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Biden Defends Condolences for Butcher of Tehran, the Iranian President · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: The White House and the State Department are now defending
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Speaker 1: the condolences that have been sent for the Butcher of Tehran,
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Speaker 1: the Iranian president who died in that helicopter crash. Anthony
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Speaker 1: blinkoln was asked about why on earth we would be
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Speaker 1: sending our condolences, and the White House said, it's just
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Speaker 1: a quote normal course of business to send condolences to
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Speaker 1: people's whose nickname are the Butcher of Tehran.
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Speaker 2: You know, yesterday the State Department issued a statement mourning
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Speaker 2: the death of the Iranian president. Now, I assume as
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Speaker 2: secretary you share that sentiment.
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Speaker 3: We expressed official condolences, as we've done when countries, adversaries,
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Speaker 3: enemies or not, have lost leaders. It changes nothing about
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Speaker 3: the fact that mister Raisi was engaged in reprehensible conduct,
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Speaker 3: including repressing his own people for many years as a judge,
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Speaker 3: and that as president. It changes not a whit about
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Speaker 3: our policy. But it's something that we've done many times
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Speaker 3: in the past, going back many administrations in many decades,
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Speaker 3: and we do as a normal course of business.
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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think it should be a normal course
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Speaker 2: of business. I think it's shocking that this administration, with
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Speaker 2: more in the death of the butcher of Tehran. I
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Speaker 2: don't he's responsible for death, rape, torture, the sworn.
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Speaker 3: Enemy of the free world.
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Speaker 2: So I think it's a terrible mistake, mister Secretary.
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Speaker 1: That is exactly that what you should expect from this administration.
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Speaker 1: They called a normal course of business to say, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know guy who's the butcher of Tehran. Yeah, we're
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Speaker 1: really sorry that he's dead. Sorry about that. Really bad.
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Speaker 1: And that's not all that's been said on this as well,
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Speaker 1: because Anthony Blincoln was before the Senate and got into
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Speaker 1: he says it's a normal course of business to say, hey,
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Speaker 1: condolences to butchers in the world.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 1: He then got into it back and forth with Senator
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Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, and I want you to hear one of
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Speaker 1: the aspects of this conversation, specifically, was talking about oil
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Speaker 1: and the oil and gas that is coming out of
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Speaker 1: Iran that is not being sanctioned right now and these
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Speaker 1: ghost ships that are being used. Take a listen to
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Speaker 1: Anthony Blincoln's response.
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Speaker 5: How many ghost fleet ships did Iran have in November
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Speaker 5: twenty twenty.
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Speaker 3: We have sanctioned more than two one hundred question.
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Speaker 4: I'm not how many do they have.
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Speaker 3: The total number. I can't tell you what it had
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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one. I'll come back to you with that.
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Speaker 4: But we had the number was about seventy.
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Speaker 5: How many do they have wo We blocked about fifty
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Speaker 5: of them. Okay, let's see how effective you are. How
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Speaker 5: many do they have today?
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Speaker 3: As I said, we blocked about fifty.
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Speaker 5: How many do they have today? You tell me, I'm
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Speaker 5: sure they have about over four hundreds. Look, this administration
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Speaker 5: desperately wants a new Iran deal. You have been showering
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Speaker 5: cash on Iran from day one, and understand, the six
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Speaker 5: billion dollars you were asked about is the tip of
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Speaker 5: the iceberg. By refusing to enforce oil sanctions, we have
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Speaker 5: seen Iran's oil sales go from three hundred thousand barrels
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Speaker 5: a day when you got into office to over two
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Speaker 5: million barrels a day today. That's eighty billion dollars. Ninety
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Speaker 5: percent of amasa's funding comes from Iran. In a very
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Speaker 5: real sense, this administration, you and President Biden, funded the
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Speaker 5: October seventh attacks by flowing one hundred billion dollars to
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Speaker 5: a homicidal, genocidal regime that funded those attacks.
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Speaker 3: That statement is profoundly wrong. Why I'm not even going
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Speaker 3: to humerate. I think it's a disgraceful statement. Why we
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Speaker 3: have gone at Iran repeatedly with more than six hundred
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Speaker 3: sanctions applied against different viseries.
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Speaker 5: Then why are they selling two million barrels a day
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Speaker 5: as compared to three hundred thousand.
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Speaker 3: They are working hard to do what they can to
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Speaker 3: get around the sanctions.
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Speaker 5: So, just the prior administration was was bossools you didn't have,
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Speaker 5: they were more effective to do, or maybe they just
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Speaker 5: weren't desk gone on how to deal with Iran.
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Speaker 3: And we continue every single day to go at them.
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Speaker 5: You are refusing to address the facts. I'm not then
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Speaker 5: why are they selling two million barrels a day? Because
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Speaker 5: they're determined to try to do that. We're determined to
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Speaker 5: cut them on. They weren't determined when Trump was president,
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Speaker 5: they were determined, and of course, unfortunately we also had
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Speaker 5: their nuclear program in a box, no facile material being produced. Hey,
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Speaker 5: you're not answering the question, you're filibustering and other topics.
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Speaker 3: You got the last word.
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Speaker 6: You get the last word, Philly.
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Speaker 5: You funded our enemies and you undermine our friends, and
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Speaker 5: the world is much much more dangerous as a result,
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Speaker 5: and Americans that are greater jeopardy because of it.
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Speaker 1: You notice when he asked about those ships, the ships
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Speaker 1: that they asked about there, how many ships do they have? Well,
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Speaker 1: we got about fifty of them that we're working on
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Speaker 1: right now. You didn't answer the question. And I want
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Speaker 1: you to listen. Right after Center Cruz says that listen
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Speaker 1: to this, that we have stronger.
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Speaker 3: Allies stronger partnerships, the stronger engagement from countries around the
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Speaker 3: world to deal with a very dangerous world than we had.
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Speaker 3: We were alone, we aren't anymore, and America is leading
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Speaker 3: those efforts. Remember the Abraham Accords. I do let me just.
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Speaker 1: This is shocking on so many differ levels. To hear
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Speaker 1: this and to hear Anthony Blincoln sit there and try
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Speaker 1: to defend what this has been, which is a total
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Speaker 1: disaster from the very beginning. And that is part, by
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Speaker 1: the way of what Senator Ted Cruz also said when
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Speaker 1: he started it out, laying out the facts, just saying,
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Speaker 1: you guys have really screwed this up.
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Speaker 4: And we're talking about overall foreign policies.
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Speaker 1: It's not just Iran, it's foreign policy everywhere in the world.
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Speaker 5: I'm certain, miss Secretary, you have presided over the worst
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Speaker 5: foreign policy disaster of modern times. When Joe Biden became president,
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Speaker 5: he inherited peace and prosperity in the world. We now
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Speaker 5: have two simultaneous wars waging the worst war in Europe
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Speaker 5: since World War Two and the worst war in the
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Speaker 5: Middle East in fifty years. Both I believe were caused
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Speaker 5: by this administration's consistent weakness and indeed, your foreign policy
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Speaker 5: is precisely backwards from what a rational American foreign policy
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Speaker 5: should be. To our friends and allies, this administration is
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Speaker 5: consistently undermined, weakened, and attacked them. And to our enemies,
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Speaker 5: this administration has shown constant appeasement and indeed has flowed
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Speaker 5: billions of dollars to the enemies of America who want
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Speaker 5: to kill us.
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Speaker 4: Is he wrong? I don't think he's wrong at all.
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Speaker 1: And what he is saying here about you guys inherited
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Speaker 1: peace and prosperity, and you guys have screwed it up
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Speaker 1: on a level that most people can't even it's it's
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Speaker 1: unrecognizable now and absolutely right for Senator Cruz to call
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Speaker 1: him out and to say, what are you guys doing, Like,
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Speaker 1: what is your actual foreign policy except for to start
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Speaker 1: wars and to allow the worst peace from the world
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Speaker 1: to grow stronger. Senator Cruz and saying that you guys
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Speaker 1: are giving money to the people that want to kill
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Speaker 1: us is factually accurate.
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Speaker 4: The amount of money that we've sent to Iran, the
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Speaker 4: amount of money.
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Speaker 1: That we've allowed to flow to places like China and
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Speaker 1: other nations is staggering. And the point that he's saying
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Speaker 1: here is your foreign policy is quote precisely backwards from
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Speaker 1: what a rational American foreign policy should be. To our
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Speaker 1: friends and allies, this administration is consistently undermined. We can
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Speaker 1: and attacked them. Referring to our allies. One of those,
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Speaker 1: obviously he's talking about is Israel. But listen the second
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Speaker 1: part of what he says. Anthony blinking at this hearing.
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Speaker 5: Today, Senator Barrosso asked you about Abram Raci. Your State
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Speaker 5: Department put out a statement sending condolences for his death.
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Speaker 5: A secretary, Is the world better today now that is dead, given.
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Speaker 3: The horrible ACKs that he engaged in both as a
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Speaker 3: judge and as president to the extent he can no
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Speaker 3: longer engage in them. Yes, the Iranian people are probably
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Speaker 3: better off. You didn't say that in your statement, did you.
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Speaker 3: I believe that we did and certainly are.
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Speaker 5: Suppose today the United Nations is flying their flag at
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Speaker 5: half staff to mourn the death. Would you agree that
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Speaker 5: it is utterly disgraceful for the United Nations to be
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Speaker 5: mourning the death of the butcher of Tehran.
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Speaker 3: We're certainly not mourning his death, as I said. Would
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Speaker 3: you agree it's disgraceful for the un to be. I'll
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Speaker 3: look at what they've done. We certainly would not do that.
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Speaker 4: What they've done has phone the flag at half staff?
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Speaker 3: Is that disgraceful? We wouldn't do that, and we would
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Speaker 3: certainly find that.
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Speaker 5: And I would note that's the absence of American leadership.
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Speaker 5: All right, let's shift. Washington Post on May eleventh wrote
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Speaker 5: an article. I'm going to read the opening paragraph. The
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Speaker 5: Biden administration, working urgently to stave off a full scale
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Speaker 5: Israeli invasion of Rafa, is off bring Israel valuable assistance
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Speaker 5: in an effort to persuade it to hold back, including
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Speaker 5: sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location
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Speaker 5: of Hamas leaders and find the group's hidden tunnels. According
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Speaker 5: to four people familiar with the US offers, is that
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Speaker 5: paragraph accurate?
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Speaker 3: Exactly the opposite? First of all, no one has done
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Speaker 3: more to defend Israel than Joe Biden.
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Speaker 5: Is that paragraph?
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Speaker 3: Well, let me finish if I how many please? He was
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Speaker 3: there right after.
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Speaker 5: And not interested in a campaign speech. I have limited time.
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Speaker 5: Is the paragraph in the Washington Post accurate as.
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Speaker 3: You read it? No, to the contrary. We're providing everything
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Speaker 3: we possibly can to Israel to help them find so.
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Speaker 5: The fewer sources that brief the Post and by the way,
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Speaker 5: brief multiple other media outlets, they were lying. Absolutely so,
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Speaker 5: all right, So that does the administration. Did the administration
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Speaker 5: offer to provide the locations of senior Hamas leaders to
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Speaker 5: Israel if they didn't invade Rafa.
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Speaker 3: That's again totally totally misleading and wrong. Here's what we said,
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Speaker 3: and here's what we're doing. We have said that there
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Speaker 3: is a better way to deal with the challenge.
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Speaker 5: I'm not interested in the speech offer the location of
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Speaker 5: senior Hamas officials if they didn't invade.
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Speaker 4: Rafa, that's a yes or no.
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Speaker 3: If we know if we had the locations, of course
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Speaker 3: we provide them irrespective.
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Speaker 5: So this statement you're saying, the Post got it totally wrong.
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Speaker 4: It is utterly false, and.
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Speaker 5: Anyone who said to the contrary was lying and perjuring themselves.
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Speaker 3: If they wonder that statement is incorrect. We have done
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Speaker 3: will continue to do everything we can to if we
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Speaker 3: can do it, develop the information and share the information
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Speaker 3: I wish we had it.
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Speaker 5: Does the Administration have intelligence on the locations of Hamas
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Speaker 5: officials that you have not shared with Israel.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 5: Does the Administration have the locations of Hamas terror tunnels
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Speaker 5: that you have not shared with Israel?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 3: Okay, So then.
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Speaker 5: Your your position is that this story is an utter
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Speaker 5: and complete lies.
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Speaker 3: As you as you've read as some senator, it's.
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Speaker 5: Not, it is and we're not interested in playing word games.
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Speaker 5: I've asked you very directly. You're saying there's not a
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Speaker 5: single Hamas leader that you know about that you that
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Speaker 5: you or the Administration is offered will tell you where
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Speaker 5: they are if.
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Speaker 3: You don't engage invade. Correct?
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Speaker 5: What have you offered them not to invade Rafa.
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Speaker 3: We've offered them nothing not to invade Raffa except a
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Speaker 3: plan to deal more effectively with Rafa.
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Speaker 5: Okay, So you foy under oath as you've offered them
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Speaker 5: nothing not to invade Raffa. I find that very hard
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Speaker 5: to believe, but I just want to understand what your
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Speaker 5: testimony is.
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Speaker 3: Might I'll be very clear. We have told them, We've
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Speaker 3: been engaged in a long conversation with them about the
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Speaker 3: most effective way to deal with the problem we agree
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Speaker 3: must be dealt with air.
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Speaker 5: And it's quite aware you disagree with their plan to
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Speaker 5: kill the Hamas terrorists because you and the President have
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Speaker 5: vocally sent out to me clear your State Department on
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Speaker 5: the morning of October seventh, sent out a tweet telling
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Speaker 5: Israel not to engage in military retaliation. I called you
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Speaker 5: out at three in the morning, and you deleted that tweet.
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Speaker 5: The next day, you personally, at October eighth, sent a
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Speaker 5: tweet saying you'd spoken with a Turkish foreign minister and
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Speaker 5: Israel should not retaliate. From the very beginning, the Biden
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Speaker 5: administration is consistently at every stage told Israel. By the way,
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Speaker 5: when I called your tweet out, you deleted it again.
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Speaker 5: At every stage, you have been telling Israel, do not
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Speaker 5: kill the terrorists. And that has been from day one, Senator.
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Speaker 3: I was in Israel five days after October seventh. I've
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Speaker 3: been there seven times since. No one, starting with President Biden,
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Speaker 3: has done more to make sure they have what they
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Speaker 3: need to defend themselves from AMAS, to deal with the
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Speaker 3: threat that.
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Speaker 5: With all juris fact. That wrong, Chris, that that is
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Speaker 5: ludicrisd Why have you cut off weapons to Israel?
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Speaker 3: Then we have not cut off weapons viasial. In fact,
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Speaker 3: we as you know well, starting many years ago, President
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Speaker 3: Biden was at the heart of the MoU that led
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Speaker 3: to Israel having a ten year guarantee supply of assistance.
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Speaker 4: So let's just recap what we just learned.
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Speaker 1: Anthony Blanken is I think quickly lying to the American people.
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Speaker 1: He's saying, Oh, we're not offering them anything to not
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Speaker 1: invade Rafa.
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Speaker 4: We're not.
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Speaker 1: We're not withholding weapons, even though we've had a pause
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Speaker 1: to sending weapons to Israel. And then he says, we
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Speaker 1: also send our condolences to the Iranian president's people, even
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Speaker 1: though he's known as the Butcher of Tehran, because that's
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Speaker 1: a normal course of business. Oh and by the way,
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Speaker 1: we're allowing Iran to have more ghost ships than any
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Speaker 1: other time their history to export their oil, even though
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Speaker 1: we have oil embargoes on them and we're not in
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Speaker 1: sanctions on them and we're not enforcing them.
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Speaker 4: So there it is.
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Speaker 1: This is the State Department issuing this statement of condolences
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Speaker 1: without mentioning his brutal legacy, including the execution of thousands
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Speaker 1: of political prisoners in the nineteen eighties and prosecuting pro
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Speaker 1: democracy activists more recently and killing them. The president of Iran,
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Speaker 1: just to understand, this was a hardliner. This is a
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Speaker 1: man that suppressed women like you wouldn't believe he's one.
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Speaker 1: He's been described as one of the most violent attackers
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Speaker 1: of dissidents, and it's been caught on camera in Iran
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Speaker 1: as well. And you have Anthony Blincoln saying, look, okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: maybe only after he's forced answer the question from Center Cruz. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: maybe the Iranian people are probably better off without him.
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Speaker 1: But it's just a normal course of business, right, this
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Speaker 1: is what we do. We express official condolences for the
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Speaker 1: death of a butcher. I mean, if Anthony Blincoln was
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Speaker 1: a Secretary of State when we killed Osama bin Lauden,
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Speaker 1: my question would be, would you have given him condolences
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Speaker 1: to al Qaeda because America killed Osama bin Laden? Like
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Speaker 1: I'm being serious, is that something you would do? And
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Speaker 1: while all this is happening, by the way, we have
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Speaker 1: the ICC that is now coming out, and the ICC
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Speaker 1: is now saying they're gonna go after net and Yahoo
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Speaker 1: at the same time they're going after for war crimes.
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Speaker 1: The head of hamas treating them like they are one
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Speaker 1: in the fact.
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Speaker 4: They're both bad. Well, they're both bad guys.
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Speaker 7: Here.
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Speaker 1: You think the White House is going to come out
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Speaker 1: and really dig in on this one. I mean, they
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Speaker 1: gave a statement, but are they really going to dig
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Speaker 1: in and say no, no, no, the head of Amas is
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Speaker 1: actually different than the head of Israel, and the head
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Speaker 1: of Israel is actually trying to protect and defend the
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Speaker 1: innocent people that were killed and those that are held hostage.
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Speaker 1: This is a world that we live in, and the
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Speaker 1: foreign policy we're up is down, down is up, left
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Speaker 1: is right and right is left and making this is
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Speaker 1: how you get dictators and tyrants to do what they're
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Speaker 1: doing right now in the world, which is to act
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Speaker 1: out because they realize very clearly that the President of
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Speaker 1: the United States of America is out to lunch. The
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Speaker 1: president of the United States of America has no idea
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Speaker 1: what's going on. You had a president today that said this,
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Speaker 1: and no one understands what he means by this. So
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Speaker 1: so listen carefully to the president making up words today
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Speaker 1: in an announcement.
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Speaker 8: Let me close of this. After I signed the Pack
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Speaker 8: and pack At.
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Speaker 4: Act into law, does anybody know what a pack of that?
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Speaker 1: And a LAC is Like like, I don't, And he
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Speaker 1: doesn't try to fix it either. It's like, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: got that pack and a LACA thing, a lack attack.
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Speaker 8: Let me close of this after I signed the Pack
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Speaker 8: and pack At Act into law.
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Speaker 4: There it is. That's that's our president. It's America.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: Everybody sees that, right, everybody sees a president that can't
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Speaker 1: put words together. And that wasn't the only time that
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Speaker 1: he was having problems with his teleprompter.
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Speaker 4: He was having major problems.
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Speaker 8: I'll never make up for the loss. He lost a
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Speaker 8: piece of your soul, a husband, wife, son, daughter. But
18:59
Speaker 8: we always to folks, all of them.
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Speaker 3: Everyone, we can.
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Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: You got to read from a giant one hundred inch
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Speaker 1: TV teleprompter and this is a guy that can't understand
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Speaker 1: even how to read it. I want you to hear
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Speaker 1: what he had to say on Good Morning America when
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Speaker 1: he was asked about this, and his brilliant response to it.
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Speaker 9: There is a serious food crisis in Gaza, and Hasidni McCain,
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Speaker 9: head of the UN World Food Program, said parts of
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Speaker 9: Gaza are undergoing full blown famine. Do you acknowledge that
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Speaker 9: under international law, Israel has a legal obligation to prevent
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Speaker 9: people in Gaza from starving?
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Speaker 6: Well, we certainly have an obligation to enable trucks to
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Speaker 6: go in. And as I said, we've enabled twenty thousand
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Speaker 6: trucks to go in. We just fixed the roadbeds to
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Speaker 6: enable those trucks to go in, and half a million
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Speaker 6: tons of food and drugs. So who's stopping this? In fact,
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Speaker 6: Hamas is the one that is looting these trucks while
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Speaker 6: we're enabling them to go in. We don't have a
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Speaker 6: liberate starvation diet. We don't policy. In fact, we have
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Speaker 6: the opposite policy to allow maximum humanitarian aid to get
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Speaker 6: people out of harm's way, while HAMAS is doing everything
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Speaker 6: to keep them in harm's way at gunpoint. And in fact,
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Speaker 6: we've sent billions of text messages, of phone calls, leaflets
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Speaker 6: to people, doing something that no army and no government
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Speaker 6: has done in modern urban warfare, giving up the element
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Speaker 6: of surprise, telling people get out of harm's way and
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Speaker 6: let us finish the war against the terrorists. We're not
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Speaker 6: targeting the population, We're targeting the terrorists. These are fallacious charges.
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Speaker 6: I think that they cast a terrible a terrible stain
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Speaker 6: on the ICC, but I think serious countries are not
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Speaker 6: taking them seriously. And I was very glad to see
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Speaker 6: that President Biden called them outrageous, as in many leaders
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Speaker 6: bipartisan support across the United States, and people are now
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Speaker 6: putting bill in Congress, bipartisan bill to put sanctions on
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Speaker 6: the ICC prosecutor for doing such arrible singling an individual. Really,
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Speaker 6: really a distortion and a travesty of justice.
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Speaker 9: Are you concerned about traveling in the wake of this arrest?
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Speaker 6: Worn No, I'm not concerned about traveling. I think I'm
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Speaker 6: not concerned at all about our status. I think that
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Speaker 6: the prosecutor should be concerned about his status, because he's
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Speaker 6: really turning the ICC into a pariah institution. People are
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Speaker 6: just not going to take it seriously. They see it
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Speaker 6: as a politicized thing. I hope that the judges don't
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Speaker 6: turn don't confirm what he says, because that will make
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Speaker 6: them into a kangaroo court. Israel is fighting a just war,
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Speaker 6: not only ours, not only our war. We're fighting the
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Speaker 6: war of all democracies. Because if democracies are now faced
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Speaker 6: with a situation that, after taking incredible efforts to get
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Speaker 6: people's out of arm's weight to supply humanitarian aid on
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Speaker 6: a vast scale, if they're told then they're hauled into
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Speaker 6: the dock because the terrorists who are fighting them are
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Speaker 6: using civilians as human shields. Then others will do it again,
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Speaker 6: and every democracy will be pulled into the dock your
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Speaker 6: next big Many people understand that, So that has to
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Speaker 6: be stopped, and that has to be resistant, and I
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Speaker 6: can assure you the vast majority of Israelis and all
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Speaker 6: responsible leaders in the world understand that this should be resisted.
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Speaker 1: Now, imagine being Netan Yahoo and you're asked these questions like, hey,
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Speaker 1: are you afraid to travel because they can arrest you
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Speaker 1: right with this warrant that is put out there to
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Speaker 1: come after you. Imagine being a guy that's just defitting
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Speaker 1: your own country and this is the crap you got
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Speaker 1: to put up with, and they're treating you just like
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Speaker 1: you're the same as the head of a moss. Because
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Speaker 1: we're in this what aboutism world that we live in
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Speaker 1: right now. And while all this is happening, and we've
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Speaker 1: got real problems, by the way, in our economy right now,
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Speaker 1: we've got new information that's come out that's truly incredible
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Speaker 1: about our economy, you still have an administration that's trying
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Speaker 1: to take every dime they can from you and send
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Speaker 1: it over to Ukraine. Well, let me just pivot for
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Speaker 1: a second to the economy. There were some interesting real
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Speaker 1: world economic numbers that came out. I'm saying real world
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Speaker 1: because everybody can relate to what I'm about to give you.
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Speaker 1: The average price increase at McDonald's since twenty twenty, when
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden took office, food is up one hundred and
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Speaker 1: forty one percent at McDonald's. The average price increase since
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Speaker 1: January of twenty twenty at Chick fil A is up
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Speaker 1: eighty percent. And the reason why it's at eighty percent
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Speaker 1: not higher, is because their prices were already a little
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Speaker 1: bit higher anyway, because the quality is there, and they're
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Speaker 1: probably eating into some of their profits because they understand
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Speaker 1: there's a certain breaking point where people say, I just
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Speaker 1: can't afford to go there anymore. The average price at
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Speaker 1: Taco Bell, for example, is increase fifty seven percent. So
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Speaker 1: McDonald's is one hundred and forty one percent up, Chick
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Speaker 1: Fila is eighty percent up, Taco Bell is fifty seven
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Speaker 1: percent up.
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Speaker 4: That's a lot, folks, That's not a.
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Speaker 1: Little Let's dive into the just the actual roll numbers
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Speaker 1: so you understand how crazy it is. McDonald's Medium French
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Speaker 1: Fries up one hundred and sixty seven point six percent.
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Speaker 1: McDonald's Big Mac Meal if you buy the meal is
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Speaker 1: more than doubled, up one hundred point one hundred and
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Speaker 1: three point five percent. McDonald's ten piece Chicken McNugget meal
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Speaker 1: is up ninety five point five percent. McDonald's Hamburger Happy
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Speaker 1: Meal is up one hundred and forty point six percent.
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Speaker 1: McDonald's four piece McNugget Happy Meals up ninety seven point
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Speaker 1: three percent. Taco Bell's Cheesy Gordida Crunch is up one
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Speaker 1: hundred and eleven point five percent. They're not Joe Bell
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Speaker 1: Grande a Taco Bell up seventy seven percent. The beefy
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Speaker 1: five layer Burrito is up one hundred and fifty three
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Speaker 1: point eight percent, Chick fil A's Chicken Sandwich combos up
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Speaker 1: ninety four point eight percent, and Chick fil A's eight
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Speaker 1: piece nugget is almost double what it costs when Trump
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Speaker 1: lets left office up nine eight point two percent. Now,
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Speaker 1: why do I give you those numbers? Because this is
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Speaker 1: real world numbers, and people are hurting right now. They're hurting,
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Speaker 1: and they're hurting because it costs so much money, right
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Speaker 1: now to just live a normal and basic life. And
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Speaker 1: what are they doing with your money? They're giving it away.
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Speaker 1: Jenet Yellen today bragging about how much money America has given,
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Speaker 1: sending billions of dollars to Ukraine and telling you it's
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Speaker 1: critical for the security of America.
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Speaker 4: Listen to this.
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Speaker 10: Since Fibruary twenty twenty two, the United States is sanctioned
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Speaker 10: over four thousand individuals and entities. Is part of our
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Speaker 10: effort to hold Grossia accountable for its war in Ukraine,
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Speaker 10: while pursuing it on press vented level of coordination with
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Speaker 10: the G seven, we've also stood together in providing military, economic,
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Speaker 10: and humanitarian support for Ukraine. US and European support packages
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Speaker 10: have bolstered and complemented one another, and this is critical
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Speaker 10: to Ukraine sustaining its resistance.
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Speaker 7: On the front lines and the home front.
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Speaker 10: Let me be clear, it is also critical for this security.
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Speaker 7: Of the American and European people.
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Speaker 10: If we stand by as dictators violate territorial integrity and
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Speaker 10: fly out the international rules based order, they have no
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Speaker 10: reason to stop at their initial targets.
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Speaker 7: They will keep going. Russia has bet.
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Speaker 10: That its brutal aggression can outlin last our collective resolve.
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Speaker 10: But we've shown that when the dictator takes actions that
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Speaker 10: threaten our people, economies, and the rules based.
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Speaker 7: Order, we will not back down.
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Speaker 10: Our countries help shape and strengthen this order over decades,
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Speaker 10: and we will jointly defend it.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 10: Over the past three years, we've of course acted jointly
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Speaker 10: to bolster our security in other context as well.
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Speaker 4: So just keep sending the money.
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Speaker 1: Who cares if we don't have the money, Who cares
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Speaker 1: if we can't afford it? Who cares of inflation is
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Speaker 1: killing the average American? Just keep sending money overseas no
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Speaker 1: matter what. Just keep sending the money. You know, the
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Speaker 1: President United States America is out there telling you that
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Speaker 1: he signed the what was it, the pack of pack
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Speaker 1: of lock into law, right like, so this is the
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Speaker 1: guy that's trying the country doesn't know what he's saying this.
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Speaker 8: After I signed the pack pack At Act into law.
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Speaker 1: And you've got warrants that are out for net and Yahoo.
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Speaker 1: You got ghost ships that are that are leaving filled
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Speaker 1: with oil on an hourly basis from Iran sanctions that
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Speaker 1: were not imposing. And the President also, I forgot to
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Speaker 1: tell you this. If you got kids or grandkids. Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden's got some marriage advice for you today. Listen carefully
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Speaker 1: to this.
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Speaker 8: And by the way, I said, every young man thinking
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Speaker 8: of getting married, marrying a family of five or more daughters.
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Speaker 8: I did. My wife's the oldest of five sisters. You
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Speaker 8: know why. One of them was always love you, not
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Speaker 8: the same one one of them is always be on
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Speaker 8: your side. That's the biggest advantage of marrying into five daughters.
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Speaker 1: There you go, there's your uncle crazy Joe Biden advice.
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Speaker 1: And the president, I'd said, every young man thinking of
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Speaker 1: getting married, married into a family with five or more daughters,
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Speaker 1: I did.
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Speaker 4: That's where his head is today.
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Speaker 1: And we have a country at the same time that's
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Speaker 1: sending condolences on the death of the Iranian president and claiming, hey,
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Speaker 1: it's just a normal way of doing business. White House
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Speaker 1: Press secretary asks by the AP about Israeli official seizing equipment.
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Speaker 4: You ready for this answer, she says.
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Speaker 1: The reporter says, earlier today, israel official seas equipment from
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Speaker 1: the AP and took down our live shot that had
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Speaker 1: been going into northern Gaza. How is that acceptable behavior
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Speaker 1: in a democracy? They're citing their new media law. Does
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Speaker 1: the administration of reaction to that, the Israeli government, what
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Speaker 1: does she say? We're looking into it, and obviously this
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Speaker 1: is concerning and so we want to look into it.
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Speaker 1: Apparently the reason why the ape's video went down is
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Speaker 1: because it was helping the terrorists.
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Speaker 4: Yes, it was helping the terrorists with the live feed.
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Speaker 1: So that's a reason why you go, yeah, okay, maybe
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Speaker 1: I don't want to take maybe we want to take
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Speaker 1: that down.
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Speaker 4: Don't forget.
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Speaker 1: covering this. Plus we'll have an update for you tomorrow
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Speaker 1: on the Trump trial as well. And I'll see you
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