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Peace Through Strength-Trump Administration Signals Endgame in Iran Conflict · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: I want to get you an update on where we are.
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Speaker 2: It has been almost two weeks now of the war
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Speaker 2: from the United States and Israel on Iran, and according
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Speaker 2: to officials inside the Trump administration, the battlefield momentum is
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Speaker 2: clearly moving in America's favor. The military campaign, known as
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Speaker 2: Operation Epic Fury, it was launched with a clear mission
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Speaker 2: destroy RAN's ability to threaten the United States, stop its
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Speaker 2: nuclear ambitions, and dismantle the infrastructure it uses to fund
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Speaker 2: terrorism across the Middle East. President Trump has said repeatedly
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Speaker 2: that the operation is designed to neutralize Iranian regime's missile forces,
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Speaker 2: as well as their naval capabilities and their drone production,
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Speaker 2: while ensuring the regime can never obtain a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 2: We also know Iran has made it clear what their
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Speaker 2: goal is. If they get a nuclear weapon, they want
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Speaker 2: to use it on Israel and on America now. In short,
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Speaker 2: the White House this week says this war is about
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Speaker 2: removing the biggest state sponsor of terrorism from the global stage.
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Speaker 2: According to US officials, the military campaign has already delivered
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Speaker 2: significant blows to Iran's military capabilities. One of the most
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Speaker 2: dramatic operations occurred just days ago, when US forces launched
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Speaker 2: a massive air strike, and Iran's primary military hub connected
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Speaker 2: to its oil export network was hit hard. Military officials
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Speaker 2: say the strike targeted more than ninety Iranian military sites,
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Speaker 2: including missile storage facilities, naval mine depots, and weapons bunkers.
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Speaker 2: President Trump described the attack as one of the most
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Speaker 2: powerful bombing raids in modern Middle Eastern history, saying the
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Speaker 2: United States obliterated every military target quote unquote on the
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Speaker 2: island while deliberately avoiding civilian oil infrastructure. The Pentagon Is
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Speaker 2: also reported that Iran's ability to launch missiles and drones
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Speaker 2: has dramatically declined during the conflict, with a tax dropping
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Speaker 2: sharply after early strikes crippled major military facilities. The Defense Secretary,
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Speaker 2: the man who's in charge of this war, summed up
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Speaker 2: the administration's view of the conflict this way, we didn't
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Speaker 2: start this war, but under President Trump, we're finishing it.
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Speaker 2: That coming from Pete Heagseth. Now the White House says
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Speaker 2: the war could actually end soon. That was another message
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Speaker 2: coming from the administration over the weekend, because they made
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Speaker 2: it clear this was a short conflict and not a
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Speaker 2: long conflict, that the American people would have to worry about.
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Speaker 2: Senior Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassett said Pentagon estimate suggests
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Speaker 2: the war could last between four and six weeks total,
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Speaker 2: meaning the campaign could be approaching its final phase. President
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Speaker 2: Trump has echoed that view publicly, saying the United States
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Speaker 2: is quote way ahead of schedule militarily and that there
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Speaker 2: is practically nothing left to target in many parts of
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Speaker 2: Iran's military network.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: Trump is also predicted the war could end very soon,
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Speaker 2: suggesting over the weekend the regime's ability to continue the
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Speaker 2: fight is rapidly deteriorating.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: The Strait of Hormuz is what everyone is now really
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Speaker 2: talking about, and that is a strategic fight. They could
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Speaker 2: have major economic impacts around the world because of the
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Speaker 2: energy prices. Twenty percent of the world's oil goes to
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Speaker 2: the Straight of Hormus each and every day, and one
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Speaker 2: of the biggest strategic flashpoints right now is that Straight
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Speaker 2: of Hormuz, the shipping channel which Iran says that they
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Speaker 2: are going to shut down with mines for those boats.
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Speaker 2: Twenty percent of the world's oil supply is significant. Iran
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Speaker 2: knows it, and they're trying to use it as leverage.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: Ran is also attempted to threaten or block the shipping
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Speaker 2: in the region altogether. The President Trump is called for
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Speaker 2: a global naval coalition to keep the waterway open. Trump
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Speaker 2: recently said multiple countries should send warships to protect the
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Speaker 2: shipping lanes, arguing that nations dependent on Middle Eastern oil
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Speaker 2: should send help to defend it right away. The administration
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Speaker 2: says securing the Strait is critical to preventing Iran from
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Speaker 2: using energy markets as a weapon against the world economy.
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Speaker 2: Having just come back from Israel, I want to paint
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Speaker 2: you a picture. It's midnight, sirens are blearing, and you
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Speaker 2: have only seconds to grab your child and run.
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Speaker 3: Now, imagine your elderly. Your legs don't work like they
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Speaker 3: used to.
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Speaker 2: Getting downstairs feels impossible, And after all of that, you
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Speaker 2: end up in a bomb shelter for hours, even days,
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Speaker 2: because you can't make the trek again. This is what's
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Speaker 2: happening across Israel as Operation Epic Fury continues. Children are
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Speaker 2: being traumatized, families are just exhausted, and homes have been destroyed.
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Speaker 2: And that's why the International fell Ship of Christians and
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Speaker 2: Jews is there on the ground bringing food, emergency equipment,
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Speaker 2: care for those children, and help for the elderly, and
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Speaker 2: supplying the bomb shelters and medical centers for critically needed essentials.
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Speaker 2: If you've ever wondered what it looks like to stand
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the administration's position moving forward. There is
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Speaker 2: one aspect of this entire debate and the insanity from
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Speaker 2: Adam Schiff that you just heard that does affect Americans,
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Speaker 2: and that is energy prices, the energy markets, and the
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Speaker 2: economic outlook are real. Many Americans are concerned about where
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Speaker 2: gas prices are going, and the conflict has caused oil
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Speaker 2: prices to spike temporarily. As the White House has described it,
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Speaker 2: the Trump administration says the impact on you will be limited.
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Speaker 2: The Energy Secretary Chris Wright recently told reporters that gas
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Speaker 2: prices could drop below three dollars per gallon by summer
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Speaker 2: once the conflict ends, part of the reason why they're
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Speaker 2: doing so much to protect the Strait of Hormuz as well.
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Speaker 2: The administration is also releasing hundreds of millions of barrels
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Speaker 2: from the US and international strategic reserves to stabilize markets
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Speaker 2: and offset disruptions caused by this war. The Trump administration
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Speaker 2: sets these actions are designed to ensure that Iran cannot
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Speaker 2: destabilize the global economy during the conflict, which is in
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Speaker 2: essence their only upper hand here. You look at what
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Speaker 2: Iran has done, and you look at a democratic party,
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Speaker 2: and what the Democratic Party has done has been truly incredible.
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Speaker 2: No matter what Donald Trump has said, they are against it.
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Speaker 2: No matter what Donald Trump is advocated for, there against it.
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Speaker 2: Adam Schiff is an individual who said that there was
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Speaker 2: an Iran nuclear deal, and that Iran nuclear deal was
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Speaker 2: such a good deal, such a good deal that they
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Speaker 2: couldn't believe that Donald Trump tore it up. Now, what
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Speaker 2: was the Iran nuclear deal? They were not supposed to
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Speaker 2: work towards a nuclear weapon. We know that Iran broke
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Speaker 2: multiple points in that deal. We also bribed them to
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Speaker 2: stay on track with billions and billions of dollars that
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Speaker 2: came in pallets of cash United States America. That was
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Speaker 2: also a disaster. I want to go back and I
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Speaker 2: want to play for you what Adam Shift, what he said.
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Speaker 2: I want you to again pay attention to the very
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Speaker 2: beginning of this interview and what Adam Schiff said. I'll
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Speaker 2: meet the press, and then I want to again at
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Speaker 2: the end, I'm gonna explain to you where the Administration's
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Speaker 2: going next.
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Speaker 4: Simply unsustainable.
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Speaker 5: Well, let me ask you. David Boyce, who's of course
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Speaker 5: a Democratic attorney who argued Bush v. Gore before the
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Speaker 5: Supreme Court, argues that President Trump ultimately had no choice
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Speaker 5: but to act on Iran, and he writes this quote.
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Speaker 5: If he hadn't acted, his successor would have been left
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Speaker 5: with an even more dangerous choice than his predecessors left him.
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Speaker 5: Three or four years from now, the Iranian missiles now
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Speaker 5: hitting Iran's neighbors could be hitting Berlin or London, perhaps
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Speaker 5: even New York or Washington, perhaps with a nuclear device
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Speaker 5: or at least a dirty bomb. Do you agree with
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Speaker 5: Boyce's assessment that the threat from Iran needed to be
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Speaker 5: dealt with now.
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Speaker 6: I certainly co occur that Iran is a terrible actor,
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Speaker 6: that it engages in state sponsored terrorism. But let's remember
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Speaker 6: we had a nuclear agreement with Iran that puts serious
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Speaker 6: constraints on the Irani nuclear program, and Donald Trump tore
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Speaker 6: up that agreement. And when you do that, when you
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Speaker 6: essentially say that diplomacy is not the way to resolve this,
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Speaker 6: then that leaves war. And that's what we are countering now.
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Speaker 6: But the President promised to see wouldn't engage in this,
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Speaker 6: and there was nothing imminent about the threat from Iran.
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Speaker 6: The nuclear program supposedly was obliterated just.
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Speaker 4: About nine months ago.
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Speaker 6: The missile program is incapable of reaching the United States
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Speaker 6: for years and years.
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Speaker 4: According to the.
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Speaker 6: Defense Intelligence agencies own estimate, it be nine years before
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Speaker 6: that is true. And unless the United States is prepared
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Speaker 6: to continue to bomb Iran year after year after year,
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Speaker 6: how do we respond when Iran starts to rebuild their
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Speaker 6: missile program as they will. Are we going to be
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Speaker 6: in an endless state of war with Iran? And the
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Speaker 6: administrations has no answers for this, and I don't think
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Speaker 6: that leaves them. Could people better off or safer.
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Speaker 2: Let's be clear over what Adam Schiff just said. Adam
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Speaker 2: Schiff just said that we should just a let Iran
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Speaker 2: get their nuclear program in their missiles because we don't
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Speaker 2: want to be at a endless war with them in
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Speaker 2: constantly war and bombing them all the time. So he
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Speaker 2: is clearly saying the Democrats position is to go back
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Speaker 2: to what it was before. You give billions of dollars
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Speaker 2: to Iran, and then when you give billions of dollars
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Speaker 2: to Iran, then you hope that they don't nuke you
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Speaker 2: or get the nuclear weapon, and you just cross your
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Speaker 2: fingers because you can't bomb them when they're getting close
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Speaker 2: every time. That is the Democratic Party's position. Now, the
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Speaker 2: bigger strategic argument, as I mentioned a moment ago, is
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Speaker 2: this the White House is framing this is a clear doctrine,
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Speaker 2: and the doctrine is described as peace through strength. Trump
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Speaker 2: is arguing that the Iranian regime has spent decades attacking Americans.
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Speaker 2: They are the number one state sponsor of terrorism in
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Speaker 2: the world and the number one threat to Israel and
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Speaker 2: helping the terrorist organizations from Austin HESBLA attack Israel. Now,
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Speaker 2: in his most recent address, Trump said the objective of
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Speaker 2: the campaign is simple. Number one, destroy Iran's missile and
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Speaker 2: drone programs. Number two, eliminated its naval capabilities in the
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Speaker 2: Persian Gulf. Number three prevent ran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
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Speaker 2: Number four stop Tehran from funding terrorist networks across the region.
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Speaker 2: The White House has not flinched on those being the
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Speaker 2: goals and objectives even before this war started. Trump has
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Speaker 2: also said the war is about protecting American lives, American soldiers' lives,
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Speaker 2: and restoring the as he described it, with the deterrents
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Speaker 2: to make sure it doesn't happen again.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: As of the war is entering.
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Speaker 2: Its third week, US officials believe Iran's military capabilities have
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Speaker 2: been severely degraded. We should all celebrate that American and
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Speaker 2: Allied forces are continuing to target strikes where they find,
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Speaker 2: as President Trump likes to say, the bad guys. And
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Speaker 2: there's also multi national naval efforts to forming right now
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Speaker 2: to secure the Strait of horror moves.
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Speaker 1: That is good news.
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Speaker 2: The White House believes the conflict will end within weeks,
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Speaker 2: not months from today, and at the same time, Iran
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Speaker 2: is doing everything he can to launch missiles and drone attacks.
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Speaker 2: Across the region. They're doing everything they can to try
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Speaker 2: to stay alive. Now, inside the Trump administration, the message
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Speaker 2: is clear. Number one, we should be celebrating because America
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Speaker 2: is winning and the Trump administration believes the Iranian regime
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Speaker 2: is running out of options. That is also good for us.
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Speaker 2: So look at the Democrat Party right now and just
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Speaker 2: listen to their message. When they talk about Iran, they
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Speaker 2: admit Adam Shift said it Iran engaged in terrorism, but
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Speaker 2: we had a nuclear agreement and Trump tore it up.
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Speaker 3: That's a lie.
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Speaker 2: Adam Shift said, Iran is a country that well, we
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Speaker 2: just can't keep bombing forever. That's not the mission here
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Speaker 2: at all from Donald Trump. So you got to ask
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Speaker 3: Madrid switched today.
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Speaker 2: CBS uh talk to the Iranian Foreign Minister and I
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Speaker 2: want you to hear what CBS had to say on
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Speaker 2: face the nation to Iran's foreign minister.
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Speaker 5: Listen, I just do want to point out you're speaking
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Speaker 5: to us via zoom. The Iranian people don't have open
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Speaker 5: Internet access but you do.
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Speaker 3: Why.
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Speaker 7: Well, I'm the because I'm the voice of Iranians and
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Speaker 7: I have to defend a day, right, So this is
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Speaker 7: why I have access to to internet to to just
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Speaker 7: uh you know, have have our voice being held by
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Speaker 7: the international community.
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Speaker 8: But the Internet is closed because of the security.
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Speaker 7: Is because we are under the under attack.
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Speaker 8: We are under.
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Speaker 7: Aggression, and we have to do everything to protect our people.
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Speaker 7: In any country, there are you know, edgent measures taken
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Speaker 7: for the fort the sacred law.
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Speaker 2: This is who Adam Shift is defending a regime that
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Speaker 2: shuts down the Internet from their people. This is the
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Speaker 2: same Adam Shift that admits that it is engaged in
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Speaker 2: states monitor terrorism but says, well, we had an Ranian
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Speaker 2: deal nuclear dewim was fine.
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Speaker 1: It was fine.
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Speaker 2: This is the same guy Adam Schiff on Iran that
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Speaker 2: says we still don't know what the real cost of
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Speaker 2: this will be, implying that somehow America is the bad guys.
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Speaker 1: Listen to this from Meet the Press.
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Speaker 5: Welcome back and joining me now is Democratic Senator Adam
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Speaker 5: Schiff of California. Senator Shift, welcome back to meet the press.
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Speaker 4: Good to be with you.
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Speaker 3: It's good to have you back.
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Speaker 5: Let me ask you about the big picture argument that
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Speaker 5: we are hearing from the Trump administration with top officials.
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Speaker 5: You just heard Secretary of Chris Wright argue that the
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Speaker 5: threat from Iran is so significant not just to the world,
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Speaker 5: but that to the United States that invading now will
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Speaker 5: ultimately make the world more secure.
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Speaker 6: No, I don't think they do, and I don't think
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Speaker 6: the President has really leveled with the American people, first
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Speaker 6: by promising the American people he wouldn't bring us into
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Speaker 6: another foreign war, then being unwilling to tell us what
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Speaker 6: the real cost of this.
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Speaker 4: War are going to be.
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Speaker 6: And we still don't hear from the Secretary, don't hear
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Speaker 6: from the President what the real costs of this will be,
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Speaker 6: how long it will go on. Already we've spent billions
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Speaker 6: and billions of dollars, and more significant, we've lost thirteen
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Speaker 6: service members.
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Speaker 4: As a result of the war, and we still.
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Speaker 6: Haven't heard a clear articulation of why we're at war,
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Speaker 6: what was the imminent threat we were facing. They've said
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Speaker 6: it was a nuclear threat, but the intelligence doesn't back
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Speaker 6: that up. They said it was a threat of being
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Speaker 6: hit in the United States by ballistic missiles that is
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Speaker 6: years and years away. They want regime change, but then
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Speaker 6: they say they don't want regime change. And when you
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Speaker 6: ask how long this war's going to go on, the
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Speaker 6: Secretary can't tell you.
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Speaker 4: The President won't tell you.
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Speaker 6: And it's because not having a clear object in mind
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Speaker 6: when we began this war, it makes it very difficult
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Speaker 6: to tell when its objectives have been accomplished. This is
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Speaker 6: why I think the President was so vague with you
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Speaker 6: when he wouldn't describe to you what kind of a
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Speaker 6: deal is he looking for with Iran, because it just
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Speaker 6: isn't clear. And now there's the prospect with the thirty
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Speaker 6: first Marine Expeditionary Force going to the region, that we
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Speaker 6: have boots on the ground, and I don't think they've
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Speaker 6: leveled with us about that either.
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Speaker 4: So I don't think the war is worth the costs.
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Speaker 6: And it has already unleashed a lot of things that
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Speaker 6: should have been foreseen, like the closing of this strait,
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Speaker 6: like Iran's attack on its neighbors. But it's not clear
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Speaker 6: that the President had a plan for.
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Speaker 4: Any of this.
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Speaker 5: Well, you did hear Secretary Wright say he anticipates the
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Speaker 5: conflict will be over in the next few weeks.
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Speaker 2: You notice they are rooting for the success of Iran.
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Speaker 2: Adam Shift is making it clear he would rather Iran
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Speaker 2: succeed so that they can then just look at Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump and say you lost, You're a loser. They would
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Speaker 2: rather hurt Donald Trump politically than protect the United States
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Speaker 2: of America from a nuclear Iran. One of the other
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Speaker 2: big lies that was also told by Adam Shift on
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Speaker 2: TV was that he said that, and this one really
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Speaker 2: was a head scratcher, that Dems want to fund the
19:36
Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security. They just don't want to fund ICE,
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Speaker 2: even though ICE has already been funded through the end
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Speaker 2: of the year. They're not defunding ICE right now. They're
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Speaker 2: just trying to hold up again America from being secure
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Speaker 2: with the DHS shut down.
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Speaker 1: He was asked about it, and listen to this lie.
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Speaker 5: Center as you have to ask you just finally about
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Speaker 5: partial government shut down, DHS not being funded for a
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Speaker 5: month now. Just this week we saw terror attacks in
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Speaker 5: West Bloomfield, Michigan, in Norfolk Virginia. This morning, the CEOs
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Speaker 5: of the nation's major airlines and cargo carriers have written
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Speaker 5: a letter to Congress calling for them to end the shutdown,
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Speaker 5: talking about the importance of American security in the airways.
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Speaker 5: Is it responsible for Democrats to hold up DHS funding
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Speaker 5: with the threat of terror attacks looming during this conflict, No, Kristin.
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Speaker 6: As you know, we offered vote after vote, resolution now
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Speaker 6: for resolution, even as recently as this week, to reopen
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Speaker 6: those agencies, to fund them, and the Republicans voted it down.
20:45
Speaker 6: We said, let's walk off ICE funding, let's fund these
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Speaker 6: other agencies that protect the country, and the Republicans one
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Speaker 6: after another voted them down, voted down funding TSA voted
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Speaker 6: down funding the Coastguard, voted down funding FEMA. Republicans are
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Speaker 6: controlling both houses in the presidency, they can't very well
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Speaker 6: blame the minority party for their own inability to govern,
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Speaker 6: particularly when they're voting down Democratic motions to reopen these agencies.
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Speaker 3: They are liars.
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Speaker 2: The Department of Homeland Security is not funded right now
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Speaker 2: solely because Democrats voted yet again. Adam Schiff was one
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Speaker 2: of those on Thursday night to not fund the Department
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Speaker 2: of Homeland Security.
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Speaker 1: That is a fact. There is no way that you
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Speaker 1: can change those facts.
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Speaker 2: There is a record, a voting record, and that record
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Speaker 2: is extremely clear. They know they are putting American lives
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Speaker 2: at risk. They understand, as she described it, that there
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Speaker 2: are terariors attacks and they're still not funding the Department
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Speaker 2: of Homeland Security.
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Speaker 1: That's clear. You look at the Iranian Foreign minister.
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Speaker 2: Talking even about their terrorism, and you look at them
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Speaker 2: Adam Shift, like, how on earth could you guys not say, hey,
22:11
Speaker 2: we clearly need to like, we really got to do
22:14
Speaker 2: a better job. Guys, we got to make sure America
22:16
Speaker 2: is safe. We got to have the Department hound Security.
22:18
Speaker 2: This is too big of a liability. We'll get Jim Kleiburn, Democrat,
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Speaker 2: blaming Republicans for shutting down DHS as Democrats wanted to
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Speaker 2: fund ICE. In the same sentence, again another liar on MS.
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Speaker 9: Now, this is an issue about Ice, not anything to
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Speaker 9: do for TSA, not anything to do with FEMA, nothing
22:39
Speaker 9: to do with the Coast Guard. All of these are
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Speaker 9: wrapped up in this bill that the Republicans are refusing
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Speaker 9: to put on the floor. We will vote for them,
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Speaker 9: but we are not going to fund ICE to continue
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Speaker 9: chilling people, to continue massed in themselves so no one
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Speaker 9: can identify them.
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Speaker 2: So let's just be clear. At least Jim Cliburn was
23:07
Speaker 2: a little more honest here. They believe that ICE agents
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Speaker 2: are the enemy, and they believe that the people they
23:13
Speaker 2: are going after the rapists and child predators and sex abusers,
23:18
Speaker 2: and the list goes on and on. Of these guys
23:22
Speaker 2: that are drug dealers killing Americans with fetnel, he believes
23:25
Speaker 2: they're the good guys. He says that the murderers are
23:29
Speaker 2: not the actual murderers in the streets that ICE are
23:31
Speaker 2: going to get.
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Speaker 1: He says, it's ICE.
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Speaker 2: So he's willing to make sure that you have no
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Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security. He will hold you hostage and
23:44
Speaker 2: the safety of the United States of America until they
23:47
Speaker 2: defund ICE, even though funding for ICE has already been
23:50
Speaker 2: extended through the end of the year. Why are they
23:54
Speaker 2: doing this Because of their radical base, they don't care.
23:59
Speaker 2: And part of the is the media. The media is
24:03
Speaker 2: not holding Democrats accountable. If the media was being an
24:06
Speaker 2: actually honest they would have done all the sunny morning
24:08
Speaker 2: shows of the breaking news story. There have been four
24:10
Speaker 2: terrorist attacks in the last couple weeks in the United
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Speaker 2: States of America and Democrats are shutting down the exact department
24:17
Speaker 2: that is needed for homeland security. And they would have
24:20
Speaker 2: led with the story, and they would have owned them
24:22
Speaker 2: and they would have destroyed them on the facts. But
24:24
Speaker 2: they didn't because all of these networks are propagandists for
24:28
Speaker 2: the Democratic machine. They're no different than state sponsored media.
24:32
Speaker 2: The same media that told you that Joe Biden was
24:35
Speaker 2: not in a cognitive decline, the same media that told
24:38
Speaker 2: you it was AI and deep fake videos of him
24:42
Speaker 2: losing his mind or losing his train of thought, or
24:45
Speaker 2: walking out into the wilderness. Right, none of that, None
24:50
Speaker 2: of that is they would describe it would be any
24:53
Speaker 2: other way.
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Speaker 1: This is all the Democratic.
24:55
Speaker 2: Party's saying this. It's incredibly sad. So we have no
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Speaker 2: Department of Home and Security.
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Speaker 3: At this point.
25:03
Speaker 2: I'll say it again, we have no Department of Homeland
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Speaker 2: Security right now. It is shut down because Democrats are
25:10
Speaker 2: willing to play politics on this issue. I want to
25:14
Speaker 2: get into the straight of horror moves for a second
25:16
Speaker 2: and dive back into that because I do think it's
25:19
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25:21
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25:23
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25:29
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25:39
Speaker 2: on what's happening in Washington, d C. All right, Donald
25:42
Speaker 2: Trump has come out with a new statement saying many
25:45
Speaker 2: countries will send warships to patrol the Strait of Horror moves. Now,
25:50
Speaker 2: this is just now breaking, President Trump announcing that many
25:54
Speaker 2: countries will be dispatching their warships to patrol the Strait
25:58
Speaker 2: of Horror moves among the ongoing conflict with i Ran,
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Speaker 2: suggesting that it is quote still easy for its military
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Speaker 2: to inflict damage on vessels there, no matter how badly
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Speaker 2: defeated they are riding on true social The President said,
26:12
Speaker 2: many countries, especially those who are affected by Iran's attempted
26:16
Speaker 2: closure of the Strait of Hormuz, will be sending warships
26:20
Speaker 2: in conjunction with the United States of America to keep
26:22
Speaker 2: the straight open and safe. We have already destroyed one
26:26
Speaker 2: hundred percent of Iran's military capability. But it's easy for
26:29
Speaker 2: them to send a drone or two, drop a mine,
26:32
Speaker 2: or deliver a close range missile somewhere along or in
26:36
Speaker 2: the waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are. And
26:39
Speaker 2: this is basically what terrorists do, right. You take one
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Speaker 2: bomb and you do something like this. It's not that
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Speaker 2: you're winning a war, but it's a way of being
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Speaker 2: a terrorist, and that's what the present's worried about. The
26:51
Speaker 2: present can continue by saying this. Hopefully China, France, Japan,
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Speaker 2: South Korea, the UK and others that are affected by
27:02
Speaker 2: this artificial constraint will send ships the area so that
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Speaker 2: the Straight of Hormuz will no longer be a threat
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Speaker 2: by a nation that has been totally decapitated. In the meantime,
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Speaker 2: he added, the United States will be bombing the hell
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Speaker 2: out of the shoreline and continually shooting iranium.
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Speaker 1: Boats and ships out of the water.
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Speaker 2: One way or another, we will soon get the Strait
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Speaker 2: of Hormus open, safe and free.
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Speaker 9: Now.
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Speaker 2: In the statement purportedly to be from the leader in Iran,
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Speaker 2: the new Supreme Leader ordered on Thursday that the Straight
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Speaker 2: remain closed as long as the war continues, because this
27:40
Speaker 2: is the only leverage literally that they have. Like this
27:44
Speaker 2: is the whole ballgame. I want you to understand this,
27:46
Speaker 2: Like this is all the levers they've got. They have
27:49
Speaker 2: nothing else but this, And so part of that is
27:53
Speaker 2: the reason why you're hearing this now in this way
27:56
Speaker 2: where they're just they're like, hey, like what can we do?
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Speaker 3: What do we have?
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Speaker 1: Right?
28:02
Speaker 2: What is there that we can really do? Is there
28:05
Speaker 2: anything that we can do? What is our leverage? It
28:09
Speaker 2: is shutting down the street. That is what they have.
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Speaker 1: Now.
28:12
Speaker 2: The new leader hasn't been seen in public, by the way,
28:15
Speaker 2: since the joint US Israeli operation began, and reports have
28:20
Speaker 2: also serviced that he may have been either seriously injured
28:22
Speaker 2: or even disfigured and in a coma and actually may
28:27
Speaker 2: not be in charge of the country at all. There's
28:30
Speaker 2: even reports that the new leader is dead and they're
28:34
Speaker 2: acting like you still alive so that they don't have
28:36
Speaker 2: to name another leader who will then be taken out
28:39
Speaker 2: by America or Israel.
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Speaker 9: Now.
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Speaker 2: The Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen propose on Thursday that an
28:47
Speaker 2: international coalition could escort oil tankers through the Strait something
28:54
Speaker 2: he said, would have a big effect. The President's announcement
28:57
Speaker 2: comes in the wake of surging asoline prices. Many Americans
29:03
Speaker 2: are concerned about this, as well as the impact on
29:07
Speaker 2: prices of other patroleum based goods. That would include things,
29:11
Speaker 2: for example, like fertilizer that's important in the eg industry,
29:15
Speaker 2: et cetera. All these things affect what you pay at
29:19
Speaker 2: the pump and really in the grocery stores in life
29:21
Speaker 2: in general. About twenty percent of the world's old surpri
29:25
Speaker 2: around twenty million barrels per day normally travel in tankers
29:29
Speaker 2: through the Narrow Corridor between Iran in the north and
29:33
Speaker 2: Oma and Oman and the United Air of Emirates in
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Speaker 2: the south. Those transits have all but stopped as a
29:40
Speaker 2: result of a number of ships being attacked in the
29:42
Speaker 2: region since Operation Epic Flurry began on February the twenty eight. Now,
29:47
Speaker 2: if you can get a deal done, and this is
29:49
Speaker 2: part of what I think people really need to understand. Okay,
29:53
Speaker 2: Iran desperately needs to get their oil out because they
29:56
Speaker 2: desperately need the money. That's part of what you need
29:59
Speaker 2: to do, understand. And so I do think that this
30:05
Speaker 2: is just another example of where we are Ambassador Mike Waltz,
30:12
Speaker 2: for example, in the Strait of Horror moves. He had
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Speaker 2: this to say on Say the Union on CNN Woul
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Speaker 2: Jake Tapper listen.
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Speaker 10: Consistent about for ten years, if not longer.
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Speaker 11: President Trump said that the Navy, the US Navy is
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Speaker 11: going to begin escorting tankers through the Straight of Horror
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Speaker 11: moves and that will begin very soon. And he said, quote,
30:31
Speaker 11: many countries will be sending warships to keep the straight
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Speaker 11: open and safe.
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Speaker 4: Unquote.
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Speaker 11: The administration's been talking about potential navy escorts for more
30:38
Speaker 11: than a week now. Shipping executives tell CNN that all
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Speaker 11: their requests for escorts have as have now been rebuffed.
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Speaker 11: President Trump said, quote hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea,
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Speaker 11: the UK and others will send ships to the area unquote.
30:52
Speaker 11: Is he hoping that those countries are going to send
30:54
Speaker 11: ships or have they committed to sending ships? And how
30:57
Speaker 11: soon will those naval escorts be ready?
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Speaker 10: Well, I'll leave those, you know, those conversations to him.
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Speaker 10: The conversations are ongoing. I think there's an important point
31:06
Speaker 10: that's getting you know, kind of missed in the conversation,
31:09
Speaker 10: and that eighty percent of the oil coming out of
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Speaker 10: the Gulf heads to Asia, only about seven eight percent
31:17
Speaker 10: heads to the Western Hemisphere. And thank God for President
31:20
Speaker 10: Trump's energy dominance agenda, everything from opening up and war,
31:25
Speaker 10: a new pipeline in Alaska, incentivizing fracking, what we're going
31:31
Speaker 10: to see come out of Venezuela and Guyana in the
31:35
Speaker 10: coming months and years. This is why we.
31:37
Speaker 4: Have to be energy independent.
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Speaker 10: And I have to just say it's a little rich
31:41
Speaker 10: coming from the progressive left who has literally been at
31:44
Speaker 10: war against oil. Literally we're putting policies in place to
31:49
Speaker 10: drive up the price of oil in order to force
31:52
Speaker 10: Americans to buy evs and go to wind and solar.
31:56
Speaker 10: Are now suddenly celebrating it or to crossing the lack
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Speaker 10: of it.
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Speaker 4: I said, it's a little bit rich.
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Speaker 10: We have the energy dominance in place. But to your
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Speaker 10: point on escorts, look back in the eighties under the
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Speaker 10: tanker wars. Then the last time Iran tried to constrain
32:13
Speaker 10: global energy supplies, you had French, United Kingdom, even Soviet
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Speaker 10: Union forces in their escorting their tankers out that were
32:23
Speaker 10: heading to their markets. And I think that's what President
32:26
Speaker 10: Trump is calling upon the world, saying the entire world
32:28
Speaker 10: is affected. Iran can't hold your economies hostage, and we
32:32
Speaker 10: certainly welcome, encourage, and even demand their participation to help
32:39
Speaker 10: their own economies. And meanwhile, the US military will continue
32:43
Speaker 10: to pound the Iranian military their missile, boat and drone
32:48
Speaker 10: forces to keep the straits open.
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Speaker 11: Sources LCNN that Russia has been providing Iran with intelligence
32:56
Speaker 11: to help Iran better target.
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Speaker 2: You notice their ambassador Mike Waltz explaining it perfectly and
33:05
Speaker 2: letting people understand exactly the fact that the Strait of Hormus.
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Speaker 2: Any percent that will coming out of the Gulf heads
33:11
Speaker 2: to Asia, it's not coming to America now. Can It
33:13
Speaker 2: will certainly traine the prices in general. But the way
33:17
Speaker 2: that you described is what they're doing to the global
33:19
Speaker 2: energy supplies is constraining the world's economy.
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Speaker 1: That's the other reason why you need other.
33:28
Speaker 2: Countries to come in here and do what the present
33:30
Speaker 2: said in his comments right like this is very clear.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: The Iranian Foreign minister went on the Communists ms NOW
33:39
Speaker 2: network and here's what he had to say about the
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Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz.
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Speaker 12: Is there any sign that Iran is prepared to allow
33:48
Speaker 12: passage of the Straits of Hormuz. Will the straits of
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Speaker 12: Hormuz remain closed so long as this war continues?
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Speaker 13: Well, as a matter of fact, this straight off Hormos's open.
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Speaker 13: It is only closed to the tankers and ships belong
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Speaker 13: to the to our enemies, to those who are attacking
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Speaker 13: us and their allies.
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Speaker 8: Others are free to pass. Of course, many of them
34:15
Speaker 8: prefer not because of their you know, security concerns. This
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Speaker 8: this has nothing to do with us.
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Speaker 14: And at the same time, there are many tankers and
34:24
Speaker 14: ships who are passing through the Strait of Hormos. And
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Speaker 14: and and I can say that the strait is not closed,
34:32
Speaker 14: but it is only closed to American and Israeli uh,
34:37
Speaker 14: you know, ships and tankers, and not to others.
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Speaker 3: I love the lies there.
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Speaker 1: Now, notice that MSNBC doesn't.
34:46
Speaker 2: Like pushback at all on any of that, Like, hey,
34:48
Speaker 2: we're not really sure that's true. Hey, you guys have
34:51
Speaker 2: been doing X, Y and Z. Hey we don't think
34:53
Speaker 2: what you're saying is accurate at all. None of that.
34:55
Speaker 1: Like none of it. They don't. They don't like none
34:57
Speaker 1: of it.
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Speaker 2: They're just like, yeah, okay, we'll go with that. Sounds good,
35:00
Speaker 2: Like let's please come on. Put out your propaganda at
35:03
Speaker 2: full speed. What could possibly go wrong here? This is
35:08
Speaker 2: and again, this is American TV that hates Donald Trump
35:14
Speaker 2: more than they care about our national security. This is
35:18
Speaker 2: American TV that is willing to give cover to the
35:24
Speaker 2: Democratic parties. They shut down the Department of Home Security
35:27
Speaker 2: while there are terroist attacks happening on the United States
35:31
Speaker 2: of America. Think about that. It's incredible. And they know
35:37
Speaker 2: the terroist attacks are happening. They know the Department Home
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Speaker 2: Security is important. They also know the straighterformis is not
35:42
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35:44
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35:48
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