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Democrat Fueled Funding Fights in DC—Firebomb Plot in Michigan · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: The Trump administration wants the Senate to ditch their recess
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Speaker 1: over the shutdown and get back to the work of
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Speaker 1: the American people. President Trump calling out the Senate and
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Speaker 1: saying it's time to return into your job. As the
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Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security shutdown continues with no end insight.
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Speaker 1: The President is also encouraging Congress to come back to
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Speaker 1: Washington to permanently fix this problem and to fund and
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Speaker 1: reopen the Department of Homeland Security entirely. That is what
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Speaker 1: the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said at the
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Speaker 1: press briefing. I want you to take a listen to
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Speaker 1: part of what she had to say. At the White House.
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Speaker 2: Overall morale among TSA staff plummeted as well, all of
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Speaker 2: this creating an unacceptable heightened security risk because of the
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Speaker 2: Democrat's unwillingness to do their basic job of funding DHS.
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Speaker 2: President Trump determined that the circumstances constituted an emergency compromising
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Speaker 2: American security. That's why last week he accordingly signed a
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Speaker 2: president memorandum directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to work
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Speaker 2: with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
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Speaker 2: here at the White House to use those funds with
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Speaker 2: a reagionable and reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations
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Speaker 2: to provide TSA employees with the compensation and benefits that
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Speaker 2: would have accrued to them but for the Democrat led
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Speaker 2: DHS shutdown. This bold and necessary action by President Trump
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Speaker 2: will ensure our TSA workers receive their hard earned paychecks.
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Speaker 2: It should not have come to this point, but President
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Speaker 2: Trump will always do what's right by the American people,
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Speaker 2: and he found a way to do that to get
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Speaker 2: TSA paid. Ensuring that these federal workers who perform critical
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Speaker 2: public safety responsibilities can feed their families, pay their rent,
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Speaker 2: and show up to work is something the President was
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Speaker 2: honored to do. But this moment should be an eye
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Speaker 2: opening one for the American people. Let's be clear about
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Speaker 2: what is happening. Democrat members of Congress are more than
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Speaker 2: happy to put your safety at risk because they oppose
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Speaker 2: the presidents admit and his administration's efforts to enforce our
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Speaker 2: nation's immigration law. Democrats refuse to fund ICE because they
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Speaker 2: want millions and millions of illegal aliens to pour into
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Speaker 2: the country just like they were under the Biden administration.
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Speaker 2: They want murderers and rapists and thugs to remain in
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Speaker 2: your communities rather than be removed by ice and border
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Speaker 2: patrol agents. The Democrats created this mess. They are the
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Speaker 2: reason for long lines at airports and tens of thousands
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Speaker 2: of employees going without pay. Once again, President Trump is
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Speaker 2: cleaning up their mess because he cares more about the
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Speaker 2: American people than destructive, petty partisan politics.
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Speaker 1: Now, President Trump recently signed an executive order to pay
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Speaker 1: Transportation Security Administration employees who had gone without paychecks since
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Speaker 1: the shutdown began in mid February, but Levitt said that
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Speaker 1: was not the answer. Quote, the President just can't keep
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Speaker 1: signing presidential memorandums and proclamations every time Congress fails to
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Speaker 1: do their job. She's absolutely right about that one. Carolin
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Speaker 1: Levitt said, Democrats are holding our entire country hostage.
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Speaker 3: That is also a fact they're picking.
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Speaker 1: And choosing which programs and agencies they want a fund
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Speaker 1: just because they don't like the administration's policies. And that's
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Speaker 1: not how Congress is supposed to work, or how funding
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Speaker 1: is supposed to work.
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Speaker 3: For that matter.
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Speaker 1: They voted several times against funding DHS over partisan and
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Speaker 1: political reasons. That is part of the reason why we
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Speaker 1: have the shutdown right now and over the weekend. Things
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Speaker 1: got even a little stick here when House Republicans rejected
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Speaker 1: a bipartisan Senate deal to temporarily fund HS and instead
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Speaker 1: past their own funding measure late Friday, extending a week's
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Speaker 1: let's get back to the funding here for a second.
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Speaker 1: The stopgap bill, which proposed funding DHS in full for
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Speaker 1: eight weeks, that actually passed two thirteen to two oh
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Speaker 1: three after Republicans in the lower Chamber refuse to take
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Speaker 1: up a Senate pass deal that excluded money from Immigration
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Speaker 1: and Customs Enforcements and custom and Border Protection, a funding
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Speaker 1: measure that law in the status quo is dead on
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Speaker 1: arrival in the Senate and Republicans know it. That's what
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Speaker 1: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement, saying, quote,
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Speaker 1: Democrats will fund critical homeland security functions, but we will
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Speaker 1: not give a blank check to Trump's lawless and deadly
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Speaker 1: immigration militia without reforms. To be clear, that would be
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Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer saying that ICE agents are deadly militia members,
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Speaker 1: not members of our government that we should be proud
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Speaker 1: of now. The late night vote came after Speaker of
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Speaker 1: the House Mike Johnson called the earlier bipartisan Senate bill
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Speaker 1: a joke for withholding money for the agencies responsible for
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Speaker 1: carrying out Trump's deportation policies. The Senate immediately went on
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Speaker 1: a two week recess after voting to fund DHS, and
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Speaker 1: that is where President Trump has come back in saying
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Speaker 1: what are you doing. It's time to get back to work.
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Speaker 1: There is a difference between the to individual bodies, There's
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Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Democrats are also celebrating this. There's
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Speaker 1: also some members of Congress who are so angry about this.
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Speaker 1: They're saying we shouldn't get paid GOP Representative Cammick and
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear what she had to say
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Speaker 1: on Fox News Channel with Harris Faugner.
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Speaker 4: I'm in a Cat Cammick, Republican of the great State
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Speaker 4: of Florida, member of the Energy and Commerce and Agricultural Committees.
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Speaker 4: Great to see you today. Let's just get to the
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Speaker 4: brass tax and please don't be offended by this, but
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Speaker 4: you'll have all of our money. And the fact that
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Speaker 4: Democrats have now gotten to the point where they are
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Speaker 4: just dysfunctional, they can't pick us first any of that.
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Speaker 4: Is it time to start cutting paychecks now?
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, it needs to start with the senators. They should
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Speaker 5: not be collecting a paycheck. Which members of Congress, both
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Speaker 5: the House and Senate get paid on a monthly basis,
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Speaker 5: and their check is deposited in the last few days
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Speaker 5: of the month. They right now are collecting a paycheck
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Speaker 5: while our hardworking men of Home Land Security, from FEMA, Coastguard,
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Speaker 5: DHS collectively, and of course TSA, they are not getting
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Speaker 5: paid now. To your point, Harris, yes, we do have
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Speaker 5: a literacy crisis in this country. But for Pete's sakes,
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Speaker 5: I wish that the Democrats in the Senate would stop
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Speaker 5: treating us all like we are morons we can read
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Speaker 5: and if they were to read the bill they sent
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Speaker 5: over to us, they wanted to withhold the paychecks of
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Speaker 5: ice of CBP Homeland Security Investigations, which investigates sex crimes
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Speaker 5: against children. These folks are out to play politics with
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Speaker 5: people's lives and it's disgusting. They should not be getting paid,
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Speaker 5: certainly not while there are other people who are sleeping
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Speaker 5: in their cars and missing paychecks and really scrambling for
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Speaker 5: everything that they can do to survive.
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Speaker 1: Now as Republicans are trying to figure all of this out,
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Speaker 1: and I agree, those members of Congress should not get
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Speaker 1: paid while this is happening. The Democrats are trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out how to spend this. ABC News is Jonathan
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Speaker 1: Carl on Sunday Morning this week asked this question to
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Speaker 1: Center Van Holland about what did the Democrats really get
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Speaker 1: out of this? And I want you to listen carefully
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Speaker 1: to his answer and is he going to now use it?
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Speaker 6: So, when the Senate passed that bill, and there was
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Speaker 6: that brief moment that looked like, you know, dawn had broken,
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Speaker 6: you put out a statement saying that Republicans had quote
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Speaker 6: finally relented.
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Speaker 7: What did Democrats get out of this.
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Speaker 6: Even if that passed, what did you get out of this?
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Speaker 6: This DHS shutdown's going.
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Speaker 8: On for well over a month.
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Speaker 3: What have you gotten for it?
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Speaker 7: Well, the issue here, John, is we let people know
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Speaker 7: number one, that we want to fully fund TSA. We
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Speaker 7: could get rid of these lines at the airports immediately,
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Speaker 7: but we also made clear that we're going to demand
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Speaker 7: reforms of a lawless ICE operation. After all, TSH agents
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Speaker 7: killed two American citizens in Minneapolis.
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Speaker 1: So there it is yet again what you have as
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Speaker 1: Democrats saying Ice is evil, the Ice of the Gestapo,
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Speaker 1: ICE's murderers, Ice are the worst among us. They're not
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Speaker 1: backing down from that talking point. And if that means
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Speaker 1: shutting down our government or having you wait in four
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Speaker 1: or five hour lines at the airport, and if that
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Speaker 1: means they think they're getting closer to their victory of
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Speaker 1: defunding or dehumanizing ICE, clearly they're willing to do it.
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Speaker 1: I want to take you back real quick to March fifteenth.
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Speaker 1: You may remember that Michigan synagogue attack that happened. We
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Speaker 1: now know that that individual was a hes Blah inspired
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Speaker 1: act of terrorism. That synagogue attacker was actually the brother
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Speaker 1: of a hes Blah commander. We're now learning from Israel
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Speaker 1: and the FBI is confirming that that Michigan synagogue attacked
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Speaker 1: her was yes, a terrorist. So all the dots are
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Speaker 1: being connected. So why is the media not talking about
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Speaker 1: this for that exact reason. I just explained to you,
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Speaker 1: Senator Cruz, and I broke it down even more and
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear what he had to say.
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Speaker 3: Take a listen, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, Senator, So let's get to this first big story here,
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Speaker 1: and this is one of the ones that concerns me
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Speaker 1: so much about what is happening in this country right now.
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Speaker 1: We've also seen this happen in Europe, and we are
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Speaker 1: now seeing that there are more attacks. We're seeing churches
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Speaker 1: that are being burned around the world, and we're now
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Speaker 1: seeing this synagogue attacker that attacked on behalf of hes Blah.
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Speaker 1: It happened right here in Michigan. We know a lot
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Speaker 1: more now than we did before.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, you remember when this story broke when the man
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Speaker 9: drove his truck into the synagogue that was also a school.
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Speaker 9: There were over one hundred kids there. He was trying
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Speaker 9: to kill as many young children as he could, and
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Speaker 9: the media coverage They referred to him as Michigan Man.
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Speaker 9: It was reminiscent of Maryland Man, the guy who was
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Speaker 9: MS thirteen gangbanger and human trafficker. That was just a
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Speaker 9: Maryland man who for some reason was deported. No one
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Speaker 9: could imagine why. Well, here it was Michigan Man, and
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Speaker 9: then they had all this sympathetic coverage. Michigan Man was
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Speaker 9: upset that his brother had been killed in the Middle East.
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Speaker 9: What they didn't mention is his brother was a commander
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Speaker 9: for Hesbela, and so he was a terrorist. So Hesbela
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Speaker 9: terrorist in America, unhappy that a different Hesbela terrorist had
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Speaker 9: been killed, and so he tried to kill as many children,
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Speaker 9: as many Jews as possible. Here are the details. The
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Speaker 9: attack earlier this month is from CNN on a synagogue
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Speaker 9: in West Bloomfield, Michigan, was a quote Hesbela inspired act
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Speaker 9: of terrorism, purposely targeting the Jewish community and the largest
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Speaker 9: Jewish temple in Michigan, The FBI said a news conference
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Speaker 9: on Monday. The assailant, I'man Ghazzali, was a naturalized US
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Speaker 9: citizen from Lebanon's now put a pin in that that
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Speaker 9: we need to change our vetting for naturalized citizens. Yeah
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Speaker 9: he rammed a pickup truck into the synagogue on March twelfth,
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Speaker 9: as more than one hundred children were attending school inside.
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Speaker 9: After waiting in the synagogue's parking lot for more than
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Speaker 9: two hours, authority said, Gazali drove the truck far into
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Speaker 9: the building, hitting a security officer before the vehicle became
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Speaker 9: wedged in a hallway. Security officers for the synagogue began
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Speaker 9: ex changing gunfire with Ghazali, who eventually shot and killed
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Speaker 9: himself inside the truck. During the chaos, the truck's engine
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Speaker 9: compartment caught fire and caused extension extensive damage to the building.
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Speaker 9: The truck was filled with over two thousand dollars of
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Speaker 9: commercial grade fireworks and about thirty five gallons of gasoline,
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Speaker 9: which he used to enhance the explosion. No one else
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Speaker 9: was killed. One of the temple's lead security officers was
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Speaker 9: injured after being hit by the vehicle. Had he lived,
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Speaker 9: he would have been charged with providing material support to Hesbela,
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Speaker 9: the Iranian backed terrorist group, and said Jerome Gorgon, the
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Speaker 9: US attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Gorgan added
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Speaker 9: that Gazali was inspired by Hesbelon propaganda to carry out
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Speaker 9: the attack.
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Speaker 3: Quote.
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Speaker 9: This man acted under Hesbela's direction and control. He intended
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Speaker 9: to kill others, not just himself. In the days after
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Speaker 9: the attack, US official said Gazali was located in federal
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Speaker 9: government databases as having connections to quote known or suspected
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Speaker 9: terrorists associated with Hesbla. Stopped there for a second, so
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Speaker 9: they searched the databases. The databases showed that he had
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Speaker 9: connections to known or suspected terrorists. Then why the hell
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Speaker 9: was this guy let in the country in the first place.
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Speaker 9: Why did they allow him in? Why did they naturalize
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Speaker 9: him as a citizen. I have a feeling that information
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Speaker 9: in the databases didn't magically appear in the last fifteen months.
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Speaker 9: It's been there a long time. It's just prior administrations
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Speaker 9: didn't care. We didn't get to the bottom of that.
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Speaker 9: A week prior to the attack, where's a Gazali's family
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Speaker 9: in Lebanon, including two brothers, were killed in an Israeli
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Speaker 9: airstrike as the US and Israel entered its second week
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Speaker 9: of conflict with Iran. Now this is where the media
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Speaker 9: clutched their pearls. Well, his brother was killed, so naturally
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Speaker 9: when your brothers killed. What you do is try to
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Speaker 9: murder a hundred kids. That's the normal reaction to that.
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Speaker 9: But then here's the killer paragraph that follows the Israeli
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Speaker 9: Israeli military said one of the brothers, Ibrahim Mohammad Ghazali,
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Speaker 9: was a Hesbela commander in charge of managing weapons operations
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Speaker 9: in the Raigning Proxy Group's Botder Unit. Gazali began planning
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Speaker 9: for the attack days earlier, so the FBI said, with
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Speaker 9: his plans intensifying on March ninth. A review of Gazali's
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Speaker 9: online activity dating to January. January was before the war
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Speaker 9: in Iran started. YEP showed repeated searches for pro Hesbela
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Speaker 9: and Iranian news outlets, as well as videos related to
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Speaker 9: gunfire and munition. Beginning March ninth, FBI said he closely
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Speaker 9: followed speeches in live coverage involving Hesbelas Secretary Terry General
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Speaker 9: Naim Kassem, along with reporting about an Iranian fatwah, a
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Speaker 9: religious ruling concerning Islamic law, calling for total jihad against
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Speaker 9: the US military. He also researched Jewish cultural education and
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Speaker 9: religious centers throughout the Detroit metro area, viewing multiple pages
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Speaker 9: of upcoming events at Temple Israel and searched specific terms
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Speaker 9: and phrases such as, quote the largest gathering of Israelis
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Speaker 9: in Michigan Orthodox synagogues and Israelis near me. That day,
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Speaker 9: after two people declined to sell him a weapon, Gazali
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Speaker 9: bought an AR fifteen style rifle, ten magazines at about
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Speaker 9: three hundred rounds of ammunition at a gun store in
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Speaker 9: Dearborn Heights. Runyon said, Now, it's interesting that two stores
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Speaker 9: declined to sell it to him, and yet the one
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Speaker 9: in deer Born was willing to. I think that's something else.
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Speaker 9: You've owned a gun store.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say that is a massive red flag.
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Speaker 1: Like if you turn down somebody and there's two stores
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Speaker 1: they clearly like were doing their jobs, by the way
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Speaker 1: a gun stores, and say.
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Speaker 9: So, tell us as someone who's owned a gun store,
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Speaker 9: like this guy goes in and says, I want to
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Speaker 9: buy an AR, why would a gun store say no.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a couple of reasons.
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Speaker 1: One, you profile and you can see if someone seems
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Speaker 1: angry or agitated. You can Also you're supposed to be
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Speaker 1: looking to see if an individual you think is doing
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Speaker 1: a straw purchase, which means they're buying for someone else illegally.
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Speaker 1: You'll see that happen a lot of times with wives
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Speaker 1: that will come in their husband would be a felon,
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Speaker 1: or someone that's disqualified from only a weapon, or a
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Speaker 1: friend will come in. You'll see people that walk in
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Speaker 1: the store, they'll look at a gun, they'll take a
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Speaker 1: picture of it, they'll leave, and then literally thirty seconds later,
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Speaker 1: a minute later, someone comes in and tries to buy
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Speaker 1: the exact gun that you just showed to someone else. Like,
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Speaker 1: there's multiple things that you look for here, but then
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Speaker 1: there's also conversations if if you see that someone comes
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Speaker 1: in and by the way, if you believe that they're
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Speaker 1: drunk or high or on some sort of drug, you
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Speaker 1: can refuse.
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Speaker 3: And if you just have a really bad.
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Speaker 1: Feeling it's something doesn't feel right, you can say I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna sell you a gun, and you have the
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Speaker 1: rise of store owner to do that. But when you
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Speaker 1: hear that two gun stores did this, and most yeah,
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Speaker 1: that says a lot because something there I would love
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Speaker 1: to see and go back and here because I'm sure
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Speaker 1: there's going to.
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Speaker 3: Be an interview. What was it?
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Speaker 1: And then were the authorities alerted? To this, and yet
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Speaker 1: a third store was able to sell them the gun.
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Speaker 1: They didn't check in on that afterwards. That also is
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Speaker 1: very concerning.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, the story continues. He practiced shooting the new weapon
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Speaker 9: the next day and bought the fireworks. An order of
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Speaker 9: dozens of water containers arrived on the eleventh day before
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Speaker 9: the attack, and he immediately started filling them with gasoline,
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Speaker 9: making four trips to gas stations so he would not
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Speaker 9: arouse suspicion. He also bought two torchlighters, which authorities believed
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Speaker 9: he used to set his truck on fire. On the
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Speaker 9: day of the attack, Gazali sent his sister, who authorities
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Speaker 9: believe lives in Lebanon, numerous videos and messages quote affirming
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Speaker 9: his Hesbela inspired ideology. Ten minutes before he drove his
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Speaker 9: truck into the synagogue, Gazali sent his sister two videos
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Speaker 9: in Arabic indicating that he was at the largest gathering
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Speaker 9: of Israelis in the state of Michigan, had booby trapped
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Speaker 9: his car, and would forcibly enter and start shooting people.
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Speaker 9: The FBI said, God willing, I will kill as many
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Speaker 9: of them as I possibly can. Gazali recorded himself saying
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Speaker 9: according to Runyan. Look, these are the kind of threats
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Speaker 9: we're facing. By the way, this podcast covered when the
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Speaker 9: Iranian fotwell went out, and we have covered at length
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Speaker 9: the radical Islamic terrorists that the Biden administration allowed to
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Speaker 9: flood into this country and the lack of vetting, and
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Speaker 9: tragically all of this happened at the same time we
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Speaker 9: had the Department of Homeland Security show down because the
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Speaker 9: Democrats have defunded it. And I'm sorry to say, this
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Speaker 9: guy is not the last radical Islamic terrorist left in
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Speaker 9: the country, and yet Senate Democrats do not seem to
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Speaker 9: care at all.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's go back in time just a little bit
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Speaker 1: to remind people this was part of what President Trump
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Speaker 1: had said we need to do, which was to go
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Speaker 1: back and to vet Can you give an update on that?
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Speaker 1: And as some of that vetting stop because of DHS
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Speaker 1: lack of funding and all these fights and the government
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Speaker 1: shutdowns that have happened.
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Speaker 9: Well, some of that vetting would be happening at the
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Speaker 9: State Department, some of it would be happening at DHS,
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Speaker 9: and so I don't know the status of that vetting.
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Speaker 9: We have not gotten a report. We obviously have a
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Speaker 9: brand new Secretary of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullen. By
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Speaker 9: the way, I will point out every Democrat but two
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Speaker 9: voted against confirming him. So their position is they don't
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Speaker 9: want a secretary of DHS. And by the way, they
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Speaker 9: all like Mark Wayne. He was a colleague in the Senate.
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Speaker 5: They knew him.
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Speaker 9: He was well liked on both sides of the island.
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Speaker 9: It was not personal. They wouldn't vote Confirmative Bugs Bunny
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Speaker 9: as head of DHS. Their party is the open borders party.
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Speaker 9: Anyone who has focused on securing the border Today's Democrats oppose.
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Speaker 1: Over the last thirty days, the United States and Israel
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Speaker 1: have carried out more than eleven thousand strikes against Iran
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Speaker 1: military infrastructure. We're now learning from the White House translation
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Speaker 1: this mission the President is doing is working. The strikes
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Speaker 1: have been against Iran's military infrastructure that include missile systems,
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Speaker 1: naval assets, weapons depots, and systemically dismantling the regime's ability
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Speaker 1: to threaten the region and more importantly, threaten US. The
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Speaker 1: US and now President Trump is signaling very clearly that
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Speaker 1: this war is nearing its end. He said this directly,
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Speaker 1: this won't last much longer. Why because Iran has been,
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Speaker 1: in his words, significantly debilitated. Their military capability has been crippled,
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Speaker 1: their ability to launch sustained attacks has been severely reduced,
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Speaker 1: their leverage gone. And now because of the overwhelming show
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Speaker 1: of force, something else is happening behind the scenes that
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Speaker 1: matters just as much as the bombs and the strikes.
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Speaker 1: Iran is really feeling the pressure. The White House is
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Speaker 1: now saying negotiations are progressing quickly. That is something that
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Speaker 1: the White House has said that the media can't believe,
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Speaker 1: and Democrats don't want you to believe because they want
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Speaker 1: this to be a quagmire. They want this to be
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Speaker 1: a never ending war. They want to use it politically
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Speaker 1: to hurt President Donald Trump. Now, after weeks of decisive
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Speaker 1: military action, the regime, the chance death to America is
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Speaker 1: now signaling they may be willing to come.
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Speaker 3: To the table.
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Speaker 1: That doesn't happen, by the way, by accident, and it
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Speaker 1: doesn't happen by weakness from President Trump either. This happens
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Speaker 1: because Donald Trump made it clear United States while he's
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Speaker 1: in charge, leads through strength, not through appeasement or sending
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Speaker 1: pallats of cash like the Obama administration did. And President
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Speaker 1: Trump is also making it clear there is a deadline.
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Speaker 1: I Ran now has until early April to comply, and
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Speaker 1: if they don't, the President has also made it very
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Speaker 1: clear what comes next will be even more devastating. Now
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Speaker 1: let's talk about the strategy a little bit more, because
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Speaker 1: this is where this administration is drawing a very sharp
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Speaker 1: contrast to the past. Number one, they've said they are
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Speaker 1: not in favor of an endless war. And number two,
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Speaker 1: the Trump administration has made it clear this is not
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Speaker 1: nation building. This is decisive action, the White House says,
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Speaker 1: with a clear objective to eliminate the threat, force a resolution,
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Speaker 1: and then get the hell out. In fact, President Trump
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Speaker 1: is already saying that once a job is done, the
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Speaker 1: US can step back and even the Strait of Hormuz,
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Speaker 1: one of the most critical shipping lanes in the world,
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Speaker 1: we'll stabilize once Iran backs down. That's called understanding leverage,
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Speaker 1: and that's called understanding power as well. Now let's also
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Speaker 1: not forget this. Israel is fully aligned with a strategy.
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Speaker 1: They see this moment for what it is a historic
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Speaker 1: opportunity to eliminate what they've called next essential threat to them,
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Speaker 1: and together the US and Israel now have total air
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Speaker 1: superiority and Iran's ability to project power is collapsing in
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Speaker 1: real time. Even Israel is starting to put timelines on
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Speaker 1: their own action, saying they believe that they have about
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Speaker 1: two more weeks of strikes and then they will probably
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Speaker 1: end up wrapping things up. Israel even said in another
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Speaker 1: statement today they are prepared for strikes for several weeks
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Speaker 1: to come, but they understand that the window is also closing,
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Speaker 1: and this was not about actual invasion, Israeli's military spokesman
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Speaker 1: saying on Tuesday that Israel is prepared to keep operating
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Speaker 1: for several weeks to come. The Prime Minister hinted that
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Speaker 1: the war against Iran was definitely beyond the halfway point,
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Speaker 1: as it has now entered its fifth week. We are
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Speaker 1: prepared to keep operating for weeks to come if need be.
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Speaker 1: We have the targets for that, the munitions for that,
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Speaker 1: demand power for that, and it's up to the leadership
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Speaker 1: to decide, is what was said from Israeli's government. The
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Speaker 1: Israeli Defense Force said on Tuesday that all of it's
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Speaker 1: critical and essential targets in Iran will have been destroyed
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Speaker 1: by Passover, which begins on Wednesday. The IDF to find
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Speaker 1: critical targets as Iranian weapons that directly threaten Israel, including
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Speaker 1: key elements of its nuclear program, while essential quote unquote
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Speaker 1: targets are key elements of the Iranian military industrial complex
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Speaker 1: that do not pose an imminent threat by themselves, such
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Speaker 1: as satellite launch facilities. So you add all this together,
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Speaker 1: and critical and essential targets make up about thirty to
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Speaker 1: forty percent of the bombing objectives set by Israeli leadership
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Speaker 1: before the operation began. The IDF said it would be
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Speaker 1: possible to declare victory after eliminating the remaining critical and
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Speaker 1: essential targets, but it would prefer to continue degrading Iran's
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Speaker 1: military industrial complex to weaken the regime. This goal seems
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Speaker 1: consistent with Israel's hint that a few more weeks of
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Speaker 1: air strikes are obviously being planned. Israeli warplane struck major
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Speaker 1: rane and weapons factories in Tehran over the weekend, including
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Speaker 1: plants that manufacture key ballistic missile components and drone engines
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Speaker 1: as well. The IDF said it was also able to
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Speaker 1: destroy several of Iran's temporary command centers, eliminating high ranking
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Speaker 1: officers who were inside, as well as some of Iran's
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Speaker 1: remaining anti air weaponry. On Friday, the IDF set a
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Speaker 1: massive attack involving over fifty warplanes, inflicted severe damage on
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Speaker 1: their heavy water reactor and an uranium enrichment facility that
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Speaker 1: produced yellow cake uranium powder for nuclear fuel. Netnyahu even
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Speaker 1: said on Newsmax on Monday that the operation in Iran
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Speaker 1: is beyond the halfway point in terms of mission success,
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Speaker 1: although he did not say or wish to put a
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Speaker 1: schedule on the remainder of the war.
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Speaker 3: We've already degraded their missile capabilities.
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Speaker 1: Destroyed factories, and eliminated key nuclear scientists, he noted, praising
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Speaker 1: the steady progress of the mission so far.
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Speaker 8: We're into this war just over a month now. You're
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Speaker 8: the war Prime Minister, and I think i'd like to
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Speaker 8: understand what you feel you've achieved Israel in the United
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Speaker 8: States working together so far in this war, and when
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Speaker 8: do you think we might see light at the end
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Speaker 8: of the tunnel mission accomplished.
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Speaker 10: Look, if you remember what happened before the war, Iran
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Speaker 10: was the great bully of the Middle East and the world.
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Speaker 10: It was the prime sponsor of state terrorism across many continents,
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Speaker 10: including in the Western hemisphere, including by the way, with
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Speaker 10: Venezuela and with others. And they killed and named more
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Speaker 10: Americans than any other force in recent decades. Thousands and
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Speaker 10: thousands killed and maimed in Afghanistan by Iranian IED's. They
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Speaker 10: bombed your embassies. They tried to kill President Trump twice
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Speaker 10: or so, trying to kill them. Most importantly is they
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Speaker 10: chant death to America. They also say death to Israel.
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Speaker 10: But they say America is the great Satan, their religious zealots,
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Speaker 10: and they have to wipe out Western culture led by America,
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Speaker 10: and Israel is considered the little Satan because we're just
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Speaker 10: standing in their way of conquering the Middle East, which
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Speaker 10: is their preliminary step of getting to America and hitting America.
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Speaker 10: So this is a regime that has been targeting America
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Speaker 10: for forty seven years. It's their rezone debt, it's the
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Speaker 10: reason for being They're completely you know, ideological fanatics who
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Speaker 10: are not necessarily responsive to you know, the careful calculation
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Speaker 10: of costs and benefit. So they do things that other
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Speaker 10: countries don't do. You have countries that are adversarial to you,
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Speaker 10: But I don't hear North Korea chanting death to America.
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Speaker 10: I don't hear China chanting both Korea. I don't hear Russia.
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Speaker 10: You know, these are all countries which you have which
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Speaker 10: are adversarial to you, but they're not seized by this fanaticism.
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Speaker 10: But Iran is so. Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons
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Speaker 10: and the means to deliver them to every American city.
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Speaker 10: And this is what this is about. Preventing them from
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Speaker 10: having this intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear weapons to tip them,
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Speaker 10: which could threaten the life of every American. That's why
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Speaker 10: President Trump chose to act to prevent them from doing this.
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Speaker 1: Now you can obviously hear they're from ben Renette Yahoo
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Speaker 1: that he understands he has a mission that he's trying
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Speaker 1: to count. That mission is a little bit different than
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Speaker 1: the US's mission. It may take a little bit longer
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Speaker 1: for him to be able to do what he needs
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Speaker 1: to do to protect his people, and clearly the President
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Speaker 1: understands that. What's also interesting is what we said earlier
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Speaker 1: today on Fox News Channel. Take a listen to Brian
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Speaker 1: mask He's the Republican from Florida, the House Foreign Affairs Chairman,
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Speaker 1: and this is what he had to say about what's
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Speaker 1: happening not only on Wall Street, but also the price
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Speaker 1: of crude oil and the straight of Horneuz, as well
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Speaker 1: as Donald Trump's outline for what he's trying to do.
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Speaker 11: So let's bring in now our House Foreign Affairs Committee
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Speaker 11: Chairman Florida Republican Brian mast Welcome to you, sir. First,
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Speaker 11: I want to ask you about the breaking news that
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Speaker 11: seems to be sending markets much much higher at this moment.
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Speaker 11: The Dow up nine hundred and twenty points. It's a
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Speaker 11: big turnaround for where it was earlier today, and it
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Speaker 11: seems to be hinging on this report to reports, one
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Speaker 11: from the Wall Street Journal, one from the New York Post. First,
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Speaker 11: the Wall Street Journal reporting that President Trump is telling
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Speaker 11: aids reportedly that he's willing to end the war with
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Speaker 11: and out fully reopening the Strait of Horrormus. The concern,
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Speaker 11: apparently from the President is that this would push the
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Speaker 11: epic Theory operation past its six week deadline. I want
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Speaker 11: to get your thoughts and your reaction first to that.
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Speaker 12: A couple of reactions. Just number one, the President had
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Speaker 12: outlined a goal from the beginning. He's trying to stay
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Speaker 12: within the parameters of what he outlined. Number two, you have,
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Speaker 12: of course golf partners in the golf partners in the
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Speaker 12: region that are unwilling to see the Straits of Horrormuz
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Speaker 12: be this toll road for around where they can simply
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Speaker 12: charge for anything that goes in or out of there.
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Speaker 12: They're not going to allow that to take place. And
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Speaker 12: so there's conversations, debate everything going on with that as well.
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Speaker 12: And if the United States accomplishes its mission of destroying
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Speaker 12: every single piece of Iranian military hardware, the drones, the Navy,
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Speaker 12: the air force, the ballistic missiles, everything that can reach
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Speaker 12: out and touch us, as has been our goal, then
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Speaker 12: we've essentially controlled the straits in the way that we
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Speaker 12: decided from the onset that we wanted to control this.
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Speaker 1: It is very clear the Wall Street and also the
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Speaker 1: rest of the world is reacting to President Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: making it very clear he does not believe this war
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Speaker 1: is going to last that much longer. He also believes
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Speaker 1: that we are accomplishing our mission, and that is about
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