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Top Trump officials doubt Irans intentions on deal · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: The CIA director and the Secretary of State doubting the
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  Speaker 1: agreement with Iran tonight.
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  Speaker 2: This is according to a new report.
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  Speaker 1: Just breaking from Axios, which reports that CIA Director John
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  Speaker 1: Radcliffe reportedly told President Trump that US intelligence raised serious
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  Speaker 1: doubts about Iran's willingness to make the nuclear concessions. The
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  Speaker 1: United States wants Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of Defense Pete Hegseth both also expressing concerns about the deal.
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  Speaker 2: All of that is hugely.
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  Speaker 1: Significant, and there is real anger coming from some of
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  Speaker 1: Trump's allies publicly too. Trump and Vance claimed they've already
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  Speaker 1: signed the agreement, but they've refuse to let anybody see it,
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  Speaker 1: and tonight some of Trump's most visible supporters are crying foul.
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  Speaker 3: The Iranians may comply for a short period of time,
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  Speaker 3: but then we're going to have a week of American
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  Speaker 3: president and they're going to have gotten the money. And
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  Speaker 3: then there's talk of a reconstruction fund of hundreds of
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  Speaker 3: billions of dollars. We didn't. They'll be like doing a
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  Speaker 3: Marshall Plan for Germany all the Nazis were still in power.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm anxious to see what the details of dl
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  Speaker 3: ARE and what gets negotiated. But I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 1: And those concerns he's referring to questions of whether Iran
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  Speaker 1: could have access to three hundred billion dollars just by
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  Speaker 1: holding up its ends of the deal. And another Fox
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  Speaker 1: News host and longtime Trump backer, Mark Levin is raising
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  Speaker 1: his hand too, posting on social media today, and I
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  Speaker 1: quote Mark Levin, I've asked for days, why can't we
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  Speaker 1: the people see the damn MoU that stands for a
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  Speaker 1: memorandum of understanding, not through people briefed by an anonymous person.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I've never seen anything like this.
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  Speaker 4: If it's a great outcome for peace, then release it.
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  Speaker 4: Trump has surrendered to Iran. That is how conservative Eric
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  Speaker 4: Erickson is describing the little known agreement between the United
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  Speaker 4: States and Iran that was signed virtually yesterday. Ericson took
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  Speaker 4: his criticism even further, claiming those who kill American of
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  Speaker 4: this deal. But the truth is, we don't know what
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  Speaker 4: exactly was agreed to, and what we do know changes
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  Speaker 4: depends on who you ask. Questions remain about whether Iran
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  Speaker 4: will have access to billions of dollars of frozen funds
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  Speaker 4: and what if any concessions Iran has already agreed to,
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  Speaker 4: and while the White House claims that the Strait of
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  Speaker 4: Hormouse will be open toll free, Iranian officials say it
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  Speaker 4: will have fees. Even the question of when we will
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  Speaker 4: actually see the text of this agreement isn't clear.
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  Speaker 2: Jd.
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  Speaker 5: Van says maybe tomorrow. Trump says Friday. But Erickson is
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  Speaker 5: not the only Republican taking issue with the lack of
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  Speaker 5: transparency around this deal. Fox News host Mark Levin questions
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  Speaker 5: why the American people can't see the quote, Damn m O.
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  Speaker 2: You.
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  Speaker 5: If it's a great outcome for peace, then release it.
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  Speaker 5: He added, don't brief a few anointed ones to control
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  Speaker 5: the narrative and expect everyone else to sit silently. Controlling
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  Speaker 5: the narrative can only last so long, and a new
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  Speaker 5: Axios reports finds that there are some skeptics in this
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  Speaker 5: administration too. To tell them that the CIA director John
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  Speaker 5: Radcliffe advised Trump on some intelligence that raises serious doubts
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  Speaker 5: about Iran's willingness to make nuclear concessions. The source also
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  Speaker 5: told Axio, said Marco Rubio Pete Hegseith, the Defense Secretary
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  Speaker 5: of both expressed concerns based on that intelligence. Now, while Vance,
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  Speaker 5: Steve Wikoff, and Jared Kushner have all advocated for this deal,
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  Speaker 5: we are now sitting here, I guess, more than a
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  Speaker 5: day after apparently the United States and Iran have signed
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  Speaker 5: on to some kind of agreement. We don't have any text.
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  Speaker 5: We just have anonymous officials. They won't even put their
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  Speaker 5: names on the statement fighting over what is in it.
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  Speaker 5: And I do think one of the basic things is
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  Speaker 5: if this agreement is a page and a half long
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  Speaker 5: and it doesn't actually have any hard commitments on the
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  Speaker 5: nuclear issue, why are we even talking about sanctions relief,
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  Speaker 5: Why are we even talking about reconstruction funds or releasing
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  Speaker 5: any money at all.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we're talking to them because we want this conflict
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  Speaker 6: to end, and we want to get to an ultimate
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  Speaker 6: goal where Iran doesn't have any or the capacity to
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  Speaker 6: make any nuclear weapons. That is the principal goal. That's
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  Speaker 6: number one.
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  Speaker 2: Number two.
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  Speaker 6: It would be wise for the administration to put this
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  Speaker 6: document out for everybody to look at, and they ought
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  Speaker 6: to do it as soon as they can, both for
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  Speaker 6: their allies who are interested, but also for the American
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  Speaker 6: people because we've gone to war here. The American people
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  Speaker 6: deserve to know how this is going to come to
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  Speaker 6: an end. Number three. I talked to the President on
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  Speaker 6: Sunday and he was telling me he was about to
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  Speaker 6: sign something with Iran. And he did, and he was
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  Speaker 6: excited to get the strait of horror moves open. But
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  Speaker 6: he said something very important to me, which is, look,
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  Speaker 6: if they don't follow through on their commitments, we will
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  Speaker 6: start hitting them again. He's clearly not taken further military
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  Speaker 6: action off the table. So we have some miles to
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  Speaker 6: travel down this road. The next mile will be on
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  Speaker 6: Friday when there's a formal signing for the people who
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  Speaker 6: don't trust Iran. Look, I agree with you. I think
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  Speaker 6: an Iranian signature is worth very very little, but it
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  Speaker 6: could be worth something if the President keeps this middle
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  Speaker 6: coalition together.
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  Speaker 5: What is your understanding of what this deal actually accomplishes.
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  Speaker 6: The accomplishment here, principally would be getting all the nuclear
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  Speaker 6: material and destroying this deal.
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  Speaker 2: That's not because that's not what's this deal.
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  Speaker 6: No, that's that's the goal.
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  Speaker 5: No asking you what do you think this?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, I understand that the memorandum of understanding. So sixty
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  Speaker 6: days cease fire open, the Strait of hor moves and
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  Speaker 6: you have a window to finalize the discussions about ending
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  Speaker 6: the nuclear program. The President believes he's got them to
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  Speaker 6: agree to do that, they have sixty days to finalize that.
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  Speaker 6: And again I'll just stress, as he said to me
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  Speaker 6: on Sunday, if they don't follow through on that, I'll
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  Speaker 6: start hitting them again.
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  Speaker 7: I just say the sixty days though, well, can I
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  Speaker 7: of say that on what Scott was saying on the
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  Speaker 7: MoU sixty days to negotiate anything with a run when
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  Speaker 7: it comes to its nuclear program. We're not even talking
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  Speaker 7: about its ballistic missile program, it support to its proxies,
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  Speaker 7: sixty days is aspirational at best. I think what we
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  Speaker 7: under stand this agreement to be is trying to restore
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  Speaker 7: the straight to pre war conditions where there was freedom
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  Speaker 7: of navigation that flew and international law was upheld. But
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  Speaker 7: right now we don't even know the details of this
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  Speaker 7: agreement because we Iran is saying that they're gonna they're
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  Speaker 7: going to charge some type of fee for ships going
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  Speaker 7: in and out of the Strait, which would be highly
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  Speaker 7: illegal under international law. But not only that, we don't
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  Speaker 7: know when the street is open, We don't know when
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  Speaker 7: the blockade is ending. And we don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: the only the only ones that can determine if the
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  Speaker 7: Straight is open. It's not Iran, it's not the United States,
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  Speaker 7: it's the shipping companies. If the shipping companies feel confidence
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  Speaker 7: that they can sail through the strait unimpeded and safely,
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  Speaker 7: then they will do it. But we don't know that.
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  Speaker 5: Well, well, Charles say, if you wanted to get in okay, Well,
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  Speaker 5: the point you make about whether or not that straight
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  Speaker 5: will be open is I think the crucial one.
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  Speaker 8: Uh. The people who who to study this think it
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  Speaker 8: will take months to clear it of mind. Let alone
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  Speaker 8: try to figure out new navigation lanes that the Arabians
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  Speaker 8: want to put into a effect in order to collect
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  Speaker 8: some fees. And then you have to worry about whether
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  Speaker 8: or not the shipping companies will be able to pay
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  Speaker 8: the insurance they have. They're not paying war insurance, which
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  Speaker 8: is like a nine hundred percent increase in their insurance
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  Speaker 8: costs from before this war started, And the insurance companies
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  Speaker 8: have to be reassured and that they can bring those
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  Speaker 8: costs down, and that the shipping companies have to be
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  Speaker 8: reassured that they will be able to pay the new
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  Speaker 8: costs to get through it. No one believes that this
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  Speaker 8: happens in a couple of months. So the idea that
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  Speaker 8: we can this deal may start the reopening, but it
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  Speaker 8: will not reopen the street.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't even know that we should even
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  Speaker 5: be calling it a deal of any kind, because just
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  Speaker 5: to be clear, if it's a deal, you should be
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  Speaker 5: able to say before you even sign it, here's what
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  Speaker 5: we both agreed to.
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  Speaker 2: Anna.
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  Speaker 5: Did you know that John Soon, Senate Majority Leader, has
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  Speaker 5: not even been briefed. He told Monti Rajeru today he
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  Speaker 5: has not been briefed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I did know that because I listened to Matt
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  Speaker 2: and nobody.
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  Speaker 5: Are asking what's in this deal? Under what circumstances with
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  Speaker 5: the United States sign a document with Iran and not
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  Speaker 5: tell anybody?
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  Speaker 2: And it's you know, I mean if so.
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  Speaker 9: Jd Vance told Jake Tapper that it is a page
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  Speaker 9: and a half. My rosary shopping list for Thanksgiving is
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  Speaker 9: longer than that. So it's not like they have that
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  Speaker 9: Briefing them on what's in this MoU should be that
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  Speaker 9: difficult because there doesn't seem to be that much in
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  Speaker 9: that MoU. I think it feels like it's it's kicking
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  Speaker 9: the can down the road and giving them sixty days
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  Speaker 9: to come up with something else. But you know, Donald
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  Speaker 9: Trump has done a terrible job selling this entire thing
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  Speaker 9: from the beginning. He never went in front of the
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  Speaker 9: American people, he never went in front.
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  Speaker 2: Of Congress to explain it thoroughly.
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  Speaker 9: I think he gets another shot at doing it now,
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  Speaker 9: and he should do it, and he should do it
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  Speaker 9: expeditiously because a lot of these attacks are coming from
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  Speaker 9: inside the House. So if he doesn't even have his
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  Speaker 9: allies on board selling this, he needs to be Can
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  Speaker 9: you're in transparent with the American people and certainly with Congress,
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  Speaker 9: because if he's going to be disbursing any money, they've.
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  Speaker 6: Got to authorize it first. On that point, there's there's
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  Speaker 6: no dispersal of funds. I know, And this is what
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  Speaker 6: I want to address. I think the administration today has
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  Speaker 6: been pretty upset about what they say is misinformation flying
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  Speaker 6: around out there. If it came from some of them, they.
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  Speaker 8: Won't document I I.
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  Speaker 3: If I may finish it, that's if I may.
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  Speaker 6: The quickest way to dispel any misinformation would of course,
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  Speaker 6: be to put the document out and say here's what
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  Speaker 6: our intentions are when we get to Friday, and here's
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  Speaker 6: what our intentions are over the sixty day period. So
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  Speaker 6: hopefully they do that in the next twenty four hours,
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  Speaker 6: and that'll bring you.
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  Speaker 5: Here's one other area beneit. It doesn't it doesn't count
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  Speaker 5: to claim we are not going to be dispersing funds
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  Speaker 5: if there's a three hundred billion dollar fund that we
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  Speaker 5: are authorizing to be dispersed to the Iranians, which I'll
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  Speaker 5: play what JD Van said about that that is not
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  Speaker 5: actually being disputed by the administration.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, the Iranians are saying that they're going to have
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  Speaker 3: access to a three hundred billion dollar reconstruction fund.
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  Speaker 4: True or false.
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  Speaker 10: Well, and that's the sort of thing they could have
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  Speaker 10: access to funded by the Gulf Coast Coalition, so long
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  Speaker 10: as they honor their endo, the obligation. We absolutely are
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  Speaker 10: open to the Gulf Coast countries investing in the reconstruction
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  Speaker 10: of Iran, but only if Iran ends their nuclear program
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  Speaker 10: ends there enriched stockpile of material, and it was really
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  Speaker 10: open to an inspections and enforcement regime that gives the
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  Speaker 10: American people confidence they're never going to have a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 11: So there is what are they I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 11: think they set.
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  Speaker 5: It in a Callan said it.
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  Speaker 2: More than Obama negotiated with the.
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  Speaker 5: Iraqi when when when the jc P away was signed,
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  Speaker 5: the money was not.
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  Speaker 3: Taxable your dollars.
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  Speaker 5: That was Iranian that was held in frozen accounts. So
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  Speaker 5: it doesn't matter if it's our money or not.
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  Speaker 11: It's a good point even if it is the Golf
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  Speaker 11: States money. I don't think the Median GOP based voter
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  Speaker 11: is going to be particularly thrilled with the notion of
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  Speaker 11: releasing three hundred billion dollars in funds to the world's
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  Speaker 11: leading state sponsor of terrorism. That's not why we got
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  Speaker 11: into this. But here's what I will say me personally,
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  Speaker 11: I'm a bombed terrorist guy. If that didn't work and
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  Speaker 11: I was president, I'll probably just bomb the terrorists some more.
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  Speaker 11: But I'm not the president Donald Trump is. He was
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  Speaker 11: elected on a kind of dual message. One the Iranians
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  Speaker 11: can never have a nuclear weapon, and two we're also
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  Speaker 11: not going to get into endless quagmire wars in the
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  Speaker 11: Middle East. To me, this looks like the execution.
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  Speaker 7: Of that pit that bombomb terror Both agree, but bombing
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  Speaker 7: Iran into submission did not work well and Iran. In March,
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  Speaker 7: the President tweeted that Iran and unconditionally surrendered and that
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  Speaker 7: just has not happened.