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Hostages to Be Freed, Media Spins for Biden, but Trump's Hamas Threat Drives Results · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We have got movement, big movement as Hamas is now
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  Speaker 1: actually talking about releasing thirty three hostages in the first
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  Speaker 1: phase of a quote emerging deal. Israel officials have confirmed
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  Speaker 1: moments ago what brought this on Donald Trump, making it
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  Speaker 1: very clear he wasn't screwing around when it came to
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  Speaker 1: the hostages, warning you better get let him go before
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  Speaker 1: I am sworn in, because there will be hell to
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  Speaker 1: pay if you do not release the hostages before I
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  Speaker 1: am sworn in as president. Stuart Varney also had a
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  Speaker 1: very interesting conversation about how much this is connected to
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  Speaker 1: the mentality that Ron Reagan had about the hostages in
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  Speaker 1: Iran and the Ron hostage crisis when Jimmy Carter was
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  Speaker 1: leaving office and I want to play for you on
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  Speaker 1: the front end what Donald Trump said, and then the commentary.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, if they're not back by the time I get
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  Speaker 2: into office, all hell will break out in the Middle
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  Speaker 2: East and it will not be good for Hamas and
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  Speaker 2: it will not be good, frankly for anyone. All hell
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  Speaker 2: will break out. I don't have to say anymore, but
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  Speaker 2: that's what it is. And they should have given them
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  Speaker 2: back a long time. They should have never taken them.
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  Speaker 2: They should have never been the attack of October seventh.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll just say it again, if this deal's not
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  Speaker 2: done with the people representing our nation by the time
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  Speaker 2: I get to office, all hell is going to break out.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, they said it several times. Former US Ambassador Nato
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  Speaker 3: joins US Now Kurt Wolka, mister am Maastera. I gotta say,
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  Speaker 3: this reminds me of nineteen eighty. The hostages were released
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  Speaker 3: the moment Ronald Reagan was inaugurated. What's the chance of
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  Speaker 3: the Hamas hostages being released just as Trump is inaugurated?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think it's a very good chance that
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  Speaker 4: this will move. We can't say whether it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be exactly on an inauguration day, just before, or maybe
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  Speaker 4: sometime after, but the dynamic is the same, and that's
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  Speaker 4: what you're highlighting. You have a ram the principal actor,
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  Speaker 4: both in nineteen eighty and today, Iran realizing that the
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  Speaker 4: Trump administration is going to put on a policy of
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  Speaker 4: maximum pressure and that includes military pressure. And now you
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  Speaker 4: have a more direct warning from Trump, specifically on Hamas,
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  Speaker 4: saying that all hell will break loose. So they know
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  Speaker 4: that if they don't release the hostages. They know what's coming.
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  Speaker 4: So I do think there's a very good chance that
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  Speaker 4: this is turning up the pressure in a way they
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  Speaker 4: will get the hostages out.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you take a listen to what Trump said at
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  Speaker 1: the time, and there was a lot of people saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: he can say this, it doesn't mean it's going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: all right, So let's go to the reporting Hamas. And
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  Speaker 1: this is coming from CNN, So if you think it's
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  Speaker 1: from some conservative website, it's not. And I love when
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  Speaker 1: I can use CNN to show just how much of
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  Speaker 1: a difference Donald Trump is making already before he's even
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  Speaker 1: sworn in in the world.
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  Speaker 5: Hamas is expected to.
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  Speaker 1: Release thirty three hostages during the first phase of an
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  Speaker 1: emerging ceasefire agreement that's being finalized and negotiat right now
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  Speaker 1: in Doha. To Israeli officials have confirmed. Israel believes that
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  Speaker 1: most of the thirty three hostages are quote alive, a
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  Speaker 1: senior Israeli official total Reporters on Monday, but the bodies
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  Speaker 1: of deceased hostages will also likely be among those released
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  Speaker 1: during the initial forty two day cease fire that is
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  Speaker 1: apparently a part of the deal. Hamas and its allies
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  Speaker 1: still hold ninety two hostages taken from Israel during the
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  Speaker 1: attacks on October the seventh. Let me say that again,
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  Speaker 1: Hamas and its allies still hold ninety four hostages taken
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  Speaker 1: from twenty twenty three October seventh. We also know that
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  Speaker 1: at least thirty four of those are dead, according to
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  Speaker 1: the Israeli government. Some senior Israeli officials have also said
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  Speaker 1: that the parties appear to be on the brink of
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  Speaker 1: an agreement, and that Israel's prepared to immediately implement the
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  Speaker 1: deal once it has been inked. So this is very
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  Speaker 1: obvious to me that the words of Donald Trump meant
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  Speaker 1: something to Hamas and the words of Joe Biden Kamway
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  Speaker 1: Harris meant nothing to Hamas. Now, a diplomat close to
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  Speaker 1: the negotiations also told CNN a final round of proximity
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  Speaker 1: talks to finalize any issues we're scheduled to take place
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  Speaker 1: in Doha on Tuesday. The same day some of the
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  Speaker 1: hostage families have been invited to meet with the Israeli
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister net and Yahoo, according to the Hostages and
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  Speaker 1: Missing Families Forum. So clearly there's some coordination there with
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  Speaker 1: that now, the release, they say, of the thirty three
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  Speaker 1: hostages would be the first phase of the deal being finalized.
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  Speaker 1: Then negotiations will be reached on the second phase, they say,
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  Speaker 1: which is intended to end the war, and they said
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  Speaker 1: would begin on the sixteenth day of the implementation of
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  Speaker 1: this overall deal. Now, under the latest proposals, this is
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  Speaker 1: what we're being told. I want to be some of
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  Speaker 1: this could change, but this is what they're saying now.
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  Speaker 5: Now, under the latest.
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  Speaker 1: Proposals, Israeli forces would maintain a presence along the Philadelphi Corridor.
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  Speaker 1: Now that is a narrow strip of land along the
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  Speaker 1: Egypt Gaza border. Now during the first phase of this agreement,
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  Speaker 1: the officials say, this will be basically extremely important in
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  Speaker 1: part one. The presence, they also say, of Israeli troops
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  Speaker 1: along that corridor, previously contributed to the sinking of a
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  Speaker 1: potential deal in September during the last rounds of negotiations.
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  Speaker 1: So all of this is moving, all of this can
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  Speaker 1: change now, what they say is Israel would also maintain
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  Speaker 1: a buffer zone inside of Gaza along the border with Israel,
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  Speaker 1: the officials confirmed, without specifically saying how why that zone
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  Speaker 1: would be. Another subject of contention during the negotiations was that.
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  Speaker 1: And so this again comes back down to what changed
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  Speaker 1: and what change, which is Donald Trump's threat and coming
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  Speaker 1: back into office now. Hama's officials have also told CNN,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm sure they have each other's cell phone numbers,
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  Speaker 1: earlier this week that the group wanted the buffer zone
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  Speaker 1: to return to what they described as the pre October
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  Speaker 1: seventh size, which is three to five hundred meters or
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty to five hundred and forty five
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  Speaker 1: yards if my math is right to put it in
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  Speaker 1: terms that we understand from the borderline with Israel, and
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  Speaker 1: Israel was requesting at the time two thousand meters. That
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  Speaker 1: is significantly a different area there. Now, while all this
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  Speaker 1: is happening, Jake Sullivan and the White House, what they
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  Speaker 1: seem to be doing now is they seem to be
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  Speaker 1: signaling now they're very close to getting a deal done.
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  Speaker 1: And you have to understand that there's actually nothing more
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  Speaker 1: that Biden would like than to say before he leaves
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  Speaker 1: office that he ended the war in Israel between Hamas
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  Speaker 1: has Blah the terrorists Iran in Israel. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: take credit for this. So they are going all out
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  Speaker 1: to try to get this done so they can say
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  Speaker 1: we did a ceasefire.
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  Speaker 5: I worked hard, I worked teriroristly, and I got all
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  Speaker 5: this done.
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  Speaker 1: Jake Sullivan, by the way, who has been a disaster
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  Speaker 1: at the White House as a National Security advisor for
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  Speaker 1: everything that we've seen in this administration from Afghanistan to
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  Speaker 1: right now, it's been a massive disaster. And so what
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  Speaker 1: he's wanting is something to also save I think, his legacy.
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  Speaker 1: He went on CNN Safe Place for Him on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: with Jake Tapper to talk about the quote evaluating they
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  Speaker 1: said at the outskirts Biden's foreign.
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  Speaker 5: Policy legacy as he leaves office.
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  Speaker 1: That was their send off for this on CNN because
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  Speaker 1: they want you to believe that Joe Biden's just amazing,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what. We all know that's a lie based
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  Speaker 1: on facts. But listen to what they said about what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in Israel.
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  Speaker 6: By proclaiming America is back and allies across the globe
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  Speaker 6: could sleep easier. It turns out the world had other plans,
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  Speaker 6: from Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the October Seventhlamas attacks
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  Speaker 6: and Israel's response and much much more, joining US to
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  Speaker 6: reflect on the past four years. Biden National Security Advisor
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  Speaker 6: Jake Sullivan, Jake, thanks for being here. We appreciate it
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  Speaker 6: as we come to the waning days of the Biden administration,
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  Speaker 6: where across the globe, could you point and say the
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  Speaker 6: United States is safer because of what we did here?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'd start by saying, our alliances are stronger than
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  Speaker 7: we found them four years ago. They're stronger than they've
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  Speaker 7: been in decades. NATO is more powerful, purposeful, and bigger.
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  Speaker 7: Our alliances in the Asia Pacific are at all time highs,
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  Speaker 7: and our adversaries and competitors are weaker across the board.
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  Speaker 7: Russia's weaker, Iran's weaker, China's weaker, and all the while
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  Speaker 7: we kept America out of war. So I think the
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  Speaker 7: American people are safer and the country is better off
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  Speaker 7: than we were four years ago, and we're handing all
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  Speaker 7: that off to the next team, as well as having
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  Speaker 7: the engines of American power humming our economy or technology, fence,
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  Speaker 7: industrial base, our supply chains. So the United States is
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  Speaker 7: in a stronger, more secure position, and our competitors and
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  Speaker 7: adversaries are weaker and under pressure. I think that's the
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  Speaker 7: main handoff that we will make to the incoming team.
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  Speaker 5: I love how they call it a handoff. There.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I played that for you so you understand just
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  Speaker 1: how much propaganda is coming out from CNN. The fact
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  Speaker 1: that Jake Tapper didn't interrupt him while he was putting
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  Speaker 1: out all those lies that the economy is better than
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  Speaker 1: it was before it that's a lie. That we're handing
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  Speaker 1: them off a world with less going on than when
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  Speaker 1: we got there. That's also a lie. Acting like things
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  Speaker 1: are great in the Middle East also a lie. Like
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  Speaker 1: the absurdity of the state sponsored media that you just
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  Speaker 1: heard CNN there is disgusting. But this is what you
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  Speaker 1: can expect because again they're trying to set them up
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  Speaker 1: to say, oh, and by the way, you guys got
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  Speaker 1: a hostage steal done. You guys got peace in the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East. You guys were able to get these people
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  Speaker 1: to come to the table. This is so difficult and
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  Speaker 1: so hard. Great job, Joe Biden and Sullivan and all
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  Speaker 1: your team on the way out the door.
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  Speaker 5: That's what they're rooting for here.
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  Speaker 1: You understand the propaganda here, and you understand that Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden's legacy isn't just about him it's about everybody that
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  Speaker 1: worked for him.
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  Speaker 5: Jake Sullivan's one of them.
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  Speaker 1: And they understand that their legacy right now is that
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  Speaker 1: they're leaving as a disaster. They want something to say,
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  Speaker 1: look at what we did.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: They can lie to you and put out the propaganda,
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  Speaker 1: but I think they also know the American people aren't
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  Speaker 1: buying it. And they did, they would have elected Kamala
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  Speaker 1: Harris or Joe Biden, and the American people said no
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  Speaker 1: to that. So Jake Sullivan is asked a question by
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  Speaker 1: Jake Tapper right safe Place, CNN. You understand what I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying here, and this question is straight up like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I want to help you. I want to get you
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  Speaker 1: across the finish line here. I want you to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to look good to the audience. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: feel good about coming on our show. And we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do this and you're going to love it. It's
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: going to be great, right all right? So here I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to ask you a question, right how close are
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  Speaker 1: we to getting a deal done? And let's break that
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  Speaker 1: news and act like this as your doing on the hostages.
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  Speaker 6: Kay, go listen, Let's talk to us about some unfinished
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  Speaker 6: business between Israel Lamas. How close is anyone to a
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  Speaker 6: hostage deal?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I can answer that question in two ways. We
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  Speaker 7: are very very close, and yet being very close still
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  Speaker 7: means we're far, because until you actually get across the
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  Speaker 7: finish line, we're not there. We have right now President
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  Speaker 7: Biden's top Middle East advisor, Brett McGirk in Doha. He
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  Speaker 7: has been there for a full week hammering out with
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  Speaker 7: the mediators the final details of a text to be
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  Speaker 7: presented to both sides, and we are still determined to
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  Speaker 7: use every day we have an office to.
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  Speaker 5: Get this done.
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  Speaker 7: Can we get it done before the twentieth It is possible,
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  Speaker 7: but I certainly can't make any predictions that we will.
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  Speaker 7: I will say President Biden is getting daily updates on this.
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  Speaker 7: He is likely in the near term to engage with
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  Speaker 7: Prime Minister net Yahoo, and we are not, by any
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  Speaker 7: stretch of the imagination setting this aside. There is a
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  Speaker 7: possibility this comes together. There's also a possibility, as has
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  Speaker 7: happened so many times before, that Hamas in particular remains
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  Speaker 7: in transition.
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  Speaker 6: October seventh was obviously a huge intelligence failure, mainly the
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  Speaker 6: Israeli's intelligence, but also our own. Here are you in
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  Speaker 6: September twenty twenty three before the Hamas attacks.
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  Speaker 7: And the Middle East region is quieter today than it
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  Speaker 7: has been in two decades.
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  Speaker 6: Eight days later, Hamas attacked, Israel has bawlued again, ramping
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  Speaker 6: up its frocketfire into Israel. The Houthi's joined in firing
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  Speaker 6: missiles from them. And what did the Biden administration, the Israelis,
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  Speaker 6: the West miss about Iran's readiness to go at Israel
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  Speaker 6: on all these fronts, Hamasa's Bola, the other militias and
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  Speaker 6: the Houthies.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, listen to this BS answer.
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  Speaker 1: I want to play that for you because this is
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  Speaker 1: Jake Tapper trying to say, well, I'm a real journalist, right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you a tough question about that
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  Speaker 1: failure and intelligence. Why did it take you a year
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  Speaker 1: and a half to ask that question? I got to
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  Speaker 1: answer that this is propaganda. Jake Tapper would never have
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  Speaker 1: asked the question he just asked about the intelligence failure
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  Speaker 1: before election day because that would have hurt Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: and then it would have hurt Kamala Harris. And so
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  Speaker 1: he cares more about protecting liberals and their power in
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  Speaker 1: office and his access to that power than he does
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  Speaker 1: about actually being a journalist, because he's not a journalist.
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  Speaker 1: He's a mouthpiece for state sponsored media. They call him,
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  Speaker 1: they tell him what they want him to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: what they want him to say, and he just says, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: you want me to jump master. And his master's the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party and whoever's in office in the Democratic leadership.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why I asked it now is because he
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  Speaker 1: understands now that he doesn't know who his new boss
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  Speaker 1: is yet. It's not I Keem Jeffries, it's not Barack Obama,
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  Speaker 1: it's not Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Biden, it's not Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's trying to now only because the election
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  Speaker 1: has already been decided, only because it's over, Only because
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden is unpopular and Kamala Harris is unpopular and
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  Speaker 1: they're leaving office in a very unpopular way. Is he
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  Speaker 1: willing to ask the question that he just asked now?
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't willing to ask these questions or beat down
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  Speaker 1: doors in Washington when the atrocies happened. He's waiting until
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  Speaker 1: it was a safe place for him and his access
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  Speaker 1: to power to then ask the question, what over a
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  Speaker 1: year later. That's not journalism, folks, that is a spineless,
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  Speaker 1: fake journalist. And listen to Jake Sullivan's response to that question.
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  Speaker 7: Well, first, Jake, you cut that clip pretty well because
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  Speaker 7: the sentences before it, I said, this could change in
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  Speaker 7: an instant, this could change tomorrow, because it's always true
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  Speaker 7: in the Middle East. What I was noting was that
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  Speaker 7: at that moment in September, you didn't have the kinds
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  Speaker 7: of hot wars and other upheavals that you'd seen in
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  Speaker 7: the previous two decades. But I noted that there were
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  Speaker 7: two things in particular we had to be concerned about.
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  Speaker 7: One was Iran and the other was the Israeli Palestinian conflict.
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  Speaker 7: So we were focused on trying to bring solutions to
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  Speaker 7: the Israeli Palestinian conflict, and part of the solution we
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  Speaker 7: were looking for was moving down the track of normalization
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  Speaker 7: between Israel and Saudi Arabia as a way to get
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  Speaker 7: Israel to move on the Palestinian file towards a two
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  Speaker 7: state solution. Obviously, that was disrupted in a very severe
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  Speaker 7: way by what happened on October seventh, but we moved
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  Speaker 7: immediately to support Israel, to stand up for our friends
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  Speaker 7: and partners in the region. And if you look today
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  Speaker 7: at where we are, Iran is at its weakest point
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  Speaker 7: since nineteen seventy nine, and you also see the fall
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  Speaker 7: of a side showing just how weak and distracted Russia
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  Speaker 7: is as well. So there is a huge, huge opportunity
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  Speaker 7: now alongside the very real risks that remain, for the
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  Speaker 7: new administration to work towards a brighter future for the
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  Speaker 7: Middle East.
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  Speaker 5: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: The propaganda here is just it's so thirsty for attention.
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  Speaker 1: Right where we are very very close on a hostage deal.
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  Speaker 1: You're not, Donald Trump is you guys couldn't get it done,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't give a crap what you said since
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  Speaker 1: October the seventh of twenty twenty three. It's January of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. The idea that you're close to getting
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  Speaker 1: a deal done, you're not. The reason why a deal
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  Speaker 1: is going to get done is because what Donald Trump said,
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  Speaker 1: And what did Donald Trump say after after having a
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  Speaker 1: one day conversation in mar Lago with congressional leaders, He said,
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  Speaker 1: we want.
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  Speaker 2: To get back those hostages for us. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: do have people that are hostage is being held.
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  Speaker 5: And I'll just say it again, if this deal.
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  Speaker 2: Is not done with the people representing our nation by
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  Speaker 2: the time I get to office, all hell is going
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  Speaker 2: to break out.
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  Speaker 1: He said it, not once, he said it, not twice,
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  Speaker 1: He said it three different times. And the reason why
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  Speaker 1: he said all hell is going to break out in
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  Speaker 1: it if Gaza hostages are not freed, is because he
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  Speaker 1: means it. And guess what they know he means it.
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  Speaker 1: They understand that he's not bluffing. They understand that Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump will walk into office and go, okay, let's go
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  Speaker 1: down to the situation room and you guys tell me
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  Speaker 1: what we got to do to get our hostages back,
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  Speaker 1: What are options here? And how do we unleash Holy
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  Speaker 1: Hell on these terrorist organizations? They know he's not bluffing. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the part that everyone should be talking about out and
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  Speaker 1: the part that everyone should be like, the question the
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  Speaker 1: media should be asking is how have you guys been
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  Speaker 1: so week since October the seventh of twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: that you guys couldn't get them to respond to you,
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  Speaker 1: yet they're willing to move before Donald Trump even gets
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  Speaker 1: into office. That's a question a real journalist would ask.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: That is a question that Jake Tapper if he was
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  Speaker 1: good at his job and not a propaganda guy would
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  Speaker 1: also have made sure, yeah, I'm going to ask this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask it because it's an important question
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  Speaker 1: to ask. But he didn't ask it because he knew
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  Speaker 1: that that was not a question that would help out
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  Speaker 1: his team, the Democratic Party. A lot of people don't
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  Speaker 1: know he worked for Democrats before he got the jobbies
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  Speaker 1: in Now a lot of people forget that about Jake
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  Speaker 1: Tapper's resume. Go look at his resume, look at who
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: he is, and you understand why he got hired by CNN. Now,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: by the way, there's also another aspect of this story,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: and it deals with our national security. There are still
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  Speaker 1: people as we speak right now coming across our southern
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  Speaker 1: border that are potential terrorists and those that are showing
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  Speaker 1: up on the Territs watch list. How do we know
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  Speaker 1: this because we have new news on four Iranian and
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  Speaker 1: two Egyptian nationals that were caught illegally crossing our southern
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  Speaker 1: border over the weekend. Now, before I get you to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that story, I want to go back to twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: one when this was a big moment of a red
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  Speaker 1: flag for this administration to shut down the southern border
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  Speaker 1: because agents were apprehending potential terrorists coming across the southern border.
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  Speaker 1: ABC five out of Arizona. This was their story at
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the time. This is again back in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you, Cody, you must Sector Border Patrol agents have
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  Speaker 8: arrested a potential terrorist. According to UMUS Sector Border Patrol agents,
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  Speaker 8: the suspect was twenty one years old. They made the
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: arrest on Thursday and say he was arrested after entering
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  Speaker 8: the US illegally. They believe he is a migrant from
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: Saudi Arabia, linked to several Yemeni subjects of interest and
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  Speaker 8: a possible terrorist when he has not been identified. He
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  Speaker 8: was wearing a Central County Volunteer jacket, which is an
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  Speaker 8: ambulance county out of New York. News four to Tucson
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  Speaker 8: reached out to that company, who says the suspect is
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: not connected to their organization.
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  Speaker 9: I'm unsure of how he obtained it. We have policies
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: in place when a playe leaves and planet that we
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: retrieve all the property. But that particular jacket was used
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: for about ten years, which was well before my time.
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: So in of course a ten years wanted to have
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: probably slip through the cracks.
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  Speaker 8: We reached out to CBP and are still awaiting their response.
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  Speaker 5: Now I love that.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty two I'm like, oh, you know, some terrorists
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  Speaker 1: may you know I actually fall through the cracks there.
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  Speaker 1: But it's nothing big, nothing you should actually worry about.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's totally fine. Then there was the other warning that
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: came out, and it was a big warning. This happening again.
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  Speaker 1: And this was the US Border Patrol Chief telling the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration back in twenty sixteen that you are inheriting
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  Speaker 1: a disaster from Barack Obama and the number of AsSalt
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: on Border Patrol agents had gone up two hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: last year, the final year of Obama in office. Again
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  Speaker 1: another warning.
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  Speaker 10: Listen, Good morning, Chairman Johnson, Rankimen Macarper, and distinguished members
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  Speaker 10: of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to allow
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  Speaker 10: us to talk today about the United States Border Patrol.
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  Speaker 10: During my first four months of chief, I've had the
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  Speaker 10: privilege to travel to eleven sectors to meet with thousands
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: of the United States Borda Patrol agents, staff and leadership
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  Speaker 10: from the Northern, Southern, and coastal borders, as well as
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: the United States portol Academy headquarters here in DC, the
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: Canine Training Facility, and our Special Operations Group in La Paso,
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  Speaker 10: and all these interactions across the country, one thing was
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  Speaker 10: consistent and abundantly clear. The men and women of the
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  Speaker 10: United States Bord Patrol have one of the toughest jobs
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  Speaker 10: in federal law enforcement. They are the most assaulted federal
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  Speaker 10: law enforcement in the United States. More than seven four
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  Speaker 10: hundred Border Toll agents have been assaulted since two thousand
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  Speaker 10: and six. That rose in FY sixteen by twenties percent,
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  Speaker 10: and year to date we're seeing the increase of assaults
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  Speaker 10: of two hundred percent from the previous year to date.
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  Speaker 10: It's a dangerous job, and since my short time here,
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: two Border Toal agents have already been killed in the
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  Speaker 10: line of duty, Agent Manny Avarez and David Gomes. They
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: are faced with unforgiving terrain and weather, limited resources, long hours,
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: adverse conditions, and they're often called upon to go above
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: and beyond what they've been trained to do. They are
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: tenacious in the pursuit of getting better. They're innovative, and
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: they have a can do attitude. They are dedicated to
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: the mission this country themselves and doing something greater than themselves.
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: I'm honored to be serving with them. These these are
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  Speaker 10: my first and most important observations of my first four
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: months here.
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  Speaker 1: That is what they walked into. Trump did everything could
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: to fix that problem. So let's fast forward to the
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: headlines from today. Not only have we demonized border patrol
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: agents over the last four years, we've accused them, for example,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: like acting like slave owners. Remember when they were on
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the horse and they were whipping illegal immigrants. Even though
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: it was the angle the picture was taken, it never happened.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Remember that.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Remember how the White House came out immediately condemning the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: actions of the border patrol agents. Right, the left came
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: out and they were condemning the actions of the border
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: patrol agents.
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  Speaker 5: Remember all that.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then there was more warnings, Hey, there's terrorists
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: coming across the border. Nah, we don't care about that.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Is it so happening? Absolutely? Four Iranian and two Egyptian
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: nationals have been now caught illegally crossing the southern US border.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: US Border Patrol agents announced the arrest of six unique
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: migrants caught crossing the US southern border on Monday, January
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the sixth. United States por Patrol Chief Jason Owens announced
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  Speaker 1: the apprehensions of these of the four Iranian and two
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Egyptian nationals attempting to illegally enter the US near El Paso.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing to see here, right, This is totally fine, No
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: news here. Everything's good, right, significant arrests is how they
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: described as they announced that last week the United States
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: por Patrol agents in Olpaso apprehended four Ranian and two
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Egyptian nationals, all special interest migrants attempting to avoid detection.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Record checks revealed prior attempted legal entries. They remain in
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: custom and will be processed accordingly upon the apprehensions of
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: these quote special interest migrants, meaning we believe there's a
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: good chance that they could be connected to terrorism or
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: terrorist groups. Records check to revealed prior attempted legal entries
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: into the United States of America. The circumstances of their
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: prior entries into the United States, as well as personal
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: or potential criminal histories are unclear quote unquote. At this time,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: we're we're working to learn more about the situation.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: They announce.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this is what has happened while Donald Trump has
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: not been in office. The Left is decided to open
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the border, allow everyone to come in and whoever they
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: want to let in, we let them stay. We look
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the other way, and that's what they do. It is sad,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: it is sick. It is also putting American lives at risk.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: We continue to see right now this administration have a
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: wide open border policy, and the policy is going to
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: stay into effect until January the twentieth. Now it's going
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: to change drastically. But when you look at these types
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: of individuals coming across the southern border, if they're not
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: in here now, I'm sure the terror slite get there
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: fast in the first few days or weeks the Trump
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: administration while they're trying to get a secure border back
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: up and running. It's going to take time. And this
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: is the vulnerability that has happened and been caused by
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: the Biden and Harris administration refusing to keep us safe.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: You go back to action. Speak louder than words sometimes, yes,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: that is true. But what Donald Trump's actions from four
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: years ago proved is that his words now when he speaks,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: others respond and react accordingly because they know he's not
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: screwing around. And so when Donald Trump comes out there
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and tells you you better release the hostages, Hamas and
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the terrorist groups around the world. They understand he's not
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: lying like they get it.
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  Speaker 5: Folks.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: They completely understand this threat from Donald Trump, and they
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: understand that they're probably going to die if they don't
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: do what Donald Trump says, which is you better release
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the hostages before I'm sworn in, because if I am
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the president, there will be hell to pay. One other
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: thing that is interesting, that's breaking news right now. Tom
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Homan set down and was asked a question about birthright
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: citizenship as he is coming in to deal with the
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: illegal immigration issue.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: And this is what he said, Should birthright citizenship come
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: to an end?
• 27:19
  Speaker 11: I'll leave that up to the president make that decisions.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: But what's your opinion you think of ship.
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: I'll say this, birthright citizenship is a major driver of
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: illegal and garson and that's what the whole controversy is
• 27:33
  Speaker 11: about right now. Right if you're coming to the country legally,
• 27:36
  Speaker 11: which is a crime, you get ordered, you lose your hearing,
• 27:39
  Speaker 11: that federal judge says you must go home or you
• 27:41
  Speaker 11: don't show up in court, and you get what they
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: called order and absent you you order to remove and
• 27:45
  Speaker 11: have a US citizen child. People think this should be
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: mute it'll all means nothing to you now, because you
• 27:51
  Speaker 11: knew you're in the country legally, you chose to have
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: an illegal aling. I mean, you chose to have a
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: US citizen child knowing you're in the country legally, knowing
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: your ordered and you wouldn't made that decision. That's on you.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: That's on you.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Notice how everything is changing before he's even sworn in,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and they're going to keep lying to you and they're
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: going to try to undermine Donald Trump. But the fact
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: is Donald Trump is feared by the terrorists as much
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: as he's feared apparently now by the Democratic Party in
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the media, and it is going to be really fun
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to watch. We're going to cover it all every day
• 28:26
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