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Kate Fisher: Feature Story News Correspondent on the situation in Iran · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: And let's go to Washington. So Iran's already said not
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  Speaker 1: to Trump. This is on his call to open the
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  Speaker 1: effing straight Wednesday, New Zealand. Time is the deadline, and
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  Speaker 1: there was talk of a ceasefire, plans for a ceasefire
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  Speaker 1: that Iran has already rejected. In forty five days. Trump
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  Speaker 1: and Higseeth, they've been speaking at a press conference at
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  Speaker 1: the White House about the rescue of the us EM
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  Speaker 1: and at the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Where we're doing unbelievably well, well at a level that
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  Speaker 2: nobody's ever seen before. The entire country could be taken
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  Speaker 2: out in.
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  Speaker 1: One night, and that night might be tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 2: Are special operators, pilots, and support crews performed with near
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  Speaker 2: perfection under fire, and they were lethal. Just ask any
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  Speaker 2: Iranian soldier who dared attempt to get anywhere near that
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  Speaker 2: pilot or during that mission.
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  Speaker 1: Kate Fisher feature story News in DC for US this morning. Kate,
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  Speaker 1: good to have you on the program. Sounds like quite
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  Speaker 1: a well, a massive mission involving heaps of aircraft.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, hundreds of them. Donald Trump clearly very proud
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  Speaker 3: of his military, very impressed by this kind of undertaking,
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  Speaker 3: and delighted that it all happened without any further casualty
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  Speaker 3: on the US side. He says that twenty one aircraft
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  Speaker 3: came to help rescue the airman who ejected when his
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  Speaker 3: plane was struck down by the Iranians, and Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: described how he was bleeding profusely but still managed to
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  Speaker 3: climb up into this ridge on the side of a
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  Speaker 3: mountain until he could be found by Percy Well, the
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  Speaker 3: CIA located him, and then to be found by the
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  Speaker 3: US military to be rescued.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely fascinating. So what happens from here? You know,
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  Speaker 1: Trump's obviously made ultimatums, but he's made these ultimatums before
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  Speaker 1: in Iran as clearly calling as bluff.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, he's saying, he's reiterated double down that this new
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  Speaker 3: deadline that he put on social media over the weekend
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  Speaker 3: of Tuesday at eight pm Eastern time here in Washington.
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  Speaker 3: My master is not good enough to work out what
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  Speaker 3: time that is for you, but that that's essentially tomorrow evening,
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  Speaker 3: that he will be obliterating Iran if they do not
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  Speaker 3: reopen the Strait of Hormos. As you just mentioned, Iran
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  Speaker 3: rejected a peace plan that was put forward by these
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  Speaker 3: intermediaries Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey, but it did submit its
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  Speaker 3: own ten point plan to the Americans, and Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: said that this was a significant proposal, but he said
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't good enough, although he acknowledged it was a
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  Speaker 3: significant step. So it does sound as if there is
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  Speaker 3: diplomacy going on in the background, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: publicly the US certainly well from both sides, the rhetoric
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  Speaker 3: is very aggressive. You've got Donald Trump and his members,
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  Speaker 3: you know, have Pete Heggs has just left the lectern
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  Speaker 3: at the White House. The head of the CIA is
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  Speaker 3: also spoken, the General of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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  Speaker 3: This is all the top people involved in this mission
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  Speaker 3: speaking at the White House. Kind of in this lap
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  Speaker 3: of glory, lap of victory over this rescue of and airmen.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't sound like kind of dialing down of the
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  Speaker 3: rhetoric or the violence. But at the same time we
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  Speaker 3: understand diplomacy is happening.
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  Speaker 1: Catty, appreciate your update. Katie Fisher UIs correspondent for US
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