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Big Victories in Iran, More Risks of Terrorism at Home and Tucker & Dems Both Attack Trump · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with center. Ted Cruz ben Ferguson
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Speaker 1: with you, and it's nice to have you with us
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Speaker 1: around the country. We've got a lot to talk about,
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Speaker 1: including the latest on Operation Epic Fury. This regime is
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Speaker 1: being really just decapitated in Iran center, and this is
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Speaker 1: good news when it comes to national security.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right. We're seeing extraordinary results in terms
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Speaker 2: of the military conflict with Iran and the efficacy with
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Speaker 2: which this attack is removing the regime's ability to launch
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Speaker 2: missiles to launch drones. Let me give you the numbers,
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Speaker 2: because the numbers are really striking. So on day one
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Speaker 2: of this conflict, Iran launched three hundred and fifty missiles
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Speaker 2: ballistic missiles. On day two, it dropped to one hundred and
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Speaker 2: seventy five. On day three, it dropped one hundred and twenty.
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Speaker 2: On day four, it dropped to fifty. On day five,
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Speaker 2: it dropped to forty. On day six, it dropped to
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Speaker 2: thirty two. On day seven it dropped to twenty eight,
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Speaker 2: and on day eight it dropped all the way down
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Speaker 2: to fifteen. So they went from three hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: ballistic missile launched a day to just fifteen launched today.
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Speaker 2: How about drone swarms, same pattern, Day one, two hundred
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Speaker 2: and ninety four, Day two, five hundred and forty one,
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Speaker 2: So they surged on day two, Day three two hundred,
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Speaker 2: Day four eighty five, Day five forty five, Day six
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Speaker 2: thirty eight, day seven thirty, and day eight twelve. So
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Speaker 2: what that means is that our forces have systematically taken
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Speaker 2: out number one, their air defenses. Number two, we've taken
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Speaker 2: out their missile launch sites and their drone launch sites.
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Speaker 2: Most of their missile launch sites are mobile, so what
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Speaker 2: happens is when they launch from a mobile missile launcher,
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Speaker 2: we lock onto it and take that launcher out. And
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Speaker 2: we've done that systemically. Now, early on we were using
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Speaker 2: smart bombs and guided missiles. That's very expensive munitions, and
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Speaker 2: you saw in the first few days of this conflict
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Speaker 2: a lot written saying that the rate at which we're
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Speaker 2: using munitions is not sustainable. Plan was never to use
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Speaker 2: sharp smart munitions for the entire duration of the conflict. Rather,
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Speaker 2: the plan was to use it to take out both
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Speaker 2: their defensive capacity and their offensive capacity. We've done that.
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Speaker 2: Now now having achieved air superiority, we're able to use
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Speaker 2: gravity bombs. We're able to use munitions, which we have
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Speaker 2: vast quantities of and which are much much less expensive.
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Speaker 2: In other words, President Trump and the military has achieved
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Speaker 2: total air dominance, has all but eliminated their ability to
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Speaker 2: launch ballistic missiles and drones, and meanwhile has achieved naval
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Speaker 2: dominance as well, taking out most of the ships in
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Speaker 2: their navy. That level of control has put us in
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Speaker 2: a position where we're we're seeing extraordinary success.
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Speaker 1: That's Compassion dot com. You talk about this extraordinary success
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Speaker 1: and it's something that I think so many Americans have
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Speaker 1: been concerned over what this means at home. You look
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Speaker 1: at gas prices, for example, let's talk about that for
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Speaker 1: a moment. The President has said, and many that are
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Speaker 1: analyst's military and say, look, if this is a short
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Speaker 1: term thing, this is going to be a short term pain,
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Speaker 1: and what you gain is massive compared to that in
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Speaker 1: the future, because this is how much Iran could hold
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Speaker 1: the world hostage. Look at this what has happened here recently,
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Speaker 1: and these prices have obviously jumped significantly. The President has
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Speaker 1: made it clear he thinks this is going to be
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Speaker 1: short term event and we're not invading. We are going
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Speaker 1: after regime change and then things will go back to normal.
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Speaker 1: Twenty percent of the world supply goes through the strati
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Speaker 1: war moves. That's another part of this and the calculation here,
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Speaker 1: So break that down a little bit so people understand.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's right. We have seen an energy spike,
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Speaker 2: and anytime there's a conflict in the Middle East, you
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Speaker 2: typically see oil prices spike, and gasoline prices spike. My
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Speaker 2: expectation is that will be a short term spike. I
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Speaker 2: don't expect this conflict to last more than a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks, and I think you'll see gasoline prices drop
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Speaker 2: back down out And I will note President Trump has
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Speaker 2: a lot of credibility on this when when he came in,
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Speaker 2: we were seeing gasoline prices across the country in some
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Speaker 2: places six seven dollars a gallon, and those prices have
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Speaker 2: dropped all but in half. In Texas, you could routinely
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Speaker 2: buy a gallon of gas for between two and three
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Speaker 2: bucks a gallon, and so that that has been very effective.
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Speaker 2: I also want to make a broader point about analyzing
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Speaker 2: the energy component of what's going on. And there was
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Speaker 2: a Twitter thread by this analyst named Guy larn who
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Speaker 2: who is not a fan of Trump's, but I think
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Speaker 2: actually his analysis of the energy policy in the Middle
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Speaker 2: East was very insightful, so I want to share it
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Speaker 2: with you. So he asks, is Trump planning to venezuelas Iran?
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Speaker 2: This analysis analysis deviates from the mainstream media portrayal of
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Speaker 2: a fickle, senile or beab lead president. It assumes Trump
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Speaker 2: is evil but rational a thread. Now, I don't agree
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Speaker 2: with the evil characterization there, but the rest of this
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Speaker 2: analysis is quite insightful. So he continues, What is carg
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Speaker 2: Island and why does it matter? A tiny strip of
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Speaker 2: land half the size of Manhattan, nestled in the Northern
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Speaker 2: Persian Gulf one hour by boat from the Iranian shore.
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Speaker 2: Gazelle's roam next to oil terminals through which Iran exports
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Speaker 2: ninety percent of its crude. Iran's pre war signal. Before
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Speaker 2: the war, as American forces massed across the region, Iran
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Speaker 2: did something revealing. It ramped up carg exports from one
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Speaker 2: point five million barrels of oil a day to four million,
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Speaker 2: near record levels. That means that the Iranians read Trump
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Speaker 2: differently than the Western media does. They don't think he's
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Speaker 2: after regime change or democracy. They think he's after oil.
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Speaker 2: They might be right. NBC reported that Trump outlined to
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Speaker 2: his aids his vision for a post war Iran quote,
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Speaker 2: a new Iranian regime cooperates on oil productions, similar to
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Speaker 2: how the US and Venezuela are. The Venezuela template out
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Speaker 2: of Trump's own mouth. AI's Michael Rubin, a former advisor
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Speaker 2: to the George W. Bush administration, who is in direct
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Speaker 2: contact with the Trump advisors, is pushing the same logic.
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Speaker 2: Referring to the Revolutionary Guards, he says, quote if they
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Speaker 2: can't sell their own oil, they can't make payroll, meaning
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Speaker 2: that if the US seizes carg it doesn't need regime change.
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Speaker 2: It directly controls Iran's most important source of income. Everything
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Speaker 2: the US in Israel has done so far fits this strategy. First, quote,
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Speaker 2: decapitate and delegate. That was Israel's role commeny killed. The
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Speaker 2: Iranian leadership is in disarray. Now to whom do you delegate?
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Speaker 2: The answer isn't clear yet. So the US is reportedly
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Speaker 2: encouraging Kurdish rebellion in the north of the country, forcing
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Speaker 2: RAND to set send forces upwards and thin out their
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Speaker 2: defenses in the south where car goes. Meanwhile, the US
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Speaker 2: has systematically destroyed the Iranian navy operations, reaching as far
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Speaker 2: as Sri Lanka, where an Iranian warship was intercepted. Southern
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Speaker 2: RAND is being pummeled. These aren't random, They are clearing
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Speaker 2: the operational space for a naval seizure of kark Ian
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Speaker 2: bremer Kap captures the military logic precisely. The KRG island
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Speaker 2: isn't extensively fortified, and sits isolated enough that the US
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Speaker 2: destroyers could establish a credible defensive perimeter well offshore. The
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Speaker 2: US is also preparing to escort tanker convoys through the
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Speaker 2: Strait of Hormus and seeking financial mechanisms to ensure ships
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Speaker 2: after Lloyd's pulled out. These services aren't free. In practice,
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Speaker 2: the US would control the Straits, the jugular of global
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Speaker 2: energy trade. China can't respond militarily. It prepared its navy
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Speaker 2: to defend the Strait of Malacca, its other vulnerability. Approximately
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Speaker 2: eighty percent of China's imported crude oil and nearly two
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Speaker 2: thirds of its total maritime trade pass through the Strait
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Speaker 2: of Malacca. Having the US control the Persian Gulf, from
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Speaker 2: which China imports roughly half its crude and a third
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Speaker 2: of its gas, is a strategic catastrophe for Beijing. The
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Speaker 2: alternative deeper dependence on Russian energy practically natural gas from Siberia,
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Speaker 2: which is exactly what Beijing loathes. It does not want
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Speaker 2: to be dependent on the transactional putin step back Greenland, Panama, Venezuela,
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Speaker 2: now the Persian Gulf. Trump isn't leading the world through
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Speaker 2: alliances and institutions. He's seizing nodes, the choke points and
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Speaker 2: resource pools that make the world ANAI run. Whether it
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Speaker 2: works or not, this is is a coherent imperial strategy. Now,
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Speaker 2: I gotta say I don't agree with every word of that,
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Speaker 2: but that is very insightful analysis and helps you understand
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Speaker 2: why the American success in Iran. It's it's critically important
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Speaker 2: to our safety and the principal reason for going in
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Speaker 2: is to keep Americans safe from Iranian terrorism and aggression.
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Speaker 2: But it is also a very very powerful China pit play,
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Speaker 2: enhancing US economic security and national security.
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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things you mentioned there is
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Speaker 1: what Americans worry about it. And you go back to
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Speaker 1: just some of the headlines that we're seeing right now.
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Speaker 1: One of them out of New York there was an
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Speaker 1: arrest made after a home made explosive caused terror scare
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Speaker 1: in New York City. This device that was hurled at Gracie.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's some protests determined to be highly dangerous
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Speaker 1: ID cable of serious injury or death. People see this like,
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Speaker 1: well maybe, and again I think it's important to we
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Speaker 1: deal with this. They say, well, this is why maybe
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Speaker 1: we shouldn't have gone after Ran. And I think that's
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Speaker 1: flawed logic to think that way. These threats are threats,
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Speaker 1: whether we got there or not. And and and they're like,
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Speaker 1: I don't think there's a direct cause and effect. I
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Speaker 1: think there are bad people in the world that want
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Speaker 1: to commit Hanus crimes, and their timing may change because
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Speaker 1: of what we did Aran. But if you're a terrorist
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Speaker 1: in this country, the guy in this country through the
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Speaker 1: open borders or however you got in here and and
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Speaker 1: you're planning something or trying to do something, I think
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Speaker 1: it's in your DNA based on your beliefs you were
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Speaker 1: going to do it no matter what.
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Speaker 2: Well, and look, this vulnerability is here because for four years,
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Speaker 2: Joe Biden, the Democrats opened up our borders and basically
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Speaker 2: invited radical Islamic terrorists to come to this country. If
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Speaker 2: you if you look what happened in New York, New York,
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Speaker 2: you had islabists throwing dangerous IEDs capable of serious injury
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Speaker 2: or death. And and you know, ask yourself in the
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Speaker 2: reporting on this, have you seen a single news report
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Speaker 2: mentioned that the jihadists who threw the nail bomb into
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Speaker 2: a crowd New York City repeatedly shouted Allahu Akbar. I
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Speaker 2: haven't seen that. I haven't seen that on CNN. I
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Speaker 2: haven't seen that on MSNBC or the New York Times.
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Speaker 2: They don't want to cover that. And to be clear,
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Speaker 2: we saw the same thing in Austin a week ago
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Speaker 2: when the terrorists there wearing a sweatshirt that said property
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Speaker 2: of Allah, wearing a T shirt with an Iranian flag,
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Speaker 2: attacked a bar on Sixth Street in Austin. And again,
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Speaker 2: this is the terrorism, the vulnerability that President Trump is
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Speaker 2: acting to protect against. But I got to tell you
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Speaker 2: in the midst of this, look, we have an enhanced
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Speaker 2: risk for terrorism right now. It is obvious. Jihadis clerics
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Speaker 2: have put out a fat walk calling on terrorists to
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Speaker 2: try to kill Americans. And in the middle of this,
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Speaker 2: do you know what we did this week? We voted
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Speaker 2: again to fund the Department of Homeland Security, and every
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Speaker 2: Democrat except John Fetterman said no, we will not fund DHS,
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Speaker 2: the department literally created to defend us against terrorist attacks.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned that, and let's go into that a little
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Speaker 1: bit more. This is all about politics, and it shouldn't be,
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Speaker 1: because this is about a national security issue, and I
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Speaker 1: think it's important to we take a moment explain exactly
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Speaker 1: why Democrats have wanted to keep this shut down going.
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Speaker 1: This is a partial government shutdown. It's something they're obsessed
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Speaker 1: with DHS. They don't like it, they don't like law
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Speaker 1: and order, they don't like ICE agents, and they're putting
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Speaker 1: our lives at risk. And they don't really seem to
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Speaker 1: care that that's what they're doing.
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Speaker 2: They don't and understand it's all empty politics appealing to
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Speaker 2: their radical base. So the Democrats have decided they hate ICE.
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Speaker 2: They are the party of illegal immigrants, and they are
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Speaker 2: opposed to ICE. They are posed to law enforcement, they
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Speaker 2: are opposed to police. Now their DHS shutdown. Do you
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Speaker 2: know how many ICE agents are not being paid because
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Speaker 2: of it?
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Speaker 1: How many?
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Speaker 2: Zero? They are not defunding ICE. They are failing miserably
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Speaker 2: in any effort to defund ICE. Why because last year
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Speaker 2: when we passed the Working Families tax cut, the big
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Speaker 2: reconciliation bill, we funded ICE. We knew the Democrats would
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Speaker 2: play stupid games with it, so we said, fine, we'll
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Speaker 2: provide the funding for ICE. So ICE agents are being paid.
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Speaker 2: The DHS shutdown is not cutting off even a penny
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Speaker 2: for ice. The people they are cutting off, they're cutting
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Speaker 2: off the Coastguard, they're cutting off FEMA, they're cutting off TSA. Look,
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Speaker 2: if you're flying a plane, you could expect delays to
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Speaker 2: begin getting longer and longer and longer because those TSA
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Speaker 2: agents that have to check you in right now, they're
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Speaker 2: showing up at work and they are not being paid.
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Speaker 2: I just got off a plane yesterday thank the TSA
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Speaker 2: agents who were there, and they appreciated that. But they said,
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Speaker 2: you know, boy, would be nice to get paid, and
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Speaker 2: I agreed. I said, it is utter bs. I'm sorry
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Speaker 2: about that. You should be paid, and I just apologized
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Speaker 2: to them. Although to be clear, I'm voting to fund them.
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Speaker 2: But the Democrats are trying to ratchet up and inflict pain,
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Speaker 2: and they believe the media won't blame them when your
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Speaker 2: flight are delayed. They believe the media won't blame them
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Speaker 2: when coastguardsmen, you know, young men and women serving in
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Speaker 2: the Coast Guard, don't have the money to pay their rent,
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Speaker 2: don't have the money to pay their mortgage. They believe
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Speaker 2: the media won't won't blame them when FEMA, the people
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Speaker 2: in charge of responding to disasters are not being paid
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Speaker 2: and it slows down federal disaster response. The Democrats believe
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Speaker 2: the media will not blame them, so this is entirely
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Speaker 2: an effort to say screw you to ICE by not
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Speaker 2: cutting out ICE funding because they can't do that because
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Speaker 2: Republicans already paid for ICE, but instead cutting off the
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Speaker 2: funding for the rest of DHS that exists principally to
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Speaker 2: stop terrorist attacks. So they're telling you, I, Chuck Schumer,
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Speaker 2: I Democrat, hate ICE and hate law enforcements so much
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Speaker 2: that I'm going to increase the chance of a terrorist
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Speaker 2: attack in your community, just to tell the crazies in
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Speaker 2: my party how much I hate ICE.
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Speaker 1: I want to go back to something else that we
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Speaker 1: also are seeing, and it's not just these these domestic
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Speaker 1: terrorist attacks here that may be inspired by what's happening,
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Speaker 1: but we're also now seeing this happen around the country.
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Speaker 1: Police are with the world, I should say, police are
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Speaker 1: investigating an explosion outside the US embassy for example in Norway.
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Speaker 1: What can you tell us about that? And the concern
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Speaker 1: that people have all over the world now for what
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Speaker 1: this with the reactions happening from these Muslim extremists.
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Speaker 2: Well, Islamists are taking this time to engage in acts
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Speaker 2: of violence, acts of terrorism, and we could expect to
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Speaker 2: see more of this now. Understand, many of these Islamists
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Speaker 2: have been funded by Iran for years and so they
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Speaker 2: see their money stream, their money spigot, being cut off.
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Speaker 2: But we need, we need full capacity to protect ourselves
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Speaker 2: at a time that is dangerous. I believe what the
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Speaker 2: Democrats are doing is reckless and I pray that it
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Speaker 2: does not lead to it. But the Democrats action cutting
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Speaker 2: off the funding for DHS could very well cause more
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Speaker 2: terrorist attack, including potentially a catastrophicar Arist attack. And I'm
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Speaker 2: not aware of any of the Democrats who is expressing
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Speaker 2: any concern about this or is willing to do anything
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Speaker 2: about it. Look, they might leave DHS shut down, lead
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Speaker 2: these people not paid for the rest of the year.
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Speaker 2: They are radical enough to do this, and the media
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Speaker 2: is complicit in it, and it's the reason President Trump
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Speaker 2: is trying to resolve this conflict with Iran quickly. And
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Speaker 2: what President Trump has called for is unconditional surrender. That
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Speaker 2: he wants Iran to surrender, and he is systematically taking
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Speaker 2: out first their air defenses, then their missile launch capacity,
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Speaker 2: then their drone launch capacity, than their missile manufacturing capacity,
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Speaker 2: than their drone manufacturing capacity, than their military infrastructure, their leadership,
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Speaker 2: and at this point he is systematically degrading their ability
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Speaker 2: to fight back day after day after day. He is
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Speaker 2: exactly right to say this ends when the Iranian regime
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Speaker 2: says we surrender, and when they surrender, the result is
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Speaker 2: going to be that the theocratic despots who chant death
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Speaker 2: to America, who pay for terrorists to murder Americans, who
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Speaker 2: pay for hit men to try to murder President Trump,
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Speaker 2: they are out of power. We are not going to
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Speaker 2: allow that country to be led by lunatics who are
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Speaker 2: spending millions of dollars trying to murder Americans. That's what
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Speaker 2: victory looks like. I believe that's where we will end up.
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Speaker 2: But I will say at the same time, we are
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Speaker 2: seeing people spread propaganda and and and we're seeing two
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Speaker 2: groups that are spreading the same propaganda. Let's start with
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Speaker 2: with democrats. Let let's start, in particular with with Chris Murphy.
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Speaker 2: I want you to listen to what Chris Murphy has said.
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Speaker 2: Give a listen.
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Speaker 3: Malla's in Iran. This is again Rubio's characterization, are mad men,
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Speaker 3: and they believe in holy war, and they believe in
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Speaker 3: killing the crusaders of the United States and the Jews
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Speaker 3: of Israel, and there is a special degree of unacceptability
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Speaker 3: for them having a nuclear So.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't disagree, But what I disagree with is
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Speaker 4: that an aerial military campaign or even the insertion of
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Speaker 4: ground forces can permanently dislodge Iran from having a nuclear weapon. Again,
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Speaker 4: you were talking about knowledge that can't be bombed out
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Speaker 4: of existence. So how do you stop a diplomatic agreement.
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Speaker 4: We had a diplomatic agreement. Barack Obama negotiated agreement in
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Speaker 4: which Iran was more than a year away from getting
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Speaker 4: a weapon. We had daily inspections scouring the country. It
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Speaker 4: was working. Donald Trump's advisors told him it was working.
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Speaker 4: He threw that agreement into the trash, which precipitated the
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Speaker 4: crisis that we are in today. This is a place
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Speaker 4: where diplomacy probably is the only true path to make
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Speaker 4: sure that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 1: All right, let me ask you this sanator. He says
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Speaker 1: it was working. That is a flat out lie. And
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Speaker 1: I think most people have been following this would know
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Speaker 1: that he's acting like they just decided to go rogue,
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Speaker 1: referring to the Trump ministration just get into a war for
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Speaker 1: no reason at all.
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Speaker 2: So what you just heard from Senator Chris Murphy is
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Speaker 2: utterly fact free propaganda. He's just repeating left wing talking points. Now, look,
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Speaker 2: Chris Murphy wants to run for president as a left
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Speaker 2: wing Democrat, as a successor to Bernie Sanders in terms
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Speaker 2: of a rabid socialist isolationist, and so facts are not
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Speaker 2: going to get in the way. One of the things
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Speaker 2: he said there we were having daily nuclear weapons inspections.
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Speaker 2: That is a lie. Under the terms of the Obama
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Speaker 2: Nuclear Deal Number one, there were multiple areas that were
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Speaker 2: off limits from inspection. What areas were off limit from inspection? Well,
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Speaker 2: one of them was Fordah, the military site under a
20:41
Speaker 2: mountain where they were doing their nuclear weapons development. By
20:44
Speaker 2: the way, Donald Trump dropped bunker buster bombs on Foidah
20:47
Speaker 2: and took it out and destroyed it. But under the
20:49
Speaker 2: Obama Nuclear Deal, nobody could inspect forida. And even when
20:53
Speaker 2: we wanted to expect other areas of research, we had
20:58
Speaker 2: to call the Iranians and get their permission and they
21:01
Speaker 2: would inspect it for us. You know, I've sort of
21:03
Speaker 2: joked that that's like calling up a drug dealer. Can
21:06
Speaker 2: you can you imagine like the classic movie Scarface. The
21:09
Speaker 2: scenario that Obama negotiated is basically that the DEA would
21:13
Speaker 2: call Tony Montana, the drug dealer in Scarface, and go, hey, Tony,
21:17
Speaker 2: would you check your warehouse and tell us if there
21:19
Speaker 2: are any drugs there? And Tony would go yeah, man, yeah, man,
21:22
Speaker 2: hold on, hold on, let me look, let me no, no,
21:24
Speaker 2: no drugs there, We're clean. That is the Obama nuclear deal.
21:28
Speaker 2: It was literally Obama calling calling up the Ayahtola, Hey
21:31
Speaker 2: you got any nukes? No, man, we're good. We don't
21:33
Speaker 2: have any nukes, no nukes here at all. All right, thanks.
21:36
Speaker 2: That's the idiocy of the Democrats. They knew. And by
21:42
Speaker 2: the way, the Obama ran nuclear deal sunset in fifteen years.
21:45
Speaker 2: So after fifteen years Obama said, I We're fine with
21:48
Speaker 2: your having nukes. Chris Murphy and the Democrats know that.
21:52
Speaker 2: They don't care. That deal was designed to allow Iran
21:56
Speaker 2: to get a nuclear weapon. I'll tell you when President
21:59
Speaker 2: Trump and the first term pulled out of the Obama
22:02
Speaker 2: Iran nuclear deal, it was exactly the right decision. I
22:04
Speaker 2: had urged him to do so, and it set the
22:08
Speaker 2: stage Iran is now, particularly after President Trump last year
22:12
Speaker 2: bombed the nuclear weapons facility, Iran's nuclear program is way way,
22:17
Speaker 2: way back, and yet they remain dangerous and they remain
22:21
Speaker 2: absolutely committed to developing nuclear weapons. Now, the Democrats and
22:27
Speaker 2: the press are trying to undermine President Trump. They're trying
22:31
Speaker 2: to undermine the US military, and they're trying to bolster
22:35
Speaker 2: Iran and the iatolas. Do you know who else is
22:38
Speaker 2: doing that?
22:39
Speaker 1: Who else?
22:41
Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson and the rest of the so called woke right.
22:44
Speaker 2: There's a group of isolationists folks on the right. It
22:48
Speaker 2: is a small group, but they are loud and vocal.
22:51
Speaker 2: And Tucker Carlson has now all but declared war on
22:55
Speaker 2: President Trump's foreign policy. I want you to listen to
22:58
Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson in his latest show, so I'm going to
23:00
Speaker 2: warn you what he says here is shocking and it
23:04
Speaker 2: is to the left of Chris Murphy. So it is
23:06
Speaker 2: more anti Donald Trump than Chris Murphy and the Democrats.
23:10
Speaker 2: Listen to Tucker Carlson.
23:12
Speaker 5: Unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife
23:15
Speaker 5: and daughter if they want. And everyone knows that, and
23:18
Speaker 5: that has been If there's one consistent lesson of history,
23:21
Speaker 5: it means unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape
23:26
Speaker 5: your wife and daughter. Everyone can feel that. That's like
23:29
Speaker 5: the most atavistic instinct there is. And so to avoid that,
23:33
Speaker 5: people will do anything. And so that's why it requires
23:36
Speaker 5: that level of force to get a population subdued to
23:40
Speaker 5: the point of unconditional surrender. That's why. And so in
23:43
Speaker 5: this case, of course, we don't have the ground force necessary.
23:47
Speaker 5: I don't think Americans would voluntarily participate in it. I
23:50
Speaker 5: just don't think we can do that. It would require
23:52
Speaker 5: weapons of mass destruction. It would require presumably nuclear weapons
23:56
Speaker 5: in order to do that. And let's stop, let's not
23:58
Speaker 5: lie to ourselves. We're moving toward that.
24:02
Speaker 1: You hear Tucker there, and I mean you want to
24:04
Speaker 1: talk about on hinge. That is like some of the
24:06
Speaker 1: most anti American propaganda I've ever seen spewed by someone
24:11
Speaker 1: like Tucker Carlson. It is a new low even for him,
24:14
Speaker 1: and and the bar keeps dropping day after day.
24:17
Speaker 2: Look the phrase, the words someone like Tucker Carlson, you
24:21
Speaker 2: don't even have to put that constraint. That is more
24:24
Speaker 2: anti American rhetoric than anything I've ever heard Bernie Sanders say,
24:27
Speaker 2: or even Chris Murphy what he said there. Listen, Tucker
24:30
Speaker 2: continues to go to new Low's and new Low's and
24:32
Speaker 2: part of it is President Trump this week said that
24:35
Speaker 2: that Tucker Carlson is quote, not maga and not smart.
24:39
Speaker 2: The more Tucker Carlson attacks Donald Trump, the more fringe
24:43
Speaker 2: he gets. And so I think this was Tucker acting
24:45
Speaker 2: out when when Trump said what was obviously true, but
24:48
Speaker 2: Tucker just said, go back, rewind and listen to what
24:51
Speaker 2: he just said. He said, number one, if Iran surrenders,
24:56
Speaker 2: that American soldiers are going to rape their wives and daughters,
25:00
Speaker 2: and in fact he said it twice. What utter and
25:03
Speaker 2: complete garbage, you America hating Islamist fluffer. I gotta say
25:10
Speaker 2: that makes me mad. I think of the servicemen and
25:13
Speaker 2: men who in women, but the men in particular who
25:16
Speaker 2: are risking their lives. And Tucker Carlson's standing there saying
25:20
Speaker 2: if you surrender to America, American soldiers are gonna rape
25:23
Speaker 2: your women. We have never done that. That is not
25:26
Speaker 2: something America does. No, Tucker, American soldiers are not gonna
25:31
Speaker 2: rape Iranian women. You know who rapes the people they
25:34
Speaker 2: conquer Iranians do Islamists do? That is, in fact part
25:38
Speaker 2: of what they do. Part of what they do is
25:41
Speaker 2: is is that they rape women as a means of subjugation.
25:45
Speaker 2: But Tucker's not gonna tell you that because Tucker is
25:47
Speaker 2: now one of the leading proponents of sharia law in
25:50
Speaker 2: the United States. He's literally an apologist for Islamist And
25:53
Speaker 2: so now you might say, wow, that statement seems incredible,
25:57
Speaker 2: it seems extreme. Here are a couple of data points. Number One,
26:00
Speaker 2: during this war, the Iranian National Television is playing Tucker
26:05
Speaker 2: Carlson's show in Iran. They view that as such valuable
26:09
Speaker 2: propaganda they want the Iranian people to hear Tucker. Number Two,
26:13
Speaker 2: the Muslim Brotherhood, by the way, Hamas is the Muslim
26:16
Speaker 2: brotherhood in Palestine, and they are terrorists are tweeting out
26:21
Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson's show. The Muslim Brotherhood is saying, this is
26:24
Speaker 2: our spokesman. Man, this guy is good. I cannot recall
26:28
Speaker 2: another major political figure on left or right who has said,
26:33
Speaker 2: if you surrender to America, American soldiers will rape your women.
26:36
Speaker 2: That's what Tucker Carlson just said that is grotesque. And
26:40
Speaker 2: by the way, any soldier who sees Tucker Carlson, I
26:42
Speaker 2: want to say, how dare you say that? American soldiers
26:45
Speaker 2: know we would not and impugning our troops is disgusting.
26:49
Speaker 2: And the second thing that Tucker said in that clip
26:53
Speaker 2: is that Donald Trump is moving towards using a nuclear
26:57
Speaker 2: weapon in Iran. No, he's not, Tucker as a complete
27:00
Speaker 2: utter lie, that is false. We are not going to
27:03
Speaker 2: nuw kran. It is only deranged. That's the sort of
27:06
Speaker 2: thing the Ayatola would say. And you've got to ask yourself. Look,
27:10
Speaker 2: some of you may think back to when Tucker was
27:12
Speaker 2: on Fox News and he was actually said a lot
27:15
Speaker 2: of things you and I loved that made a lot
27:17
Speaker 2: of sense. This guy today is just a kook. And
27:21
Speaker 2: even worse than that, he is the most prominent purveyor
27:25
Speaker 2: of Islamist lies about America and about Donald Trump. Tucker
27:30
Speaker 2: Carlson has gone full out to war with Donald Trump's
27:34
Speaker 2: national security and foreign policy. And it is he and
27:38
Speaker 2: Chris Murphy are now that they are comrades in arms.
27:42
Speaker 2: He and Tucker Carlson and Chris Murphy and Bernie Sanders
27:45
Speaker 2: and Elizabeth Warren and ilhan Omar and AOC, they all
27:49
Speaker 2: have the exact same foreign policy, and it is anti
27:53
Speaker 2: American and it is pro Islamist and it's dangerous as hell.
27:57
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29:24
Speaker 1: recording this on Sunday. They have now named a new
29:27
Speaker 1: leader in Iran and is the son of the former
29:30
Speaker 1: leader there. That is someone that the presidents said is unacceptable.
29:34
Speaker 1: Your reaction to that as well.
29:36
Speaker 2: Well, look, it's not surprising. The Malas are going to
29:38
Speaker 2: get together and they're going to want another Mala to
29:41
Speaker 2: be the Ayatola, and they want the country to continue
29:44
Speaker 2: to be run by Islamist clerics who embrace a death cult.
29:51
Speaker 2: And it's interesting. One of the things I'm going back
29:53
Speaker 2: to Chris Murphy and what he said a minute ago.
29:57
Speaker 2: You know, we rely on determ to stop the most
30:02
Speaker 2: egregious acts of harm. Deterrence works with many countries because
30:08
Speaker 2: you have rational actors. Let's take for example, North Korea.
30:13
Speaker 2: So North Korea is an exceptionally dangerous part of the world.
30:16
Speaker 2: Why does North Korea have nukes? Well, it goes back
30:18
Speaker 2: to a previous Democrat president, Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton sent
30:25
Speaker 2: a State Department employee named Wendy Sherman to negotiate a
30:31
Speaker 2: nuclear agreement with Kim Jong Il, who was the father
30:36
Speaker 2: of the current dictator Kim jongng. And the deal they
30:39
Speaker 2: cut is that Bill Clinton agreed to send billions of
30:43
Speaker 2: dollars to North Korea and in exchange for that money,
30:46
Speaker 2: North Korea would promise not to develop nuclear weapons. Well
30:50
Speaker 2: what happened, We now know what happened. They took the
30:52
Speaker 2: billions of dollars, they used it to develop nuclear weapons,
30:55
Speaker 2: and today North Korea has nuclear weapons. So it was
30:57
Speaker 2: a spectacular failure. Fast forward to Barack Obama. Barack Obama
31:02
Speaker 2: comes into office and he decides his signature foreign policy moves.
31:06
Speaker 2: He wants to negotiate an agreement with Iran on nuclear weapons.
31:10
Speaker 2: So what does he do. He actually goes and recruits
31:12
Speaker 2: the same damn person, Wendy Sherman, to negotiate his Iran deal. Literally,
31:17
Speaker 2: there are eight billion people on planet Earth, been there
31:20
Speaker 2: is one out of eight billion who has screwed this
31:23
Speaker 2: up previously as negotiated a deal to send billions of
31:26
Speaker 2: dollars to a foreign dictator, and it's resulted in that
31:29
Speaker 2: dictator using the billions of dollars to develop nuclear weapons.
31:32
Speaker 2: That would be Wendy Sherman. That's who Obama brought in
31:34
Speaker 2: and said, hey, can you do the same for us?
31:37
Speaker 2: Now we live with the failures of the Clinton administration
31:41
Speaker 2: in Wendy Sherman with North Korea, and Kim Jong un
31:45
Speaker 2: is a dictator, He's meglomaniacal, He's dangerous as hell. He
31:50
Speaker 2: is testing ICBMs, he is targeted explicitly target US citizens,
31:54
Speaker 2: including Austin, Texas. He is a city that he has
31:57
Speaker 2: said he's targeted before. However, our best protection is Kim
32:03
Speaker 2: jongun knows if he ever used a nuclear weapon, the
32:06
Speaker 2: result would be massive, overwhelming retaliation and his regime would
32:11
Speaker 2: lose power that day. It would be the end of
32:13
Speaker 2: his life if.
32:14
Speaker 3: He did that.
32:15
Speaker 2: As dangerous as Kim Jong un is, at least there's
32:20
Speaker 2: some possibility of rational self deterrence. Here's what makes Iran
32:25
Speaker 2: orders a magnitude more dangerous. When you're dealing with religious extremism,
32:30
Speaker 2: when you're dealing with theocratic zealots who are in a
32:34
Speaker 2: death cult who glorify death and suicide, rational deterrence doesn't
32:40
Speaker 2: work the same way. So, for example, if the Iotola
32:43
Speaker 2: detonated and nuclear weapons, say in Tel Aviv, or in
32:47
Speaker 2: New York or Los Angeles, and let me be clear,
32:49
Speaker 2: I believe if the Iotola could do so, he would
32:51
Speaker 2: have done so already. The response would be overwhelming and devastating.
32:56
Speaker 2: But the problem is when you celebrate death and suicide,
33:00
Speaker 2: that normal cost benefit analysis does not apply. And so yes,
33:05
Speaker 2: they've named a new Iotola. The Iotola is what the
33:08
Speaker 2: son of the old Iatola. Okay, great, that is not
33:12
Speaker 2: acceptable because President Trump has rightly made the decision We're
33:16
Speaker 2: not going to allow US national security to be vulnerable
33:20
Speaker 2: to religious zealots who are funding terrorism, who are funding
33:25
Speaker 2: who are the number one funders of terrorisms worldwide and
33:31
Speaker 2: have been for forty seven years. So Diatola number one,
33:35
Speaker 2: Skippy Junior, is not going to get to take over either,
33:39
Speaker 2: because allowing Iran to wage war and murder Americans is
33:43
Speaker 2: not consistent with US national security.
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35:32
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Speaker 2: Well, the only reason they will flip is if the
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36:26
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