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Kristi Noem Out, Markwayne Mullen In plus U.S. Navy: 30+ Iranian Ships Down · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has said Christinome is out. You never want
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Speaker 1: to be the first cabinet official to get the boot,
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Speaker 1: But Christian Noma has gotten the boot now, and Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump has now picked to move along quickly to center,
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Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Mullen. I think this is a really good
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Speaker 1: choice now. President Trump announced that he will nominate the
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Speaker 1: Senator to replace Christian Nomas, chief of the Department of
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Speaker 1: Homeland Security. He posted this on True Social I'm pleased
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Speaker 1: to announce that the highly respected United States Center from
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Speaker 1: the great state of Oklahoma, Mark WAYN Mullen, will become
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Speaker 1: the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, effected March thirty first.
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Speaker 1: The current Secretary of Christy Nome, who has served us
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Speaker 1: well and has had numerous and spectacular results, especially on
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Speaker 1: the border. We'll be moving to be Special Envoy for
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Speaker 1: the Shield of the Americas, our new security initiative in
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Speaker 1: the Western Hemisphere. We are announcing on Saturday into Ralph, Florida.
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Speaker 1: I think Christy first service at Homeland Serving ten years
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Speaker 1: in the United States House Representatives in the Senate, Mark
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Speaker 1: Wayne has done a tremendous job representing the wonderful people
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Speaker 1: of Oklahoma, where I won all seventy seven out of
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Speaker 1: the seventy seven counties in sixteen, twenty twenty, and twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four. Mark Wayne will work tiresly to keep our
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Speaker 1: border secure, stop migrant crime, murderers, and other criminals from
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Speaker 1: illegally entering the country in the surge of legal drugs,
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Speaker 1: and make America safe again. Mark Wayne will make a
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Speaker 1: spectacular Secretary of Homelandsecurity. Thank you for your attention to
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Speaker 1: this matter. Now, the appointment creates a path for also
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Speaker 1: the Oklahoma governor to replace Mullen in the Senate, and
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Speaker 1: that is going to be I think very interesting to
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Speaker 1: see what happens next there. Now. Mullen is a former
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Speaker 1: Construction Coming CEO. Gnome appeared, by the way, this week
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Speaker 1: in the Senate House hearings where she championed Trump's migration
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Speaker 1: policy is a fix for the affordability problems created by
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Speaker 1: President Joe Biden's high migration policy. There were missteps with her,
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Speaker 1: all right. That's part of the reason why she's gone
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Speaker 1: from this job. Anybody that is can read knows that
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Speaker 1: there was some moments there that just did not go well.
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Speaker 1: There was also I think some missteps in Minnesota and
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Speaker 1: look full disclosure on the on the morning the State
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Speaker 1: of the Union. I met at the part of Unsecurity
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Speaker 1: Sectary of or office with her to talk about what
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Speaker 1: she had done. And she's had some amazing accomplishments. The
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Speaker 1: problem was there were things that happened in Minnesota that
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Speaker 1: were many believer missteps. The President also came out and
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Speaker 1: there was some frustration because Trump said that Christenham lied
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Speaker 1: to Congress about getting his approval for a two hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty million dollar ad campaign that featured herself. Now,
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Speaker 1: in politics, there are a lot of people that sometimes
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Speaker 1: will be the face of their state when they're trying
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Speaker 1: to raise their id and they'll do like ads for example,
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Speaker 1: to like come to the Great state of South Dakota
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Speaker 1: for example. You may have seen on Fox News channel
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Speaker 1: those ads over a year ago. Now, for Christino, a
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Speaker 1: lot of people thought that was her raising her profile
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Speaker 1: using government funds to be the face of you know,
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Speaker 1: she is the government state. And she's not the first
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Speaker 1: one to do that, I want to be clear. A
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Speaker 1: lot of other politicians you'll see they'll jump on their
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Speaker 1: come visit you know, Oklahoma, or come visit wherever right
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Speaker 1: and come to this state and they put themselves, like
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Speaker 1: in the ad, and they run it nationally and they say, well, look,
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Speaker 1: this is for us to bring in more tourism, for example,
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Speaker 1: And that is true. They're trying to bring in tourism,
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Speaker 1: but they're also trying to raise their name ID without
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Speaker 1: having to spend their own money to do it. Now,
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Speaker 1: there is a lot of people in the conservative movement
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Speaker 1: that we're asking a lot of questions about what was
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Speaker 1: said in front of Congress. Right. President Trump said today
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Speaker 1: that Homeland Security Secretary Christian know his Words lied to
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Speaker 1: Congress about getting his approval for a two hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty million dollar ad campaign that featured Christy. No I
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Speaker 1: never knew anything about it, is what Trump said to Reuter's.
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Speaker 1: Two sources close to White House told The New York
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Speaker 1: Post that Trump is furious at Nome testified that he
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Speaker 1: approved the ads and set in mode move to then
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Speaker 1: fire her. Senator John Kennedy, Republican from Louisiana til TBS
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Speaker 1: on three, that he spoke with Trump and that, to
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Speaker 1: put it this way, histion and her recollections are different,
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Speaker 1: so that was also another problem there. Now, Trump later
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Speaker 1: in the day after that story broke fired Gnome and
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Speaker 1: announced that Mark Wwayne Mullen would be the replacement. Now
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Speaker 1: that was one issue there, there was also the other one.
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Speaker 1: There's another headline from and again that you can see
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Speaker 1: all this out there. I just I want you to
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Speaker 1: understand why I think the President probably moved on. I
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Speaker 1: close aid to Christy Noam Corey Lewandowski. And she was
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Speaker 1: asked on oath not once but twice from Democrats because
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Speaker 1: they had known what had been talked about publicly in
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Speaker 1: DC for years. And Corelandowski has now been asked about this,
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Speaker 1: and he told the Post he won't speculate on whether
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Speaker 1: nomes testimony on their alleged affair cost her the Department
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Speaker 1: Home and Security job. These are distractions that the President
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Speaker 1: was seeing stacked up like bricks, and they were getting
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Speaker 1: bigger and bigger, right, And when you have Coreylewandowski having
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Speaker 1: tell the Posts he wouldn't speculate on the president on
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Speaker 1: why President Trump fired Home in Security Sector Christy Nome
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Speaker 1: one day after she was questioned in Congress about her
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Speaker 1: alleged affair with him and Leowandowski is a special quote
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Speaker 1: government employee who work quote closely with NOME at the
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Speaker 1: Department of Home in Security. There were a lot of
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Speaker 1: people that didn't like that he was there and didn't
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Speaker 1: like that he had this this you know, as he's
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Speaker 1: described as a as a special you know, designation. A
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Speaker 1: lot of people didn't like the fact. Apparently they say
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Speaker 1: that he was looking a lot of contracts that were
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Speaker 1: being awarded and then also was making a lot of
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Speaker 1: money from people that were working with him in the
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Speaker 1: private sector because he was able to in essence, do both.
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Speaker 1: So all this was swirling around christin no like, hey,
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Speaker 1: is Corey getting rich off of access to you? Is
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Speaker 1: he working for all these companies in this way because
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Speaker 1: he's got access to you know, this alleged affair they
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Speaker 1: were talking about. And then you add all that up
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Speaker 1: with hold on a second, you did what you spent
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Speaker 1: how much time expaired hours in an ad campaign that
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Speaker 1: raised your name ID two hundred and twenty million. That
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Speaker 1: seemed to be all of those things combined enough to
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Speaker 1: say we're gonna move on to Mark way Mullen. Now
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Speaker 1: I also say this, I think Christy Neam did a
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Speaker 1: great job on securing the border, but she's the first
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Speaker 1: to go. Mark Wayne will continue to carry that torch,
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Speaker 1: and I think Mark Wayne will do an excellent job.
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Speaker 1: And an Iranian warship surrenders to the SRIL the first
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Speaker 1: time a ship entered by neutral nations that has been
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Speaker 1: Excuse me in turn, I should say about neutral nations
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Speaker 1: since the Second World War. That's pretty cool. The captain
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Speaker 1: of a ship of the Iranian Navy handed his vessel
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Speaker 1: over to the Sri Lankan government, a neutral party, for internment,
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Speaker 1: saving the lives of his crew, hours after another Ranian
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Speaker 1: ship was destroyed by nearby by the United States its navy.
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Speaker 1: The Sri Lanka has assumed control of the Islamic Republic
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Speaker 1: of Iran ship, a fleet supply ship oiler. Sri Lanka
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Speaker 1: has sent craft to receive the nineteen seventies airship within
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Speaker 1: its territorial waters. Per local media accounts, they had taken
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Speaker 1: it has taken off one hundred and eight officers and
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Speaker 1: men who are to be sent ashore. The ship will
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Speaker 1: now be taken by the Sri Lankans for internment for
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Speaker 1: the duration of the hostilities there. The Sri Lankan president
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Speaker 1: said his government had selected the historic port there due
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Speaker 1: to the risk of disruption to maritime traffic by the
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Speaker 1: presidence of the inactive warship, so they wished to keep
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Speaker 1: it away from the country's primary commercial ports. They decide
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Speaker 1: to use another one. The Times of India reports saying,
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Speaker 1: we are not taking sides in this conflict, but while
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Speaker 1: maintaining our neutrality, we are taking action to quote save lives. Now,
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Speaker 1: neither Sri Lanka nor Iran have yet officially confirmed that
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Speaker 1: the ship was surrendered by the captain. Yet the ship
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Speaker 1: only arrived in Sri Lanka waters this morning, and according
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Speaker 1: to the long established laws of armed conflict at sea,
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Speaker 1: it would be entitled to spend twenty four hours in
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Speaker 1: the water of a neutral country without fear from attack.
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Speaker 1: The fact the ship has been handed over to the
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Speaker 1: Sri Lankan authorities so quickly strongly suggests the captain took
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Speaker 1: the decision to preserve the life of his men by
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Speaker 1: opting out of the conflict altogether. Now, had Sri Lanka
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Speaker 1: not in turn the ship within twenty four hours or
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Speaker 1: compelled the Iranians to leave their territory, the United States
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Speaker 1: would have been free to sink that ship even inside
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Speaker 1: Tri Lankan international waters or harbors. The International Red Cross
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Speaker 1: also states on this subject. It is generally accepted that
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Speaker 1: when a ship like this and the force is int
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Speaker 1: neutral territory and the neutral authority is unable or unwilling
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Speaker 1: to expel or and turn them, the first party is
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Speaker 1: entailed to undertake their hot pursuit and attack them there.
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Speaker 1: It may even seek compensation from the neutral state for
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Speaker 1: this breach of neutrality. The mere presence of this ship
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Speaker 1: does not just fly hot pursuit. There must be some
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Speaker 1: failure by the neutral state to uphold its neutrality. Now
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Speaker 1: this is obviously complicated kumbaya and you know, like international
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Speaker 1: rules just make me roll my eyes. But under the
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Speaker 1: same those same laws of war, the cost to the
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Speaker 1: captain the crew is that they too are to be
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Speaker 1: interned in Sri Lanka for the remainder of the conflict.
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Speaker 1: The officers may be given parole, but would not be
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Speaker 1: free to leave the territory of Sri Lanka to go home.
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Speaker 1: Given the facts is known, this is the first time
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Speaker 1: since the World War Second World War that a warship
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Speaker 1: has been in turned by the government of a neutral power.
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Speaker 1: During the Second World War, several damaged U boats were
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Speaker 1: able to limp to neutral harbors and turn themselves over
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Speaker 1: to the authorities after being damaged and attacks, preferring to
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Speaker 1: see out the remainder of the war in captivity rather
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Speaker 1: than the certainty of death at sea. The internment of
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Speaker 1: the Iris follows by day the destruction of the Iranian
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Speaker 1: frigate in the International Waters in the south of Sri Lanka,
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Speaker 1: the first sinking of an enemy ship by the United
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Speaker 1: States submarine since the World Second World War War, and
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Speaker 1: the first officially acknowledged sunk sinkings anywhere since nineteen eighty two.
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Speaker 1: The US Department of War published the periscope footage of
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Speaker 1: the moment of destruction, and I got to say, it
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Speaker 1: was pretty awesome, Like it was kind of like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we could have hit this from the air, but like,
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Speaker 1: let's let our submarines show what they can do as well.
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Speaker 1: I think it was a pr move and a very
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Speaker 1: smart one to remind the rest of the world that
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Speaker 1: we've got a lot of submarines that are very capable
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Speaker 1: and they wanted them in the action. I also think
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Speaker 1: that's amazing that they wanted them in the action so
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Speaker 1: I got to say another example of a job well
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Speaker 1: done by the US and this Iranian warship surrendering also,
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Speaker 1: I think tells you about the mentality of what we're
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Speaker 1: seeing right there in Iran. And there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: people now saying do we stay and die or do
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Speaker 1: we maybe think about saving our own lives? I think
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Speaker 1: that's I think that's a pretty interesting perspective here. You
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Speaker 1: also have something else that's very interesting is that Iran
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Speaker 1: now is trying to figure out, like who's going to
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Speaker 1: be in charge? They really don't know because every time
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Speaker 1: they name somebody, we keep taking them out. I was
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Speaker 1: looking and it's just a funny question to ask. If
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Speaker 1: you're bored and you want to ask Siri or Alexa
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Speaker 1: or like chat GBT or Gronk, like who's in charge Iran?
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Speaker 1: The answers are actually very different, which is also really
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Speaker 1: really funny because they're just like that. It's hard to
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Speaker 1: keep up with, like who's alive, who's in charge, what's happening,
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Speaker 1: what's going to happen next? Now, there's also also a
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Speaker 1: question that a lot of people are asking, and the
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Speaker 1: White House is frustrated about this, I know, and that
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Speaker 1: is that we are seeing because of this war gas
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Speaker 1: prices that have risen. I'll give you a great example.
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Speaker 1: I'm in Houston right now now. Gas price of m
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Speaker 1: risen thirty cents a gallon since the US Israel strikes
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Speaker 1: on Iran. Now, according to Triple A, the highest gas
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Speaker 1: prices ever recorded in Houston were four dollars and sixty
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Speaker 1: eight cents per gallon of regular unleaded and five twenty
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Speaker 1: four per gallon of diesel during March of twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 1: You know who is president then, that would be Joe Biden.
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Speaker 1: That was shortly after Russia's invasion also of Ukraine. So
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Speaker 1: you can again think about that. Now, gas prices are
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Speaker 1: up thirty cents on average as the oil markets in
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Speaker 1: the US around the world react to the ongoing conflict
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Speaker 1: in the Middle East and that has sparked because of
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Speaker 1: this war. According to Triple A, the average price for
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Speaker 1: regular unleaded gas has since risen from two forty eight
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Speaker 1: to two seventy eight per gallon over the past month.
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Speaker 1: That is a thirty five cent increase. Now where you
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Speaker 1: are it could be much higher than that, depending on
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Speaker 1: where you are in the country. Texas is going to
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Speaker 1: be lower because there's a lot of refineries here, a
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Speaker 1: lot of oil here, and it doesn't have to travel
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Speaker 1: as far after it's refined, there's a very good chance
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Speaker 1: it's going to be much higher. Depending on where you're listening.
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Speaker 1: This is something the White House, I think knew about.
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Speaker 1: But I also think that the White House understood that
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Speaker 1: they had to do this. And I actually last week
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Speaker 1: went down to the Permium Basin with Chevron and went
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Speaker 1: to a Davison drilling rig to see how it works
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Speaker 1: in the Premium basin. You realize something very fascining there.
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Speaker 1: This is all about American energy security. And if you
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Speaker 1: go firsthand and you see what fuels America, and you
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Speaker 1: go to these rigs, as I was able to, I
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Speaker 1: got to sit in the in the and I mean
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Speaker 1: the driller's chair as they were drilling this new well.
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Speaker 1: And I put this, by the way, the video up
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Speaker 1: on x if you want to watch it, as I
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Speaker 1: sitting there talking with Chevron, like you understand the importance
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Speaker 1: of energy independence, You understand the importance of making sure
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Speaker 1: that we're not reliant on foreign oil to fill up
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Speaker 1: our and to run our country. And almost everything you
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Speaker 1: touch as petroleum in it Okay. That's like another really
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Speaker 1: important and significant part of this is that people really,
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Speaker 1: truly do need to understand that having America energy it
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Speaker 1: dominates is not only key for our prosperity, but it's
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Speaker 1: a key for our national security. And if you look
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Speaker 1: at now where China is, and this is Trump's attack
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Speaker 1: on Iran has taken a big economic bite out of
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Speaker 1: one of America's chief rivals, China. Almost all okay, listen carefully,
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Speaker 1: Almost all of Iran's exported oil and more than half
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Speaker 1: of Venezuela's oil went last year to China directly. Now
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Speaker 1: there are five different charts that are now showing that
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Speaker 1: China's oil dilemma is a massive problem. All right. Politico
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Speaker 1: did a very interesting article about this, saying disruption of
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Speaker 1: Iranian oil supplies may make China more interested in turning
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Speaker 1: to Russia because they're now getting desperate quickly for energy
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Speaker 1: and President Trump's attack on Iran is now taking a
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Speaker 1: massive economic bite out out of China. Over the span
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Speaker 1: of two months, the Trump administration has removed not one,
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Speaker 1: but has removed two leaders of the two most important
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Speaker 1: countries to China when it comes to their oil and
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Speaker 1: getting oil China is it's their most important crudal customer,
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Speaker 1: which China for Iran and for Venezuela. China buys aill
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Speaker 1: from nations all across the Middle East. Okay, but Iran
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Speaker 1: was second only to Saudi Arabia as its supplier last year.
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Speaker 1: According to analysis of data provided by market research firms
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Speaker 1: that are in the industry, almost all of Iranian's export
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Speaker 1: oil and more than half of venezuelas went directly to China,
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Speaker 1: which remained one of the only purchasers of goods from
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Speaker 1: the nearly from the two heavily sanctioned nations. The two
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Speaker 1: countries combined represent some seventeen percent of China's overall oil purchases.
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Speaker 1: That is a massive share of the world's largest importer
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Speaker 1: of crude oil, and China is the largest importer of
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Speaker 1: crude oil. The Chinese Foreign Minister and Saturday said it
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Speaker 1: was highly concerned, okay, they said this in China by
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Speaker 1: the attack on I Ran and called for an end
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Speaker 1: of the war immediately. Why because there's a squeeze on
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Speaker 1: China's energy supply and it comes just weeks before Trump
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Speaker 1: is lay to hold a summit with the Chinese leader Ggping.
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Speaker 1: That's going to be a big problem for them as well.
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Speaker 1: Now you add all these new challenges and obtaining oil
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Speaker 1: from the Persian Gulf, that could drive China to expand
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Speaker 1: its reliance on anybody else that's going to work with them.
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Speaker 1: I think that's clearly going to end up being Russia. Quote,
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Speaker 1: if the conflict drags on for a couple of weeks,
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Speaker 1: the most logical solution for Beijing is going to be
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Speaker 1: to turn to more Russian crude, and they're going to
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Speaker 1: have to figure out how to get around all the
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Speaker 1: issues there and embargoes, etc. China has a significant amount
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Speaker 1: of crude held in storage. They're really smart when it
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Speaker 1: comes to that, all right. They're better than we are
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Speaker 1: with our oil supplies and our strategic oil reserves, and
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Speaker 1: had already begun ramping down its imports of Iranian oil
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six in exchange for more Russian oil,
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Speaker 1: even prior to Saturday's fighting, because they understand geopolitics anderson
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Speaker 1: how reliant they were on Iranian oil. Following the strike,
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Speaker 1: ships have begun to avoid the Strait of Hormus off
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Speaker 1: the coast of Iran that is a critical shipping lane
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Speaker 1: for Gulf nations to export oil to Asia, specifically, China,
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Speaker 1: for example, in twenty twenty five received about half of
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Speaker 1: its imports imported oil from these six Gulf countries that
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Speaker 1: rely on the Strait of Hormus to get the oil
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Speaker 1: too China. Other large crude producers in the region, including
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Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia and Iraq and the UAE, transport almost all
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Speaker 1: their crewed exports through the geographic bottleneck the Strait of Hormuz,
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Speaker 1: and almost all of their oil is now going directly
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Speaker 1: to China now. Trump, to be clear, did not mention
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Speaker 1: Iranian oil in his address announcing the strike Saturday, marking
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Speaker 1: a contrast from his remarks after the raid against Nicholas
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Speaker 1: Maduro when he said the US would run quote unquote
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Speaker 1: Venezuela and have US companies go in, spend billions of dollars,
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Speaker 1: fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start
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Speaker 1: making money for the country. So that is very different
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Speaker 1: than what we're seeing now in Iran. Iran, just to
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Speaker 1: put in perspective for you, exports five hundred and twenty
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Speaker 1: million barrels of crude oil to China and twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five that's more than three times as much as Venezuela.
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Speaker 1: Another one point four billion barrels came from the five
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Speaker 1: other countries that rely on the Strait of Hormuz, and
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Speaker 1: in total, more than half of china His crew to
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Speaker 1: oil imports come from countries that are now facing trade
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Speaker 1: disruptions because of the war in Iran. So there is
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Speaker 1: a massive vested interest in China saying, hey, seventy percent
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Speaker 1: of China will comes from Venezuela and Iran. Last year,
21:16
Speaker 1: we got to fix that. They are also there's a
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Speaker 1: huge interest in them saying to the President, I it's America.
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Speaker 1: We'd love to work with you and figure out a
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Speaker 1: way to get all of this settled very very quickly.
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Speaker 1: And this is weakening China. I want to be clear.
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Speaker 1: That is a perk of what's happening right now. US
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Speaker 1: Sentcom Commander Brad Cooper has just confirmed and this is
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Speaker 1: just amazing. I love America, God bless America that the
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Speaker 1: US has now sunk in more than thirty Iranian ships.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to this from the Sitcom commander intensified.
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Speaker 2: You may have heard the President say just a little
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Speaker 2: while ago that we have sunker just twenty four ships.
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Speaker 2: That was true at the moment, we're now up over
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Speaker 2: thirty ships, and in just the last few hours we
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Speaker 2: hit an Iranian drone carrier ship roughly the size of
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Speaker 2: a World War II aircraft carrier, and as we speak,
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Speaker 2: it's on fire. The President gave us another task to
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Speaker 2: raise or level Iran's ballistic missile industrial base. We're not
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Speaker 2: what they have, We're destroying their ability to rebuild, and
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Speaker 2: so as we transition to the next phase of this operation,
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Speaker 2: we will systemically dismantle Iran's missile production capability for the future.
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Speaker 2: And that's absolutely in progress. This is going to take
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Speaker 2: some time, but our forces are well supplied, as the
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Speaker 2: Secretary said, and we are absolutely ready to prosecute this
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Speaker 2: mission decisively. Our combined joint forces have relentlessly destroyed Iran's
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Speaker 2: air defenses over the past few days, and they continue
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Speaker 2: hunting for more systems to kill. Our air defenders are
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Speaker 2: operating at the very top of their game. I couldn't
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Speaker 2: be prouder, shoulder to shoulder with our partners in the region,
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Speaker 2: in many cases providing the most integrid air defense networked
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Speaker 2: in Middle East history. We are fighting to win through
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Speaker 2: combine US and Israeli combat power. We will continue decimate.
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Speaker 1: You listen to what he said there, and I love this.
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Speaker 1: We are at full speed ahead, that was one of
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Speaker 1: the things he said. In seventy two hours, they've struck
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Speaker 1: over two hundred targets. That's another thing that he talked
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Speaker 1: about there. And the speed at which we're doing this
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Speaker 1: is full speed ahead. And we are taking out not
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Speaker 1: only what they have, but the facilities to replace or
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Speaker 1: to rebuild. More than thirteen ships in the last twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours. That means America is literally cooking the Iranian navy.
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Speaker 1: They are destroying them, completely dismantling them. And I couldn't
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Speaker 1: be happier about it. I think this is so important.
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Speaker 1: He said that this is a sentcome Commander. Or Also,
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Speaker 1: of the Iran's ballistic missile attacks have plummeted ninety percent
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Speaker 1: as the US have destroyed over these more than these
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Speaker 1: thirty ships, he said, as he described it there in
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Speaker 1: panic mode, Listen to the way you described the panic
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Speaker 1: mode here.
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Speaker 2: Then if I just looked back over the last twenty
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Speaker 2: four hours of the operation compared to where we were start,
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Speaker 2: ballistic missile attacks have decreased by ninety percent since day one.
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Speaker 2: Drone attacks have decreased by eighty three percent since day one.
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Speaker 2: Having said this, we remained vigilant. Our strikes against the
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Speaker 2: Iranian navy have intensified. You may have heard the President
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Speaker 2: say just a little while ago that deie we have
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Speaker 2: sunk or destroyed twenty four ships. That was true at
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Speaker 2: the moment. We're now up over thirty.
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Speaker 1: I love it. Now over thirty, like this is real time.
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Speaker 1: We also know that Iran's underground based storing missiles and
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Speaker 1: air defense systems. By the way, this is how stupid
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Speaker 1: they are. They actually put out pictures of this, like
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Speaker 1: bragging about it. How they're like underground, Like you didn't
24:57
Speaker 1: get these, you didn't get this The Iranian like government,
25:01
Speaker 1: like these people over there put out pictures showing their
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Speaker 1: underground assets. And then it's like, thanks for telling us
25:08
Speaker 1: about that. By the way, I think we probably already
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Speaker 1: do about it. But then we're like, yeah, good job,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna blow that up too. So this is now
25:17
Speaker 1: where we are. There's also a question of like who
25:20
Speaker 1: is going to be the leader, right, Like who's gonna
25:26
Speaker 1: be in charge? Will the Iatola's son be the successor?
25:29
Speaker 1: Who wants the job at this point? Right? Is another
25:32
Speaker 1: question that people are asking, like will the Iatola's son
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Speaker 1: be the guy that gets it? And then there's you know,
25:39
Speaker 1: we've seen the UK Prime Minister h Starmer who has
25:43
Speaker 1: has betrayed this special relationship with the US and and
25:47
Speaker 1: and has been basically by default helping the terrorists regime
25:52
Speaker 1: in Iran. And now we know that the Iola's the
25:56
Speaker 1: former Iola's son maybe the next ruler of him. And
26:01
Speaker 1: he's also the next ruler that owns major property in London.
26:05
Speaker 1: Is also a very interesting clue on this. This was
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Speaker 1: something that was said on news I think it was
26:10
Speaker 1: News Nation with Kitty Pavic Public. Listen to what she
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Speaker 1: said in this report. It was very interesting.
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Speaker 3: Well, last night we told you about Moji Taba Hamani,
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Speaker 3: the fifty six year old son of Iron's dead spree leader.
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Speaker 3: Odds are he's about to take over Iron, if he
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Speaker 3: hasn't done so already. We're learning a great deal about
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Speaker 3: that brutal man, particularly all about his vast property empire
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Speaker 3: in the UK. He frequents the United Kingdom so often
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Speaker 3: that part of his massive real estate portfolio includes property
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Speaker 3: on Billionaire's Row in London.
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Speaker 1: Did you hear that, By the way, I want to
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Speaker 1: be clear, the UK has lost its way so much
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Speaker 1: under Starmer that you've got the isle of toa's son
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Speaker 1: that owns so much property in the UK, he's even
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