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From Tehran to the Border Trump Bets Big on Strength Strategy · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump's cabinet meeting was more than just routine.
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Speaker 1: He gathered the cabinet inside the White House, and he
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Speaker 1: made it very clear exactly what his administration intends to do,
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Speaker 1: how it intends to govern in the second term, Aggressive, unapologetic,
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Speaker 1: and with a clear message that America is back in
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Speaker 1: charge now.
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Speaker 2: From Iran and national.
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Speaker 1: Security to the economy, border security, an America's role on
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Speaker 1: the world stage. President Trump used the meeting to lay
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Speaker 1: out his administration's forecast as the defining issues he's facing
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Speaker 1: and what the country is facing right now now. The
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Speaker 1: biggest part of the meeting clearly came down to Iran,
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Speaker 1: and it was obvious that Donald Trump was turning up
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Speaker 1: the heat on Iran, making it clear that he believes
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Speaker 1: Iran is in an extremely weak position right now economically,
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Speaker 1: and he also intends to use that weakness for major leverage.
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Speaker 1: Trump described Iran's economy as being on the brink of collapse,
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Speaker 1: pointing specifically to the falling oil production, declining exports, massive
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Speaker 1: inflation that has hit the country, and also growing instability
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Speaker 1: inside of the country's government. The president saying this the
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Speaker 1: Tereran is running out of time and also running out
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Speaker 1: of the money they need. He said that economic pressure
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Speaker 1: is exactly why the United States now has the upper
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Speaker 1: hand in negotiations. The President also made it clear that
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Speaker 1: he's not going to be bullied and if Iran thinks
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Speaker 1: they can wait him out because the midterms, well they're wrong.
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Speaker 3: And we have the strongest military anywhere in the world.
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Speaker 4: As you know, you saw what we did with Venezuela.
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Speaker 3: That worked out very quickly, and we we're doing really
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Speaker 3: equally as well with But again people don't want to
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Speaker 3: write about it. With Iran is very much intent. They
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Speaker 3: want very much to make a deal. So far they
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Speaker 3: haven't gotten. We're not satisfied with it, but now we
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Speaker 3: will be. We will be either that or we'll have
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Speaker 3: to just finish the job. But the Navy is gone,
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Speaker 3: as they've said a thousand times, the Navy is gone,
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Speaker 3: their air force is gone. Everything's gone. And they're negotiating
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Speaker 3: on fumes. But we'll see what happens. Maybe we have
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Speaker 3: to go back and finish it, maybe we don't.
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Speaker 4: Right now.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you can speak to Steve Whitcoff, Jared doing
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Speaker 3: a good job, but right now I think it looks
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Speaker 3: like they want to just make a deal they want
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Speaker 3: to maybe, I don't think they have a choice. They're
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Speaker 3: just going back to the internet because they get a club.
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Speaker 3: Or their economies in free fall. They have two hundred
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Speaker 3: and fifty percent inflation, The money has no value. Their
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Speaker 3: whole economic system is broken down. They thought they were
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Speaker 3: going to outweait me. You know, we'll outwait him. He's
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Speaker 3: got the midterms. I don't care about the midterms. So
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Speaker 3: what happened last night, that was the prelude of the midterms.
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Speaker 3: And people understand that, they know that very simple. Iran
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Speaker 3: cannot have a nuclear weapon. I'm doing that for the world.
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Speaker 3: I'm not doing it just for us, And we've had
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Speaker 3: great support from other nations. By the way, we don't
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Speaker 3: need it at all, but we've had great support from
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Speaker 3: other nations. The problem is you always get the support
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Speaker 3: when you don't need it. When you need it, you
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Speaker 3: don't get the support.
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Speaker 1: Now, the President wasn't done with warnings. He also addressed
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Speaker 1: the growing tension surrounding the Strait of Hormuz. Now, as
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Speaker 1: you know, that's one of the most strategically important shipping
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Speaker 1: lanes in the world. Roughly a fifth of the world's
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Speaker 1: oil supply moves through that region, meaning any disruption sends
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Speaker 1: the global energy markets into chaos. And that is where
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Speaker 1: a moment that everyone is talking about right now happened.
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Speaker 1: President Trump was asked about reports involving Oman and regional
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Speaker 1: control over the shipping traffic. Donald Trump had a very
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Speaker 1: blunt response.
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Speaker 3: No, the strait's going to be open to everybody. So
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Speaker 3: it's international waters. Nobody's going to control it. We're going
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Speaker 3: to watch over it. We'll watch over it, but nobody's
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Speaker 3: going to control it. That's part of the negotiation that
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Speaker 3: we have. They would like to control it. Nobody's going
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Speaker 3: to control it's international waters. And Oman will behave just
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Speaker 3: like everybody else. So we'll have to blow them up.
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Speaker 3: They understand that. They'll be fine.
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Speaker 2: They understand it. They'll be fine.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: That comment immediately sent shockwaves through the diplomatic circles and
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Speaker 1: cable news networks.
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Speaker 2: And also the rest of the world.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: Trump also made it clear that he is growing very
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Speaker 1: frustrated with the RAN dragging out the negotiations. The President
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Speaker 1: says there will be no sanctions relief, no money, no
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Speaker 1: nothing unless it RAN agrees to America's demands.
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Speaker 4: The sanctions on RAN to allow Alan to sell.
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Speaker 3: Its crew to your get No, we're not talking about
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Speaker 3: any easing of sanctions, giving money, no sanctions, no money,
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Speaker 3: no nothing. We have control money that they claim is theirs.
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Speaker 3: Will keep control of that money, and when they behave
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Speaker 3: properly and when they do what's right, we'll let them
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Speaker 3: have their money. But right now we're not doing that,
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Speaker 3: and it's one thing that is not contingent on the other.
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Speaker 1: The President making it clear strength first, pressure first, and
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Speaker 1: absolutely no return to what he views as a failed
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Speaker 1: appeasement policy of past administrations now. The President then moved
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Speaker 1: on to border security and immigration. Another major focus of
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Speaker 1: the cabinet meeting was just that. Trump praised his administration's
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Speaker 1: cracked down illegal immigration and argued that aggressive enforcement measures
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Speaker 1: are finally restoring order after what he described as years
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Speaker 1: of chaos. Cabinet officials discussed increased deportation operations, expanded attention capacity,
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Speaker 1: and then efforts to target cartel networks and human trafficking
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Speaker 1: organizations as well. The President again tied border security directly
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Speaker 1: to national security, arguing that weak enforcement policies allowed criminal
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Speaker 1: organizations to gain unprecedented power around the world and inside
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Speaker 1: the United States. Trump also emphasized what he says is
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Speaker 1: a major difference between his administration and the Democrats. He
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Speaker 1: says it's simply to terrans. According to Trump, the message
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Speaker 1: now being sent globally is simple. If you enter illegally
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Speaker 1: into the United States, you will be removed. Administration officials
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Speaker 1: also discuss cooperation between federal agencies and local law enforcement
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Speaker 1: as part of the broader anti cartel operations.
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Speaker 3: We took the most dangerous, unsafe, violent, and open border
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Speaker 3: in the world. Anywhere in the world has no border
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Speaker 3: like the border we had, and created the most secure
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Speaker 3: border in the history.
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Speaker 4: Of our country.
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Speaker 3: We had no people twelve months now, No people reported
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Speaker 3: in the last twelve months came in illegally. Zero illegal
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Speaker 3: aliens admitted to the United States in the last twelve months.
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Speaker 3: And that's those charts are made by you would say,
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Speaker 3: politically unfriendly people.
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Speaker 4: And the reason they don't come.
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Speaker 3: In is because nobody comes up because they know that
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Speaker 3: they're going to be turned away and if they get in,
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Speaker 3: they're going to be moved out right away.
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Speaker 4: So it's been zero. You're the one that you do
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Speaker 4: the reports.
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Speaker 3: I'm actually surprised by the number because I don't know
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Speaker 3: how it can be zero, but they say at zero
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Speaker 3: for the last twelve months and twenty twenty five, we
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Speaker 3: achieve the largest drop and the murder rate ever recorded.
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Speaker 3: So the murder rate was quite high, and we achieved
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Speaker 3: the largest drop in the murder rate ever recorded to
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Speaker 3: the lowest level one hundred and twenty five years.
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Speaker 4: That's year nineteen hundred.
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Speaker 3: And that's despite the fact that many people came in
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Speaker 3: from prisons and from very rough countries, and from mental institutions,
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Speaker 3: and from lots of other places drug dealers as they
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Speaker 3: came in illegally during the Biden administration. We've got many
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Speaker 3: of them out, but we still have some that were
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Speaker 3: looking for quite a few that were still looking for
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Speaker 3: But we've gotten over eleven eighty eight.
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Speaker 4: Murders we're allowed into a country. We've gotten a lot
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Speaker 4: of them out. We've gotten some we put them in jail.
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Speaker 4: We don't even.
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Speaker 3: Trust the country to send them because come back in
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Speaker 3: maybe we.
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Speaker 4: Put them in jail.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: The President was clearly making this a midterm issue, comparing
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Speaker 1: and contrasting the Biden Myorchis DHS that released almost every
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Speaker 1: migrant encounter that would be every legal immigrant encountered into
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Speaker 1: the United States of America. Those days are now over
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Speaker 1: thanks to President Donald Trump. The president then moved on
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Speaker 1: to the economy and energy, using the cabinet meeting to
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Speaker 1: argue that his economic agendas producing sing momentum despite the
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Speaker 1: global oil issue. Trump repeatedly turned to energy dominance as
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Speaker 1: a central theme, arguing that America must increase domestic production
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Speaker 1: while adversaries like Iran continue weakening economically. Cabinet officials discussed inflation, manufacture, investment,
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Speaker 1: supply chain issues, and the energy pricing as it is
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Speaker 1: going up. Trump argued that America's economic strength comes from
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Speaker 1: producing more at home and reducing dependence on hostile for nations.
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Speaker 1: He also contrasted his administration's policies with what he called
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Speaker 1: radical climate extremism, saying energy restrictions weaken national security and
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Speaker 1: empower our adversaries overseas. The administration framed domestic oil and
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Speaker 1: gas production not only is an economic issue, but as
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Speaker 1: a geopolitical weapon against countries like Iran, Russia, and China.
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Speaker 5: It's sound at home, so again, it's an amazing transformation.
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Speaker 5: Bottom line is the center of geopolitics around energy has
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Speaker 5: moved from other parts of the world to the Western
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Speaker 5: Hemisphere in the last five months. He turned Venezuela from
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Speaker 5: a sanctioned adversary into a strategic ally in forty five minutes.
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Speaker 4: Happened in history before.
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Speaker 5: And what's going on in Alaska when I was there
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Speaker 5: last week in Alaska in the nurse litot eighty thousand
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Speaker 5: barrels a day coming online. Pick that wouldn't have happened
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Speaker 5: with you. It's up like willow on the nurslop that's
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Speaker 5: going into the into Alaska pipeline. Twenty percent increase just
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Speaker 5: off that one field. So amazing work. It's energy is
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Speaker 5: a high tech industry and those guys are crushing it
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Speaker 5: and they're loving the fact that they can provide affordable, reliable,
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Speaker 5: secure energy for America.
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Speaker 3: And we're working very hard in California. You know, a
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Speaker 3: lot of people don't know this, but California has tremendous,
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Speaker 3: tremendous oil reserves. Used to be number three in the nation,
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Speaker 3: and the radical left has just wiped it out and
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Speaker 3: we're working very hard to get that open again and
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Speaker 3: get it so the people that they gasoline prices, their
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Speaker 3: lack of energy is just staggering. It's staggering, and we're
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Speaker 3: actually making very good progress. Even people that were against
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Speaker 3: that at one point now they're saying.
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Speaker 4: Wow, that'd be great. But people don't.
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Speaker 3: Realise it was one of the right Chris, It was
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Speaker 3: one of the top drilling states, one of the I
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Speaker 3: would say, in terms of reserves, as among the top
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Speaker 3: in the country. Nobody thinks of that. With calf everything
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Speaker 3: was just closed down, really violently closed down, and we're
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Speaker 3: opening up some of it, and we're being met with
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Speaker 3: actually great spirit because they're paying so much for guests
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Speaker 3: online that they don't have to be doing that, and
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Speaker 3: they have a very incompetent group of leaders, like grossly incompetent.
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Speaker 1: So the big takeaway from the cabinet meeting was this,
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Speaker 1: you have a president that believes that the American people
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Speaker 1: are smart enough to understand he's doing big things and
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Speaker 1: making tough choices, and the administration. One of the Americans
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Speaker 1: to see a president not only fully in command, but
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Speaker 1: surrounded by the cabinet officials who are aggressively executing policy
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Speaker 1: not just on one issue, but across some multiple fronts
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Speaker 1: all at once, whether it's Iran, immigration, energy, or economic policy.
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Speaker 1: The tone of the meeting was confrontational. It was confident,
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Speaker 1: and it was designed to let you know what exactly
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Speaker 1: this White House is doing for you. And perhaps most importantly,
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Speaker 1: Trump made it clear that he believes his administration now
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Speaker 1: holds leverage, leverage over our adversaries, overseas, leverage and negotiations,
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Speaker 1: and leverage politically heading into the midterms.
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Speaker 2: So where are we right now?
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Speaker 1: Well, President Trump is arguing that not only is he
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Speaker 1: in the cabinet, showing exactly why Donald Trump's agenda of
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Speaker 1: America First is so dominant, it's also a moment for
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Speaker 1: the President to remind Americans what is at stake and
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Speaker 1: where we came from under the Biden regime. So based
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Speaker 1: on these headlines, you may not get a lot of
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Speaker 1: love from the media because they want you to believe
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Speaker 1: this guy is falling, But when you look at what
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Speaker 1: the President had to say, it's pretty clear the America
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Speaker 1: First policies are still moving forward and being implemented as
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Speaker 1: we see speak President Donald Trump holding a cabinet meeting. Now,
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Speaker 1: let me just say, as I was watching the press
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Speaker 1: aspect of this cabinet meeting, it was really impressive to
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Speaker 1: see the President talk about so many different issues, whether
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Speaker 1: it was the election issues that was something he talked about.
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Speaker 1: He also talked about the economy, gas prices, but then
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Speaker 1: he really focused in on Iran. Now, to be clear,
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Speaker 1: there is a massive problem in Iran's economy right now.
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Speaker 1: Even before the cabinet meeting was taking place, Fox News
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Speaker 1: had this report about what's happening in Tehran Aris good morning.
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Speaker 6: It should be an eventful cabinet meeting. Those final details
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Speaker 6: are still being discussed for a possible agreement between the
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Speaker 6: United States and Iran, but regional tension has certainly decreased.
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Speaker 6: The hope here is for a deal that ultimately would
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Speaker 6: avert a return to war, but also address Iran's nuclear
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Speaker 6: program and opened the straight up woor Mouz. Regional officials
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Speaker 6: say that menation of an agreement is even more important
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Speaker 6: than what is written in a possible deal.
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Speaker 7: I think there's strong alignment and agreement on what a
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Speaker 7: preliminary draft should look like. I think that like anything
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Speaker 7: with something like this, and it's going to take a
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Speaker 7: couple of days to settle on even down to the
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Speaker 7: disagreements over a word sentence, So we'll have to work
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Speaker 7: through that. If there's going to be a deal, we're
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Speaker 7: going to have to work through that. But this is
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Speaker 7: you know, it's either going to be a good deal
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Speaker 7: or there isn't going to be.
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Speaker 6: One insider on, the Internet is starting to be restored
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Speaker 6: after eighty eight days offline. This does follow a decree
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Speaker 6: announced by Iranian President Mustu Pozeskian to restore connectivity for
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Speaker 6: more than ninety million residents of the Islamic Republic.
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Speaker 1: Now, the reason why they're turning back the lights on
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Speaker 1: the internet on is because they're filling the pressure clearly
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Speaker 1: from the President of the United States of America, and
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Speaker 1: Iran's economy is collapsing and President Donald Trump is now
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Speaker 1: turning up the pressure even more than before. Iran's economy
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Speaker 1: is effect actively on death row. Is how it was
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Speaker 1: described by one expert. The regime is not only running
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Speaker 1: out of options, but oil production, they say, is plunging
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Speaker 1: to dangerously low levels. Experts say that this collapse and
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Speaker 1: then inflation is crushing ordinary Iranians. They also said the
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Speaker 1: economic depression is giving Donald Trump enormous leverage heading into
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Speaker 1: the high stakes negotiations. Tehran knows it cannot survive prolonged
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Speaker 1: economic isolation, and Trump knows it too, and that's why
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Speaker 1: the Cabinet meeting mattered so much. President Trump made it
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Speaker 1: very clear at the meeting that America will not allow
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Speaker 1: Ran or anyone else to threaten control of the Strait
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Speaker 1: of Hormuz, one of the most strategically important waterways on Earth,
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Speaker 1: and when asked about reports that Oman could partner with
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Speaker 1: Iran to overseas shipping traffic in the region, Trump issued
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Speaker 1: a warning that stunned the room. The President at this
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Speaker 1: take a listen.
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Speaker 3: No, the street's going to be open to everybody. So
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Speaker 3: it's international waters. Nobody's going to control it. We're gonna
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Speaker 3: watch over it. We'll watch over it, but nobody's going
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Speaker 3: to control it. This part of the negotiation that we
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Speaker 3: have they would like to control it. Nobody's going to
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Speaker 3: control it's international waters. And Oman will behave just like
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Speaker 3: everybody else. So will have to blow them up. They
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Speaker 3: understand that they'll be fine.
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Speaker 2: We'll have to blow them up.
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Speaker 1: The President making it crystal clear, not only will America
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Speaker 1: not allow Ran, but anyone else who has the idea
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Speaker 1: that you're going to threaten the control of the Strait
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Speaker 1: of Hormuz.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no way, not gonna happen. Oman.
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Speaker 1: They even said could partner with the Ran to oversee
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Speaker 1: shipping traffic in the region. Is how one international report
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Speaker 1: put it, and that's why Trump issued that warning, shocking
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Speaker 1: the room. Nobody's going to control it. Trump also signaled
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Speaker 1: that he's rapidly losing patience with Tehran, saying the United
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Speaker 1: States is not satisfied yet with the negotiations, and made
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Speaker 1: it clear there will be no sanction relief, no money,
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Speaker 1: nothing unless Iran gives into American demands. Here's more, the
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Speaker 1: President talking exactly about that, the sanctions.
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Speaker 4: On Iran to allow Iran to sell its crew to market.
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Speaker 3: No, we're not talking about any easing of sanctions, giving money.
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Speaker 4: No sanctions, no money, no nothing.
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Speaker 3: We have control of money that they claim is Theirs
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Speaker 3: will keep control of that money. When they behave properly
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Speaker 3: and when they do what's right, we'll let them have
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Speaker 3: their money. But right now we're not doing that, and
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Speaker 3: it's one thing is not contingent on the other.
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Speaker 1: The President also accused Iran of trying to drag negotiations
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Speaker 1: out until after the mid terms, while insisting the United
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Speaker 1: States holds all the leverage because Iran's economy is collapsing
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Speaker 1: in real time. Trump also warned that if Tehran refuses
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Speaker 1: to cooperate, terry action remains firmly on the table.
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Speaker 4: Their economy is in free fall.
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Speaker 3: They have two hundred and fifty percent inflation, their money
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Speaker 3: has no value, and their whole economic system is broken down.
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Speaker 3: They thought they were going to outwait me. You know,
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Speaker 3: we'll outweight him. He's got the midterms. I don't care
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Speaker 3: about the midterms. Look what happened last night. That was
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Speaker 3: the prelude to the midterms. People understand that, they know
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Speaker 3: that very simple Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 4: I'm doing that for the world. I'm not doing it
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Speaker 4: just for us now.
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Speaker 1: The President had a very interesting way of putting what
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Speaker 1: he just said, making it abundantly clear that we are
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Speaker 1: not going to be pushed around by Iran. He also
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Speaker 1: talked about the midterms, saying I've got to keep us
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Speaker 1: safe the present, revealing he's good putting America first and Iran,
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Speaker 1: as he described it, must agree to what we are
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Speaker 1: demanding with Iran.
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Speaker 3: Iran is very much intent. They want, very much much
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Speaker 3: to make a deal. So far, they haven't gotten that.
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Speaker 3: We're not satisfied with it, but we will be. We
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Speaker 3: will be either that or We'll have to just finish.
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Speaker 1: The job, Donald Trump saying over and over again, we
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Speaker 1: will finish the job if we have to. There will
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Speaker 1: be no sanctioned relief, no release funds, no cash payments.
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Speaker 1: And so Donald Trump then wrapped it all up by
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Speaker 1: making it clear that Iran is either going to start
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Speaker 1: giving America what we are demanding or we will have
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Speaker 1: military consequences. Yet again, for those in charge, here's the
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Speaker 1: president on that.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think we're doing very well. They are starting
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Speaker 3: to give us the things that they have to give us.
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Speaker 3: And if they do, that's great. And if they won't,
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Speaker 3: then the men on my left is going to finish
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Speaker 3: them off.
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Speaker 8: Is there a high frame in your mind?
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Speaker 2: What is there a high frame in your mind?
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Speaker 7: For?
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Speaker 4: I mean, it happens quickly.
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Speaker 3: The problem is every time I mentioned in time frame,
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Speaker 3: for instance, I see, you know, we've been doing this
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Speaker 3: for a few months. Non lasted nineteen years, Korea lasted
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Speaker 3: eight years, Afghanistan lasted many years. There were many, many years,
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Speaker 3: and we're into it for a few months. And I
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Speaker 3: read about you people like you. What's taken so long
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Speaker 3: we're in it? You know, we lost between two wars,
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Speaker 3: two big wars Venezuela and Iran.
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Speaker 4: We lost thirteen souls.
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Speaker 3: Thirteen great people, met the parents, great people, and it's
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Speaker 3: a terrible thing.
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Speaker 4: But thirteen. If you look at the war casualties.
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Speaker 3: And the deaths and wars from Vietnamino that they lost
20:34
Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands of people and numerous of these wars.
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Speaker 3: We're very cognizant that we want to lose very few,
20:43
Speaker 3: we want very few to be injured. Were very we're
20:46
Speaker 3: very careful. But war's war, war's dangers. But we've lost thirteen,
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Speaker 3: and so the Democrats took an end putting into thirteen
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Speaker 3: people that were lost, and when you look at hundreds
20:56
Speaker 3: of thousands of people that were lost in the Middle
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Speaker 3: Least Iraq, all the different awards we were in, we
21:05
Speaker 3: have done an amazing year. With that being said, I
21:07
Speaker 3: hate to lose thirteen. I hate to lose one. But
21:10
Speaker 3: we've been very uh, we've been very We've been very capable.
21:14
Speaker 3: I mean, when you think of it, we took over
21:16
Speaker 3: Venezuela and one day we have done a similar job.
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Speaker 4: But we said, well, give them a little chance.
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Speaker 3: At the request of somebody that we greatly respect from Pakistan,
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Speaker 3: the field Marshall and the Prime Minister.
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Speaker 4: They've been great.
21:31
Speaker 3: They asked us would we pause the war for a
21:33
Speaker 3: little while because they'd like to take it. So we
21:35
Speaker 3: will do that. But we had them beat there, you know,
21:40
Speaker 3: no better. Now we could we could close that out
21:42
Speaker 3: very quickly. If we can do it in a different way.
21:45
Speaker 3: That it'll be good if we get.
21:46
Speaker 4: Everything we we want.
21:48
Speaker 3: But we could close that out very very quickly, and
21:50
Speaker 3: we may have to. I don't think so, but we
21:53
Speaker 3: may have to.
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Speaker 1: So there's the present, laying it out for the world,
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Speaker 1: an expectation, basic expectations, and not just demands, but letting
22:02
Speaker 1: Iran know there are certain things America will not negotiate on,
22:08
Speaker 1: especially when they come to national security issues. Well, the
22:12
Speaker 1: good news is if you're a Republican, there's a full
22:15
Speaker 1: blown civil war unfolding inside the Democratic Party right now,
22:19
Speaker 1: and it's not getting a lot of attention, but voters
22:22
Speaker 1: are paying attention. And one of their own centators just
22:26
Speaker 1: admitted it publicly. Corey Booker started talking openly about desperation
22:32
Speaker 1: inside the Democratic Party. You know, the panic has moved
22:36
Speaker 1: from private conversations behind closed doors now into public view.
22:41
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what we witnessed in the last twenty
22:44
Speaker 1: four hours. Corey Booker recently acknowledged that millions of Americans,
22:50
Speaker 1: and frankly, millions of Democrats, well, it's something they already know.
22:53
Speaker 1: The Democratic Party is struggling to find not only new energy,
22:58
Speaker 1: but new leadership and then a message that actually connects
23:01
Speaker 1: with voters outside of the elite activist circles. Now, Booker's
23:06
Speaker 1: comments about Democrats needing a new, fresh set of faces
23:11
Speaker 1: and ideas may sound simple on the surface, but politically
23:16
Speaker 1: those words are devastating to a party that thinks they're
23:19
Speaker 1: going to clean up in the midterm elections. When a
23:22
Speaker 1: senior Democrat says the party needs fresh faces, new faces,
23:27
Speaker 1: and new ideas, what he's really saying is this, the
23:30
Speaker 1: current leadership isn't working, the current strategy isn't working, and
23:36
Speaker 1: the current leadership and strategy may be actually dragging the
23:41
Speaker 1: party towards another election day disaster. Now, this isn't just
23:46
Speaker 1: about one quote from Corey Booker either. This is about
23:49
Speaker 1: a Democratic Party that is fractured in multiple competing factions,
23:55
Speaker 1: all of them point the finger, all of them blaming
23:57
Speaker 1: each other for why they're losing support with working class
24:01
Speaker 1: voters with independence, with Hispanic voters, with young men with
24:05
Speaker 1: suburban parents, and even parts of their traditional urban coalitions,
24:11
Speaker 1: and the end fighting is getting.
24:13
Speaker 2: Uglier by the day.
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Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to what Corey
24:17
Speaker 1: Booker had to say on TV as he described this
24:20
Speaker 1: publicly for the first time. So take a listen Corey
24:23
Speaker 1: Booker in his own words, talking about the Democratic Party
24:28
Speaker 1: and saying what many Democrats wished he never would have
24:31
Speaker 1: talked about.
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Speaker 9: That's the message from Leader Schumer or Leader Jeffries on
24:37
Speaker 9: helping the American people. I mean, I cover this for
24:41
Speaker 9: a living, and I'm not sure there's a coherent message
24:42
Speaker 9: about elect Democrats because this is what we're going to do.
24:45
Speaker 2: I mean, I know you all hate Trump, but what else.
24:47
Speaker 10: Well, that's again plainly what I've been saying. You are
24:51
Speaker 10: not going to win this election just by what you're against.
24:53
Speaker 10: You need to start articulating who you're for and what
24:56
Speaker 10: you're for. Have a vision that's compelling the not only
24:59
Speaker 10: engenders trust, but makes sense for the American people.
25:02
Speaker 9: You still have faith in the Shumer to be in
25:04
Speaker 9: charge of your.
25:05
Speaker 10: I am telling people left and right, we are five
25:07
Speaker 10: months out from election. What is going to make the
25:09
Speaker 10: Republicans gleeful, is if we're talking about each other in
25:12
Speaker 10: the Democratic Party and not talking about the realities that
25:16
Speaker 10: Americans are facing. I am tired of all this machination
25:20
Speaker 10: about party politics. We are in a crisis right now,
25:25
Speaker 10: millions of Americans losing their health insurance, their costs skyrocketing.
25:29
Speaker 10: I talk to more and more New Jerseyans who are
25:31
Speaker 10: barely staying afloat enough of normal party politics. We need
25:35
Speaker 10: to focus on the people, and the Democratic Party desperately
25:38
Speaker 10: needs new leadership. And that's what's exciting me about this cycle.
25:42
Speaker 10: It's not only new leaders emerging, but a new vision
25:44
Speaker 10: for our party. But you can damn well be sure
25:47
Speaker 10: that I'm going to be talking about what our party
25:48
Speaker 10: needs to do to change and what our party needs
25:51
Speaker 10: to go. And the biggest issue for me, and I
25:53
Speaker 10: think what makes me frustrated with politics as usual, is
25:56
Speaker 10: the massive corruption going on in all three branches. From
25:59
Speaker 10: a Supreme Court that's taking unlimited gifts from billionaires who
26:02
Speaker 10: have interest in matters before them, to congress people trading
26:06
Speaker 10: stocks and accepting corporate cash and corporate pack money, to
26:10
Speaker 10: a president who is setting records for being the greatest
26:12
Speaker 10: grifter in chief we have ever seen. We need real
26:16
Speaker 10: change that engenders trust again in American politics, but more
26:19
Speaker 10: importantly in the people that are standing up right now
26:22
Speaker 10: in theory.
26:23
Speaker 2: Now.
26:23
Speaker 1: The end fighting is getting uglier by the day. You
26:26
Speaker 1: got one wing of the Democratic Party that says, well,
26:29
Speaker 1: we've gone too radical, and then you have the other
26:31
Speaker 1: side saying, are you kidding me, We're not radical enough?
26:35
Speaker 1: And then one faction says the party has abandoned Middle America,
26:39
Speaker 1: and another side of the party says, well, we just
26:42
Speaker 1: spend too much time trying to appeal to moderate so
26:44
Speaker 1: let's just stop doing that. And underneath all of this
26:48
Speaker 1: is the brutal reality Democrats cannot escape. They still don't
26:53
Speaker 1: know how Donald Trump keeps winning the political conversation. That's
26:58
Speaker 1: the part that's driving them absolutely crazy, because after years
27:02
Speaker 1: of investigations, media attacks, impeachment efforts, even the criminal cases,
27:07
Speaker 1: and the non stop political warfare, Trump still dominates the
27:11
Speaker 1: national conversation. He still controls the Republican Party unlike any
27:15
Speaker 1: political figure that we've seen literally in modern political American history.
27:21
Speaker 1: And Democrats are looking around asking themselves the big question,
27:25
Speaker 1: how are we losing ground? After all of this, and
27:29
Speaker 1: that's why Corey Booker's comments became so interesting, because what
27:33
Speaker 1: he's really describing is a confidence crisis inside of his
27:37
Speaker 1: own party. Just think about what Democrats are facing right now.
27:42
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four post election autopsy exposed major weaknesses with
27:46
Speaker 1: younger voters and also refusing to admit their own flaws.
27:51
Speaker 2: One of the great.
27:51
Speaker 1: Examples is they completely admitted the fact that, well, there
27:54
Speaker 1: was a massive cognitive decline of Joe Biden. If you
27:58
Speaker 1: do an autopsy on how you ast an election with
28:00
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, but you don't look at that, and you
28:03
Speaker 1: don't look at the fact that no one voted for
28:05
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. That's right, she was coronated. There was also
28:09
Speaker 1: another problem there. Now the polling also shows something else
28:13
Speaker 1: that's interesting. There is now growing frustration within the Democratic
28:18
Speaker 1: Party on issues like inflation, even immigration, crime, and then
28:24
Speaker 1: cultural extremism. That's not good for Democrats running. You've got
28:28
Speaker 1: Democratic governors that are increasingly at odds with progressive activists.
28:33
Speaker 1: You've got moderates in the Democratic Party that are nervous
28:36
Speaker 1: about the far left messaging that's coming from all the
28:39
Speaker 1: activist groups and the donors are beginning to quietly worry,
28:43
Speaker 1: apparently that the party, the Democratic Party, has become so
28:47
Speaker 1: disconnected from normal Americans that they've completely lost sight of reality.
28:53
Speaker 1: And that's why you're hearing phrases like new faces or
28:57
Speaker 1: new generation, or new ideas, or rebranding or correction, all
29:01
Speaker 1: of those have been used in the last several days
29:03
Speaker 1: by Democrats on TV. Now, these aren't hopeful slogans at all.
29:08
Speaker 1: These are actually slogans of warning signs that they now
29:12
Speaker 1: realize are right in front of them. Look political parties,
29:16
Speaker 1: they only start using language like this when they believe
29:18
Speaker 1: the current model is in a disaster spiral. And then
29:24
Speaker 1: there's also another major issue, who is actually the leader
29:27
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party, who exactly is leading on the issues,
29:32
Speaker 1: And that's becoming harder and harder to answer. Former President
29:36
Speaker 1: Joe Biden remains deeply polarizing figure within his own party,
29:39
Speaker 1: and he's nowhere to be found. You've got Vice President
29:42
Speaker 1: Kamwa Harris continues to struggle with approval ratings in voter enthusiasm,
29:47
Speaker 1: even as she says I'm running for president again more
29:49
Speaker 1: than likely, and progressive stars like AOC excite activist audiences.
29:56
Speaker 1: But then they create bigger concerns among the moderates are
30:00
Speaker 1: also trying to emerge nationally. Look, governors are even trying
30:04
Speaker 1: to emerge politically for the White House, but none have
30:08
Speaker 1: fully consolidated their support outside of their own state. And
30:12
Speaker 1: then you've got centers like Corey Booker. Yes he's looking
30:15
Speaker 1: at running for president, but he's also signaling that the
30:18
Speaker 1: Democratic Party is in need of an entirely new makeover,
30:22
Speaker 1: in other words, a new direction he believes. Look, there's
30:25
Speaker 1: not a lot of unity right now, there's no framework
30:29
Speaker 1: for how they're going to get back on top, and
30:31
Speaker 1: the generational divide within the Democratic Party is becoming impossible
30:34
Speaker 1: to hide. Older establishment Democrats still dominate much of the
30:39
Speaker 1: party infrastructure and their donations. But the younger radical activists, well,
30:45
Speaker 1: they want aggressive ideological confrontation on everything from climate policy
30:50
Speaker 1: to policing, to immigration, to foreign policy to trans issues. Moderates,
30:56
Speaker 1: by the way, they want thing totally different. They want
30:59
Speaker 1: to elect activists want ideological purity, which doesn't happen on either
31:05
Speaker 1: side of the aisle very often. And then donors are saying, hey,
31:10
Speaker 1: they just want stability in America, and they want stability
31:13
Speaker 1: around the world. The grassroots organizers, many of them have
31:17
Speaker 1: dried up because they don't believe in going to war
31:20
Speaker 1: on behalf of some of these radicals. Which brings me
31:23
Speaker 1: to one Democratic candidate that is being supported by the
31:27
Speaker 1: elites of Washington, and that's a guy who has a
31:31
Speaker 1: Nazi tattoo.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Graham Platner.
31:36
Speaker 1: He is in Maine, and he is the guy who's
31:39
Speaker 1: got the most wild opposition research file I've ever seen
31:43
Speaker 1: any candidate. Havel and the Democratic Maine Senate candidate, even
31:48
Speaker 1: had to dodge questions this week about an apology. He
31:51
Speaker 1: was confronted over a deleted Reddit post where he set
31:54
Speaker 1: a purple heart recipient didn't deserve to live. Yes, he
32:00
Speaker 1: actually said that. He was asked if he wanted to
32:04
Speaker 1: apologize after saying that, and here is the response from
32:08
Speaker 1: the Democratic leading candidate in Maine.
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Speaker 3: I was wondering, if.
32:12
Speaker 8: You regret the posts about the purple heart veteran, if
32:18
Speaker 8: you think you need to apologize to him, what you
32:23
Speaker 8: would say to the voters who might be upset by it.
32:27
Speaker 10: I have four tours of the infantry.
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Speaker 3: Any attempt to say that I disrespect put rooms is
32:34
Speaker 3: slanderous and offensive.
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Speaker 8: Do you think you olem an apology?
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Speaker 3: Do you know how many of my friends a purple hearts?
32:41
Speaker 3: Do you know how many of my friends got winded?
32:43
Speaker 2: ARLT, thank you, thank you.
32:48
Speaker 1: So there you have it, a Democratic Party that insults
32:51
Speaker 1: our men and women that served this country, refuse to apologize,
32:55
Speaker 1: and then there's massive infighting on top of that. What
32:58
Speaker 1: we now know it's pretty darn clear, is the Democratic
33:02
Speaker 1: Party has no idea who's in charge or even what
33:05
Speaker 1: they actually stand for. And that's where we are right now.
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