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Trump’s Iran Strategy Delivers w Oil Tankers, Deadline Diplomacy and Dominance · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Iran is begging. That is the exact quote from President
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, proving that the US has the upper hand.
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Speaker 1: President Trump made it crystal clear we the United States,
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Speaker 1: are in control, and Iran knows it. After weeks of
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Speaker 1: relentless pressure, military strikes, and economic consequences, President Trump has
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Speaker 1: now announced that he is giving Iran ten more days
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Speaker 1: to come to the table and make a deal. Not
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Speaker 1: because America is weak, not because we're desperate, because Iran is.
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Speaker 1: The President's saying that Iran's even offering up gifts. This
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Speaker 1: is just one example of how bad they want a deal.
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Speaker 2: They said, to show you the fact that we're real
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Speaker 2: and solid and we're there, We're gonna let you have
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Speaker 2: eight boats of oil, eight boats, eight big boats of oil.
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Speaker 2: This was two days ago, and they'll sail up tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: That three days ago. And I didn't think much about it.
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Speaker 2: And then I watched the news and they said a
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Speaker 2: very good anchor, actually happy to be Fox. But I
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Speaker 2: watched it and he said, something's unusual happening. There are
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Speaker 2: eight boats that are going right up the middle of
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Speaker 2: the Hormo Strait. Eight big tankers are going loaded up
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Speaker 2: with oil right through And I said, well, I guess,
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Speaker 2: I guess they were right, and they were real, and
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Speaker 2: I think they were Pakistani flagged. And I said, well,
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Speaker 2: I guess we're dealing with the right people. And actually
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Speaker 2: they then apologized for something they said, and they said,
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Speaker 2: we're going to send two more boats and it ended
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Speaker 2: up being ten bouts. And I hope I haven't screwed
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Speaker 2: up your negotiations. But I thought it was appropriate to say,
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Speaker 2: because I did taught you the other day by saying
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Speaker 2: they're going to give us a present.
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Speaker 1: A president they gave and as the President said, there,
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Speaker 1: we're dealing with the right people in Iran is begging
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Speaker 1: to get a deal done. The President of United States
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Speaker 1: America is saying it directly from the White House and
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Speaker 1: to the world and to the people in Iran as well.
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Speaker 1: Why is this happening Because the pressure is clearly working.
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Speaker 1: Their infrastructure has been hit hard, their military capabilities in
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Speaker 1: Iran have been degraded significantly, and the economy in Iran
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Speaker 1: is filling the squeeze like never before. And now suddenly
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Speaker 1: the same regime they chance death to America now wants
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Speaker 1: to negotiate with us. That is exactly what leadership and
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Speaker 1: strength shows you the consequences for your actions, and Iran
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Speaker 1: knows it all too well. Now here's what's even more telling.
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Speaker 1: Iran didn't ask for ten days. They asked for seven.
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Speaker 1: We're also being tump and Trump said no, you're getting ten.
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Speaker 1: That's leverage, that's control, and that's what it looks like
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Speaker 1: when you have a president that says I'm willing to
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Speaker 1: take on our enemies. They make no mistake. This is
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Speaker 1: not a peace gesture out of weakness at all, even
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Speaker 1: though Democrats try to spin it that way. Instantly, it's
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Speaker 1: a strategic pause from a position of dominance, saying let's
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Speaker 1: get the deal done the right way. Trump also made
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Speaker 1: it clear the talks are happening and they're going well.
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Speaker 1: He also sent a message that couldn't be clear, make
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Speaker 1: the deal or the pressure comes back even harder. That's
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Speaker 1: the Trump doctrine literally in real time. It is peace
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Speaker 1: through strength, not appeasement, not begging for an adversaries to
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Speaker 1: behave like the Obama and Biden administration didn't while they
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Speaker 1: were sending billions of dollars that ended up funding terrorism
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Speaker 1: to Iran, but instead forcing a ran to the table
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Speaker 1: because they have no other choice and Here's what really
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Speaker 1: drives a left crazy about this moment. They've spent years
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Speaker 1: telling you that being tough on Iran would lead to chaos,
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Speaker 1: that the pressure wouldn't work, that America had to compromise
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Speaker 1: to get a deal done. Well, look at what's happening now.
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Speaker 1: Iran is now the one asking for time. Iran is
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Speaker 1: the one making gestures. Iran is the one that is
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Speaker 1: now trying to cut a deal. And the question every
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Speaker 1: American should ask is why. It's because they understand in
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Speaker 1: Iran something very simple. This president isn't bluffing, and that
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Speaker 1: changes literally everything now. The next ten days are critical
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Speaker 1: because Iran has a choice to make come to the
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Speaker 1: table and agree to terms that protect American interests or
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Speaker 1: face the full force of what our military in President
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Speaker 1: The President also talked about just how big this development
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Speaker 1: actually is and how important it is to get a
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Speaker 1: deal done. He called in the Fox News channel, and
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Speaker 1: this is part of what he had to say of
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Speaker 1: a certain country.
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Speaker 3: There are not a lot of takers to be the
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Speaker 3: head of Iran right now. I will tell you they're
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Speaker 3: all fighting not to We don't want that position. But
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Speaker 3: they asked me if they would Kelly. Importantly, they said
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Speaker 3: to me very nicely through my people, could we have
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Speaker 3: more time because we're talking about tomorrow night, which is
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Speaker 3: pretty quick. And if they don't do what they have
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Speaker 3: to do. I will knock out their power plants. And
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Speaker 3: they said, does that include nuclear? Because they have nuclear.
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Speaker 3: You't plenty of money. They have a lot of money,
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Speaker 3: and they built nuclear and they've built regular power plants,
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Speaker 3: but they're massive and very expensive, billions of dollars. And
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Speaker 3: so I gave them a ten day period. They asked
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Speaker 3: for seven. You're gonna say, oh, Trump's a terrible negotiator.
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Speaker 3: They asked for seven, and I said, I'm going to
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Speaker 3: give you ten because they gave me ships. We talked
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Speaker 3: about the eight ships, you know the president that I
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Speaker 3: talked about the other day. But they asked for seven,
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Speaker 3: and I gave them ten. You got ten days, and
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Speaker 3: they were very thankful about that. Now they may say, oh,
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Speaker 3: we're not speaking. I don't like that, because that wasn't
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Speaker 3: true of the last time. As you found out, the.
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Speaker 1: President also had another meeting at the White House. He
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Speaker 1: took questions from reporters, and this may be the SoundBite
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Speaker 1: of the week, as the President said this about a
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Speaker 1: ran and why they're at the table begging to get
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Speaker 1: a deal done.
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Speaker 2: Now, I have a feeling that should clean up pretty quickly.
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Speaker 2: I could just say this, they want to make it
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Speaker 2: they want to make and I probably hurt our little negotiation.
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Speaker 2: It gives them a little impetus to say, well, I
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Speaker 2: wish you didn't say that, But they said yesterday that
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Speaker 2: we weren't negotiating with them, and now they admit that
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Speaker 2: we weren't negotiating with them, so they want to make
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Speaker 2: a deal.
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Speaker 4: You got.
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Speaker 1: I love the honesty and the bluntness there from the
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Speaker 1: President of the United States of America. Now, one other
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Speaker 1: thing that is very interesting is how the media has
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Speaker 1: quietly had to correct a story that was a lie
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Speaker 1: that Iran's Tarish regime was not close to being able
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Speaker 1: to hit the homeland of the United States of America
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Speaker 1: and was not close to actually having nuclear weapons. Well,
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Speaker 1: now we've got more of that story on the record,
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Speaker 1: and Senator Tom Cotton talked about it this way in Congress.
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Speaker 5: From both of your expertise about missiles in space and
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Speaker 5: build on what Senator Arnst was discussing the launch of
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Speaker 5: the intermediate range ballistic missile towards our base in die
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Speaker 5: Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean. That's bad.
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Speaker 5: I'm glad that it failed. I'm glad that we shot
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Speaker 5: down one It also, of course, shows that the fat
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Speaker 5: wah against missiles of that range is not exactly worth
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Speaker 5: the paper it was written on, probably like the fat
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Speaker 5: was against other long range missiles and nuclear weapons. But
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Speaker 5: let me just ask this that the technology needed not
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Speaker 5: for an intermediate range missile, but an intercontinental missile, a
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Speaker 5: missile that could hit the United States. It's pretty much
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Speaker 5: the same as an intermediate range missile, isn't that right,
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Speaker 5: Admiral Corral, Yes, Centator, that's correct, General Whiting, isn't that correct?
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Speaker 6: It is centator And it's not too much different from
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Speaker 6: a space launch vehicle either.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: And you know, so you need enough booster thrust to
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Speaker 5: get something into space, and you need a reentry vehicle
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Speaker 5: to get it back from out of space or from
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Speaker 5: space into the Earth surface. And you said, general writing,
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Speaker 5: Iron has long had a space launch vehicle program. Have
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Speaker 5: you and your observations about space, have you seen any
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Speaker 5: running astronauts up there lately? They do have a man
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Speaker 5: space flight. Wow shocking. Do you think maybe the space
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Speaker 5: launch vehicle program is just flimsy cover for an intercontinental missile?
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Speaker 6: I do think they were developing intercental blistic missile.
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Speaker 5: Centator and Admiral Crail, for a reentry vehicle, that what
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Speaker 5: they used for that missile going to diegre Garcia. For
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Speaker 5: that matter, the medium range missiles that are shot at Israel,
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Speaker 5: that'd be a suitable reentry vehicle, right, that's correct, Centator,
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Speaker 5: So all you'd have to do in a crude but
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Speaker 5: functioning fashion is marry those two technologies and Iran would
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Speaker 5: be able to strike us here in the United States.
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Speaker 5: Is that correct?
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Speaker 1: That's correct?
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Speaker 5: And I have to say I think that could be
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Speaker 5: done in a matter of months, not years, and maybe
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Speaker 5: not that many months. Is that on your mind, Admiral Crail.
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Speaker 5: It's track Com absolutely demonstrated that technology. Thank you for that.
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Speaker 1: So there's the new reality on where we are, why
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Speaker 1: the President was forced to act and now President Trump
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Speaker 1: having a real pause to have real negotiations with Iran,
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Speaker 1: allowing them several more days to get things done the
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Speaker 1: right way. Gavin Newsom should be in hot water right
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Speaker 1: now for his clearly racist comments about African Americans having
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Speaker 1: low IQ. But let's be honest, the media is not
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Speaker 1: talking about this and it should be receiving far more
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Speaker 1: attention than it is because of this story involved a
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Speaker 1: Republican governor instead of Gavin Newsom, it would have a
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Speaker 1: twenty four hour media firestorm all over it, and more
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Speaker 1: than likely that Republican governor would have had to resign.
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Speaker 1: Now reports indicate that Governor Newsom is facing backlash, but
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Speaker 1: not from the media after telling a black mayor, I'm
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Speaker 1: like you before referencing low IQ in the conversation. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's be very clear, invoking IQ at a conversation involving
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Speaker 1: an African American elected official a mayor, especially in a
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Speaker 1: way that can be in is linking race and intelligence
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Speaker 1: is not just careless, It's not just politically explosive. It
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Speaker 1: should be condemned outright as straight up racism now, because
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Speaker 1: intelligence is not determined by race, period, is what the
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Speaker 1: media should have also said in this report, but they're
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Speaker 1: not talking about it. So when language like that's used,
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Speaker 1: even loosely, even jokingly, or even defensively, it should matter,
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Speaker 1: and it should matter to all American voters. The bigger
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Speaker 1: issue here is, yes, the double standard. This is the
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Speaker 1: part that makes me angry because if a Republican governor
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Speaker 1: use this language or even hinted at racial stereotypes involving
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Speaker 1: intelligence based on the color of your skin. What would
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Speaker 1: have happened. I know exactly what would have happened. Number one,
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Speaker 1: we would have had wall to all cable news coverage
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Speaker 1: demanding more than just an apology, but then demanding that
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Speaker 1: other Republicans call for that governor to resign. We have
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Speaker 1: none of that right now on TV. Editorial boards would
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Speaker 1: have also jumped in demanding accountability, saying that voters deserve
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Speaker 1: more from their governor than this, and then there would
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Speaker 1: have been the national political outrage from nationally elected figures
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Speaker 1: or centers or congressmen far away from wherever the outrage
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Speaker 1: actually happened. In this situation, it actually did happen in California.
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Speaker 1: There would be zero tolerance as well as zero hesitation
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Speaker 1: to condemn a Republican if they did this. But because
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Speaker 1: it's the high profile Democratic front runner or at least
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Speaker 1: number two in line for the White House on the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party, then apparently they're all willing to cover for
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Speaker 1: the racist words of Gavin Newsom. There's also the lies
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Speaker 1: of this story, which are even more incredible. When Newsom
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Speaker 1: is talking to a black audience, he says, I'm dumb too, yeah,
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Speaker 1: just like you. But when Newsom was talking to a
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Speaker 1: white audience. I want you to listen carefully to what
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Speaker 1: he had to say to that audience.
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Speaker 7: You've written the hell of a book. And I don't
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Speaker 7: say that lightly. I went through it in a quick
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Speaker 7: hour and a half.
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Speaker 8: Almost two hours, and trust me, I don't read very fast.
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Speaker 8: But it reads at an unbelievable pace. It's so well written,
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Speaker 8: and of course it's so familiar because I fell a
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Speaker 8: little bit adjacent so much of the subject matter. But
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Speaker 8: it's eighteen chapters.
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Speaker 7: It's an impressive piece of work, two hundred and sixty
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Speaker 7: three or so pages.
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Speaker 1: Two So let's be clear what you just heard, Gavin
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Speaker 1: Newsom talking to white authors about a white book and
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Speaker 1: a white audience. He basically says, you know, I read
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Speaker 1: three hundred pages of your book in like two hours.
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Speaker 1: Now he's either a liar or a race pader, or
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Speaker 1: racist or all three of those things. Because when Gavin
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Speaker 1: Newsom goes and talks to a black crowd in Georgia,
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Speaker 1: this is what he says instead.
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Speaker 8: I'm not you know, I'm not trying to impress you.
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Speaker 8: I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you,
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Speaker 8: I'm no better than you, you know.
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Speaker 6: I'm a nine sixty SAT guy. And you know, and
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Speaker 6: I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to
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Speaker 6: act all there if you got nine forty, but literally
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Speaker 6: a nine sixty SAT guy, I cannot You you've never
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Speaker 6: seen me read a speech. Because I cannot read a speech,
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Speaker 6: maybe the wrong business to be.
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Speaker 1: I'm like you to a black audience. I'm a nine
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Speaker 1: to sixty SAT guy. I can't read. So which one
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Speaker 1: is it?
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Speaker 2: Is it?
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Speaker 1: Are you the guy that can read a three hundred
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Speaker 1: page book in a couple hours? Are you the guy
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Speaker 1: that's stupid just like you? Of course, only referencing black
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Speaker 1: people in the audience. This is why it matters. We
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Speaker 1: live in a political culture where leaders are constantly telling
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Speaker 1: the country that language matters. Right, Gavin Newsom's one of those.
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Speaker 1: We're told that rhetoric matters. How do we know that?
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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom has said it. Gavin Newsom has also said
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Speaker 1: that tone matters and the implication of the words you
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Speaker 1: use matter. Well, they're right, it does. So if that
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Speaker 1: standard applies to everyone else, why does it apply to
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Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom as well? Historically, by the way, linking race
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Speaker 1: and IQ has been part of a deeply offensive and
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Speaker 1: discredit argument. Yes, history makes comments like this, and we
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Speaker 1: expose them, especially sensitive and especially inappropriate comments, to remind
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Speaker 1: Americans of what racism actually is. And any elected official,
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Speaker 1: whether it's Republican or Democrat, they should know better, especially
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. And to be clear, this is
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Speaker 1: not can It's a culture that I'm advocating for. This
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Speaker 1: is an elected official looking at a black audience saying
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Speaker 1: I'm like you, I can't read, I'm dumb, I'm a
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Speaker 1: nine to sixty sat guy. Governor Gavin Newsom. Why is
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Speaker 1: he not being held accountable? Because he is seen as
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Speaker 1: being the guy that could be the Democrat's next president.
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Speaker 1: He's trying to present himself as polished, media savvy, forwardlooking
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Speaker 1: Democrat for the future. And that's why this story should
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Speaker 1: be so damaging, because if you've got a rich white
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Speaker 1: guy telling black people he's stupid like them, shouldn't that
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Speaker 1: disqualify him from being the president of the United States
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Speaker 1: of America. Now, Democrats are falling all over themselves to
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Speaker 1: protect Gavin Newsom. And the key simple question I have
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Speaker 1: is this, when is there going to be accountability when
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Speaker 1: someone on the left says something as racist as this.
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Speaker 1: When is there going to be a clear explanation from
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Speaker 1: Gavin Ussom about what he actually meant. Is there going
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Speaker 1: to be a clear apology from Gavenusom to the black
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Speaker 1: community for implying that they're dumb or that they can
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Speaker 1: only get a nine to sixty on their sat? Is
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Speaker 1: there going to be a clear acknowledgement that the phrasing
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Speaker 1: was at least at the bare minimum inappropriate. And the
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Speaker 1: sad part is, especially minority voters deserve clarity on this issue.
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Speaker 1: So where is the media? Why aren't they doing their job?
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Speaker 1: The bottom line on this is well pretty simple. If
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Speaker 1: it's a Democrat, the media will protect them at all costs.
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Speaker 1: There is no consistency. Are we going to be able
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Speaker 1: to hold public officials accountable for racially charged rhetoric? Then
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Speaker 1: we If we're going to do that, we got to
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Speaker 1: hold them all accountable, including the front runner of the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party. I believe that no party should get a
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Speaker 1: pass when you say something like this. No governor should
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Speaker 1: get a pass if you say something like this, and
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Speaker 1: certainly no future presidential hopeful should get a pass if
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Speaker 1: saying something this racist on stage in front of a
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Speaker 1: black audience. America I want to believe is moved beyond
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Speaker 1: the ugly history of tying intellect to the color of
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Speaker 1: someone's skin. That kind of thinking has no place in
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Speaker 1: this country and certainly no place in modern politics for anyone.
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Speaker 1: And if leaders want to lecture the country about sensitivity
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Speaker 1: and standards, they better live by those same standard themselves.
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Speaker 1: That's not partisan, that's just straight up principle. President Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump declares an emergency to pay TSA agents at airports
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Speaker 1: as chaos is continuing to grip America. In my hometown,
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Speaker 1: the lines were over four hours long, forcing me, as
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Speaker 1: I'm doing this show right now, to drive out of
19:55
Speaker 1: town to a meeting instead of flying. That's how bad
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Speaker 1: it really is. I'm not the only one that's frustrated
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Speaker 1: by this president's angry, and so is the Speaker of
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Speaker 1: the House, Mike Johnson. I've never seen in this mad
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Speaker 1: in public, red face and even banging his fists, banging
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Speaker 1: his fist on the lectern.
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Speaker 9: Is willing to fund all of the security and safety
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Speaker 9: of the American people. We cannot believe it's come to that,
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Speaker 9: but it has.
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Speaker 2: The Senate, will you put it on the floor.
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Speaker 9: We'll have to see, we have to solve the problem,
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Speaker 9: and it's very sad that Democrats are not interested in
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Speaker 9: doing that.
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Speaker 5: Yet, does that mean that you're not.
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Speaker 8: In favor of breaking the DHS funding bill apart just
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Speaker 8: funding TESSA, just funding FEMA having individual votes on this sect.
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Speaker 9: We have never been in favor of breaking the bill
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Speaker 9: up wide because it's one of the twelve separate appropriations bills.
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Speaker 9: That is the most basic function of Congress to fund
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Speaker 9: the government, and we did it in a by partisan
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Speaker 9: by camberal men. Remember, the contents of that bill were
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Speaker 9: decided upon earlier by Democrats until they decided to hold
20:56
Speaker 9: the American people hostage in their long lines at the
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Speaker 9: airport and with the safety of everybody on the line,
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Speaker 9: to make a political point.
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Speaker 5: It is shameful.
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Speaker 9: There is no way for them to defend this to
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Speaker 9: the American people, and breaking it out is a I
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Speaker 9: think it puts an exclamation point on what they've tried
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Speaker 9: to do here. It's shameful. So many people have been
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Speaker 9: through so many hardships because of this nonsense, and what
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Speaker 9: we're concerned about is people may actually be hurt more
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Speaker 9: people harmed by criminal illegal aliens that are being protected
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Speaker 9: by the Democrat Party and we're sick.
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Speaker 1: Of and we're sick of it now. The President has
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Speaker 1: also had enough, and that is what made the President
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Speaker 1: step in and he did something that immediately grabbed headlines
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Speaker 1: across the country, declaring the situation at America's airport's a
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Speaker 1: national emergency and announcing that he will sign an order
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Speaker 1: to ensure that TSA agents get paid. Think about how
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Speaker 1: serious that actually is. We are now to point where
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Speaker 1: the President of the United States of America is saying
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Speaker 1: Congress has failed. The system is literally broken, and I'm
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Speaker 1: stepping in to fix it because it is now a
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Speaker 1: national emergency. Now. All of this stems from the prolonged
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Speaker 1: funding standoff in Washington, DC over the Department of Homeland Security,
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Speaker 1: as you heard Speaker Johnson say a moment ago. For
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Speaker 1: weeks now, lawmakers have been locked in that political battle,
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Speaker 1: holding America hostage. The Democratic leadership all of this around
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Speaker 1: them hating ICE agents and wanting to defund ice. The
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Speaker 1: President saying this at the White House as the reports
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Speaker 1: started to break that he decided to take matters into
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Speaker 1: his own hands to save the country yet again.
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Speaker 10: As the DHS shut down drags on, some Senate Republicans
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Speaker 10: are now reportedly asking the White House to declare a
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Speaker 10: national emergency to free up money and pay TSA workers
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Speaker 10: ahead of the spring break travel season.
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Speaker 2: We now on day forty one of the disgraceful Democrats
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Speaker 2: shutdown of Mark Wayne's department. Congratulations, he came into a department.
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Speaker 10: Down and there's no movement in sight.
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Speaker 7: Look, we are not going to fund ICE.
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Speaker 4: I just want to be clear on this.
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Speaker 5: Until we get some restrictions in place.
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Speaker 10: That's just a hard no for us, even as TSA
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Speaker 10: says airport wait times are now the longest in agency history.
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Speaker 4: Today in Houston, frustrating, Right, you show up five hours early,
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Speaker 4: you think you're there, and you go down to the basement,
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Speaker 4: work your way around baggage you claim to come up to,
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Speaker 4: then go outside and sweat to come back inside to
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Speaker 4: see more lines.
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Speaker 10: So far, nearly five hundred TSA officers have quit because
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Speaker 10: of unreliable pay as new Fox polls show nearly a
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Speaker 10: third of Americans twenty seven percent, are living paycheck to paycheck.
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Speaker 10: President Trump says Americans are mad at Congressional Democrats.
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Speaker 2: Well, I show it today on one of the shows
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Speaker 2: when they were interviewing people at the airport, and they're
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Speaker 2: actually hanging to be a tumor.
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Speaker 1: Now, the President's saying he's signing this executive order to
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Speaker 1: address the airport disruptions, announcing the move in a statement
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Speaker 1: on True Social framing the situation as nothing more than
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Speaker 1: a basic major national emergency. Quote. Because the Democrats have
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Speaker 1: recklessly created a true national crisis. I am using my
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Speaker 1: authorities under the law to protect our great country. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to sign an order to immediately pay our
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Speaker 1: TSA agents in order to address the emergency situation. The
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Speaker 1: White House said, funding from legislation back by Trump will
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Speaker 1: be used to ensure TSA officers are paid during the disruption.
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Speaker 1: Quote not unlike actions taken during the first Democratic shutdown,
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Speaker 1: i e. Payments to troops. President Trump is determined that
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Speaker 1: Congressional Democrats have created an emergency situation that cannot be
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Speaker 1: allowed to continue, is what the White House Office of
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Speaker 1: Management and Budget Communications director said in a statement to
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Speaker 1: Fox News. Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, praising the move,
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Speaker 1: writing on Acts that he wont to thank President Trump
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Speaker 1: for his leadership in finding a way to pay our
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Speaker 1: TSA officers to end this chaos. At our airports. These
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Speaker 1: hour long lines and thousands of Americans missing their flights
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Speaker 1: was all caused solely by the Democrats reckless DHS shutdown,
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Speaker 1: Mellan added, calling on Democrats to stop playing political games
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Speaker 1: with our national security and reopen the department.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: This move comes as day forty one of this partial
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Speaker 1: government shutdown has disrupted the Transportation Security Administration, causing long
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Speaker 1: lines at airports nationwide. I'm going to standoff over DHS
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Speaker 1: funding and also the issue of immigration enforcement. President Trump
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Speaker 1: accusing Democrats of refusing to fund immigration enforcement and creating
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Speaker 1: the chaos on purpose as revenge, which is exactly what
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Speaker 1: we are witnessing from Democrats. They're saying, we don't want
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Speaker 1: any of these TSA agents there, and we don't want
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Speaker 1: ICE agents at all. And while the Democrats hold us hostage,
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Speaker 1: this is what's actually been happening in the real world.
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Speaker 1: Tens of thousands of TSA agents, the people responsible for
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Speaker 1: securing our airports. They have been working now without paychecks
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Speaker 1: for more than forty one days. Many of them have
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Speaker 1: been forced to call in sick, hundreds and hundreds have
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Speaker 1: quit all together, and across the country. Americans are now
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Speaker 1: feeling the pain that was all created by the Democrats.
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Speaker 1: The long lines, the missing fights, the security delays are
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Speaker 1: literally unlike anything we've ever seen in the history of
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Speaker 1: this country. At our airports and at some airports today,
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Speaker 1: wait times had surged to record levels. And that's not
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Speaker 1: just an inconvenience. The President now says, it's a national
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Speaker 1: security concern, because when airport security is stretched thin, when
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Speaker 1: staffing drops, when morale collapses, that's when vulnerabilities start to emerge.
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Speaker 1: And that's exactly what prompted President Trump to act, the
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Speaker 1: White House said in his statement, he made it clear
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Speaker 1: he believes this crisis was created because of political gridlock
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Speaker 1: in DC, and he had no other choice but to
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Speaker 1: use what he says are his legal authorities to step
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Speaker 1: in and restore the order. He also directed the Security
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Speaker 1: of Homeland Security to quote immediately pay the TSA agents,
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Speaker 1: meaning no delay, bypassing Congress in the process. Now, let's
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Speaker 1: be clear, this is not a typical move. Normally Congress
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Speaker 1: controls the purse strings. Funding federal workers without Congressional approval
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Speaker 1: is highly unusual, and Democrats more than likely are going
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Speaker 1: to sue. They're going to claim it raises serious legal questions,
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Speaker 1: and they're not just gonna want to debate it, they're
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Speaker 1: going to want to debate it in court. But from
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Speaker 1: Resident Trump's perspective, the argument seems to be simple. These
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Speaker 1: making to the American people, when national security is at risk,
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Speaker 1: actions cannot wait. And that's the framing that you're going
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Speaker 1: to hear more and more in the days to come.
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Speaker 1: Now many Americans are going to support the move. Polling
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Speaker 1: says that's exactly what leadership looks like, stepping in when
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Speaker 1: Washington fails. The majority of Americans are in favor of that,
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Speaker 1: and making sure critical workers are paid and preventing further
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Speaker 1: breakdowns in airport security. The majority of Americans overwhelmingly seem
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Speaker 1: to be in favor of that. Now the media, in critics, well,
28:39
Speaker 1: they're already raising concerns about executive overreach of the president
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Speaker 1: and whether Trump has the authority to spend money without congress.
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Speaker 1: But while the debate plays out, one thing is clear.
28:50
Speaker 1: The pressure is now squarely on the Democrats and lawmakers
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Speaker 1: to figure this out because the longer this standoff continues,
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Speaker 1: the worse the sequences become. And yes, we are talking
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Speaker 1: about airportant disruptions across the country. Thousands of federal workers
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Speaker 1: in financial distress are quitting altogether in a system that
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Speaker 1: millions of Americans rely on every single day, including our economy.
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Speaker 1: So now the question is what will happen next. Does
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Speaker 1: Congress finally reach a deal and fund the DHS, or
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