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The draft "deal" and why it would be a disaster · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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  Speaker 1: There's a lot going on. There's really one big story.
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  Speaker 1: The big story is let me read it to you.
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  Speaker 1: I Meet Segal posted this earlier on x A Meet
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  Speaker 1: of course Channel twelve, leading political analyst in Israel, and
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  Speaker 1: it's very wired in Israel. According to Barak revide I
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  Speaker 1: Meet begins. The US in Iran are at the closest
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  Speaker 1: point to agreement since the war began. The framework includes
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  Speaker 1: point one, the US and Iranian naval blockade will be
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  Speaker 1: gradually lifted during the detailed negotiation period. Red light, red light.
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  Speaker 1: Detailed negotiation period. You don't need a detailed negotiation period.
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  Speaker 1: They need to stop firing at chips and let the
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  Speaker 1: ever everybody out in our blockades got to continue. Point
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  Speaker 1: number two, the United States will commit in the memorandum
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  Speaker 1: of understanding to graduately lift sanctions and release tens of
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  Speaker 1: billions of dollars of frozen assets. Bad. That gives Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump the odor of Barack Obama. That's his palets of cash.
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  Speaker 1: The regime is on the brink of collapse. They can't
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  Speaker 1: pay their thugs. Don't give them any money ever. Number Three,
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  Speaker 1: negotiations are still under way on the duration of the
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  Speaker 1: uranium enrichment free what the President told me on Monday
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  Speaker 1: on this program, No enrichment, not now, not ever, never,
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  Speaker 1: And they're maybe it'll be fifteen years, maybe it'll be
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  Speaker 1: at least twelve. No, no enrichment. They don't need it.
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  Speaker 1: They're fanatics and lunatics, as Marco Ribio said yesterday, they're
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  Speaker 1: insane in the head, as the President said on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: they're lunatics. As Marco Ribio said, they're lunatics. They don't
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  Speaker 1: get to enrich period. Then two sources claim that Iran
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  Speaker 1: would agree to transfer the highly enriched uranium it possesses
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  Speaker 1: out of the country. Okay, that's fine, that'd be step
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  Speaker 1: number one. Okay, Iran, you're serious. We got the blockhead going.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to send in a team from the International
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  Speaker 1: Atomic Energy Agency. They're going to supervise the excavation of Fodor.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to take out whatever remains, and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to ship it to the United States, much like we
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  Speaker 1: did with Libya, much like we did with Ukraine, much
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  Speaker 1: like we did with Kazakhstan, much like we did with
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  Speaker 1: South Africa. We know how to do this. That's where
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  Speaker 1: we start. We get your six hundred pounds or one
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  Speaker 1: thousand pounds of hu. Even if it's dust, as it
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  Speaker 1: probably is, you might be able to use that dust.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good faith measure. That's where we begin. Then
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  Speaker 1: they say the United States is expected to get Iran's
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  Speaker 1: response within forty eight hours. Now I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: link this. I can't believe Steve Witkof for Jared Kushner
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  Speaker 1: have their name on Munich two point zero. I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe the president would agree to this. I really can't.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to go back to war with these people.
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  Speaker 1: They shot at the UAE yesterday, fifteen missiles, two cruise missiles,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of drones. They're not serious, they're killers. They're
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  Speaker 1: a lunatic. To Mehiti's in charge, it's a hunta time
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  Speaker 1: to go back to war in a kinetic fashion until
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  Speaker 1: they say, you know what, we can't win this. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: I just want the president to know what's coming. Former
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of Stain Anthony Blinkin was at the Economic Club
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  Speaker 1: of New York. He's still defending the JZPOA today, cut
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  Speaker 1: number seven.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this gets to something larger, which is we're
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  Speaker 2: living in a time, in a period where that is
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  Speaker 2: so binary, where it's impossible it seems for people to
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  Speaker 2: hold multiple ideas in their heads at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: And so yes, from I think Steck to.
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  Speaker 2: The United States, in many countries in the region, around
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  Speaker 2: the world and clear rent is not a good thing,
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  Speaker 2: which is why administration after administration has looked at how do.
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  Speaker 4: We deal with this?
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  Speaker 2: But the conclusions that previous administrations drew were different than
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  Speaker 2: the ones that President Trump drew. When during the Obama administration,
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  Speaker 2: when we brought when we got the JCPOA, the around
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  Speaker 2: nuclear deal, of course we looked at military options, but
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  Speaker 2: we concluded then that if we exercised a military option one,
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  Speaker 2: there could be all these second and third or consequences,
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  Speaker 2: including straight orf Hord moves, including attacks on our forces
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  Speaker 2: and our people, in the region, including attacks on our
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  Speaker 2: partners in the region, and to what gain we assessed
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  Speaker 2: back then.
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  Speaker 4: It's been publicly reported that in all likelihood, if.
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  Speaker 2: We wanted the program, we might gain a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years at best, that Iran would be rebuild and it
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  Speaker 2: would rebuild deeper underground. It would be harder to get out,
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  Speaker 2: and we'd be right back where we started. On the
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  Speaker 2: other hand, doing the hard work of diplomacy getting a
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  Speaker 2: deal bought us, in the case of the JCPOA, ten fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty years, depending on the different constraints.
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  Speaker 1: It bought you nothing with regards to missiles, remember that
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  Speaker 1: it bought you nothing with the big guard to the
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  Speaker 1: forest of missiles that they built around Fulldor. Got you
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  Speaker 1: nothing about underground pickack from and Fodor. It bought you
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  Speaker 1: nothing except lies and death and more terrorism around Israel.
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  Speaker 1: It was a complete and abject failure. Don't mister President
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  Speaker 1: do what they did because it's already out there. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's just signing the JCPOA. Why do you tear it
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  Speaker 1: up in the first place. Don't fall for that. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: we've got Richard Goldberg, who helps stand up the National
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  Speaker 1: Energy Dominance Council. Now with the Foundation for the Defensive Democracy,
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  Speaker 1: talk about what is going on in Iran right now,
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  Speaker 1: the reason we don't want to step in and save
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  Speaker 1: them kind number eight.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, they're looking at the intel right.
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  Speaker 5: We talked a little bit earlier you have in this
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  Speaker 5: discussion about the fracture in the regime. President pezeshk In,
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  Speaker 5: who's sort of the political person who's managing the government,
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  Speaker 5: sees the money running out, doesn't know how he's going
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  Speaker 5: to make payroll, is gasoline about to come to a shortage,
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  Speaker 5: all of these things that he's dealing with, banks teetering on,
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  Speaker 5: the vergic collapse. And then Ahmud Vehidi, who's heading this
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  Speaker 5: committee running the country based from the IRGC, who to
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  Speaker 5: keep the war going. And so you know, the president
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  Speaker 5: is seeing this food fight going on. Maybe he likes that.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe he thinks going back to major military operations coalesces
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  Speaker 5: that committee instead of fracturing the committee. So I think
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  Speaker 5: there is this ying and ying here. Now, what would
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  Speaker 5: you do at the lowest level of escalation, I would
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  Speaker 5: say the Rock Island, which is a little tiny island,
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  Speaker 5: to go back to the map that sticks out right
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  Speaker 5: there next to the Strait of Horn moves is where
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  Speaker 5: the IRGC has run their quote unquote toll booth out
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  Speaker 5: of It's where they have a coordination cell.
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  Speaker 4: I mean just take them out at that point.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if they're firing, that's your moment to respond
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  Speaker 5: with self defensive fire on key IRGC based as in
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  Speaker 5: command of control. I'd start with the Rock Island to
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  Speaker 5: see if you're able to send a message.
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  Speaker 1: They cannot last, all right, they cannot last. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have any revenue. There are thugs are leaving, they've got
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  Speaker 1: division within the regime. Maybe you push you a little
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  Speaker 1: bit harder, like Richard Goldberg suggests, but you don't collapse.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Wright check Tery of Energy, made the key point
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  Speaker 1: on Fox Business this morning, and Maria Barroomo cut number six.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Maria, I think what we saw and certainly what
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  Speaker 6: the Iranians saw with Project Freedom is one way or
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  Speaker 6: the other, the United States is going to have free flow.
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  Speaker 4: Of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 6: It can be in an agreement with Iran, or it
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  Speaker 6: can be without an agreement with Iran. And I think
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  Speaker 6: the fear that the United States's military is going to
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  Speaker 6: open the strait, whether Iran wants it or not made
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  Speaker 6: them realize if that's true, we've gotten nothing. We have
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  Speaker 6: no remaining leverage. Maybe we should get more reasonable and
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  Speaker 6: get back to the table with the United States and
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  Speaker 6: see what we can get out of this.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to have to give up.
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  Speaker 1: Our new core program.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to have to stop terrorizing the Middle East. Hey,
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  Speaker 6: maybe the ninety million people in Iran can find a
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  Speaker 6: way to a better life. But the only leverage they
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  Speaker 6: have has been impeding flow of traffic through the straits
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  Speaker 6: of Hormuz, and Mike Worth is right. They've been successful
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  Speaker 6: at that so far. But we can change that if
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  Speaker 6: we need to do it unilaterally.
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  Speaker 1: He's right, we can, and we should. Secretary Wright is correct.
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  Speaker 1: They've run out of money, they've run out of options,
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  Speaker 1: they have no cards left to play. They're counting on
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  Speaker 1: American left pressure on other than Trump to warn of
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  Speaker 1: a wipeout at the elections in November because of gas prices.
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  Speaker 1: I think the argument you make to the American people is,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry about the pain at the pump. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to bring this regime down because they're lunatics and they
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  Speaker 1: cannot have nuclear weapon. One more cut. Marco Rubio at
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  Speaker 1: the White House left turn yesterday cut number eleven.
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  Speaker 7: Everyone has shown that it's been able to withstand a
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  Speaker 7: lot of pressure, and yesterday President Trump has said that
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  Speaker 7: they may run out of oil storage in two weeks.
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  Speaker 7: Do you believe that that will be the thing that
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  Speaker 7: gets them to the table to give up their nuclear ambitions?
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  Speaker 8: And if not, what will be that thing?
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  Speaker 9: Well, look, they're suffering devastating damage to their economy, you're right,
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  Speaker 9: But it's not that they're able to withstand pressures that
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  Speaker 9: they don't care that their people are suffering. You understand, right,
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  Speaker 9: there's a difference between we can understand pressure and we
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  Speaker 9: actually don't care. Now, I think there are people in
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  Speaker 9: their system that care more than others.
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  Speaker 4: You know, some of the elected.
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  Speaker 9: People that you see, some of the people you see
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  Speaker 9: on television with the suits on. You know, those guys
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  Speaker 9: care because they know, at the end of the day
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  Speaker 9: they have to live in the reality. And then you
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  Speaker 9: have an other element of their government, the clerical, the clerics,
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  Speaker 9: the IERGC types, who probably are more immune to that
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  Speaker 9: and care less. They're more interested in regime survivor at
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  Speaker 9: all costs. But ultimately, the pressure points are what they are.
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  Speaker 7: They add now that they were before, because the administration
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  Speaker 7: has said that the Iranian regime is divided, making it
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  Speaker 7: very challenging.
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  Speaker 9: Well, it's been challenging to deal with them diplomatically because,
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  Speaker 9: for example, an offer will be made and then it
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  Speaker 9: takes five or six days to get a response because
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  Speaker 9: you have to get it through their whole system.
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  Speaker 4: They have to find the supreme leader wherever he hides.
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  Speaker 10: They got to get.
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  Speaker 9: Him to sign off, and their system has always been
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  Speaker 9: multi layered in this way. It's obviously become more complex
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  Speaker 9: because of the damage they suffered during the war. But
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  Speaker 9: look suffice that to say Iran has to pay a price.
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  Speaker 9: They're not going to change their position out of the
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  Speaker 9: kindness of their heart. There has to be a pressure
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  Speaker 9: point on them that causes them to realize they cannot
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  Speaker 9: continue to close the straits or they face crushing economic consequences.
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  Speaker 9: But also you know global diplomatic isolation, which they have
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  Speaker 9: proven in the past to be susceptible to. But you're right,
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  Speaker 9: they have a high pain threshold, but they don't have
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  Speaker 9: an unlimited pain threshold.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody does.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody does. The lunatics on in charge of your own
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  Speaker 1: right now they have the highest pain threshold. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: want to kill them, Maybe you want to kill the eighty.
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  Speaker 1: I think Harmoni two point zero is already dead. But
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  Speaker 1: maybe you want to kill the rest of the Linta,
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  Speaker 1: but you don't do a deal with them. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: right back when Noah, author of the forthcoming Blood and Progress,
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  Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. Norah Rothman his neck on the u
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  Speaker 1: U at chet.
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  Speaker 11: With a body gout in silver pain, every heaven place, detail,
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  Speaker 11: whatever he wanted you, and he laid it out the
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  Speaker 11: waste it is by gods and said the game with
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  Speaker 11: no match for the jagab.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back America. That is a course Dylan from Blood
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  Speaker 1: on the Tracks. I use that now as Noah Rothman's
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  Speaker 1: intro music because his new book, Blood and Progress comes
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  Speaker 1: out soon. You should pre order it now. I just
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  Speaker 1: posted the link on my ex account. Noah, welcome back
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  Speaker 1: from your European tour. Was that a tour in advance
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  Speaker 1: of the publication of Blood in Progress?
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  Speaker 12: It was neither a tour nor European. I took a
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  Speaker 12: week with my wife in Jamaica in advance of what
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  Speaker 12: I hope will be a very busy book.
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  Speaker 4: Tour, and I thank you for contributing to that. We
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  Speaker 4: will make possible here.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to try and make that a number
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  Speaker 1: one on the New York Times. In order to get
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  Speaker 1: it going. You got some unfortunate help when you were
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  Speaker 1: away at the White House Correspondence Association, when you had
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  Speaker 1: another leftist with a gun tried to change American history.
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  Speaker 1: This is becoming a movie that repeats all too often.
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  Speaker 12: Noah, yeah, no joke. And it's pretty ghost to promote
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  Speaker 12: my book about this phenomenon on the back of what
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  Speaker 12: could have been epocal violence. But it's nevertheless the fact
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  Speaker 12: that we are surrounded by incidents that confirm the thesis
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  Speaker 12: of this book.
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  Speaker 4: And it's equally.
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  Speaker 12: Interesting to hear people pivot directly after an incident after
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  Speaker 12: incident of left wing violence to the preternaturally violent right
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  Speaker 12: and a threat posed to it. This book addresses that,
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  Speaker 12: but also that particular shooter was fascinating because of the
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  Speaker 12: banality of.
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  Speaker 4: The things that he believed in, just the kind.
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  Speaker 12: Of stuff that passes for casual political discourse on forums
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  Speaker 12: like Blue Sky, to the extent that CBS's Norah O'Donnell
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  Speaker 12: confronted the president with this guy's ramblings, which should have
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  Speaker 12: been discredited by his actions, but the degree to which
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  Speaker 12: mainstream reporters, democratic activists, even democratic politicians marinate in this stuff.
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  Speaker 12: False notions about the President being a pedophile, a rapist,
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  Speaker 12: a traitor to the United States, this is all just
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  Speaker 12: common fair in left wing discourse, and it's radicalizing, and
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  Speaker 12: it's the sort of thing that democrats and and progressives
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  Speaker 12: need to be aware of because impressionable minds, distorted minds
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  Speaker 12: are taking action on the things that they're saying you
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  Speaker 12: need to act on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, can we pause on that for a moment. I
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  Speaker 1: asked the President about Nora O'Donnell on Monday, because I
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  Speaker 1: would have gotten up in the left if someone repeated
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  Speaker 1: a libel about me, And he said, well, that would
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  Speaker 1: have drawn more attention to what do you think about
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  Speaker 1: her reading that that was premeditated? She and her producers
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  Speaker 1: worked through whatever his response might be. I've done enough
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  Speaker 1: network debates. I know how they do this stuff that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't that doesn't happen accidentally.
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  Speaker 4: I honestly don't know.
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  Speaker 12: But I would posit the theory that the notion that
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  Speaker 12: the president was convicted of something akin to criminal sexual
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  Speaker 12: assault in the Eging Caroll case that the Russia probe
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  Speaker 12: was more ambiguous than we are led to believe, and
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  Speaker 12: that the president has unswortid affairs relating to Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 12: on Jeffrey Epstein's Island. These are the sort of things
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  Speaker 12: that are factually deficient. You cannot prove them in a
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  Speaker 12: court of law, but they are beyond dispute in liberal discourse.
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  Speaker 12: And if you spend a lot of time in liberal discourse,
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  Speaker 12: as I'm sure CBS News producers, consumers, and even Nora
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  Speaker 12: Donald herself, does you think this is pretty banw Indeed,
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  Speaker 12: you probably think that the president should answer for it.
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  Speaker 12: And yet it's the sort of thing that animates killers
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  Speaker 12: would be killers to who believe themselves to be the
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  Speaker 12: instruments of history to go out and execute directives they
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  Speaker 12: think are being are imperatives and moral and ethical imperatives.
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  Speaker 1: You keep score. I've read the PDF of Blood in
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  Speaker 1: Progress when it was in Galley's, but I don't remember
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  Speaker 1: if you kept score to the level of the attempts
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  Speaker 1: to kill presidents going all the way back to Truman
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  Speaker 1: and the Puerto Ricans outside of Blairhouse? Are they from
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  Speaker 1: the left always? Some can be mad like Hinckley and
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  Speaker 1: your colleague Charles C. W. Cook says there are people
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  Speaker 1: or just lunatach, there are political violence, and there's just
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  Speaker 1: some that's violence. And what category do the attempts to
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  Speaker 1: kill the president usually fall.
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  Speaker 12: Well, one thing I don't do is break everything down
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  Speaker 12: into statistics and numbers, because they are deliberately misleading in
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  Speaker 12: a lot of ways. The first chapter is I think
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  Speaker 12: you might remember, goes into the many databases that attempt
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  Speaker 12: to identify where these things fall and create some sort
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  Speaker 12: of a numerical, quantifiable system around them. And I tell
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  Speaker 12: these stories in terms of the human beings around them,
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  Speaker 12: because they're all subject to some sort of disordered thinking
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  Speaker 12: first of all. Second of all, those who engage in this.
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  Speaker 12: As one document that was presented to the Department of
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  Speaker 12: Homeland Security in twenty twenty ten twenty twenty one, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 12: made clear that there are intimidation campaigns against individuals who
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  Speaker 12: engage in the study of left wing extremism. Indeed, some
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  Speaker 12: of the authors of the studies of left wing extremism
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  Speaker 12: are participants in those movements themselves. According to this document
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  Speaker 12: that was within the Hope Department of Homeland Security and
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  Speaker 12: the databases themselves are shot through with shoddy research and
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  Speaker 12: a lot of assumptions that inform the conclusions. So I
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  Speaker 12: don't do any of that, not to say that it's
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  Speaker 12: not valuable, but it just gives you an incomplete picture.
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  Speaker 12: And I know this because I was doing statistical analysis
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  Speaker 12: for CSIS in two thousand and five, trying to categorize
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  Speaker 12: Islamist attacks in a database, and statistically it's helpful, but
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  Speaker 12: it also obscures more than it clarifies, because you're reducing
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  Speaker 12: very complex events to a series of numerical codes.
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  Speaker 4: And I just don't do the job that you need
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  Speaker 4: to do. That's mass shootings stories in isolation.
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  Speaker 1: When you read something about mass shootings, it's never any
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  Speaker 1: use to you because it includes drive by shootings over
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  Speaker 1: drugs with Columbine. And it makes me crazy because the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: databases they're wrong. Okay, I'm going to jump on subject.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard my monologue. I'm very
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: exercised about this proposed one page deal. Have you read
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: about it? What do you think about it? Yeah?
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Me too, and I share your apprehension.
• 16:52
  Speaker 12: For the very first time in this war, I am
• 16:55
  Speaker 12: concerned that the president's going weak in the knees. A
• 16:58
  Speaker 12: lot of people have been anticipating that he was going
• 17:00
  Speaker 12: to wiggle out of this war at the nearest possible opportunity,
• 17:03
  Speaker 12: and they have not yet realized. I think it's underrecognized
• 17:05
  Speaker 12: the degree to which he has been committed to his
• 17:07
  Speaker 12: stated objectives from the outset.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: But yesterday was super weird, Hugh.
• 17:12
  Speaker 12: The entire administration was trotted out to outline, roll out,
• 17:18
  Speaker 12: ingranular detail, Project Freedom, the necessity behind it, the strategic
• 17:22
  Speaker 12: and tactical imperatives that were informing it, and the moral
• 17:25
  Speaker 12: and ethical necessity of seeing it through. Marco Rubio when
• 17:28
  Speaker 12: he was on that podium, framed this operation as a
• 17:31
  Speaker 12: humanitarian necessity. This is a criminal enterprise that's holding twenty
• 17:34
  Speaker 12: three South thousand mariners hostage. They need to be rescued,
• 17:37
  Speaker 12: and we are the only navy on the planet Earth
• 17:39
  Speaker 12: capable of doing that. And then a bunch of hours
• 17:42
  Speaker 12: later the president backs off. And this comes at a
• 17:45
  Speaker 12: time when the Iranian regime and there are some interesting
• 17:48
  Speaker 12: reports around how the IRGC field commanders and IRGC commanders
• 17:51
  Speaker 12: have gone a little bit rogue here when they were
• 17:54
  Speaker 12: attacking ships, attacking that South Korean ships, shooting missiles, drones
• 17:57
  Speaker 12: and other assets at.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: The Oman and ua E and that this was against.
• 18:02
  Speaker 12: What the political class like Perizeshkin want and that's the
• 18:05
  Speaker 12: sort of thing we should be cultivating. But they shot
• 18:07
  Speaker 12: at our partners in the Gulf States. And what was
• 18:09
  Speaker 12: our response to roll back this military operation to forcefully
• 18:14
  Speaker 12: reopen the strait?
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: No no, no, no.
• 18:15
  Speaker 12: Tran whatever's left of it seees that is weakness, and
• 18:18
  Speaker 12: then we'll see that as as leverage that they can exploit, exploit.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I spoke to him at length. I had a half
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: hour with the president on Monday. He was very firm.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I mean he was no enrichment, not now, not ever.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Never we get it all back, they're going to be
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: out of money. But they can't support the terrorists. And
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: there's a fourth one missile missiles have got to be
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: They got to have some missiles because of their neighborhood,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: but they can't have too many. And we get to
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: inspect pretty pretty dependentative.
• 18:48
  Speaker 12: And he hasn't really budged off any of that. I mean,
• 18:50
  Speaker 12: there was one weird twenty four hour period where he
• 18:52
  Speaker 12: was talking about a twenty year moratorium, but that came
• 18:55
  Speaker 12: and went, and otherwise what we're hearing are from unnamed
• 18:58
  Speaker 12: sources deep within the administration, have reporters like Barack Revied's ear.
• 19:02
  Speaker 12: So I'm skeptical, but the administration's actions have made me
• 19:05
  Speaker 12: skeptical of the president too. Here for the very first time,
• 19:08
  Speaker 12: and I do see the I mean, I understand what
• 19:10
  Speaker 12: he's saying. We need to have this handover of this
• 19:13
  Speaker 12: ahu the highly enriched uranium.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: But what do they do with that?
• 19:16
  Speaker 12: It's inaccessible and they lack facilities to enrich.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: And or refine them.
• 19:20
  Speaker 12: What we can't have is an Ranian regime that voluntarily
• 19:23
  Speaker 12: generously gives us the straight up wore moves back that
• 19:26
  Speaker 12: will all but guarantee China will shut down the straight
• 19:28
  Speaker 12: of and do this better than the Iranians if this
• 19:31
  Speaker 12: has to be done by force.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I didn't even top And Joe, if you have more time,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I'll keep you for a second segment because I think
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Israel ow to get involved here. But if you don't,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Plug in progress. It's coming out soon.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Go and Pley order it right now. I'm too feel it.
• 19:44
  Speaker 11: Now there's a wall between us, something.
• 19:46
  Speaker 13: That's been lost.
• 19:48
  Speaker 14: I took too much for Breaded.
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: I got my signals crossed, just could think to all again.
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: On a non eventful mom come in, she said, I'll
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: give you a shelved up front.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I'm back in America. I'm Hugh Hewett. Another track from
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Blood on the track Bob Dylan's best album. Noah c.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Rothman is still with me. He's the author of the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: forthcoming book Blood and Progress. So that's his new bump
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: music ending from Blood on the track. Are you even
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: familiar with the album Noah Blood on the Tracks?
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Not really. I was never a big Dylan fan. I'm
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: aware of the songs, but the album the.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Greatest album on the ill. Yeah, the greatest album of
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the seventies. So Noah, I wanted to put a question
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: to you. I'm trying it out on you before I
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: tried it on John pod Or It's Next Hour. Jd
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Vance told me on this show when he was a
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: senator or running for vice president, I can't remember that
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: nations have their own interests and they have to follow
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: their own interests. We don't control Israel. Israel doesn't control
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: us at this point. I think it's an Israel's interest
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to act against en Ron in a way that blows
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: up this deal.
• 20:56
  Speaker 12: What do you think, Well, yeah, I tend to agree,
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: and I agree on the substance. I think that there's
• 21:04
  Speaker 12: something that those who are in that realist mold that
• 21:07
  Speaker 12: kind of get a little bit wrong about national interest
• 21:09
  Speaker 12: is that they discount values as being interests, and that's
• 21:14
  Speaker 12: just historically hard to support. Values are interests. Nations act
• 21:19
  Speaker 12: on values, armies move on stories, and values related alliances
• 21:26
  Speaker 12: are more valuable because they're cheaper to maintain than the
• 21:30
  Speaker 12: sort of associations that Russia and China maintain, because their
• 21:33
  Speaker 12: alliances are coercive, and coercion is expensive. You have to
• 21:37
  Speaker 12: maintain this whole apparatus in order to hold that, you know,
• 21:39
  Speaker 12: you have to manufacture the gun that you're holding to
• 21:41
  Speaker 12: your allies head, which costs money, as opposed to a
• 21:44
  Speaker 12: values related alliance, which is far more easier to maintain
• 21:47
  Speaker 12: and longer lived, as NATO demonstrates, and as are but
• 21:51
  Speaker 12: an emerging relationship with Israel demonstrates. So a side digression there,
• 21:55
  Speaker 12: But I do believe that Israel has the right and
• 21:58
  Speaker 12: the legitimate interest in seeing the Ranian regime defanged.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: I don't think that the.
• 22:03
  Speaker 12: Israeli government under Benjamin the Yahoo would accept something akin
• 22:07
  Speaker 12: to whatever the terms of this memorandum that are being
• 22:09
  Speaker 12: bandied about are, and Israel would have the latitude to act.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Of it's on its own accord.
• 22:15
  Speaker 12: There's a lot of people who are afraid that Israel
• 22:17
  Speaker 12: would drag the United States back into another conflict here
• 22:20
  Speaker 12: in the event that we reached the ceasefire that Israel
• 22:22
  Speaker 12: did not observe. But we spent the last three or
• 22:25
  Speaker 12: four years since the October seventh massacre, supporting Israel and
• 22:30
  Speaker 12: its endeavors, but not taking an active role in them.
• 22:33
  Speaker 12: And I don't foresee a condition in which we stop
• 22:35
  Speaker 12: the fighting, but we simply just disengage from the Middle East,
• 22:39
  Speaker 12: and the CIA has no role in a post war Iran.
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: The United States will be engaged in the region, and
• 22:44
  Speaker 12: Israel maybe will engage, be engaged in a more kinetic fashion,
• 22:47
  Speaker 12: and we may take a support posture there. But it's
• 22:50
  Speaker 12: not like the United States as being terms are being
• 22:53
  Speaker 12: dictated to the United States from Jerusalem. If anything, it's
• 22:55
  Speaker 12: the other way around. And frankly, the Benjamin and Yahoo
• 22:58
  Speaker 12: government is kind of frustrated with it as reporting it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Is the other way around, and that brings me at
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: this very period in time. I'm reading The Finest Hour
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: with Doctor Larry Or on second volume in Churchill's or memoir.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: First three chapters are about France enters into a separate
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: piece and Britain says, screw that We're going to fight
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: on a loan. I think Israel has a right to
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: walk away from this if we collapse, and that I
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: don't think they would be without support in the United States.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: What do you think the reaction would be to that.
• 23:30
  Speaker 12: I think they would have support from the Trump administration.
• 23:33
  Speaker 12: They wouldn't have any support from the Democratic Party or
• 23:35
  Speaker 12: the left. And Israel lacks some of the capabilities necessary
• 23:39
  Speaker 12: to execute the operations that we took on during the
• 23:43
  Speaker 12: kinetic phase of this conflict.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: So Israel would be at a significant deficit, but they
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: wouldn't give up.
• 23:49
  Speaker 12: Its security priorities it has doctrinally across parties, This is
• 23:53
  Speaker 12: not a partisan issue in Israel. Israel takes its security
• 23:56
  Speaker 12: initiatives into its own hands, and it does not necessarily
• 23:59
  Speaker 12: differ to the West.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Occasionally it does.
• 24:02
  Speaker 12: Occasionally Washington can make it to what it wants is
• 24:06
  Speaker 12: Reel to do, and some more often than not, the
• 24:10
  Speaker 12: Israeli's chafe under that but they understand that the relationship
• 24:13
  Speaker 12: with Washington is important to preserve, but not at the
• 24:15
  Speaker 12: expense of Israeli national security and certainly not at the
• 24:18
  Speaker 12: expense of Israeli lives. If it looks like Iran is
• 24:22
  Speaker 12: getting close to something like a breakout, it would act.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: And not at this moment. At this moment, when Iran
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: is on its back and you can deliver the death
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: blow to the regime that wants to kill you, you
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: get the last minute, you deliver the death blow, then
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I will take fifty percent.
• 24:40
  Speaker 12: Yeah, And I don't think I'm not sure, but I
• 24:43
  Speaker 12: don't think the president is holding out for a moment
• 24:46
  Speaker 12: when his critics and adversary is at home or abroad
• 24:49
  Speaker 12: will say we're vanquished, we're undone, we're forever discredited.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: You win.
• 24:53
  Speaker 12: I think a lot of people who are critics of
• 24:55
  Speaker 12: the president think that's what he wants, and they've always
• 24:57
  Speaker 12: said that he would just put his name on something
• 24:59
  Speaker 12: like a acpoa light and walk away, and he's demonstrated
• 25:03
  Speaker 12: time and time again that that's not his objective.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: This is why I'm very skeptical of this.
• 25:07
  Speaker 12: All the reporting around this memorandum of understanding, but only
• 25:10
  Speaker 12: skeptical to a point because the administration is making a
• 25:13
  Speaker 12: lot of sudden movements and loud noises that are making
• 25:15
  Speaker 12: me very nervous.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Hearing me about nous. C Rothman follow him on exit
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• 25:33
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• 25:37
  Speaker 3: This is very simple.
• 25:38
  Speaker 14: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon because as tough as
• 25:42
  Speaker 14: they are, we want to keep them alive.
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: We want to keep all of you alive. Iran cannot
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: have a nuclear weapon.
• 25:49
  Speaker 14: And they won't add They've agreed to that, among other things.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Welcome back America. I'm Hugh Hewett. That's President Trump moments ago.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I'm joined by Serf C. Bedford, cheap and investigation and
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: reporter at the Washington DC Examiner. Hello, Sarah, I am
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: back and forth on the deal because the reporting is
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: all over. I hate the reporting, but I don't think
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the president will do it. What do you think?
• 26:15
  Speaker 15: Well, Trump has really played his cards close to the
• 26:18
  Speaker 15: vest this entire time. He doesn't like to give a
• 26:21
  Speaker 15: lot of visibility into how talks are going, particularly in
• 26:25
  Speaker 15: a foreign policy context, and a lot of times when
• 26:27
  Speaker 15: the media starts to catch on to how negotiations or
• 26:31
  Speaker 15: negotiations are going, he'll say.
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: Something that kind of throws them off the scent to.
• 26:35
  Speaker 15: Maintain that strategic confusion. So, you know, it's not clear
• 26:39
  Speaker 15: of whether that's what Trump is doing right now if
• 26:42
  Speaker 15: there is really a lot of sticking points. But the
• 26:44
  Speaker 15: reporting is that Iran and the US are nearing some
• 26:48
  Speaker 15: sort of two page, fourteen point agreement that would end
• 26:52
  Speaker 15: the hostilities. But Trump is starting, Look, not only will
• 26:54
  Speaker 15: hostilities resume if iron doesn't agree to this, but also
• 26:58
  Speaker 15: the bombing will be even more intense then win the
• 27:00
  Speaker 15: campaign first began. So he's clearly applying maximum pressure to
• 27:04
  Speaker 15: Iran right now to accept whatever's in that deal.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Here is a second comment in the White House on
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: that deal, cut fifteen.
• 27:14
  Speaker 16: You're facing the pony right now in Iran that has
• 27:17
  Speaker 16: refused to submit. You've seem optimisticchnology maybe closer to a deal.
• 27:22
  Speaker 16: What's different about this moment now than in other moments
• 27:25
  Speaker 16: where a deal has seemed close.
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: Well, why do you.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Say they're used to submit?
• 27:29
  Speaker 14: You don't know that, you don't know, what's a firing
• 27:31
  Speaker 14: on a few days ago.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: I know, a few days ago.
• 27:33
  Speaker 14: It's a long time ago, you know, in the world
• 27:36
  Speaker 14: of war a few days ago.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: No, they want to make a deal badly, and we'll
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: see if we get there.
• 27:41
  Speaker 14: If we get there, they can't have nuclear weapons. You know,
• 27:43
  Speaker 14: it's very simple.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: But what's not to submit.
• 27:46
  Speaker 14: So they had a navy with one hundred and fifty
• 27:48
  Speaker 14: nine chips and now every ship is blown to pieces
• 27:51
  Speaker 14: and lying at the bottom of the water. They had
• 27:54
  Speaker 14: an air force, lots of planes, and they don't have
• 27:55
  Speaker 14: any planes. They don't have any anti aircraft, they don't
• 27:59
  Speaker 14: have any radar line, their missiles are mostly decimated. They
• 28:02
  Speaker 14: have something they have probably eighteen nineteen percent, but not
• 28:06
  Speaker 14: allowed by comparison to what they had. And the leaders
• 28:09
  Speaker 14: are all dead. So I think we won. This is
• 28:14
  Speaker 14: now now it's only a question of Look, if we
• 28:18
  Speaker 14: left right now, we're around and it would take them twenty.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Years to rebuild.
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: You would call that vy.
• 28:22
  Speaker 14: We're in good shape, right, We're in good shed and
• 28:27
  Speaker 14: now we're doing well. Now we have to get what
• 28:30
  Speaker 14: we have to get. If we don't do that, we'll
• 28:32
  Speaker 14: have to go a big step further. But with that
• 28:35
  Speaker 14: big set, they want to make a deal. We've had
• 28:39
  Speaker 14: very good talks over the last forty four hours and
• 28:42
  Speaker 14: it's very possible.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: That we'll make okay. So, Sarah, how do you read that?
• 28:48
  Speaker 15: I think it's true that the longer things like the
• 28:50
  Speaker 15: blockade of Iran on the straight up our moose goes on.
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: You know, that pressure compounds.
• 28:54
  Speaker 15: It's not just the military pressure that the Trump administration
• 28:58
  Speaker 15: has put on around, it's also the economic pressure, which
• 29:02
  Speaker 15: the effects of that compound every day that does pass.
• 29:05
  Speaker 15: With the successful blockade and Trump paused I think it
• 29:07
  Speaker 15: was called Project Freedom, where the US was going to
• 29:10
  Speaker 15: escort commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz. He's pulling
• 29:14
  Speaker 15: every lever that he has to put pressure on Iran
• 29:16
  Speaker 15: to take this deal. And you know, I guess you
• 29:21
  Speaker 15: do see a little bit of mixed messaging out of
• 29:22
  Speaker 15: the Trump administration though on whether is the conflict over
• 29:25
  Speaker 15: or are we preparing to head into the most intense
• 29:28
  Speaker 15: bombing campaign evern that we've seen so far. Trump is really,
• 29:31
  Speaker 15: I guess, applying as much rhetorical pressure on Iran right now.
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: While he waits to see whether they accept his deal.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Sarah so, okay, you gave me your comment on that.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you about what happened in the House
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: last week. All of a sudden, Speaker Johnson passed everything.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Did anyone see that coming?
• 29:50
  Speaker 17: Right there?
• 29:51
  Speaker 15: Was looking for a while and Democrats in the media
• 29:53
  Speaker 15: were gleefully rubbing their hands together waiting for what was
• 29:56
  Speaker 15: supposed to be a massive Republican failure in the House.
• 29:59
  Speaker 15: But at the last minute, Johnson and the White House
• 30:02
  Speaker 15: were able to cajole people to get this rule over
• 30:05
  Speaker 15: the finish line that sort of procedurally cleared the way
• 30:08
  Speaker 15: for a number of important pieces of legislation to boo forward.
• 30:11
  Speaker 15: Johnson is a really enormously difficult time getting the DJs
• 30:15
  Speaker 15: funding over the finish line, and also getting the FISA
• 30:20
  Speaker 15: Section seven oh two renewal over the finish line, which
• 30:23
  Speaker 15: is a key surveillance tool that the Trump administration really
• 30:26
  Speaker 15: just wants a clean reauthorization of. It shows you how
• 30:29
  Speaker 15: difficult governing is with his ever slimming majority in the House.
• 30:34
  Speaker 15: But Johnson was able to pull out a win there
• 30:37
  Speaker 15: and lobby some holdouts to get the rule through.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: So well as President Trump, to your knowledge, involved in
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: pushing the final football over the final yard because Speaker
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Johnson never says anything he didn't get excited, which is
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: a very very useful trait in a speaker with a
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: small majority. He never gets angry.
• 31:01
  Speaker 15: Yeah, and Trump is usually involved in some fashion in
• 31:05
  Speaker 15: getting sticky pieces of legislation in the end zone his
• 31:09
  Speaker 15: legislative team, at least is if Trump himself isn't involved,
• 31:13
  Speaker 15: he famously likes to call holdouts and massage them, especially
• 31:17
  Speaker 15: if you have rank and file members who are for
• 31:20
  Speaker 15: whatever reason opposed to something like parts of the.
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: Farm Bill or Section seven h two.
• 31:24
  Speaker 15: So Trump's involvement is usually what gets it over the
• 31:27
  Speaker 15: finish line.
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: But a lot of times the White House will.
• 31:29
  Speaker 15: Like to withhold that until sort of the end of
• 31:32
  Speaker 15: the negotiation process, so they don't fire that bullet too early.
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: They wait until they're almost at the finish line to
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: get Trump involved.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: All right, classic problem with legacy media. I haven't been
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: able to find out if the FIJA extension was one year,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: two years, four year, how long did they extend the
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for I believe.
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: They were looking at eighteen months.
• 31:54
  Speaker 15: But it's interesting that you brought up those shifting timelines.
• 31:57
  Speaker 15: The White House's request to Congress shifted what the House
• 32:01
  Speaker 15: Intelligence Committee wanted, shifted what Johnson was willing to back,
• 32:06
  Speaker 15: moved all over the place, and so were the demands
• 32:08
  Speaker 15: from the conservative holdouts who wanted to see reforms.
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: So that was actually a pretty messy.
• 32:12
  Speaker 15: Process to get sectioned seven oh two reauthorized.
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: But ultimately what the White House wanted was.
• 32:18
  Speaker 15: A clean eighteen month extension so they didn't have to
• 32:22
  Speaker 15: deal with this surveillance power issue for a while.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: They got eighteen months. Okay, you're the first person that's
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: been able to answer that for me, not surprisingly. Sarah C. Bedford,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Thank you from the Washington Examiner. Follow on exit, Sarah C.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Bedford follow me to the next segment of the e
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: hewits Hewett joined now by John pod Horor, It's editor
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: in chief of Commentary magazine, my companion, almost an hour
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: a day Monday through Friday on the Commentary podcast. Sometimes
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: they take a day off, John, I have spent the
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: first two hour inveighing against the alleged deal that Barack
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: reviewed reported on today. I need a tag team partner
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: to take over. It's a terrible idea. What do you think?
• 33:06
  Speaker 13: Yeah, so we can we can just close up shop there.
• 33:09
  Speaker 13: It's a terrible idea, and the question is why we're
• 33:13
  Speaker 13: here now. I mean it's fourteen ideas or twelve ideas
• 33:16
  Speaker 13: or something like that. And I don't, frankly, understand what's
• 33:21
  Speaker 13: going on. Because he told you on Monday.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: I believe that his.
• 33:26
  Speaker 13: Bottom line was that the United States needed to secure
• 33:31
  Speaker 13: physical control of the Iranian dust, the uranium. And that
• 33:37
  Speaker 13: does not seem to be what is lined up in
• 33:41
  Speaker 13: this report, which we don't have a piece of paper here,
• 33:45
  Speaker 13: but if the report is to be believed, he's looking
• 33:50
  Speaker 13: for a way to wind down the war with words.
• 33:52
  Speaker 13: And I don't know what changed between when he spoke
• 33:58
  Speaker 13: to you and when Pete Haggs I spoke yesterday morning,
• 34:01
  Speaker 13: and when Marco Rubio spoke yesterday afternoon, and these two
• 34:06
  Speaker 13: statements yesterday evening and this morning about how he was
• 34:11
  Speaker 13: suspending the escorting of the ships through the horn moves
• 34:16
  Speaker 13: straight called Operation Freedom, and that you know, we were
• 34:21
  Speaker 13: maybe on the way to a deal. So you spoke
• 34:27
  Speaker 13: to him, did seem to you like he was.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Four red lines or three and a half red line.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: No enrichment ever, not after twelve, not after fifteen, No enrichment. Ever.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Number two, we get all the agu we get it.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: We get I guess we have to go dig it
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: up and the IAEA might help, but we didn't get
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: into that. We get it. Number three, I said, no missiles,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: and he said, well, it's a tough neighborhood. They might
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: need some missiles, but inspections of those missiles, And then
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I brought up to are prox. He said they're out
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: of money anyway, and that that implies no, no finding
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: a turn. So I walked away feld of like, Okay,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: this is good and we're going to win. It's Munich
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: two point l if the snatcher's defeat from the jaws
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: of victory, isn't it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 13: I mean, you know, I I said on our podcast,
• 35:21
  Speaker 13: you're you're you're going in these world historical terms, I said,
• 35:26
  Speaker 13: if this happens, and that's one of the reasons why
• 35:27
  Speaker 13: I'm so skeptical of it. I think even he should
• 35:30
  Speaker 13: be in a position to understand that this is the
• 35:32
  Speaker 13: end of his administration as an effective functioning political organization.
• 35:39
  Speaker 13: He's pushed all his chips into the center of the table.
• 35:42
  Speaker 13: Here he will he will be mocked by his enemies.
• 35:46
  Speaker 13: He will have disappointed his friends. He will cause the
• 35:49
  Speaker 13: people who are his hardest line andubmost diehard supporters to
• 35:54
  Speaker 13: come up with increasingly preposterous explanations for why this suspension
• 36:00
  Speaker 13: is a victory that clearly it wasn't or it won't be,
• 36:05
  Speaker 13: And all of this happening seems to leave him in
• 36:10
  Speaker 13: a worse rather than a better situation. My colleague Gabe
• 36:14
  Speaker 13: Greenwald would tell you, Look, the war was wildly successful.
• 36:20
  Speaker 13: There is no Iranian nuclear program. Iran will not be
• 36:23
  Speaker 13: able to get a bomb, or create a bomb, or
• 36:25
  Speaker 13: build a bomb, or enrich uranium. Henceforth, its program is rubble.
• 36:30
  Speaker 13: That's more than we could ever have hoped for. And
• 36:33
  Speaker 13: I understand that to be the case. But geopolitically, geo strategically,
• 36:37
  Speaker 13: Iran will have some claim to the idea that it
• 36:40
  Speaker 13: withstood you know, it withstood the Colossus, it withstood Goliath
• 36:47
  Speaker 13: and is now standing. And I don't know what argument
• 36:51
  Speaker 13: there will be against that.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: You're a friend than mine, Noah Rothman. Noah Rothman just
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: made the point last hour that if China watches us
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: fold up like a cheap chair, they will immediately assert
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: control over the South China Sea in much the same
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: way Iran does and then settle for half a loaf.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: My argument to the President on Monday was, and because
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: it's completely sincere from my point of view, this is
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the most important thing he's done up until now. It
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: was the Supreme Court. But if the actually crushes the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Iranian nuclear threat, that's a world historical achievement that goes
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: into the history books. You can hate them all you want.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: But if he de bangs Iran and gets rid of
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: their nuclear program, he won big time. This deal is
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: not that, is it, John? A deal is not that.
• 37:40
  Speaker 13: No, By the way, the other problem that we face
• 37:43
  Speaker 13: is that is that if we start defining the end
• 37:47
  Speaker 13: game of this war as an agreement to reopen the
• 37:51
  Speaker 13: Straits of hor Moves or an agreement to suspend the
• 37:54
  Speaker 13: nuclear program. The problem here is that, say July seventeenth
• 38:02
  Speaker 13: and Israel bombs Tesbola site and the Iranians say, we
• 38:10
  Speaker 13: don't like this, so we're going to close the straight
• 38:13
  Speaker 13: for forty eight hours. What are we going to do then?
• 38:19
  Speaker 13: I mean, it's always it will always be conditional. And
• 38:22
  Speaker 13: I think the weird part here is if you think
• 38:25
  Speaker 13: through the logic of what I just laid out to you,
• 38:28
  Speaker 13: because Hormuz became the card that they played. He kind
• 38:35
  Speaker 13: of has to go for regime change now because if
• 38:41
  Speaker 13: the thing that has to happen is that Hormuz remains
• 38:44
  Speaker 13: open as a matter of course without anybody worrying that
• 38:48
  Speaker 13: it will be closed, the regime that is standing cannot
• 38:52
  Speaker 13: remain standing because it has closed the straight.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: And it now has that as it's trump card, if
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: you will.
• 39:02
  Speaker 13: So he's actually deepened the necessity for a successful military
• 39:09
  Speaker 13: conclusion to the war that has a regime change effect.
• 39:14
  Speaker 13: That's not where this was six weeks ago.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I don't think I a capitulation is necessary now. And
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: by capitulation there are a lot of ways that can come.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: A declaration that the ships can move and they don't
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: fire on them, and we get back the HU. We
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: start digging it up right away. But I want to
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: ask important question John. First of all, some good news
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: minutes ago and meets ago reported that Israel killed the
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: head of the Radawan force and his deputy in Lebanon today.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: So some good news. Why don't they go kill the
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Eiti that if you're Israel the question I posed, and no,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I want to pose it too. If you're Israel, and
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: you see this deal on the table, don't you just say,
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: we're not going to leave this up to we like
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Envoy with Coff and Envoy Kushner very well, but this
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: is our country and we're going to go kill Dahiti.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Don't you do that right now?
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: If they can? I mean, you know, look, once you revealed,
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: once you revealed.
• 40:11
  Speaker 13: The extent of your penetration, as is Reel did with
• 40:14
  Speaker 13: the decapitations on February twenty eighth, once you reveal that
• 40:21
  Speaker 13: countermeasures can be taken, like I maybe they know where
• 40:25
  Speaker 13: he is. Maybe maybe Vahiti is one of their agents.
• 40:28
  Speaker 13: I don't even know, but you know, it could be.
• 40:33
  Speaker 13: We don't know who their agents are. But I do
• 40:35
  Speaker 13: think that the central issue here is he Trump has
• 40:39
  Speaker 13: to like this is a real moment of choosing for him.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: He is feeling some.
• 40:46
  Speaker 13: Internal pressure to find a way out of something that
• 40:53
  Speaker 13: I'm sorry but he started. That is to say, he
• 40:55
  Speaker 13: took what I think was a noble and world historical
• 40:59
  Speaker 13: opportunity to reset the map of the twenty first century.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: I'm glad he did.
• 41:05
  Speaker 13: I think it was a great thing that he did,
• 41:09
  Speaker 13: and he can't go wobbly now. First of all, politically,
• 41:12
  Speaker 13: it makes no sense. He's already weakened. This will weaken
• 41:16
  Speaker 13: him further, both domestically and abroad. And secondly, he will
• 41:23
  Speaker 13: be remembered in the history books to somebody who did
• 41:26
  Speaker 13: not follow through on a great opening military victory to
• 41:32
  Speaker 13: secure the political victory that is the inevitable result of
• 41:35
  Speaker 13: a successful prosecution of a war.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Now, John, I think he takes in a lot of information.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Do you think he's hearing this point of view? Because
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: this point of view is if you fold, you never
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: get the stink off. You're not the art of the
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: deal anymore. You're the art of the collapse. And so
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: you can't fold right now. And fourteen points is folding
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: unless they can't capitulate. I mean that is theoretically possible.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Capitulation you leave them some dignity, but there's a lot more.
• 42:05
  Speaker 13: Right So, he said a couple of minutes ago, he said,
• 42:08
  Speaker 13: he's giving them a week to agree to the terms
• 42:12
  Speaker 13: of the deal, whatever they are, and they may not
• 42:15
  Speaker 13: be Barock Revide's deal points, but he's giving them a week.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 42:19
  Speaker 13: If in the course of that week he does not
• 42:22
  Speaker 13: get the signals and signs that he wants he can
• 42:28
  Speaker 13: move toward forcing them to capitulate in the one advantage
• 42:31
  Speaker 13: of this week or a month, or even six weeks
• 42:34
  Speaker 13: or something like that, of not of leaving the status
• 42:37
  Speaker 13: quo as it is is they're going to have to
• 42:40
  Speaker 13: cap their oil wells. They themselves have hundreds of thousands
• 42:45
  Speaker 13: of barrels of oil sitting on chips in the strait
• 42:48
  Speaker 13: that we are not letting out. So they when you
• 42:52
  Speaker 13: cap an oil well, you are doing yourself immense economic
• 42:57
  Speaker 13: and structural damage. So I don't really know whether you know,
• 43:02
  Speaker 13: A long term play is what he should be making here,
• 43:05
  Speaker 13: But he's gotta like stiff in his spine.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I agree, And I'm gonna come back with John vod
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Rtz and during the break, I'm gonna ask John to
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: put himself in bb netanyah whose place exactly with elections
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: coming up, with his career on the line, and have
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: him speculate what BIB might do regardless of what President
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Trump does. Stay tuned. I'm Hugh Hewitt. Welcome back in America.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: I'm Hugh Hewitt. I'm joined by John pod Horriz. Sean
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: is the longtime editor of Commentary Magazine and he is
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: the host every morning Monday through Friday of the Commentary podcast,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: which is my first listen whenever it posts. John also
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: knows Israelly politics like very few people in America does.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: And I think, John, I think I've heard you say
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: and I agree with it, that the greatest living politician
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: anywhere in the world is bib Netna. And by politician
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: we mean people repeatedly have to win election. He just
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: keeps doing it. He just concluded security cabinet. I mean
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: it went on a long period of time. I think
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: it ended. What do you think he does right now
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: if he thinks Donald Trump's about to make a terrible mistake.
• 44:11
  Speaker 13: So BB's hands have been a little tied in This is.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: Not Iran related.
• 44:20
  Speaker 13: So as the Iran sis started took place, BB turned
• 44:23
  Speaker 13: his attention to his terrorist problem in the north, which
• 44:29
  Speaker 13: is across the Lebanese border. The Iranian proxy has Bolaw,
• 44:34
  Speaker 13: which has been the both a target has been targeting
• 44:37
  Speaker 13: Israel since October seventh, and well before October seventh, with
• 44:42
  Speaker 13: a gigantic cache of ballistic and other kinds of missiles.
• 44:49
  Speaker 13: And of course Israel has struck back with the famously
• 44:52
  Speaker 13: with the beepers, with the walkie talkies, and decided in
• 44:56
  Speaker 13: the course of this war that it was going to
• 44:59
  Speaker 13: see what could do to solve its Hesbola problem once
• 45:03
  Speaker 13: and for all by pushing has Blah at the very
• 45:06
  Speaker 13: least north of this river called the Latani, which is
• 45:10
  Speaker 13: about twenty miles from the Israeli border, clearing out the area,
• 45:14
  Speaker 13: probably reoccupying it for the for the near future, and
• 45:18
  Speaker 13: striking Hesbla targets in their headquarters in Beyrout. And Trump
• 45:24
  Speaker 13: asked him at some point to stop hitting Beirout. It's
• 45:28
  Speaker 13: the weirdest ceasefire ever. Israel and Hesbela have a ceasefire
• 45:34
  Speaker 13: that says that Israel can do whatever it wants in
• 45:37
  Speaker 13: the ceasefire. It can strike, it can hit, it can fire,
• 45:41
  Speaker 13: it can respond. But the clear idea was don't go
• 45:46
  Speaker 13: into Beaute. Don't strike in bey route I'm trying to do.
• 45:51
  Speaker 13: I'm playing, I'm playing seventeen cards. That complicates my life
• 45:56
  Speaker 13: too much. Don't strike Bei route. So today they struck Beirute.
• 46:02
  Speaker 13: The assassination of the head of the Rowan Corps was
• 46:05
  Speaker 13: in Beirut. That says to me that bib now believes
• 46:11
  Speaker 13: whether this is I don't think he would do something.
• 46:13
  Speaker 13: If Trump or Rubio or whatever asked him not to
• 46:17
  Speaker 13: said please don't, it's too.
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: Complicated for me.
• 46:21
  Speaker 13: The gloves now maybe off for BB in Lebanon, and
• 46:25
  Speaker 13: the main thing for him in the election that is
• 46:29
  Speaker 13: coming in October is that he needs to fulfill his
• 46:32
  Speaker 13: promise he had. There are three promises. He was going
• 46:36
  Speaker 13: to eliminate Hamas as a threat. He was going to
• 46:38
  Speaker 13: pacify the northern border so that people living in the
• 46:41
  Speaker 13: north of Israel are not living under this constant threat
• 46:44
  Speaker 13: of missile attack which they've been under, and that his
• 46:50
  Speaker 13: life long or his career long obsession with ending the
• 46:54
  Speaker 13: Iranian nuclear threat would end in success. If he achieves
• 46:57
  Speaker 13: those three aims, or at least substantially achieves those three aims,
• 47:04
  Speaker 13: then his case before the Israeli people is very clear
• 47:07
  Speaker 13: in the coming election, which is I did it. I
• 47:11
  Speaker 13: did what I said I was set out to do.
• 47:12
  Speaker 13: I know you think that I'm partially responsible for October seventh,
• 47:16
  Speaker 13: but I took the bull by the horns. I found
• 47:19
  Speaker 13: this relationship with this American president that has led us
• 47:23
  Speaker 13: to a new kind of authority, centrality power. We are
• 47:29
  Speaker 13: working together in a way that two countries have not
• 47:32
  Speaker 13: worked together since World War Two, and I am the
• 47:35
  Speaker 13: leader to go forward. He's been prime minister for so long.
• 47:39
  Speaker 13: I mean he's been prime minister basically for twenty years
• 47:42
  Speaker 13: with a gap excuse me, for like seventeen years, with
• 47:46
  Speaker 13: the gap of a year and a half somewhere in
• 47:49
  Speaker 13: the middle. One outright and election after not having won
• 47:54
  Speaker 13: an election for many years, and he's got a really
• 47:57
  Speaker 13: serious rival risk chain it was rarely. People are tired
• 48:01
  Speaker 13: of him. He's been there too long in many ways,
• 48:05
  Speaker 13: and he needs to make the case that he delivered
• 48:09
  Speaker 13: what he promised. So he and Trump are they're not
• 48:13
  Speaker 13: across purposes because part of what he promised was this
• 48:15
  Speaker 13: relationship with America that has come to this full flower.
• 48:19
  Speaker 13: And israelis loved Trump and believe Trump is their best
• 48:21
  Speaker 13: friend ever. But he has to make a special plead
• 48:27
  Speaker 13: that he deserves another term at his age after all
• 48:31
  Speaker 13: this time, after the security failures on October seventh meant
• 48:36
  Speaker 13: that you know, they had not been looking in the
• 48:39
  Speaker 13: right way at the threat from Gaza and say, I
• 48:43
  Speaker 13: deserve another chance, or I deserve another term to be
• 48:46
  Speaker 13: the person who can lead us forward, and then I will,
• 48:49
  Speaker 13: then I will retire, but.
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: He's got two or three.
• 48:53
  Speaker 13: He's got a major opposition party that is now formed
• 48:57
  Speaker 13: undernough Tally Bennett, the previous the prime his former deputy
• 49:01
  Speaker 13: who became prime minister. He's made a coalition, a weird
• 49:05
  Speaker 13: coalition with a weird politician. It's basically just the Anti
• 49:09
  Speaker 13: It's BB versus the ANTIBB Party, and BB's the threat
• 49:13
  Speaker 13: to BB is that the ANTIBB Party has enough exhaustion,
• 49:19
  Speaker 13: enough people who don't like him, enough exhaustion and this
• 49:23
  Speaker 13: sense that maybe he didn't finally deliver on all of
• 49:26
  Speaker 13: his promises. That's their hope, that's their aim. So he
• 49:30
  Speaker 13: and he knows this very well. He's under no illusions
• 49:34
  Speaker 13: about what it is. He's not there because of love,
• 49:37
  Speaker 13: and so he has to he has to make good
• 49:40
  Speaker 13: and say, look who do you want? You want these
• 49:42
  Speaker 13: schleppers or do you want me? Look what I've just done.
• 49:46
  Speaker 13: Look how that does changed in space?
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Does he have it in him or do you expect that?
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: He will say to himself, I've got a killer ron
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: more than I need to win this election, more than
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: I need to have Donald Trump love me in Israel,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: and therefore I'm going to blow up this deal the
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: old fashioned way with bombs. You know, I think the
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: United Arab Emirates would would be with him on this.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: We're not going to let the United States enter into
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: a deal. Jd Vance told me on this show. Nation
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: states have to act in their own interest. I don't
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: think it's in Israel's interest to allow that fourteenth point
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: deal to go, do you no?
• 50:23
  Speaker 13: But I don't think that he is going to hit
• 50:25
  Speaker 13: at the fourteen point Deal in order to prevent Trump
• 50:28
  Speaker 13: from signing it.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: That's a bridge too far.
• 50:31
  Speaker 13: He is not going to intervene to save the United
• 50:34
  Speaker 13: States from its own foolishness. That that that I think
• 50:39
  Speaker 13: is a that's a that's would be wishful thinking for hawks,
• 50:44
  Speaker 13: and it would be it would be very foolish for
• 50:46
  Speaker 13: him to do that. If Trump is done, Trump is done,
• 50:50
  Speaker 13: if he's not done, if he can encourage him to
• 50:52
  Speaker 13: continue and say that you know we can win this.
• 50:55
  Speaker 13: You just need to be more you know, you just
• 50:57
  Speaker 13: need to be more stouthearted instead fast and use us
• 51:01
  Speaker 13: however you.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: Think we need to use.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: He could us also to help you, but to help
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: you achieve this resolution.
• 51:09
  Speaker 13: We're here to do whatever is necessary to achieve the
• 51:12
  Speaker 13: resolution where where the United States wins this war with Iran.
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: But I don't think he in the UA will blow
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: it up.
• 51:21
  Speaker 13: First of all, I don't think they have the means
• 51:23
  Speaker 13: or the I don't think they have. They cannot bring
• 51:26
  Speaker 13: this regime down. They cannot reopen the Straits of Hormuz,
• 51:29
  Speaker 13: they cannot secure naval passage. That one thing Israel cannot
• 51:35
  Speaker 13: do is have material effect on the naval, on the
• 51:39
  Speaker 13: shipping in these areas that are one thousand miles away
• 51:42
  Speaker 13: from it. But it can serve as a partner if
• 51:46
  Speaker 13: Trump wants to go and re establish our military supremacy
• 51:53
  Speaker 13: over Iran from the air and on the ground.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Gosh, I hope Prime who's on the thumb with the
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: President making that argument, because I think he is more
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: precisive than anyone else in the United He does not
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: run us the boy. He can be percisive. John Podhortz,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: I appreciate the extra time today. I greatly appreciate the
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: commentary podcast every morning. Keep doing it, do it more,
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: do it longer, good faster. Thank you, John. I'll be
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: right back in America. Stay tuned. Welcome back in America.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: I'm Hugh Hewett. When I get exercised about something having
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: to do with national security, try and get former United
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: States Senator Jim Talent to join me. He's from the
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: board of Directors of the National Reagan Institute on Keeping
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: America Safe and Secure and Against All Evil or something
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: like that. Senator Talent, welcome. I had lunch day with
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Roger as a team. So I really can never remember
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: the name of the Institute's board on which you serve.
• 52:49
  Speaker 18: That's fine, but it's close enough. It's about our purpose. Yeah,
• 52:54
  Speaker 18: keep us safe, justice in the American way, And I
• 52:58
  Speaker 18: love that, and I love Roger. Now tell me, uh,
• 53:01
  Speaker 18: there's a fourteen point plan. There's a ten point plan.
• 53:04
  Speaker 18: What do you make of all this?
• 53:09
  Speaker 19: Look, I understand people concerned about an American president going
• 53:14
  Speaker 19: wobbly because in the last forty seven years, the only
• 53:18
  Speaker 19: two that haven't dealing with iron ore Reagan and uh
• 53:22
  Speaker 19: and and Trump. But there is absolutely nothing about the life,
• 53:26
  Speaker 19: the experience, the statements of the writings of Donald J.
• 53:29
  Speaker 19: Trump to suggest to me that he's going to split
• 53:32
  Speaker 19: a pot when he holds four races and he thinks
• 53:36
  Speaker 19: he holds four races, and I think he does hold
• 53:38
  Speaker 19: four races. So look, I'm willing to be convinced if
• 53:41
  Speaker 19: there is a deal and it's a bad deal, you know,
• 53:44
  Speaker 19: I'll say so. But right now I think he's just
• 53:48
  Speaker 19: maneuvering you. And let's we're worried about him going wobbly.
• 53:53
  Speaker 19: Let's not us go wobbly while while we're worried about him,
• 53:56
  Speaker 19: Let's let's give him some running room and see what happens.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going probably because on Monday he was on
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: the program and he was adamant, no enrichment ever, and
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: we get the highly enriched uranium. They may get some missiles,
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: but not that many, and we need to have inspections,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: and don't worry about the terror proxies. They haven't got
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: any money anyway. That's the summary. And I presented it
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: as this is your greatest achievement ever. And he didn't
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: disagree with that. H does he? You know real estate
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: guys will cut deals if they get seventy five percent
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: of it, Yeah, he said.
• 54:34
  Speaker 19: He says in the book he says, I think very big.
• 54:39
  Speaker 19: I push and push and push and push. And he
• 54:41
  Speaker 19: said sometimes I have to settle for less, but usually
• 54:44
  Speaker 19: I get everything I want. Well, you here's what I
• 54:47
  Speaker 19: would say to you. He knew he went on your program,
• 54:52
  Speaker 19: he knows the kind of questions you're going to ask.
• 54:55
  Speaker 19: He knew what he was going to say, and he
• 54:57
  Speaker 19: knew what he did say, and all that to me,
• 55:00
  Speaker 19: to me, is a very good reason to believe that
• 55:03
  Speaker 19: he's not going to do anything he told you he
• 55:06
  Speaker 19: wasn't going to do. I just like I said, I mean,
• 55:09
  Speaker 19: I'll wait to see, but if I have to choose
• 55:13
  Speaker 19: between trusting how he's handled himself really for the for
• 55:18
  Speaker 19: the first term and now a year and a half
• 55:20
  Speaker 19: into this one, as compared to this reporting, which I
• 55:24
  Speaker 19: don't want to run anybody down, but no, I'm disinclined
• 55:28
  Speaker 19: to believe it. And I'll point out you the plot,
• 55:31
  Speaker 19: the blockade is still in force. The only thing we've
• 55:34
  Speaker 19: done is he's he's.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: He did he suspended project.
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he did.
• 55:43
  Speaker 19: And I kind of think, and I'm not saying I
• 55:45
  Speaker 19: agree with this, I think I disagree with the tactically
• 55:48
  Speaker 19: from what I know, I don't think Trump's ever been
• 55:51
  Speaker 19: that that frantic to clear the straight I mean, I
• 55:55
  Speaker 19: thought it would happen a couple of weeks ago. I
• 55:57
  Speaker 19: think I said so on the show. I think he
• 56:00
  Speaker 19: feels like it hurts the Iranians a lot. Those whole
• 56:03
  Speaker 19: episode is hurting them and hurting other countries more than
• 56:06
  Speaker 19: it's hurting us. I think eventually we will get the
• 56:09
  Speaker 19: straight clear. But again that's another point. If you're trying
• 56:12
  Speaker 19: to signal to the other side of negotiation that they
• 56:16
  Speaker 19: don't have you in a you know, an advice, you
• 56:20
  Speaker 19: want to let them know that that what they're trying
• 56:24
  Speaker 19: is actually working.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: So look, there was always.
• 56:27
  Speaker 19: A possibility that that this episode would end with the
• 56:33
  Speaker 19: regime staggering on. If that happens, we have a lot
• 56:37
  Speaker 19: of other tools to continue putting pressure on them, beginning
• 56:41
  Speaker 19: with the economic ones. We have covert tools. We don't
• 56:44
  Speaker 19: know who's being armed in Iran. We have cyber tools.
• 56:49
  Speaker 19: I've been surprised we haven't seen anything cyber and maybe
• 56:52
  Speaker 19: they've been doing it and we just don't know. We
• 56:54
  Speaker 19: now have a new coalition in the Middle East, we
• 56:57
  Speaker 19: have the UAE. We've shut down their financial transactions. So
• 57:02
  Speaker 19: when the president says he holds all the cards, I
• 57:04
  Speaker 19: think he does. And uh, I don't think we're gonna
• 57:07
  Speaker 19: get a bad deal. I really don't.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: And now Jim One of the things he does do
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: he often has done, is appeared to be negotiation when
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: he's not negotiation, because he loves to be known as
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: someone who offered the deal, right. He likes to be
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: known as someone I tried to make peace with him.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: This could be that, right, Oh sure.
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: And it could.
• 57:29
  Speaker 19: It could have something to do with the pakistanis asking
• 57:32
  Speaker 19: him to do something. Maybe the President is a little
• 57:36
  Speaker 19: is a little upset that not more countries stepped up
• 57:39
  Speaker 19: right away to say, yeah, we're going to send ships.
• 57:42
  Speaker 19: So he's figuring, Okay, I just I won't initiate Operation
• 57:47
  Speaker 19: Project Freedom right now. We'll just keep blockading the Iranians
• 57:51
  Speaker 19: and see who calls me up and says, you got
• 57:53
  Speaker 19: to get this straight clear.
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's so many different variables out there.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: You again, I Senator Talents coming back on the other side.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere. He's the upbeat guy. We've had John Podhortz,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: Nolah Rothman may be the downbeat guys. Jim Talent's the
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: upbeat guy. Stay tuned. Welcome back, America. I'm huge Hewett.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: Inside the Beltway with former Senator Jim Tallan, who sits
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: on the Reagan Institute Board of Directors. Senator, we all
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: have our different red lines. Minor are not regime chain?
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Mine are they commit verbally and in writing, no enrichment. Ever,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: we get the HU and we get an inspections regime
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: that is thorough and it wasn't in the JCPOA of
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: all their facilities and of their missiles, and some kind
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: of a deal on missiles. The President indicated they got
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: to have some defense, and I understand that, but I'm
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: not looking for them to hold elections or give up
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: their money. I don't expect to Syria. What are your
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: red lines?
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: Well, I guess if I had one.
• 59:02
  Speaker 19: I mean, if the President called me up and asked
• 59:04
  Speaker 19: my advice, and I don't have a cell phone number, I.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: Think I would say, mister President.
• 59:10
  Speaker 19: The thing I would be very careful about is giving
• 59:13
  Speaker 19: them sanctions relief unless we get everything that we want,
• 59:18
  Speaker 19: and unless we get it up front, and if there's
• 59:20
  Speaker 19: something we want that they can't perform upfront, no sanctions relief.
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: In other words, I.
• 59:26
  Speaker 19: Don't want Operation Economic Fury. I'm getting the names mixed up.
• 59:31
  Speaker 19: I don't want Operation Economic Fury stopped. Don't let them
• 59:35
  Speaker 19: up off the mat. That's what they in my opinion,
• 59:38
  Speaker 19: what they really want. And no, I mean if we
• 59:42
  Speaker 19: have to walk away without getting everything we want, but
• 59:45
  Speaker 19: we maintain all the other tools, the economic tools, the
• 59:50
  Speaker 19: covert operation, the cyber the Israelis.
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: Who are a tool in this.
• 59:56
  Speaker 19: I mean, at some point we're going to end this, right,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 19: we end it with the straight open and if the
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 19: regime staggers on, we maintain our right to apply all
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 19: other tools of power to continue constraining them and to
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 19: continue trying to get them to collapse.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: So that would really be my red loaning.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: I agree with that, because money keeps them alive, and
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: right now they haven't got any money.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: Now, No, we're not helping them get off the map.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Molser comes to him and says, you're going to lose
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: fifty seats in the House, and you're going to lose
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: six seats in the Senate. Do you think he has
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: to care about that? By the way, I don't think
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: that's doable. I don't think that's possible. And I believe
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: you can actually argue that it're on is a good
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: thing electorally if you stay the course. If you fold,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: it'll kill you.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 19: Yeah, I think the president is very confident that once
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 19: we get past this and oil prices start going down,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 19: with the prospect of them going down further, this will become,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 19: if anything, a political winner.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: Now, the truth of the matter is that this.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 19: Kind of an exercise, barring an unusual circumstance, is not
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 19: going to switch a lot of votes in the fall.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 19: I mean, I think that's going to be about the
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 19: other things that he's doing. The crime, the immigration, the
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 19: energy policy, the fact that the economy is doing well,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 19: I mean, all of that. So I know, I don't
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 19: think this president is number one. I don't think he's
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 19: that scared of the midterms. And I think if there
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 19: is a president who would say this is too important,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 19: I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing now to
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 19: make America great again, I think it's this president, all right.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: So I want to switch just slightly on you. You ran
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: against fairly mainstream Democrats though they were leftists, but they
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: weren't Graham Platner, L. Saed in Michigan, Flannagan and Minnesota.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: What's happening over there? What has happened to the Democratic
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Party that you served with?
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 19: Well, I think the hard left has accumulated enough power
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 19: within the party and I don't you know, I haven't
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 19: traced all the ways that they've been able to do this.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 19: That the Democrats who are more in the center, to
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 19: include incumbents, just don't feel that they can bucket. I
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 19: think that they're buck the trend, buck what they want.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 6: And.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 19: You need to get on some really insightful Democrats are
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 19: political scientists to get the tracing of that, and then
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 19: they're energized on the left. I think it's going to
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 19: take another, probably significant electoral defeat in a presidential year
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 19: for them to moderate. Remember you, we kind of went
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 19: through this in the seventies. They lost three presidential elections
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 19: in a row, and then we saw Dick eb Hard
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 19: and Clinton and the others forget the name of it now.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 19: But they start their more modern thing and they move
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 19: to the center and we get Clinton, and I think
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 19: that so this is a periodic thing with them, and
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 19: I think we're going to have to win another presidential
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 19: election and then I think they'll moderate because otherwise they
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 19: know they're going to be cut off from power.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: Last question I had to do with the Chinese. If
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: Jijenping got on the phone last night with Donald Trump
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: and said, we're not doing this summit unless this war
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: is over. How does Trump react to that?
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 19: I think Trump finds a way to respond by imposing
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 19: extra costs and consequences on the Chinese that are.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: Not directly related to this.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 19: Trump's going to let he he is not going to
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 19: let Jijenping think that he Trump wants this summit more
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 19: than Jon Ping wants it. That's another negotiating axiom. You
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 19: you don't ever let the other guy know what you
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 19: want and how bad you want it. And frankly, I
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 19: don't think Trump cares. I mean, I don't think that
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 19: is a big I he'd probably laugh at it. He'd say,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 19: you think you're going to influence me on this? You
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 19: need this more than I do.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: I'm still looking for some reason to turn around. And
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: you did mention or John pod Ortz maybe Pakistan asked him,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: and he's being nice to Pakistan because he doesn't want
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: a war with India. That president's got a lot of
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: stuff on his desk.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 19: He may look, we don't know what he's hearing from
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 19: within that regime. And we've talked about this in the
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 19: show a little bit.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: I mean the.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 19: Fact that there is a hard liner who is as
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 19: a titular matter in charge of the i RG. Doesn't
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 19: mean that everybody in the i RG isn't cutting deals
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 19: with Pozaskian or some of the others. I mean, that's
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 19: what happens here in others. There are going to be
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 19: factions within the i RG. So we don't know what
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 19: the president is hearing about the possibility that they will
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 19: basically agree.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: To our terms. So I look, I hope there is a.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 19: Possibility that John Potterwortz and others who are so worried
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 19: about this, and I understand why, that their concerns end
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 19: up being vindicated. But remember I listened to I listened
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 19: to your interview with Noah, and you know what's by
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 19: the end of it, Noah was saying, you know these
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 19: reports out there. When I compare that to how trust
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 19: his Trump has handled himself through this whole thing, I'm
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 19: kind of not inclined to believe in the reporting.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: And that's where I am.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: All right, that's very related with Sarah Bedford us to
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: and maybe or maybe I'm I'm talking myself down off
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: of the tree, but I'm still very worried.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 18: That somebody I'm one of these guys invested in the
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 18: best result possible in Iran.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: I have just I'm going back and reread art of
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: the deal.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: You and all right, we're in the same place.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 19: I don't know me.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: We're both happy with the result. Jim Talent. You can
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: follow him on x at Jim Talent and you can
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: stay with me. I'll be right back on the GUTA Show,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: Race America, Hewett. Welcome tour three of today's program. As
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: you begin your commute home, I bring you the one
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: in only Mary Katherine Ham. She is the host of
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: the Getting Hammered podcast. She is the host of the
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: Normally podcast. She's a Fox News contributor. She has guest
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: hosted for me in the past and I hope again
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: in the future. And she's funny. However, we are agreed.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: Graham Plattner is not funny, Mary Catherine. I listened to
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: your Getting Hammered with Vic Mattis this morning, and yesterday
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: I wrote about Graham Platner for Fox News saying this
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: is not funny, this is not a joke. Tell people
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: what you think about.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 20: Well, I think, first of all, I hate being guess
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 20: lit about the idea that Nazi tattoos are bad, like
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 20: that's a we all pretty much agreed on that until
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 20: they had a Democratic Senate nominee who they wanted to
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 20: support who has a Nazi tattoo.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 17: And then they're like, oh, wait, well you have to
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 17: really take it in context.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 8: There is no context.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 17: It's bad.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 20: It is a useful heuristic for somebody being very bad
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 20: and dumb in the extreme if they have something like
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 20: that tattooed on their body.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 17: But it's a neat trick.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 20: They're doing where democrats can see white supremacy everywhere except
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 20: for on the guy with the Nazi tattoo. But look,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 20: you don't have to only use the Nazi tattoo. You
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 20: can ask has this guy lauded Hamas and its tactics
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 20: before another Jewel annihilating group?
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 17: Indeed he has, Like these.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 20: Are there's a lot of things that line up here.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 20: Has he appeared on the podcasts of anti Semitic forces
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 20: in the National Conversation?
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 17: He has?
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 20: He said he's a big fans, So there's several things
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 20: you can put together.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 17: But I would say that like.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 20: The doorway being the Nazi tattoo is like a perfectly
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 20: reasonable way to.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 17: Make your decision about this guy being not good.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: It is, and I want to tell you what I
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: object to the most is when Chris van Holland and
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: other people say, and they don't say it out loud
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: exactly like this, give him a break. He has PTS.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: You know what. A lot of people have PTS and
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: they don't get Nazi tattoos. Moreover, a lot of people
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: without PTS do. Moreover, you remember how we went through
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: that whole phase where everyone in the military was a
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: skinhead and an extremist. Yeah, and it wasn't true. It
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: wasn't true. It slandered everyone, and that was a left
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: wing talking point. Well, the one guy that turned out
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: to have been that was this guy. And I don't
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: think we ought to overlook that.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 20: No, they've been telling us for six seven, eight years, right,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 20: that the military is just crawling with white supremacists an extremists.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 20: But the second we find one with actual evidence, and
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 20: by the way, one of the ways white supremacists identify
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 20: each other is tattoo art guys, that's how they do it.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 20: The second we find an actual person instead of slandering
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 20: this whole group of service people, they can't manage to
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 20: decide that that's a problem.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 17: And yet I think they it's really bad form.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 20: In fact, Jon Favreau when we were when he was
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 20: going back and forth with me about it, implied that
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 20: I was the problem for not being patriotic enough to
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 20: support this brave marine who I was sneering by noticing
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 20: that he has enough to tattoo. And I'm like, sir, no, Like,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 20: I'm not the problem for noticing there can be service
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 20: members who have bad intentions and do bad things. We
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 20: all know that I objected to the mass smearing of everyone.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 20: And now again, once you have a real person who's
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 20: running for Senate for whom there is real evidence, they're like.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 4: Moving on it along.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 17: Mary Catherine question patriotism.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: Once you make the pod Save America Bro hate lists,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: you've really made it. I've been on it for years
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: because i think Ben Roads is a moron, and I've
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: been very explicit and explaining the reasons why the other
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: guys don't bother me. They're just talking entertainment. What are
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: the talking points prenident Obama wants us to put out?
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: But Ben Roads thinks he knows something and he doesn't
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: know anything. But once you've made their list, you've really
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: made it. In the land of conservative commentariat, when you
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: draw the ire of the pod Save America bros. Let
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: me talk a little bit about the other side of
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: that race. It's not just Graham Platner. He wants to
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  Speaker 1: her out maybe the most responsible member of the Senate. Now,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty conservative and Susan Collins and conservative is me.
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  Speaker 1: But she represents Maine in a way very few senators
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  Speaker 1: embody their state. She's so thoroughly Maine. She can't walk
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: down the street without ten people saying hello, and she
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: remembers their name. She's from the county Aroosta, I think
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: it's called Aroostak, the one that's up in near camp
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: at the Canadian border. There's nobody up there, like eight
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: people in the hardware store or family runs. She's as
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: main as they get. And they want this guy who
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: went the Hotchkiss and was at the tune in in
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  Speaker 1: DC to take her out. That's the dumbest move Main
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  Speaker 1: could make.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, No, I think you're right.
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  Speaker 20: I think that she knows that she's always going to
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  Speaker 20: face a fight, right She's in this blue purple state.
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  Speaker 20: She knows that somebody's going to come in at her
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  Speaker 20: every time. So I think she's very prepared, as is
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  Speaker 20: her staff for this idea, and also it just gives
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  Speaker 20: the lie to the critique from many.
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  Speaker 17: Who don't like Trump, or who are left.
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  Speaker 20: Center, or who former conservatives even who say like, oh, well,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 20: Trump is the actual problem and his sort of way
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  Speaker 20: of doing things as the problem.
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  Speaker 17: If you say now that.
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  Speaker 20: Susan Collins is the problem, yeah, perhaps you are just
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  Speaker 20: a Democrat like you. You're just four very far left people,
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  Speaker 20: and I would appreciate you.
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  Speaker 17: Being honest about that and not claiming that.
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  Speaker 20: There's some other form of Republican which is exactly Susan Collins,
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  Speaker 20: which you would be okay with.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I want to go back and ask you
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  Speaker 1: about the PTS I'm coming up on. You work with
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Travis Mannon Foundation. I work with the Fund, so we
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: both deal a lot with veterans who brought back wounds,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: both visible and invisible, from the war. I really hate
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: when people attribute anything that they don't like to PTS,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: because people with PTS actually struggle. They work very hard
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: to make sure it doesn't take over their lives. And
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: I think this is creepy with Chris van Holland saying, oh,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: this guy has had his bad days because of PTS.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like other people making that argument for veterans,
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  Speaker 1: do you have an objection to it?
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  Speaker 20: No, Yes, the effects can be very real when you
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 20: come back from combat.
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  Speaker 17: Of course, he got this while he was in service
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 17: on leave.
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  Speaker 20: I think this is part of the sort of victim
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 20: hierarchy of Democrats, like once you have an identified issue,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 20: they will just blame everything on that, like you know,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 20: the stutter for Biden or dyslexia for Newsom, And it's
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 20: not fair to use that in that way, and it
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 20: actually insults other people who struggle with this. And by
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 20: the way, if you do have struggles and you have
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 20: gone through dark parts of your past, you reckon with
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 20: that and you say like, I got this really awful tattoo,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 20: and you don't lie about the fact that you didn't
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 20: know what it was. Because he's a military history buff.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 20: There are contemporaneous reports from friends that he knew what
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 20: it was, and his own political director, who took off
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 20: from the campaign because of this, was like, guys, he
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 20: knows what it is.
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  Speaker 17: So you have to reckon with the mistakes. If you
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 17: indeed made mistakes.
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  Speaker 20: In a dark period of your life, you should be
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  Speaker 20: able to come back from that. But you have to
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  Speaker 20: actually tell us how you repaired.
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  Speaker 1: No, I also have a theory, which I'll test out
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: on you, because you're very sharp on this stuff. The
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  Speaker 1: governor got out, and she sited pulling, or other people
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: sited pulling. I think she got out because she didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to deal with the left for six months she's
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  Speaker 1: been She's seventy nine years old. She'd be the lowest
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: ranking member of the Senator. Jen Mills is the governor
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  Speaker 1: right now. She's gonna have a great time in Maine
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of her life. May she have a
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: long and productive one. She doesn't want to deal with
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: the crazies. And I think she took a look at
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: this and said, he's raising a bunch of money from
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: the crazy left. I don't want to deal with Act
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: Blue people for the rest of my life. I'm out.
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  Speaker 1: That might make more sense than oh, I can't win.
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  Speaker 17: I think that's a fair theory.
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  Speaker 20: She also got into the race quite a bit later
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  Speaker 20: than Platner and then got out early, so maybe her
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 20: heart just wasn't in this from the beginning. I wouldn't
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 20: blame her being seventy nine and maybe wanting to take.
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  Speaker 17: A pass on this.
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  Speaker 20: And yes, the left is particularly aggressive about people like
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  Speaker 20: her when they want a grand platner in the race instead,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 20: and so that that might not be a pleasant trip
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 20: for her, and she wants to opt out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, broadening the scope, we have in Michigan mister l Sayed,
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  Speaker 1: who's basically a stand in for Hermas, and we have
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota Peggy Flanagan, who's to the left of Tim
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  Speaker 1: Walls by a lot. If you can believe that what's
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: happened to our Democratic friends, because I got lots of
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: Democratic friends that I went to college with. They've been
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: my friends still. They've always been wrong, but they've never
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: been crazy.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 20: I don't know if it's this year, because midterms will
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 20: be challenging for Republicans regardless, but I hope it's this
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 20: year that they have to contend with the fact that
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 20: they are too far left for so so very many people.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 20: I was just looking at numbers for union households and
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 20: how they've gone from a thirty one point advantage for
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 20: Democrats and presidential elections to.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 17: An eight point one over like you know, thirty years.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 20: These are generational losses of people who were steadfast Democratic voters,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 20: and they're going further and further, I mean else, I
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 20: ed was on the trail with Hassan Piker, who is
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 20: fanboyd for hamas many times or Hesbela specifically and its
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  Speaker 20: flag two weeks after an attempted massacre of Jewish school
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 20: children by a HESBLA inspired attacker. Like, the idea that
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 20: that's even happening is crazy, and I would imagine that
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 20: many normal voters will look ascance at it, or I
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 20: would hope.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: Well, last quick question, there's a deal floating around. I
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: hate it. I hate everything to do with the deal.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: We have one minute. I don't think Trump is behind it.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think he'll agree to it. But what do
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: you think?
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  Speaker 20: Yeah, I'm skeptical of all first reports of these things,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 20: so I'll wait for it to shake out a little
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 20: bit more. Also, any deal that's on the table can
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 20: be scuttled very quickly in the age of Trump, Like
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 20: he'll see something that is like allegedly a one page
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 20: deal and then it'll be gone within two days. So
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 20: I would not set your sights it as something that
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 20: is definitely happening.
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  Speaker 1: Just yet from your lips to President Trump's ears, because
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: it's what made the one page that the wall Street
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  Speaker 1: What are the local elections? I'm there're three thousand of them.
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  Speaker 1: Who's standing for what?
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  Speaker 21: There's actually fifty five hundred of them, and these.
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  Speaker 21: So the parliamentary election that brought care Starmer to power
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  Speaker 10: A different animal.
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  Speaker 21: It's you know, city councils that are mayors up for
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  Speaker 21: the governing party that would be Labor. Of course, they
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  Speaker 21: could lose a significant number of seats that they have
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  Speaker 21: the most seats consul seats up for election, more than
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  Speaker 21: twenty one hundred. They could lose a lot, maybe not all,
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  Speaker 21: but you know, maybe fifteen hundred eighteen hundred seats.
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  Speaker 1: And then we remember phil when the Conservatives got wiped
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  Speaker 1: on like two seats. Waves like that do happen in
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  Speaker 1: nationalist parties both Wales and Scotland, the Green Party, Labor, Tory,
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  Speaker 1: Concernative and now Reform. Who's going to emerge. Who's going
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 21: The UK is likely to be the big winner tomorrow.
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  Speaker 21: The leader of Reform UK is Nigel Farage, pretty well
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  Speaker 21: known guy, certainly in the UK but also in the
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  Speaker 21: United States, friend of our president, and he is the
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  Speaker 21: best known for really being the spark plug behind taking
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  Speaker 21: Britain out of the European Union. So he's doing extremely well.
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  Speaker 21: He's likely to come in His party is likely to
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  Speaker 21: come in first. Perhaps with the dominant performance. Labor is
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  Speaker 21: going to get wiped out, probably the Conservatives will go
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  Speaker 21: down even more. And the Green Party, which is I
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  Speaker 21: guess you could say a left party, was pretty much
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  Speaker 21: not single issue but very heavily into the environment, but
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  Speaker 21: has now broadened their focus to book issues as well,
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  Speaker 21: so they are expected to do extremely well. So you
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  Speaker 21: know what's interesting here was that, I mean British politics
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  Speaker 21: is really now poise to be very different than it
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  Speaker 21: had been for shall we say centuries, you know, with
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  Speaker 21: two parties dominating.
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  Speaker 10: I mean you have to think about the United.
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  Speaker 21: States here, with our two dominant parties and pretty much
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  Speaker 21: nobody else.
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  Speaker 10: Would this ever happen here? Who knows? I mean, but
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  Speaker 10: I think it's interesting, Well.
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  Speaker 1: What interests me, phil and I don't know if it
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  Speaker 1: works this way. Reform is new and so they don't
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  Speaker 1: have much of a bench that I have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of backbenchers in parliament to They expect the local elections
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  Speaker 1: to produce local candidates who can run in the next
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  Speaker 1: parliamentary general election, so that reform. They'll probably do a
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  Speaker 1: deal with the Tories to divide up constituencies for first
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  Speaker 1: past the post, but they need candidates. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: they'll get their candidates out of tomorrow?
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  Speaker 10: I'm sure that.
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  Speaker 21: I mean, there's been a lot of kind of high
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  Speaker 21: profile defections from the Tory Party over to reform. If
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  Speaker 21: they do extremely well tomorrow, I think, you know, success
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  Speaker 21: in the parliamentary elections when they're next held and having
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  Speaker 21: the right candidates will follow. I mean, this will be
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  Speaker 21: a major signal that the British public, or at least
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  Speaker 21: a substantial percentage, is backing the ideas.
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  Speaker 10: A reform is about immigration.
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  Speaker 21: It's about the economy, it's about national pride, it's about
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  Speaker 21: we quoted one woman in our lead story today who
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  Speaker 1: like I wanted to be British again. Now. British is
• 1:24:01
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• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: want to be a stuffy Tory from London. It encompasses
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  Speaker 22: And if you're living in Slotland, Wales or the Northern Ireland,
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