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An Unyielding Stance on Trade plus Iran Militias Ready to Disarm · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: It is a major victory for law and order when
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Speaker 1: it comes to the President Donald Trump having power to
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Speaker 1: do his job. The Supreme Court of the United States
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Speaker 1: lifted a block from the US District Judge James Boseburg,
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Speaker 1: which was law fair preventing the Trump administration from deporting
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Speaker 1: suspected illegal alien gang members. They were doing this under
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Speaker 1: the seventeen ninety eight Alien Enemies Act. Now, this ruling
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Speaker 1: from the Supreme Court is a massive win for President
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump and most importantly for the rule of law
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Speaker 1: in this country. It's also a massive win for his
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Speaker 1: administration because now they can actually do their jobs. It
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Speaker 1: was described quote as a narrow and focused on the
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Speaker 1: proper venue for the cases, rather than on the administration's
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Speaker 1: use of a century's old law to justify his decision
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Speaker 1: to deport suspected illegal alien gang members. That according to
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Speaker 1: The New York Times. So even when the President it's
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Speaker 1: a huge victory from the Supreme Court, just know the
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Speaker 1: hacks of the New York Times are still going to
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Speaker 1: lie to you about the premise of the ruling. Per
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Speaker 1: the New York Times, it was a five to four decision.
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Speaker 1: Happens all the time, by the way, and the Supreme
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Speaker 1: Court justice found that the migrants had improperly challenged their
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Speaker 1: deportations in Washington.
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Speaker 2: D C.
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Speaker 1: When they should have challenged him in Texas, where they
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Speaker 1: were being held quote unquote from the Times. Now, the
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Speaker 1: real headline should have been this, the Supreme Court sides
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Speaker 1: with the Trump administration and will allow them to continue
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Speaker 1: removing Venezuela and Transda Ragua gang members from the country
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Speaker 1: under the Alien's Enemies Act. But no, the media couldn't
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Speaker 1: actually tell you the story the honest way. In a
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Speaker 1: post on x the Attorney General Pam Bondi responded to
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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court decision and described it as a landmark
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Speaker 1: victory for.
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Speaker 3: Quote the rule of law.
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Speaker 1: Bondi continued saying that an activist judge in Washington, DC
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Speaker 1: does not have the jurisdiction to seize control of President
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Speaker 1: Trump's authority to conduct foreign policy and keep the American
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Speaker 1: people safe. The Department of Justice will continue fighting in
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Speaker 1: court to make Americas safe again. Trump also asked the
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court to allow the federal government to deport suspected
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Speaker 1: illegal alien gang members under the Alien Enemies Act, and
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Speaker 1: in March, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to allow
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Speaker 1: for the expedited removal of illegal Venezuelan migrants who were
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Speaker 1: suspected of being members of that dangerous gang, the transda
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Speaker 1: Agua gang also that has been designated as a terrorist organization.
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Speaker 1: These are terrorists at the President's trying to get rid of.
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Speaker 1: This was a massive victory for the President, and it's
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Speaker 1: one that the media will not tell you the truth
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Speaker 1: on because they know just how damning it is to
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Speaker 1: their lawfare. At the end of the day, this means
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Speaker 1: that Donald try Trump is going to be able to
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Speaker 1: do what he needs to do to keep all of
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Speaker 1: us safe from these gang members. Now, this really broadens
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Speaker 1: out into also another bigger issue, and that issue deals
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Speaker 1: with just these judges who are doing everything they can
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Speaker 1: to undermine Donald Trump.
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Speaker 3: It is a form of law fare.
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear what Senator Schmid had to
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Speaker 1: say on Fox News Channel when he was talking about
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Speaker 1: just how bad it's gotten.
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Speaker 4: And so I think a lot of these judges are
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Speaker 4: taking it upon themselves to usurp really important power. For example,
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Speaker 4: when President Trump declared a predatory incursion of these criminal,
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Speaker 4: violent gangs, he's well within his Article two executive power
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Speaker 4: to deport them he can do that. The judge by
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Speaker 4: stepping in there, Judge Bosberg, by stepping in in the
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Speaker 4: case that we're talking about, he somehow got said.
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Speaker 5: You can't do that.
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Speaker 4: That is like that judge dictating missile strikes or deciding
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Speaker 4: troop movements. Those are national security issues, those are foreign
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Speaker 4: those are powers of the commander in chief. The judge
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Speaker 4: doesn't get to do so. The separation of powers works
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Speaker 4: both ways. You don't get to kind of jump into
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Speaker 4: the Article two branches authority on commander in chief power.
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Speaker 4: So I think you're about to see all these cases
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Speaker 4: make their way to Supreme Court, and I think President
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Speaker 4: Trump's on very firm ground, but we should address these
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Speaker 4: abuses that are happening now every day.
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Speaker 1: Pam Bonnie, the Attorney General of the United States of America,
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Speaker 1: also talking about just how radical these judges have become
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Speaker 1: and what they are doing.
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Speaker 6: The president is going to comply with the law. He
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Speaker 6: was overwhelmingly elected by an overwhelming majority of the United
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Speaker 6: States citizens to be our commander in chief, and that's
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Speaker 6: what he's been doing. Shannon. Just since January twentieth, we've
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Speaker 6: had over one hundred and seventy lawsuits filed against us.
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Speaker 6: That should be the constitutional crisis right there. Fifty injunctions
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Speaker 6: they're popping up every single day, trying to control his
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Speaker 6: executive power, trying to control where he believes our tax
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Speaker 6: dollars should be allocated. And saying he won by an
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Speaker 6: overwhelming majority is so important because that's what the American
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Speaker 6: people want, what President Trump campaign on and what he
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Speaker 6: want on, and he's implementing that agenda at a rapid speed.
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Speaker 6: None of us can keep up with them every single day,
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Speaker 6: and so it's just we're going after all of these lawsuits.
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Speaker 6: We're defending them all. We just got a great win
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Speaker 6: and will continue.
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Speaker 1: To fight, will continue to fight, and it looks like
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Speaker 1: now they're going to continue to also win. Senator Ted
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Speaker 1: Cruz also signed the alarm on these injunctions nationwide, injunctions
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Speaker 1: by these activist judges. And here is what he said
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Speaker 1: at a testimony hearing on the issue in front of
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Speaker 1: his committee in the Senate.
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Speaker 7: It's long been said that hypocrisy is the tribute that
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Speaker 7: vice pays to virtue. I have to admit I'm enjoying
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Speaker 7: listening to my Democrat colleagues suddenly discover the virtues of
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Speaker 7: the rule of law after four years where they brazenly
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Speaker 7: supported the most lawless Department of Justice and the most
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Speaker 7: politically weaponized department of justice our nation has ever. We
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Speaker 7: just heard the Senator from Rhye Island talk about the
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Speaker 7: imperative of protecting judges, and yet not a single Democrat
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Speaker 7: senator cared about the violent protesters that showed up outside
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Speaker 7: Supreme Court justices homes, including I might note female justices
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Speaker 7: like Justice Amy Coney Barrett threatening their family. And Joe
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Speaker 7: Biden's Attorney General didn't do a damn thing and refused
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Speaker 7: to enforce the law to protect those judges. Why because
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Speaker 7: he agreed with the violent protesters and he wanted to
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Speaker 7: intimidate and threaten those judges, Professor Bray. Under our constitution,
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Speaker 7: who should decide elections the voters or on elected judges.
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Speaker 8: The voters are the ones who should vote in the
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Speaker 8: election according to the laws, and the laws sometimes have
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Speaker 8: to be applied by the judges if they're aise.
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Speaker 7: And under our constitution, who is charged with making policy decisions?
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Speaker 7: Elected representatives elected by the people or unelected federal judges.
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Speaker 8: I think the question of policy, Senator, is a little
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Speaker 8: broader than a particular case, So the.
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Speaker 2: Basic laws should be enacted by Congress. That's where the
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Speaker 2: fountain of.
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Speaker 7: Polacy decisions are the elected branch. Right law is the
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Speaker 7: province of the court. Policy is the province of the
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Speaker 7: elected branches. These are not complicated, Professor Bray, Let me
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Speaker 7: ask you this, do the federal courts have power to
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Speaker 7: issue remedies for people who are not parties to a case?
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Speaker 8: That's the question, I agree is not complicated. They do
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Speaker 8: not have that power.
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Speaker 7: Is the phrase nationwide injunction or universal injunction found anywhere
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Speaker 7: in the Constitution?
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Speaker 2: It is not first chart the.
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Speaker 7: First one hundred and fifty years of our republic. How
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Speaker 7: many nationwide injunctions were issued?
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Speaker 2: My view is that there were not any until nineteen
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Speaker 2: sixty three.
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Speaker 9: Zero.
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Speaker 7: Now fast forward, how many nationwide injunctions were issued in
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Speaker 7: the entire twentieth century.
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Speaker 8: It's a small number, I would I would think it
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Speaker 8: would be a dozen.
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Speaker 2: Giver take it's not large.
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Speaker 7: Twenty seven actually, including Trump's first term. How many nationwide
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Speaker 7: injunctions were issued in the last twenty years?
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Speaker 2: Far more than that, thirty two.
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Speaker 7: From twenty twenty and one to twenty twenty four against Biden, Obama,
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Speaker 7: and Bush thirty two, and how many nationwide injunctions have
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Speaker 7: been issued in the last two months alone.
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Speaker 2: There have been quite a few thirty seven.
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Speaker 7: Let that sink in there have been more nationwide injunctions
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Speaker 7: in the past two months against President Trump than in
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Speaker 7: the entire twentieth century. There have been more nationwide injunction
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Speaker 7: against President Trump in the last two months than both
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Speaker 7: terms of George W. Bush, both terms of Barack Obama,
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Speaker 7: and Joe Biden's term. We saw during the Biden presidency
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Speaker 7: law Fair indicting President Trump four times, using the machinery
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Speaker 7: of justice to attack him, and that was an attack
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Speaker 7: on democracy because democrats today hate democracy. Democrats today are
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Speaker 7: angry at the voters for re electing Donald Trump and
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Speaker 7: electing a Republican Senate in a Republican House, and they
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Speaker 7: engage in Lawfair to stop democracy from operating.
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Speaker 1: Senator Cruz is absolutely right, and this is exactly why
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Speaker 1: it's so important that we fight back the way that
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Speaker 1: Pamboni said it wherever we have to when democrats abuse
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Speaker 1: their power, especially sitting on the bench. There has been
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Speaker 1: a story that has been circulating, and it's one that
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Speaker 1: we're going to debunk right now. It's that Republicans are
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Speaker 1: going to break with the president and destroy what he's
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Speaker 1: doing on tariffs. Well, Senator James Langford set the record
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Speaker 1: straight saying he doesn't think that's going to happen on
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Speaker 1: Capitol Hill at all. He said, if anything is stopping
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Speaker 1: the president will be lawfair in the court system. You're
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Speaker 1: noticing a trend with lawfair, right, take a list in
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Speaker 1: to in his own words from Oklahoma.
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Speaker 10: So, I think the president's challenge is not going to
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Speaker 10: be Congress. There'll be members of Congress saying, hey, this
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Speaker 10: needs to be able to come back to Congress as
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Speaker 10: it typically does. I think it's gonna be challenging the courts,
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Speaker 10: quite frankly, because it's novel, is new, it's a different
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Speaker 10: way to actually take on the tariffs, and so I
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Speaker 10: think the courts are going to jump in and say
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Speaker 10: we want to be able to take a look at this.
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Speaker 1: So there is a center saying, guess what, what you're
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Speaker 1: being told by the media is yet again another lie
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Speaker 1: to undermine President Trump and his job as the commander
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Speaker 1: in chief. Now, the Center also said, yes, there is
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Speaker 1: an attempt in Congress to quote rein in the president's
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Speaker 1: capability to manage tariffs, but quote, I don't think this
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Speaker 1: bill will have an impact on it at all. Now,
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Speaker 1: the Senate narrowly approved a tariff control bill which could
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Speaker 1: not have won approval if it was not for the
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Speaker 1: support of four Republicans. There's a little chance the bill
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Speaker 1: will get majority support in the House. Trump also still
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Speaker 1: has veto control of the bills should it win full approval.
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Speaker 1: You can't make this up, Langford said. The big pictures
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Speaker 1: that Trump is on the right course, and he believes
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Speaker 1: his constituents will see the benefits as well, saying, quote,
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Speaker 1: He's not wrong definitely that China is ripping us off
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Speaker 1: and that we've got bad trade issues all over the world.
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Speaker 1: And I'm looking forward to lots of new negotiated trade
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Speaker 1: agreements all around the world because my farmers and ranchers
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Speaker 1: are folks that do production of lots of different equipment here.
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Speaker 1: They want to be able to sell all over the world.
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Speaker 1: They want to be able to have fair markets.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: President Trump also getting in on the action at the
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Speaker 1: White House today. He was taking questions with net and Yahoo,
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Speaker 1: and he was asked by the media about the tariffs.
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Speaker 1: There was a story that started to circulate that Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump was quote looking at pausing at the tariffs. Well,
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump said, guess what, that's not true. And here's
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Speaker 1: the present in his own words, any questions mister.
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Speaker 7: To the markets today and would you be open to
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Speaker 7: a pause in tariffs to allow for negotiation.
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Speaker 11: Well, we're to look into that. We have many, many
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Speaker 11: countries that are coming to negotiate deals with us, and
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Speaker 11: they're going to be fair deals, and certain cases they're
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Speaker 11: going to be paying substantial tariffs, they'll be fair deals.
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Speaker 11: You know, I spoke this morning with the Prime Minister
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Speaker 11: of Japan and we had a very good conversation. They're
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Speaker 11: coming and I said, one thing, you're going to have
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Speaker 11: to open up your country because we sold no cars,
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Speaker 11: like zero cars in Japan, and they sold millions of
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Speaker 11: cars into our country. They don't really take our agriculture,
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Speaker 11: a little bit of it just to keep us slightly happy,
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Speaker 11: but they don't take what they have us to be taking.
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Speaker 11: So we have a great relationship with Japan. We're going
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Speaker 11: to keep it that way. But they're coming in to
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Speaker 11: meet and other countries are coming in with China, as
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Speaker 11: you know, against my statement, they put a thirty four
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Speaker 11: percent tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already,
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Speaker 11: and I said, if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow
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Speaker 11: at twelve o'clock, we're putting a fifty percent tariff on
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Speaker 11: above the tariffs that we put on. So they've gone
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Speaker 11: for years, they've become a rich country because of people,
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Speaker 11: again that we're in the White House that allowed this
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Speaker 11: to happen, hundreds of billions of dollars a year, that'd
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Speaker 11: maken us on trade, and it shouldn't be that way.
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Speaker 11: And I have a great relationship with presidency. I hope
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Speaker 11: it's going to stay that way. I have great respect
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Speaker 11: for China, but they can't do this. We're just we're
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Speaker 11: going to have one shot at this, and no other
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Speaker 11: president's going to do this what I'm doing. And I'll
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Speaker 11: tell you what, it's an honor to do it because
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Speaker 11: we have been just just destroyed what they've done to
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Speaker 11: our system. You know, we have thirty six trillion dollars
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Speaker 11: of debt for a reason, and the reason is that
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Speaker 11: people allowed it to get that way. So we'll be
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Speaker 11: talking to China, we'll be talking to a lot of
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Speaker 11: different countries, and I think, you know, if if we
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Speaker 11: can make a really fair deal and a good deal
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Speaker 11: for the United States, not a good deal for other
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Speaker 11: This is America first. It's now America first. And we
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Speaker 11: didn't put America first. We put America last. The people
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Speaker 11: that were in the Oval Office put America list, and
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Speaker 11: we're not going to stand for So.
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Speaker 1: If you want to know who's on your side, it's
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Speaker 1: clearly the President of the United States of America. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the media is having to lie, manipulate and change the
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Speaker 1: headlines and tell you it's all doom and gloom, and
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Speaker 1: then line say the President's going to stop the tariffs,
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Speaker 1: pause the teriffs, back down from the tariff, show weakness. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think it's pretty clear now from what the President
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Speaker 1: said in the White House none of that is actually
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Speaker 1: going to happen.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: The tariff guru at the White House is a guy
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Speaker 1: by the name of Peter Navarro. He went out on
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Speaker 1: the ingram Angle Show on Fox News Channel to talk
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Speaker 1: to average investors, many people like you and I that
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Speaker 1: invest for our retirement. And yes, it is a little
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Speaker 1: bit scary right now. It's concerning to see what's happening
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Speaker 1: on Wall Street. Well, here is the message from Pier
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Speaker 1: Navarro to all of us.
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Speaker 9: You heard the billionaire class.
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Speaker 12: Many of these people did in the end support President Trump,
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Speaker 12: but you might as well have thought we were on
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Speaker 12: the verge of breadlines in the United States today.
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Speaker 13: Well, I think in the end they supported Trump. I mean,
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Speaker 13: they're just like trying to put their bets whatever. Look,
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Speaker 13: here's the thing I want to say to small investors.
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Speaker 13: Don't panic. They want you to sell. You can't take
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Speaker 13: a loss until you sell. And what I see is
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Speaker 13: fifty thousand on the Dow. I predicted in twenty sixteen
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Speaker 13: the day after President got elected. Back then, when the
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Speaker 13: dead futures were dead read down, I said we're going
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Speaker 13: to go to twenty five thousand. I got that exactly right.
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Speaker 13: We're going to fifty. But more importantly, with the S
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Speaker 13: and P five hundred, the games we've had over the
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Speaker 13: last couple of years have been basically seven stocks the
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Speaker 13: magnific since seventy AIS, most of the stocks in the
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Speaker 13: S and P five hundred have gone nowhere. Now they're
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Speaker 13: going to go crazy. They're going to go so bullish
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Speaker 13: because we're bringing our investment home. The other thing I
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Speaker 13: want to say is we've got countries coming to us
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Speaker 13: or with these zero zero. It's like, well, we'll put
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Speaker 13: our terriffs down. Finally, if you'll put yours down, that's
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Speaker 13: not the big problem.
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Speaker 12: Why did that romer get going today that that Kevin Hasset,
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Speaker 12: who's been regular on the show, had floated that, well
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Speaker 12: zero's I watched Kevin.
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Speaker 9: Why did that? That sent the market back up?
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Speaker 13: Because what they're trying to do they're out in globalism
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Speaker 13: Land is shake bene of the American people and the
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Speaker 13: president trying.
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Speaker 9: To shake President Trump's confidence.
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Speaker 13: Exactly right, but but it's not working. It's not working,
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Speaker 13: as the president knows that we've been getting ripped off
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Speaker 13: for years.
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Speaker 1: If you go back to I love Navarro because it's
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Speaker 1: not working, right, it's not working on the president, it's
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Speaker 1: not working.
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Speaker 3: This is dumb.
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Speaker 1: It is not working because he understands his job. There's
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Speaker 1: also another question that he was asked about a recession.
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Speaker 1: Does he believe that a recession is coming? That's one
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Speaker 1: of the big plays we're hearing now from Democrats. Oh,
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Speaker 1: the presence running us into a recession. Well, Navarro had
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Speaker 1: this to say, the American voters as well.
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Speaker 13: And we get stuck with a hindsight. It's just doesn't.
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Speaker 9: This, Why do you think the market might turn around?
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Speaker 13: It's finding a bottom now, it's finding a bottom now.
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Speaker 13: But look, here's the thing.
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Speaker 5: It's going to shift.
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Speaker 13: Over, and it's gonna be companies in the S and
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Speaker 13: P five hundred who are the first to produce here.
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Speaker 13: Those are the ones going to lead to recovery. And
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Speaker 13: it's gonna happen Dow fifty thousand. I guarantee that, and
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Speaker 13: I guarantee no recession. Okay, Why because when we pass
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Speaker 13: the biggest broadest tax cut in history within a matter
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Speaker 13: of months, that's gonna be a great stimus. There's not
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Speaker 13: gonna be any inflation. We've already had a significant drop,
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Speaker 13: a huge drop in oil prices war that's like a
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Speaker 13: point off the CPI. We're going to have lower yields
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Speaker 13: and mortgage Now.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that Peter talked about there is
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Speaker 1: this recent development that has led to a significant decrease
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Speaker 1: in gas prices across the United States of America. As
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Speaker 1: of April to seventh, the nationwide average for a gallon
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Speaker 1: of regular gasoline stands at three dollars and twenty five cents.
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Speaker 1: That is a massive drop from previous weeks. Now, why
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Speaker 1: is this happening. There's a couple of key factors to
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Speaker 1: the decline. Number one, tariffs induced economic uncertainty, and so
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Speaker 1: what did that mean. Well, the present made it very
18:37
Speaker 1: clear that for him to be able to do what
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Speaker 1: he's doing on tariffs, he need to make sure the
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Speaker 1: price of oil drop, the price of gas would drop.
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Speaker 1: He's done this by opening up and allowing for America
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Speaker 1: to become energy independent.
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Speaker 3: Yet again that's been a huge factor in this.
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Speaker 1: We've also had seen an increase because of that in
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Speaker 1: oil production, and so you're looking at the organization of
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Speaker 1: patrolling exporting countries and it's Allies OPEK. Plus they've also
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Speaker 1: decided to accelerate the restoration of oil production cuts, leading
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Speaker 1: to an oversupply in the market and further driving down
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Speaker 1: oil price as well. And then you've got the issues
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Speaker 1: with seasonal demand fluctuations where we're past spring break, we're
19:18
Speaker 1: not to summer yet that's also a big deal. You
19:23
Speaker 1: combine all of this together and what it means is
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Speaker 1: from a major economic implication, lower gas prices are offering
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Speaker 1: immediate relief to consumers, they may also signal underlying economic
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Speaker 1: challenges as well. For many Americans who are now looking
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Speaker 1: at cheaper things like gas is a way to breathe
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Speaker 1: a little bit of relief. So this is part of
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Speaker 1: why Navar said, Look, we're not going into a recession.
19:50
Speaker 1: So you can believe the media who keeps lying to you,
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Speaker 1: or you can listen to President United States of America
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Speaker 1: and his team. We know what we're doing and we
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Speaker 1: know how to win on these issues. In some very
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Speaker 1: important international news, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanya,
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Speaker 1: who met with Donald Trump at the White House.
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Speaker 3: But one of the.
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Speaker 1: Biggest things that came out of the conversation was some
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Speaker 1: breaking news that Donald Trump announced about having direct talks
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Speaker 1: with Iran over their nuclear weapons program. The present saying
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Speaker 1: this at the White House, sitting next to bb.
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Speaker 11: We're having direct talks with Iran and they've started. It'll
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Speaker 11: go on Saturday. We have a very big meeting and
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Speaker 11: we'll see what can happen. And I think everybody agrees
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Speaker 11: that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious,
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Speaker 11: and the obvious is not something that I want to
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Speaker 11: be involved with, or frankly, that Israel wants to be
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Speaker 11: involved with if they can avoid it. So we're going
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Speaker 11: to see if we can avoid it, but it's getting
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Speaker 11: to be very dangerous territory. And hopefully the talks will
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Speaker 11: be successful, and I think it would be intern's best
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Speaker 11: interests if they are successful. We hope that's going to happen.
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Speaker 11: And we had just a lot of good talks on
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Speaker 11: a lot of things.
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Speaker 1: Now, as President Trump was saying this in the Oval Office,
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Speaker 1: Reuters came out with an exclusive report saying that Iran
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Speaker 1: back militias in Iraq are ready to disarm to avert
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Speaker 1: what they describe as a Trump wrath. That's right coming
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Speaker 1: out of Baghdad. Several powerful Iranian backed militia groups in
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Speaker 1: Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to
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Speaker 1: avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the US
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Speaker 1: Trump administration. That is what ten senior commanders and Iraqi
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Speaker 1: officials said to Reuters. The move to diffuse tensions follows
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Speaker 1: repeated warnings issued privately by US officials to the Iraqi
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Speaker 1: government since Trump took power in January. According to sources
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Speaker 1: who include six local commanders of four major militias, the
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Speaker 1: officials told Baghdad that unless it acted to disband the
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Speaker 1: militias operating on its soil, America could target the groups
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Speaker 1: with air strikes. A senior Muslim politician close to Iraq's
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Speaker 1: government's alliance also towed Reuters that discussions between the Prime
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Speaker 1: Minister and several militia leaders were quote very advanced, and
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Speaker 1: the groups were inclined to comply with US calls for disarmament.
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Speaker 1: The factions are not acting stubbornly or insisting on continuing
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Speaker 1: in their current form, he said, adding that the groups
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Speaker 1: were fully aware they could be targeted by US air strikes.
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Speaker 1: The six militia commanders interviewed in Baghdad by Reuters at
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Speaker 1: a southern province, who requested obviously eminemity to discuss the
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Speaker 1: sense of situation are from multiple different groups, many of
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Speaker 1: them also a ties to Iran. Trump is ready to
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Speaker 1: take the war with us to worse levels. We know that,
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Speaker 1: one of the commanders said, and we want to avoid
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Speaker 1: such a bad scenario. The most powerful Sheite militia also
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Speaker 1: saying that it's time for us to find a way
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Speaker 1: to work together.
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Speaker 3: You cannot make this up.
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Speaker 1: Why are they doing this now because they've witnessed what
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Speaker 1: the president's doing with other leaders that he decides to
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Speaker 1: take out ISIS leaders and the President making it clear
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Speaker 1: that if you don't get a deal now, well you're
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Speaker 1: probably going to end up dead. The commander said, their
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Speaker 1: main ally and patron, Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards military force,
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Speaker 1: has given them its blessing to take whatever decisions they
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Speaker 1: deem necessary to avoid being drawn into a potentially ruinous
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Speaker 1: conflict with the United States and Israel. So the moral
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Speaker 1: of the story is even Iran's military understands that right
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Speaker 1: now is not a time to mess with the Trump administration,
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Speaker 1: and this may be exactly why they're willing to talk
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Speaker 1: directly with the Trump administration to avert military strikes from
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Speaker 1: a president that says he's not bluffing.
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Speaker 3: Now, even CNN is reporting.
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Speaker 1: About the fact that the US is having these nuclear
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Speaker 1: talks with Iran. Mike Ran appeared on CNN's The Source
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Speaker 1: with Caitlin Collins to discuss the talks, and here's what
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Speaker 1: he said about the reporting.
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Speaker 14: My source tonight is the former Israeli ambassador to the US,
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Speaker 14: Michael Orrin, Ambassador. Thank you for being with US and
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Speaker 14: President Trump. He wasn't willing to say right that the
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Speaker 14: US would strike Iran's nuclear facilities. That is, of course
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Speaker 14: what Israel has long push for What do you expect
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Speaker 14: the US to do if discussions fail.
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Speaker 5: Well, one thing that President Trump has done, to be honest,
24:48
Speaker 5: he put the military option back on the table a
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Speaker 5: President Biden had taken it off the table. So it's
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Speaker 5: clearly on the table with the audience understand it's on
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Speaker 5: the table. But also, according to the reports tonight, for
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Speaker 5: the first time, as you said, in a decade, direct
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Speaker 5: talks between the United States and Iran, because during the
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Speaker 5: Biden administration the talks were indirect. So that is already
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Speaker 5: a step well from the Iranian perspective, a step forward.
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Speaker 5: Though we should say that the Iranans are kind of
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Speaker 5: denying that the distrect.
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Speaker 14: The Iranian Foreign Minister is saying that these are indirect.
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Speaker 5: High level talks.
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Speaker 14: So that's a different story.
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Speaker 9: What do you make of that.
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Speaker 5: It's a different story. But the essence is that there's talks,
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Speaker 5: and the talks then are going to raise some very
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Speaker 5: serious questions on the Israeli side. My gut feeling tells
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Speaker 5: me that what brought Prime Misi nesan Nowity to Washington
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Speaker 5: on such short notice wasn't just the tiriffs, and the
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Speaker 5: tariffs were serious it's about two and a half billion
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Speaker 5: dollars worth of trade from Israel's side at a time
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Speaker 5: when the Israeli economy is very vulnerable because of the war.
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Speaker 5: But what really brought him here was the Iranian the
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Speaker 5: notion that the understanding that these talks are about to
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Speaker 5: take place apparently on next Saturday. And there are three
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Speaker 5: major questions that Israel's going to be asking how long
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Speaker 5: the talks are going on for? You know, the Iranians
25:53
Speaker 5: are really good negotiators. They'll drag it out at a
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Speaker 5: time when the Russians are rebuilding the ear defenses in
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Speaker 5: Iran that were knocked out by the Israeli Air Force.
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Speaker 5: Big question. Second one is what's the goal of the talks?
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Speaker 5: Is the goal of a talks an agreement similar to
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Speaker 5: the twenty fifteen Obama Iran agreement which basically froze the
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Speaker 5: Iranian program for about a decade, but didn't dismantle the program.
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Speaker 5: And the third question is, as the President says, what
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Speaker 5: if the talks don't work, what is the next step?
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Speaker 5: Will the United States then support is really military action
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Speaker 5: against Iran to stop that program? Will the United States
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Speaker 5: join in that military action? As the President seems to
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Speaker 5: intimate that would be the case. But these are crucial
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Speaker 5: questions that Israelis will look to get answers from from
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Speaker 5: the White House.
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Speaker 14: Why do you think the Trump administration could strike a
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Speaker 14: better deal than the Obama administration.
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Speaker 5: Well, first of all, because of the credible military threat.
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Speaker 5: Obama had all options on the table, you remember, but
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Speaker 5: I don't think people actually believed it. I think that
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Speaker 5: now with the United States bombing the hoodies the way
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Speaker 5: they have, that's sending a message to Iran, a rather
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Speaker 5: unclitical message that this administration is willing to use four
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Speaker 5: to a degree that previous administrations. I certainly some previous
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Speaker 5: democratic administrations were unwilling to use that type of force.
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Speaker 5: And the Ruddians are aware, how should we say this?
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Speaker 5: This is president is not predictable in that way, and
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Speaker 5: that Iranians like predictability. They don't like dealing with the
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Speaker 5: uncertainty that President Trump could turn around and give that
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Speaker 5: order to those B two and B one and B
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Speaker 5: fifty two bombers to go into Iranian skies.
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Speaker 1: By the way, I love how they act like Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump being strong against Iran getting a nuclear weapon in
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Speaker 1: the Middle East is somehow like impredictability from Donald Trump, Like,
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Speaker 1: isn't this exactly what you want a president to do?
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Speaker 1: Because Iran knew that the military option had been taken
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Speaker 1: off the table.
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Speaker 3: You just heard that from the former Israeli ambassador of
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Speaker 3: the US.
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Speaker 1: He said in the last administration, Iran was one hundred
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Speaker 1: percent sure that military use was not going to be
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Speaker 1: done against them. In other words, you can do what
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Speaker 1: you want to do, and yeah, there may be some
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Speaker 1: sanctions against you and some other stuff, but you don't
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Speaker 1: have to worry about actual military action. So that's number
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Speaker 1: one here. That is a I think a really really
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Speaker 1: really important point to make. The second important point that
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Speaker 1: also needs to be made here is this. You have
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Speaker 1: a president now that is saying all options are on
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Speaker 1: the table. If you choose to go in a different
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Speaker 1: direction than what we're telling you you need to do,
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Speaker 1: this is up to Iran if they want to be
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Speaker 1: in that situation, if they want to be in that scenario.
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Speaker 1: And I think that is the point that's clearly being
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Speaker 1: made by this administration is the days of you getting
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Speaker 1: to dictate, they are over, the days of you getting
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Speaker 1: closer to a nuclear weapon, they're over. If you want
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Speaker 1: to play this game of chicken with the United States
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Speaker 1: of America, with the Trump administration, it's a very deadly game.
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Speaker 1: I actually go back to what was said earlier, you know,
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Speaker 1: when the President said we're having these direct talks. That
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Speaker 1: a good thing, right, He's saying, we're talking directly, We
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Speaker 1: are sitting down and we are talking directly. Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: is dead serious about this was another way that it
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Speaker 1: was described earlier today on Fox News Channel. They're saying
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Speaker 1: he's not joking and everyone in the Middle East knows it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: Absolutely, you can penetrate an iPhone.
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Speaker 16: Let's talk about Iran. The President clearly changing strategy from
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Speaker 16: the Biden administration and even you know, making a very
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Speaker 16: forceful declaration in his letter that you're going to get
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Speaker 16: We're open to talks Iran, but you're gonna have to
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Speaker 16: dismantle your nuclear program and you have two months to
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Speaker 16: agree to the talks. This is a big change in policy.
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Speaker 16: And how do you read it? Is he President really
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Speaker 16: serious about this?
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Speaker 15: I think he's dead serious about this, and no doubt
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Speaker 15: in my mind whatsoever. He's issued an ultimatum and he's
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Speaker 15: very clear about it. He wants voluntarily dismantling the program
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Speaker 15: verified by outside inspectors, and he wants it done by
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Speaker 15: date certain and that is the right approach to this.
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Speaker 15: And then he's told them very clearly that there will
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Speaker 15: be grave consequences if you don't do it. They know
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Speaker 15: what that means. It's likely and it has rarely led
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Speaker 15: US supported air strike to forciully dismantle that program. And
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Speaker 15: that's the path we are on. And I absolutely think
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Speaker 15: that the President coming in, even though it's early in
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Speaker 15: his administration, sending this unequivocal message to Iran, that's your
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Speaker 15: day of being the Malian aggressor in the Middle East
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Speaker 15: and also funding all your proxies to destabilize the Middle East.
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Speaker 15: It's over and Iran is back on its heels, Paul
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Speaker 15: and the way they haven't been in forty four years.
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Speaker 15: The President's team knows it, and they're in pursuit of
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Speaker 15: stopping what Iran has been doing all of these years,
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Speaker 15: and a nuclear enterprise will be a significant blow to them.
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Speaker 1: This is why I love having a commander in chief
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Speaker 1: that just isn't screwing around on national security, on tariffs,
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Speaker 1: on foreign policy.
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Speaker 3: He's just not going to screw around. And you can
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Speaker 3: hear it in.
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Speaker 1: The way that the White House talks about this. We're
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Speaker 1: willing to speak to you directly. We're willing to talk directly,
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Speaker 1: We're willing to negotiate directly. But to be clear, we're
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Speaker 1: not going to allow you to get a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 1: We're not going to allow you to continue to send
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Speaker 1: massive amounts of funds to these terrorists organizations, whether they
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Speaker 1: are in Iraq or in Syria or Hamas or hesblat
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Speaker 1: and undermine and kill innocent men, women, children in Israel.
31:45
Speaker 1: I also think it's very important that a lot of
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Speaker 1: this conversation took place side by side with NET and
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Speaker 1: Yahoo in the Oval Office, with the President making it
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Speaker 1: clear we are unified together. He's also said over again
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Speaker 1: he believes that they have the right, Okay, they have
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Speaker 1: the right to defend themselves. In translation, would allow Israel
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Speaker 1: to defend itself and protect itself at all costs, meaning
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Speaker 1: America would support you, we would give you what you need.
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Speaker 1: We would probably be involved in some capacity, maybe even
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Speaker 1: in the attack, to make sure that Iran is kept
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Speaker 1: in check. What's also shocking to me is just how
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Speaker 1: close Iran got and is right now to a nuclear weapon,
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Speaker 1: because the last administration allowed them to get that close
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