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The Fight to Keep Men Out of Women’s Sports plus State Department’s Warning in Iran ‘Get Out Now!' · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Can't forget that there's tremendous wealth in the Middle East
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of that wealth is coming over here
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  Speaker 1: good of this country. So my focus is very much
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  Speaker 1: in this country, but you can't lose sight of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we need peace all over the wealth.
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  Speaker 2: If you're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with
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  Speaker 2: Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning, so nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 3: on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two
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  Speaker 3: big stories for you. First up, it is a massive
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  Speaker 3: argument that has major importance for the future of this
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  Speaker 3: generation and for children in sports, specifically bands to ban
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  Speaker 3: men acting like women from playing in women's sports. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to take you inside the Supreme Court where I
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  Speaker 3: set for those oral arguments and what the ramifications could be.
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  Speaker 3: Come June or July and the Supreme Court announces they're ruling. Also,
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  Speaker 3: major protests are continuing to erupt in Iran. This as
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  Speaker 3: the US government says for Americans to get out immediately
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  Speaker 3: and protesters are now being killed by the thousands. So
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  Speaker 3: what is President Trump going to do next. It's the
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  Speaker 3: forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: It was a monumental day at the Supreme Court yesterday
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  Speaker 3: and I had the honor of being there for the
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  Speaker 3: oral arguments and two major cases that have to deal
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  Speaker 3: with men in women's sports and protecting women from men
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  Speaker 3: claiming to be women who have taken over the locker
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  Speaker 3: rooms and the podiums of basically any sport they want
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  Speaker 3: to play. These two cases, they were important. The first
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  Speaker 3: one was Little versus Heacocks, and what it was was
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  Speaker 3: a challenge to an Idaho state law. It was a
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  Speaker 3: simple law that was protecting women's sports. It banned transgender
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  Speaker 3: girls aka boys acting like girls, as well as men
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  Speaker 3: claiming to be women from playing on girls and women's
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  Speaker 3: sports teams. Now, this is one of the things that
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  Speaker 3: President Donald Trump promised he was going to do, protect
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  Speaker 3: women in the locker room and on the playing field,
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  Speaker 3: and now the conservative movement is paying off on fighting
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  Speaker 3: it all the way to the Supreme Court. Now, the
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  Speaker 3: core legal questions that were asked in the first case
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  Speaker 3: were actually really simple. Number one, whether state bands like
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  Speaker 3: the one that happen in Idaho violate the Equal Protection
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  Speaker 3: clause of the Constitution, or if they violate Title nine,
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  Speaker 3: the federal law barring sex discrimination and education. Now you
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  Speaker 3: may ask yourself this question, why does this matter? Well,
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  Speaker 3: if upheld, this decision could validate similar bands in more
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  Speaker 3: than two dozen states, and if it struck down, it
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  Speaker 3: could roll back laws restricting transgender youth participant in school athletics.
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  Speaker 3: As I said in the court, it was very interesting
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  Speaker 3: to watch the radical judges on the Supreme Court. Sadama
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  Speaker 3: Or is a great example of that. Atlanta, Kagan, and Brown.
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  Speaker 3: They all were sitting there and having one big conversation
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  Speaker 3: about how upset they were that there are not more
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  Speaker 3: children that identify as transgendered. Sadamayor almost went to the
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  Speaker 3: point of advocating for parents to transition their kids at
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  Speaker 3: a much younger age, because then that could give them
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  Speaker 3: what they believe is a legal precedence to make a
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  Speaker 3: change to the law mandating the transgender aka men acting
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  Speaker 3: like women or boys acting like girls should be able
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  Speaker 3: to play in women's sports. It was also pretty clear
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  Speaker 3: in this first case that the conservatives on the court
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  Speaker 3: were siding with the idea of sanity, that there is
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  Speaker 3: a difference biologically between men and women. And even if
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  Speaker 3: you decide to play, you know, a crazy medical game
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  Speaker 3: of suppressing hormones or adding estrogen or to stostrum or
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  Speaker 3: whatever the concoction may be to make you more like
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  Speaker 3: the opposite sex, even when it's done perfectly, many times
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  Speaker 3: you still don't fall within the actual numbers needed to
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  Speaker 3: quote claim you are the opposite sex. So the takeaway
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  Speaker 3: from case number one was very clear. This is a
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  Speaker 3: major uphill battle for the left and for the radicals
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  Speaker 3: like the ACLU that are obsessed with destroying women's sports.
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  Speaker 3: There was also the second case, which was West Virginia
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  Speaker 3: versus b p J. It was a challenge to West
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  Speaker 3: Virginia law that similarly bars transgender girls from girls sports teams.
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  Speaker 3: The plaintiff was a transgender student athlete, Becky Pepper Jackson,
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  Speaker 3: who wants to compete in girls track and field. The
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  Speaker 3: legal issue, just like the first case, it's centered on
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  Speaker 3: whether Title nine and the Equal Protection Clause allows or
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  Speaker 3: prohibit states from categorizing sports teams based solely on biological
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  Speaker 3: sex at birth. Now the key argument for the plaintiff
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  Speaker 3: aka the transgender athletes was pretty simple. They kept saying
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  Speaker 3: over and over again that this is discrimination. The attorneys
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  Speaker 3: argue that the Idaho and West Virginia bands unlawfully discriminate
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  Speaker 3: against transgender students and deny them the educational and health
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  Speaker 3: benefits of participating in school sports. The reality is that's
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  Speaker 3: not true. You can participate in the sport in which
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  Speaker 3: you were biologically born, either a man or a woman. Now,
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  Speaker 3: when that argument fell flat on its face, they continued
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  Speaker 3: and contended that the Title nine, interpreted in light of
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  Speaker 3: recent federal guidance they claim, protects transgender students from exclusion
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  Speaker 3: based on gender identity. Again, that is a lie. You
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  Speaker 3: can play the sport that you're included in from the
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  Speaker 3: moment you're born in the sex that you are, and
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  Speaker 3: if you want to start your own league at transgender league,
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  Speaker 3: knock yourself out. Also, the plant have said there's quote
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  Speaker 3: no evidence that the inclusive policies harm cis gender girls sports.
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  Speaker 3: That also blew up in their face inside the courtroom
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  Speaker 3: as I watched as Supreme Court justices on the conservative
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  Speaker 3: side asked a simple question, what percentage of transgenrent athletes
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  Speaker 3: are successful when they switched from male sports to female sports,
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  Speaker 3: and how often do they win? The numbers were staggering.
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  Speaker 3: Just how many times when a man decides to act
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  Speaker 3: like they are a woman, they're able to take away
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  Speaker 3: gold medals or NCAA championships or just winning games. And
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  Speaker 3: then there was the other aspect of the conversation, which
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  Speaker 3: the left hopes you never talk about, how many injury
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  Speaker 3: happen because of men playing in women's sports and what's
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  Speaker 3: the severity of those injuries. Well, they can be catastrophic.
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  Speaker 3: We have seen major injuries, career ending injuries when men
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  Speaker 3: play in women's sports. Now, the key arguments for the
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  Speaker 3: States were pretty clear. Fairness in women's sports is what
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  Speaker 3: this is all about. The state lawyers and the supporting
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  Speaker 3: briefs that were delivered emphasized that policymakers have historically separated,
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  Speaker 3: for good reason, teams by biological sex to protect opportunities
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  Speaker 3: for girls and protect opportunities for women. They also argue
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  Speaker 3: that states have authority under Title nin to limit team
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  Speaker 3: eligibility to biological females for competitive fairness and safety reasons.
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  Speaker 3: The takeaway from being in the courtroom is this the
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  Speaker 3: oral arguments suggest clearly that the conservative majority on the
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  Speaker 3: Court may be sympathetic to the state's argument and then
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  Speaker 3: clined up hold the Idaho and West Virginia laws. The ACLU,
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  Speaker 3: in fact, got themselves into a point where they couldn't
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  Speaker 3: even define for the court what the definition of a
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  Speaker 3: woman or a man is. That is just how radical
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  Speaker 3: the left has truly become. Yes, the ACLU couldn't answer
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  Speaker 3: that simple question, but wants to change the way that
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  Speaker 3: sports are running this country. At the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's pretty clear that this was a big
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  Speaker 3: victory in court at the Supreme Court today, and a
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  Speaker 3: big victory hopefully will be confirmed by the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 3: when the ruling comes down, likely in June or July.
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  Speaker 2: Now, story number two.
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  Speaker 3: There is a new warning for Americans in Iran. Get
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  Speaker 3: out now. Why it looks like America is getting closer
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  Speaker 3: to defending those that are standing up for their freedom
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  Speaker 3: and being killed in Iran as we speak. We're seeing
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  Speaker 3: multiple different tallies that have been put out depending on
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  Speaker 3: who you listen to. But what we do know now
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  Speaker 3: is that it looks like not hundreds, but thousands of
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  Speaker 3: Iranians have been killed. Reuters is reporting as we speak
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  Speaker 3: that Iranian officials are admitting to roughly two thousand people
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  Speaker 3: that have been killed. The official quote blamed the terrorists
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  Speaker 3: and did not provide supporting details. Rights groups and activists
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  Speaker 3: documentation are saying they believe it's more in the three
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  Speaker 3: to five thousand people that have been killed at range.
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  Speaker 3: The Associated Press reported the US based human rights activist
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  Speaker 3: news agency is now estimating over three thousand deaths as
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  Speaker 3: we speak. We also are being told that there's more
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  Speaker 3: than eighteen thousand Iranians that have been detained, and many
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  Speaker 3: times when you're detained, you end up being killed by
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  Speaker 3: the government. There's also even higher end claims that are
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  Speaker 3: coming out but have not independently been verified, that the
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  Speaker 3: count nationwide in Iran is more like twelve to twenty
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  Speaker 3: thousand that have been killed. CBS News reporting claims of
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  Speaker 3: twelve thousand or as many as twenty thousand deaths as
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  Speaker 3: they are saying, the news is trickling out. Why because
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  Speaker 3: the government still has the blackout on communications. The Internet
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  Speaker 3: and the phones are down. The bottom line is the
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  Speaker 3: redline that the President talked about has been crossed. The
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  Speaker 3: most cited documented figure in major wire reporting is now
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  Speaker 3: saying over three thousand that have been murdered by the
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  Speaker 3: IATOLA and the crackdown, well, it's brutal. Most are describing
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  Speaker 3: live fire and mass arrests, overwhelmed hospitals, and intimidation even
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  Speaker 3: a medical staff to save people's lives who have been
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  Speaker 3: hurt or shot. When Guardian reports cited doctors describing hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of gunshot eye injuries at a single Tehran hospital, meaning
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  Speaker 3: the Iatola is telling them to shoot them in the eye.
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  Speaker 3: America's response has been very clear. President Trump said that
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  Speaker 3: we will defend those that are being attacked, and the
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  Speaker 3: President is urging Iranians to keep protesting and saying help
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  Speaker 3: is on the way, without specifically giving details. He also
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  Speaker 3: warned of a very strong action if Iran carries out
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  Speaker 3: executions of protesters, some that apparently have already been planned,
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  Speaker 3: and suspending and halting meetings and contacts with Iranian officials
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  Speaker 3: until the violence stops. The State Department in the US
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  Speaker 3: government also making it clear for a travel advisory. They
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  Speaker 3: plainly stated do not travel to Iran for any reason.
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  Speaker 3: US citizens in Iran should also leave immediately. They also
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  Speaker 3: emphasize that there is no US embassy in Iran and
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  Speaker 3: warrens of risk, including civil unrest and arbitrary detention. Separately,
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  Speaker 3: the US Virtual Embassy Iran Security alert also high lights
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  Speaker 3: land border departures is an option when safe, and reiterate
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  Speaker 3: the lack of in country US consular support if you
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  Speaker 3: need help now. The warning to Americans Iran is clear,
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  Speaker 3: leave immediately practically and safety first, wording saying quote, if
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  Speaker 3: you're a US is and currently in Iran, the US
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  Speaker 3: State Department guidances leave Iran now. Do not expect the
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  Speaker 3: US help Inside of Iran. The US has is again
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  Speaker 3: no embassy. If safe to do so, you should even
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  Speaker 3: consider departying by land via neighboring countries, referencing the US
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  Speaker 3: alert saying plans for these communication outages are also hard
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  Speaker 3: to communicate, and they said if you cannot depart immediately,
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  Speaker 3: shelter in a secure location, keep a low profile, and
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  Speaker 3: establish backup ways to communicate with family, satellite or other
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  Speaker 3: methods if available. So here we are at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day. There's a blackout on purpose of good
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  Speaker 3: information now the country. But what we now do know
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  Speaker 3: is Iran says it's open to talks with the US
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  Speaker 3: amid the protest crackdowns that are happening. We also know
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  Speaker 3: that it's very clear that the President is planning something.
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  Speaker 3: What that may be, we don't know when it could happen.
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  Speaker 3: We also don't know, but more than likely it's going
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  Speaker 3: to happen in the very near future, and we'll cover
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  Speaker 3: all of it for you here.
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