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Iran’s Defenses Unravel as more Commanders Fall and Missiles Fly · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I guess the worst case would be we do this
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  Speaker 1: and then somebody takes over who's as bad as the
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  Speaker 1: previous person.
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  Speaker 2: Right, that could happen. We don't want that to happen.
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  Speaker 2: It would probably be the worst.
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  Speaker 1: You go through this and then in five years you
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  Speaker 1: realize you put somebody in who is no better.
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  Speaker 2: So we'd like to see.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody in there that's gonna bring it back for the people.
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  Speaker 2: But I always say that would be enough. The worst.
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  Speaker 4: Good Wednesday morning. It's so nice to have you with
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  Speaker 4: us on the forty seven Morning Update. We've got one
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  Speaker 4: big story for you, and it deals with Iran. Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump coming out and explain exactly why it was so
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  Speaker 3: Now story number one.
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  Speaker 2: We have a major.
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  Speaker 4: Update for you on the rapidly escalating war with Iran,
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  Speaker 4: and a lot has happened in just the last twenty
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  Speaker 4: four hours. Over the past day, the United States and
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  Speaker 4: Israel has continued their coordinated military campaign against Iranian military targets,
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  Speaker 4: striking facilities connected to Iran's navy, to Iran's air force,
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  Speaker 4: and to Iran's missile infrastructure. According to US military commanders,
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  Speaker 4: thousands of tars have now been hit since the operation
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  Speaker 4: began just days ago, and multiple Iranian ships and air
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  Speaker 4: defense systems have also been destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 4: These strikes come after the dramatic opening phase of the
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  Speaker 4: war that began late last week with a massive joint
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  Speaker 4: operation against Iran's leadership and military command structure. In those
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  Speaker 4: initial attacks, several of the senior Ranian officials were killed,
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  Speaker 4: as you already know, including iran Supreme leader, and what
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  Speaker 4: analysts say was one of the most consequential decapitation strikes
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  Speaker 4: in modern warfare. But Iran has been firing back over
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  Speaker 4: the last several days. Tehran has launched hundreds of ballistic
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  Speaker 4: missiles and thousands of drones at the US and Allied
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  Speaker 4: targets across the Middle East. Some of those attacks of
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  Speaker 4: targeted American bases and facilities in the region, including strikes
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  Speaker 4: near US installations in the Gulf and attacks against nations
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  Speaker 4: as well. Tragically, the Pentagon confirmed now that six American
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  Speaker 4: service members have been killed so far in the conflict.
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  Speaker 4: Following an Iranian drone attack in Kuwait. President Trump addressed
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  Speaker 4: the situation today, defending the military campaign and explaining why
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  Speaker 4: the United States acted. President Trump, in his own words, and.
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  Speaker 1: You could never, and I've always said that, you could
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  Speaker 1: never have had two pieces in the Middle East if
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  Speaker 1: Iran was allowed to go even beyond the nuclear if
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  Speaker 1: Iran was allowed to have more.
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  Speaker 2: They look at all the missiles they built.
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  Speaker 1: A lot have been now taken out by US, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot have been expended. But they have thousands of
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  Speaker 1: missiles in a fairly short period of time.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll go two things.
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  Speaker 1: The attack that we did known as Midnight Hammer. Had
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  Speaker 1: we not done that, Iran would have had a very
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  Speaker 1: powerful nuclear.
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  Speaker 2: Your weapon within one month. We did it. It was great timing.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, and you've been able to see that too.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing was Barack Hussein Obama made maybe the
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  Speaker 1: worst deal I've ever seen, because he gave.
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  Speaker 2: All power in the Middle East to Iran.
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  Speaker 1: He went the exact opposite way, and I terminated that.
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  Speaker 2: If I didn't terminate that deal, they.
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  Speaker 1: Would be sitting with a massive nuclear weapon three years ago,
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  Speaker 1: which would have been used already on Israel at least
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  Speaker 1: and other countries also, and we wouldn't be talking about
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  Speaker 1: it right now.
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  Speaker 2: But if I didn't terminate the.
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  Speaker 1: Deal that Obama made giving them everything, including plane loads
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  Speaker 1: of cash. Do you remember the airplane flew over there.
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  Speaker 1: It was a Boeing seven fifty seven. It was two
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  Speaker 1: of them loaded. They took out all the seats. It
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  Speaker 1: was loaded with green cash, so much cash that you
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  Speaker 1: could It was in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC. They
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  Speaker 1: got all the cash from all the banks, they put it,
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  Speaker 1: and they flew it to Iran. I never knew a
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  Speaker 1: president had that power. I'm going to maybe try it sometime.
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  Speaker 1: If it's okay, I think I'm going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: A fly it somewhere. Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
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  Speaker 1: Two planes loaded from Florida ceiling big planes Boeing seven
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  Speaker 1: fifty sevens taken over there and given cash. In addition
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  Speaker 1: that he was giving them billions of dollars. But worse,
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  Speaker 1: he was giving them the right to have the path
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  Speaker 1: to a nuclear weapon. And that deal expired. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people said, oh, you terminated. Well, it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be terminated anyway because it expired. It gave them
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  Speaker 1: the right to have top of the line nuclear weapon
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  Speaker 1: if they had because they're crazy. They're crazy, just like
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  Speaker 1: the people on my right during the State of the Union.
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  Speaker 2: I looked at him, I said, you're crazy.
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  Speaker 1: These people are crazy, and if they had a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump went on to explain even more about why
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  Speaker 4: the United States had to act. Trump said the strikes
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  Speaker 4: were not only necessary because Iran was preparing for a
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  Speaker 4: major attack and then America moved first to stop it.
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  Speaker 4: He told reporters that the US and Israel operations have
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  Speaker 4: dealt a devastating blow to Iran's military capability, saying that
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  Speaker 4: Iran's Navy, Air Force, radar systems, and air defense systems
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  Speaker 4: have largely been taken out. Here's President Trump more on that.
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  Speaker 1: They no longer have air protection, they no longer have
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  Speaker 1: any detection facilities at all left and so they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be in for a lot of heart.
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  Speaker 2: These are bad people. These are people that killed. I
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  Speaker 2: guess it's thirty five thousand.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming out thirty five thousand over the last three
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  Speaker 1: weeks protesters thirty five thousand violently killed. So these are
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  Speaker 1: bad people. And the leader of the pack is gone.
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  Speaker 1: And as you know, forty nine people were taken out
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  Speaker 1: in the first hit, and I guess.
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  Speaker 2: There was another hit today.
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  Speaker 1: On the new leadership, and it looks like that was
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  Speaker 1: pretty substantial also, So they're getting hit very hard, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. A lot of people are coming forward.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the people you would least suspect want
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  Speaker 1: to quit. They want to have immunity. They're asking for immunity,
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  Speaker 1: and probably at some point they'll be dropping, as you
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  Speaker 1: would say, laying down their guns.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 4: The President putting it bluntly, telling reporters that just about
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  Speaker 4: everything's been knocked out when referring to Iran's military infrastructure now.
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  Speaker 4: Trump also said the United States has the ability to
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  Speaker 4: continue to the campaign for weeks if necessary, and warned
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  Speaker 4: Iran that American forces will keep striking until the threat
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  Speaker 4: is eliminated. The presidents also suggested that the end result
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  Speaker 4: could be a political shift inside of Iran, saying that
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  Speaker 4: ultimately the Iranian people may have to decide the future
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  Speaker 4: leadership of their country once the regime's military power is broken.
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  Speaker 4: Now on the left, they're using all of this trying
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  Speaker 4: to attack Donald Trump and saying that what we're doing
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  Speaker 4: and Ran is the wrong move. They're also saying that
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump is being walked like a little dog by Israel.
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  Speaker 4: Marco Rubio asked that question on Capitol Hill. He had
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  Speaker 4: a very blunt response to that.
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  Speaker 5: Yesterday you told us that Israel was going to strike
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  Speaker 5: Iran and that's why we needed to get involved.
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  Speaker 2: Today the President said it, No, Iran wasn't a good Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: your statement is false.
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  Speaker 6: So that's not what I was asked very specific.
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  Speaker 2: Were you there yesterday? Yes?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, No, Were you the one that because somebody asked
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  Speaker 6: me a question answered did we go in because of Israel?
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  Speaker 6: And I said you asked me, are you from that
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  Speaker 6: follow up? And I said no, I told you this
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  Speaker 6: had to happen anyway. The President made a decision, and
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  Speaker 6: the decision he made was that Iran was not going
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  Speaker 6: to be allowed to hide behind its ballistic missile program,
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  Speaker 6: that Iran was not going to be allowed to hide
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  Speaker 6: behind its ability to conduct these attacks.
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  Speaker 2: That decision had been made.
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  Speaker 6: The President systematically made a decision to systematically destroy this
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  Speaker 6: terroristic capability that they had, and we carried that out.
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  Speaker 6: I was very clear on that answer. This was a
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  Speaker 6: question of of why this had to happen as a
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  Speaker 6: joint operation, not the question of the intent. Once the
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  Speaker 6: President made a decision that negotiations were not going to work,
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  Speaker 6: that they were playing us on the negotiations, and that
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  Speaker 6: this was a threat that was untenable, the decision was
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  Speaker 6: made to strike them position. That's what I said yesterday,
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  Speaker 6: And you guys need to play it him. You're gonna
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  Speaker 6: play these statements. You need to play the whole statement,
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  Speaker 6: not clip it to reach the narrative.
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  Speaker 2: That you want to do.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, as the media narrative and the left narrative
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  Speaker 4: is falling apart, there is a new strategy by the
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  Speaker 4: left to really go after the United States of America.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, I was on Pierre's Morgan show. It is
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  Speaker 4: now a clip that has gone viral as a radical
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  Speaker 4: lefty who claims he's a arriety. Dave Smith had this
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  Speaker 4: to say about the attack on Iran and what he
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  Speaker 4: thinks of America.
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  Speaker 5: Listen carefully, The IDF is the worst terrorist organization in
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  Speaker 5: the region.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get real.
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  Speaker 5: The United States of America is arguably the worst terrorist
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  Speaker 5: organization in the world. If you want to look over
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  Speaker 5: the last twenty five years, how many innocent civilians we've
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  Speaker 5: slaughtered you're getting You're getting us into the Neo Kon. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that's right, you're getting us into the Neo Kon seventh War,
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  Speaker 5: which they've been dying for.
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  Speaker 2: If I want to take down by the way.
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  Speaker 5: No, Actually, if you love this country, if you're a
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  Speaker 5: real patriot, you'd have.
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  Speaker 2: To hate.
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  Speaker 5: More than a yeahh d C.
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  Speaker 2: D C killed a lot more people.
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  Speaker 4: So that's the new strategy from the left to claim
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  Speaker 4: that America is the worst terrorist organization in the world,
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  Speaker 4: killed a lot more people than anybody else, including the Iranians.
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  Speaker 4: That is how radical the left has now gone to
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  Speaker 4: try to hurt Donald Trump and make sure they stand
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  Speaker 4: up for the Ayatola or whoever the next guy is
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  Speaker 4: in charge, that America is probably going to kill. So
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  Speaker 4: here we are a few days in and already the
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  Speaker 4: Democrats are defending Iran and saying that America is the
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  Speaker 4: worst terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 2: In the world.
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