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How The Iran War Ends, Talking to Astronauts & Illegals Keep Committing Crimes · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 2: got a lot to talk about in the show, including
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Speaker 2: an update on Iran, and there's a lot happening there
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Speaker 3: First and foremost, after thirty nine days of an active
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Speaker 3: military campaign against Iran, after bombing their military, bombing their missiles,
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Speaker 3: bombing their droans, bombing their air force, bombing their navy,
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Speaker 3: we have had incredible military success and President Trump has
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Speaker 3: announced a two week ceasefire, a two week ceasefire that
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Speaker 3: is happening as we speak. We're going to break down
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Speaker 3: exactly what has been accomplished so far in Iran, what
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Speaker 3: the military successes have been, and what's next, what President
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Speaker 3: Trump is demanding of Iran, Iran has to do to
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Speaker 3: have the ceasefire continue, and what's going to happen with
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Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuz. All of that we're going to
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Speaker 3: break down. We're also going to tell you about a
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Speaker 3: conversation I had this week with four astronauts on Artemis
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Speaker 3: two coming back from the Moon orbiting the Moon. I'll
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Speaker 3: bring you inside mission control at Johnson Space Center where
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Speaker 3: I was connected directly to them, and we're going to
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Speaker 3: talk about going back to the Moon and beating China
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Speaker 3: to the Moon. And finally, we're going to talk about
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Speaker 3: the lasting consequences that America still suffers from Joe Biden's
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Speaker 3: releasing violent criminals, and day after day we see Americans
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Speaker 2: But first, I want to take a moment before we
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Speaker 2: ORG Center. Let's start with Iran, and it is clear that,
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Speaker 2: as Sentcom chief put it today, Iran has suffered a
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Speaker 2: generational military defeat. They described as a forty year military
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Speaker 2: build up that has been crushed in under forty days.
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Speaker 2: Yet on TV, Democrats are using the word a lot
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Speaker 2: in the last twenty four hours. And that word that
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Speaker 2: they're obsessed with now is a quagmire. Forget the definition
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Speaker 2: of a quagmire. And actually, if you related to military
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Speaker 2: intervention or a war, usually that word is used after
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Speaker 2: years of what has become stagnant. But they're like, oh no,
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump's got to said a quagmire. Your reaction to
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Speaker 2: all of that, well.
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Speaker 3: I will say, we had thirty nine days of active
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Speaker 3: military conflict, and if you look at what occurred, we
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Speaker 3: took out the entirety of Iran's air defenses. We took
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Speaker 3: out the entirety of their ballistic missiles, their ballistic missile launchers,
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Speaker 3: their ballistic missile manufacturing capability. We took out the entirety
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Speaker 3: of their drone arsenal, the entirety of their drone launchers,
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Speaker 3: We took out their drone manufacturing capacity. We also took
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Speaker 3: out their air force which which is virtually nonexistent at
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Speaker 3: this point. We took out their navy, sinking more than
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Speaker 3: one hundred and forty naval ships. It's the single largest
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Speaker 3: naval defeat since World War II. And all of that
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Speaker 3: is on top of the fact that we took out
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Speaker 3: the Iatola and virtually the entirety of the military leadership.
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Speaker 3: Here's what US Central commit under Admiral Bradley Cooper had
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Speaker 3: to say. He said, quote, we set out to dismantle
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Speaker 3: Iran's military capability, and we clearly accomplished this task. He said,
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Speaker 3: Iran's conventional military quote built over forty years at the
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Speaker 3: cost of billions of dollars, has been eliminated. He further elaborated, quote,
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Speaker 3: our core strategic military objectives have been achieved after destroying
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Speaker 3: Iran's missile, drone, and naval capabilities and their defensive industrial base.
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Speaker 3: Outlining what he characterized as a comprehensive dismantling of Iran's
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Speaker 3: war machine. The sent Con commander emphasized the scale of
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Speaker 3: the operation. We conducted more than thirteen thousand let me
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Speaker 3: repeat that, thirteen thousand strikes on Iranian military targets. We
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Speaker 3: flew thousands upon thousands of combat miss over Iran, and
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Speaker 3: as Admiral Cooper put it, quote in less than forty days,
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Speaker 3: you destroyed the military that Iran had built for over
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Speaker 3: forty years. He also said more than fifty thousand American
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Speaker 3: service members took part in the operation, and he called
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Speaker 3: it a mission of profound consequences which exceeded each in
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Speaker 3: every expectation for what the forces achieved. And he went
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Speaker 3: on to say, quote we remain present, we remain vigilant,
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Speaker 3: and we remain ready if called. And he added that
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Speaker 3: the United States Forces would continue to stand quote shoulder
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Speaker 3: to shoulder with regional partners to maintain quote the most
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Speaker 3: sophisticated and largest active air defense umbrella in the world.
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Speaker 3: That is a big deal. The success that was carried
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Speaker 3: out was extraordinary. Now the question is after that. And
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Speaker 3: by the way, the instant the attack started, Democrats began attacking,
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Speaker 3: not Iran, not attacking the people who chant death to America,
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Speaker 3: not attacking the regime that has been the world's leading
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Speaker 3: state sponsor of terrorism. Not attacking the Iranian regime that
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Speaker 3: provides over ninety percent of the funding to Hamas, over
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Speaker 3: ninety percent of the funding to Hezbelo, over ninety percent
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Speaker 3: of the funding. The houthis no, the Democrats didn't attack
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Speaker 3: any of that. What did they attack our commander in
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Speaker 3: chief Donald J.
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Speaker 1: Trump.
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Speaker 3: You know, it used to be that politics end at
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Speaker 3: the nation's border, at our water's edge, and yet today
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Speaker 3: the instant this military conflict began the Democrats hate Trump
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Speaker 3: so much. Rather than stand with our troops, rather than
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Speaker 3: stand for defeating our enemies, they immediately began cheering effectively
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Speaker 3: for the United States to lose.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about what success actually looks like. We know
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Speaker 2: that Democrats, as you mentioned before, the they're criticizing Trump
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Speaker 2: because he didn't bomb the power plants and the roads.
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Speaker 2: But if he would have done it, they said that
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Speaker 2: he would be then committing war crimes and he should
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Speaker 2: be arrested.
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Speaker 1: So which one is it?
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Speaker 3: Well, look, they're wrong on both fronts. So let's talk
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Speaker 3: about what President Trump is demanding of Iran for this
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Speaker 3: ceasefire to continue. And mind you, this is a two
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Speaker 3: week ceasefire. There's no guarantee if Iran fails, the ceasefire
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Speaker 3: will end. But President Trump is making three demands and
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Speaker 3: I agree with all of them. Number one, he is
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Speaker 3: insisting that Iran engage in no enrichment, zero enrichment of uranium. Now,
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Speaker 3: Iran has been pressing back repeatedly saying them a right
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Speaker 3: to enricheranium. Of course, Barack Obama and his disastrous Iran
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Speaker 3: Nuclear Deal effectively protected their right to enrich uranium, which
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Speaker 3: would have led inexorably to Iran having a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 3: And listen, when you have an Ayatola, who's a religious zealot,
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Speaker 3: who chance death to America, who has killed nearly a
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Speaker 3: thousand Americans, the idea of any universe in which he
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Speaker 3: has a nuclear weapon where he could kill in the
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Speaker 3: blink of an eye hundreds of thousands of Americans, that's
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Speaker 3: utterly unacceptable. So President Trump is right to insist zero enrichment.
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Speaker 3: Number one. Number two, Iran has a substantial stockpile of
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Speaker 3: enriched uranium. President Trump is insisting hand over your enriched uranium.
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Speaker 3: You cannot keep it, you cannot hold on to it.
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Speaker 3: You must hand it over. He is absolutely right to
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Speaker 3: insist on that as well. And then number three, President
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Speaker 3: Trump is insisting open the strait of hormose and keep
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Speaker 3: it open. You cannot use this as a choke point.
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Speaker 3: That is exactly right. Now, I will say. You have
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Speaker 3: some Democrats some of the media that are saying, oh,
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Speaker 3: they're actually saying Iran won this war because they threaten
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Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuse. Look, Iran has an engaged in
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Speaker 3: terrorism for forty seven years. They are continuing to engage
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Speaker 3: in terrorism. I cannot none of us can promise today
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Speaker 3: that Iran will stop engaging in terrorism. But what President
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Speaker 3: Trump has done is number one, dramatically limited their ability
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Speaker 3: to engage in warfare to kill Americans or to kill
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Speaker 3: Iran's neighbors. The missiles are gone, the drones are gone,
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Speaker 3: the air force jets are gone, the air defenses are gone,
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Speaker 3: the naval ships are gone. All of that, not to
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Speaker 3: mention the military leadership has been killed. All of that
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Speaker 3: has dramatically weakened Iran's ability to kill others. As for
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Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump made a clear and
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Speaker 3: direct threat, if you do not open the strait, we
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Speaker 3: will bomb your power plants and we will bomb your bridges. Now,
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Speaker 3: Democrats had a conniption fit. They said, it is a
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Speaker 3: war crime to bomb power plants. Now, in our life,
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Speaker 3: last podcast that we did on Wednesday, we went through
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Speaker 3: the Pentagon Manual on warfare. That makes very explicit that
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Speaker 3: power plants, civilian power plants are legitimate military targets because
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Speaker 3: they're integral for the military defense of a nation. They
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Speaker 3: power communication, they power the military system, and so they
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Speaker 3: are have long been treated as legitimate military target targets
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Speaker 3: under the rules of war. Of course, that doesn't stop
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Speaker 3: the corporate media, that doesn't stop the Democrats from screaming
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Speaker 3: war crime. But Bennett's worth underscoring why did President Trump
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Speaker 3: threaten the power plants and the bridges? The obvious thing
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Speaker 3: to threaten, the thing that would be the most devastating
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Speaker 3: to Iran is to threaten the oil infrastructure, to threaten
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Speaker 3: the refineries, to threaten carg Island, which is the main point,
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Speaker 3: the main terminal through which oil is exported. If the
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Speaker 3: United States bombed the oil infrastructure in Iran, it would
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Speaker 3: utterly cripple their economy. That is, the vast majority of
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Speaker 3: the revenue that the Iran Iranian government receives that the
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Speaker 3: Iranian people receive is revenue from selling oil, and if
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Speaker 3: we bomb those facilities, it would be devastating to the
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Speaker 3: Iranian economy. Why does Trump not want to do it? Well,
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Speaker 3: quite sensibly because when this military conflict is over, Iran
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Speaker 3: presumably is going to need to rebuild. It's not going
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Speaker 3: to be American taxpayers who rebuild. We're not going to
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Speaker 3: rebuild at all. We're not going to spend our money
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Speaker 3: to do that. But if we have a government in
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Speaker 3: Iran that is not run by Islamists, that is not
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Speaker 3: actively trying to murder Americans, then presumably that government is
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Speaker 3: going to need to rebuild from the consequences of this war.
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Speaker 3: And the only way that they're going to be able
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Speaker 3: to rebuild with any speed, any alacrity, is if they
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Speaker 3: are able to sell the oil they have and have
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Speaker 3: that revenue. And so President Trump, I think quite sensibly,
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Speaker 3: is focusing on other choke points that are not the
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Speaker 3: beating heart of the Iranian economy going forward. That's why
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Speaker 3: threatened power plants and bridges. And let me be clear,
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Speaker 3: I think there is still a very real possibility President
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Speaker 3: Trump follows through on that threat and takes out the
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Speaker 3: power plants in Iran, which would plunge that nation into darkness,
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Speaker 3: would literally turn out the lights. I think President Trump
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Speaker 3: will do that if number one Iran continues to shut
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Speaker 3: down the Strait of horror moves. I think that if
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Speaker 3: they think Donald Trump is bluffing, they are making a
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Speaker 3: bad calculus. And the previous Iatola made that calculus and
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Speaker 3: he did not live twenty four hours into this military conflict.
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Speaker 3: The current leaders have to make their own judgment. But
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Speaker 3: in my view, Trump is not bluffing.
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Speaker 2: When you talk about Trump not bluffing on this one,
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Speaker 2: there's people that say, well, he's just reaching for straws here,
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Speaker 2: He's just trying to salvage this thing.
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Speaker 1: I disagree with that.
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Speaker 2: I think what we've done with our military in the
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Speaker 2: last forty days is truly just remarkable. It's historic taking
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Speaker 2: out a forty year military in forty days. It's a
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Speaker 2: year a day, if you want to break it down
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Speaker 2: in a different perspective, for every year it took them
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Speaker 2: to do to build their military. It took us one
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Speaker 2: day to take out of year's worth of work in
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Speaker 2: forty years and forty days is pretty impressive. But there's
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Speaker 2: also a real political concern here about the midterms coming up.
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Speaker 2: That's something that I hear a lot of people that,
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Speaker 2: by the way, support the president. I look, we got
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Speaker 2: to get this thing over with. This is going to
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Speaker 2: ruin us. The midterms. How concerned are you about the
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Speaker 2: quote politics playing back at home with this.
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Speaker 3: Look, we need to do the right thing, and we
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Speaker 3: need to keep America safe. President Trump is a strong
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Speaker 3: commander in chief, and he launched this military attack because
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Speaker 3: Iran has been waging war against the United States. They
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Speaker 3: have been funding terrorism, they've been murdering Americans, and they've
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Speaker 3: stated they had intended to continue funding terrorism and murdering Americans.
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Speaker 3: So he was acting to keep Americans safe. Unlike Barack Obama,
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Speaker 3: Unlike past presidents, he's not engaged in nation building. He's
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Speaker 3: not invading foreign nations and putting our sons and daughters
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Speaker 3: in harm's way to achieve amorphous goals like spreading democracy.
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Speaker 3: Spreading democracy may be a wonderful thing, but we're not
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Speaker 3: going to sacrifice our fighting men and women to do it.
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Speaker 3: What he is doing is taking out a real threat
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Speaker 3: that was threatening the lives of Americans. The politics will come.
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Speaker 3: He needs to focus on doing the right thing. That's
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Speaker 3: exactly what President Trump is doing.
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Speaker 1: All right, Senator, I want to get to something else.
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Speaker 2: There's been so much about Iran in the news for
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Speaker 2: good reason, but there's also some other really big news
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Speaker 2: items that are happening, and one of them is our astronauts,
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Speaker 2: and you got to talk to them after this launch
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Speaker 2: on their way back to Earth.
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Speaker 3: Well I did in terms of when I came home
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Speaker 3: this evening and my family asked, what'd you do today?
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Speaker 3: I was able to answer, well, I talked to four
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Speaker 3: astronauts today coming back from the Moon. And it's not
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Speaker 3: often you get to say something like that. So kidding
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Speaker 3: you look at the Artemist two mission. The Artemist two
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Speaker 3: mission launched eight days ago. It's a nine day long mission.
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Speaker 3: It is the first time we have sent men back
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Speaker 3: to the Moon since the Apollo program. It's been nearly
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Speaker 3: fifty years now. Of course, they did not land on
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Speaker 3: the Moon, but we launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
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Speaker 3: They launched, left the Earth's atmosphere, went to the Moon,
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Speaker 3: they orbited around the Moon, and now they're returning back.
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Speaker 3: And so they actually went further from Earth than any
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Speaker 3: human being says that have ever been and they're on
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Speaker 3: their journey back. When I spoke to them, it was
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Speaker 3: just under twenty four hours before splashdown. They're scheduled to
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Speaker 3: splash down sixty miles off the coast of San Diego
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Speaker 3: at just after seven pm on Friday, and so I
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Speaker 3: spoke to the four astronauts. You have Reid and Victor,
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Speaker 3: you have Christina and Jeremy, and they're all in the
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Speaker 3: Orion capsule.
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Speaker 1: I know all four of them.
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Speaker 3: I was there when their astronaut class was selected to
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Speaker 3: be on Artemis two. Artemis four, by the way, is
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Speaker 3: going to be the mission that actually goes and lands
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Speaker 3: on the Moon and puts another astronaut on the Moon.
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Speaker 3: One of the reasons, why do you know why this
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Speaker 3: particular set of missions is called Artemis.
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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you that why, because I
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Speaker 1: know you've been briefed on it.
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Speaker 3: Well, in Greek mythology, Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo,
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Speaker 3: and so they were twins, and in Apollo, that was
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Speaker 3: the last time we landed astronauts on the Moon, and
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Speaker 3: we landed only men on the moon. This mission, NASA's
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Speaker 3: said from day one, we're going to land the first
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Speaker 3: woman on the Moon. And that's why they named it Artemis,
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Speaker 3: because we're going to have a female astronaut in addition
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Speaker 3: to male astronauts. We're gonna have both. And I got
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Speaker 3: to say, look, I'm as you know, I'm the father
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Speaker 3: of daughters. I have two teenage girls, and I really
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Speaker 3: like the fact that the plan is by twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: eight we're going to land on the Moon. And I
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Speaker 3: like the fact that we're going to put the first
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Speaker 3: woman on the Moon. That's something my daughters can be
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Speaker 3: proud of, they can look forward to. They can say, look,
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Speaker 3: I can do anything if I want. I can be
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Speaker 3: an astronaut, I can land on the Moon.
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Speaker 1: And you look back.
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Speaker 3: You and I were not alive in nineteen sixty nine
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Speaker 3: when Neil Armstrong first stepped on the surface of the Moon,
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Speaker 3: but it inspired an entire generation of Americans, an entire
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Speaker 3: generation across the world. And I'll tell you you and
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Speaker 3: I both live in Houston, our hometown or my hometown
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Speaker 3: of Houston, and your current town of Houston has an
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Speaker 3: incredible history with space. One of the very first words
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Speaker 3: ever uttered on the surface of the Moon was Houston. Houston,
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Speaker 3: the eagle is landed. And our city. There's a reason
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Speaker 3: why the sports teams are the Astros and the Rockets,
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Speaker 3: and we now have a WNBA's team coming back. That's
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Speaker 3: the Comets. I mean, our our city sports. The Astrodome
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Speaker 3: is where the Asteroid played played forever. Astroworld used to
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Speaker 3: be our theme park. Sadly it closed. We're a city.
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Speaker 3: You look at Commercial Space. The four Artemis astronauts trained
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Speaker 3: right here in Houston at Johnson Space Center. That's where
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Speaker 3: every astronaut trains. It's where mission control is. So I
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Speaker 3: went today down to mission control. I met with the
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Speaker 3: engineers who are controlling everything that is happening up there,
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Speaker 3: and got to you know, sort of like et got
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Speaker 3: the phone home and talked to We did a call
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Speaker 3: that had about a dozen members of Congress and we
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Speaker 3: talked to the astronauts. Jared Isaacman, who's the administrator of NASA,
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Speaker 3: he spoke first, and I got to say it was
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Speaker 3: really cool. He spoke to them and and he greeted
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Speaker 3: them and thanked them for what they were doing. And
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Speaker 3: he said, he said, I'm speaking to you on behalf
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Speaker 3: of the people of Earth. And I got to say
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Speaker 3: that was really cool to hear. And I commented right
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Speaker 3: after that, I said, that is the first time in
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Speaker 3: my life I've stood next to someone or stood with
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Speaker 3: someone who greeted someone on behalf of the people of Earth.
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Speaker 3: And that was not hyperbole. You look at they traveled
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Speaker 3: over two hundred and fifty thousand miles. The Orion capsule
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Speaker 3: itself is really small. The capsules three hundred and thirty
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Speaker 3: cubic feet of volume. It is sixteen and a half
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Speaker 3: feet wide, and it is eleven feet tall, and it's
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Speaker 3: round and sort of shaped like a cone. And four
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Speaker 3: people have been living that. The size has been compared
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Speaker 3: to about the size of Too Mini vans, so four
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Speaker 3: people have been living in Too minivans for nine days.
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Speaker 3: I have been in a mockup of the capsule. It's
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Speaker 3: really small. I mean there's not much room at all.
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Speaker 3: And by the way, it's four people sharing, among other things,
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Speaker 3: one one toilet, and in fact they had a problem
21:03
Speaker 3: where the toilet jammed and that they had to play
21:07
Speaker 3: space plumbers. And it has been fascinating. There have been
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Speaker 3: millions of people watching them just day to day doing
21:18
Speaker 3: their mission in space and watching them. It's been live
21:21
Speaker 3: stream and they've been doing a lot of media interviews,
21:24
Speaker 3: which I think is really powerful. One of the most
21:26
Speaker 3: important purposes of the space mission is to inspire the
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Speaker 3: next generation, and I think in the midst of all
21:34
Speaker 3: the other challenges we have going on seeing that that
21:38
Speaker 3: that four human beings are capable of going back to
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Speaker 3: the Moon and knowing the promise that we're soon going
21:44
Speaker 3: to be walking on them, and by the way, not
21:45
Speaker 3: just walking on the Moon. It is the objective of
21:49
Speaker 3: NASA and I have written this into law that we
21:53
Speaker 3: will have sustained human habitation on the surface of the Moon.
21:57
Speaker 3: And President Trump is committed to building a lunar base.
22:02
Speaker 3: And one of the cool things been, you know, representing
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Speaker 3: Texas for fourteen years, just about every single major piece
22:10
Speaker 3: of space legislation that has passed in the last fourteen years,
22:15
Speaker 3: I've either written or co written, and so I've had
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Speaker 3: space legislation signed by Barack Obama. I've had space legislation
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Speaker 3: signed by Donald Trump. I've had space legislation signed by
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Speaker 3: Joe Biden. And one of the things I've worked hard
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Speaker 3: on to do is keep space out of partisan politics.
22:34
Speaker 3: There's so much partisan politics on everything else. But if
22:38
Speaker 3: America is going to lead in space, listen. China has
22:42
Speaker 3: stated their goal they want to go to the Moon
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Speaker 3: by twenty thirty. They want to beat us to the moon,
22:46
Speaker 3: and there's a land rush. The most the optimum land
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Speaker 3: to occupy is at the South Pole. It's at the
22:54
Speaker 3: south pole where there is water. Water is available for
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Speaker 3: human habitation, for energy, but it's also the crater is
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Speaker 3: high enough that you can see the sun and have
23:04
Speaker 3: solar power, and so the South Pole, the scientists believe,
23:08
Speaker 3: is the optimum location. We're in race to get there,
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Speaker 3: and the United States intends to win. We're going to
23:14
Speaker 3: beat China. And a big part of the way we're
23:16
Speaker 3: beating China is not letting this be subject to the
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Speaker 3: back and forth partisan political bickering so much else is.
23:24
Speaker 3: And I'm proud of the fact that for fourteen years
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Speaker 3: we have kept American leadership in space outside of partisan politics.
23:31
Speaker 2: Sinner, Let's talk about also just something that's going to
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Speaker 2: be really exciting, and that is the prospect that I
23:37
Speaker 2: and also my kids are going to be able to
23:39
Speaker 2: see us land on the Moon again.
23:41
Speaker 1: When is that expected to happen?
23:44
Speaker 2: And I know you've learned a lot about that and
23:47
Speaker 2: this plans, and this is obviously this trip is one
23:50
Speaker 2: very big step getting us much closer to that.
23:53
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty eight is the target date to land back
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Speaker 3: on the Moon and to take astronauts safely to the
23:58
Speaker 3: surface of the Moon. And then back again to planet Earth.
24:02
Speaker 3: And the plan is for it to be in the
24:03
Speaker 3: last year of President Trump's presidency. And by the way,
24:07
Speaker 3: I will say OMB the Office of Management and Budget.
24:10
Speaker 3: Last year there were some folks at OMB that wanted
24:13
Speaker 3: to drastically slash the budget to go to the Moon.
24:17
Speaker 3: They had decided Mars was more important than the Moon
24:20
Speaker 3: was going to be substantially deprioritized. And what happened last
24:26
Speaker 3: year when we were passing the big reconciliation bill, the
24:28
Speaker 3: Working Family's tax cut, I decided that was a terrible
24:32
Speaker 3: thing for the United States. I was not going to
24:34
Speaker 3: sit by and watch America lose to China and seed
24:38
Speaker 3: the Moon to China. And so when we were writing
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Speaker 3: the reconciliation bill, I wrote in ten billion dollars to
24:47
Speaker 3: fund going back to the Moon, to fund artemists, to
24:49
Speaker 3: fund what is happening right now. And OMB was really
24:52
Speaker 3: unhappy with me. It was a battle, but I had
24:54
Speaker 3: the support, I had locked down the votes in the Senate,
24:58
Speaker 3: and so we passed it in law. And it was
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Speaker 3: an example of Article one of the Constitution, the Congress
25:04
Speaker 3: exercising its authority. And I'll tell you what I told
25:07
Speaker 3: the President I said, look, if we were to look
25:09
Speaker 3: up in twenty twenty eight or twenty thirty and see
25:12
Speaker 3: the Chinese on the moon, understand that they had gotten
25:14
Speaker 3: there and beaten us there, and seize the high ground
25:17
Speaker 3: and the preferred location, I think it would be more
25:20
Speaker 3: damaging to this country than Sputnik was when the Soviets
25:23
Speaker 3: launched a satellite in the space. We are not going
25:26
Speaker 3: to lose the race with China and Artemis too. It's
25:29
Speaker 3: an inspirational example of America leading in America winning.
25:33
Speaker 2: We want to talk about another issue that it needs
25:36
Speaker 2: to be back on the radar screen for a lot
25:39
Speaker 2: of Americans, and that is that continual crimes are being
25:43
Speaker 2: committed by illegal immigrants that are in this country. The
25:47
Speaker 2: media continues to overlook this. They don't want you to
25:51
Speaker 2: know that it's happening. But it's another example of why
25:53
Speaker 2: the President needs to be fighting so hard against these
25:55
Speaker 2: sanctuary cities that are harboring many of these criminals, or
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Speaker 2: is he would describe them really bad?
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Speaker 1: Ombrace Well.
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Speaker 3: You may recall back in twenty twenty four the Republican
26:05
Speaker 3: National Convention, when I spoke and addressed the convention, my
26:09
Speaker 3: remarks were focused on this topic, and the theme of
26:13
Speaker 3: it was every damn day, every day, another American has raped,
26:18
Speaker 3: another American is assaulted, another American is murdered by a
26:23
Speaker 3: violent criminal, illegal alien that Joe Biden and the Democrats
26:26
Speaker 3: have released. And I walked through the tragic cases of
26:29
Speaker 3: Joscelyn Nungary, the beautiful twelve year old girl raped and
26:32
Speaker 3: murdered here in Houston. I walked through Lake and Riley,
26:36
Speaker 3: the horrific murder of the young nursing student in Georgia.
26:40
Speaker 3: I walked through Rachel Morin, the mom of five raped
26:45
Speaker 3: and murdered outside of Washington, d C. It was happening
26:48
Speaker 3: over and over and over again. That was one of
26:52
Speaker 3: the big reasons that the voters came out in overwhelming numbers,
26:55
Speaker 3: re elected President Trump, elected a Republican House, elected a
26:59
Speaker 3: Republican Senate, and we've seen immediate results. We've seen illegal
27:04
Speaker 3: border crossings drop more than ninety nine percent. The problem is,
27:08
Speaker 3: we have four years of open borders that we have
27:11
Speaker 3: to unwind. We have over twelve million illegal aliens that
27:14
Speaker 3: were allowed to flood into this country. And so just
27:16
Speaker 3: this week, the story broke that a gas station clerk,
27:21
Speaker 3: a mom in Fort Myers, Florida, was bludgeoned to death
27:27
Speaker 3: with a hammer. I mean, what a horrible way to
27:29
Speaker 3: go beaten to death with a hammer. And who is
27:32
Speaker 3: it that committed this crime? A Haitian illegal alien who
27:37
Speaker 3: was caught and then released at the border by the
27:40
Speaker 3: Biden administration. In twenty twenty two, an immigration judge ordered
27:44
Speaker 3: him deported. Robert Joshim is his name, but the Biden
27:50
Speaker 3: administration shielded him from deportation by granting him temporary protected status. So,
27:59
Speaker 3: in other word, wards what this person did. He took
28:02
Speaker 3: a hammer the parking lot of a gas station. He
28:05
Speaker 3: walks at her with full strengths. He beats her on
28:08
Speaker 3: the head with a hammer. She falls down, unconscious, and
28:11
Speaker 3: then he crushes her head with the hammer while she's
28:15
Speaker 3: unconscious six more times. Here's the statement of the Department
28:20
Speaker 3: Homeland Security put out quote. This illegal alien barbarically hit
28:26
Speaker 3: this woman in the head multiple times with a hammer.
28:30
Speaker 3: This heinous murderer was released into the country by the
28:34
Speaker 3: Bidad administration. Not only did the Bida administration release him
28:38
Speaker 3: into the country, but they gave him temporary protected status.
28:42
Speaker 3: Their reckless immigration policies cost this woman her life. This
28:50
Speaker 3: keeps happening over and over and over again. And what
28:58
Speaker 3: is amazing, Ben, In spite of that, every Democrat in
29:02
Speaker 3: the Senate when we have a vote, the Department I'm
29:04
Speaker 3: less Security is still shut down because they have decided
29:07
Speaker 3: they hate ICE so much, they hate border enforcement so
29:10
Speaker 3: much that it is the position of the Democrat Party
29:13
Speaker 3: they are opposed. They want to defund ICE, which is
29:17
Speaker 3: the organizations that is charged with finding this vicious criminal,
29:22
Speaker 3: arresting him and deporting him. They don't want him deported.
29:27
Speaker 3: They want this Haitian murderer in your community. They don't
29:30
Speaker 3: care if you happen to be the poor woman who's
29:34
Speaker 3: bludgeoned to death. Look, you know, Chris Murphy, the very
29:39
Speaker 3: liberal Democrat from Connecticut, was on TV, and you know
29:43
Speaker 3: there's an old line that a gaff is when a
29:45
Speaker 3: politician actually accidentally tells the truth. He described he said,
29:50
Speaker 3: the people we care about the most, meaning we meaning Democrats,
29:56
Speaker 3: are illegal immigrants. That is what their party is. And
30:00
Speaker 3: it's infuriating. It keeps happening over and over and over again.
30:04
Speaker 2: When you talk about it still being shut down, and
30:07
Speaker 2: this is I think one of the midterms are going
30:09
Speaker 2: to be a really important. Obviously, this should be one
30:12
Speaker 2: of the important issues of the midterms that Republicans need
30:14
Speaker 2: to remind if Democrats get back in charge, they've made
30:18
Speaker 2: it clear they will immediately open the borders wide up
30:21
Speaker 2: and they don't care who comes in.
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Speaker 1: It's going to happen. Get ready for it.
30:25
Speaker 2: That is their form, that is their policy, and they
30:27
Speaker 2: will absolutely abolish ice if they can do it as well.
30:32
Speaker 3: And by the way, understand, the risk is not just
30:35
Speaker 3: the murderers. It's not just the child molesters and the
30:38
Speaker 3: rapist and the gang bangers. It is also a very
30:41
Speaker 3: real risk of terrorism. We have seen in the last
30:44
Speaker 3: month four acts of terrorism by radical Islamic terrorists. And
30:48
Speaker 3: here's a story that broke this week. I'm just going
30:51
Speaker 3: to read a tweet from Bill Malusian, the fantastic reporter
30:55
Speaker 3: at Fox.
30:55
Speaker 1: Here's what he said.
30:56
Speaker 3: New Border patrol caught and arrested for British national entering
31:01
Speaker 3: the US illegally in a remote part of Maine after
31:04
Speaker 3: crossing from Canada. Their names these are four British nationals.
31:11
Speaker 3: Ali Mohammad Ali Abdullah that's number one, Hamid Mohammed Nagi
31:18
Speaker 3: that's number two, Ibrahim Ayub Khan, that's number three, and
31:24
Speaker 3: Mohammed Sultan Salai. And these are illegal immigrants that were
31:29
Speaker 3: sneaking into a remote wooded part of Maine. This is dangerous.
31:37
Speaker 3: Now you know what happened. Because President Trump is in
31:40
Speaker 3: office and Border Patrol's allowed to do their job. They
31:42
Speaker 3: were apprehended. They weren't just let in and they're apprehended.
31:47
Speaker 3: You know what, I guarantee you they will not be released.
31:49
Speaker 3: They won't be released into this country. If Joe Biden
31:52
Speaker 3: were president, those four people whose names I just released,
31:55
Speaker 3: they named that they'd be released and we might be
31:58
Speaker 3: reading about them in another week or two. That pattern
32:03
Speaker 3: has played out over and over and over again. And
32:08
Speaker 3: by the way, it's not just illegal immigrants, it is
32:13
Speaker 3: criminals across the board. It is criminals across the board,
32:19
Speaker 3: such as for example, De Carlos Brown, who was this
32:26
Speaker 3: psychotic lunatic who murdered the beautiful Ukrainian woman in North Carolina.
32:35
Speaker 3: He was just ruled not competent to stand trial. And
32:41
Speaker 3: I don't doubt that the guy as crazy as a loon.
32:45
Speaker 3: But let's be clear, Democrats and Roy Cooper in particular,
32:50
Speaker 3: the Democrat governor, released this psychopath murderer fourteen separate times.
33:01
Speaker 3: If you keep releasing violent criminals and it actually helped
33:04
Speaker 3: me on this Ben play Devil's advocate for a minute.
33:08
Speaker 3: Try to get inside the mind of a Democrat. Why
33:11
Speaker 3: would they want to release violent criminals over and over again?
33:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't make sense, and yet they continue to
33:19
Speaker 2: do it because for them, I really do think it's
33:21
Speaker 2: an issue of politics, right, they want to bring in
33:24
Speaker 2: a new voters.
33:25
Speaker 1: That's the simplest way I can put it.
33:27
Speaker 3: Well, it's not just new voters, yes, for the illegals.
33:30
Speaker 3: But you look at this to Carlos Brown, he was
33:32
Speaker 3: not an illegal immigrant. He was just a psychopathic, lunatic American.
33:35
Speaker 3: But you know what Democrats also think, not only should
33:38
Speaker 3: he be released from jail, they think he ought to
33:40
Speaker 3: be a voter. He's perfectly fine to vote in US elections.
33:44
Speaker 3: And I guarantee you violent criminals vote overwhelmingly Democrat. And
33:49
Speaker 3: I guess that explains why the Democrats their priority is
33:52
Speaker 3: violent criminals and not American citizens.
33:55
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