.
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  Speaker 6: No, I cannot go into those details, but I can
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  Speaker 6: tell you one thing. Those people who were involved in
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: the nuclear production, those who were putting together the ballistic missiles,
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: there are targets. They are part of the machine that
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: threatened as well in other countries in the world. You know,
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  Speaker 6: if you look back at attack that it well took,
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: whether it was against the Iraq or see. Yeah, we
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: try to develop a nuclear reactors. I think today everybody
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: can think it well for those actions. So maybe today
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: some people I'm not sure about why we are doing
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  Speaker 6: it today, But down the world a few years from today,
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: the world will thank you well for the action we took.
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  Speaker 2: Today night the world will think Israel for the actions
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  Speaker 2: taking tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the big takeaway from all of.
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  Speaker 3: This It should be, but understand that the pro hamas
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  Speaker 3: radical left in the Democrat Party is cheering on exactly
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: the opposite side, So Ben Rhodes. Many of y all
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: listening know who Ben Roads is. Ben Rhodes was a
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: top national security official in the Barack Obama National Security Council.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: He is the lead architect of the Obama Iran nuclear deal.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: He is a hardcore leftist and tonight he's miserable. So
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Ben Rhodes. Late Thursday night, he tweeted out, quote, this
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: is all so unnecessary, all of it everywhere. Understand when
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Israel tax Iran to take out the nuclear capacities. Ben Rhodes,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: the leading national security official for Barack Obama is I
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: think Ben is in tears right now. And listen. The
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Iran nuclear deal under Obama was a disaster. Under Joe Biden,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: their top foreign policy objective was to have another Iran
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: nuclear deal. The only thing that stopped it as Iran
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: was so unreasonable they would not accept it. And there
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: are so many in the Democrat Party right now that
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: are cheering for Iran. I'll tell you what I'm cheering
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: for America, dammit, And I'm cheering for Israel and people
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: who are theocratic lunatics who say they want to murder us.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: I am not dismayed that we are seeing a military
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: force stand up and take them out, and in particular
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: take out their nuclear capacity. That is critically important. We
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: do not want people who want to murder us to
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: have the tools to do so. And I think Israel's
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: attack did enormous benefit to America.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned taking away their tools, and one of their
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: tools was going after their scientists. I mean, this is
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: the brains behind everything. This took a lot of planning
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: and apparently as incredibly successful as well. I mean, this
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: is taking out their nervous system, of the computer system,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it, for their nuclear program
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: by going after the scientists.
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  Speaker 1: It's absolutely brilliant, and they pulled it off.
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  Speaker 3: They did, it was executed with amazing precision. Now it's early. Look,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: you and I are both talking early in the morning
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Friday morning. It is possible that problems developed later Friday,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: later Saturday, later Sunday. One of the challenges of doing
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: a show like this at the beginning of military conflict
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: is you don't know how things will shake out. But
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: I will say this so Benjamin Etna, who is a
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: strong conservative one of his predecessors as Israeli Prime minister
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: was enough Tally Bennett. Now enough Tally had been previously
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Netan Yaho's chief of staff. But then but then Bennett
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: broke with nen Yahoo and ended up becoming prime minister himself,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: in significant part by opposing net Nyahu. But I want
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: you to listen to this clip a former Israeli Prime
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Minister enough Tally Bennett talking about what this is all about.
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  Speaker 1: Give a listen.
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  Speaker 7: Well, israelis had a siren across the country indicating that
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: Israel's air force is a conducting a prempt to strike
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: against Iran's military facilities and perhaps also the nuclear facilities.
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: I want to remind you that Iran's about a week
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: away from being able to obtain the amount of enriched
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: uranium for ten bombs. So this is not me saying this.
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  Speaker 7: This is the international nuclear community and the goal ultimately
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: will be to remove the nuclear threat from the Middle East.
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  Speaker 7: And sitting the head of the octopus of terror that's
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: been causing all of the mess we've seen over the
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: past couple of years in the region, I mean, there
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  Speaker 7: it is.
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  Speaker 3: And I will say when today's Democrats in the Senate
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: and House are to the left of that are saying
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: do not attack Iran. And we're going to see I'm
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: going to make a prediction in the hours and days ahead,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: we're going to see a massive rise in the attacks
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: from the anti Semitic left. And the anti Semitic left
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: is growing bigger and bigger, and so those who hate
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Israel will be really vocal. And unfortunately there's also a
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: contingent on the anti Semitic right. The anti Semitic right
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: is smaller than the left, but both of them are
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: absolutely wrong, and you're going to see online people say
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: the Israelis are dragging us into war. I'm here to
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: tell you the Israelis are acting to prevent war, to
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons, and those nuclear weapons
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: could well be used to murder millions of Israelis or
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: millions of Americans, and so Israel is acting in self defense.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: And I want to be clear, America stands with Israel.
• 33:24
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