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Speaker 1: And hello, Welcome one and all to the Big Podcast

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on this Friday. Today is the tenth day of July,

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Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. My name is

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Tom Sullivan. Glad to have you come by. We've got

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well a variety of topics for you today. One of

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them got a lot of attention because the Wall Street

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Journal did a story today specifically on breaking headlines, about

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the fact that there is a new effort by Iran

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to assassinate President Trump, and this has caused a flurry

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of activity as far as reporting goes. Today, all the

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major news sources are running with this story. But it

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was again by an investigation that started by the Wall

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Street Journal looking into why the President flew to Turkey

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for the NATO meeting on the brand new shiny Qatari

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gifted plane, but then flew halfway back on the old

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seven forty seven, the old Air Force one to England,

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which he then got off the old one and got

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on the new one to fly home to DC. What

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is turning out what the Wall Street Journal is reporting

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the headline is fears over the new luxury jet forced

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Trump back to an old Air Force one after Israeli

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warning worries that the president's new plane lacked defensive capabilities

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was combined with an Israeli warning about a possible threat,

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So it was not surprising. It was the fact that

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the new gift from Qatar, they said it would take

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forever to actually get it up to the speed of

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having all of the devices on that plane that the

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current Air Force One has, and that is also why

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it's taken Boeing longer than they thought it would take,

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and they're losing their shirt on it. But there is

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a lot going on with Air Force One that we

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don't see or know that are defensive capabilities. So we

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start off today with the reporter at the Wall Street

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Journal who broke this story about the warning from Israel

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and the problems with the new plane.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what we know is that Israel recently shared

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this Freshian intelligence. It says that it indicates that there

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was a plan that you know, Iran was contemplating to

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kill Trump and this would help to explain some of

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his behavior. And I think some of the statements that

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you guys played we also saw, you know, the chance

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at the funeral. And what's important to note is that

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these these two men have been speaking, you know, very

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frequently during the war, and they had late night phone

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calls and they would talk about intelligence and targets, and

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the relationship recently soured. I think this helps explain some

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of those statements. This intelligence was was shared very recently,

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and we think that that's why he was making some

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of those statements. And this was obviously a concern to him.

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He has been a target of around in the past,

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but this has, you know, been on his mind, and

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it's come up again and again.

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Speaker 1: She's talking about the president and it has come up

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again and again and again. Recently he's been the President

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has been bringing it up. This is a couple of

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recent clips from the President in Turkey at the NATO

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meeting and since.

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Speaker 3: They want to take out the US later me. I'm

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on every list, I shall think this morning. I'm on

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every single one of their lists. I'm number one on

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the kill list for Iran. They're lovely people. I'm number one.

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I may be gone to because I'm their number one target.

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It's out all over the place. I'm their number one

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because they scum.

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Speaker 1: You know what's interesting about this is he calls them scum,

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and he's and he knows that they're trying to kill him,

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and yet he still will not use military force against

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them other than just a very tepid response back to

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this is a neat pillad with the Wall Street Journal.

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Speaker 2: No, we don't have these details right now. We just

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know that these two countries, you know, they their cooperation,

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their military cooperation, intelligence cooperation has really reached unprecedented levels

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in this war. It's gotten much closer. You know, we

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have tankers parked at the Tel Aviv Bengali on airport.

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you know, in different situation rooms in the US, and

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so this is not unusual, but you know, this is

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a different level of threat. And yeah, it obviously got

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Speaker 1: It did get his attention. David Petraeus General David Betrayus,

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a retired general. He also was asked about the threats

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from Iran on our president.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm not surprised. There's a long history of Iran

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putting people on various lists. As you know, a number

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of our former officials had to have protection well after

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their time in government. In fact, and as you described

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and showed the mood in the crowd around the funeral

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procession and so forth was one of anger, defiance in

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a quest really for revenge and retribution. So I'm not

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at all surprised that they would be figuring out if

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they could take that retribution how they might do that.

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of a degree of incompetence in what they have done.

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CI director and as long as a Revolutionary Guards Corps

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Cooks Force officer tried to hire a hitman in Mexico

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City to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US and

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Cafe Milano in Washington, and thankfully the individual they hired

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was a DA course and we diverted the aircraft to

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Kennedy International Airport that was carrying that officer home, and

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the FBI met him at the bottom of the ramp.

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I hope that this is also a case where they're

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not able to come up with a competent plan, but no,

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this is a big warning. I think we should all

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take it very seriously.

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Speaker 1: Well apparently they did, because that was the reason now

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that the Wall Street journals reporting that they switched planes

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at the airport in Ankara, Turkey, and had Donald Trump

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fly home on the or at least halfway on the

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old Air Force one. What's interesting is once they got

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to England, they switched and they obviously felt the threat

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to an aircraft wasn't as great as they were leaving

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England and going across the Atlantic Ocean and into Andrews

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Air Force Base in Washington. But this is, like the

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general said, this has been going on, and he was

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asked a question about whether they've been trying to kill

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Babe Net in Yahoo as well for many years.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's a very big difference. Obviously, Prime Minster Net

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Yahoo is well within range of Iranian intermediate range ballistic missiles.

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President Trump generally is not. But the fact that they

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changed out the new Air Force one for the old

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one indicates that they took this very seriously and appropriately

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so and wanted to make sure that all the countermeasures

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that were possibly available were in fact on that craft.

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is the point of our president flying around in that

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Katari gifted plane. It's not safe, it doesn't have the

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kind of anti defensive doesn't have defensive measures on the

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plane sufficient enough for the Secret Service. Well, it's all

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based on the threat, depending on where you're going and

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what the threat posture is. I don't think there's any

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threat posture that is elevated, for example in the UK

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or heading back to the US or what have you.

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loom again. It appears that there is credible intelligence about

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some unspecified threat, and so I think you take the

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precautions that are available to you. And that's exactly what

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the Secret Service gets paid to do, and presidents listen

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to them, and especially somebody who's been twice at this

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subject of an assassination attempt. Well, I don't have any

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ends information, obviously, but what Betrayus was talking about was

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surface to air missiles, and they if you look at

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the map, Turkey's right next to Iran where once he

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got to England. I guess it would be pretty hard

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to set up a surface to air missile to try

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to take down an airplane, namely Air Force one. Jonathan Swan,

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who I think is a great reporter. He's been with

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a number of different major media organizations. He's an Australian guy,

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but he does a great job on getting sources within

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Washington d C. He and Maggie Haberman have written a

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new book they're out promoting. But he was asked also

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about this whole business about security for the president.

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Speaker 5: Well, you're exactly right. One element that people I think

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underestimate or understate is how much Trump's feelings about Iran

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intensified and became more personal in the interregnum period when

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he was out of office. It was brief by the

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FBI that Iran was trying to kill him. Iran hacked

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into the emails of Susie Wilds during the campaign. There

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was this sort of atmosphere of threat that was hanging

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over the campaign. Wherever they went. They switched planes at

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one time, and Trump has traveled far less this term

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than he has in the first term. He would not

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articulate this because it would be a sign of weakness,

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but there are advisors around him who believe that part

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of the reason for his much more home bound presidency

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this time round is fear of assassination, which is understandable

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given what he went through during the campaign.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting because what they planned on doing. They

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said back at the beginning of the year that the president,

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because this is a midterm election year, that they were

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going to roll the President out a lot. He was

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going to be on the road doing a lot of

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rallies to getting people enthused about the Republican side of

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the voting booth. And well he has been out, but not.

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than he has in the past. And I'm sure his

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political advisors would love to get him out more, but

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the Secret Service is probably putting the kabash on that one.

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More from Andrew McKay, former deputy FBI director.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's it is absolutely the right decision under

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the circumstances. It's the conservative security first sort of analysis,

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and that's what we have to be doing right now.

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The simple facts are, there is no way that they

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were able to take that new plane, the one we're

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referred to as the bridge plane, the one given to

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us by the Kaitaris, and to equip it with all

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of the equipment that is already in the current Air

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Force one fleet, the equipment that has been tested and

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tested and used time and time and time again, and

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so without we have to be operating at this point

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with this sort of intelligence about these serious plots. We

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have to be operating at our absolute a game when

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it comes to the security around the president, and so

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this is not the time to ride in the fancy

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plane because you like the way it looks and it

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makes you feel more confident. When you're landing at a

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conference with the world leaders, you need to make sure

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that you're going to be able to get out of there.

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a neighbor of Iran, which is the country that we're

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at war with. So simply traveling there without all of

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this extra intelligence from the Israelis and what we've learned

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in the last forty eight hours, simply going to Turkey,

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which is so close to that theater of war, raises

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all sorts of security concerns. They need to be in

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the most secure aircraft possible, and.

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Speaker 1: So talking about Iran, Admiral Robert Harward basically says, there's

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nothing new. This is the same old story that we've

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been dealing with with Iran for a long time.

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Speaker 7: Well, first, let's assess what Iran's doing here, the same

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thing they've been doing for decades. They've been targeting our

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leadership in the US for decades. We had key officials

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that had to have personal security Secretary POMPEII or what

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comes to mind before and after his service and others

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that needed personal security because of threats from Iran. Completely inacceptable.

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others were on their list. So that's just indicative of

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the state of mind of the government of Iran and

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what they are not just doing now, but what they've

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been doing for decades. So I think the President made

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it clear and I only have to assume what that,

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if anything were to happen from at that behast of

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the Iranians to continue, to course use power, political, military,

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and economic power to ensure that the government ran changes

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that you have a government in place that renounces the

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Islamic Revolution and ceases the policies and programs they've had

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for decades, and assassinations is one of those programs.

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Speaker 1: So back and forth we go, and it seems as

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if we have accomplished nothing. They still have some control

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over the Strait of horror moves. They still have their

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enriched uranium, they still have their IRGC leaders.

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Speaker 4: It seems to.

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Speaker 1: Me like they haven't. Oh, they've had a lot of

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damage to their property. But Larry Kudlow interesting comments that

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he made this afternoon about the fact that oil has

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also been coming and going from the Strait of Horror Moves,

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much more so than a lot of people have even guessed. Now,

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fact that they're sending all kinds of oil in and

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out of the straight or four moves the ships that

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Here's Larry Kudlow describing some of the oil and gas activity.

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Speaker 8: You know, I just want to read you this fact.

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You know, Iran is telling us that they control the

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Strait of Hormus and from sent comm This is not me,

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this is sencom put this out earlier today. Since early May,

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eight hundred commercial vessels have passed through the strait eight hundred, okay,

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and three hundred and eighty million barrels as a lot,

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a very, a lot, a lot. It just tells me

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that Iran is bluffing.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 8: Now, you know, I'm one of those guys that would

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like to see is take over carg Island and ruin

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their era oil, essentially take away their old business completely.

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And I'm one of the people who would like to

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see the sanctions permanent, not just till August twenty first,

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but the sanction should be put back on permanently. But

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be that as it may. They don't have any impact

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on the oil story. We are pushing it through in

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the Southern Channel. We're pushing it through the so called

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Omani Channel. Our navy has helped coordinate that.

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Speaker 4: They've done a.

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Speaker 8: Brilliant job as they always do, and has send Commas

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reported eight hundred commercial vessels three hundred and eighty million

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barrels of oil. That's why the price of oil has

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come down and stayed down. There was a little pop

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when we started bombing back on Tuesday and Wednesday, but

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it came right down. In a sense, the market is

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oversupplied with oil.

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Speaker 4: Why do I say that.

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Speaker 8: Because China is in a severe economic slump, and China

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has substantially cut back on their imports of oil and

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their use of oil because they're in such a bad

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economic situation, and of course everyone's using strategic preserves. We're

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still producing just short of fourteen million barrels a day,

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where a net exporter as a matter of fact, and

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liquid natural gas LNG is being used around the world.

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You've got the Saudis using their east to west pipeline,

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UAE and others are going to increase their production of oil.

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UA is going to probably go from roughly two million

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barrels a day to five million barrels a day. Iraq

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remember them, they're going to go from about a million

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and a half barrels a day to four to five

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million barrels a day. That's all in the cars and

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they're going to figure out ways to ship it away

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from this gult.

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Speaker 1: So he goes into a lot of numbers there, But

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what comes down to is it answers a lot of

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the questions about with all of this and all of

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the geopolitical upheaval that's been going on since February twenty eighth,

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oil prices are staying in the low seventies. I mean

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they were in the low sixties, but at the same

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time you would think they would be a hunt undred

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and twenty one hundred and forty one hundred and fifty

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dollars a barrel. It's because of the fact that with

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all of this commotion, oil is still getting out through

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the straight of hor moves and it does make you

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wonder if somebody is just playing one big bluffing game

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going on. I want to talk a little about who

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uses a lot of oil and gas. The airlines do.

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And the airlines are out giving us their earnings report.

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As the earnings reports will start rolling in this next

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week on second quarter earnings. Well Ed Bastian, who is

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the CEO of Delta Airlines, and of all the major airlines,

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there's no question that Delta is by far the most

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successful of all the majors. They're out there. They also

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have their own refinery. They may yes, they make their

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own jet fuel. So Delta is just knocking the socks

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off on the financials. And you'd think with all of

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the prices of airline tickets going up that they would,

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you know, all the airlines would have seen traffic slow down,

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people customers, but no, people have been buying just like

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you buy. They're still buying gas, they're still buying airline tickets.

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So we haven't reached that point where people say, no,

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I'm not going to pay anymore. Demand destruction. So Bastion said,

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by the way, yes, our numbers are great for the quarter.

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Airfares are way up and doesn't look like they're coming

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down anytime soon.

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Speaker 9: You're going to continue to see prices stay probably elevated,

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not at the levels we've seen, and I think you'll

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see demand continue to be very very strong out into

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the back half of the ear So.

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Speaker 1: If demand is strong the back half of the U year,

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it's always during the holidays and all of that you

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can't get you can't get on a plane. So he's

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saying prices will remain elevated, not at the levels that

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we've seen, but he used the term elevate. Others they're

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still going to be much higher than they used to be,

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so they're not They're probably lower them a smidgeon, but

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not much in that because of the fact that demand

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is still strong for their product, airline tickets, just like

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the gas stations are still selling gas as fast as

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they can. So the economy people moan and grown about it.

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And there are people that cannot afford gas and cannot

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afford airline tickets, but there are enough people that can

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so that the products of gasoline and airline tickets don't

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seem to be hurt at all. What domestic politics the

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Platner story. I got an update for you this afternoon.

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Graham plattin we told you yesterday had dropped out, but

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then we found out that he never filed the paperwork.

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He said, he dropped out, but you don't drop out

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until you file the paperwork. So people in the Platner

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campaign said that he was going to wait till the

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last minute. The deadline for him to drop out is

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Monday at five pm Eastern. If he did not, his

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name would be on the ballot, so that would have

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caused all kinds of havoc. So he wasn't going to

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do it till the last minute. And then the betting

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pools started thinking he's he may he may not drop out,

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So there were betting on whether he will in fact

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file the paperwork or not. Well, all of you that

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placed bets, he filed the paper According to the Secretary

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of State in Maine, he filed the paperwork this afternoon,

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So he has officially dropped out. Now about the race

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for them, they have they're trying to figure out how

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to put some kind of convention together. But the convention

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of Democrats in any state, say with Republicans, any of

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these political conventions are full of died in the wool

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political types. These are now your average Americans that vote

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Democrat or Republicans. These are the hardcore people. So the

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Democrats are going to have a convention to try to

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select their next candidate. And as I explained to you yesterday,

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it maybe that Susan Collins will have a tougher time

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she was winning. That's one of the reasons Plattner was

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pushed out was that he was losing to Susan Collins.

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But now the question becomes with somebody new. There was

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a lot of people that did not want to vote

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for Susan Collins, but they did not want to vote

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for Graham Planner. He was just too much for them.

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But now if you bring in a halfway normal Democrat candidate,

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halfway normal person, then the people that don't like Susan

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Collins may just go ahead and flip over and vote

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for somebody whoever this new candidate will be anyway out

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of all of that. Jake Sherman, who runs punch Bowl News,

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made some interesting comments about the seat itself on.

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Speaker 10: Our show flyout Day on YouTube, and he's going to

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send forty million dollars on main and he makes the

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point that not only is this the most democratic seat

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on the on the map this year, this is the

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most democratic seat in the last six years on the

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battleground map. This is a seat that Kamala Harris won,

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a state where Donald Trump is not popular like Susan

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Collins is the and I'm not saying she will win,

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but is the only Republican who could win. And you

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need to basically bat, you know, pitch a perfect game

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here staff to beat her. I mean, she had a

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raise in twenty twenty against Sarah Gideon. Sarah Gideon raised

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endless amounts of money from donors who were told they

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could knock off Susan.

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Speaker 6: Collins, and Collins ran uncomfortably. So I mean, you know,

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it went by the way Joe Biden was on the ballot.

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Speaker 10: So I just I'm just you know, there's a lot

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of dynamics at play here and Democrats need to move quickly,

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they need to move carefully, and they need to get

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a candidate in here who is ready for primetime and

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doesn't have anything either position wise or personality wise that

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could trick them up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they need to find a choir boy or choiral

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girl to run. And they have to you heard Sherman,

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They have to run a perfect campaign because Susan Collins.

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It is interesting, Maine is supposedly a Purple State. But

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when you look at it, Joe Biden won it in

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twenty twenty, Kamala Harris won it in twenty twenty four.

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But all along, Susan Collins is out there, the big

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old R after her name, and she keeps winning. So

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they're going to have to find somebody that does not

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have anything in their background that would cause any sort

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of concern because you know, the minute they announced the name,

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all the opposition research people are going to go to

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a town on Tarte find something that they can attack

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the person on. In the Charlie Kirk killing case, the

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case of Tyler Robinson. The preliminary hearing, Oh my gosh,

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I told you yesterday. I'm still I can't believe this

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preliminary hearing has gone all week long. All it's supposed

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to do in a preliminary hearing is they come forward

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the prosecutor and the defense, and they talked before the

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judge about probable cause. There's probable cause to have a trial.

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This is not a trial. It's simply say proving to

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the judge that there's probable cause that a crime was

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in fact committed. They got a ton of evidence, but

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the judge is just as slow as you can possibly imagine.

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Everything has to be done just so carefully. So the

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thing wrapped up today the preliminary hearing, and they're not

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going to come back into the courtroom until September first,

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So that a month and a half for him to

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cogitate about whether or not to order a trial. And

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that's September first, and he'll make the decision theoretically supposedly

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on September first, about whether they're going to have a

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trial or not. This isn't something that is even in question.

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Why does it take a month and a half for

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him to figure out whether or not there's probable cause?

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Josh Ritter, defense lawyer, had this to say, Oh.

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Speaker 11: We've been hearing the defense that sing that song for

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a very long time. That has been the argument that

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they continue to come back as they argue why court

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cameras shouldn't be allowed in the courtroom. If they are

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allowed in the courtroom, what should they be allowed to show?

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Can they show their client? Should he be dressed out?

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Are they allowed to show him in shackles? Where should

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they be positioned? And then it had to do with

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whether or not exhibits can be shown in court and

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I will say on this one issue, it was an

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accidental incident without consequence. And the reason for that is

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it showed for just a few seconds an exhibit that

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the judge didn't want shown publicly, but an exhibit that

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contains information that we already know. I mean, here's the newsflash.

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Tyler Robinson confessed and that's what this letter includes, is

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that information. So this isn't like it broke something to

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the outside world that they weren't aware of. But the

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judge had his rules. He was upset about it, and

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so his remedy was no more cameras showing exhibits for

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at least today. We hope that won't continue into the

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next area.

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Speaker 1: Well, again, this seems like this judge is just way

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over his head or is throwing out reasonableness and wanting

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to pretend like he's making all these deep decisions. Well,

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they go back to court on September first, and in

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the meantime, I mean, you got to you've seen things

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happen that you can't believe. Is there any possibility that

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the prosecution's case is in doubt?

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Speaker 11: I don't think so. I don't think so. Here's what

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it's going to take. It would either take a cataclysmic

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problem with the prosecution case, which they're done now. They

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put on their case and it is overwhelming and damaging

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according to the prosecution. I agree with that, or it's

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going to take the defense coming in hot in hand

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to the prosecutor's office and asking for them to take

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the death penalty off the table. If things remain as

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they are, I think we're absolutely coming back in September.

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We will hear these arguments, the judge will hold him

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to answer, bind him over for trial. Maybe they continue

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some sort of plea discussions in that time, but it

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really is going to be entirely up to the prosecutors

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if they want to back off the death penalty, And

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given what we've seen over the past week, I don't

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see any reason why they should.

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Speaker 1: I don't either. So justice delayed is not justice in

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my humble opinion. So wall Streeg. Today we finished off

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we've been having a string of four or five weeks

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of where the markets are positive. Had a positive day

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to day with the DOO not back up the record

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territory but closed up one hundred and forty nine. The

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Dow at fifty two thousand and six thirty seven, the

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S and P up thirty one, the NAZDAC up seventy four,

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Gold fell twelve dollars down to four thousand and one,

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twenty nine. Oil up a little, down a little the

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last couple of days. Down half a buck seventy one

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dollars and some change now for one barrel of West

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Texas Intermediate Crew. And again, uh, we're Once we post

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this podcast, we're going to record the Financial Friday Podcast.

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So I encourage you, whenever the thought crosses your mind,

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you don't need to wait till Friday, pick up the

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phone and call eight five five two nine five sixty

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six hundred. Leave your questions, your comments, your observations about

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anything involving money, investing, insurance, taxes, whatever it is that

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has to.

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Speaker 4: Deal with your wallet.

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Speaker 1: Eight five five two nine five sixty six hundred. Once we,

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like I said, we post this podcast, we're going to

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turn around and get the other one done later today.

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Thank you for coming by. We will be back with

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the Financial Friday podcast, and we'll be back again hopefully

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we'll see you on Monday