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Trump Challenges Abortion Insurance Mandates plus Iran Executes Teen Wrestler in Brutal Warning · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The Trump administration said on Thursday that it has launched
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  Speaker 1: an investigation into thirteen states that requires state regulated health
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  Speaker 1: insurance plans to cover abortion. This is a major development,
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  Speaker 1: and it goes right to the core of one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest cultural and constitial battles in America right now.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about states like California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: states where the government has said, if you want insurance,
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  Speaker 1: abortion coverage is mandatory with no exceptions, and the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration is now saying that may be illegal.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: At the center of this fight is something called the
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  Speaker 1: Weldon Amendment. It's a federal law that has been on
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  Speaker 1: the books for years. It explicitly says the government cannot
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  Speaker 1: discriminate against healthcare entities, doctors, insurers, employers who refuse to
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  Speaker 1: provide or pay for refer for abortions. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot force Americans to violate their conscience.
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  Speaker 3: But here's where it gets serious.
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  Speaker 1: The Trump Administration's Department of Health and Human Services says
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  Speaker 1: these states mandates may be doing exactly that, forcing employers
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  Speaker 1: and individuals into plans that cover abortion even if it
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  Speaker 1: violates their religious beliefs. And according to officials that could
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  Speaker 1: put billions of dollars in federal health care funding at
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  Speaker 1: risk if states are found in violation.
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  Speaker 3: Now, let's talk about the scale of this.
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  Speaker 1: There are thirteen states currently under the investigation. These laws
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  Speaker 1: affect millions of Americans enrolled in state regulated insurance plans.
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  Speaker 1: Federal protections aren't just one law. There are actually more
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  Speaker 1: than two dozen federal statutes protecting religious and moral objections
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  Speaker 1: in healthcare. And here's the key stat that matters politically.
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  Speaker 1: For decades, under the High Amendment, federal taxpayer dollars have
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  Speaker 1: been barred from funding abortion. That policy has had Bi
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  Speaker 1: Parson support for decades. President Trump didn't just maintain it,
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  Speaker 1: he strengthened it, signing executive action to enforce it across
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  Speaker 1: the federal government. And most importantly, I'm sure taxpayer money
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  Speaker 1: is not used for elective abortions. And this is where
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  Speaker 1: the Trump Agenda comes into focus. From day one, the
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  Speaker 1: administration has made it crystal clear we protect life, we
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  Speaker 1: defend religious liberty, and stop government coercion. The White House
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  Speaker 1: has said President Trump is committed to protecting the unborn
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  Speaker 1: and restoring conscience rights across federal policy. This investigation, they
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  Speaker 1: say is a direct extension of that promise. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: other part of this debate is how officials are actually
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  Speaker 1: fighting over it. Framing the arguments. Paula Stenard, who heads
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  Speaker 1: the HHS Office for Civil Rights, put it bluntly, healthcare
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  Speaker 1: entities are protected from paying for abortion contrary to conscience.
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  Speaker 3: Period. That's not ambiguous.
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  Speaker 1: That's a line in the sand, and conservatives are rallying
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  Speaker 1: behind this move as well. I'm going to tell you
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  Speaker 1: more about that in a moment, but first I want
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  Speaker 1: So back to conservatives that are rallying behind the Presidence leadership.
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  Speaker 1: Pro life and religious liberty advocates have argued for years
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  Speaker 1: that these mandates are government overreach, forcing faith based organizations,
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  Speaker 1: small businesses, and individuals into impossible choices. Many conservative leaders
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  Speaker 1: have said, in response to policies like this quote, no
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  Speaker 1: Americans should be forced to choose between their faith and
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  Speaker 1: the law, or the government should not compel participation in abortion.
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  Speaker 1: And the White House said this conscience rights are civil rights.
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  Speaker 1: And that last point is key because what the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration is doing here is reframing this entire debate, and
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  Speaker 1: that is brilliant, not just as an abortion policy, but
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  Speaker 1: as a civil rights issue.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Politically, this is a very strategic move. It draws a
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  Speaker 1: crystal clear contrast. The Republicans and the Trump administration are
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  Speaker 1: defending religious liberty and individual choice, and Democrats are expanding
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  Speaker 1: mandates and government control in healthcare, forcing you to actually
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  Speaker 1: pay for coverage for abortions even if you don't agree
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  Speaker 1: with it religiously. And it puts Democrats finally on defense
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  Speaker 1: because they now have to explain why someone should be
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  Speaker 1: forced to pay for something they morally and religiously oppose.
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  Speaker 1: Even critics of the administration are admitting what's happening here.
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  Speaker 1: Some Democratic officials are already calling the investigation politically motivated.
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  Speaker 1: But that also shows how high stakes this debate really is,
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  Speaker 1: because if the Trump administration wins, you could see three
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  Speaker 1: different things happen. Number one, states would be forced to
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  Speaker 1: roll back abortion mandates, number two, federal funding battles tied
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  Speaker 1: to compliance would then be up for real debate. And thirdly,
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  Speaker 1: and potentially that you could have a Supreme Court showdown
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  Speaker 1: on the limits of state's' powers to mandate abortion be
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  Speaker 1: a part of healthcare. The bottom line is this, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't just another policy fight. This is about whether the
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  Speaker 1: government can force you, can force your business, can force
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  Speaker 1: your church, can force your family to fund something that
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  Speaker 1: violates your moral beliefs. And President Trump has made it
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  Speaker 1: very clear with this investigation that the line will not
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  Speaker 1: be crossed without a major fight. We are getting shocking news,
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  Speaker 1: horrifying news coming out of Iran right now that the
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  Speaker 1: mainstream media is not screaming about. Iran executed a nineteen
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  Speaker 1: year old champion wrestler in a public hanging Thursday, along
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  Speaker 1: with two other people who are arrested during the brutal
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  Speaker 1: crackdown on the anti regime protesters in January. The nineteen
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  Speaker 1: year old was a rising star. He was allegedly tortured
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  Speaker 1: to confess to the capital crime of waging war against God,
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  Speaker 1: with the team executed without a fair trial that according
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  Speaker 1: to human rights groups on the ground, his execution was
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  Speaker 1: a blatant political murder, part of the Islamic Republic's pattern
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  Speaker 1: of targeting athletes to crush, to scent and to terrorize society,
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  Speaker 1: using their fame to their advantage. Human rights activists are
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  Speaker 1: saying they're worried that more of this will happen in
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  Speaker 1: the days ahead. This individual, along with fellow protesters, were
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  Speaker 1: accused of killing two police officers with knives and swords
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  Speaker 1: during the January protests. That, of course, according to the
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  Speaker 1: Iranian regime state media, despite appeals from the US and
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  Speaker 1: other nations and human rights groups, the protesters were quickly
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  Speaker 1: found guilty and then executed by Tehran. Now following mass
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  Speaker 1: arrests during the January protests, President Trump said he was
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  Speaker 1: reassured by Tehran that the executioners would not take place,
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  Speaker 1: claiming to have saved the lives of some eight hundred demonstrators.
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  Speaker 1: We've been told that the killings in Iran are stopping.
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  Speaker 1: Its stopped, it's stopping, President Trump said at the time.
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  Speaker 1: There's no plan for executions or an execution or executions,
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  Speaker 1: so I've been told that on good authority. Tehran, however,
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  Speaker 1: denied the president's claim and rushed through the defendant's trials
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  Speaker 1: after the US and Israel began the war on Iran.
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  Speaker 1: This was clearly part of their a revenge and b
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  Speaker 1: sending a message to the people that if they tried
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  Speaker 1: to rise up, they could be hung as well. Amnesty
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  Speaker 1: Internationals slammed the new executions, alleging that the men were
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  Speaker 1: denied adequate defense and force to make confessions after they
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  Speaker 1: were tortured. The humanitarian group said the trio were pushed
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  Speaker 1: through fast track proceedings that bore no resemblance to a
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  Speaker 1: meaningful trial. Far said Thursday's execution was a haunting repetition
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  Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty execution of a champion wrestler who
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  Speaker 1: was convicted of killing an Iranian security guard during a
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen protest. Far called on the International Olympic Committee
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  Speaker 1: and the United World Wrestling organizations to take action against
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  Speaker 1: Iran over its brutality against their athletes. Iran must be
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  Speaker 1: banned from international competitions until it halts executions of protesters
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  Speaker 1: and athletes, releases those jailed in sham trials, and ends
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  Speaker 1: retaliation against competitors who speak out or defect. This is
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  Speaker 1: another example of how the regime is holding on to
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  Speaker 1: power anyway they can now. These executions also come as
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  Speaker 1: a lot of attention has been on Iran's women's soccer team,
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  Speaker 1: those that returned to their home country Wednesday. The women
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  Speaker 1: were branded wartime traders after they failed to sing the
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  Speaker 1: national anthem of Iran at the Asia Cup earlier this month.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, five members ending their bid for asylum in
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  Speaker 1: Australia after their family members were allegedly threatened. Iranian American
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  Speaker 1: activists said the execution signaled a clear signal from Tehran
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  Speaker 1: that its brutal crackdown would continue, as She also urged
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  Speaker 1: the Global Athlete Advocacy Group to stand with the protesters,
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  Speaker 1: saying on Acts, I call on Global Athlete Headquarters to
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  Speaker 1: stand with the Iranian athletes who are being silenced, imprisoned,
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  Speaker 1: and executed simply for raising their voices. This is not
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  Speaker 1: just about sports, This is about human in dignity now.
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  Speaker 1: The Iranian Human Rights Doctrine Center also condemned the killings,
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  Speaker 1: warning that the three men's hangings were specifically aimed at
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  Speaker 1: creating an atmosphere of intimidation and deterrence to keep the
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  Speaker 1: Iranian people from protesting against the brutal regime. Fears are
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  Speaker 1: high that Iran will roll out more executions following mass
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  Speaker 1: arrests during the January eighth and ninth protests, which salt
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  Speaker 1: Iarran security forces kill more than seven thousand demonstrators that
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  Speaker 1: according to the US based human rights Activist news Agency,
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  Speaker 1: and the number honestly could even be higher than that.
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  Speaker 1: The full extent of the atrocities, however, didn't come to
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  Speaker 1: light for some later time due to the nationwide internet
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  Speaker 1: blackout as well. The hangings come just a day after
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  Speaker 1: Iranian authorities executed a dual Iranian Swedish national on charges
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  Speaker 1: of spo they claim for Israel. The Iran Human Rights
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  Speaker 1: in Geogroup warned that the executions seen in recent days
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  Speaker 1: may only be the start, saying we are deeply concerned
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  Speaker 1: about the risk of mass executions of protesters and political
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  Speaker 1: prisoners and the shadow of war, the group putting out
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  Speaker 1: in a statement, this is obviously something the White House
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  Speaker 1: is paying close attention to, and this is also clearly
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  Speaker 1: coming from a regime that's doing everything they can now
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  Speaker 1: to try to hold on to power no matter what,
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  Speaker 1: which brings us to another important story from the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia has now united the Arab world against Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Trust has completely been shattered, as what they said in
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  Speaker 1: new statements as the government of Saudi Arabia held a
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  Speaker 1: large level meeting with representatives of other victims of Iranian
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  Speaker 1: bombings in the past month, issuing a joint statement condemning
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  Speaker 1: to Iran for widespread drone and missile attacks on civilian
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  Speaker 1: sites in over a dozen countries. Participating in the meeting
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  Speaker 1: were the foreign ministers of Bahrain, the United air of Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Turkey, Katar, Syria,
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  Speaker 1: and Lebanon as well. On Thursday, the Saudi Press Agency
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  Speaker 1: published a joint statement from the participants demanding an immediate
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  Speaker 1: end to bombings by Iran's Terras Islamic Revolutionary Guard and
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  Speaker 1: warning Iran to stop disrupting commercial traffic in the Strait
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  Speaker 1: of Hormuz. Iran has been at war with Israel. In
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  Speaker 1: the United States since February the twenty eighth, President Trump
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  Speaker 1: announced Operation Epic Fury to eliminate Iran's ability to pose
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  Speaker 1: a threat to its neighbors. Iran is the world's most
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  Speaker 1: plurific state sponsor of terrorism, funding the IRGC in addition
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  Speaker 1: to several other terrorist proxies, including Hesbalahamas, the Yemeni, the
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  Speaker 1: Houthy Gangs, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and several Iraqi Sheite militias,
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  Speaker 1: among others. On the first day of Operation Epic Fury,
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  Speaker 1: Trump announced an airstrike had eliminated the Supreme Leader American
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  Speaker 1: Israel have eliminated, as you know, dozens of senior Iranian
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  Speaker 1: leaderships since but in response to the military campaign, Iran
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  Speaker 1: has used its missiles and drone capabilities to target its
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  Speaker 1: Arab and Muslim neighbors. Among the countries Iran has targeted,
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  Speaker 1: striking civilian areas are many of the participants in the
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  Speaker 1: meeting late Wednesday. Iran has also repeatedly targeted Israel and
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  Speaker 1: struck Cyprus, and Iranian officials have denied targeting nations such
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  Speaker 1: as Turkey, though the IRGC has openly struck Saudi Arabia
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  Speaker 1: and the UAE, allegedly because they're not actively hostile towards
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  Speaker 1: America and Israel. Now, following the meeting of the Gulf
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  Speaker 1: Corporation Council countries and other guests, the government of Saudi
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  Speaker 1: Arabia also published a joint statement by the participating countries
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  Speaker 1: condemning Iran. The nations, according to Saudi Press Agency, affirm
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  Speaker 1: their condemnation and said these deliberate Iranian attacks with ballistic
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  Speaker 1: missiles and drones which targeted residential areas, civilian infrastructure, including
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  Speaker 1: oil facilities, as well as airports, residential buildings and diplomatic premises,
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  Speaker 1: was unacceptable. The Minister's further affirm that such attacks could
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  Speaker 1: not be justified under any pretexts or in any manner whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: The text continued that Iran must immediately halt its attax
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  Speaker 1: and affirm the necessity of respecting international law, international humanitarian law,
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  Speaker 1: and the principles of good neighborliness. Yes, this is now
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  Speaker 1: where we are in the Middle East, as all of
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  Speaker 1: these countries seem to be finally realizing they can't just
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  Speaker 1: look the other way with what Iran is doing, and
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  Speaker 1: now they're joining with the US to hold him accountable.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are pushing a new narrative right now that Iran
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  Speaker 1: was not an imminent threat to the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore Donald Trump jumped the gun and should not have
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  Speaker 1: acted to go after the regime. Well after the strikes
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  Speaker 1: and the broader military operations have been a massive success.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are now trying to figure out how do you
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  Speaker 1: push this narrative that this was a war of choice,
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  Speaker 1: arguing there's no credible intelligence to justify the actions. Some lawmakers,
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  Speaker 1: even after classified briefings, have doubled down, saying they didn't
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  Speaker 1: see evidence of an immediate threat. Take a listen to
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  Speaker 1: the House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries and what he had
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  Speaker 1: to say at the press conference.
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  Speaker 4: Having been briefed now not once, but twice, there is
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  Speaker 4: no evidence that has been presented to us that the
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  Speaker 4: United States was under threat of an attack from Iran,
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  Speaker 4: zero evidence of that. In fact, many members of the
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  Speaker 4: administration have actually publicly now admitted that. So if in
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  Speaker 4: fact that was the case, it's hard for the American
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  Speaker 4: people to understand the rationale from launching a preemptive war
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  Speaker 4: in the Middle East that has now spread to more
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  Speaker 4: than half a dozen countries and resulted in the death
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  Speaker 4: of at least six brave, courageous, heroic service members. That's unacceptable.
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  Speaker 1: Now Democrats are using the death of their soldiers to
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  Speaker 1: push their political agenda.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The d and I director Gabbard was also asked on
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  Speaker 1: Capitol Hill as Democrats are honing in on this one
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  Speaker 1: single point, and here's what she had to say about
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  Speaker 1: the only person that opinion matters really on what an
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  Speaker 1: imminent threat is and can determine what to do about it,
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  Speaker 1: she says, is actually the President of the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America.
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  Speaker 5: Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there
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  Speaker 5: was an imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
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  Speaker 6: The intelligence community assessed that Iran maintained the intention to
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  Speaker 6: rebuild and to continue to grow their nuclear enrichment.
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  Speaker 5: Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there
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  Speaker 5: was a quote imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
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  Speaker 6: Yes or no, Senator, the only person who can determine
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  Speaker 6: in what is and is not an iminent threat is
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  Speaker 6: the president.
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  Speaker 2: False.
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  Speaker 5: This is this is the Worldwide Threats Hearing where you
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  Speaker 5: present to Congress national intelligence, timely, objective and independent of
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  Speaker 5: political considerations. You've stated today that the intelligence community's assessment
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  Speaker 5: is that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated and that
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  Speaker 5: quote there had been no efforts since then to try
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  Speaker 5: to rebuild their enrichment capability. Was it the intelligence community's
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  Speaker 5: assessment that, nevertheless, despite this obliteration, there was a quote
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  Speaker 5: imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime.
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  Speaker 6: Yes or no, it is not the intelligence community's responsibility
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  Speaker 6: to determine what is and is not an imminent threat.
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  Speaker 5: Here's the problem is, it is precisely, it is precisely
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  Speaker 5: your responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear there Democrats honing in and now they've
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  Speaker 1: launched onto the resignation of the top counter terrorism official
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  Speaker 1: who is grandstanding claiming the same exact thing, that Iran
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  Speaker 1: didn't pose an imminent danger. Now, to be clear, that
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  Speaker 1: completely contradicts what that individual had said in the weeks
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  Speaker 1: and months and years in the past. We also have
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  Speaker 1: now found out that that same individual is apparently under
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  Speaker 1: FBI investigation that was opened long before his resignation for
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  Speaker 1: leaking classified information.
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  Speaker 3: I want to go.
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  Speaker 7: Sources are saying that Joe Kent, the former director of
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  Speaker 7: the United States National counter Terror Center. This is from Semaphore.
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  Speaker 7: He just resigned, he's now under FBI investigation for allegedly
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  Speaker 7: leaking classified information, and the investigation predates his departure. Congressman,
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  Speaker 7: your reaction to that tonight, Wow.
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  Speaker 8: Well, there's a lot there, and I think that we
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  Speaker 8: need to let this investigation play out. But we shouldn't
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  Speaker 8: tolerate any leakers in the administration, particularly regarding classified national
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  Speaker 8: security interests and information. So we'll let this play out
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  Speaker 8: and see.
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  Speaker 3: Where it goes.
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  Speaker 8: But if he was leaking, he ought to be held accountable,
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  Speaker 8: just like anybody else would be.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to the former National counter Terrorism Center director
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  Speaker 1: Joe Kent again under FBI investigation for allegedly leaking classified information,
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  Speaker 1: and the investigation predates his depart Now the White House,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, they're in on this as well, making
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  Speaker 1: it clear where they stand. They were acting, as they
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  Speaker 1: described it, on intelligence, on decades of Iranian aggression, and
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  Speaker 1: on a very simple reality. Iran has been a sustained,
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  Speaker 1: evolving threat to the United States since allies for nearly
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  Speaker 1: half a century. Top Republicans and administration officials that pushed
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  Speaker 1: back hard saying the present reviewed intelligence and made a
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  Speaker 1: deliberate decision that the threat was real and imminent and
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  Speaker 1: they're not alone. Military leadership has been crystal clear about
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  Speaker 1: the mission dismantle Iran's nuclear capabilities, neutralized missile threats, and
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  Speaker 1: stop a regime that has targeted Americans around the globe.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive officials have said this operation is about finishing a
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  Speaker 1: fight Iran has been waging for years, not starting a
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  Speaker 1: new one.
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  Speaker 3: And even more importantly, early.
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  Speaker 1: Intelligence assessments now say that Iran's capabilities have been significantly
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  Speaker 1: degraded as a result of these new strikes. That's not speculation,
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  Speaker 1: that's literally the results of the actions taken by the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration. And while Democrats are focused on second guessing
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  Speaker 1: the timing, the Trump administration is focused on outcomes, stopping
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  Speaker 1: nuclear escalation, protecting American lives, and reasserting to tyrans in
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  Speaker 1: a region where weakness has major consequences. Let's be honest
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  Speaker 1: about what's happening here. Democrats are debating process and President
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  Speaker 1: Trump is acting on prevention. They're arguing about whether the
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  Speaker 1: threat was imminent enough. The administration is saying, we're not
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  Speaker 1: waiting for Americans to die to prove it. And politically,
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  Speaker 1: this is a familiar pattern because every time decisive action
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  Speaker 1: is taken against an adversary like Iran, the same voices
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  Speaker 1: emerge questioning whether we should have acted at all. But
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  Speaker 1: the Trump doctrine is different. In fact, it's really simple.
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  Speaker 1: If you threaten Americans, if you move towards Newcleark capability,
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  Speaker 1: if you destabilize the world. You don't get the benefit
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  Speaker 1: of the doubt. You get stopped. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: this administration believes it has done so far and will
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  Speaker 1: continue to do. I want you to tell you a
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  Speaker 1: listen to what Speaker Johnson had to say on Fox
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  Speaker 1: News Channel, not only about Joe Kin's resignation, but the
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  Speaker 1: reality of the situation in DC and the presence decision
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  Speaker 1: to act.
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  Speaker 2: How is that not an imminent threat?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a great question. I'm not sure what Joe
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  Speaker 9: Kent is reading, but it's not the same intel that
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  Speaker 9: I've seen.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I'm on the Gang of Eight.
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  Speaker 9: We got all the briefings before this operation in Iran began,
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  Speaker 9: we got briefings during and then after it commenced, and
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  Speaker 9: the intelligence was exquisite. It was very clear this was
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  Speaker 9: an eminent threat to the United States and America's interest,
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  Speaker 9: and the Commander in Chief did exactly the right thing.
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  Speaker 9: He had to protect American lives. We knew that those
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  Speaker 9: ballistic missiles that they were stockpiling and preparing were going
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  Speaker 9: to be fired at our troops and our civilians and
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  Speaker 9: our installations in the region. And so the Commander chief
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  Speaker 9: did what he had to do. Joe kn't seem to
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  Speaker 9: understand that until about twenty four hours ago.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what happened there. There's lots of.
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  Speaker 9: Discussion about it on Capitol Hill, as you can imagine,
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  Speaker 9: we're trying to get down to the bottom of it.
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  Speaker 9: But he is an outlier, I'm telling you. As we
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  Speaker 9: noted earlier, Bongino and others have said, everyone else in
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  Speaker 9: the administration and everyone who sees the actual intelligence understands
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  Speaker 9: clearly that the president did what he had to do.
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  Speaker 10: All right, And Speaker Johnson, I think you would confirm
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  Speaker 10: as I know, as Dan Bongino knows. Anybody that knows
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  Speaker 10: the president knows he is the same man of his
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  Speaker 10: own mind. He will listen to everybody, he'll listen to
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  Speaker 10: all points of view, and he's going to make up
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  Speaker 10: his own mind.
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  Speaker 2: Then it's the job of.
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  Speaker 10: Those people around him to support the policies he was
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  Speaker 10: elected commander in chief, not them.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them need to learn that that's right.
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  Speaker 9: We appreciate you're exactly right, and he's restoring peace through
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  Speaker 9: strength in America is better for it, and so is
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  Speaker 9: the all of the free world.
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  Speaker 2: Well, okay, peace through strength. He learned the lesson.
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  Speaker 10: In the last century, We're over hundred million people died
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  Speaker 10: because we didn't take action when we could have sooner
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  Speaker 10: on many occasions. And he also doesn't want to get
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  Speaker 10: into a quagmire, and that has been and will be
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  Speaker 10: the Trump doctrine throughout his presidency that I can pretty.
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  Speaker 3: Much Speaker Johnson is absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Kent, Well, he's not reading the same intel that
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: many others have seen. And unfortunately he wasn't on the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: A team, he was on the B team, and he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't in the room for the decisions that were being made.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, he's a useful idiot to our enemies and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: a Tucker Carlson and Candice Owens and Megan Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: But the reality is the majority
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  Speaker 1: Of Americans are trusting Donald Trump, and when he says
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  Speaker 1: that Iran is an imminent threat, well the American people
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  Speaker 1: overwhelmingly seem to believe him.