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Epic Fury Erupts-Supreme Leader Killed-Iran’s Power Structure Crumbles Overnight · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: It has been a seismic twenty four hours in the
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Speaker 1: Middle East, a conflict that is reshaping geopolitics and also
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Speaker 1: rattling the Democratic Party in Washington, d C. All because
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is showing true leadership and making sure that
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Speaker 1: Iran cannot nuke US or anyone else in the world.
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Speaker 1: The United States, partnering side by side with Israel, launched
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Speaker 1: a major coordinated military operation against Iran this weekend, and
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Speaker 1: what has been called Operation Epic Fury. It is targeting
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Speaker 1: hundreds of strategic sites and leadership figures in Tehran. Iranian
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Speaker 1: state media has confirmed that their supreme leader has been
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Speaker 1: killed in the strikes, a development that marks a historic
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Speaker 1: turning point in this decade's long standoff. Now, in response,
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Speaker 1: Iran has unleashed missiles and drones at US basis and
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Speaker 1: partner nations across the Goal Pavilion casualties reported in the
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Speaker 1: United Air of imorates and heightened regional tensions with Saudi
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Speaker 1: Arabia to Iraq. We also know that several attacks on
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Speaker 1: Israel have caused civilian casualties there. And then there's the
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Speaker 1: politics here at home. Democratic lawmakers losing their minds, clashing
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Speaker 1: over the present authority to wage war without a quote
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Speaker 1: formal declaration, and the Pentagon has confirmed the first US
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Speaker 1: military deaths in the operation. There's also more fighting that
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Speaker 1: is expected that could last up to four weeks. The
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Speaker 1: at all of this. Donald Trump has just held a
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Speaker 1: major press conference, and I want you to hear what
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Speaker 1: he had to say to not only US, but also
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Speaker 1: to the rest of the world.
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Speaker 2: Over the past thirty six hours, the United States and
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Speaker 2: its partners have launched Operation Epic Fury, one of the largest,
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Speaker 2: most complex, most overwhelming military offensives the world has ever seen.
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Speaker 2: Nobody's seen anything like it. We have hit hundreds of
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Speaker 2: targets in Iran, including revolutionary Guard facilities, Iranian air defense systems.
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Speaker 2: Just now was announced that we knocked out nine plus
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Speaker 2: their naval building, all in a matter of literally minutes.
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Speaker 2: Iran's formerly supreme leader, Ayatollah Hamene is dead. This wretched
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Speaker 2: and vile man had the blood of hundreds and even
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Speaker 2: thousands of Americans on his hands and was responsible for
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Speaker 2: the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all across
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Speaker 2: many countries. Last night, all over Iran, the voices of
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Speaker 2: the Iranian people could be heard cheering and celebrating in
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Speaker 2: the streets when his death was announced. The entire military
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Speaker 2: command is gone as well, and many of them want
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Speaker 2: to surrender into saving their lives. They want immunity. They're
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Speaker 2: calling by the thousands. Combat operations continue at this time
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Speaker 2: in full force, and they will continue until all of
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Speaker 2: our objectives are achieved. We have very strong objectives. Earlier today,
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Speaker 2: Sentcam shared the news that three US military service members
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Speaker 2: have been killed in action. As one nation, we grieve
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Speaker 2: for the true American patriots who have made the ultimate
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Speaker 2: sacrifice for our nation, even as we continue the righteous
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Speaker 2: mission for which they gave their lives. We pray for
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Speaker 2: the full recovery of the wounded and send our immense
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Speaker 2: love and eternal gratitude to the families of the fallen.
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Speaker 2: And sadly, there will likely be more before it ends.
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Speaker 2: That's the way. It is likely be more. But will
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Speaker 2: do everything possible where that won't be the case. But
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Speaker 2: America will avenge their deaths and deliver the most punishing
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Speaker 2: blow to the terrorists who have waged war against basically
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Speaker 2: civilization are resolve, and likewise that of Israel has never
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Speaker 2: been stronger. America is now again the richest, most powerful
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Speaker 2: nation in the way we enjoy the quality of life
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Speaker 2: that we do and the freedom and security as we
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Speaker 2: have done things that others are unable to do. But
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Speaker 2: it's because of warriors who are willing to lay down
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Speaker 2: their lives to do battle with our enemies, and they
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Speaker 2: do battle better than anybody. An Iranian regime armed with
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Speaker 2: long range missiles and nuclear weapons would be a dire
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Speaker 2: threat to every American. We cannot allow a nation that
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Speaker 2: raises terrorist armies to possess such weapons, would allow them
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Speaker 2: to extort the world to their evil. Will not going
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Speaker 2: to let it happen. We're not happening to us, and
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Speaker 2: we're not going to let it happen to others. The
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Speaker 2: United States says the strongest military the world has ever seen.
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Speaker 2: I rebuilt our military in my first term. There's never
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Speaker 2: been a military like we possess, and frankly there's nobody
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Speaker 2: even close. But we are now using that military for good.
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Speaker 2: We want to have it for good. Purpose. We're undertaking
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Speaker 2: this massive operation not merely to ensure security for our
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Speaker 2: own time and place, but for our children and their children,
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Speaker 2: just as our ancestors have done for us many many
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Speaker 2: years ago. This is the duty and the burden of
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Speaker 2: a free people. These actions are right, and they are
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Speaker 2: necessary to ensure that Americans will never have to face
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Speaker 2: a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime armed with nuclear weapons and
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Speaker 2: lots of threats. For almost fifty years, these wicked extremists
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Speaker 2: have been attacking the United States while chanting the slogan
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Speaker 2: death to America or death to Israel or both. They
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Speaker 2: are the world's number one state sponsor of terror. We
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Speaker 2: are the world's greatest and most powerful nations, so we
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Speaker 2: can do something about what they do. These intolerable threats
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Speaker 2: will not continue any longer. I once again urge the
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Speaker 2: Revolutionary Guard the Iranian military police to lay down your
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Speaker 2: arms and receive full immunity or face certain death. It
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Speaker 2: will be certain, death won't be pretty. I call upon
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Speaker 2: all Iranian patriots who yearn for freedom to seize this
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Speaker 2: moment to be brave, be bold, be heroic, and take
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Speaker 2: back your country. America is with you. I made a
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Speaker 2: promise to you, and I've fulfilled that promise. The rest
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Speaker 2: will be up to you, will be there to help.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, God bless you to our incredible warriors, and
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Speaker 2: God bless the United States of America. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump there in his own words, saying this
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Speaker 1: is not going to be over soon, that we have
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Speaker 1: an objective and it's one that we are clearly going
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Speaker 1: to continue moving forward. We also know that the US
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Speaker 1: and Israel have pummeled Iran. We know that the new
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Speaker 1: number one in command has already been taken out less
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Speaker 1: than twenty four hours after he was named. Yes, more
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Speaker 1: top officials being killed, hundreds of military sites have been destroyed,
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Speaker 1: and Donald Trump is urging the Iranian people to overthrow
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Speaker 1: the Mulas. The entire military command as it was described
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Speaker 1: to me earlier, is gone. Many in fact want to surrender,
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Speaker 1: and Tehran, of course, is still going rogue attacking their neighbors.
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Speaker 1: Rockets are now reigning on the Jewish state as we speak.
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Speaker 1: It is truly incredible to witness what is happening right
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Speaker 1: now and just how far Iran will go to kill
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Speaker 1: innocent people. I also want to play for you something
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Speaker 1: that Senator Ted Cruz had to say, Senator Cruz on
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Speaker 1: face the nation fighting back against the narrative. Of course,
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Speaker 1: to left, they want this to be a disaster. They
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Speaker 1: want you to believe that this is terrible. They want
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Speaker 1: you to believe that this is one of those moments
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Speaker 1: that you should be sad and ashamed that happened. This
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Speaker 1: is one of those moments. It's not good for America.
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Speaker 1: Senator Cruz talking about how important this decision was by
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Speaker 1: the President of the United States America to attack someone
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Speaker 1: that clearly was wanting to harm us and the rest
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Speaker 1: of the world. It was long overdue. Here is more
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Speaker 1: of what Senator Cruz said.
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Speaker 3: Ask you about Austin, though, because there are reports that
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Speaker 3: three people dead more than a dozen injured following a
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Speaker 3: mass shooting in that city. The FBI is saying this
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Speaker 3: morning that their Joint Terrorism Task Force has joined the investigation.
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Speaker 3: Is there any nexus to terrorism or anything that is
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Speaker 3: going on in regard to the worldwide caution at this moment,
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Speaker 3: we don't.
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Speaker 2: Know for sure.
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Speaker 4: That there are some early reports that this shooting may
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Speaker 4: be connected to terrorism, but we need to follow the
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Speaker 4: evidence and see in particular what motivated the shooting. We
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Speaker 4: are certainly Heidi and I are praying for those who
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Speaker 4: were wounded in the families of those who were killed.
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Speaker 4: But at this point, we don't know what the evidence
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Speaker 4: will show in terms of whether this was an act
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Speaker 4: of terrorism.
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Speaker 3: We'll continue to follow those early reports, but center just
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Speaker 3: looking at the global environment right now. Sat COUM announced
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Speaker 3: three Americans were killed in five seriously wounded in this operation.
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Speaker 3: President Trump and President Vice President Vance campaigned on not
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Speaker 3: getting America.
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Speaker 5: Involved in new wars.
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Speaker 3: What do you say to Americans this morning who are
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Speaker 3: asking why we are in this conflict?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 4: President Trump's decision to launch this decisive action against Iran
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Speaker 4: is the single most important decision of his presidency. I
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Speaker 4: think he laid out powerfully and effectively why he is
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Speaker 4: taking this action. He is taking this action because the
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Speaker 4: government of Iran is a profound and malign influence. They
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Speaker 4: have been the leading state sponsor of terrorism for forty
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Speaker 4: seven years. They have over that time killed nearly one
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Speaker 4: thousand Americans. They provide more than ninety percent of the
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Speaker 4: funding for Hamas. They provide more than ninety percent of
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Speaker 4: the funding for Hesbola. The Iranian Ayatola was until yesterday
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Speaker 4: actively trying to murder the President of the United States,
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Speaker 4: Donald J. Trump. I spent the entire day with President
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Speaker 4: Trump on Friday, right before he launched these attacks. He
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Speaker 4: and I discussed this at length on Friday. My counsel
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Speaker 4: to him was that the Iranian regime has never been weaker,
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Speaker 4: that it was teetering, and now was the time. My
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Speaker 4: advice was, do not miss this opportunity. I think the
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Speaker 4: President has acted boldly, He's acted decisively, and Iran no
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Speaker 4: longer being led by a theocratic, murderous dictator. That makes
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Speaker 4: America much much safer.
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Speaker 3: Senator, you are not going to find a lot of
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Speaker 3: people in any way defending the supreme leader, that is
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Speaker 3: for sure. However, putting Americans in harm way is what
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Speaker 3: I'm pressing you on.
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Speaker 5: Here.
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Speaker 3: Did the President explain to you why he called off
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Speaker 3: active diplomacy Because at the very same time he was
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Speaker 3: on that plane, the Vice President of the United States
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Speaker 3: was talking to the Omani mediator who was trying to
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Speaker 3: get a deal and told us that they were close
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Speaker 3: to one.
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Speaker 5: Why not choose diplomacy.
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Speaker 4: Because the diplomacy was an abject failure. The Iranians approached
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Speaker 4: the diplomacy with arrogance, which with absolute Hubris. They said
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Speaker 4: they would not stop enriching. No matter what, they were
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Speaker 4: going to continue to enrich uranium. They would not discuss
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Speaker 4: zero enrichment. They claimed a right to enrich uranium in
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Speaker 4: underground bunkers with no supervision. As President Trump said on
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Speaker 4: Friday when he was with me in Texas, his line
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Speaker 4: was zero enrichments, and the Iranians refused to discuss it.
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Speaker 4: They also refused to discuss their proxies. They refused to
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Speaker 4: discuss Hamas and hesbel on the Huthis, and President Trump
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Speaker 4: understood that the Iranian negotiation was just a stall tactic
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Speaker 4: and that the only response. My advice to him, I said,
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Speaker 4: there's only one deal you should accept, and it's the
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Speaker 4: deal that you offered Maduro, which is if you want
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Speaker 4: to leave and flee the country, you can do so.
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Speaker 4: Anything else is unacceptable, and Commany made his choice.
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Speaker 3: Well, there's disputes there in terms of your characterization of
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Speaker 3: what was actually on the table and what the administration
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Speaker 3: had indicated it was willing to accept in terms of
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Speaker 3: allowing enrichment for medical purposes and the like.
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Speaker 5: But that's now obviously so, Margaret, what.
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Speaker 4: I just told you. What I just told you is
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Speaker 4: almost word for word what Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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Speaker 4: told me yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Can you tell us now if you believe that there
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Speaker 3: was an ongoing nuclear weapons program. One of the top
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Speaker 3: arms arms control experts out there, David Albright, has written
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Speaker 3: there should be an immediate priority on rapid response operations
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Speaker 3: to secure Iran's nuclear stockpiles. Right now, can you assure
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Speaker 3: the public that it will be secured, and if so,
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Speaker 3: who is doing it? If there are no Israeli or
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Speaker 3: US forces on the ground, so.
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Speaker 4: There is no doubt that a year ago Iran had
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Speaker 4: an active and ongoing nuclear weapons program. We took out
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Speaker 4: the vast majority of that at the end of the
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Speaker 4: Twelve Day War, where val.
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Speaker 3: US intelligence assessment was not made public. If that is
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Speaker 3: what was brief to you.
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Speaker 4: We took out We launched targeted bombs at the end
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Speaker 4: of the Twelve Day War, where we dropped the equivalent
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Speaker 4: of about a third of a nuclear weapon on those
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Speaker 4: underground facilities, facilities like Florida, which was built into the
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Speaker 4: base of a mountain. The bunker buster bombs we used.
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Speaker 4: Israel doesn't have those bombs. No other country has those bombs.
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Speaker 4: We took them out last year, the Iranians were still
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Speaker 4: hell bent on rebuilding them. And one of the things
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Speaker 4: we are doing right now is taking out their missiles,
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Speaker 4: in particular the Southern missile belt. Right now, Iran is
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Speaker 4: building roughly one hundred missiles a month. They're actively building
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Speaker 4: missiles to threaten their neighbors, and.
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Speaker 5: They're firing some of them right now at their neighbors.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, our allies, they're illustrating powerfully. They're attacking virtually every
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Speaker 4: Arab neighbor that surrounds them. They are firing missiles that
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Speaker 4: it's almost like they want to illustrate to the world
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Speaker 4: just how malign they are.
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Speaker 3: But in terms of containing the risk, who's securing the
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Speaker 3: nuclear material that you say still exists within Iran?
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Speaker 5: Who's doing that?
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Speaker 4: Look, look the quantity of nuclear material. I didn't say
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Speaker 4: one anything one way or another on that. What I
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Speaker 4: said is they were building nuclear weapons a year ago
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Speaker 4: and our bombing took that out. They also had an
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Speaker 4: ongoing desire to rebuild them. I don't have present day
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Speaker 4: intelligence on what progress they had made towards rebuilding nuclear
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Speaker 4: weapons since we bomb their facility. I have no indication
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Speaker 4: that they were anywhere close to getting nuclear weapons because
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Speaker 4: our bombing was devastating, and Margaret, that's one of the
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Speaker 4: reasons I urged President Trump. Now is the time. You know,
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Speaker 4: dictatorships survive because they're perceived as invulnerable, and in this instance,
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Speaker 4: Iran decisively lost the twelve day war that weakened the
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Speaker 4: regime and set up what the president is doing now.
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Speaker 1: You hear Center Cruz there, and it's very obvious that
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Speaker 1: there is a clear plan from this administration. You heard
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Speaker 1: him talking about what President Trump had to say with
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Speaker 1: him during that day, what the Secretary of State Marco
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Speaker 1: Rubio had to say, and others. There's no doubt in
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Speaker 1: my mind that this was the right decision at the
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Speaker 1: talk about how we got to this point. I think
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Speaker 1: the diplomacy of President Trump and also Israel on this
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Speaker 1: was really really thorough and extensive. They were trying to
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Speaker 1: get a deal done with Iran, and Iran in essence
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Speaker 6: Well, that's true. This has been actually a forty seven
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Speaker 6: year problem that we've been dealing with. President after president
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Speaker 6: since nineteen seventy nine, we've been dealing with this problem.
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Speaker 6: And why is that People don't realize But Iran was
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Speaker 6: actually a very modern country in nineteen seventy nine. The
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Speaker 6: women wore makeup, went to college, they drove cars, they
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Speaker 6: wore Western clothing. But the shav of Iran was politically
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Speaker 6: in trouble and so rather they were pro America, and
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Speaker 6: rather than President Jimmy Carter helping the Shah of Iran,
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Speaker 6: when the Shah reached out to Jimmy Carter, because again
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Speaker 6: he was very pro America, Jimmy Carter sat on his
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Speaker 6: hands and the sha collapsed and the Ayatola traveled from Paris, France,
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Speaker 6: where he had been in tiding, you might say, to Tehran.
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Speaker 6: And that was the rise of modern terrorism. When I
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Speaker 6: was a little girl, we'd never heard of Islamic terrorism.
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Speaker 6: It hadn't happened in the United States. But once the
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Speaker 6: Ayatola came in in Iran, he had two very very
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Speaker 6: specific goals that he and the government and the nation
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Speaker 6: that he took over said every day, Death to America,
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Speaker 6: Death to Israel. And they weren't just crazy people, they
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Speaker 6: were intentional. And so for forty seven years he's used
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Speaker 6: all of the resources of that country to create nuclear
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Speaker 6: weapons so that he could achieve his goal, and he
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Speaker 6: had the political will to do it, and he planned to.
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Speaker 6: In fact, he had a clock in the main public
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Speaker 6: square in Tehran, Iran that had by this year, we
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Speaker 6: will annihilate Israel. In other words, we will kill every
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Speaker 6: Jew in Israel with a nuclear weapon, and they intended
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Speaker 6: It seems crazy to us, but they intended to conquer
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Speaker 6: the United States through the use of nuclear weapons. And
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Speaker 6: just this last week there was a report from one
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Speaker 6: of the envoys to the United States who said that
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Speaker 6: Iran had the capacity within a week to have enough
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Speaker 6: and rich nuclear enough enriched uranium to create a nuclear weapons.
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Speaker 6: So this is an existential threat to the United States.
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Speaker 6: This isn't just something at the top of Donald Trump's
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Speaker 6: head that he wanted to do. This is something that
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Speaker 6: he had to do. So Jimmy Carter had an opportunity
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Speaker 6: to keep America states. He made a tragic decision that
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Speaker 6: put us the whole world into forty seven years of
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Speaker 6: being a hostage to the number one state sponsor of
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Speaker 6: terrorism in the world. That's Iran. Iran is behind thousands
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Speaker 6: and thousands of American deaths and wanted to be behind
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Speaker 6: killing literally millions of Americans. He's the one who issued
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Speaker 6: the orders to assassinate former Secretary of State Mike Pompeio
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Speaker 6: John Bolton, and also Donald Trump. He's issued those orders.
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Speaker 6: So Iran was an existential threat to the United States
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Speaker 6: as well as to Israel and so I really believe
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Speaker 6: that this was God ordained that we had at this
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Speaker 6: time in history. It's fortuitous. We had Donald Trump as
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Speaker 6: President of the United States, we had Benjamin Ntnia who
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Speaker 6: as the Prime Minister of Israel, and we took two
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Speaker 6: of the finest militaries in the world, the United States
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Speaker 6: obviously being the biggest, the most advanced, but two allies
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Speaker 6: working together to defeat Again. For forty seven years, the
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Speaker 6: United States is named Iran as the number one sponsor
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Speaker 6: of terrorism in the world. And what we saw at
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Speaker 6: one fifteen this morning Central time was a complete change.
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Speaker 6: It was the opening salvo because President Donald Trump got
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Speaker 6: word that Iran was about to make a preemptive strike
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Speaker 6: against Israel that could have brought about tremendous damage and
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Speaker 6: perhaps against Europe or perhaps against the United States, and
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Speaker 6: so he knew he had to strike. And so this
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Speaker 6: morning it was absolutely a gift of God because the leader,
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Speaker 6: the Supreme Leader of Iran, met with forty of his
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Speaker 6: top aids, the top advisors. They were all together and
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Speaker 6: it was the perfect opportunity. And so the advanced strike
25:35
Speaker 6: took place from Israel. They made the first strike and
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Speaker 6: they killed the Supreme leader and they killed his forty
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Speaker 6: top aids. Nobody ever thought something like that would happen
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Speaker 6: at the very opening of this war.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, that was a shocking when that
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Speaker 1: news broke. I want to be clear just how shocking is.
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Speaker 1: Usually they will take, you know, extreme caution when meeting.
25:58
Speaker 1: To have all forty of them meet in that way
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Speaker 1: was like you said, I actually think it was God's will.
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Speaker 1: It was God sent moment for them all to be
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Speaker 1: together in that way. That is not normal. So people understand, no,
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Speaker 1: you're exactly right.
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Speaker 6: But yet this happened in Yemen with the Houtis and
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Speaker 6: so their whole upper echelon leadership were taken out the
26:19
Speaker 6: same way. In the last two years. Also, the same
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Speaker 6: thing happened with hes Blah. Nowzraala was the leader of
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Speaker 6: the worst terrorist gang, if you will, in the world, Hesblah,
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Speaker 6: and they all were together and they were all taken
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Speaker 6: out at the same time. So God has been He's
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Speaker 6: opened these windows of opportunity that you can you can't
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Speaker 6: say anything other than God created divine moments, and so
26:45
Speaker 6: we can be so grateful to Him that he allowed
26:50
Speaker 6: these opportunities, because this is pure evil, This is rank evil.
26:55
Speaker 6: Many of your audience may remember when it was well
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Speaker 6: over two hundred and American Marines were killed and be
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Speaker 6: rooted in a terrible bombing. And so this has gone on,
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Speaker 6: like I said, for forty seven years. I formerly sat
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Speaker 6: on the Intelligence Committee. That's that's the committee in Congress
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Speaker 6: that deals with the classified secrets of our nation. And
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Speaker 6: our number one threat has been Islamic terrorism in the world.
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Speaker 6: And Iran is the head of the snake. And so
27:22
Speaker 6: today the head of the snake was decapitated. And it
27:27
Speaker 6: is miraculous to think that in less than twenty four
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Speaker 6: hours we're already moving on and talking about what will
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Speaker 6: be the next government. Clearly God has delivered. This is
27:40
Speaker 6: going to go on for weeks. So I want to
27:42
Speaker 6: manage people's expectations because President Trump and Prime Minister nat
27:47
Speaker 6: Nyahu didn't put this effort together to lose. They put
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Speaker 6: it together to defeat the modern enemy of Islamic terrorism
27:58
Speaker 6: that has hung a sword over the next of the world. Really,
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Speaker 6: the world has been held hostage to Iran for forty
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Speaker 6: seven years, and they have made the best decision they
28:08
Speaker 6: ever could have made. It's a risky calculus, but a brave,
28:12
Speaker 6: wise calculus, and so I believe they're going to be
28:17
Speaker 6: victorious in this effort. They were incredibly victorious today, but
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Speaker 6: there's still a lot to do over the next couple
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Speaker 6: of weeks. And what they're trying to do is clear
28:27
Speaker 6: a path so that the people of Iran, who again,
28:30
Speaker 6: just a couple of weeks ago, this murderous government killed
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Speaker 6: over thirty two thousand of their own people who just
28:38
Speaker 6: want freedom, who just want to live. And now the
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Speaker 6: Iranian people are going to have the chance to come
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Speaker 6: together and unite as one and decide on their next
28:47
Speaker 6: governmental leadership and whether they're going to live as a
28:51
Speaker 6: secular regime in freedom and create a new world for themselves.
28:55
Speaker 6: But more importantly, to stop being a threat to every
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Speaker 6: other people group on Earth, because that's what Iran was.
29:06
Speaker 6: They were at the point of having precision guided missiles
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Speaker 6: that could reach anywhere around the world, and they were
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Speaker 6: putting nuclear warheads on them, so that literally New York, Honolulu,
29:18
Speaker 6: cities all over the world would be at risk at
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Speaker 6: the will of the Ayatola be taken out. And so
29:27
Speaker 6: what President Trump has done is a favor to America,
29:31
Speaker 6: but it's a favor to the world and Benjamin Metnaw
29:35
Speaker 6: who helped as well, and all of our other allies.
29:38
Speaker 6: This is a profound gift to the world because this
29:42
Speaker 6: is the most consequential war of the last fifty years. Again,
29:48
Speaker 6: this started because of the tragic decision by Jimmy Carter. Again,
29:52
Speaker 6: another tragic decision was made by President Obama. And I'm
29:57
Speaker 6: not trying to be partisan when I say this, but
29:59
Speaker 6: President Obama gage gage one hundred and fifty billion dollars
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Speaker 6: with a bee to Aroun when I was in Congress.
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Speaker 6: He gave them one hundred and fifty billions. And what
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Speaker 6: did Iran do with that one hundred and fifty billion.
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Speaker 6: It was the most foolish decision ever made by a president.
30:17
Speaker 6: They used that one hundred and fifty billion to not
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Speaker 6: only build their terror state, but they bought friends in
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Speaker 6: games of terrorists that they set up all around the
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Speaker 6: world to create havoc and death and kill people and
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Speaker 6: threaten and build up. That's what President Obama did. And
30:36
Speaker 6: the Iranian people rose up in two thousand and nine.
30:38
Speaker 6: They wanted to overthrow the aatolavent President Obama easily. Rather
30:43
Speaker 6: than giving a dime to the Iatola, he could have
30:45
Speaker 6: helped the Iranian people and helped them so that they
30:48
Speaker 6: could have overthrown the Ayatola event back in two thousand
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Speaker 6: and nine. But it is gay, this brave action happened.
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Speaker 6: We can thank god that President Trump was president to
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Speaker 6: make this courageous decision.
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Speaker 2: Michelle.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that's very interesting is the Iranian
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Speaker 1: Crown Prince is now calling on the military, the police,
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Speaker 1: the security services to abandon what he said is the
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Speaker 1: crumbling Islamic regime. This is the son of of the
31:16
Speaker 1: last jav Iran calling on them to all abandon this,
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Speaker 1: this Islamic regime of the Ietola amid these strikes, saying
31:24
Speaker 1: the decisive moments lie before us and is time for
31:28
Speaker 1: these and these people in these organizations to stop backing
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Speaker 1: the regime. How much of an impact could that have
31:35
Speaker 1: and how many lives could that also help save?
31:37
Speaker 6: Well, it's tremendous because what it would do is it
31:40
Speaker 6: would take a shift. It would be a right hand
31:43
Speaker 6: turn that the people of Iran would take and say
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Speaker 6: we are no longer following this murderous regime. We have
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Speaker 6: a new path forward. We want to join the current world.
31:55
Speaker 6: In twenty twenty six, because they've been forced to live
31:58
Speaker 6: in the seventh century under radical Islamic extremism. So they
32:03
Speaker 6: went back to the beginning of the Koran during the
32:05
Speaker 6: time of Muhammad, and all of these terrible laws were
32:09
Speaker 6: enforced on the Iranian people. The women in Iran lived
32:13
Speaker 6: a slavish life under that regime. And so now what
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Speaker 6: the Crown Prince is doing is saying, come join me,
32:21
Speaker 6: let's all come together, let's turn away from the Iahtola,
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Speaker 6: who's now dead, thank goodness, and now let's have a
32:29
Speaker 6: brand new beginning. And he's calling on the Iranian Revolutionary
32:33
Speaker 6: Guard Corps. That's the muscle, that's the army that served
32:36
Speaker 6: the Iatola. The Iatola is dead, and so now who's
32:39
Speaker 6: the army going to serve. Let me tell you, nobody
32:42
Speaker 6: wants to step up and take the Iatola's place, because
32:45
Speaker 6: they'll be decapitated. Next, they'll be vaporized, next they'll be gone.
32:49
Speaker 6: And so this is the opportunity. So President Trump today
32:52
Speaker 6: in his speech said, really what the Crown Prince said,
32:55
Speaker 6: which is to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, put down
32:58
Speaker 6: your weapons, surrendered, be done, give up, and we will
33:02
Speaker 6: give you immunity. Otherwise you're going to be killed. This
33:06
Speaker 6: is the end, and he's President Trump is doing exactly
33:09
Speaker 6: what had to be done. The Ayahtola had to die,
33:12
Speaker 6: and the Iranian revolutionary at Gharcourt has to break up
33:16
Speaker 6: and no longer be loyal to this demonic regime of
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Speaker 6: Islamic terrorism and instead move forward as a real country
33:26
Speaker 6: and have a real future. Iran has tremendous resources. They
33:29
Speaker 6: could be an amazing country, but they have to give
33:33
Speaker 6: up Islamic terrorism, Islamic extremism. And that's what the Crown
33:37
Speaker 6: Prince is offering, a secular state where Iran comes together.
33:41
Speaker 6: His father was the former Shah of Iran. He's the
33:45
Speaker 6: Crown Prince. He was forced to live outside of the
33:47
Speaker 6: country or he would have been killed. And so he's
33:50
Speaker 6: demonstrating leadership to the Iranian people and he's saying, let's
33:54
Speaker 6: unite as a people again and move forward. They have
33:57
Speaker 6: a tremendous history, goes back to the time of the Bible,
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Speaker 6: and there is a tremendous history. They can regain that history.
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Speaker 6: That's exactly what President Trump urged the people to do,
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Speaker 6: to unite and come up with a future government. That's
34:13
Speaker 6: exactly what the Crown Prince is offering the people of Iran,
34:17
Speaker 6: and it's their chance to take it.
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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, Finally, there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: people that are under siege right now yet again in Israel.
34:24
Speaker 1: Israel taking the lead and starting this attack, which is
34:28
Speaker 1: a very brave one, but there are a lot of
34:30
Speaker 1: rockets coming in to Israel and a lot of attacks
34:33
Speaker 1: that have happened on Israel. The drones as well. Yes they
34:36
Speaker 1: have the iron down, but there is obviously real needs
34:39
Speaker 1: of the people in Israel. What can we do People
34:43
Speaker 1: that are listening right now, how can they get involved
34:45
Speaker 1: to make a difference that they want to stand with
34:47
Speaker 1: the people in Israel With the IFCJ.
34:49
Speaker 6: Well one of the most trusted organizations for over forty
34:53
Speaker 6: years serving Israel and Jews and forty seven other countries
34:57
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35:04
Speaker 6: Jews weren't working together to benefit the people who were
35:08
Speaker 6: suffering in Israel. But they came together about forty years
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Speaker 6: ago and they've worked incredibly. Today, the International Fellowship of
35:16
Speaker 6: Christians and Jews is the largest humanitarian relief organization in Israel.
35:21
Speaker 6: So for the last few weeks, for instance, recognizing that
35:24
Speaker 6: tensions were about to spill out into the war that
35:28
Speaker 6: began today with Iran. The International Fellowship of Christians and
35:31
Speaker 6: Jews has mobile bomb shelters and they were deploying them
35:36
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35:42
Speaker 6: for instance, a missile came in in the Galilee area
35:45
Speaker 6: and a hospital was hit in the surgical wing. So
35:49
Speaker 6: what the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews did is
35:52
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35:57
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36:00
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Speaker 6: it is feeding people. They're the largest humanitarian food organization
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36:13
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36:17
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36:23
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