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Twelve Days to Peace-Iran, Israel Agree to Ceasefire Deal as Sleeper Cell Fears Rise here at Home · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: There is a massive ceasefire that we all now know about,
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Speaker 1: and it is a historic moment for the President of
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Speaker 1: the United States of America who said, I do not
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Speaker 1: want regime change, I do not want to take out
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Speaker 1: the leader in Iran. I do want to make sure
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Speaker 1: that we are safe and that they never receive nuclear weapons. Well,
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Speaker 1: you put that in contrast with what the media wanted,
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Speaker 1: and my ow, Mai, is it a very different story.
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Speaker 1: We know the mainstream media hates Donald Trump. We know
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Speaker 1: that they care more about him being a failure than
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Speaker 1: they do about the success of making sure that our
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Speaker 1: foreign policy keeps Americans and others safe around the world.
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Speaker 1: But if you need a moment to highlight exactly how
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Speaker 1: biased the media is and exactly how much they hate
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump and how much they would rather Trump fail
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Speaker 1: than there'll be success and safety and security for the
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Speaker 1: United States of America, then you just need to listen
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Speaker 1: to what I'm going to play for you right now. Now,
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Speaker 1: what I'm about to play for you was on CNN,
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Speaker 1: right the most trusted name in news, and it was
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Speaker 1: an embarrassing moment. If you were watching it, I hope
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Speaker 1: you share this everywhere because CNN gets word that Iran
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Speaker 1: has accepted the cease fire deal, just seconds after Caitlin
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Speaker 1: Collins sets up a narrative casting doubt on Donald Trump. Yes,
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Speaker 1: this happened in real time. No, this is not me
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Speaker 1: putting two different segments together from different parts of the day.
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Speaker 1: I want you to listen to this to the very end.
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Speaker 1: You really can't make this up. And I mean this,
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Speaker 1: you cannot hate the liberal media enough.
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Speaker 2: We're hearing incredibly optimistic views coming out of the White
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Speaker 2: House as far as how long this can hold and
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Speaker 2: what this is going to look like. That obviously still
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Speaker 2: remains to be seen on the implementation side of this,
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Speaker 2: and waiting to see if the firing does stop and
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Speaker 2: if Iran and Israel do bo agree to this, because
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Speaker 2: you know, speaking of the fluidity of the situation, it
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Speaker 2: was just twenty four hours ago that President Trump himself
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Speaker 2: was suggesting a regime change in Iran was a possibility,
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Speaker 2: and obviously right before that having the United States strike Iran,
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Speaker 2: and so yes, there have been a lot of phone
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Speaker 2: calls going back and forth. In part this has to
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Speaker 2: do with Iran's limited response earlier where they fired on
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Speaker 2: a US bas in Qatar, but there were no casualties.
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Speaker 2: We know that they did give a heads up that
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Speaker 2: they were going to be firing on US bases without
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Speaker 2: exactly specifying which ones. But that is the question here
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Speaker 2: is if the United States felt that it did not
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Speaker 2: need to respond to the Iranian retaliation, did that create
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Speaker 2: the space for this That is what we've been hearing
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Speaker 2: from administration officials, and so the question is whether or
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Speaker 2: not this still holds for the next few hours.
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Speaker 3: Caitlin, I just been given a word that Iran, according
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Speaker 3: to a diplomat who brief CNN, Iran has agreed to
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Speaker 3: the cease fire. So this is significant. I just want
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Speaker 3: to try to learn some more information as soon as
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Speaker 3: we get it about that. But if that is the case,
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Speaker 3: that's incredibly significant because that.
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Speaker 4: Is we were waiting.
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Speaker 3: We had not heard from Ron, we had not heard
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Speaker 3: from Israel. All we were going on so far has
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Speaker 3: been the president's social media post, which was some two
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Speaker 3: hours ago. So again, that is the first indication we
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Speaker 3: have that Iran has agreed to this.
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Speaker 1: Oops, right, like, you cannot make this up. And this
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Speaker 1: is the media showing you just how much they were
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Speaker 1: hoping that what Donald Trump put out would somehow not
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Speaker 1: become reality, that it would be a failure that they
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Speaker 1: could then point to him and say he's starting World
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Speaker 1: War three. Donald Trump is putting everyone's lives at risk.
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is the problem, and you can hear it
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Speaker 1: in real time. Now, That's not the only thing I
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Speaker 1: want to remind you about. And this goes back to
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Speaker 1: liberals that are in charge. I want to take you
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Speaker 1: back to guy by the name of Scott Kirby. He
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Speaker 1: is a guy that was at the White House, a
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Speaker 1: guy that was there under the Biden regime. And what
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Speaker 1: did Scott Kirby say back on September the thirteenth of
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and then what did he say January
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Speaker 1: fourth of twenty twenty four. Remember this, Kirby on the
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Speaker 1: sixth billion that Biden released to Iran, saying the last
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Speaker 1: administration was quote incredibly unseerious, absolutely terrible for the world.
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Speaker 1: Here is the comparing contrast of them.
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Speaker 5: The US will have visibility and we'll be able to
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Speaker 5: engage in oversight about where the money was going and
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Speaker 5: for what purpose. If Ron tries to divert the funds,
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Speaker 5: we'll take action and we'll lock them up again. And
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Speaker 5: that will be sufficient oversight to make sure that the
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Speaker 5: request is valid and that it's going through vendors who
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Speaker 5: we and the cutteries can trust will actually contract for
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Speaker 5: the goods, the medical equipment, the food, whatever it is.
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Speaker 5: The regime doesn't get to touch the money. Peter doesn't
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Speaker 5: go to them. They don't get to they don't get
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Speaker 5: to decide ultimate destination. Uh uh, and they have no
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Speaker 5: direct access to it. John Iran made two transactions withdrawing
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Speaker 5: from the previously frozen funds in Oman.
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Speaker 4: What were those transactions for.
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Speaker 5: I don't have the details on that, Jackie. You're gonna
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Speaker 5: have to let me get back to you on that.
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Speaker 1: There's the line. Whether it's the media or whether it
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Speaker 1: was the Biden administration, they were lying to you the
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Speaker 1: entire time about what was happening with their administration, and
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Speaker 1: they were not holding Iran accountable. And now that President
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Speaker 1: Trump has done it, they're now furious that it is
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Speaker 1: a success and they're rooting against it every step of
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Speaker 1: the way. Which brings me to the point why did
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Speaker 1: so many Americans vote for Donald Trump. It's actually very simple,
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Speaker 1: because they wanted to make sure that countries like Iran,
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Speaker 1: who are a threat to the United States America are
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Speaker 1: held accountable, and yet again the President made good on
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Speaker 1: his promise to the American people to protect and defend
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Speaker 1: the homeland. Which brings me to the other big point
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Speaker 1: in the show, and that is what was said on
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Speaker 1: TV by jd Vance, the Vice President, moments after Trump
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Speaker 1: announces his ceasefire between Israel and Iran. And I want
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Speaker 1: you to hear this conversation. I'm not going to interrupt
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Speaker 1: it because I think it's an important one, and listen
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Speaker 1: to what JD Van says. He's live on set. This
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Speaker 1: has been announced moments before they go to him of
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Speaker 1: this ceasefire, and here's what he had to say to
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Speaker 1: Brett Baer and the rest of the country and really
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Speaker 1: the world.
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Speaker 6: Besce President, thanks for coming.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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Speaker 7: Just seconds ago, the President went to true social and
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Speaker 7: type this, it has been fully agreed by and between
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Speaker 7: Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and
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Speaker 7: total ceasefire.
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Speaker 6: Complete and total ceasefires. What he typed?
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Speaker 7: Yep, what does that mean? How did it come about?
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Speaker 7: What's the development?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, we were actually working on that just as
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Speaker 8: I left the White House to come over here. So
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Speaker 8: that's good news that the President was able to get
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Speaker 8: that across the finish line.
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Speaker 4: I think what it means Brett's quite simple.
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Speaker 8: First of all, the President, without knock on wood having
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Speaker 8: a single American casualty, obliterated the Iranian nuclear program. We
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Speaker 8: are now in a place where we weren't a week ago.
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Speaker 8: Week ago, Iran was very close to having a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 8: Now Iran is incapable of building a nuclear weapon with
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Speaker 8: the equipment they have because we destroyed it.
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Speaker 4: So that's a very very big thing. Now.
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Speaker 8: What that means, I think is we have to talk
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Speaker 8: to Iran and of course to Israel about what the
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Speaker 8: future holds. Because while we have obliterated the Iranian nuclear program,
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Speaker 8: our hope and our expectation is that they're not going
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Speaker 8: to try to rebuild that program. And I think that's
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Speaker 8: what the President is really trying to figure out here,
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Speaker 8: is to build a long term settlement.
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Speaker 4: Here to where we can have peace in the region.
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Speaker 8: Where our regional allies and of course the American people
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Speaker 8: most importantly can be secure, but where we can ensure
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Speaker 8: that the destruction of the Iranian nuclear program that has
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Speaker 8: already happened is not something they try to rebuild.
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Speaker 7: I want to get to the obliterated part in just
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Speaker 7: a minute, but I just want to read this fully
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Speaker 7: so I get the context. Congratulations to everyone that has
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Speaker 7: been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that
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Speaker 7: there will be a complete and total ceasefire in approximately
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Speaker 7: six hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound
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Speaker 7: down and completed their in progress final missions for twelve hours,
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Speaker 7: at which point the ceasefire for twelve hours, at which
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Speaker 7: point the war will be considered ended officially. Iran will
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Speaker 7: start the ceasefire, and upon the twelfth hour, Israel will
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Speaker 7: start the ceasefire, and upon the twenty fourth hour, an
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Speaker 7: official end to the twelve day War will be saluted
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Speaker 7: by the world. During each ceasefire, the other side will
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Speaker 7: remain peaceful and respectful on the assumption that everything works
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Speaker 7: as it should, which it will. I would like to
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Speaker 7: congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage,
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Speaker 7: and intelligence to end what should be.
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Speaker 6: Called the Twelve Day War.
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Speaker 7: This is a war that could have gone on for
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Speaker 7: years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it did
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Speaker 7: and never will. God Bless Israel, God Bless Iran. God,
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Speaker 7: God bless Iran. God blessed the Middle East, God bless
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Speaker 7: the United States of America, and God bless the world.
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Speaker 6: He seems confident that this is all coming together.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 7: And when you left the White House, were you thinking
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Speaker 7: this was all gelling here?
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Speaker 8: When I left the White House, I thought that we
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Speaker 8: might be able to get it across the finish line
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Speaker 8: before this broadcast. And it looks like the President has
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Speaker 8: been able to do that. I mean, look, he's been
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Speaker 8: working the phones constantly, frankly before the Twelve Day War started.
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Speaker 4: But certainly over the past twelve days.
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Speaker 8: The President's been extremely clear about America's national objective here.
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Speaker 8: It is to create a world where a Ran cannot
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Speaker 8: build a nuclear weapon. We of course destroyed the nuclear
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Speaker 8: program that they had, and the President told the entire team,
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Speaker 8: We're going to work to make sure that they don't
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Speaker 8: try to rebuild that nuclear capability in the future. And
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Speaker 8: it's Look, this is a great thing for Israel.
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Speaker 4: Think about this.
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Speaker 8: They've accomplished an important military objective.
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Speaker 4: They've helped us.
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Speaker 8: Destroy the Iranian nuclear program. They've also destroyed the conventional
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Speaker 8: missile capability of Iran that threatened the country of Israel
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Speaker 8: for the Iranians. I think this is a new opportunity
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Speaker 8: to actually pursue the path of peace. As I said yesterday,
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Speaker 8: what the Iranians have showed through their support of terror networks,
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Speaker 8: through their now failed effort to build a nuclear weapon
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Speaker 8: is that they're just not very good at war. And
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Speaker 8: I think the President really hit the reset button and said, look,
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Speaker 8: let's actually produce.
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Speaker 4: Long term peace for the region. That's always been his goal.
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Speaker 8: I actually think when we look back, we will say
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Speaker 8: the twelve Day war.
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Speaker 4: Was an important reset moment for the entire region.
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Speaker 7: Would you be surprised if Iran is sending out signals
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Speaker 7: that it doesn't have a specific cita's fire plan. How
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Speaker 7: would the communication have been with the Iranians to get
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Speaker 7: this level of confidence to put out that detailed statement.
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Speaker 8: Well, one of the things I've learned read about the
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Speaker 8: Iranians in the past four or five months that I've
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Speaker 8: been in this job is what they say publicly and
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Speaker 8: privately can sometimes be very different. I think what the
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Speaker 8: Iranians have shown very clearly is they don't want this
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Speaker 8: war to go on for much longer. Their air defenses
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Speaker 8: have been totally destroyed, their conventional missile pro has been
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Speaker 8: largely destroyed, and of course their nuclear program has been obliterated.
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Speaker 8: As I said before, So I think the Iranians entered
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Speaker 8: a place where they don't want to keep on fighting.
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Speaker 8: You saw the President, and I don't have the truth
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Speaker 8: in front of me, but he talked about the next
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Speaker 8: six hours finalizing the attacks. I mean, I think what
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Speaker 8: he's talking about is right now for the American people watching,
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Speaker 8: it's dark over there. That's typically when the Israelis and
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Speaker 8: the Iranians have been shooting at each other. I think
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Speaker 8: there's some recognition that that might continue for another few hours.
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Speaker 8: And tomorrow really is a new day, the end of
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Speaker 8: the twelve day war, the end of the Iranian nuclear program,
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Speaker 8: and I really do believe the beginning of something very
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Speaker 8: big for peace of the Middle East.
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Speaker 1: I think the Vice President's absolutely right the way you
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Speaker 1: put it. It is a historic moment, quite possibly for
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Speaker 1: the Middle East. And it's because the leadership of Donald J.
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Speaker 4: Trump.
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Speaker 1: Nothing short of historic. President Donald Trump announcing on Monday
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Speaker 1: that Israel An Iran have agreed to a quote complete
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Speaker 1: and total ceasefire after twelve days of ongoing war between
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Speaker 1: the two countries. The present putting it this way, saying quote,
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Speaker 1: congratulations to everyone. It has been fully agreed by Israel
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Speaker 1: and Iran that there will be a complete and total
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Speaker 1: ceasefire in approximately six hours from now, when Israel and
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Speaker 1: Iran have wound down and completed their in progress final
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Speaker 1: mission for twelve hours, at which point the war will
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Speaker 1: be considered ended all capital letters, Trump putting this on
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Speaker 1: true social saying officially, Iran will start the ceasefire, and
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Speaker 1: upon the twelfth hour, Israel will start the ceasefire, and
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Speaker 1: upon the twenty fourth hour, an official end to the
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Speaker 1: twelve day war will be saluted by the world. During
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Speaker 1: each cease fire, the other side will remain peaceful and respectful.
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Speaker 1: Trump added for having agreed to a ceasefire on the
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Speaker 1: assumption that everything worked as it should, saying quote, this
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Speaker 1: is a war that could have gone on for years
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Speaker 1: and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't and
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Speaker 1: never will. God bless Israel. The President then said, God
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Speaker 1: bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God Bless the
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Speaker 1: United States of America, and then in all caps, the
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Speaker 1: President wrote, God blessed the world. Now, Trump's chosen title
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Speaker 1: the Twelve Day War is a clear allusion to the
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Speaker 1: Sixth Day War of nineteen sixty seven, another dramatic victory
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Speaker 1: by Israel over its enemies. The Twelve Day War is
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Speaker 1: no less dramatic of victory and perhaps even greater one,
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Speaker 1: opening a path for greater peace and prosperity in the
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Speaker 1: region and for the India Middle East European Economic Corridor,
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Speaker 1: the trade route that Trump has been talking about a
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Speaker 1: lot lately. Now, the other part of this is what
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Speaker 1: happened after Israel struck those Iran nuclear sites. It was
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Speaker 1: clear that Iran wanted to get a deal done quickly,
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Speaker 1: but they also had to save face, and so now
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Speaker 1: we know more about their strike against American interest in Qatar.
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Speaker 1: What we now know is that strike was symbolic and
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Speaker 1: also calibrated retaliation the missile strike on Guitars and our
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Speaker 1: Air Force base. Iran launched a barrage reportedly of fourteen
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Speaker 1: to nineteen short and medium range ballistic missiles in response
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Speaker 1: to US bunker buster bombings of the three nuclear sites
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Speaker 1: that the President ordered in America. Most missiles were intercepted. Why,
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Speaker 1: because they said beforehand this was going to happen. One
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Speaker 1: of those missiles reportedly struck the base, but caused no casualties,
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Speaker 1: thank goodness, and Iran also stated that this was a
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Speaker 1: proportional and measured response as they described it. In fact,
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Speaker 1: they fired exactly as many missiles as the US drop bombs,
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Speaker 1: emphasizing symmetry and avoiding escalation by also saving face as
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Speaker 1: a radical Islamic regime. It also provided advanced notice we
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Speaker 1: now noted Qatar and also to the US signaling quote
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Speaker 1: unquote restraint, and then the de escalation signals began. Despite
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Speaker 1: that strike, Iran avoided broader disruptions. It didn't threaten global
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Speaker 1: supplies or shut down the Strait of Hormuz. That is
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Speaker 1: something that their parliament in essence, had said they were
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Speaker 1: going to advocate for just twenty four hours earlier, but
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Speaker 1: clearly the leadership in Iran didn't want to do that.
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Speaker 1: Iran indicated it would quote stand down if Israel halted
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Speaker 1: its bombings, hinting at a conditional truce. Now, the takeaway
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Speaker 1: from all of this is that Iran's goal was clearly limited.
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Speaker 1: It was also a symbolic blow and not a full
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Speaker 1: military engagement. Why because Iran had to keep up their
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Speaker 1: strong rhetoric, but no escalation. The Supreme Leader for example,
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Speaker 1: and the IRGC emphasized their quote readiness to hit the
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Speaker 1: Achilles heel of US forces, but they actually didn't do
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Speaker 1: that at all. The Foreign Minister in Iran also came
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Speaker 1: out condemning the US bombings as a quote heinous crime
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Speaker 1: and warned of everlasting consequences, reserving all options. Clearly that
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Speaker 1: wasn't actually what they were planning on as well, and
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Speaker 1: then the parliament backed that potential closure of the Strait
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Speaker 1: of Hormuz, but the Council did not act. So what
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Speaker 1: does this mean? Overall? It's clear that this was a
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Speaker 1: broader Iranian well miscalculation that they tried to get under
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Speaker 1: control quickly. Iran is seen preparing mix of options, the
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Speaker 1: analysts have said at this hour targeted strikes on US installation,
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Speaker 1: cyber ap proxy attacks, and even plans to well disrupt
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Speaker 1: global oil or naval routes. But what really happened is
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Speaker 1: Iram seemed determined to avoid total war, wanting a balance
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Speaker 1: and a deterrence for their own people to maybe topple them,
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Speaker 1: while allowing diplomacy to work In the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: The bottom line is this, Iran has responded with a
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Speaker 1: deliberate proportional missile strike that was pre warned, carefully designed
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Speaker 1: to deter further US or Israeli aggression without triggering full
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Speaker 1: blown escalation, and by giving advance warning matching US strikes
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Speaker 1: one for one and tying any ceasefire to Israel stopping
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Speaker 1: its attacks. Tehran now appears intent on framing its move
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Speaker 1: as a strategic and restrained, not reckless regime who clearly
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Speaker 1: learned their lesson. When Donald Trump tells you you have
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Speaker 1: sixty days to make a deal, you better make the
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Speaker 1: damn deal now, you may also be asking yourself a
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Speaker 1: very important question, why was there a little bit of
18:15
Speaker 1: leeway to quote wrap things up. I'll give you an
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Speaker 1: example of exactly why Israel apparently wanted some time to
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Speaker 1: get a few more things done before the ceasefire took effect.
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Speaker 1: The entrance gate of Iran Sitorious Even Prison, which holds
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Speaker 1: political prisoners and dual nationals, was hit as Israel carried
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Speaker 1: out a wave of coordinated air strikes targeting multiple Sykes
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Speaker 1: across Tehran. The Israeli Foreign Minister confirmed multiple salts across Iran.
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Speaker 1: They struck dozens of locations, including barracks and in the
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Speaker 1: energy ministry. As well as the university, state TV headquarters,
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Speaker 1: and police compounds, just to name a few. But the
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Speaker 1: part that's really interesting is following Friday's US bombardment of
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Speaker 1: Iran's nuclear facilities, we also found out that the prison
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Speaker 1: gates were bombed at a prison where many political prisoners
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Speaker 1: from Israel were being held. According to local reports in
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Speaker 1: Iranian state media, the strikes began around twelve noon local time.
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Speaker 1: Blasts were heard across several Tehran districts, including heavy populated areas.
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Speaker 1: Windows shattered in residential areas, and electricity was disrupted. One
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Speaker 1: explosion occurred near one of the town squares and another
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Speaker 1: in the vicinity of the IRIB State Broadcasting Center. The
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Speaker 1: entrance gate of that prison was also among the confirmed
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Speaker 1: sites that were struck, causing parts of the prison's perimeter
19:48
Speaker 1: wall to collapse onto a parking lot. Why would that
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Speaker 1: matter because it would be a way to get out
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Speaker 1: many of the political prisoners that are being held in
19:57
Speaker 1: Iran that are Israeli citizens. This this just goes to
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Speaker 1: show why Israel was saying, hey, we're willing to do
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Speaker 1: a deal, but we have a few more things that
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Speaker 1: we need to get done. There was even a video
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Speaker 1: posted on x by Iran's Press TV showing the moment
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Speaker 1: of the impact at the prison. I will share that
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Speaker 1: for you on social media so that you can have
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Speaker 1: it now. This prison is well basically a synopsis for
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Speaker 1: a political detention center in Iran. They housed dissidents, they
20:29
Speaker 1: house journalists, they house protesters and foreign nationals accused of
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Speaker 1: quote espionage. It is a core element of the Iranian
20:39
Speaker 1: regimes diplomatic security apparatus. The targeting of its GAID and
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Speaker 1: administrative offices may not cripple operations, but it carries deep
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Speaker 1: symbolic weight as well, highlighting the vulnerability of Iran's internal
20:52
Speaker 1: repressive institutions, as well as human rights organizations that have
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Speaker 1: long documented i Ranian abuse towards and the detention of
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Speaker 1: many innocent people within their walls. The airports also were
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Speaker 1: hit earlier in the same day, Israeli fighter jets on
21:11
Speaker 1: strikes on six major airports across western, Eastern and central Iran.
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Speaker 1: Specifically targeting these airports was an important point, the IDF said.
21:21
Speaker 1: The strikes aimed at degrade Iran's air operations by destroying runways,
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Speaker 1: underground hangars, fuel systems, and multiple aircraft types. Including the
21:31
Speaker 1: F fourteen's F five and AHDSH one helicopters. Now, Iran,
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Speaker 1: as you know, has vowed revenge for this, but we
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Speaker 1: also know the ceasefire is now here. So the question
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Speaker 1: is will the radicals within the Iranian government listen to
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Speaker 1: the leadership that has agreed to this deal. Are they
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Speaker 1: scared enough now that they could be killed or that
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Speaker 1: the regime could be toppled if there is not a
21:57
Speaker 1: deal that's done. That clearly is what is riving the
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Speaker 1: Supreme Leader to do this deal right now, after threatening
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Speaker 1: America and Israel countless times in the last forty eight hours.
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Speaker 1: So this is exactly why I Israel decided we'll do
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Speaker 1: a deal, but after we get a few more things done.
22:16
Speaker 1: They were smart in doing it this way. And now
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Speaker 1: the big thing is can what Donald Trump say become
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Speaker 1: a reality that we say we are going to be peaceful,
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Speaker 1: that we are going to stop, and that this will
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Speaker 1: actually hold up even as radical terrorist proxies like Camas
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Speaker 1: and Hesblah, I'm sure want none of this piece anywhere
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Speaker 1: close to Iran or Israel. We'll have to wait and see,
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Speaker 1: but one thing's for sure. The President of the United
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Speaker 1: States of America exactly what he promised he was going
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Speaker 1: to do, and that was to not get us into
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Speaker 1: another endless war. Sixty days that was the deadline that
22:55
Speaker 1: Donald Trump gave a rand to come to the table
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Speaker 1: and make a deal to get rid of their ra
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Speaker 1: nuclear program. They chose not to. And it's a foreign
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Speaker 1: policy that's pretty clear. Fa fo. Donald Trump not wasting
23:08
Speaker 1: any time doing what he needed to do to make
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Speaker 1: sure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. Certainly not
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Speaker 1: while he's in office. And the present made it clear
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Speaker 1: with the attack on not one, not two, but three
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Speaker 1: of the Iranian nuclear sites, they should have come to
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Speaker 1: the table much sooner. Here's the Present in his own
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Speaker 1: words at the White House.
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Speaker 9: A short time ago, the US military carried out massive
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Speaker 9: precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the
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Speaker 9: Iranian regime for Doeau, Natans, and Esfahan. Everybody heard those
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Speaker 9: names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.
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Speaker 9: Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear intrichment capacity
23:57
Speaker 9: and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the
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Speaker 9: world's number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can
24:05
Speaker 9: report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular
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Speaker 9: military success. Iranski nuclear and Richmond facilities have been completely
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Speaker 9: and totally obliterated. Rand the bully of the Middle East,
24:20
Speaker 9: must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks
24:24
Speaker 9: would be.
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Speaker 6: Far greater and a lot easier.
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Speaker 9: For forty years, Iran has been saying death to America,
24:30
Speaker 9: death to Israel.
24:32
Speaker 6: They have been.
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Speaker 9: Killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their
24:36
Speaker 9: legs with roadside bombs, that was their specialty. We lost
24:40
Speaker 9: over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the
24:44
Speaker 9: Middle East and around the world have died as a
24:47
Speaker 9: direct result of their hate. In particular, so many were
24:51
Speaker 9: killed by their general Cassem SOLMANI.
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Speaker 6: I decided a long.
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Speaker 9: Time ago that I would not let this happen, and
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Speaker 9: it will not continue. I want to thank and congratulate
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Speaker 9: Prime Minister, bb Net and Yahoo. We worked as a
25:08
Speaker 9: team like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and
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Speaker 9: we've gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat
25:15
Speaker 9: to Israel. I want to thank the Israeli military for
25:18
Speaker 9: the wonderful job they've done, and most importantly, I want
25:22
Speaker 9: to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent
25:26
Speaker 9: machines tonight and all of the United States military on
25:30
Speaker 9: an operation the likes of which the world has not
25:33
Speaker 9: seen in many, many decades. Hopefully we will no longer
25:37
Speaker 9: need their services and this capacity. I hope that's so.
25:41
Speaker 9: I also want to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint
25:44
Speaker 9: Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisin Kine, spectacular General, and
25:49
Speaker 9: all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack.
25:53
Speaker 9: With all of that being said, this cannot continue. There
25:56
Speaker 9: will be either peace or there will be tragedy for
25:59
Speaker 9: a and far greater than we have witnessed over the
26:03
Speaker 9: last eight days. Remember, there are many targets left. The
26:08
Speaker 9: Nights was the most difficult of them all by far,
26:12
Speaker 9: and perhaps the most lethal. But if peace does not
26:15
Speaker 9: come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed,
26:21
Speaker 9: and skill. Most of them can be taken out in
26:25
Speaker 9: a matter of minutes. There's no military in the world
26:28
Speaker 9: that could have done what we did tonight, not even close.
26:31
Speaker 9: There has never been a military that could do what
26:34
Speaker 9: took place just.
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Speaker 6: A little while ago.
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Speaker 9: Tomorrow, General Kin, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will have
26:42
Speaker 9: a press conference at eight am at the Pentagon, and
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Speaker 9: I want to just thank everybody, and in particular God,
26:51
Speaker 9: I want to just say, we love you God, and
26:53
Speaker 9: we love our great military.
26:55
Speaker 6: Protect them.
26:56
Speaker 9: God bless the Middle East, God bless Israel, and God
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Speaker 9: bless America.
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Speaker 6: Thank you very much, Thank you.
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Speaker 1: There was also a sincere dead of gratitude you could
27:07
Speaker 1: hear from the President, so thankful for our men and
27:09
Speaker 1: women in uniform who are willing to risk their lives
27:12
Speaker 1: to protect all of us, and a sincere thanks to
27:15
Speaker 1: God for protecting them in this incredible mission. There was
27:19
Speaker 1: also another aspect of what just happened that's truly incredible,
27:23
Speaker 1: not a single leak. You have a president in this
27:26
Speaker 1: administration that has a very different staff around him, a
27:30
Speaker 1: very different cabinet, and what we witnessed was a team
27:34
Speaker 1: working together to make sure that all the American soldiers
27:38
Speaker 1: were kept safe, that there were no leaks that came
27:41
Speaker 1: out about an incredible mission, one that was incredibly complicated,
27:45
Speaker 1: as you heard from the President, that involved countless people,
27:48
Speaker 1: and one that was successful to the point where not
27:52
Speaker 1: a single shot was fired at us. Jennifer Griffin at
27:56
Speaker 1: Fox News Channel put it this way.
27:58
Speaker 10: Well, Brett, I think yes. So my phone has been
28:02
Speaker 10: literally ringing off the hook. But what I would say
28:05
Speaker 10: is that it's notable how much deception was involved in
28:08
Speaker 10: this operation. All eyes were looking west towards Guam and
28:12
Speaker 10: the B twos that took off late last night towards Guam.
28:16
Speaker 10: It's possible that but if the distance there would suggest
28:20
Speaker 10: that the B twos may have also flown east from
28:23
Speaker 10: Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Remember the air refuelers,
28:26
Speaker 10: many of them were placed in Europe and in the
28:28
Speaker 10: across the Middle East, and that is what is known
28:31
Speaker 10: as an air refueling bridge. And all of those BE
28:33
Speaker 10: twos would require much air refueling in order to make it.
28:38
Speaker 10: They usually fly round trip from white men. And so
28:42
Speaker 10: what we can say, and the President said this in
28:45
Speaker 10: his truth Social post, is that a full payload of bombs,
28:49
Speaker 10: those massive ordnance penetrators, the thirty thousand pounds bunker buster
28:53
Speaker 10: bombs were dropped at four Dough And as we have reported,
28:56
Speaker 10: there are two entrances to four Dough, so at least
28:59
Speaker 10: two bombs each two entrants, which suggests at least two
29:02
Speaker 10: B twos were involved over four Dough. My suspicion is
29:05
Speaker 10: that there were more. And then you have the two
29:07
Speaker 10: other sites, Natons, which is also has an underground enrichment facility.
29:12
Speaker 10: The Israelis had not been able to reach or take
29:15
Speaker 10: out that facility despite the last ten days of bombing,
29:18
Speaker 10: and so now US warplanes likely another B two bomber
29:23
Speaker 10: had dropped that mop, the thirty thousand pound bunker buster
29:27
Speaker 10: on Natons. And then you also have Isfahan, a third
29:30
Speaker 10: site south of Tehran, and that is also a very
29:33
Speaker 10: significant enrichment facility. So those B two bombers, It's possible
29:39
Speaker 10: that as everybody was looking west for the B twos
29:42
Speaker 10: flying towards Guam, that in fact there was another package
29:44
Speaker 10: of squadron of B twos that were flying east from
29:48
Speaker 10: white Men. It's about a fifteen hour trip from white
29:50
Speaker 10: Men in Missouri to the Middle East to Iran, and
29:54
Speaker 10: those bombers often fly round trip and takes them about
29:57
Speaker 10: thirty hours to get home. But they are out of
30:00
Speaker 10: danger tonight. They are not in Iranian airspace anymore, according
30:03
Speaker 10: to the President. The other thing I can point out, Brett,
30:06
Speaker 10: is that this is an operation. In the last eighteen
30:09
Speaker 10: years since I've been at the Pentagon, I've never seen
30:11
Speaker 10: such operational security. There was nobody speaking about this any
30:16
Speaker 10: of the preparations. There was a complete lockdown, almost a
30:19
Speaker 10: blackout of information for the last few days. I'm sitting
30:23
Speaker 10: here in the Pentagon right now, I can tell you
30:25
Speaker 10: the hallways are empty and all of the information is
30:28
Speaker 10: coming right now out of the White House. That is
30:30
Speaker 10: a significant achievement because there were no leaks about the timing. Now,
30:36
Speaker 10: sometimes I think those who a lot of the flight trackers,
30:40
Speaker 10: the open source intelligence flight trackers, that flight radar did
30:45
Speaker 10: indicate some of the when the B twos took off
30:47
Speaker 10: from white Men, But again, nobody really expected that it
30:51
Speaker 10: would take place this evening. If you looked at the
30:53
Speaker 10: moon schedule, you might have had a clue because it
30:56
Speaker 10: was a waning crescent and almost a new move on
31:00
Speaker 10: the twenty fifth, So it would have been very very
31:02
Speaker 10: dark over Iran tonight, and you need that in order to.
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Speaker 1: Bomb.
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Speaker 10: That's the ideal condition for something like a B two
31:11
Speaker 10: That is, yes, itself stealth, but it still has to
31:14
Speaker 10: be escorted in in case any Iran were to put
31:17
Speaker 10: up any planes or there were any opportunities to fire
31:21
Speaker 10: on those B twos, which are such valuable and very
31:25
Speaker 10: very special planes. Only the US military has this kind
31:28
Speaker 10: of weaponry and this capability. No other country in the
31:31
Speaker 10: world could have carried off what occurred tonight at those
31:35
Speaker 10: three uranium enrichment sites.
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Speaker 1: Truly incredible work by our men and women in uniform
31:41
Speaker 1: and is you could hear there from the Pentagon. The
31:44
Speaker 1: fact that no one knew that this was happening and
31:47
Speaker 1: no one leaked it truly tells you about how great
31:51
Speaker 1: this administration is that Donald Trump has around him this time.
31:55
Speaker 1: It brings me to the final point. There is a
31:57
Speaker 1: lot of concern about what a Ran is going to
32:00
Speaker 1: do next with retaliation. Obviously they are going after Israel
32:05
Speaker 1: as we speak, but what could happen at home and
32:08
Speaker 1: how vigilant should we stay. Well, the answer is we
32:11
Speaker 1: should stay vigilant, We should be careful because there is
32:15
Speaker 1: one major problem. We had a massive open border for
32:18
Speaker 1: far too long under Joe Biden, and what we have
32:20
Speaker 1: found out is that there was an incredible number of
32:23
Speaker 1: Iranian nationals that were deliberately released into the interior of
32:28
Speaker 1: this country, thousands of them. On top of the fact
32:32
Speaker 1: that we also had another problem those that got away
32:36
Speaker 1: that we did not catch that we're clearly coming in
32:39
Speaker 1: from Iran. So is there a real chance that sleeper
32:42
Speaker 1: sales from Iran could be activated in this country. The answer,
32:45
Speaker 1: unfortunately is yes. And who is to blame for that
32:48
Speaker 1: None other than Joe Biden and the Biden administration who
32:51
Speaker 1: deliberately opened our borders and allowed the flood of millions
32:55
Speaker 1: of illegal immigrants into this country. Tom Homan talking on
32:58
Speaker 1: Fox News about how can concerned he is about this
33:01
Speaker 1: after the US strikes Iran. Take a listen.
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Speaker 11: So I put numbers this morning just from a CBP.
33:07
Speaker 11: Under Joe Biden, there was one two hundred and seventy
33:10
Speaker 11: two nationals Iran releasing the country between Ofo and and
33:14
Speaker 11: the Bordatroll. And you compare that the Trump administration zero right,
33:17
Speaker 11: zero releases and right now, because of President Trump's leadership,
33:20
Speaker 11: we have the most secure border in my lifetime, most
33:22
Speaker 11: secure border in history of this nation. So we have
33:24
Speaker 11: a secure border. So that was a President Trump's big
33:28
Speaker 11: win on security this nation. So we're not releasing people
33:30
Speaker 11: in this country, especially interest aliens aren't crossing that border undetected.
33:33
Speaker 11: But under Joe Biden, we had over ten million people
33:35
Speaker 11: across that border. But my biggest concern from day one,
33:38
Speaker 11: beyond the fat and all beyond the sex trafficking, women
33:40
Speaker 11: and children were the two man known godaways. Over two
33:43
Speaker 11: million people cross that border. We don't know who they are,
33:46
Speaker 11: where they came from, because they got away because Bordatrol
33:49
Speaker 11: was so overwhelmed with the humanitarian crisis that Biden created
33:52
Speaker 11: that over two million people cross the border and got away.
33:55
Speaker 11: That is my biggest concern, and that's what created the
33:57
Speaker 11: biggest national security vulnerability this country's ever seen.
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Speaker 1: It's an important reminder of how thankful we should all
34:02
Speaker 1: be that Donald Trump is the president the United States
34:05
Speaker 1: of America. Not only did he secure the southern border
34:08
Speaker 1: and protect us from possible sleeper cells that are trying
34:11
Speaker 1: to get into this country, but he's also protecting us
34:13
Speaker 1: abroad by making sure that a rand doesn't have a
34:17
Speaker 1: nuclear weapon. Yes, we can celebrate the fact that that
34:20
Speaker 1: has happened, but we also have to be careful and
34:23
Speaker 1: cautious and vigilant and pray for our men and women
34:26
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