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Poll Shock: 79% of Americans Back Trump’s Iran Stance as Democrats Silent on the Issue · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's hardline stance on Iran's nuclear program and what
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: that means moving forward is becoming much more clear. Donald
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Trump number one demanding Iran's unconditional surrender. Trump escalating his
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: rhetoric in light of the recent Israel Iran strikes, calling
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: for Ran to surrender and warning civilians to evacuate Tehran.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: We also know that it's clear what the President wants
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: to do. It is targeting Iran's nuclear sites. Let's be clear,
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: this is not about a war or an invasion or
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: boots on the ground. Trump is not ruling out strikes
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: and Iran's nuclear facilities, but he's also made it clear
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: he's not wanting to invade anything at all. He has
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: even made it clear to the Supreme Leader, calling him
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: quote an easy target, though saying killing him is not
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: on the table for now. Why did he say that,
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  Speaker 1: warning the Supreme Leader that you that are not harm
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: a single American troop in the Middle East. Now it's
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: very clear that Iran could in fact go after American soldiers,
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: and the President wanted to get ahead of that, saying,
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: if you want to die, because I know where you are,
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: I can take you out at any moment. So you
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  Speaker 1: better not retaliate and go after any American bases or
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  Speaker 1: servicemen and women. Targeting Iran's nuclear sights is what this
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: is really all about. And now we know that the
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: President is mobilizing military assets as well. The US has
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: now positioned bombers, refueling tankers, and aircraft carriers the Carl
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: Vincent and the Nimts to the region as a show
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  Speaker 1: of force. We also know the Vice President is playing
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: a major role in the diplomacy. Jeddy Vance is also
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: playing the role of reassuring skeptics. Vance countering those within
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  Speaker 1: the base who are saying that Donald Trump should just
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: be an isolationist and should not get involved in at all,
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  Speaker 1: making it clear that Trump has an obligation to defend
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  Speaker 1: America and make sure that Iran doesn't get a nuclear
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  Speaker 1: weapon to attack American citizens as well as our ally
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  Speaker 1: Israel now stressing restraint is also part of what the
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: White House is talking about. They are signaling, yes, potential
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  Speaker 1: military action, but it would be extremely limited to the
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  Speaker 1: nuclear sites. Both Vans and other administration officials are stressing
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: that the immediate full scale action of even going after
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: these new nuclear sites has not been confirmed and You've
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: got to put this in a broader context. There is
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  Speaker 1: clear support for the president at home for him to
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: go after Iran's nuclear sites, but there's also clear polling
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  Speaker 1: to show that Americans do not want boots on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: They do not want to invade Iran either, and that
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  Speaker 1: is what Donald Trump has been very clear about.
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  Speaker 2: He has no intention of doing that. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The other question says when will the decision be made?
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  Speaker 1: The State Department spokesman saying this about the president earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Exce up to the president.
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  Speaker 3: He is the singular guiding hand about what will be
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  Speaker 3: occurring from this point forward, as he has been, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that that dynamic is pretty clear. He says
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  Speaker 3: he wants an end, as he has said about every
• 3:21
  Speaker 3: conflict that he has as a peacemaker, worked to stop
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: peacefully through diplomacy. That has been his commitment. And he
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  Speaker 3: wants these things, as he said about in a number
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  Speaker 3: of situations, not for a month or six months, but
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  Speaker 3: durable ends to this nature of forever wars. And that
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  Speaker 3: has been his posture, and that's his posture now.
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  Speaker 1: It's very clear the President does not want this to
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  Speaker 1: continue on. That's why he gave that sixty day window
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  Speaker 1: to get a deal done with Iran, and once sixty
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  Speaker 1: days was up, the President then said, okay, and now
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: we're going to have to let Israel do what Israel
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  Speaker 1: needs to to protect and defend itself. Now, President Trump
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  Speaker 1: also has major allies in Congress who are coming out
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  Speaker 1: clearly stating that they believe the President has the right
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  Speaker 1: and an obligation to protect America and take out a
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  Speaker 1: Rand's nuclear program. Senator Cruz, talking with Sean Hannity earlier,
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  Speaker 1: said this.
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  Speaker 2: Here with reaction.
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  Speaker 4: Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Senator, it is amazing. I watched
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  Speaker 4: the president. You should have listened. I gave you time.
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  Speaker 4: I watched the President warn the people of Tehran, and
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  Speaker 4: we'll show.
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  Speaker 2: More video of it to get out.
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  Speaker 4: And there's like millions of people listening.
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  Speaker 2: To Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: They're not getting that message from the leadership of Iran.
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  Speaker 4: They're getting it from the President of the United States,
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  Speaker 4: showing that he cares about human life.
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  Speaker 5: Well, listen, President Trump, throughout this conflict has been fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: I spoke to the President on Sunday and just told him,
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  Speaker 5: I said, your leadership has been so critical on this,
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  Speaker 5: and he made clear Iran is not getting a nuclear
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  Speaker 5: way weapon, and he is standing with Israel. I believe
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  Speaker 5: our position should be we stand unequivocally with the state
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  Speaker 5: of Israel. And I'll make a point, Israel is doing
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  Speaker 5: an enormous favor to the United States right now. I
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  Speaker 5: believe the most acute near term security threat facing America
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  Speaker 5: is the threat of a nuclear Iran because the Iatola
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  Speaker 5: is a religious nutcase. He is a theocratic mass murderer,
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  Speaker 5: and when he chants death to America and death to Israel,
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  Speaker 5: he does so in front of mobs of people. He
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  Speaker 5: also refers to Israel as the Little Satan and America
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  Speaker 5: as the Great Satan. There is a reason the Iatola
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  Speaker 5: is developing ICBMs. ICBMs are intercontinental ballistic missiles. You don't
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  Speaker 5: need an ICBM to bomb Israel. They're bombing Israel with
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  Speaker 5: ballistic missiles. You need an ICBM to get to America.
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  Speaker 5: If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, I think the odds
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  Speaker 5: are unacceptably high that we would find out with a
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  Speaker 5: mushroom cloud over New York City or Los angele Jelyus
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  Speaker 5: or Tel Aviv in Israel. And what Israel has said
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  Speaker 5: is we are going to act Israel is a tiny country.
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  Speaker 5: It's the size of the state of New Jersey, and
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  Speaker 5: they are taking out Iran's military with surgical precision. They're
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  Speaker 5: taking out virtually all of the senior leaders of the military,
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  Speaker 5: They're taking out their nuclear scientists, they are leveling nuclear
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  Speaker 5: facilities on the ground. And I think President Trump is
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  Speaker 5: exactly right to say we stand with Israel, and I'm
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  Speaker 5: with a seventy five percent of Americans that agree with
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  Speaker 5: the President's strong stance to keep America safe. That's the
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  Speaker 5: commander in chief's number one job, to protect American lives
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  Speaker 5: and keep America safe.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Donald Trump is doing today.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, this brings me to another big story,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the story that they're trying to play up
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  Speaker 1: on TV, the story that there's some massive divide between
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  Speaker 1: the MAGA movement. There isn't actually that big of a
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  Speaker 1: divide at all. The majority of people that I know
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  Speaker 1: are supporting President Donald Trump and his actions, and they're
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  Speaker 1: glad that we have a president that is standing up
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  Speaker 1: in willing to protect and defend all of us. The Dims,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, have also gone completely silent on this
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  Speaker 1: Israel Iran conflict. It's a question that many of us,
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  Speaker 1: and the media especially should be asking what do you
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  Speaker 1: think and why are you being so quiet?
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  Speaker 2: Jesse Waters bringing that up on Fox.
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  Speaker 6: Trump's consumed in one of the most consequential moments of
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  Speaker 6: his presidency. Nukes, oil casualties, mid East strategy, the six
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  Speaker 6: are high, and the Republican Party is having an open debate.
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  Speaker 6: But the Democrat parties know where to be found. They've
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  Speaker 6: gone silent during an historical moment. Where are the leading
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  Speaker 6: foreign policy voices of the Democrat Party? The strategist, the hawks,
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  Speaker 6: the doves, anybody? Does anybody have an opinion? Democrats don't
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  Speaker 6: know what to say because they have to be told
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  Speaker 6: what to say, and no one's telling them. We haven't
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  Speaker 6: heard a word from Hillary, Obama, Biden, Kammelin, not even
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  Speaker 6: Susan Rice or Blink and carry. Where are all these
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  Speaker 6: people while Trump tries to manage wars overseas, are trying
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  Speaker 6: to kick off a civil.
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  Speaker 2: War here at home.
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  Speaker 1: Jesse's absolutely right, where are the people on the left,
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  Speaker 1: Which brings me to my final point. There's a very
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  Speaker 1: good chance and by the time you even hear the show,
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  Speaker 1: we may find out that Donald Trump has ordered our
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  Speaker 1: US military to attack the nuclear sites in Iran and
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  Speaker 1: why did he do it?
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  Speaker 2: To protect all of us?
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  Speaker 1: And that is something that every American should be proud of. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: there are going to be many detractors who are going
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  Speaker 1: to say that Donald Trump is getting us into World
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  Speaker 1: War three, when the reality is he's probably preventing it.
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  Speaker 1: We're getting new breaking news and this is moving very
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  Speaker 1: quickly with what's happening between Iran, Israel, and now the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America. With a new statement that has
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  Speaker 1: just come out from Donald Trump saying, quote, we don't.
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  Speaker 2: Want a long term war with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump making it clear that the administration is
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  Speaker 1: not looking for long term war. In a second statement,
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  Speaker 1: Trump addressing concerns among members of the Make America greatagan
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  Speaker 1: base that the United States would be pulled into a
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  Speaker 1: quote long term war while filling a question from the media,
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  Speaker 1: take a listen to his own words.
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  Speaker 2: Outside of the White House, some of the people in
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  Speaker 2: debates don't want a long term war. They're afraid that
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get into a long term Don't you
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  Speaker 2: look for a long term but we're looking to Earth.
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  Speaker 2: It's only I only want one thing. Iran cannot have
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  Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon. That's it.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not looking long term structure. And I've been saying
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  Speaker 7: that for twenty years. I've been saying that this is
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  Speaker 7: a civilian who got a lot of publicity. People would
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  Speaker 7: cover it very simply. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 7: It's not a question of anything else. And if you did,
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  Speaker 7: you wouldn't have much of a country because they would
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  Speaker 7: use it on us, and we'll use it on other people,
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  Speaker 7: and they'd.
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  Speaker 2: Be a terror all over the world.
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  Speaker 1: We're not looking for long term war. I only want
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  Speaker 1: one thing. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 2: That is it.
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  Speaker 1: Very simply, he said in another interview, Iran cannot have
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a question anything else.
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  Speaker 1: And if you did, you wouldn't have much of a
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  Speaker 1: country because they would use it on us and use
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  Speaker 1: it on other.
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  Speaker 2: People, and they'd be a tear all over the world.
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  Speaker 1: Trump notally tweeted back in twenty eleven, before he even
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  Speaker 1: into the political world that quote Iran cannot have a
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  Speaker 1: nuclear weapon, and has been firm in his stances throughout
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  Speaker 1: his political career and his presidential campaign. In twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: if you go back to the doctrine of Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: look at November fourth, twenty eleven, his exact tweet, Iran's
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  Speaker 1: quest for nuclear weapons is a major threat to our
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  Speaker 1: nation's national security interests. We cannot allow Ran to go nuclear.
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  Speaker 1: That was before he was running for any office. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: that's actually when he was a Democrat. Trump nottally gave
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  Speaker 1: Iran a sixty day deadline that expired on Thursday, June
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  Speaker 1: twelfth to make a deal to end its nuclear program,
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: and then on Friday, Israel began striking and any a
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  Speaker 1: nuclear site, military leaders, and refineries. Trump declared Tuesday, quote,
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  Speaker 1: we have complete and total control of the skies of
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  Speaker 1: Iran and revealed his team new the exact location of
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  Speaker 1: the leader of Iran. When asked Wednesday if the US
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  Speaker 1: was moving closer to striking Iranian nuclear sites, here's what
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  Speaker 1: Trump said about that.
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  Speaker 2: About whether you are moving closer?
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  Speaker 8: You believe the US is moving closer to striking Iranian
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  Speaker 8: nuclear facilities?
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  Speaker 2: Where's your mindset on that?
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  Speaker 7: You can say that, right? You don't seriously think I'm
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  Speaker 7: going to answer that way? Will you strike the Iranian
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  Speaker 7: nuclear component? And what time exactly, sir sir, would you
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  Speaker 7: strike it? Would you please inform me so we can
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  Speaker 7: be there and watch. I mean, you don't know that
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to even do it.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know. I may do it, I may not
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you this that.
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  Speaker 7: Iran's got a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate.
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  Speaker 7: And I said, what did you negotiate with me before
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  Speaker 7: or all this death and destruction?
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't you nego?
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  Speaker 7: I said the people, why didn't you negotiate with me
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  Speaker 7: two weeks ago? You could have done fine, You would
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  Speaker 7: have had a country. It's very sad to watch this.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I've never seen anything like it, So you
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  Speaker 7: neveryone thought it was going to be the reverse.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't think so.
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  Speaker 2: And they're telling him, you.
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  Speaker 7: Got to you got to do something, you got to negotiate.
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  Speaker 7: And at the end less minute, they said, no, we're
• 12:26
  Speaker 7: not going to do that, and they got hit. Remember
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  Speaker 7: sixty days, And then came the sixty sixty one is
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  Speaker 7: going to become a very famous number. That was one
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  Speaker 7: hell of a hit, that first hit, that was one hell.
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  Speaker 6: Of a hit.
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  Speaker 2: Not sustainable, to be honest. That's where it ended. It
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  Speaker 2: ended on the first night. Yes, too late, though, do
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  Speaker 2: you think it's too late to now?
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  Speaker 7: Really, nothing's too late.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing too latest, Powell. Powell's too late, too late, Powell.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump making it clear this is something that is
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: on the table, which brings us to the latest breaking
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  Speaker 1: news and what is being reported just a moment ago
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  Speaker 1: on Fox Here's Channel that Donald Trump has in fact
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  Speaker 1: approved attack plans against Iran.
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  Speaker 6: Fox Who's alert the iatola has gone into hiding. He's
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  Speaker 6: believed to be holed up inside an underground bunker northeast
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  Speaker 6: of the Capitol. This is a different kind of Iranian
• 13:15
  Speaker 6: hostage crisis. Comane can hide, but he can't run. For
• 13:20
  Speaker 6: the past twenty four hours, Israel's been attacking the area
• 13:23
  Speaker 6: around his underground layer, but Kamane, still talking tough, says
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  Speaker 6: Iran will not surrender to anyone and is warning that
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  Speaker 6: if America joins the fight and strikes, it'll result in
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  Speaker 6: irreparable damage to the United States. Is he bluffing, We
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  Speaker 6: don't know. Iranian proxies, which have been severely degraded, are
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  Speaker 6: threatening to commit acts of terror against American troops and
• 13:47
  Speaker 6: American ships in the region, and American businesses are now
• 13:51
  Speaker 6: bracing for cyber attacks. Trump says, good luck with that.
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  Speaker 2: We won't be bullied. I was the hunted and now
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  Speaker 2: I'm the hunter.
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  Speaker 7: It's a big difference.
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  Speaker 2: That means I've had it. Okay, I've had it. I
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  Speaker 2: give up no more, then we go blow up all
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  Speaker 2: than you know, all.
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  Speaker 7: The nuclear stuff that's all over the place there. Now
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  Speaker 7: they had bad intentions, you know, the for forty years
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  Speaker 7: they've been saying death to America, death to Israel, and
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  Speaker 7: death to anybody else that they didn't like. The bullies.
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  Speaker 2: They were schoolyard bullies. And now they're not bullies anymore.
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  Speaker 6: Trump's been meeting in the situation room with his National
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  Speaker 6: Security team head of Central Command, Army General Eric Carilla,
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  Speaker 6: they call him the Gorilla. Has been instrumental in the
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  Speaker 6: war planning the Pentagons, sending in their new state of
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  Speaker 6: the art supercarrier, the USS Gerald Ford, and amassing a
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  Speaker 6: tremendous amount of assets in the area. Today, Trump had
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  Speaker 6: lunch with Pakistan's army chief. Pakistan borders Iran. Seems like
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: something's about to happen, and this is just breaking. The
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  Speaker 6: Wall Street journal is reporting Trump privately a proved a
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  Speaker 6: tack plans against Iran. Now, we don't know what these
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  Speaker 6: plans entail, but we're told they include US air strikes.
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  Speaker 6: Unsure if that includes bunker Busters. Remember, the latest version
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: of the bunker Buster has never been used on the battlefield,
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: It's only been tested. Axios reports that Trump has been
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  Speaker 6: quizzing as generals. Are they sure if he uses them
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  Speaker 6: they'll be one hundred percent effective?
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  Speaker 2: The generals say yes.
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  Speaker 6: But Trump's not completely convinced. Caroline Levitt says all options
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  Speaker 6: remain on the table. Trump's been waiting on giving the
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  Speaker 6: final order, seeing if the Iranians give up and surrender
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  Speaker 6: their new program peacefully. Sources in DC say Trump's out
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  Speaker 6: of patience and Iran's up against the clock.
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  Speaker 9: I believe that unlesserre On surrenders in the next forty
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  Speaker 9: eight hours, the United States, in conjunction with Israel, will
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  Speaker 9: engage in military action.
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  Speaker 6: Trump says the Iranians want to fly all the way
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  Speaker 6: to the White House to negotiate an end to.
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  Speaker 2: This, but he says it's two late. He doesn't appear
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  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 6: Open to long drawn out negotiations where he gets strung
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  Speaker 6: along like last time.
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  Speaker 7: We're not looking for a ceasefire.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking for a total complete victory.
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  Speaker 7: Again, you know what the victory is no nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 6: Trump's made a decision. Iran's nuclear program is gone. The
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  Speaker 6: person who ultimately decides that is the Iatola. He can
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  Speaker 6: either let us do it peacefully or we'll do it violently.
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  Speaker 2: But either way, the.
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  Speaker 6: Outcome of this war is this, the Iranians will never
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  Speaker 6: be able to acquire.
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  Speaker 2: A nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the second part of this story is this, will
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  Speaker 1: the supreme leader of Iran come to the negotiating table
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  Speaker 1: and actually stop the nuclear program. They may be wanting
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  Speaker 1: to send people to the White House, but here's what
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  Speaker 1: the actual IATOA says. He has a stark warning directed
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  Speaker 1: both at the US and Israel. In fact, he declared
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: today the battle begins, dating there would be quote no
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  Speaker 1: mercy for the terrorist Zionis regime of Israel. He also
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: criticized the US President trump calls for Iran's unconincial surrender,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: asserting that Iran will never quote unquote surrender and that
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  Speaker 1: any US military action would cause irrepuable damage. Iran's you
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  Speaker 1: An ambassador echoed that any direct US involvement alongside Israel
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  Speaker 1: would trigger their own firm response. A Radian Foreign Ministry
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  Speaker 1: spokesman went further, warning the US intervention could sparkle all
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: out war across the entire region. Now, let me say
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  Speaker 1: one other thing that's very interesting about all this is
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: what's happening within the Democratic Party. Many Democrats are staying
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  Speaker 1: silent on this, but some are willing to stand up
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  Speaker 1: and stand on the issue, actually backing Donald Trump and
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  Speaker 1: saying we need to go even further. Insert Democratic Senator
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  Speaker 1: John Fetterman. Here's what he had to say on Fox
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  Speaker 1: News Channel with Bill Hemmer.
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  Speaker 6: Say, show no mercy and if you have to take
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  Speaker 6: the supreme leader out, do it?
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  Speaker 2: Explain your position now, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I think they should have targeted him, absolutely
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  Speaker 10: gone taken them out. I think the way Israel operates,
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  Speaker 10: they just take out the leadership, just like they did
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  Speaker 10: with Hesbola, and they've already done that with the Iranian leadership,
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  Speaker 10: just took them out, even laying in their beds, and
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  Speaker 10: they didn't take down the whole building. They actually targeted
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  Speaker 10: where they lay in bed. And now they eliminated the
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  Speaker 10: military ones and the nuclear ones. That's magnificent and the
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  Speaker 10: precision which they've done that, and I don't know why
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  Speaker 10: they would have left the leader.
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  Speaker 6: Out what comes after that if that reality were to
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  Speaker 6: take place.
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  Speaker 10: Senator Well, I think the reality is that you have
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  Speaker 10: a nation that just is in a position where they
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  Speaker 10: have to be held accountable for what they've done. They
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  Speaker 10: are the ones that built and created the proxies like
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  Speaker 10: Hamas and has belaw and put our whole resion in
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  Speaker 10: this kind of chaos, and now they clearly have nuclear ambitions,
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  Speaker 10: and now I think it's entirely I'm not sure if
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  Speaker 10: I might have been the only one constantly calling that
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  Speaker 10: to just take this facility out and to use the
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  Speaker 10: B two and those gigantic bunker buster ones and partner
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  Speaker 10: up with Israel what they've.
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  Speaker 1: Done, Fetterman saying, I call in Israel to eliminate the
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Leader without mercy. So that brings us to the
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  Speaker 1: latest point where we are now. Is there a very
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  Speaker 1: good chance that Donald Trump could in fact order that
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  Speaker 1: we attack a RAN's nuclear sites with those bunker busting bombs.
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  Speaker 1: The answers, Yes, would there be bipartisan support?
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  Speaker 2: Clearly?
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  Speaker 1: John Fetterman says he will join others in the Republican
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  Speaker 1: Party advocating for this, which brings me to my final point,
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  Speaker 1: what do the American people think about the president stance? Well,
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  Speaker 1: apparently in new polling, America stands overwhelmingly with Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: and Israel by staggeringly large numbers. Nearly seventy percent of
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  Speaker 1: Americans say US airstrikes to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions are appropriate.
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  Speaker 1: And the best part about it is who had to
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  Speaker 1: report it, CNN. Listen carefully and.
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  Speaker 8: Overall, I feel like there's more support for Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 8: positions than is comically acknowledged opposer Ran getting a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, look at this, seventy nine percent of adults
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  Speaker 8: agree on that they agree with Donald Trump and Ron
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  Speaker 8: cannot get a nuclear weapon, eighty three percent of Republicans,
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  Speaker 8: seventy nine percent of Independence, seventy nine percent of Democrats.
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  Speaker 8: When you get seventy nine percent of Democrats and eighty
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  Speaker 8: three percent of Republicans agreeing on anything, you know that
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  Speaker 8: that position is the very clear majority in this country.
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  Speaker 8: And so the American public is with Donald Trump. They
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  Speaker 8: definitely opposed in Ron.
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  Speaker 2: Getting nuclear weapons. So this is a nuance here.
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  Speaker 9: But you know, Trump and Natanyajoe both arguing that Ron
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  Speaker 9: is close to being capable of making a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 10: If that is the case, what is the feeling.
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  Speaker 9: Of Americans as to whether the United States should get
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  Speaker 9: involved in this conflict?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 8: If you buy Donald Trump's theory of the case, and
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  Speaker 8: I think that's important to note this is pulling from
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  Speaker 8: April for Ranch trying.
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  Speaker 2: To make a nuclear weapon. Look at this overall you.
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  Speaker 8: Get the slight plurality, I mean it's within the margin America,
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: but the slight plurality of Americans actually favor US air
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  Speaker 8: strikes compared to forty seven percent opposing it. Now here's
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: the other Nugget'll note, right, there's been a lot of
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  Speaker 8: talk online and on social media and in podcasts of
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  Speaker 8: a divide within the Republican ranks. But here on this question,
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: if Ranch trying to make a nuclear weapon, look at
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: that sixty nine percent of Republicans, the clear vast majority
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  Speaker 8: of Republicans favor US air strikes on or on their
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: nuclear facilities.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt, President Trump has a support of the American
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: people in overwhelming and staggering numbers. And for anyone out
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: there that's trying to tell you there's some massive divide
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: within Magot Country, they're just wrong. Basically, seventy percent of
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the GOP favor US air strikes. This is a major
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: on such a quote controversial issue. So there may actually
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: be just propagandas out there, just like Tucker Carlson, who
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: are trying to act like there's some big divide when
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: clearly the Republican Party is standing with Donald Trump. Major
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: news coming out of the White House, and that is
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is now saying that he may take
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: up to two weeks to side whether he is going
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: to hit the main site of Iran's nuclear program. Now
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: what does this mean, Well, multiple different things. Number One,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: it's shifting towards diplomacy. According to the Washington Post, has
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: temporarily stepped back from immediate military action, allowing up to
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: two weeks to exploit a new opportunity for diplomacy ahead
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: of the plan talks in Geneva with European foreign ministers
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  Speaker 1: and Iran's foreign minister that is happening, by the way today.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: One of the reasons why the President said, Okay, I
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: can maybe wait another twenty four to forty eight hours,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: see if you guys can talk some sense into Iran's leader. Now,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: these European led negotiations could be significant. The Financial Times
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  Speaker 1: right now reporting the European powers, including the UK, France
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  Speaker 1: and Germany, we'll meet with the Iranian officials in Geneva.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first quote formal diplomatic engagement since Israel's strike,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and Trump is giving diplomacy this window before deciding. Now,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: there are some that are criticizing Donald Trump in the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: media on the left, saying, oh, he's lying. He's you know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: he was telling the people who ran that they must
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: leave now, and now he's backing down. He's being a
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: ws No, he's being responsible president that is allowing for
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: negotiations while also having pressure on them to hurry up
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and get a deal done.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: You have to remember that Donald.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Trump gave them sixty days referring to Iran to get
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: a deal done, and they didn't. In what happened on
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: day sixty one, their site started to be attacked. Now
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: The Wall Street journal is also noting that Trump's two
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: week deadline is a strategic delay, aiming to compel Rand
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  Speaker 1: towards negotiations or collapse under mounting global pressure. Now, this
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: timeframe also shifts immediate responsibility to Israel. That is something
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: that Israel is more than happy to have because it's
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: clear that their work and hitting certain targets.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: They believe is not done yet.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: And this also reflects Donald Trump's campaign promise to avoid
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: US war commitments. Now, the White House signals are also
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  Speaker 1: very clear.
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  Speaker 2: At this hour.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: The AP is confirming the White House via the pre
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Secretary Caroline Levitt framing this two week period as driven
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  Speaker 1: by quote a substantial chance of negotiations and Geneva. Trump
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: emphasized he's always interested in a diplomatic solution while maintaining
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: military strength as a backup. Now, why is this a
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: positive development? Is the question that many of you may
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: be asking. Well, it's diplomacy. That is something Donald Trump's
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: been in favor of the entire time he's been in office.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And the pause marks they move away from immediate military escalation,
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  Speaker 1: something we were expecting honestly over the last twenty four
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  Speaker 1: to forty eight hours, and it signals Trump's openness to
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: diplomatic engagement, especially through the European mediation, where America is
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: going to be waiting by the phone but not actually
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: involved in it. We also know there's no immediate US
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: strike at least at this moment. Military options we have
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: been told have been laid out and are on the table,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: but there's no authorization for immediate action from Donald Trump.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: That is a break from prior posturing and also media reports.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: And then there's the global coordination President Trump working with
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: our allies in Europe. This move is synchronizing US policy
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  Speaker 1: with active European diplomatic efforts directly with a RAN's leadership,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: and it's reinforcing a more unified and multilateral approach. Again,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: it's clear that Donald Trump wants to avoid war. The
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: bottom line is this. Donald Trump's announcement of a two
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: week decision window reflects a major pivot. It's a pivot
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  Speaker 1: from what we thought was going to be in an
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  Speaker 1: immediate strike to diplomacy, providing breathing room for these ongoing
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: talks in Geneva. It also demonstrates a strategic recalibration by
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the Trump team from brinksmanship to negotiations and without that
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: brinksmanship and without that threat of a real attack in
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the next twelve or twenty four hours from Donald Trump,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: it is bringing a rand to the table quickly, and
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: it also lines the US with international efforts to de
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: escalate the tensions over the issue, and it allows for
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: breathing room for Israel to continue to do what they
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: need to do to protect their country. So if you
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: take step back and you look at what's happened over
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours, this is good news for
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: America and our interests. I think at the end of
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: the day, many Americans don't want to be involved in
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  Speaker 1: an attack on Iran. But there's also overwhelming support in
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: new polling for making sure that Iran never gets a
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  Speaker 1: nuclear weapon. And the only person that can stop Iran
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  Speaker 1: from getting that nuclear weapon is clearly the United States
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: of America with our bunker busting bombs. Now there's also
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: one other person that can admit, defeat, and stop all
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: of this incanny that is Iran. And that's the hope
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: in these meetings is that diplomacy will seem very real
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: to them and also a real option to get off
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  Speaker 1: this path to well chaos and destruction. Which brings me
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to story number two, and it's a very important one
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: on why Donald Trump may be allowing the two weeks
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: to play everything out. The child Crown Prince is now
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: saying the Islamic Republic is collapsing as we speak in Iran.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: The exiled Crown Prince of Iran and son of the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: last Persian shaw urged Iranians on Tuesday to prepare for
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the impeding fall of the Supreme Leader and the Islamic
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Republic as the country struggles to fight off attacks from Israel,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: saying this, the Islamic Republic has reached its end and
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: is in the process of collapsing. The Supreme Leader is
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: like a frightened rat. He has gone into hiding underground
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: and has lost control of the situation. What has begun
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: is irreversible. The future is bright and together we will
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: pass through this sharp turn in history. Now, the military
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: conflict between Iran and Israel stretched into its sixth day
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: with little signs of slowing down, as Israel is continuing
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: to hammer Tehran's nuclear pursuits. Now, the former Shaw of
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Iran sun and he knows a lot about your times up.
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  Speaker 1: They ruled Iran from nineteen twenty five to nineteen seventy nine.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: That's when it was overthrown in the Islamic Revolution. That
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: is when the around hostage crisis also happened, when they
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: took American hostages in our embassy. And he went on
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: to social media in English and Farsi and directed the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: messages to his fellow countrymen and encouraged a full out uprising,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: saying this, now is the time to rise, the time
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: to reclaim Iran. Let us all come forward and bring
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: about the end of this regime. He also advised that
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: there is a plan to establish a democratic government in
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Iran within one hundred days of the collapse of the
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Islamic Republic. He also urged military, law enforcement, security forces,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: and state employees to join the effort to topple the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: government under the leadership that is currently there in Iran,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: saying this, do not stand against the Iranian people for
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the sake of a regime whose fall has begun and
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: is inevitable. Do not sacrifice yourselves for a decaying regime.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: By standing with the people, you can save your lives,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: play an historic role in the transformation of the Islamic Republic,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: and take part in building the future of Iran. Now
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: you hear this and is it real? There's a chance
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: that all of it could come tumbling down around the
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: leadership in Iran. Yes, Why, because we know that the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: leader of Iran is in hiding. We also know that
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: millions of people in Iran fled Tehran when Donald Trump
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: said you need to leave now, another example of just
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: how fragile the current regime may be. And finally, a
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: lot of the people that were afraid of the regime
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: may realize they're not as powerful as they thought, especially
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: knowing the air superiority was toppled in a matter of
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: hours by Israel, and Israel can do basically whatever they
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: want to do from the skies right now. So yes,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of reasons to give diplomacy and other
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: things like this a few more days before the present
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: makes a decision, and that clearly is good for all
• 31:12
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• 31:16
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• 31:22
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• 31:23
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