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Speaker 1: Topk Clue Park.

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Speaker 2: President Trump says he isn't ruling out using the US

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military to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. Trump's message comes after

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iron Supreme Leader warned if the US joins Israel's military campaign,

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it will be met with quote a forceful response. Speaking

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at or speaking with reporters at the White House, the

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President said his message to Iran Supreme leader is good luck,

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but he's not revealing whether he'll give you run an ultimatum.

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Speaker 3: You could say shaky, they know what's happening.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you could call it the ultimate, the ultimate ultimatum. Right,

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I may do it, I may not do it. I mean,

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nobody knows what I'm gonna do. Let's bring ABC News

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Senior White House correspondent Selena Wang, absw's foreign correspondent Marcus Moore,

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and tell Avi even ABS News contributor mcmulroy for more. Selena,

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what options does the President have right now?

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Speaker 1: Well, sources tell us that the President is assessing a

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range of options, including military intervention, helping Israel to strike

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to end Iran's nuclear program. At this point, we don't

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know what the President is going to decide, but this

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could be one of the most consequential decisions of the

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Trump presidency as he's facing pressure from both Israel and

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to Roan to intervene, but in very different ways. As

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I mentioned before, Israel wanting the US to help them militarily.

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It is only the US that has that thirty thousand

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pound bunker buster that can reach deep into the Iranian facility,

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deep underground. But then on the other hand, Ron wants

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the US to intervene, but in order to help bring

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about a diplomatic resolution to this, to have Iron come

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back to the table, and to bring about a ceasefire. Now,

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President Trump had been holding out hope for a nuclear deal,

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but the President has been saying that his patients is

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wearing thin. And when he was asked just moments ago

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whether or not the US was going to strike militarily,

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the President said, I may do so I may not,

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but officials are telling us that these next twenty four

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to forty eight hours are going to be absolutely critical

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when it comes to whether or not a diplomatic solution

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is still possible. And I do also just want to

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alert that moments ago, the US Ambassador to Israel posted

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an announcement on x that American citizens who want to leave.

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Israel should stay on alert because the post says that

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the US is working on evacuation flights and cruise ship departure,

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saying that they must enroll in a smart travel enrollment program.

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It's unclear what the timing of this evacuation.

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Speaker 2: Would be, Marcus. What's the latest on the fighting now?

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Speaker 4: The fighting continues, Diane, and it remains tense here in

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Tel Aviv and across the region. The Israeli Air Force

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carrying out air strikes in Tehran, again hitting what they

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say or factories for centralfugees and missiles. The IAEA also

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confirming that Israel has hit two centralfuge production facilities in Iran. Now,

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in terms of Iran's retaliation, was notable as we've noticed

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a change in the size of Iran's most recent strikes,

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fewer missiles being fired in each wave. For example, according

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to Israeli officials, Iran has fired about thirty projectiles the

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last two nights in a row. That's compared to one

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hundred missiles fired towards Israel in the first days of

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its response.

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Speaker 2: Diane and make Russia's President Putin and Turkish President Erdowan

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are condemning Israel's active force against Iran. They're calling for

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an immediate cessation of hostilities. And President Trump says he

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spoke with Vladimir Putin yesterday and that Putin had offered

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to mediate again between Israel and Iran. Trump says he

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suggested working on Ukraine first. What do you make of

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that the offer? Now, these new comments from Putin and

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the whole mix of this.

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Speaker 3: So Dian, I don't take it seriously. Quite frankly, President

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Putin is the one that elected to go into a

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neighboring country and try to take it over. So him

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acting as some kind of peace negotiator in this conflict,

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I don't even think should be taken seriously. It's clear

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that the US is ready to take this strike. We

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are postured. We have the right military assets in the

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region not only to do that, but also to protect

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ourselves should run retaliate for those strikes. We have two

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aircraft carry strike groups, We've moved a lot of aircraft

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to the region, and I think we are ready if

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that is what the President decides.

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Speaker 1: Sele.

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Speaker 2: You know, the President admits that not all Republican lawmakers

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support US intervention and Iran. What kind of pressure is

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he under? Right now.

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Speaker 1: He's under a lot of pressure, especially from within the

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Republican Party, and there are major divisions within his party

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and also among the magabase. You have some prominent Republicans

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like Senator Lindsay Graham, who are urging the President to

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get involved militarily to help Israel end this all for

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all at once. But on the other hand, you've got

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key MAGA figures, people like Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson

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who are very very strongly in public saying that the

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US should not get involved. Remember, President Trump had campaigned

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on ending all wars, ending forever wars. He had promised

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to end the war in Ukraine in twenty four hours,

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saying that wars would never happen on his watch. So

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this is enormously consequential. Also from a political standpoint, the

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decision he makes here could be politically very risky. But

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the big question as well, Diane, is if the US

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does intervene militarily, what happens next, because it is possible

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that Iron would then come back target US forces, US

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interests and troops in the region, which is why we

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are seeing the US military preposition some of those assets.

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Speaker 2: Marcus Israel now claims to have hit eleven hundred Iranian

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targets in and around Tehran. Where do things stand right now?

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What are you watching for today? Well, we will of.

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Speaker 4: Course be watching to see whether the US joins this

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war in a more active way, as we were just

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hearing Selena talk about, and by now we've reported on

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the threats and the responses to that potential development. But

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I think we'll also be looking at Iran's moves in

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terms of those air strikes that seem to involve fewer missiles.

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It does raise questions about why Israeli military officials claim

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that they've crippled Iran's ability to strike back, But Iran

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may also be saving its firepower, so to speak, for

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a longer multi front war, especially with the prospect of

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the US joining this Israeli operation. So we'll be watching

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all of that, Diane, all

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Speaker 2: Right, Selena Wang, Marcus Moore, mcmulroy, thank you,