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‘This Is Not Iraq’ — Pentagon Says This Time They Brought the Receipts · 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 forces struck more than the one two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty targets in the first forty eight hours of
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  Speaker 1: the campaign. Posting on the third day of operations, United
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  Speaker 1: States Central Command wrote on x two days ago, the
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  Speaker 1: Iranian regime had eleven ships in the Gulf of Oman.
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  Speaker 1: Today they have zero or, as 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 and 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 on Saturday 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
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  Speaker 1: waters now. The announcement also comes as President Trump has
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  Speaker 1: made clear that dismantling Iran's naval capabilities was a central
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  Speaker 1: objective of the campaign. Speaking Monday, President Trump said US
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  Speaker 1: forces are annihilating their navy. Here's more of the president
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  Speaker 1: in his own words.
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  Speaker 3: For almost forty seven years's regime has been attacking the
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  Speaker 3: United States and killing Americans. Every time you see someone
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  Speaker 3: with missing arms and legs or a face that's been
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  Speaker 3: absolutely shattered violently, it was almost certainly caused by an
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  Speaker 3: 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 2: 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. They're at
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  Speaker 3: the bottom of the sea. Third, we're ensuring that the
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  Speaker 3: world's number one sponsor of terra can never obtain a
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  Speaker 3: nuclear weapon. Never going to have a nuclear weapon. I
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  Speaker 3: said that from the beginning they're never going to have
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  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon. They were on the road to getting one,
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  Speaker 3: legitimately through a deal that was signed foolishly by our country.
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  Speaker 3: And finally we're ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue
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  Speaker 3: to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.
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  Speaker 3: And we thought we had a deal, but then they
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  Speaker 3: backed out, and they came back, and we thought we
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  Speaker 3: had a deal, and they backed out. I said, you
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  Speaker 3: can't deal with these people. Got to do it the
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  Speaker 3: right way. Today, we grieve for the four heroic American
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  Speaker 3: service members who have been killed in action and send
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  Speaker 3: our love and support to their families in their memory.
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  Speaker 3: We continue this mission with ferocious, unyielding resolve to crush
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  Speaker 3: the threat this terrorist regime poses to the American people,
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  Speaker 3: and a 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 them On links the Arabians see to the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz. That's a corridor through which roughly one
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  Speaker 1: fifth of the world's oil supply passes, giving the destruction
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  Speaker 1: of Tehran's fleet immediate strategic and economic significance. The naval
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  Speaker 1: campaign is part of a much broader assault as well.
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  Speaker 1: In a fact sheet released early Monday, Sentcom confirmed that
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  Speaker 1: US force has struck more than one thousand, two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty targets during the first forty eight hours of
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  Speaker 1: Operation Epic Fury, up for more than one thousand in
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  Speaker 1: the opening twenty four hours alone. Those targets included the
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  Speaker 1: Islamic Revolutionary Guard core headquarters and command and control centers,
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  Speaker 1: ballistic metal production and launch sites, naval vessels and submarines,
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  Speaker 1: anti ship missile facilities, air defense systems, and communication infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: as well. The campaign has involved B two stealth bombers,
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  Speaker 1: F thirty five fighter jets, Reaper drones, and naval strike
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  Speaker 1: platforms operating across multiple theaters as US forces moved to
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  Speaker 1: dismantled assets deemed to pose imminent threats to American forces,
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  Speaker 1: our allies, and international maritime navigation. Operation Epic Fury began
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend with coordinated US Israeli strikes that eliminate
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  Speaker 1: at least forty eight senior Iranian officials. That number is
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  Speaker 1: now rising and include the Supreme Leader Kolamani, dealing the
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  Speaker 1: regime an unprecedented decapitation blow at the outset of the campaign.
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  Speaker 1: The destruction of Terran's gould fleet builds on those opening strikes,
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  Speaker 1: which targeted senior leadership, command and control centers, missile sites,
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  Speaker 1: and other military infrastructure, underscoring the breadth and sequence of
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  Speaker 1: operations the Pentagon said during the first forty eight hours.
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  Speaker 1: Israeli intelligence officials later described the opening assault as a
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  Speaker 1: carefully time strike launched an unexpected hour while senior leadership
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  Speaker 1: was gathered in one location, a rare convergence that allowed
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  Speaker 1: multiple top figures to be taken out simultaneously. Major General Binder,
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  Speaker 1: head of Israel's defense intelligence doctorate, said more than forty
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  Speaker 1: of ran'smost senior figures were eliminated in roughly forty seconds
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  Speaker 1: during the one coordinated strike, underscoring what he described as
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  Speaker 1: the depth and precision of the intelligence effort, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: there is no place where we will not find them,
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  Speaker 1: warning that additional targets are being identified daily. Trump's signal
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  Speaker 1: Monday that the current phase represents only the beginning. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump also says the 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 4: He said, yes, the President says, yes, we are, indeed,
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  Speaker 4: but right now we want everyone staying inside. It's not
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  Speaker 4: safe out there. And then the President said it's about
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  Speaker 4: to get even less safe. He said, quote, we haven't
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  Speaker 4: even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn't even happened.
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  Speaker 4: The big one is coming soon.
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  Speaker 2: Very clear.
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  Speaker 1: As the President was talking with CNN's Jake Tapper in
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  Speaker 1: that interview, saying this is just the beginning. We're knocking
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  Speaker 1: the crap out of them, he said, we haven't even
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  Speaker 1: started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn't even happened,
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  Speaker 1: and the big ones coming soon. With the RAMS golf
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  Speaker 1: fleet erased and more than one two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: military targets struck in two days, US officials are making
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  Speaker 1: it clear that while the maritime adjective has been achieved,
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  Speaker 1: the broader campaign is only accelerating at this hour, which
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  Speaker 1: brings us to a very important aspect of the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I want to change hears and talk about what the
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  Speaker 1: Pentagon is saying about this military operation. Many may not
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  Speaker 1: know exactly what the Pentagon has said, and Pentagon officials
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  Speaker 1: held a briefing after the beginning of the US and
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  Speaker 1: Israel strike on Iram. You'll hear the Secretary of warpete
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  Speaker 1: Headseth first speaking, and then you'll hear others at the
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  Speaker 1: Pentagon briefing as well listen to what they had to say.
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  Speaker 5: Well, good morning now.
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  Speaker 6: We just finished an update with Admiral Brad Cooper, the
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  Speaker 6: sent Coom commander across the centcom aoar our leadership and troops,
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  Speaker 6: as you would expect, doing a fantastic job. Two days ago,
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  Speaker 6: under the direction and direct orders of President Donald J. Trump,
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  Speaker 6: the Department of War launched Operation Epic Fury, the most lethal,
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  Speaker 6: most complex, and most precise aerial operation in history. For
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  Speaker 6: forty seven long years, the expansionist and Islamist regime in
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  Speaker 6: Tehran has waged a savage, one sided war against America.
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  Speaker 6: They didn't always declare it openly, except for their constant
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  Speaker 6: chance of death to America. They did it through the
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  Speaker 6: blood of our people, car bombs in Beirut, rocket attacks
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  Speaker 6: on our ships, murders at our embassy's, roadside bombs in
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  Speaker 6: Iraq and Afghanistan, funded and armed by Iranian KOD's force
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  Speaker 6: and IRGC killers. My generation of veterans carried the names
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  Speaker 6: of brothers who never came home, brothers butchered by Iranian
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  Speaker 6: backed roadside bombs and well armed militias, thousands of our own.
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  Speaker 6: We didn't start this war, but under President Trump, we
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  Speaker 6: are finishing it. Their war on Americans has become our
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  Speaker 6: retribution against their Ayatola and his death cult. It took
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  Speaker 6: the forty seventh president, a fighter who always puts America first,
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  Speaker 6: to finally draw the line after forty seven years of
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  Speaker 6: Iranian belligerents. He reminded the world, as he has time
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  Speaker 6: and time again, being an American means something unbreakable. If
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  Speaker 6: you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth,
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  Speaker 6: we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation,
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  Speaker 6: and we will kill you. President Trump has also been
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  Speaker 6: very consistent. Crazy regimes like Iran, hell bent on prophetic
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  Speaker 6: Islamist delusions, cannot have nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 5: It's common sense, many have said it.
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  Speaker 6: But it takes guts to actually enforce it, and our
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  Speaker 6: president has guts. Iran's stubborn and self evident nuclear pursuits,
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  Speaker 6: their targeting of global shipping lanes, and their swelling arsenal
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  Speaker 6: of ballistic missiles and killer drones were no longer are
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  Speaker 6: no longer tolerable risks. Iran was building powerful missiles and
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  Speaker 6: drones to create a conventional shield for their nuclear black
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  Speaker 6: mail ambitions. Let me say that again, a conventional shield
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  Speaker 6: for their nuclear blackmail ambitions, our bases, our people, our allies,
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  Speaker 6: all in their crosshairs. Iran had a conventional gun to
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  Speaker 6: our head as they tried to lie their way.
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  Speaker 5: To a nuclear bomb.
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  Speaker 6: It almost worked under Obama and his terrible Deal, but
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  Speaker 6: not under this president. Turns out, the regime who chanted
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  Speaker 6: death to America and death to Israel was gifted death
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  Speaker 6: from America and death from Israel. This is not a
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  Speaker 6: so called regime change war, but the regime sure did
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  Speaker 6: change and.
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  Speaker 5: The world is better off for it today.
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  Speaker 6: In their desperation, the enemy is unmasked as Iranian missiles
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  Speaker 6: and drones rained down indiscriminately on the hotels, airports, apartments,
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  Speaker 6: and other civilian targets of their neighbors. Cowardly terrorist tactics
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  Speaker 6: from a regime that for decades has trafficked in cowardly
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  Speaker 6: terrorist tactics lies, death and destruction. To this day, the
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  Speaker 6: Iranian leadership has built nothing except proxies and missiles and
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  Speaker 6: drones and deeply buried nuclear factories and facilities. Peaceful nuclear
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  Speaker 6: ambitions do not need to be buried underneath mountains. Last June,
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  Speaker 6: Operation Midnight Hammer obliterated their nuclear program to rubble afterward,
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  Speaker 6: we told them plainly, that's it.
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  Speaker 5: Now make a deal. They arrogantly refused.
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  Speaker 6: We said, rebuild it, and we'll stop you again, this
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  Speaker 6: time far worse.
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  Speaker 5: Well, President Trump.
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  Speaker 6: Secretary Rubio, Steve Whitcoff, Jared Kushner. They bent over backwards
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  Speaker 6: for real diplomacy, offering pathway after pathway to peace.
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  Speaker 5: I watched it.
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  Speaker 2: I was there.
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  Speaker 6: They tried, over and over and over again, earnest attempts
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  Speaker 6: at peace. The former regime had every chance to make
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  Speaker 6: a peaceful and sensible deal, but Taran.
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  Speaker 5: Was not negotiating.
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  Speaker 6: They were stalled, buying time to reload their missile stockpiles
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  Speaker 6: and restart their nuclear ambitions. Their goal hold US hostage,
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  Speaker 6: threatening to strike our forces. Well, President Trump doesn't play
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  Speaker 6: those games. And as Secretary Rubio said after the Maduro raid,
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  Speaker 6: if you don't know, now you know, President Trump puts
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  Speaker 6: America and Americans first. He doesn't hesitate, and neither do
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  Speaker 6: our troops. The mission of Operation Epic Fury is laser focused.
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  Speaker 6: Destroy Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production, destroy their
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  Speaker 6: navy and other security infrastructure, and they will never have
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  Speaker 6: nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 5: We're hitting them surgically overwhelmingly.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to know where to invest one thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars right now?
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  Speaker 6: With every passing day, our capabilities get stronger and Iran's
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  Speaker 6: get weaker. We set the terms of this war from
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  Speaker 6: start to finish. Our ambitions are not utopian. They are realistic,
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  Speaker 6: scoped to our interests and the defense of our people
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  Speaker 6: and our allies. Speaking of people, we hope the Iranian
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  Speaker 6: people take advantage of this incredible opportunity. President Trump has
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  Speaker 6: been clear, now is your time to Iranian security forces,
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  Speaker 6: choose wisely. President Trump has also been clear about your
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  Speaker 6: fate in either direction.
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  Speaker 5: To the media outlets.
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  Speaker 6: And political left streaming endless wars, stop, this is not
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  Speaker 6: a RAQ, This is not endless. I was there for both.
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  Speaker 6: Our generation knows better, and so does this President. He
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  Speaker 6: called the last twenty years of nation building wars dumb,
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  Speaker 6: and he's right.
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  Speaker 5: This is the opposite.
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  Speaker 6: This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission. Destroy the
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  Speaker 6: missile threat, destroy the navy, no nukes. Israel has clear
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  Speaker 6: missions as well, for which we are grateful.
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  Speaker 5: Capable partners.
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  Speaker 6: As we've said since the beginning, capable partners are good partners.
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  Speaker 6: Unlike so many of our traditional allies who wring their
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  Speaker 6: hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the
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  Speaker 6: use of force. America, regardless of what so called international
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  Speaker 6: institutions say, is unleashing the most lethal and precise air
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  Speaker 6: power campaign in history. B two's fighters, drones, missiles, and
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  Speaker 6: of course classified effects.
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  Speaker 5: All on our terms, with maximum authorities.
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  Speaker 6: No stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no
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  Speaker 6: democracy building exercise, no politically correct wars.
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  Speaker 5: We fight to win, and we don't waste time or lives.
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  Speaker 6: As the President warned, an effort of this scope will
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  Speaker 6: include casualties.
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  Speaker 5: War as hell and always will be.
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  Speaker 1: Pete 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. And
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  Speaker 1: that is exactly why they're going after Iran. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: sor right, let's talk about the election results that are
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  Speaker 1: coming in from all across the country.
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  Speaker 2: And there's no other way to say this.
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  Speaker 1: It was a very big night for Republicans and for
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump's political Maga movement across multiple states. Republican
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  Speaker 1: candidates that were back by President Trump not only one,
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  Speaker 1: they actually won convincingly. And the results show that the
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  Speaker 1: America First Message that Democrats said was already going to
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  Speaker 1: be a disaster is anything but a disaster. America First Message,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, is not just surviving politically, it's literally
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  Speaker 1: after this midterm primary, thriving with voters who are looking
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  Speaker 1: for strong leadership, that are looking for secure borders, that
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  Speaker 1: are looking for an economy that works for working families.
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  Speaker 1: Now we saw some I call them rhinos, establishment people.
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  Speaker 2: They're in serious trouble.
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  Speaker 1: You can look at the Lone Star state where voters
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  Speaker 1: served up I think a prerequisite of what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to witness in the midterm elections. All Right, you had
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  Speaker 1: Republicans and Democrats that decide who they want their candids
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  Speaker 1: to be. For the US Senate race there in Texas,
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  Speaker 1: and this is a big one, you've got an establishment
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  Speaker 1: I call him a bush air Republican Senator John Cornyn.
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  Speaker 1: He's the incumbent from Tech Texas. An insane amount of
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  Speaker 1: money that was spent. I mean, we're talking seventy plus
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  Speaker 1: million dollars fighting for his life against the Texas Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General Ken Paxton, and both of them also faced off
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  Speaker 1: against Representative Wesley Hunt for the GOP primary nomination in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: The top two vote.
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  Speaker 1: Getters, assuming none of them reach at least fifty percent,
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  Speaker 1: which we've seen is now clear, right, then it turns
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  Speaker 1: into a runoff.
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  Speaker 2: Now that runoff we know it's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be the incumbent center John Cornyn against
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  Speaker 1: Ken Paxton. Wesley Hunt did not make it right because
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  Speaker 1: he came in third. Now, Paxson has consistently pulled atop
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  Speaker 1: the field from the very beginning, without spending hardly any
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  Speaker 1: money compared to Cornyn. All right, establishment Republicans in Washington.
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  Speaker 1: Their narrative is that Paxson is a weaker general election
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  Speaker 1: candidate and they worry that he may end up quote
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  Speaker 1: opening Texas up to going blue for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in generations, that a Democrat is gonna win. Paxson's seems
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  Speaker 1: like that's that's a lie, that's the establishment. Not only
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  Speaker 1: can he win, but he will win in November, and
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  Speaker 1: if he gets the wins this runoff, like it's game over.
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  Speaker 2: Because he's a Trump conservative candidate.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I think that's pretty clear that's where this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be heading. And Cornyn had to spend so
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  Speaker 1: much money just to survive. I think it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: very hard for Cornyan to win in in this in
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  Speaker 1: this runoff, because people are like, dude, you did you win?
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  Speaker 2: Like are you winning? Are you buying it right?
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  Speaker 1: When you're spending seventy plus million dollars to get you
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  Speaker 1: there just to get into a runoff, there's a problem
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  Speaker 1: that you have clearly with the voters when you are
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  Speaker 1: the incumbent. The other thing that's interesting is, huh, you
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  Speaker 1: got a guy by the name of Dan Crenshaw. Dan
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  Speaker 1: got abliterated on election night. He's another guy that was
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  Speaker 1: not really with Trump. He's he's loud, he's obnoxious, he's
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: a you know, get the hell out of my way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm better than you, I'm smarter than you, I'm more intelligent.
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  Speaker 1: You I served my country and you didn't kind of guy.
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  Speaker 1: And that backfired in a big way. So when you
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  Speaker 1: look across Texas, I think that tells you a lot
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  Speaker 1: about what's happening all over the country. Republican candidates that
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  Speaker 1: were backed by President Trump, not only one, they won
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  Speaker 1: convincingly and the America First message is alive in well.
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  Speaker 1: Race after race, candidates to align themselves with Trump's agenda
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  Speaker 1: on energy, independence, law and order, and election integrity were
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  Speaker 1: rewarded by the mid term primary voters. Now, before I
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  Speaker 1: get into more on this, I got a lot more data.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Now back to the election results real quick.
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  Speaker 1: These results are being viewed by many analysts, all right
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  Speaker 1: as a clear signal that the Republican base remains not
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  Speaker 1: only energize, but the Donald Trump's influence inside the party
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  Speaker 1: remains incredibly strong heading into the election cycle coming up.
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly why the President is outpacing and out
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  Speaker 1: fundraising the Democratic Party. It's the reason why his endorsement
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  Speaker 1: means everything, and it's also the reason why this midterm
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  Speaker 1: convention that he's planning is going to be significant.
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  Speaker 2: Now, one of the most important trends for the night
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  Speaker 2: is turnout.
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  Speaker 1: Republican voters who the media had said we're going to
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  Speaker 1: stay home showed up, and not just showed up, but
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  Speaker 1: showed up in large numbers. All right, particularly in suburban
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  Speaker 1: and rural counties, where Trump's message resonates strongly with those
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  Speaker 1: hardworking Americans. In many districts, by the way, Republican turnout
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  Speaker 1: dramatically outpaced what Democrats were able to generate as well,
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  Speaker 1: meaning there's an enthusiasm gap in these victories and the
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  Speaker 1: night So that's big. Another key takeaway from these elections
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  Speaker 1: is that the Republican candidate to embrace the Trump agenda,
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  Speaker 1: we're able to consolidate support across the party, all right,
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  Speaker 1: instead of fractured primaries. Many of these racist saw voters
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  Speaker 1: rally behind Canada to I'm to continue the policies and
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  Speaker 1: defending the Trump presidency, defending economic growth, lower taxes, strong
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  Speaker 1: national defense, and putting America first on the global stage.
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  Speaker 1: So for President Trump, tonight's results that he was witnessing
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  Speaker 1: at the White House were another reminder that he's on
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  Speaker 1: the ballot. He remains the most influential figure in the
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  Speaker 1: Republican party period. His endorsement once again carried real weight
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  Speaker 1: with voters, and many candidates openly credit Trump's backing as
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  Speaker 1: a major factor in their victories, as they should politically speaking.
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  Speaker 1: Those that got sideways with the President Cornyn is a
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  Speaker 1: great example of that. In Texas. You know, Dan Crenshaw
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  Speaker 1: is a perfect example of this. Their results, well, it's
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  Speaker 1: in a clear message that if you're out there on
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  Speaker 1: your own and you're fighting against Trump and claiming a Republican,
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  Speaker 1: it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Going to go well for you.
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  Speaker 1: Many of the winning Republican candidates ran campaigns focus on issues,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, that have dominated national debate, the same
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  Speaker 1: issues that Donald Trump voted on, or i should say
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  Speaker 1: ran on and you voted on in the presidential election.
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  Speaker 1: It was inflation, it was crime, it was border security,
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  Speaker 1: cost of living, and when conservative candidates talked about it,
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  Speaker 1: the voter showed up and responded. Now the Republican strategists
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  Speaker 1: are already pointing to these victories is proof that the
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  Speaker 1: political map is not only shifting in their favor in
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  Speaker 1: key states and districts, but the momentum that began during
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  Speaker 1: the Trump presidency is actually continued to shape the party
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  Speaker 1: and the electorate. And that is something that Republicans need
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention to. A lot of times in primaries,
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  Speaker 1: you have conservatives that will run to the right and
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  Speaker 1: then they'll go back to the center for the general election.
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  Speaker 1: That seems to be a bad strategy. All right, So
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  Speaker 1: to recap this for you, I would say tonight's election
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  Speaker 1: results show number one, the Publican party that's way more
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  Speaker 1: energized than anybody wanting to admit. Okay, Number one like
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  Speaker 1: that is huge. They are energized. Number Two, it's unified
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Party around the America First Agenda aka Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump's agenda. And three, and this is the most important one.
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  Speaker 1: If you try to distance yourself from the political strength
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  Speaker 1: to President Donald Trump, it's game over for you.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: If these results are any indication of what's coming moving
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  Speaker 1: forward and the political battles ahead, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: fought on terrain that increasingly is favoring Republicans. That is
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  Speaker 1: also the best part about this. Now there's also Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: They got their own issues here, all right, on the
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  Speaker 1: Democrat side. And I'll give you a very quick synopsis
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  Speaker 1: to this, all right, it's really shaping up to be
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  Speaker 1: a battle between former President Barack Obama's pick in Texas,
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  Speaker 1: for example, a guy that is running for Senate, James
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  Speaker 1: Taller Rico, and then the former Vice President Kamala Harris's pick,
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  Speaker 1: the black congresswoman representative Jasmine Crockett, who you probably know
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  Speaker 1: from TV. You look at how different these two candidates are. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: these two candidates are extremely different. The Democratic Party is
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  Speaker 1: trying to decide are they going to be radical extremists
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  Speaker 1: or are they going to try to find candidates that
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  Speaker 1: don't come across as being so extreme. I think that
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  Speaker 1: bodes well for Republican candidates. The Republicans that did well,
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  Speaker 1: they were running on the same message no matter where
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  Speaker 1: they were in the country. The Democrats were running on
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  Speaker 1: their message of Donald Trump, orange man bad, everyone hates
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, donald Trump's the worst president in the world,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's a warmongerer. And it did not work well
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  Speaker 1: in the primary it. In fact, the Republicans showed up
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  Speaker 1: in a massive way. Democrats did not. Usually the party
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  Speaker 1: that's in power has the biggest day on election Day.
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  Speaker 1: It's usually a real big concern about what's gonna happen
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  Speaker 1: in the future. None of that was there this time,
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  Speaker 1: and that is a huge moment for people to understand
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  Speaker 1: one thing here. Donald Trump's still in charge of the agenda.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is still in charge of the party. Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump's agenda is how you get elected, and if you
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  Speaker 1: don't realize that, well, then you're pretty much an idiot.
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  Speaker 2: Well keep following this story.
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