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Hegseth Slams Democrats Over Iran Strike Doubts · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: on the forty seven Morning Update. And here are the
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  Speaker 1: big stories we're talking about today. First up, classified report
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  Speaker 1: is now out suggesting that Iran's nuclear program still intact,
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  Speaker 1: was likely well all faulty info and where to come from,
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  Speaker 1: directly from the Iranian government. Yet the media went with it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the DoD chief Pete Headseth, He's coming out and having
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  Speaker 1: a lot to say about the media telling this story
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  Speaker 1: that is Iranian propaganda. Also, a former Biden official has
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  Speaker 1: now come out on TV saying that IRA's nuclear program
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  Speaker 1: was in fact set back significantly, again the complete opposite
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  Speaker 1: of what the media has been trying to sell you on.
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  Speaker 4: Story number one.
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  Speaker 1: In a scathing report, the CIA director John Radcliffe ripping
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  Speaker 1: Democrats during a closed door briefing of senators on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: by comparing President Donald Trump's successful airstrikes eliminating Rand's nuclear
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  Speaker 1: program to former President Barack Obama's failures with his rand
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  Speaker 1: nuclear deal. A source in the room saying that Radcliffe
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  Speaker 1: and the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the Secretary's
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  Speaker 1: Defense Pete Headseth had all the senators there for a
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  Speaker 1: closed door briefing on Thursday. They said that the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: senators repeatedly pressed them about the effectiveness of the strike,
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  Speaker 1: pushing for more proof than they had been offered on
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  Speaker 1: the matter. In response, Radcliffe told them, per the source
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  Speaker 1: president in the room, the way he knows how effective
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  Speaker 1: they were was how quickly they folded to Trump versus
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  Speaker 1: how long they dragged out negotiations with Obama. You know
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  Speaker 1: how you know the strikes were devastatingly effective, Radcliffe told
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  Speaker 1: the Senate Democrats and the briefing, per one source quote,
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  Speaker 1: Iran has been fighting Israel for decades. They strung along
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  Speaker 1: the Obama administration for twenty months while negotiating the JCPOA,
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  Speaker 1: but Trump made them accept the ceasefire with their mortal
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  Speaker 1: enemy in twenty minutes. Radcliffe wasn't done there. He also
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  Speaker 1: said during the briefing that the contents of a statement
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  Speaker 1: he previously released publicly in which he said the CIA
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  Speaker 1: can confirm that Auran's nuclear program had been severely damaged
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  Speaker 1: by the strikes Trump ordered last weekend, saying, quote, this
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  Speaker 1: includes new intelligence now from an historically reliable and accurate
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  Speaker 1: source and method, that several ki Iranian nuclear facilities were
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  Speaker 1: destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course
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  Speaker 1: of years. Now, Radcliffe was obviously speaking to the centers
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  Speaker 1: in a private room, but that didn't stop the DoD
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Pete Hedseth from telling the world exactly what happened
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  Speaker 1: in these attacks and just how wrong the media actually was.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to his statement at the Pentagon, specifically
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  Speaker 1: speaking to the media that's been lawing about the effectiveness
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  Speaker 1: of the attack, some of.
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  Speaker 5: The assessments that have been provided, because whether it's fake news, CNN,
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  Speaker 5: MSNBC or The New York Times, there's been fawning coverage
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  Speaker 5: of a preliminary assessment.
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  Speaker 2: I've had a chance to read it.
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  Speaker 5: Every outlet has breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment from
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  Speaker 5: DA I'm looking at it right now again. It was
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  Speaker 5: preliminary a day and a half after the actual strike.
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  Speaker 5: When it admits itself in writing that it requires weeks
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  Speaker 5: to accumulate the necessary.
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  Speaker 2: Data to make such an assessments preliminary.
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  Speaker 5: It points out that it's not been coordinated with the
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  Speaker 5: elligence community at all.
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  Speaker 2: There's low confidence in this particular report, it says in
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  Speaker 2: the report. There are gaps in the information.
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  Speaker 5: It says in the report, multiple lynchpin assumptions are what
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  Speaker 5: this assessment a lynchpin assumption?
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  Speaker 2: You know what that is. It means your entire premis
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  Speaker 2: is predicated on a lynch pin. If you're wrong, everything
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  Speaker 2: else is wrong.
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  Speaker 5: And yet still this report acknowledges it's likely severe damage. Again,
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  Speaker 5: this is preliminary, but leaked because someone had an agenda
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  Speaker 5: to try to muddy the waters and make it look
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  Speaker 5: like this historic strike I wasn't successful. I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 5: to the chairman in a moment, because he's going to
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  Speaker 5: lay out the particulars for you based.
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  Speaker 2: On his professional military experience. But here's what other folks
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  Speaker 2: are saying.
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  Speaker 5: The DiiA that put that report out says that this
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  Speaker 5: is a preliminary, low confidence report and will continue to
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  Speaker 5: be refined as additional intelligence becomes available. How about the
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  Speaker 5: Israeli Atomic Energy Commission. The devastating US strikes on Fourdeaux
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  Speaker 5: destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility
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  Speaker 5: inoperab Have any of these quotes made their way into
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  Speaker 5: The New York Times, with The Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN
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  Speaker 5: any of these quotes?
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  Speaker 2: How about this one? This is a new one from
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  Speaker 2: the UN, the United Nations. No friend in the United
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  Speaker 2: States or certainly Israel. Often.
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  Speaker 5: Here's the head of the UN Atomic Energy Agency this morning,
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  Speaker 5: Rafael Grossi, US and Israeli strikes caused enormous damage to
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  Speaker 5: Iran's nuclear sites.
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  Speaker 2: Don't take my word for it. How about the IDF's
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  Speaker 2: chief of staff.
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  Speaker 5: I can say here that the assessment is that we've
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  Speaker 5: significantly damaged the nuclear program, setting.
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  Speaker 2: It back by years. I repeat years.
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  Speaker 5: The Iranian foreign minister, the spokesman, our nuclear instrations have
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  Speaker 5: been badly damaged.
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  Speaker 2: That's for sure. I'm sure that's an understatement.
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  Speaker 5: John Radcliffe, the director of the CIA, putting out a
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  Speaker 5: statement just last night, CIA can confirm that a body
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  Speaker 5: of credible intelligence indicates Iran's nuclear program has been severely
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  Speaker 5: damaged by recent targeted strikes.
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  Speaker 2: This includes new intelligence from.
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  Speaker 5: A historically reliable very different than preliminary assessment with low confidence.
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  Speaker 5: He's saying historically reliable and accurate source of method that
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  Speaker 5: several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have
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  Speaker 5: to be rebuilt over the course of years. CIA continues
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  Speaker 5: to collect additional reliably sourced information to keep appropriate decision
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  Speaker 5: makers fully informed. How about DNA Telsea Gabbard Yesterday, she writes,
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  Speaker 5: and I quote new intelligence confirms what POTUS has stated
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  Speaker 5: numerous times. Iran's nuclear facilities have been destroyed. Institute for
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  Speaker 5: Science and International Security President David Albright. Overall Israel and
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  Speaker 5: US attacks have effectively destroyed un Iran's centrifuge enrichment program
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  Speaker 5: time and time again. I can go down the list
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  Speaker 5: those that understand, those that see, those that do proper
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  Speaker 5: assessments recognize that what the United States military did was historic.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it nice to know that President Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 1: put people like Pete Headset in positions of power to
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  Speaker 1: call out the liars and the leakers and the media
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  Speaker 1: when they try to pull these bs shenanigans lying about
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  Speaker 1: what's happening in reality, especially when it comes to foreign
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  Speaker 1: policy and the issue of our national security.
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  Speaker 4: Now story number two, there is a new.
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  Speaker 1: Classified report that is suggesting that Iran's nuclear program still intact,
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  Speaker 1: likely relied on faulty info Iranian propaganda from Iranian sources.
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  Speaker 1: This is when the media decided to run with the story,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that their propaganda was literally coming from Iran. The
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  Speaker 1: top secret Defense intelligence agency known as the DIA assessment
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  Speaker 1: that claimed Iran's nuclear site suffered only moderate damage likely
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  Speaker 1: relied on faulty information from deceitful Iranian sources that according
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  Speaker 1: to several former US intelligence officers, one of whom described
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  Speaker 1: the documents as so unreliable you can wipe your aas
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  Speaker 1: with it. The classified DIA report ignite a media firestorm
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  Speaker 1: in the days after President Donald Trump authorized those precision
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  Speaker 1: strikes on Iran's top three nuclear sites. The findings, of course,
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  Speaker 1: werein the league to CNN and The New York Times,
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  Speaker 1: which you heard about a moment ago. Then they presented
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  Speaker 1: them as facts, as bombshell evidence that the US bombing
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  Speaker 1: run only set back Tehran's nuclear ambitions by you know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of months. The US intelligence community deemed that
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  Speaker 1: initial assessment with quote low confidence, a fact CNN purposely
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  Speaker 1: admitted from its original story and based it solely on
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  Speaker 1: satellite imagery and intercepted communications known as signal intelligence from
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  Speaker 1: Iranian officials. Again, think about this. You have the Iranian
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  Speaker 1: government putting out propaganda and media companies in this country
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  Speaker 1: putting it out there as fact. Shortly after the assessment leaked,
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  Speaker 1: Axios reported that communications intercepted by Israel suggested that Iran's
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  Speaker 1: military officials have been giving false situation reports to the
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  Speaker 1: country's political leadership, downplaying the extent of the damage. Such
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  Speaker 1: communications likely made their way into the da report. According
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  Speaker 1: to three former US intelligence operatives, including a current US
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  Speaker 1: official and other veteran national security insiders, who spoke to
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  Speaker 1: The Washington Free Beacon both on and off the record,
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  Speaker 1: some of them referred to the DIA as the discount
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  Speaker 1: intelligence agency. It's basically messaging by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard,
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  Speaker 1: messaging by Tehran. That is what a former intelligence officer
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  Speaker 1: with the US Central Command who operated in the Middle
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  Speaker 1: East for nearly thirty years said. In fact, CNN actually
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  Speaker 1: had to report on this, and here's what it sounded
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  Speaker 1: like when a former Biden official had this to say
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  Speaker 1: about Iran's nuclear program.
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  Speaker 6: Usteine, a longtime diplomat who served as President Biden's senior
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  Speaker 6: advisor for Energy and Investment. And I think one question
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  Speaker 6: that regular people will have, you know, listening to what
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  Speaker 6: came out of that briefing today on Capitol Hill from
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  Speaker 6: Republicans from Democrats, is what should they take away when
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  Speaker 6: there is such a divide between the politicians over what
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  Speaker 6: is the fate of Iran's nuclear capacity and where that
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  Speaker 6: stands tonight? What do you think?
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  Speaker 7: Well, first, Caitlin, it's good to be with you. Look,
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  Speaker 7: I think the most important thing is to separate out
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  Speaker 7: what's politics and what is happening on the ground over
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  Speaker 7: the last year a year and a quarter. Last April,
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  Speaker 7: Iran launched a missile attack against Israel, which was one
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  Speaker 7: hundred ballistic missiles company by two hundred or so UAVs.
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  Speaker 7: The United States military coordinated a response and defeated that attack.
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  Speaker 7: But that was really the first time that Iran and
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  Speaker 7: used its own territory to attack Israel. They did it
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  Speaker 7: again in October and again in the United States supported
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  Speaker 7: Israel and with regional partners as well as European countries
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  Speaker 7: to defeat it. And now since then, Iran has lost
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  Speaker 7: most of its deterrence power. They had three things going
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  Speaker 7: for them. They had proxies, meaning terrorist organizations in Lebanon,
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  Speaker 7: in Syria and Iraq and Yemen that supported them. The
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  Speaker 7: second was the missiles, and the third was the thread
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  Speaker 7: of a nuclear weaponization. Of their nuclear capabilities, most of
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  Speaker 7: their proxies are either weakened to the point they can't
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  Speaker 7: respond or are choosing now to distance themselves from Iran.
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  Speaker 7: Their missile capability has been proven to be less effective
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  Speaker 7: because of the United States ability to defend the region,
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  Speaker 7: and now their nuclear capability is likely at least set back.
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  Speaker 7: Now the whole idea of obliterated or destroyed. These are
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  Speaker 7: political terms that are not really relevant, and I would
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  Speaker 7: urge Americans not to really pay attention to those words.
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  Speaker 7: What we do know, we know that as a result
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  Speaker 7: of the both the Israeli the American strikes, the nuclear
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  Speaker 7: program was set back significantly. How much we don't really know.
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  Speaker 7: Most Israeli military analysts and generals that I've spoken to
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  Speaker 7: over the last twenty four to forty eight hours, I
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  Speaker 7: think this has gone from a six months breakout to
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  Speaker 7: timeframe to two years, so an eighteen month or two
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  Speaker 7: year delay in their program. But here's the thing. They
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  Speaker 7: have also lost other capabilities they've lost their command of control,
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  Speaker 7: they've lost military leaders, they've lost scientists, and they lost
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  Speaker 7: their conversion so they're clearly weakened. And lastly, Israel has
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  Speaker 7: proven that they have an intelligence givability inside Iran that
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  Speaker 7: if they tried to reconstitute will we the United States, Israel,
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  Speaker 7: other European allies will know about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yet again, more proof of the propaganda coming from the
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  Speaker 1: media trying to convince you that somehow one of the
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  Speaker 1: most successful missions in modern military history was a failure,
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  Speaker 1: all because Donald Trump is the one that's said to
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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