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

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Podcast on this Wednesday. Today is the twenty seventh day

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of May, Year of Our Lord twenty twenty six. My

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name is Tom Sullivan. And well, well, well, well, the

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war in Iran is still going kind of not well,

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it's not been solved. They had the election in Texas

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and the President had his medical appointment. Oh and there's

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still a big hot potato up in Maine and the

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race there for US Senate. So we have a lot

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to go over. First of all, the President had is

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cabinet meeting today and they he invites It's interesting because nobody,

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I don't think he has ever done that, that he

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invites the media in and they're supposed to stay quiet

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as they go around the table. Now I presume when

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they finally after they go around the table, that the

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and the cameras are booted out of the out of

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the cabinet meeting room, that they get down to the

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brass tacks. But otherwise it's always it's always interesting because

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I have sat on a fair number of boards, and

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I got to tell you, I don't I don't ever

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recall in any board meeting that I've ever been in

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anybody's saying to the CEO or the chairman of the board, boy,

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thanks to your excellent leadership. No, and and so that.

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But that's what they do. They all, they all, it's weird,

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but they all have to sing a praise of thanks

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to you, thanks to the president's excellent leadership, we have

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achieved X, Y and C. And that's the other thing

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is that they only report how everything is going terrific,

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thanks to your excellent leadership. And I I'm sorry, it's

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it's it's staged, or's something because I think when they

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turn the cameras off and they boot the media out

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of the room, they get down to, you know, here's

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what here's where the problems are, and this is what

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we need to do to try to achieve it. Because

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in a board meeting, one of the things that the

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board needs to know is not only of course they

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want to know what's going right, but they also want

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to know what's not going right, What do they need

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to improve, what do they need to work on? Where

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are the problems? Because I don't know about you, but

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there's I don't think there's any organization that doesn't have

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some problems. In any case, just a little observation about

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the board meeting, the cabinet meeting today. But like I said,

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I presume once they turn the cameras off then they

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get down to brass tax. So the election yesterday in Texas,

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and if you haven't heard by now, it was very,

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very lopsided. Ken Paxton sixty three percent of the vote,

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John Cornyn thirty six. And John Cornyan has been a

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Senator from Texas for twenty four years. And the people

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of Texas spoke loud and clear. When you take a

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look at what I made a note here how many counties? Yeah,

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Texas has two hundred and fifty four counties. It's a

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huge state. Two hundred fifty four counties. You know how

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many counties John Cornyn won.

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Speaker 2: Two?

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Speaker 1: That is it. That's how lopsided was the vote. The

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vote was lopsided, but when you look at the map,

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two counties were only the only two wins for John

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cornynan otherwise, Ken Paxton basically rolled the dice and on god,

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I've got almost everything else. So congratulations to Ken Paxton.

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And now it's going to be a Donnybrook between now

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and November, and it's already started. And there there there's

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a lot of name calling for both sides, and it

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seems like political campaign managers love to do negative campaign

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manages management statements, so it expected expect the Well everybody

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by now, if you haven't heard, Ken Paxton U long

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checkered background of corruption and affairs and indictment, impeachment, all

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kinds of terrible things, had been called the most corrupt

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politician in the whole country, which makes me stop and think.

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Remember I said this yesterday. Remember when Bill Clinton was

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running and Bill Clinton certainly had his checkered past, and

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the Republicans were absolutely indignant, saying what about character? What

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happened to character? And I'm thinking, I guess that's kind

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of a thing from the past, because Ken Paxson's character

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is in the mud. And as far as Tallarico, the

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guy that he's running against, the Democrat, they've got him

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saying all kinds of things about there's six different genders,

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that he's very woke, and they try to accuse him

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of being a vegan, which in Texas, which they love,

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they're barbecue in Texas. He's had to come out and

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say no, no, no, no, no, I've been eating barbecue

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for a long time. So it's kind of crazy. Right

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after the polls closed last night, I grabbed a little

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bit of what Scott Jennings had to say. Here's Scott. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Look, I think Paxton is right. Democrats are going to

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target this. They're going to spend maybe hundreds of millions

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of dollars in Texas. My view is it is still

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likely to elect a Republican in November. It won't be Corning,

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it'll be Paxton, but a lot of money is going

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to be spent there. I suspect some Republican money will

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be spent there as well. I suspect as it will

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be a negative campaign. And when you go back and

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forth on who does Texas want to have represented in

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the US Senate, I have a hard time believing all

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negative attacks aside they're going to want to send somebody

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to the Senate who would oppose Donald Trump, who won

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Texas by double digits. But look expensive negative campaign to come.

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I agree that Republicans still have the upper hand, but

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you got to run the race.

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Speaker 1: And now that's Paxton's.

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Speaker 3: Burden, and I think it was smart for him to

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say something nice about John Cornyn tonight. He's going to

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need every single Republican on board, and I think he's

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going to get them. When the contrast is made here,

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you're going to get somebody who's going to vote Republican

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and fight for Republican values versus somebody who's pretty far

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outside of the mainstream.

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Speaker 1: As it relates to Texas well, Scott said, there's Democrats

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are going to spend a lot of money, a lot

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of money, and actually I think it's the other way around.

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a minute, said that he doesn't think the Democrats are

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going to spend barely anything the pact. That Tall Rico

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can raise his own money, but the Democrats are not

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going to get into a checkbook war with the Republicans

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in Texas because Texas is a very red state. And

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even though this tallar Rico guy has a better chance

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than anybody has had in thirty some years, he's still

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a Democrat in a very Republican state. So back So anyway,

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here's David Axelrod in his views.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, yesterday it worked out well for for Paxton, but

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he he has tremendous resonance with that magabase within the

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Republican Party. There's another base within the Republican party. There

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of long standing sort of establishment Republicans who I think

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are lesson amored with him. They were the cordon corn

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were they got the guy they wanted. There are two

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groups that got the guy they want to if you

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consider the president of group him and Democrats. I think

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about this. They think they can win because Texas is Texas,

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but they expect they're going to have to spend a

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fortune to try and do it because he's such a

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heavy lift.

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Speaker 1: I think actual Rodd's right about the strategic part of

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this is that the Democrats probably won't spend much, if anything,

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and the Republicans are going to have to spend a

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lot because they got to get they got to get

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all of the cornin Republicans, they got to get the independence.

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waste a lot of money throwing it down the drain on.

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look at some of the nominees. The President has a

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perfect score for his grip on MAGA. But not all

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Republicans are mega and in order to win in a

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general election, you need all Republicans plus some percentage of

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the Democrats. So I mean, I look back and I

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thought about, probably Georgia is the one that I just

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shake my head at. The President went into Georgia and

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it was it still is a very red state, and

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they had two Republicans running for senator. And the President

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went in and was mad about the twenty twenty election,

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and he said to people, he says, don't vote. It's rigged.

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Whatever you do, don't vote. So a lot of Republicans

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obeyed him and sat home and as a result, two

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Democrats are senators from Georgia because of that. And then

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he came along with Herschel Walker, good old Herschel. Herschel

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was great for I don't know this kind of entertainment.

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And there was one other I thought about, remember Judge

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Roy Moore from Alabama, and the President endorsed him, and

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he didn't make it. There was some accusations about the

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fact that he liked young girls, and so that that

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didn't work out, So we'll see what happens on Paxton.

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He's and I think about the you know, a lot

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of Republicans talk about the values and Ken Ken Paxton

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doesn't have any. So we'll see how he should win.

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But it's it's it's kind of sad my humble opinion.

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All Right, what else have we got. Let's get caught

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up on Iran. There's a lot going on there with again,

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we're kind of getting in that same mold of Iran

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wants to really make a deal, and I'm thinking, no, no,

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President Trump is the one that really wants to make

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a deal. I'm sure Ron does too. But it's it's

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an interesting place where we are because yesterday I was

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very frustrated with General Keane, who had been wanting to

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use the military option and call me a hawk, but

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I'm thinking we stopped the military before they were done

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with their mission, and I don't think I don't think

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we've got a regime change, and we're trying to negotiate

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with the basically the same people, different people but from

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the same regime, and we're never going to get an agreement.

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The President says, I'm not going to accept the agreement.

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Unless it's perfect, then we're not going to get an agreement.

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So how to just sit in a stalemate forever? So

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I thought today General Keane made a lot of sense,

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because yesterday I was really befuddled by the fact that

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he was throwing into talent and talking about the fact that, well,

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we need to work on the diplomatic angle. I thought,

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that's not you, General, what are you talking about? So

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today he kind of explained what he's thinking.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean it's almost fruitless to try to

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speculate on where we are, because you know, you have

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these factions in Iran. The hard line is saying one thing,

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and then the Gators saying another, and everybody grabs a

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microphone on occasion and puts it out there and you

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hear something like he just said or some other hardline. Well,

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there's no way we're going to get a deal here.

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it's important to know how did we get here. I mean,

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the reality is it wasn't too long ago, a week

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or so ago, that we were on a cusp of

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returning to military operations, and I genuinely believe that's where

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the President was, I know, that's where I was, and

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some others as well, and we believe that that was

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the best option available to us at the time. But

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what happened here is the Prime Minister of the leadership

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of Pakistan and Katar and some of the others came

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to the President and believed, after having spoken to the

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Iranians and the pressure that the Iranians were feeling, that

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there was an opportunity to make a deal here. So

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what did the president do. He listened to that, and

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he trusts his instincts.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that's consistent in this president if

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you pay attention to what he says when he stopped

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talking he wants to talk about stopping war, he actually

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goes further that as I want to stop the killing

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and now he is responsible for activating that killing himself.

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I want to stop the killing, and he's talking about

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it on both sides, not just decide of the Ukrainians

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who are defend it against the predator. And now he

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isn't responsible for that trigger. So that is a factor.

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mind there's an opportunity for maybe we can get where

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we need to be and we don't have to go

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back to military operations, and we can avoid the horror

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that we're going to inflict and also the potential risks

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to cascities our own people. So I do think that's

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in here someplace, and he shows in this path. Now

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we're on the path, and there's a couple of data

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points here that are really important. One. He wants a

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perfect deal. In other words, he wants all of his

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maximalist objectives to be achieved. I'm going down this path

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and I walked away from this military operation. We're going

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to accomplish just about everything that we would have with

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that military operation. So yeah, he wants the nuclear deal

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as he has laid it out, no reason to go

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into the details here. He wants the ballistic missile program

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completely restricted. He wants no support to the proxies, and

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obviously job one open up the straits of a mood

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with no restrictions, no implication that somehow, some way, Aron

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has some control over what is now legally recognized as

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international waterway and freedom of navigation, has precedents all of

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those things. Is what he wants, and he's insistent on

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getting them there, and he's giving fair warning to the Iranians.

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likely we're going to return to military operations. And he's

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a pragmatist in dealing with this, and you can see

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that pragmatism coming forward in this kind of loose discussion

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and response to questions, But the policy implications there are

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Speaker 1: Well, I think the General has touched on something that's

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probably true is that Donald Trump, and this is what

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the surprise was about when we went after Iran last

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summer and again this past in March. Donald Trump has

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professed the fact that he doesn't want to be involved

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in wars, and he wanted to get all the forever

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wars stopped. He wanted out of war. He was the

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most anti war president or presidential candidate we've seen in

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a very very long time. So it threw everybody a

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curve when he decided to jump in with Israel and

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go and bomb the Beajibi's out of Iran last summer

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and again just a few months ago. So that is

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not his character. His character, which General Keen's talking about,

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is he doesn't want to be involved in war for

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I don't know if it's whatever reason it is, but

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he just doesn't want to pull the trigger. And it's

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very clear that now he's got himself into this and

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he's looking around and going, can't we get out of

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this with the negotiation? And I'm convinced that he may

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want to have all these things that General Kean listed

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that that's not going to happen without military intervention, without well,

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some boots on the ground to go in and take

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the regime out, because you can't this regime theocratic thugs.

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They're not going to change. So General Tellogg was asked

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about this and he's still like a general, he's still

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looking at it as if military action is going to

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be needed.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, great question. You know, first of all, let's clear

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this one out there. President Trump's got incredible courage what

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he's done for the last a presidents, and there's been

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a lot of people talking about what he's done. And

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constitutionally they can run for president. You know, there's an

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Article two, Section two. There's clearly one commander in chief. Well,

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if you look at who he's dealing with, he's dealing

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with a theocratic leadership. There's really four people who's dealing

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with You look at Tolmani, who's is basically the supreme leader,

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but we haven't seen him because he was injured on

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an airstrike. But you also have a Rachi who's their

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foreign minister. He wrote the book on negotiations. You look

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at Vahiti, who's there runs the Revolutionary Guards, and he's

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a theocratic nut. And then you've got probably the only

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guy that's reasonable, if you want to call him reasonable,

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is Posesski and who's the president, but he's got no

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control over and right now, when you look at it,

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what they've done is they're actually following their game plan

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pretty well. They the Iranians and what they call mosaic,

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and what they did is they decentralized all of the

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Revolutionary Guards, so each one's in command of their own areas.

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That's the reason you're seeing them do dumb things like

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sending boats out into the Gulf. And I do think

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control of the senior level at all. I think the

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presidents in their head, they know it. They're on a

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losing side right now. And one of those who keeps

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pushing for the only way you can get is changing

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for a theocratic leadership. There are people out there that

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can do that. You know, when you look at Polavi,

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who's the son of the former Shah. You look at

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Bryan Rojavi, who runs the National Coalition for the Reasons

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to Iran, both have got baggage. One was a part

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of the old sovereignty, the other is a new one,

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and she's affiliated with the m e K, which was

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years ago considered a terrorist group. So you don't really

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know right now. I think the President's got a problem

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in that he doesn't have anybody who can really deal

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with with, who can make any hard decisions because all

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of these left up to the Supreme leader when you

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got a harmony, which is the one making decisions. But

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we don't know if he's really even alive or how

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coarity is. So they've got a major problem going on

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right now. Who do we really talk to that can

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make some hard decisions Because right now it's supposed to

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be a Smreeni leader, we haven't found him at all.

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Speaker 1: So it's going to take boots on the ground to

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get rid of not an invasion, but I think he's

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thinking more along the lines of CIA or special ops

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or something along those lines. There's a woman who was

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raised as a young girl in Tehran. She and her

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family escaped. She lives here in the US now. She

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has for many years. She runs some organization for benefit

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to pushing for democracy in Irun. Her name is Masha Trani.

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Listen to her take.

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Speaker 6: On this Sean and I think the reason why Iranians

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and those in the region are so skeptical is because

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of their track record. We really can't trust these guys,

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and just over the weekend as we're trying to negotiate

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a peace deal, they were mining the straight up foremost.

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So it's not necessarily the diplomacy. Everybody welcomes that, but

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it's the fact that can you trust the Islamic Republic

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to change their behavior in a meaningful and long lasting way.

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Speaker 2: And the answer to that question is.

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Speaker 6: The overwhelming majority of Iranians think is absolutely not. And

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I think President Trump is very well aware of it.

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That's why any kind of an agreement really needs to

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have some sort of a enforcement clause long after he's

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out of the office, because these guys are going to

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try to get around it.

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Speaker 1: One of the people from this organization is trying to

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instill democracy in Iran, talking about the fact that he's

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in contact with a lot of the people in Iran

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and how they're feeling.

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Speaker 7: Something that of course all of us are watching closely.

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The people in the country with whom we speak on

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a daily basis, frankly or nervous. They're nervous that their regime,

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which has held them hostage for forty seven years, might

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be thrown a lifeline yet again. They came to this

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streets to fight for their freedom.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're worried about the regime surviving and they don't

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want them to back to Masha Trani.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 6: So aside from these nuclear negotiations right now, what I

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really hope isn't fall through the cracks. If there's some

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sort of an agreement that's going to be reached, which

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I really doubt that anything long last thing can happen,

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would be the Iranian people, overwhelming majority of them want

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their regime to be changed. They know to get rid

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of this evil bully in the Middle East, you got

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to get rid of this regime. But if that's not

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on the negotiation table right now, the question becomes what

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will be in this agreement to what kind of provision

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will help free the political prisoners. There's so much torture

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happening in these prisons right now, and the execution's horrific.

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Executions thirty nine people in the last seventy days alone,

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innocent people who are executed. This is not going to stop.

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I'm getting as the internet's opening up, I'm getting messages.

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Speaker 2: This morning.

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Speaker 6: I had a message somebody was saying, you know, we're

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so concerned that we're going to become like North Korea,

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isolated and alone. Another message saying, we're walking on the

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streets and they're checking our phones to see who we're texting,

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the context of our messages and our social media following.

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So I hope if there is going to be some

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sort of a deal that the Runian people are not forgotten.

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Speaker 1: Well, she described, the people are afraid of the regime,

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and the regime may survive, and that's their worst fear,

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and that's the group that the president wants to negotiate

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a deal with. I just don't think it's going to

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come to fruition, but I wish them well. John Bolton,

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former UN advisor, former national security advisor to Trump one

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point zero. He's a hawk. This is what he says.

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Speaker 8: I don't think the president understands the fanaticism of what's

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left of the regime and the people who are in power.

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He is somebody who has spent his whole life making

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deals with people. He thinks everybody wants to make a

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deal on just about anything. That's not what these people

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are into. They can see that Trump is so palpably

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desperate to have a deal that he can declare to

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be a victory, and that lowers prices of gasoline, and

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they're playing him on that, they're stretching him out, they're

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buying time. All of that works in their advantage.

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Speaker 1: I think I think Bolton's right. I think people I

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can see it, and I would guess that the Day

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I ran regime understands this as well. The President does not,

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as Jack Keene said, he doesn't want to start up

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military actions again. He doesn't want to drop bombs anywhere

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anymore in Iran. He wants to wash his hands of

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the military kinetic action. And he wants a deal. And

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that's why I say, I think he wants a deal

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more than Iran wants a deal. And they are probably guessing,

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you know what he's going to He's not going to

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resort to military action, So we can just drag this

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out for his long as we want. Because remember, their

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number one goal for the Iranian regime is survival. They

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don't care about the country, they don't care about the people.

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They just care about themselves. So Victoria Coach, she was

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a national security advisor in the Trump one point Oho administration,

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and she is also shaking her head about dealing with

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this regime.

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Speaker 9: No, I don't trust President Possessikin as far as I

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could throw in, which is not very far. But at

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the same time, I think he is acting out of desperation.

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I call his camp the survivalists. They're just trying to

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cling to something within Iran. They're trying to I'm sure,

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cling to their ill gotten gains. They want to preserve

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their families and what they can of their power. So

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the situation is pourting in Iran is dire. I mean,

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it's been eighty eight days with no internet. This has

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been devastating to their economy, yet another blow on top

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of the blockade and the sanctions. They can't sustain this,

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and then what you're seeing is the last act of

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a very desperate regime.

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Speaker 1: Now, So, as General Keane has said many times, the

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war is a test of wills and who can stick

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to their guns. Literally. I mean, the president has a

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lot of pressure on him from the prices going up,

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inflation going up, elections coming in November, and then Ron.

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They're trying to just survive and their economy is collapsing

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around them. But who will outlast the other one is

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the big question. So let's ask Kareem sad Jappur from Carnegie.

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Let's see what he says about where everything sits.

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Speaker 10: It's kind of Layton alluded to. We have a situation

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in which both sides believe that they've prevailed in this war.

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Because then Trump has constantly said that the United States

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prevailed militarily. Iran obviously feels that they've prevailed given the

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objectives of the war from the US and weren't met.

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And so even though President Trump in some ways its

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downsize his ambitions, it's now the focus is simply reopening

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the Strait of Hormus and then dealing with iran stockpile

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of highly enriched uranium and its ability to enrich uranium.

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I don't think Iran is prepared to meaningfully budge on

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those issues. It wants to maintain some control over the

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Straits of Hormus, and likewise, when it comes to both

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its uranium stockpile and its willingness to give up enrich uranium.

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I think there's a wide gap still to be bridged.

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Speaker 1: So who do you believe is going to blink first?

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Do you think the Iranians will finally say, okay, okay, okay,

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you can have the nuclear dust as as the President

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calls it, and we'll open the strait. You think they're

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going to do that without the military forcing them, without

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the military arresting them, taking them into custody. I don't. Well,

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the president blink and he's in a pickle. I don't know.

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We'll have to wait and see. So anyway, the update

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today is basically we're still in a stalemate. So yesterday

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the President went over to Walter Reid for his annual physical.

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This is actually the fourth time that he has gone

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to Walter Reed. He had that unexpected visit last year

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which they apparently did some sort of cat scan on him.

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Doctor Reiner, doct Jonathan Reiner, is a New York Colley

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cardiologist and was Dick Cheney's doctor, so they always go

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to him to find out what he thinks about this.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, well, this is really a tradition. The tradition for

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the annual physical exam really was started by Richard Nixon

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in the aftermath of Eisenhower's large heart attack. But the

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president and his team are not legally required to release

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information to Congress or the public, and I think that

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really should change. There are so many roles in our

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society that require annual assessments of physical capacity, you know, pilots,

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secret service agents, school bus drivers, and for the chief

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executive of this country and the commander in chief of

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our armed forces, we should have a clear understanding that

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the president is for duty. I do want to see

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this during this examination. A credible explanation for his visible

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health concerns his bruising, which initially was described as doing handshaking,

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which is not credible, his severe DMA in his ankles,

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which was described as chronic venus in sufficiency when just

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three months before, one year ago he was his examination

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disclosed that he had no idea which would then make

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it acute acute venus in sufficiency, which is an entirely

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different thing. And finally, the president has severe daytime som

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laws he falls asleep very awful. He's fallen asleep in

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the Oval office on multiple occasions with people talking to

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him in the cabinet room, and was considered yesterday that

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he might have fallen asleep at our ow in to

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National Cemetery during Memorial Day. Conservancies and chronic insomnia is

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a severe illness. It can result in an increase in

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the risk of dementia, decreasing cognitive effects in older people.

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It's equivalent to about increasing your age by about three

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and a half years. It increases your cardiac risk of

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having a heart attack or developing congestive heart failure, and

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it can produce a decline in your sort of mental

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functions like it could increase depression, anxiety.

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Speaker 1: So it's a real problem.

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Speaker 12: Resident appears to struggle to stay awake during the day,

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and I'd like to hear what the White House is

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done to evaluate why the President has this increased daytime

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somlence and what they're doing to improve that.

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Speaker 1: Well, when the exam was over, it was about three hours,

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and the President came out and said everything was terrific. Yes,

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everything was, of course he would say that. But I

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thought doctor Reiner's comments about insomnia were interesting because he

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literally does go on a binge of true social postings

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in the middle of the night. Was it last night

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or the night before. It's reported that he did about

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sixty posts, but in over about a three or four

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hour period when you and I were sound asleep. So

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he is up during the middle of the night. Maybe

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it's in insomnia, maybe whatever it might be. But yeah,

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if you're up in the middle of the night posting

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and doing all kinds of other things during the day,

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you're probably going to drift off, especially if something is

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kind of low key and not a much of excitement.

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So I don't think he's going to change on that.

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I think Trump's been that way for a long time.

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But I don't know how what you do to cure insomnia,

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because it's isn't a sleep disorder. I don't know. I

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sleep like a like a baby. So I'm blessed in

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that regard. Wall Street today, Well it was blessed. Everything

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was positive. Yeah, I know. It just keeps going higher.

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The Dad Jones industrials le Yeah, this is a new

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record high, up one hundred and eighty two points. The

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now at fifty thousand and six forty four. The S

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and P up just a little more than one point point.

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The NASDAC UP eighteen gold fell today fifty two dollars

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down to four thousand and four point fifty, and the

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price of oil also fell. I mean, I just finished

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telling you about how things are probably stalled out and

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we're in this Everybody trying to just wait and see.

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We're in a quagmire of some sort. But Wall Street's

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fine with that apparently if there's no kinetic action. So

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oil went down over four dollars today. West Texas Intermediate

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now has an eight in front of an eighty nine

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dollars for one barrel of oil. That's it for today.

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Thank you for coming by. We will be back again

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tomorrow and I hope to see you then.