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Democrat Party Loyalty Ends Where Polls Begin plus Iran Tests Trump, Here's the Response · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I am here because Washington needs fighters, and Graham Platner
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  Speaker 1: is the fighter we need. You. Bet, I said to myself,
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  Speaker 1: that's my kind of man. That's my that's my that's
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  Speaker 1: my kind of man. That's my that's my that's my
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  Speaker 1: kind of man.
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  Speaker 2: Because that is a man.
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  Speaker 1: Who not only has the values, but a man believes
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  Speaker 1: and accountability.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 2: Good Wednesday morning.
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  Speaker 4: It's so nice to have you with us on the
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  Speaker 4: forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two.
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  Speaker 2: Very big stories for you.
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  Speaker 4: First up, Grand Platner, Democrats turning on him, trying to
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  Speaker 4: get him out of the race. But if you think
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  Speaker 4: they've found their moral compass, we've got to tell you
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  Speaker 4: about another candidate they're backing with everything they've got, plus
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  Speaker 4: the president nights and it's America. He says he's had
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  Speaker 4: enough of Iran's threats monstead of Oremus and now has
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  Speaker 4: said sanctions are coming back on their oil and even
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  Speaker 4: strikes against Iran. Now, before we get to both those stories,
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  Speaker 3: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: Democrats are turning quickly on Grand Platiner, not because of
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  Speaker 4: the latest accuser, but because they realize he can't win.
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  Speaker 4: The polling data is now showing that he is a
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  Speaker 4: lame duck candidate. And now Democrats do what they do well,
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  Speaker 4: They excommunicate you quickly. Even ms NOW, you know, formerly
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  Speaker 4: of MSNBC. They are suggesting that Platner's latest accuser is
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  Speaker 4: somehow quote more reliable because his other accuser, well, it
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  Speaker 4: was associated with right wing politics.
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  Speaker 2: That's their exact quote.
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  Speaker 4: So because they say that she's now this woman is
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  Speaker 4: a liberal. I guess you can believe her so much
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  Speaker 4: for a party that said literally believe all women, well
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  Speaker 4: apparently unless you're a Republican, you got it.
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  Speaker 2: This actually happened on MSNBC.
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  Speaker 5: To that comment about the sort of post me to
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  Speaker 5: Eras and the debate that sort of happened to the
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  Speaker 5: Democratic Party after the series of allegations around Graham Plattner.
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  Speaker 5: Part of I think what made it complicated for some
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  Speaker 5: Democrats to fully believe the woman who's at the center
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  Speaker 5: of the last round was that she was associated with
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  Speaker 5: right wing politics. But this woman, she I want to
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  Speaker 5: read part of what's out here. One of the reasons,
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  Speaker 5: she says to Politico, I didn't come forward sooner was
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  Speaker 5: the huge moral conflict that I had between supporting his politics.
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  Speaker 5: So she is saying, I actually agree with Graham Platner,
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  Speaker 5: his positions, his politics. She's clearly more on the left,
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  Speaker 5: but not supporting him as a person. I just want
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  Speaker 5: the truth out there. I just want people to have
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  Speaker 5: a whole scope of who he is as a person.
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  Speaker 4: So to be clear, the only women that Democrats will
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  Speaker 4: actually believe are radical lefties, and only when they've gotten
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  Speaker 4: their marching orders to come out and accuse of candidate
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  Speaker 4: that they believe is going to lose of something. This
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  Speaker 4: is very much like Eric Swallwell in California, and then
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  Speaker 4: we will say, okay, fine, you must drop out. Fetterman
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  Speaker 4: the only Democrat out there who actually is calling out
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  Speaker 4: Democrats for their hypocrisy. He said this on Fox News
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  Speaker 4: Channel about Bernie Sanders.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I refuse to overlook that, but honestly,
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  Speaker 6: I would really call Bernie Sanders to apologize for pushing
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  Speaker 6: this kind of predator more than anyone. He helped him
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  Speaker 6: elect and now apologize to the victims, especially the woman
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  Speaker 6: that she claimed that he raped her. So, I don't
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  Speaker 6: know why you want to keep pushing these kinds of people.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe he should consider set a few out and stop
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  Speaker 6: pushing these kind of communists and people and now people
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  Speaker 6: you know like p Hustle. Now he has been incredibly
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  Speaker 6: accused of rape and that's fairly recent too, that was
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  Speaker 6: only less than five years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he said that allegations are untrue, but that he's
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  Speaker 5: basically reviewing his options obviously gonna drop out.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 4: Now you listen to that from Fetterman, and what you
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  Speaker 4: learn is this the Democratic Party is not doing the
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  Speaker 4: right thing here. They're just trying to win a seat.
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  Speaker 4: Their moral compass is literally only what the polling data shows.
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  Speaker 4: And if you don't believe me, let me give you
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  Speaker 4: this fact. New audio has surfaced in another race. It
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  Speaker 4: is now audio that contradicts Abdul l Shaide's claim that
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  Speaker 4: he never backed the radical identity politics of defunding the police. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: that far left Muslim Michigan Senate candidate is now facing
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  Speaker 4: renewed scrutiny after this new audio showed him explicitly supporting
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  Speaker 4: efforts to defund the police departments completely. Now, in his
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  Speaker 4: previous interviews, Alseaeid had denied ever calling to defund the police,
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  Speaker 4: arguing that his old social media posts work just misrepresented
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  Speaker 4: after of course being taken out of context. But now
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  Speaker 4: a recording from just twenty twenty tells a very different story.
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  Speaker 4: In one interview from June twenty twenty, al Sayed said
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  Speaker 4: he believed police funding should be reduced while more taxpayer
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  Speaker 4: dollars should be directed towards schools, mental health services, and
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  Speaker 4: of course anti poverty programs, because remember, this is how
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  Speaker 4: you justify defunding the police. Alseeed said this as well.
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  Speaker 4: We are in a moment when a lot of our
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  Speaker 4: public conversation gets chewed down into two hundred eighty characters
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  Speaker 4: or less, and that is not the best way to
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  Speaker 4: talk about anything. So you'll note I didn't say defund
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  Speaker 4: the police. I just described what needed to be done.
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  Speaker 4: And I do think we need to be really focused
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  Speaker 4: on describing or explaining rather than sort of hedging on
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  Speaker 4: one side or the other behind a quote hashtag. He
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  Speaker 4: then said, defunding the police is disinvesting in the means
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  Speaker 4: of incarcerating someone or killing them on the streets, and
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  Speaker 4: investing more in the means of educating and empowering and
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  Speaker 4: in gauging communities with the means of being able to
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  Speaker 4: take on systemic poverty that we've allowed to fester in
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  Speaker 4: too many communities. Now again, these comments originally came out
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  Speaker 4: in twenty twenty, right as the quote defund the police
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  Speaker 4: movement was picking up major steam after the death of
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  Speaker 4: George Floyd. Alseed's campaign now has to admit and they
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  Speaker 4: have admitted that his views have quote changed since then.
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  Speaker 4: So instead of just straight applying to you saying I
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  Speaker 4: never said it, they're now saying, well, maybe he did
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  Speaker 4: say it, but well he didn't really mean it. Now
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  Speaker 4: the issue is coming up again because Elseed is currently
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  Speaker 4: leading the Democratic primary for Michigan's top US Senate seat.
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  Speaker 4: The new polls that have come out earlier this May
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  Speaker 4: showed him out in a twenty eight point lead. Yeah
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  Speaker 4: that's big, so Alseed, Well, now he's getting people that
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  Speaker 4: are actually looking at what he believes in and he
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  Speaker 4: is another radical communists. Now this is again the Democratic park.
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  Speaker 4: This is the candidates they keep choosing. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 4: if they lie to your face. It doesn't matter. If
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  Speaker 4: they've abused women. It doesn't matter if they lie about
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  Speaker 4: anything in their past. As long as they think they
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  Speaker 4: can win. It doesn't matter if you've abused women, hit them,
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  Speaker 4: rape them, it doesn't matter. This is the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 4: Win it all costs. But if the polling data changes,
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  Speaker 4: well they'll excommunicate you as fast as they did Eric
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  Speaker 4: Swalwell and now Grand Platner.
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  Speaker 3: Next story Number two.
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  Speaker 4: President Donald Trump twenty four hours ago issued a stark
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  Speaker 4: warning to Iran, declaring the US is prepared to completely
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  Speaker 4: dismantle the country's infrastructure in a small part of an
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  Speaker 4: afternoon if a diplomatic deal cannot be reached.
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  Speaker 2: The President saying this from the Oval Office. Look, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna win one way or the other.
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  Speaker 7: We're either going to make a deal. We're going to
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  Speaker 7: finish the job, okay, And it won't be tough to
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  Speaker 7: finish your job. I'd rather make a deal because I
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  Speaker 7: don't want to affect ninety one million people. We can
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  Speaker 7: knock down their bridges in one hour. We can knock
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  Speaker 7: out their energy supply. All of those big plants that
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  Speaker 7: they built, big beautiful modern plants, had a lot of money.
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  Speaker 7: They don't have any money now.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't given them any money.
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  Speaker 7: But we can knock out their electricity and power generating plants.
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  Speaker 7: And I would say a small part of an afternoon,
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  Speaker 7: every plant will be gone.
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  Speaker 4: And they know that, the President saying that from the
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  Speaker 4: Oval Office. Well, just twenty four hours after that, President
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  Speaker 4: Trump has ordered a new round of US military strikes
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  Speaker 4: against Iran. Why because Iranian forces, well, they decided to
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  Speaker 4: go after shipping commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,
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  Speaker 4: one of the most strategic and important waterways on the planet. Now,
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  Speaker 4: at the same time, the Trump administration is also reversed
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  Speaker 4: course on sanctions relief. They have instantly reimposed restrictions on
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  Speaker 4: Iranian oil exports and what officials described as a direct
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  Speaker 4: response to Tehran's actions. Now, the strait is the world's
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  Speaker 4: most critical oil choke point, and it's extremely important to Iran.
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  Speaker 4: Roughly one fifth of the global traded oil moves through
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  Speaker 4: the narrow stretch of water, and when Iran threatens or
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  Speaker 4: attacks ships there, it's not simply a regional issue. It
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  Speaker 4: has the potential and does in fact affect energy markets,
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  Speaker 4: gasoline prices, inflation, and the global economy. Now, according to
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  Speaker 4: US officials, Iranian forces attacked multiple commercial vessels, including oil
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  Speaker 4: and liquid natural gas tankers, using projectiles near the Strait
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  Speaker 4: of Hormuz, and in response, the President went back to
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  Speaker 4: maximum pressure strategy. He authorized a significantly expanded military operation.
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  Speaker 4: US forces reportedly struck more than eighty Iranian military targets,
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  Speaker 4: including missile launch sites, command and control facilities, surveillance systems,
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  Speaker 4: and dozens of fast attack boats believed to have been
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  Speaker 4: involved in threatening the shipping channel. Now, the administration says
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  Speaker 4: these were defensive strikes designed to restore freedom of navigation
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  Speaker 4: and deter traditional attacks, not the beginning of a broader war.
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  Speaker 4: US officials have continued to say they remain open to
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  Speaker 4: negotiations even while responding militarily, because again, this is peace
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  Speaker 4: through strength. Now, the second major move may have just
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  Speaker 4: as much long term significance as well, the Trump administration
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  Speaker 4: revoking the temporary authorization that it allowed Iran to legally
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  Speaker 4: sell oil under the recent diplomatic understanding between Washington and Tehran.
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  Speaker 4: Treasury officials say Iran's attacks on commercial shipping made continuation
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  Speaker 4: of those waivers unacceptable. The wine down period for Ranian
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  Speaker 4: oil sales has been dramatically shortened, as well, off the
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  Speaker 4: key source of revenue for the Iranian government that they
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  Speaker 4: desperately need, and that is significant because oil exports are
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  Speaker 4: the financial lifeblood of Iran's economy. The administration's message appears
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  Speaker 4: to be well yet again straightforward. If Iran attacks international shipping,
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  Speaker 4: it will not simultaneously receive economic relief from the United
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  Speaker 4: States of America. Iran, meanwhile, is also doing what they
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  Speaker 4: do well as a terrorist country, accusing Washington of violating
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  Speaker 4: them recent memory of understanding that had temporarily reduced tensions.
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  Speaker 4: Iranian officials argued the US strikes and renewed sanctions represent
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  Speaker 4: breaches to that agreement. Now US officials contend it was
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  Speaker 4: I Ran that first violated the understanding by literally attacking
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  Speaker 4: commercial vessels and actually giving warnings on the radio to
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  Speaker 4: multiple ships that you either stop and turn around or
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  Speaker 4: you will be attacked. Now, the financial markets, they're also
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  Speaker 4: reacting immediately. Oil prices have jumped more than five percent
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  Speaker 4: as traders worried about additional instability in the Persian Gulf,
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  Speaker 4: and investors understand that any prolonged disruption in the Strait
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  Speaker 4: could also have worldwide consequences for energy markets and energy supplies.
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  Speaker 4: The broader question now is whether this has become another
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  Speaker 4: short lived military exchange or the beginning of another dangerous
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  Speaker 4: cycle of retaliation. Iran has already come out at this
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  Speaker 4: hour condemning the strikes and warned of major consequences. The
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  Speaker 4: United States says it remains prepared to defend American forces
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  Speaker 4: and international shipping if additional attacks occur. So that's where
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  Speaker 4: we are right now. President Trump has responded to the
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  Speaker 4: attacks on commercial shipping with both military force and renewed
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  Speaker 4: economic pressure. The President clearly saying exactly what he said
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  Speaker 4: days in advance and actually sticking to those words, showing
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  Speaker 4: peace but also military strength when he needs to.
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