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seven oh four five seven oh eleven ten. To me,

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the question about what's going on with Israel versus Iron

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comes down to a pretty simple question in my mind. Now,

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the answers are you know complex? How you go about

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doing this stuff?

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Speaker 2: Whatever?

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Speaker 1: That's complex? The ramifications of those choices very complex and unknown,

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right not the sound all Donald RUMSFELDI in here. But

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there are known knowns, there are known unknowns, and then

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there are unknown unknowns, right, we don't know what happens, right.

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The plans all go out the window as soon as

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the first shots get fired, right like this. That's the

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thing about war.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: So the question in my mind that I keep coming back.

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Speaker 1: To is is it in our national interest for Israel

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to eliminate Iran's nuclear program?

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Speaker 2: That's the first question, first order question.

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Speaker 1: Is it in our national interest for Israel to wipe

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out their nuclear program?

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Speaker 2: And my answer to that is yes.

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Speaker 1: Now you may have a different answer, but I believe

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it is in America's national interest for Iran not to

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have nuclear weapons. And the reasons why, I think are

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pretty evident to anybody that's been paying attention to Iran

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for like the last fifty years. They really do not

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like America. They are responsible for the depths of hundreds,

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if not thousands of Americans, including a lot of military

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members in Iraq Beirut, right because their proxies Habala Hamas

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Houti's right. They've been waging war on America but also

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on Israel for well since they took control of Iran

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in nineteen seventy nine. They have made it very clear

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that they want to eate the Little Satan Israel and

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the Great Satan America. Israel keeps pointing this out, Benjamin

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Ntonyahu points this out, and if you agree, then you're called,

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you know, dual loyalty. You're accused of being in the

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pocket of Israel or the Jews.

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Speaker 2: And that's all.

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Speaker 1: But that's in our interest as well, is to not

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have them nuclear armed. And that's a position, by the way,

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that's held by roughly eighty five percent of Republican voters,

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and like seventy percent of Americans. They should not get

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nukes because they are different. See, there's another element here.

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There's this Western conceit and it was at play among

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the neo cons as well going into Iraq, right where oh,

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if we just topple their tyrant and we impose, you know,

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democratic reforms and give them a government that looks like ours,

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then you know, they'll be a shining beacon of democracy

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in the Middle East. Western conceit. They are not like us.

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They don't have the same history, they don't come from

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the same culture, right, they have different norms and more's.

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Speaker 2: They rejected it. They didn't want it.

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Speaker 1: The other day we were talking about, well, what about

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the was it the grandson of the Shah of Iran,

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and he's like, I'll come back in and lead the

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country and restore the monarchy. Yeah, I don't care, Like

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I don't care what happens with the regime. And now

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you're starting to hear the calls for regime change. In fact,

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let me go ahead and read this. This came from

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well number one. This came from open Source Intel. They

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monitor real time news and open source intelligence out of

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the Middle East global events. The Iranian Radio and TV

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Corporation building was just hit by Israel, but also the

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IDF says it tried to assassinate Iran's new military chief

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of staff, but he escaped, but then a few hours

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later he was eliminated. But the Israeli Defense Minister, after

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Iran dropped the bomb on the Israeli hospital, which I'm

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old enough to remember when bombing hospitals even if they

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had terrorist tunnels and headquarters located inside of them, that

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this was a war crime. But apparently if Iran does

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it too, Israel not a problem, I guess. The Israeli

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Defense minister this was about. So this was yeah, so

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this was about. This was several hours ago. The Israeli

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Defense minister said, now said taking out the Ayatola is

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now one of their war goals. So now they're going

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to target the Ayatola. That's Israel's call. We and this

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is like and the Biden administration was always trying to

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tell the Israelis, don't go too far, don't do this,

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don't do that, you know, wider war in the region.

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Speaker 2: All of that.

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Speaker 1: That's always been the argument that this could get way worse, right,

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and for an American public, that is war. We re

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after Iraq and Afghanistan. I understand that argument, but we

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don't know. That's part of the thing. And like, you

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could also risk wider war if you leave the Ayatola

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in charge, you let him keep doing what he's doing,

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getting closer to China, closer to Russia. They could make

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things even worse.

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Speaker 2: We don't know. We'll see, right, people who are.

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Speaker 1: This is again, this is there's so much of this

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speculative journalism going on, and it's like everybody now does it.

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We're predicting the outcome of sporting events. And I understand

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that there are people who work at these think tanks

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and work in foreign policy and stuff, and they make

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all their predictions and They're like, they're the experts and

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they've been wrong, and so we don't want to trust them.

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I have my own predictions and everything, but yours is

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also just a prediction too, So I don't know what happens.

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I'm not making any predictions because I don't know what

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the population of Iran.

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Speaker 2: That's not true.

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Speaker 1: I do it's ninety two million now, But I'm not

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an expert. But I do believe that taking out the

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nuclear program is in our interest. And is it an

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American interest to have a friendly West leaning or West

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looking government in Iran? Sure over what the iotola is. Absolutely,

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but you take out this iotola, who's to say there's

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not somebody that comes in. That's another iotola. That's even worse. Right,

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we don't know.

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Speaker 2: We don't know. And Iran is not Araq. I went

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over this the other day too.

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Speaker 1: They are different peoples, they are different cultures, different histories.

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Iran has this long history, Persia is what it was,

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so they have a different history. So you can't just

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pick up Iraq or Afghanistan and lay that template onto Iran.

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That's not an argument for taking out the ayatola. That's

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not an argument for regime change. I also just saw

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our Senator Tom Tillis is now advocating for regime change,

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and like, I don't think that that's what we should

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be doing. Is that what Trump is going to advocate for?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. We'll see right now.

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Speaker 1: I think it is in our interest to wipe out

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that nuclear program and hopefully the Iranian people are able

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to throw off this murderous, tyrannical regime and implement and

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something that.

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Speaker 2: Is more peaceful. That's my hope.

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Speaker 1: Will it happen, don't know, don't know, which is why

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we shouldn't send any troops over there because we don't know.

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But what if it gets into this bigger war. I

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kind of feel like that might have happened already, but

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they don't. It doesn't seem like Iran has any allies.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Do you think Russia is going to open up another front?

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They're already fighting with the Ukrainians? Are they opening up

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another front to Iran or three?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. They might. I don't think they will,

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but they might. China.

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Speaker 1: China's been doing deals with Iran part of their Belt

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and Road initiative. Do you think China is gonna go

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to war in Iran against Israel and America and NATO.

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I mean that would be World War three right all

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because I wouldn't stop building a nuclear weapon, which also

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would by the way, lead to World War three if

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they were able to get the nuke. Maybe that's what

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I mean, Like, there are all these different game theories

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that are out there. I don't criticize people for having

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opinions and for charting out the different scenarios, no doubt

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about it. But again, to me, I keep coming back

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to the first question, is it in our interest for

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Israel to knock out the nuclear program? And I keep

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at the petecalandarshow dot com. So again, the fundamental question

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is is it in our American national interest for Israel

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to eliminate a or this nuclear program. I say yes,

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So then the next question in that decision tree is okay,

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then to what extent do we help Israel do that

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because we believe it's in ournational interest, right, And I

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think that then divides people, right, because there are some

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them keep doing it, and I don't know if they

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have the capability to do it. We've been told that

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they would very much appreciate the bunker buster bombs and

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the B twos to fly over and drop the bombs

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a couple times and blow up the four dough or

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four dough facility that's under the mountain. But then there

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are other options, I guess, but I've actually not heard

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anybody offer any other kind of assessment or proposal to

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say we're going to do X, Y and Z above

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and beyond the bunker busters, right, Because if Israel can

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do this all on their own, I am perfectly content

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letting them just proceed, keep doing what you're doing. At

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some point you'll you'll wipe it all out, right, whether

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it's you know, going in there with commandos or something

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and you know, taking out these facilities, I don't know,

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but that would be the next question should we fly over?

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are we then considered to be involved? And this was

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a point of contention in the Tucker Carlson ted Cruz

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argument masquerading as an interview. And you know, Carlson's like,

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I just don't understand, like why we're doing this. As

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I just said, it's about Iran's nuclear program. This has

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been the goal of American foreign policy literally my entire life.

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So they are not to get the nuclear bomb, and

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we have taken all sorts of efforts to make that

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not happen. Right, And then CRU's layers or sorry, Carlson

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layers in this. You know what about a pac and

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the America Israeli Political Action Committee that donates money to

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candidates that are pro Israel, Well, that's lobby they're lobbying

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for Israel, and they're not lobbying for Israel. They're Americans

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that collect money. I went over this in the last hour,

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and they fund candidates that also support Israel.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 1: Cruz had said in this interview that when he was elected,

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he said he wanted to be the leading defender of

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Israel in the US Senate.

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Speaker 2: That's what he said.

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Speaker 4: What you didn't ask is why.

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Speaker 3: So let me tell you why.

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had just told me that, like you're driving motive to

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get to the Senate was to defend Israel.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I'm not going to subsessive. Okay, sucker,

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words matter, And you know that.

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Speaker 4: I said, I resolved to be the leading defender of

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israe And you said, you're driving motive the reason you're

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in the center.

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Speaker 5: You want to be the leading defender of Israel. I

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would think if I ran for Senate, I'd be like,

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there are people dying of drugrities on the street.

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Speaker 4: My driving motive is to fight for Texas and America,

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to fight for jobs, and to fight for the Constitution.

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And you played a very very careful word game of

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eliding the.

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Speaker 2: One who said it not me, No, he did.

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Speaker 1: He constructed a false choice that you can't fight for Texas,

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be in America first, to defend America the Constitution, and

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be a leading defender of Israel in the Senate. Right

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in Carlson's framing, you can't do all of those things.

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You're either for Israel or you're for America. You can't

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be both, and I reject that you can. If Israel

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does something that we don't like, that we don't agree with,

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then obviously we're not going to agree to do it.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: But this is that quote dual loyalty argument that is

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made among anti Semites. And again I don't know if

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Tucker Carlson is or is not. Frankly, I don't care.

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But his arguments are the same arguments that are used,

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and the questions that he's just asking are the same

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questions that anti Semites are just asking. That the phrase, well,

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you can't criticize Israel for anything, No, it's the only

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country you can't criticize. That's also something that the anti

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Semite say. Again, I don't know if he's aware of that.

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matter to me. I'm just saying that's why Ted Cruz

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is responding the way he's responding. But then Carlson tries

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to reframe the purpose of the questions yet again, it's

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like you don't really know where these things are going

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once the shooting starts. That's my only point, and calling

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people names anti Semite isolationists to get them to stop

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talking is not the way to serve your country. But

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that's a different argument now. So see he's now pivoted

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away to say, I'm only saying that we don't know

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what happens when the bullets start firing.

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Speaker 2: And that's true.

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Speaker 1: That's not really at all relevant to APAC funding or

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whether they control senators, or whether Iran has a nuclear weapon. Right, Like,

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what is the purpose? Because you've now given us three

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different explanations for the purpose of your questions. He's just

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all over the place here.

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Speaker 2: We are.

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Speaker 1: Also, by the way, I'm looking up at the monitors,

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the White House has a press briefing. I don't know

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if this I assume it was previously scheduled, but we

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will endeavor to carry it live when it begins because

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I suspect this topic. What do you think it might

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come up? I think it might come up. Oh, in fact,

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she's on right now, so I'll monitor during the newscast.

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Newstalk eleven n three WBT seven oh four five seven

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oh eleven ten. The White House Press briefing just began

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about five minutes ago. Catherine Levitt started off by talking

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about and touting the low immigration numbers they had, like

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no crossings or something yesterday or yeah, like, and so

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she's touting the success of the border enforcement and security

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efforts that Trump has done, which he does not get

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enough credit for. And then she abt minute or so ago,

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she shifted to Iran. I've paused the c Span feed.

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We'll see if it picks up here at that point.

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Speaker 6: Now, regarding the ongoing situation and Iran, I know there

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has been a lot of speculation amongst all of you

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in the media regarding the President's decision making and whether

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or not the United States will be directly involved. In

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light of that news, I have a message directly from

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the President, and I quote based on the fact that

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there's a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may

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not take place with Iran in the near future. I

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will make my decision whether or not to go within

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the next two weeks. That's a quote directly from the

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President for all of you today. So we'll kick it

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off for questions here in our new mediacy, we have

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Eli Lake from the Free Press. Eli, go ahead, I'm

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great so much for having us.

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Speaker 7: Thank you the pre press the decision to extend the

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I guess delay in enforcing the TikTok ban. Sure, can

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you talk about how the White House understands it's constitutional.

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Speaker 2: Authority in light of that's the first question in January.

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Speaker 7: That said that the President had to enforce the ban.

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Speaker 6: Sure well as all of you know, because the President

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put it out on his shoes social today, he did

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sign an executive order to extend the TikTok fan If.

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Speaker 2: You don't have the power to do that, it's a law.

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Speaker 6: And the White House Council in the Department of Justice

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have reviewed this executive order and I can get it

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for you. I think it's on our website by now.

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If it's not, my team will now put it up

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immediately and you can read the language in that executive order.

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And the White House Council's Office in the Department of

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Justice strongly believe the legal rationale for this executive order.

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They wouldn't have the President's pen hit it if they didn't.

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And the political reasoning for this, of course, is because

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the President made a promise to keep TikTok Talk on.

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There are one hundred million Americans who use this app.

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Speaker 2: It's a law fuler. He also wants a law.

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Speaker 6: Pass Americans data and privacy concerns on this app, and

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he believes we can do both things at the same time.

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So he's making an extension so we can get this

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deal done.

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Speaker 7: I got to follow up.

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Speaker 3: Sure.

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Speaker 7: A few weeks ago there at Tucker Carlson reported on

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a meeting between the President, Mark Levin, and others of

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the White House. Is there a leak investigation that? Can

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you say who else was in that meeting.

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Speaker 6: I'm not aware of a leak investigation at this time. I,

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for one, do not reveal details about the President's private

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meetings without his permission to do so. But certainly the

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president does not like when people leak. He takes that

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very seriously. This entire administration takes that seriously, and that's

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why you've seen at agencies some of the cabinet secretaries

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have been given the authority by the President to let

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go of staff who are engaged in such leaks, especially

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those that risk American national security.

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Speaker 8: Sure, go ahead, Caroline, thank you so. Brian O warmonger

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Lindsey Graham, he recently called on the USO all In.

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Speaker 1: That's quite the lead to a question, right, He's just

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called Lindsay Graham a warmonger.

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Speaker 8: Every day Trump supporters, not the I don't know who

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this other big names. But every day Trump supporters, grassroots

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who voted for the President Trump to stop the wars

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rejected this in the primary going into another war, but

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voting against Nicky Hayley, and they want to see non

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US involvement in this war. What's your message?

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Speaker 6: Trust in President Trump. President Trump has incredible instincts and

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President Trump kept America in the world safe in his

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first term as president, in implementing a peace through Strength

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foreign policy agenda, and with respect to Iran, nobody should

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be surprised by the President's position that Iran absolutely cannot

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obtain a nuclear weapon. He's been unequivocally clear about this

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for decades, not just as president, not just as a

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presidential candidate, but also as a private citizen. In fact,

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I have some quotes for you. In twenty eleven, President

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Trump said, America's primary goal with Iran must be to

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destroy its nuclear ambitions. We cannot allow this radical regime

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to acquire a nuclear weapon that they will either use

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or hand off to terrorists. In twenty fifteen, the President said,

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the problem is that Iran poses an next essential threat

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to Israel, our Middle Eastern allies in the United States,

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and of course the President has repeated that in his

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first term as president and his second term as president

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as well. That's why he was adamantly opposed to the

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disastrous arounding a nuclear agreement that was implemented by President Obama.

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And it's why he has given great latitude and given

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a lot of effort to achieving a diplomatic solution. But

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he's been very clear. Iran went for sixty days when

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he gave them that sixty day warning without coming to

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the table. On day sixty one, Israel took action against Iran.

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And as I just told you from the President directly,

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he has he will make a decision within two weeks.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna pause it here because that's the all right.

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So that's the key message. He's got everybody now on

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a clock for two weeks.

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Speaker 2: Everybody.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you've got Israel that now says they're going to

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take out the Ayahtola. So Israel's got two weeks right

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ostensibly like they whatever you want to get done in

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two weeks, Israel, go for it. Because I'm not you know,

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I'm not saying anything right now. So this is an

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Israeli show. Only the Mollahs, the Ayahtola, the revolutionary Guard,

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the upper echelon in Iran. They've got two weeks to

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figure out what it is they want to do. If

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they're doing negotiations, they're trying to get Israel to stop,

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you know, the bombing runs and everything, then they've got

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two weeks to come to the table offer concessions, and

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one of those concessions has to be the elimination of

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your nuclear program. Trump has been very clear, and I

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don't say that very often, okay, but Trump has been

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very clear on this. As she just mentioned, he is

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He has been consistent for fifteen years. So you don't

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get to keep your nuclear program. That's what Israel is

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taking out. So if you come and say, okay, fine,

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you know what, we will scrap all nuclear ambitions, we

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will open ourselves up for all IAEA ins inspections going forward,

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complete disclosure and the dismantling of the of the program.

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That might be a way to stay in power. That's

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their call. Also, if anybody's looking to do a little coup,

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toss out the Ayatola, install a new government or something

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right from inside that upper echelon of Iranian government, then

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you got two weeks and if you are the people

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of Iran and you've heard the calls coming from you.

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Israel has been saying it. Iranian dissidents have been saying it.

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You know, living in exile, you've got more protests. In fact,

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there was a story here, I have it. Yeah, here

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it is. Hackers infiltrated Iran's state run media outlets and

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are using the airwaves to encourage Iranians to rise up

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against their government. Footage circulating on social media appears to

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show Iran's TV broadcast being hijacked. The TV screen shows

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images of the recent protests against the regime's onerous laws

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against women. Quote, rise up, this is your moment. Go

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out into the streets, take control of your future, saying

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that the regime has failed to protect Iran's airspace, it

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has failed in its offensive efforts, it has failed to

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protect your money. The hackers also took the regime to

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task for funneling their money into its military endeavors instead

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of taking care of its citizens. NBC News reported yesterday

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that hackers also made their way into Iran's largest cryptocurrency exchange,

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called Nobitechs, and they drained the exchange of more than

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ninety million dollars.

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Speaker 2: You got two weeks.

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Speaker 1: Two weeks people, all right, if you're listening to this show,

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you know I try to keep up with all sorts

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of current events, and I know you do too. And

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you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources.

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Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which

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is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's

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an app, and it's a website, and it combines news

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from around the world in one place so you can

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compare coverage and verify information. You could check it out

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more transparent. News Talk eleven ten ninety nine three WBT

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Speaker 2: Lad's head over to the phones and chat with Dave.

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Thanks for hanging on, Dave. What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Pete TikTok was his first question? Yeah, please play that.

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Please play that clip every half hour and find out

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what organization he's with.

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Speaker 1: That's Eli Lake, who's actually like a national security reporter

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guy and he now is working for the Free Press. Geez, yeah,

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just a point, not a I did not appreciate that

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being the first question.

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Speaker 3: So the question about whether or not Israel will will

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take it, if we'll let Israel take out their nuke,

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their capabilities first thing. And I was able to listen

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to the to the news conference while I was on hold,

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and I was going to give them thirty days, say Israel, Israel,

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can you handle this? Israel says yes or no. If

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they say no, what do you need for us to

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help you with? Trump steps in and says two weeks.

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I love it. Give them two weeks to get it right,

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or if Canada has to step in, that program has

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to be extinguished.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't think another country is going to do it.

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Speaker 1: There's too much, especially after the last you know, almost

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two years of the war in Gaza. I don't see

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any other nation that has an appetite because of their

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you know, I mean you look at all the Western

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European countries. They've allowed so much migration from Muslim countries

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that they've got you know, protests in the streets just

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like we do. So we are I think we are

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the only ones that would be able to offer any

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kind of military assistance to Israel.

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Speaker 3: Politically, there's no question at all. You can't let that

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section of the world have the capability of exploding a

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nuclear whip. And it is anyone that sees at any difference.

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I would imagine people from Iran see it differently. But

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other than that, what really right?

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Speaker 1: So the question that is, you know, in the question

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I started off asking, is you know, is it in

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our interest to let Israel take out the nuclear program?

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Speaker 2: I think it is. Sounds like you agree.

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Speaker 1: The next question is then okay, so if we agree

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it's in there, it's in our interest to let them

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pursue it. If they needed our help, then what does

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that help look like?

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Speaker 3: Any any means necessary?

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Speaker 2: So boots on the ground for you.

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Speaker 3: We don't need boots on the ground anymore. We have

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technologies and abilities to stop things like that with out

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putting American soldiers in the line of fire. We can

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we can wipe that out from from a drone if necessary.

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Speaker 1: So, and I've thought about that too, that you could

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have said, if you could get with you know, whatever

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the range is for these drones, and I don't know

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what the ranges are, but yeah, if you could get

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somehow get access into the facility, you fly a drone

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in there, or a couple of them, or a whole

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swarm of them in there, and you blow it all

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up from the inside. That may be a way to

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do it without even putting anybody on the ground except

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some drone operators within the range of the drone. And

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Israel could probably do that without us. Yeah, So I mean,

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that is definitely one course of action, David. I appreciate

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the call. All right, man, take it easy. So we

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also have some new information about the first attack that

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Israel launched on Iran. Israeli secret service operatives used a

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fake phone call to trigger what appeared to be an

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emergency meeting among Iran's top military leaders. Okay, so they

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sent a phone call. They made a phone call to

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everybody all at once, Hey we got an emergency meeting.

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Everybody assemble at this place. They all went there, and

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then they targeted that location. According to a report published

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twosday Day by the Jewish Chronicle, Masad used Iranian communication

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channels as part of a coordinated disinformation campaign targeting top

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Iranian Air Force officials and lured them all to the

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same location for what they believed to be an important meeting.

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I guess it was just not the kind that they thought.

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A fake phone call for twenty members of the Air

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Force senior staff telling them to go to a specific

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bunker in Tehran, and so they go, it gets blown up.

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They are all eliminated. And this means there isn't anybody

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to give the order to fire the first salvo of

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a thousand ballistic missiles, which is what Iran was threatening

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to do. They were promising to do any strike on us,

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going to watch a thousand missiles that Israel, and Israel's like, well,

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we can't have that happen because we can't take them

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all out. So if there's nobody to give the orders,

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you can't fire them. And that's what apparently they did.

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I do have some more audio of the of the

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Carlson Cruz argument, and I only got three more clips,

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but these are pretty important. Okay, these are pretty important

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to understand the debate that's going on in MAGA and

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in the MAGA influencer sphere. So pick up there on

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the other side of the news. All right, that'll do

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it for this episode.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening.

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thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything

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while I'm gone.

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Speaker 3: M hmm