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The Region Erupts, Washington Responds-Epic Fury Day 3 in Real Time · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Operation Epic Fury is ahead of schedule. President Trump said
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Speaker 1: in a new interview. Dozens of senior Ranian leaders have
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Speaker 1: been killed, and Israel hits back hard against Hezbolah Pete
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Speaker 1: headset vows no nation building is happening, and Marco Rubio
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Speaker 1: is telling Americans to evacuate multiple Midist cities. Also, the
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Speaker 1: US Embassy has been targeted by Iranian drones inn RIOD.
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Speaker 1: This also comes as new news is broken Sentcom says
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Speaker 1: that Tehran's Gulf of Oman fleet has been completely wiped out.
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Speaker 1: Zero ships remain as US hits one thousand, two hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty plus targets in Iran. The US Central Command
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Speaker 1: declaring that Iran's naval presence in the Gulf of Oman
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Speaker 1: has literally been reduced to quote zero in the strategic
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Speaker 1: waterway at the outset of Operation Epic Fury was destroyed
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Speaker 1: as American four has struck more than the one two
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty targets in the first forty eight hours
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Speaker 1: of the campaign. Posting on the third day of operations,
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Speaker 1: United States Central Command wrote on x two days ago,
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Speaker 1: the Iranian regime had eleven ships in the Gulf of Oman.
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Speaker 1: Today they have zero, whereas one of the memes said,
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Speaker 1: the US military does a magic trick turning ships into submarines.
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Speaker 2: The Iranian regime.
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Speaker 1: Is harassed and attacked international shipping in the Gulf of
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Speaker 1: Oman for decades.
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Speaker 2: Those days are over.
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Speaker 1: The command added, freedom of maritime navigation has underpin American
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Speaker 1: and global economic prosperity for more than eighty years. US
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Speaker 1: forces will continue to defend it. The statement was accompanied
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Speaker 1: by newly released video footage appearing to show precision strikes
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Speaker 1: hitting docked Iranian vessels and shoreline navy infrastructure as well.
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Speaker 1: According to SINCOM, all Iranian naval vessels stationed in the
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Speaker 1: Gulf of Oman when the operation began Saturday I have
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Speaker 1: been sunk. The destroyed ships reportedly included major surface combatants
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Speaker 1: and several vessels long used by Tehran to specifically harass
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Speaker 1: commercial shipping and conduct drone and missile operations in regional waters.
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Speaker 1: Now the announcement also comes as President Trump has made
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Speaker 1: clear that dismantling Iran's naval capabilities was a central objective
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Speaker 1: of the campaign. Now, before I play that audio, I
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Speaker 1: want to talk to you about a really important moment
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Speaker 1: in a real way that you can help the people
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Speaker 1: in Israel, and that is with the IFCJ. As Operation
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Speaker 1: Epic Fury intensifies, the world braces for what comes next,
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Speaker 1: and people of faith pray for freedom and for God's
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Speaker 1: people to be protected in.
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Speaker 2: The Holy Land.
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Speaker 1: Red alert sirens fill the air, sirens that give you
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Speaker 1: fifteen seconds to reach the nearest bomb shelter. The situation
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Speaker 1: is serious and the threat is real. Times like this,
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Speaker 1: freedom and faith aren't just abstract ideas. They are what
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Speaker 1: Speaking Monday, president Trump said forces are annihilating their navy.
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Speaker 1: Here's more of the President in his own words.
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Speaker 3: For almost forty seven years, this regime has been attacking
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Speaker 3: the United States and killing Americans. Every time you see
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Speaker 3: someone with missing arms and legs or a face that's
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Speaker 3: been absolutely shattered violently, it was almost certainly caused by
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Speaker 3: an Iran roadside bomb. They were put there by General Solomony,
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Speaker 3: who was the father of the roadside bomb. Very proudly
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Speaker 3: he thought, but I terminated him and my first term,
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Speaker 3: this was our last best chance to strike what we're
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Speaker 3: doing right now and eliminate the intolerable threats posed by
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Speaker 3: this sick and sinister regime, and they are indeed sick
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Speaker 3: and sinister. Our objectives are clear.
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Speaker 4: First, were.
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Speaker 3: Destroying Orens missile capabilities, and you see that happening on
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Speaker 3: an hourly basis, and their capacity to produce brand new
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Speaker 3: ones and pretty good ones they make. Second, we're annihilating
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Speaker 3: their navy. We've knocked out already ten ships there at.
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Speaker 4: The bottom of the sea.
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Speaker 3: Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of
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Speaker 3: Terra can never obtain a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 5: Never going to have a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 3: I said that from the beginning, they're never going to
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Speaker 3: have a nuclear weapon. They were on the road to
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Speaker 3: getting one, legitimately through a deal that was signed foolishly
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Speaker 3: by our country. And finally we're ensuring that the Iranian
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Speaker 3: regime cannot continue to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies
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Speaker 3: outside of their borders. And we thought we had a deal,
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Speaker 3: but then they backed out, and they came back, and
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Speaker 3: we thought we had a deal, and they backed out.
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Speaker 3: I said, you can't deal with these people.
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Speaker 5: Got to do it right way.
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Speaker 3: Today, we grieve for the four heroic American service members
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Speaker 3: who have been killed in action and send our love
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Speaker 3: and support to their families in their memory. We continue
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Speaker 3: this mission with ferocious, unyielding resolve to crush the threat
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Speaker 3: this terrorist regime poses to the American people, and a
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Speaker 3: threat indeed, it.
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Speaker 1: Is President Trump saying that from the White House. The
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Speaker 1: Gulf of Aman links the Arabian Sea to the Strait
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Speaker 1: of Hormuz. That's a corridor through which roughly one fifth
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Speaker 1: of the world's oil supply passes, giving the destruction of
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Speaker 1: Tehran's fleet immediate strategic and economic significance.
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Speaker 2: The naval campaign is.
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Speaker 1: Part of a much broader assault as well, and in fact,
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Speaker 1: she released early Monday, SENTCOM confirmed that US force has
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Speaker 1: struck more than one thousand, two hundred and fifty targets
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Speaker 1: during the first forty eight hours of Operation Epic Fury,
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Speaker 1: up for more than a thousand in the opening twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours alone. Those targets included the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
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Speaker 1: core headquarters and command and control centers, ballistic mental production
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Speaker 1: and launch sites, naval vessels and submarines, anti ship missile facilities,
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Speaker 1: air defense systems, and communication infrastructure as well. The campaign
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Speaker 1: has involved B two stealth bombers, F thirty five fighter jets,
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Speaker 1: Reaper drones, and naval strike platforms operating across multiple theaters
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Speaker 1: as US forces moved to dismantled assets deemed to pose
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Speaker 1: imminent threats to American forces or allies, and international maritime navigation.
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Speaker 1: Operation Epic Fury began over the weekend with coordinated US
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Speaker 1: Israeli strikes that eliminate at least forty eight senior Iranian officials.
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Speaker 1: That number is now rising and include the Supreme Leader Kolamani,
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Speaker 1: dealing the regime an unprecedented decapitation below oh at the
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Speaker 1: outset of the campaign. The destruction of Tan's gold fleet
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Speaker 1: builds on those opening strikes, which targeted senior leadership, command
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Speaker 1: and control centers, missile sites, and other military infrastructure, underscoring
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Speaker 1: the breath and sequence of operations the Pentagon said during
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Speaker 1: the first forty eight hours. Israeli intelligence officials later described
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Speaker 1: the opening assault as a carefully timed strike launched an
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Speaker 1: unexpected hour while senior leadership was gathered in one location,
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Speaker 1: a rare convergence that allowed multiple top figures to be
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Speaker 1: taken out simultaneously. Major General Binder, head of Israel's Defense
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Speaker 1: intelligence doctorate, said more than forty of Iran's most senior
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Speaker 1: figures were eliminated in roughly forty seconds during the one
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Speaker 1: coordinated strike, underscoring what he described as the depth and
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Speaker 1: precision of the intelligence effort, saying, quote, there is no
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Speaker 1: place where we will not find them. That additional targets
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Speaker 1: are being identified daily. Trump's signal Monday that the current
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Speaker 1: phase represents only the beginning. President Trump also says the
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Speaker 1: Iranian people should stay inside.
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Speaker 2: It's not safe out there. As he describes what is happening.
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Speaker 6: He said, yes, the President says, yes, we are, indeed,
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Speaker 6: but what right now? We want everyone staying inside. It's
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Speaker 6: not safe out there. And then the President said it's
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Speaker 6: about to get even less safe. He said, quote, we
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Speaker 6: haven't even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn't
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Speaker 6: even happened. The big one is coming soon.
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Speaker 1: Very clear, as the President was talking with CNN's Jake
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Speaker 1: Tapper in that interview, saying this is just the beginning.
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Speaker 1: We're knocking the crap out of them, he said, we
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Speaker 1: haven't even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn't
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Speaker 1: even happened, and the big one's coming soon. With the
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Speaker 1: RAMS golf fleet erased and more than one thou two
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty military targets struck in two days, US
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Speaker 1: officials are making it clear that while the maritime adjective
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Speaker 1: has been achieve the broader campaign is only accelerating. At
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Speaker 1: this hour, I want to change cares and talk about
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Speaker 1: what the Pentagon is saying about this military operation. Many
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Speaker 1: may not know exactly what the Pentagon has said, and
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Speaker 1: Pentagon officials held a briefing after the beginning of the
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Speaker 1: US and Israel strike on Iran. You'll hear the Secretary
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Speaker 1: of War Pete Headseth first speaking, and then you'll hear
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Speaker 1: others at the Pentagon briefing as well.
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Speaker 2: Listen to what they had to say.
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Speaker 7: Well, good morning, now, we just finished an update with
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Speaker 7: Admiral Brad Cooper, the Sentcom commander across the centcom aar
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Speaker 7: our leadership and troops as you would expect, doing a
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Speaker 7: fantastic job. Two days ago, under the direction and direct
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Speaker 7: orders of President Donald J. Trump, the Department of War
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Speaker 7: launched Operation Epic Fury, the most lethal, most complex, and
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Speaker 7: most precise aerial operation in history. For forty seven long years,
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Speaker 7: the expansionist and Islamist regime in Tehran has waged a savage,
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Speaker 7: one sided war against America.
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Speaker 8: They didn't always.
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Speaker 7: Declare it openly, except for their constant chance of death
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Speaker 7: to America.
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Speaker 8: They did it through the blood of our people.
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Speaker 7: Car bombs in Beirut, rocket attacks on our ships, murders
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Speaker 7: at our embassy's, roadside bombs in Iraq, in Afghanistan, funded
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Speaker 7: and armed by Iranian Koud's Force and IRGC killers. My
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Speaker 7: generation of veterans carried the names of brothers who never
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Speaker 7: came home, brothers butchered by Iranian backed roadside bombs, and
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Speaker 7: well armed militias, thousands of our own. We didn't start
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Speaker 7: this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it.
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Speaker 7: Their war on Americans has become our retribution against their
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Speaker 7: Ayatola and his death cult. It took the forty seventh president,
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Speaker 7: a fighter who always puts America first, to finally draw
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Speaker 7: the line after forty seven years of Iranian belligerents. He
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Speaker 7: reminded the world, as he has time and time again,
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Speaker 7: being an American means something unbreakable. If you kill Americans,
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Speaker 7: if you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth, we will hunt
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Speaker 7: you down without apology and without hesitation, and we will
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Speaker 7: kill you. President Trump has also been very consistent. Crazy
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Speaker 7: regimes like Iran, hell bent on prophetic Islamist delusions, cannot
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Speaker 7: have nuclear weapons. It's common sense, many have said it,
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Speaker 7: but it takes guts to actually enforce it, and our
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Speaker 7: president has guts. Iran's stubborn and self evident nuclear pursuits,
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Speaker 7: their targeting of global shipping lanes, and their swelling arsenal
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Speaker 7: of ballistic missiles and killer drones, We're no longer, no
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Speaker 7: longer tolerable risks. Iran was building powerful missiles and drones
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Speaker 7: to create a conventional shield for their nuclear black mail ambitions.
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Speaker 7: Let me say that again, a conventional shield for their
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Speaker 7: nuclear blackmail ambitions. Our bases, our people, our allies, all
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Speaker 7: in their crosshairs. Iran had a conventional gun to our
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Speaker 7: head as they tried to lie their way to a
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Speaker 7: nuclear bomb. It almost worked under Obama and his terrible deal,
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Speaker 7: but not under this president. Turns out, the regime who
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Speaker 7: chanted death to America and death to Israel was gifted
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Speaker 7: death from America and death from Israel.
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Speaker 8: This is not a so called regime change war.
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Speaker 7: But the regime sure did change and the world is
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Speaker 7: better off for it.
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Speaker 8: Today.
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Speaker 7: In their desperate the enemy is unmasked as Iranian missiles
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Speaker 7: and drones rained down indiscriminately on the hotels, airports, apartments,
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Speaker 7: and other civilian targets of their neighbors. Cowardly terrorist tactics
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Speaker 7: from a regime that for decades has trafficked in cowardly
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Speaker 7: terrorist tactics lies death and destruction. To this day, the
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Speaker 7: Iranian leadership has built nothing except proxies and missiles and
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Speaker 7: drones and deeply buried nuclear factories and facilities. Peaceful nuclear
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Speaker 7: ambitions do not need to be buried underneath mountains. Last June,
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Speaker 7: Operation Midnight Hammer obliterated their nuclear program to rubble. Afterward,
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Speaker 7: we told them plainly, that's it. Now make a deal.
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Speaker 7: They arrogantly refused. We said, rebuild it, and we'll stop
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Speaker 7: you again, this time far worse.
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Speaker 8: Well, President Trump.
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Speaker 7: Secretary Rubio, Steve Whitkoff, Jared Kushner. They bent over backwards
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Speaker 7: for real diplomacy, offering.
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Speaker 8: Pathway after pathway to peace. I watched it. I was there.
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Speaker 7: They tried, over and over and over again, earnest attempts
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Speaker 7: at peace. The former regime had every chance to make
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Speaker 7: a peaceful and sensible deal, but Taran was not negotiating.
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Speaker 7: They were stalling, buying time to reload their missile stockpiles
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Speaker 7: and restart.
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Speaker 8: Their nuclear ambitions.
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Speaker 7: Their goal hold US hostage, threatening to strike our forces. Well,
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Speaker 7: President Trump doesn't play those games. And as Secretary Rubio
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Speaker 7: said after the Maduro raid, if you don't know, now
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Speaker 7: you know. President Trump puts America and Americans first. He
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Speaker 7: doesn't hesitate, and neither do our troops. The mission of
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Speaker 7: Operation Epic Fury is laser focused. Destroy a RAI offensive missiles,
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Speaker 7: destroy Iranian missile production, destroy their Navy and other security infrastructure,
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Speaker 7: and they will never have nuclear weapons.
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Speaker 8: We're hitting them surgically, overwhelmingly. Do you want to know
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Speaker 8: where to invest one thousand dollars right now?
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Speaker 7: With every passing day, our capabilities get stronger and Iran's
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Speaker 7: get weaker. We set the terms of this war from
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Speaker 7: start to finish. Our ambitions are not utopian. They are realistic,
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Speaker 7: scoped to our interests and the defense of our people
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Speaker 7: and our allies. Speaking of people, we hope the Iranian
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Speaker 7: people take advantage of this incredible opportunity. President Trump has
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Speaker 7: been clear, now is your time to Iranian security forces,
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Speaker 7: choose wisely. President Trump has also been clear about your
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Speaker 7: fate in either direction.
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Speaker 8: To the media outlets and.
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Speaker 7: Political left screaming endless wars, stop, this is not a raq,
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Speaker 7: This is not endless.
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Speaker 8: I was there for both. Our generation knows better, and
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Speaker 8: so does this president. He called the last twenty years
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Speaker 8: of nation building wars dumb, and he's right. This is
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Speaker 8: the opposite.
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Speaker 7: This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission.
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Speaker 8: Destroy the missile threat, destroy the navy, no nukes.
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Speaker 7: Israel has clear missions as well, for which we are
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Speaker 7: grateful capable partners as we've said since the beginning, capable
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Speaker 7: partners are good partners, unlike so many of our traditional
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Speaker 7: allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming
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Speaker 7: and hawing about the use of force.
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Speaker 8: America, regardless of what so.
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Speaker 7: Called international institutions say, is unleashing the most lethal and
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Speaker 7: precise air power campaign in history. B two's fighters, drones, missiles,
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Speaker 7: and of course classified effects, all on our terms, with
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Speaker 7: maximum authorities. No stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire,
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Speaker 7: no democracy building exercise, no politically correct wars.
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Speaker 8: We fight to win, and we don't waste time or lives.
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Speaker 7: As the President warned, an effort of this scope will
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Speaker 7: include casualties.
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Speaker 8: War as hell and always will be.
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Speaker 1: Hedge sat there, the man in charge of the Pentagon,
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Speaker 1: the man who's in charge of war, saying war as
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Speaker 1: hell and it always will be. But making it clear
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Speaker 1: that Operation Epic Fury is about keeping Americans safe and
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Speaker 1: our allies from a terrorist organization that has sponsored more
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Speaker 1: terrorist actions than any other country in my lifetime. That
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Speaker 1: is exactly why they're going after Iran. Right now. I
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Speaker 1: and it's the latest that you want to know about
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Speaker 1: what is actually happening from Iran as well as the
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Speaker 1: Middle East, and also what America is doing. The military
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Speaker 1: operation against Iran has entered its third day with strikes
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Speaker 1: against targets in side Iran and interceptions of Iranian aircraft,
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Speaker 1: Iranian missiles and drones attempting to land blows across the
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Speaker 1: Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Speaker 2: Is very much ongoing at this moment.
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Speaker 1: We know that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjaminette Yahoo has
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Speaker 1: rejected the notion that Israel dragged the United States into
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Speaker 1: war with Iran, telling Sean Hannity on Fox News, that's ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: He also went on to say that Donald Trump is
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Speaker 1: the strongest leader in the world. He does what he
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Speaker 1: thinks is right for America, and he also does what
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Speaker 1: he thinks is right for future generations. Earlier, US Secretary
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Speaker 1: of State Marco Rubio said that the threat posed by
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Speaker 1: Iran to the United States was in fact imminent, contradicting
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Speaker 1: what many on the left had been saying for the
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Speaker 1: last twenty four hours. The White House, he also says,
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Speaker 1: had intelligence that the Islamic regime had planned to attack
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Speaker 1: American assets in the region in the event of an
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Speaker 1: impeding strike on its missile program by Israel. Marco Rubio
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Speaker 1: also added that the timing of the strike was also
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Speaker 1: influenced by desire to prevent the currently weakened Iran from
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Speaker 1: building up its missile and drone programs to defend against
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Speaker 1: strikes on its nuclear program that clearly they have been
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Speaker 1: trying to use to say, as they put it, to
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Speaker 1: kill America and to kill Israel. We also know that
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Speaker 1: the official spokesman for Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Defense said
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Speaker 1: that its forces have intercepted and destroyed eight.
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Speaker 2: Drones that have come in from Iran.
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Speaker 1: It comes after Saudi Arabia revealed that two drones were
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Speaker 1: successful in striking the US embassy there. The attack resulted
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Speaker 1: in a fire and minor material damage to the building,
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Speaker 1: but reportedly did not cause any injuries to US personnel.
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Speaker 1: We also know that US Vice President jd Vance, there
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Speaker 1: is no way the President Trump will enter the United
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Speaker 1: States in a multi year conflict in Iran. Speaking to
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Speaker 1: Jesse Waters of Fox News, the Vice President said, we're
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Speaker 1: not going to get into the problems that we've had
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Speaker 1: with a RAQ in Afghanistan after.
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Speaker 8: Iraq in Afghanistan. Some people say, up here we go again.
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Speaker 8: Is that something here you're thinking about?
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Speaker 9: Well, Jesse, if you think back to Afghanistan, twenty years
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Speaker 9: of mission creep, twenty years of not having a clear objective,
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Speaker 9: in twenty years of the United States trying to bring
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Speaker 9: liberal democracy to Afghanistan, Iraq was a little bit shorter,
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Speaker 9: but we were still in that country for nearly a
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Speaker 9: decade with no clear mission, no clear definition. What's so
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Speaker 9: different about this, Jesse, is that the president has clearly
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Speaker 9: defined what he wants to accomplish.
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Speaker 8: And there's just no way.
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Speaker 9: I said this before the conflicts started, all repeated again,
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Speaker 9: There's just no way that Donald Trump is going to
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Speaker 9: allow this country to get into a multi year conflict
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Speaker 9: with no clear end in sight and no clear ofjbjective.
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Speaker 9: What is different about President Trump, and it's frankly different
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Speaker 9: about both Republicans and Democrats of the past. Is that
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Speaker 9: he's not going to let his country go to war
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Speaker 9: unless there's a clearly defined objective. He's defined that objective
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Speaker 9: as a Ran cannot have a nuclear weapon and has
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Speaker 9: to commit long term to never trying.
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Speaker 8: To rebuild the nuclear capability. It's pretty clear.
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Speaker 9: It's pretty simple, and I think that means that we're
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Speaker 9: not going to get into the problems that we've had
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Speaker 9: with Iraq in Afghanistan.
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Speaker 1: Now, Jeddie Vance was not the only one that was
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Speaker 1: doing interviews. Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Nette Yahoo went on
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Speaker 1: TV to debunk the claims that Israel dragged the US
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Speaker 1: into striking Iran, sitting down with Sean Hannity, and here's
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Speaker 1: what he said.
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Speaker 2: And I want to ask you this.
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Speaker 10: You know, there are people that say, well, the Prime
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Speaker 10: Minister of Israel dragged Donald Trump into it, and as
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Speaker 10: somebody that's been friends with him over thirty years, nobody
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Speaker 10: drags Donald Trump into anything, number one.
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Speaker 8: But I want to get your reaction to that.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that's ridiculous. Donald Trump is the strongest in
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Speaker 4: the world. He does what he thinks is right for America.
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Speaker 4: He does also what he thinks is right for future generations.
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Speaker 4: And frankly, we're partners in that effort because I've devoted
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Speaker 4: my life to securing the life of the one and
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Speaker 4: only Jewish state. And believe me, it's been a struggle.
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Speaker 4: I've known the pangs of war. I lost a brother
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Speaker 4: in war in battle, I myself fart terrorists and was
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Speaker 4: wounded in liberating hostages from a hijacked plane. I held
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Speaker 4: a fellow soldier in my arms when I was eighteen,
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Speaker 4: and he died in my arms. I know the cost
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Speaker 4: of war, but I know sometimes that war is necessary
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Speaker 4: to protect us from the people who would destroy us.
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Speaker 4: And that's what free societies have to understand. Freedom is precious,
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Speaker 4: but it has to be protected. And we have to
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Speaker 4: understand that we're fighting here. We're fighting here the bad guys.
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Speaker 4: We're the good guys. These people massacred their own people.
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Speaker 4: Imagine what they would do. These people would chant death
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Speaker 4: to America if they had the ballistic missiles and the
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Speaker 4: nuclear warheads to deliver it to every American city.
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Speaker 5: Do you want to wait?
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Speaker 4: Do you want to bet your future on whether they
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Speaker 4: would do it or they would not do it.
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Speaker 5: I mean, look, nobody's stopped off Korea.
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Speaker 4: So they now have baalistic missiles and nuclear war warheads,
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Speaker 4: but they don't say death to America.
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Speaker 5: Iran is fifty North Koreas.
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Speaker 4: Iran is committed to your destruction, and whether people understand
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Speaker 4: it or not, the leader has to understand it. Donald
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Speaker 4: Trump understands it. You don't have to drag him into anything,
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Speaker 4: and nobody would do it anyway. He does what he
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Speaker 4: thinks is right, and this is.
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Speaker 1: Righttt Yeah, who wasn't done there? He also said one
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Speaker 1: of the great things about working with President Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: is that Trump is always understood the real threat that
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Speaker 1: Iran has not only you, but to the rest of
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Speaker 1: the world.
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Speaker 4: Well, you know when America the indispensable ally for Israel
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Speaker 4: and the greatest power of the world, and Israel America's
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Speaker 4: model ally is the National Security Council just called it.
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Speaker 4: When we worked together, amazing things happened. We worked together,
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Speaker 4: and amazing things happened. But I have to tell you
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Speaker 4: that it wouldn't happen without the leadership of President Trump
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Speaker 4: because he just you know, I met him in mar Lago.
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Speaker 4: You may remember this because I think you live close
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Speaker 4: by and I saw you at that time right before
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Speaker 4: my reelection, okay, and or before is there. He was
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Speaker 4: inaugurated the second time and we met. We met in
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Speaker 4: mar A Lago. And the first thing that Donald Trump
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Speaker 4: said to me, he said, you know, we have to prevent.
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Speaker 5: Iran from getting nukes, as simple as that.
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Speaker 4: He said that because he saw that as a clear
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Speaker 4: in present danger to the security and well being of
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Speaker 4: the United States. To have a regime like that, so
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Speaker 4: fanatic that it just defines itself by destroying America, exporting revolution,
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Speaker 4: exporting terrorism, exporting the worst Islamist fanaticism that attacks Arabs,
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Speaker 4: attacks is Raelies, attacks Americans, attacks everyone inside. They just
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Speaker 4: fired now their beliefs in sight around the least, including
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Speaker 4: Cyprus in Europe. To have a regime like that that
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Speaker 4: plans to eradicate the United States have the weapons of
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Speaker 4: mass death would have been the greatest threat that America
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Speaker 4: would face in the coming decades. And so he said
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Speaker 4: to me right off the bat. I didn't say to him.
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Speaker 4: He said to me, we have to make sure they
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Speaker 4: never get the nukes. And that's what he did. We
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Speaker 4: tried first to take them out in midnight hammer and
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Speaker 4: a rising line operation, and we took out their missile
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Speaker 4: sites but then they started again their missile and nuclear sites.
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Speaker 4: They didn't learn the lesson. He tried to get negotiations.
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Speaker 4: He negotiated with them, they didn't get it. They tried
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Speaker 4: to string them along. So action had to be taken,
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Speaker 4: and we took it.
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Speaker 1: It is very clear after hearing Thatt Yahu speak on
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Speaker 1: Fox News Channel that the President hammer side by side
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Speaker 1: his allies making sure that Iran is no longer a
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Speaker 1: threat not only to Israel, but to Americans in the
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Speaker 1: Middle East and also in this country, which brings us
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Speaker 1: to Pete Headseth. Pete Headseth having a press conference at
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Speaker 1: the Pentagon and after answering questions for quite some time,
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Speaker 1: he wanted to make sure he gave his last two
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Speaker 1: minutes of his statement to talk directly to the men
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Speaker 1: and women that are protecting and serving. He also wanted
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Speaker 1: to reassure the men and women in uniform that he
29:46
Speaker 1: is not going to get you into a never ending
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Speaker 1: war like Afghanistan or Iraq and the Pentagon giving this
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Speaker 1: update but then speaking directly to our warriors, and it's important,
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Speaker 1: I think for every American to hear exactly what he
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Speaker 1: said at the Pentagon.
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Speaker 8: Let me speak straight to you.
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Speaker 7: The Joint Force are warriors on the front lines. This
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Speaker 7: is your moment. This is the generational turning point America
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Speaker 7: has waited for since nineteen seventy nine and since the
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Speaker 7: rudderless Wars of Hubris. My generation, our generation endured. Don't
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Speaker 7: listen to the noise.
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Speaker 8: Just stay focused. Our commander in.
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Speaker 7: Chief is steady at the wheel. We face a determined enemy.
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Speaker 8: But you are better. But we must prove it every
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Speaker 8: single day.
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Speaker 7: History doesn't care if we're tired, if we're scared, or
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Speaker 7: if the fight feels big. It demands warriors who rise anyway.
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Speaker 7: Peace through strength, the warrior ethos, lethality, unity of purpose.
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Speaker 7: Those are not slogans. They're the beating heart of what
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Speaker 7: it means to wear the uniform.
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Speaker 8: That uniform you think clearly under fire, You act decisively
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Speaker 8: in chaos.
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Speaker 7: You uphold the Constitution, and you uphold our country without hesitation.
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Speaker 7: We are not defenders anymore. We are warriors trained to
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Speaker 7: kill the enemy and break their will. History is watching.
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Speaker 7: Be the force. You swore an oath to be focused, disciplined, lethal,
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Speaker 7: and unbreakable.
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Speaker 8: We will finish this on America.
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Speaker 7: First conditions of President Trump's choosing nobody else's as it
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Speaker 7: should be.
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Speaker 8: And know this above.
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Speaker 7: All, President Trump and I have your back always, through fire,
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Speaker 7: through criticism, through fake news, through everything. We unleash you
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Speaker 7: because you are the best, most powerful, most lethal fighting
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Speaker 7: force the world has ever seen. May Almighty God watch
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Speaker 7: over you, and his providential arms of protection extend over you.
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Speaker 8: Godspeed warriors, and keep going.
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Speaker 1: God Speed warriors, and keep going. A prayer there from
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Speaker 1: the Secretary of War talking directly to our warriors, telling
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Speaker 1: them exactly what they should expect. I got to say,
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Speaker 1: it's something I wish we'd seen from other people that
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Speaker 1: were in charge of the Pentagon. One thing is for
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Speaker 1: sure from this administration, they are being overly transparent about
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Speaker 1: their goals, their wishes, and their desires when it comes
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Speaker 1: to what's happening in Iran. And taking that two minutes
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Speaker 1: and four seconds to pray and speak directly to our
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Speaker 1: men and women in uniform is something new, and I
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Speaker 1: hope it's a trend that everybody in this position in
32:45
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