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Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity. Negotiations take time.

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The idea that even somebody like the Vice President of

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the United States was going to close a deal in

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twenty one hours, that's ridiculous. That's not serious. And I'm

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cautiously optimistic that at least they're now talking about another

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round of negotiations. But if there's serious negotiations, I predict

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they'll take months and years, not days and weeks.

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Speaker 2: You know, sir. I want to sort of put a

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little bit of a button on all aspects of this conversation,

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because it really boils down to when you take into

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account how Simone set up in the first part with

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her question, and now Alicia with hers this idea of

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the administration doing what it's acting and behaving the way

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it's behaving as if they actually had a plan. I

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find it very interesting, sir, that what we're looking at

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is a fanciful traits through you know, military options and uh,

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you know, some some economic and strategicy that that they

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think is going to work. You have Marco Rubio, Secretary

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of State, that's going to be meeting with you know,

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Israeli and Lebanese officials to talk some more about uh,

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you know, how they're going to get reach that ceasefire

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and make it work with Lebanon, et cetera, et cetera

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between Israel and Hesbellah. You've got tonight. Okay, here's the

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funny You've got tonight for you. The President having a

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conversation with Maria Bora Borderomo, which by the way, is

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going to air tomorrow morning. So that tells you whether

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or not what we're about to hear really kind of

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is urgent. Let's take a listen. I just loft the president.

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It was a great interview. He said a lot about

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the economy, about the land war, about NEO. One thing

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that I leave here, I said to him, miss President,

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you keep talking about the warling was was? Was? I said,

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Is it over? He said, it's over? Okay, So I

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don't know. So we got weight about eleven hours before

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we get that conversation.

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Speaker 1: Can we just ask the woman who actually did calms

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at the White House? Would you ever had such a

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big piece of news? O?

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Speaker 2: What's them?

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Speaker 1: A way about a roma for Fox's business child?

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Speaker 2: No? Thank you? What so? So you know, sir, I

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just want to know does any of this make sense?

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Because it just reinforces. There's no plan here. This is

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what the fourth time this war has been over. What

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are we talking about it?

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Speaker 1: I think it's a fundamental point. You're right, they're making

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it up. It's they're moving around in terms of their tactics.

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They do not have a plan. They didn't think about

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the secondary and tertiary effects of their war. That's what

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you do when you write a memo to the president.

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When I worked at the White House, you talk about

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different ways to achieve your strategy, and then you talk

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about these other things that could happen. It's clear they

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didn't think about these things.

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Speaker 2: Cat's Michael Steele on the Weeknight Monday through Friday at

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