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your support. It's Monday, and it's two o'clock and that

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means it's time to chat with Ap Dylan. She's a

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reporter for the North State Journal. You can read her

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work at nsjonline dot com. She is also the purveyor

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of a substack newsletter called more to the Story and Ap,

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Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a good weekend?

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Speaker 3: I did. We spent continuing celebrating my oldest graduating from.

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Speaker 2: High school, continuing this is like a multi week affair.

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Speaker 3: Or something like multiple days in a row.

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Speaker 2: Let's beat out again, like we're only doing this once.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so, but you also cranked out some

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content as you usually do, and this was regarding the

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governor of North Carolina. Josh Stein doing his first vetos.

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I think right these were was this the first round

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of vetos that he's done.

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Speaker 3: These are his first vetos. He vetoed three bills Senate

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Bill fifty, Senate Bill one fifty three, and House Bill

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three eighteen. Senate Bill fifty is the bill that would

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have allowed for permitless concealed carry, joining multiple other states

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that have laws like that. I think we would have

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been like the thirty es states to enact such a law.

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Then there's a Senate Bill one fifty three in House

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Built three eighteen, which sort of are tied together because

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they're both immigration related. One fifty three would tighten up

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the requirements for state law enforcement officials like sheriffs to

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formally cooperate with ICE and detained immigrants. It would also

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restrict state fund benefits and housing for non citizens, and

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it would penalize local governments and the unc system institutions

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for adopting any sanctuary policies eight which was backed by

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House Speaker Destin Hall. He's been very big on the

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ice front. He's on multiple bills pushing through this woman

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closed loopholes and existing laws such as the ones that

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the Mechlenberg sheriff seems to think exist regarding illegal immigrants

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and custody, and it would require that local officials can

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find them and verify their legal residency status and be

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in touch with ICE to let them know that they

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have that person, to see if there's a entertainer or

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if they're going to you know, offer a warrant on them.

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It also mandates that the prisoner is subject to an

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ICE detainer, be held in trans until he's transferred into

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ICE custody or released under certain specific conditions which have

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to be met, you know, bonds, monitoring, that sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so right, So these are the three bills he

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did sign one into law.

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Speaker 3: Some agriculture bills modernized agricultural voluntarily for certain agricultural districts.

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There were certain modernizations that were in the law that

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needed to happen, and nothing ground shattering there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing controversial about that.

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Speaker 1: But so so now, obviously the question is about whether

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or not the legislature can override his vetos. In the Senate,

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they've got the Republicans have a supermajority, so I suspect

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they will have little problem overriding Stein's vetos on these

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three items, but over in the House, not so certain

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because they don't have a super majority. They're going to

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have to peel away a Democrat or two. And the

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bill that House Bill three eighteen, one of the immigration bills,

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the last one that you that you described there, that's

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the one that the local representative, Carla Cunningham from Mecklenburg,

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that's the one that she is a Democrat, has voted

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with Republicans for this bill.

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Speaker 2: So she may she.

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Speaker 3: May be the one that helps override that one. The

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Senate one might have a harder time unless they can

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get her to move over into that aisle. Right, So

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we'll see. But then again, we're talking about a new

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governor here. We don't know if he's got the same

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disciplinary mojo that Roy Cooper did, where you know, if

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you stuffed out of line, he made sure he got

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a primary challenger. So I don't know if Josh Stein

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is going to pull that I'm the Democrats and the

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legislature this time around or not.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So you could read that at North State Journal Online.

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And AP's also got to write up at her newsletter

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more to the story on all of this. And you

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also you wrote about and you connected in a couple

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of these, these union groups and these lefty groups that

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prior to his veto's, the Party for Socialism and Liberation

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was back out carrying their anti Ice banner this week

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protesting these bills, trying to pressure Stein. And they've been

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involved in uh these you know, nationwide protests, the no

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King stuff, the fifty to fifty one, which is a

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terrible name because it makes it sound like it's just

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fifty to fifty one, but it's fifty fifty and then

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one but whatever. And then you you pointed out we

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covered a little bit of this last week that the

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that now you've got the unions that have joined in

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the afl CIO you mentioned the s CiU, got the

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teachers unions, they're involved in this stuff. And now you've

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got the UH workers with the Solidarity Restaurants team.

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Speaker 2: And that's a new one to me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's being launched by a group called One Fair Wage.

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It's another one of those you know, Raised the minimum

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wage groups, and yeah, I darked them through their basic

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social media and through their platform and everything, and it

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very much looks like this is another one of those

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you know, Raised the wage groups, and on their website

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woman wearing a mask at COVID mass that says fight,

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don't starve and teacher to read the wage justice is

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racial justice, so you know whatever. But they seem to

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be they seem to be operating mostly in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois,

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and Maryland, New York and Ohio. They're not in North

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Carolina yet and those are blue states for the most part,

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so they're targeting their own. We'll see what We'll see

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what happens there.

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Speaker 1: And it makes sense because after the Supreme Court decision

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on the force unionization, you know, siphoning off dues and stuff,

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the Janus decision. After that, unions have taken a hit,

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and so it makes sense that now they're like, they're

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making these efforts with regard to illegal immigrants because they

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need more people, They need more bodies, they need more

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people on the rolls. And so, uh, there's been a

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decide because it used to be the unions were opposed

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to illegal immigration because it undercut wages for them, and

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so now yeah, now they're they're captured too.

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Speaker 2: Let's see here.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of being captured, apparently the North Carolina Democrat Party.

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I don't know what's going on with this drag brunch

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that they they held again. This what yesterday I guess

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in Raleigh? Is this the This is not the first

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time they've done a drag queen brunch at at party

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headquarters or something.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess for the past three years I've held that.

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To be honest, I haven't. I hadn't been clocking it regularly.

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This one popped up though, in my feet a couple

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of times, so I was like, all right, I'll just

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I'll drop that in on my substack because you know whatever. Yeah.

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But yeah, So they held this thing and apparently one

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of the performers there a guy who goes by S. S. Birdie.

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His name is Landon bird He calls himself the drag

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King and the other social media posts. But he posted

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several days in advance on his Facebook page and Instagram

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page dressed up like in a in a costume looks

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like something out of Natcho lebra and he's like, you know,

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shoving his foot in the camera, saying stomping all fascists

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in the face.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And this is the person who was, you know, one

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of the headliners for this drag brunch. In just a

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week ago, we were, you know, we had the Democratic

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Party's chair refusing to condone condemn reports Representative von Hagen's

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posting of a beheaded Trump from the No Kings rally.

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So I just found an interesting juxtaposition, and she did

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it again here. She she deflected again and said that

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it's the favorite e entity here and they would invite

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libs of TikTok next time to.

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Speaker 1: It, right, because this one got the got noticed by

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libs of TikTok, which then you know, pushed it out again.

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And yeah, so this is now like two libs of

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TikTok tweets over the last week or so. So it's

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I'm sure the I'm sure the social media accounts for

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the North Carolina Democrat Party leadership has been blowing up

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for the last you know week or so.

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Speaker 2: I did.

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Speaker 1: I did like the uh, the screenshot you got of

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the Speaker of the House response to all of this,

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destinhol said, reminder that Democrats tried to tell your Republicans

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were weird in the last election, which meanwhile they got

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this this foot stomping, drag king dude performing for their party. Anyway,

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So this dovetails nicely though into another piece that you had.

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And we've been covering different elements of this over the

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last two weeks. The New York Times and Politico both

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with stories talking about the Democrats in disarray or the

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civil war inside the Democrat Party. This is not this

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is not good. They are apparently, I mean for them.

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It's probably good for America, but it's not good for

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their party. They've discussed the possibility of borrowing money in

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the coming months to keep operations fully funded.

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Speaker 2: I did not know that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that didn't really shock me, given you

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know that they blew through what, you know, a billion

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dollars I'm the Harris campaign. Yeah, little to show for it.

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So yeah, the both the New York Times and uh

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Politico are doing their their duty and breaking the bad news,

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uh in a way that's you know, as friendly as possible.

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The New York Times article goes on for you know,

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like eighteen hundred words or something like that, describing the

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internal collapse of the DNC, and my favorite section of

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that article was titled worse than some high school student

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council drama. So yeah, yeah, so they they're they're looking

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around and then we've got. You know, it looks like

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Bernie Sanders and AOC have broken up. Oh no, he's

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been out on his noahl oligarchy, you know campaign, and

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she had been out there with him, you know, doing

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doing the rallies, and in the last two weeks or so,

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she's sort of disappeared from that, and it's just Bernie

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out there now, you know, old man yeltic cloud moment.

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Speaker 1: So well, she's she's doing I think she's she's trying

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to ride the anti immigrat stuff right then. Yeah, well,

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and this is the thing too, like because I think

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it in your piece, you said, yeah, here it is

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a Neither the New York Times nor the political article

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seem to connect the dots back to President Biden's disastrous

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debate as the turning point when the wheels started coming

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off the DNC bus. And you've got now these camps

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that are fighting inside the DNC, and you got one

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that's like we should moderate, and the others like, no, no,

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full blown you know, leftism and stuff. And that's why

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like their own voters, their own Democrats, they disapprove of

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their own party by like seventy percent. And it's because

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they're like that no one is fighting Trump hard enough.

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And that's why I think you're seeing these guys going

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and getting themselves arrested, right, these stunts, because they want

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to be seen to communicate I'm willing to get arrested,

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you know, like their own moral Munday movement moment a

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momo momo and like I'm fighting. Look at me getting arrested.

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It's why they that's why they're cursing in really cringey ways,

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like people you know don't curse, and then you just

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start dropping f bombs and stuff like this is this

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is not a good look, but I'm enjoying it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think I think someone over the weekend said the

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arrests and everything that they're going on with all these

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elected officials, it is like they're lining up to get arrested.

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They think that, you know, it's good publicity. But someone

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I can't remember, I think it was Scott O God

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what was his name from CNN. He left out the

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line something like along the lines of the theater kids

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have taken over the Democratic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was that was Scott Jennings.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Scott Jennings. That's right, that's what it was. That

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that just kind of stuck with me. I'm like, you know,

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Speaker 2: It absolutely is. We've been using that term to describe

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these performers for a while. It is completely accurate. Ap Dylan,

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I appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: As always, you can read her work North State Journal

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we've been talking a lot today about what happened over

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the weekend with the bombing of the Iranian nuclear facilities

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by the US military successful mission. Trump put out a

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truth social post saying they were all totally destroyed, but

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Iran is also putting out a statements saying that they

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totally destroyed the US base in Cutter, Katar Cutter. Still

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don't know how to pronounce that one. Yeah, they so

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that's obviously for domestic consumption. They want their people to

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think that they have wiped out a US air base

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in Qatar with six missiles that they fired and gave

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the kataris a heads up on, just like they did

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when they they've shot them into Iraq after we took

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out Solamani.

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Speaker 2: So this is the way they quote save face. So

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there's that.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Israel has started hammering Iran again. They took out

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the doors off of the Eving Prison, which was the

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prison where they hold all their political prisoners and regime opponents.

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They blew the doors off of that. They also blew

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up the Destruction of Israel clock that they have right

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in like Palestine Square in Tehran. They've got this clock

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and it's like, yeah, we're counting down till the destruction

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of Israel. They blew that thing up. So all right,

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let's get to the phones. People have been on hold

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for a while. This is Andy. Hello, Andy, Welcome to

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the show.

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Speaker 2: Hello Andy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I'm gonna put you back on hold and

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we're gonna go over to Richard. Hello, Richard, are you

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still there?

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Speaker 5: Yes, welcome, Thank you very much. I'll listen to you.

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Did you know I watched Pops news at work, Okay,

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and there was something under the Russia gave permission for

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other countries to give nuclear warheads. Did you see that?

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Speaker 2: I did not see that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why Russia would need like what countries

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would Russia need to.

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Speaker 5: Same here, same here? They need, uh, you know, permission?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, unless it's like Belarus, which is, you know, a

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client state of Russia. Maybe Belarus has nukes or something,

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but Russia's got the nukes. If they wanted to give

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or on some nukes, they could. But I don't know

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if like again, I I don't know if they would

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do that. I don't know if Putin would do that,

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Why you would do it, Why you wouldn't do it?

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I have no sightline into that, except you know, to

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just try to take out an American ally or something.

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I don't know, because if it traces back to him,

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like that's problematic, you know.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I don't agree. My question is only

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that if you've seen that, so you haven't seen it.

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Speaker 2: I have not.

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Speaker 1: No, I have not, but I can I can try

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and find it. If you say it's out there, there

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may be a report that's out there. But I appreciate

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the call. Thanks for thanks for making it.

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Speaker 5: Richard, Thank you much.

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Speaker 2: All right, take care.

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Speaker 1: There is another component to this, and I keep hearing

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you know, oh, they our intelligence. And this is based

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off of the Tulsi Gabbard, the clip that made the rounds.

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I played it last week eighteen seconds where she's like

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they are not, you know, making the bomb or something.

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But then everybody chops off the second part of it

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where they're like, yeah, but they're they're still pursuing all

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of this and they're not cooperating and they're doing all

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this other stuff.

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Speaker 2: That part out of the quote.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, the IAEA, the UN's nuclear watchdog,

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the Board of Governors, found that Iran is not complying

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with its nuclear obligations. And this was June twelfth, right,

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this was the first time in twenty years that the

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UN's nuclear watchdog made this finding. Iran reacted immediately, saying

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it will establish a new enrichment facility in a secure

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location and that other measures are also being planned. The

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Islamic Republic of Iran has no choice but to respond

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to this political resolution. To the Iranian Foreign Ministry and

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the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, they put out a

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joint statement. US President Donald Trump previously warned that Israel

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or America could carry out airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear facilities

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if negotiations failed and some American personnel and their families

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have begun leaving the region over the tensions. This was

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again from June twelfth. Nineteen countries on the IAEA's board,

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which represents the agency's member nations, voted for the resolution.

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Nineteen countries Russia, China and Burkino sorry Burkina FASO opposed it.

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So three against and eleven abstained. And I don't know

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why two did not vote. I don't know if they

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were sick or something. But in the draft resolution seen

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by the Associated Press, the Board of Governors renewed a

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call on Iran to provide answers without delay in a

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long running investigation into uranium traces found at several locations

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that Tehran has failed to declare as nuclear sites.

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Speaker 2: They are gaming the system. They always have them.

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We'll get to that. Let me finish with this piece though.

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This was at the Associated Press June twelfth. Okay, so

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almost two weeks ago, and the headline on the story

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is you an Atomic board censures Iran and Tehran says

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it will establish a new nuclear site. In its report,

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the IAEA stated that it is unable to provide assurance

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that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively peaceful, and said this

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is a matter for the UN Security Council, like we're

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going to do another meeting on this or whatever. But

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a senior Western diplomat described the resolution as a serious step.

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But we're not closing the door to diplomacy. But if

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Iran fails to cooperate, an extraordinary extraordinary IAEA Board meeting

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would be held in the summer, during which another resolution

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could get passed that will refer the issue to the

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Security Council. Like there you can tell like they were

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ticked off with Iran because like they were going to

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do another resolution. We're going to meet again and we're

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going to do another resolution on you. But when the IAEA,

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that is supposedly the one that is monitoring Iranian compliance,

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when they say they cannot give assurances that the nuclear

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program is for peaceful purposes exclusively, like that's a pretty

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big deal because obviously it's not for peaceful purposes. The

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IAEA's comprehensive report circulated among member states before their vote,

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and it's said that Iran's cooperation with the agency has

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quote been less than satisfactory when it comes to uranium

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traces discovered by agency inspectors at several locations in the country.

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One of the sites became known publicly in twenty eighteen

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after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nintonnaho revealed it at the

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United Nations and called it a clandestine nuclear warehouse hidden

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at a rug cleaning plant. Iran denied it, but in

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twenty nineteen when the IAEA inspectors all lickety Splits showed

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up for their investigation, they detected the presence of uranium

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as well as at two other sites. And Iran won't

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tell them why because it's not for peaceful purposes obviously.

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Here's the uh. We had a eget who was I

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think it may have been David was his name? Maybe

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this was from Dmitri Medvidyev, So not Putin, but the

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deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, former president. He had

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suggested that other countries would transfer their nuclear warheads to Iran.

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Trump then responds on truth social to this report, and

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he says, did I hear former President Medvidyev from Russia

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casually throwing around the N word nuclear and saying that

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he and other countries would supply nuclear warheads to Iran.

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Did he really say that or is it just a

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figment of my imagination. If he did say that, and

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if confirmed, please let me know immediately. The N word

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should not be treated so casually. I guess that's why

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Putin's the boss. By the way, If any by the way,

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if anyone thinks our hardware was great over the weekend,

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far and away, the strongest and best equipment we have

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twenty years advanced over the pack is our nuclear submarines.

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They are the most powerful and lethal weapons ever built,

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and just launched the thirty Tomahawks. All thirty hit their

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mark perfectly. So in addition to our great fighter pilots,

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thank you to the captain and crew. Medvidyev has now

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responded quote regarding I'm not going to read the whole

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thing like that, but that's how that's the voice I'm

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hearing in it.

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Speaker 2: I condemned the US strike on Iran. It failed to

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achieve its objectives.

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Speaker 1: However, Russia like, I don't think that's true, but Commi's lie.

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So however, Russia has no intention of supplying nuclear weapons

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to Iran, because, unlike Israel, we are parties to the

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nuclear non Proliferation Treaty. I know quite well what this

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would entail, having overseen our nuclear forces as president, but

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other countries might.

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Speaker 2: And that's what was said. And we definitely shouldn't be

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arguing over who has more nukes, all the more so

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because the new Start Treaty, which I once signed with

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a US president, is still in force for now. The

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question is what comes next. So I don't find this

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to be particularly helpful. That's just that's just me. I

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I don't like.

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Speaker 1: I don't like the mean tweets like we're in high school,

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like going back and forth with with the Russians about

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start treaties and use of nukes and all this other stuff.

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Now Trump did not start this, Okay, this was Medvedyev.

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He was the one that was talking about somebody could

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give Iran a nuke. I don't know who would do that.

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Pakistan maybe, sorry, Bukistan, Like maybe I mean that who

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else has them that would give them one?

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Speaker 2: China U.

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Speaker 1: Bill Malugin from Fox News. He reports, per a senior

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Customs and Border Patrol source, there were one thy five

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hundred four Iranian nationals caught crossing the border illegally during

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the Biden administration. Forty eight percent of those were released

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into the United States fifteen hundred half of them were

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released into America. It's unclear how many of these Iranians

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were on the terrorism watch list, as the Biden administration

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repeatedly denied my Foyer requests and appeals for that data,

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citing the privacy concerns of the people on the list

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and minimal public interest in disclosing the data.

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Speaker 2: That's what they told him.

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Speaker 1: That's what the Biden team said, privacy concerns for people

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on the tech watch list, and that there's minimal public interest.

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There were over two million known godaways at the border

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during the Biden administration. Because they were never caught, there's

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no way of knowing where they were from. All Right,

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if you're listening to this show, you know I try

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to keep up with all sorts of current events, and

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I know you do too, And you've probably heard me

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say get your news from multiple sources.

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Speaker 4: Why.

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Speaker 1: Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is

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I mentioned this earlier in the program, so I want

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to play. The clip only runs two minutes. This is

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Margaret Brennan from CBS News Face the Nation. Marco Rubio

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is on Meet the Press yesterday, and I watched this

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just because I was trying to anyway, I watched it.

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I usually don't watch the Sunday shows anymore, but I

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watched this and this is Chef's kiss.

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Speaker 6: Oh on a phrase you just word weaponization ambitions? Are

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you saying there that the United States did not see

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intelligence that Supreme leader had ordered weaponization.

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Speaker 4: That's irrelevant. I seek that question being asked in the media.

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That's an irrelevant question.

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Speaker 6: That is me point in US intelligence assessment. You know

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it's not yes, it was, that's the political decision.

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Speaker 4: Well, I know that better than you know that, and

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I know that that's not the case whether the order

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was given. And the people who say that it doesn't

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matter if the order was given. They have everything they

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need to build nuclear weapons. Why would you bury Why

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would you bury things in a mountain three hundred feet

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under the ground, Why would you bury six Why do

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they have sixty percent in rich uranium? You don't need

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sixty percent in rich area. The only countries in the

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world that have uranium at sixty percent are countries that

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have nuclear weapons, because it can quickly make it ninety

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They have all the elements they have. Why are they

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Why do they have a space program? Is Aron going

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to go to the moon? No, they're trying to build

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an ICBM.

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Speaker 6: No, But that's a question. That's a question, that's a

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question of intent. And you know in the intelligence assessment

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that it was that Iran wanted to be a threshold.

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See you use those I'm talking on what the intelligence

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March assessment, and that's why I was asking you if

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you know something more from it?

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Speaker 4: That's also an inaccurate representation of it. That's inaccurate and

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representation of it. That's not how intelligence is read. That's

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now how intelligence is used. Here's what the whole world knows.

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Forget about intelligence with the IAEA knows they are enriching

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uranium well beyond anything you need for a civil nuclear program.

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So why would you enrich uranium at sixty percent if

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you don't intend to one day use it to take

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it to ninety and build a weapon? Why are you

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developing ICBMs? Why do you have eight thousand short range

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missiles in two to three thousand long mid range missiles

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that you continue to develop. Why do you do all

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these things and just everything they need for a nuclear weapon.

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They have the delivery mechanisms, they have the enrichment capability,

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they have the highly.

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Speaker 2: Enriched uranium that is stored.

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Speaker 4: That's all we need to see, right, Well, the regime's our.

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Speaker 2: That's our enemy. There you go.

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Speaker 1: I am convinced that people seek out her program to

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appear on because she is not very good.

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Speaker 2: I really do. Like that's the only explanation. I don't

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know how she has that job.

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Speaker 1: Let me talk a little bit quickly about the mission.

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So there was trickery involved. The level of trickery we

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don't even know. We're not sure how Like how much

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was Trump working with Israel? Like how how long? How

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far back did they start this plan? Was it all

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part of the plan over like weeks or something? Or

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they flew one set of bombers west, they flew another

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set east. The one that went west was a decoy.

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The one that went east was the real package, as

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they called it. The AP reports it was an unprecedented

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attack years in the making, with some last minute mister

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meant to give the operation a powerful element of surprise.

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US pilots dropped thirty thousand pound bombs early Sunday on

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two key underground uranium and Richmond plants in Iran, delivering

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what American military leaders believe is a knockout blow to

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a nuclear program that Israel views as an existential threat

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and has been pummeling for more than a week. American

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sailors bolstered the surprise mission by firing dozens of cruise

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missiles from a submarine towards at least one other site.

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Iran denied that any significant damage had been done. The

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B two bombers delivered a total of four hundred and

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twenty thousand pounds of explosives. So does that make sense

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to you that there was no significant damage?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: Almost half a million pounds of explosives and no damage, okay?

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US official set Iran neither detected the inbound jets nor

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mustered a shot at the planes. They didn't even fire

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a shot. So destroyed is the Iranian air force? So

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complete is the Israeli dominance of their airspace they couldn't

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even fire a shot. After setting parts of the plan

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in motion, Trump publicly announced Thursday that he would make

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a decision within two weeks on whether to strike Iran,

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ostensibly to allow additional time for negotiations, but in actuality

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masking the impending attack. One group of B two stealth

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bombers traveled west from Missouri on Saturday as decoys, drawing

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the attention of amateur plane spotters, government officials, and some

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media as they headed toward a US air base in

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the Pacific. At the same time, seven other B twos

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carrying two bunker buster bombs a piece flew eastward set,

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so you had seven B twos, each of them carrying

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two bombs. They kept communications to a minimum. They refueled

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multiple times in flight. It was a thirty six hour

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round trip. And in case you are interested, the stealth

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bombers are equipped with toilets and microwaves and a cooler

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like a little fridge. Yeah, so you could put snacks

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in there, you know, because it was a thirty six

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hour trip. The high tech bombers have their cockpits outfitted

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with mini fridges and a microwave to keep the crew

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fed and alert. And they've got the toilet as well, which, yeah,

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you would have to have that thirty six hour flight.

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This was Operation Midnight Hammer. They flew in complete radio silence,

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with their two man crews taking turns to sleep during

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the night. And it marked the first time that the

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US used the man YIV fifteen ton GBU fifty seven

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bunker buster bombs in a military attack. It was the

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longest B two flight since nine to eleven, since after

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nine to eleven.

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Speaker 2: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you

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so much for listening.

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