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John Solomon | Founder of "Just the News" | 06-17-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: John Solomon, how are you, brother?
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  Speaker 2: I'm great, good to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to have you too. So you know, no one
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  Speaker 1: loves and the doorge Trump more than me except for
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  Speaker 1: maybe you. Okay, but I've been critical, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: say this all the time, John Solomon. Even pat Riley
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  Speaker 1: lost the game, even Vince Lombardi lost the game. Just
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  Speaker 1: because I love him and he's the best at the
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  Speaker 1: job probably ever and I want him there now and
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  Speaker 1: forever doesn't mean he's perfect. And this Iran deal is
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  Speaker 1: far from perfect for me, and his treatment of BB
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  Speaker 1: I believe in his attempt to show the world that
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  Speaker 1: he's still in charge, is also a bit rough for me.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think we know everything about the deal yet,
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  Speaker 2: and so I think what we know is fragmentary. And
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  Speaker 2: my training as a journalist is the wait, do we
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  Speaker 2: have all the facts? Because what we have found time
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  Speaker 2: and again in the top administration is what we thought
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  Speaker 2: or what we were told happened when you got down
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  Speaker 2: into the dirt and you found out it wasn't what
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  Speaker 2: we were told. And so there could be a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things going on right now that we haven't considered.
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  Speaker 2: For instance, there's a delay in releasing the text. He's
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  Speaker 2: that because there's an operation to go get the erranium
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  Speaker 2: and show an early good sign of faith. We don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but that's always a possibility. Was something that was on
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  Speaker 2: the table during the discussions. Maybe that's why we haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen the full text yet. I think everyone's going to
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  Speaker 2: have to evaluate it. There is clearly a split inside
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  Speaker 2: the administration. I think people like CIA Director John Ratcliffe
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  Speaker 2: and the Secretary of Warp DECKX that don't like this deal.
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  Speaker 2: And there are people on the other side like JD.
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  Speaker 2: Vance who does.
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  Speaker 1: Like Well, yeah, but JD. Banch likes a deal John,
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  Speaker 1: because let's face it, he never wanted this war in
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  Speaker 1: the first place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that he's been pretty clear that he's
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  Speaker 2: a guy that, after fighting and more, doesn't want any
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  Speaker 2: more long wars. This wasn't a long war. It was
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  Speaker 2: a short war. The initial objective has been a thing
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  Speaker 2: we have kept iron from being close to nuclear weapon
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  Speaker 2: anytime knew. Everything else was always unclear about the objective.
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  Speaker 2: The President's objectives were clear. We weren't doing regime, James.
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  Speaker 2: We were making sure that Iran can't develop a nuclear weapon,
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  Speaker 2: can't attack US effectively with AMID and long range missiles
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  Speaker 2: and don't have the capability to develop significant military manufacturing.
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  Speaker 2: And so we've achieved those objectives. Now we have to
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  Speaker 2: create a scenario to see if what is the deal
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  Speaker 2: and then how do you enforce the deal? Because you
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  Speaker 2: can't trust Iran unless you can verify it. We'll have
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  Speaker 2: to see what those trust and verification modules are. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think the President is naive. I also don't think
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  Speaker 2: the president would have a problem based on my reporting
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  Speaker 2: going back and reattacking them six eight months from now.
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  Speaker 2: If there's non compliant, he means business and so I
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  Speaker 2: think the key for me as a journalist is we
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  Speaker 2: don't know what we don't know yet. We will get
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  Speaker 2: to know that by product. I think we're going to
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  Speaker 2: know more by Froddy and then we'll be able to
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  Speaker 2: evaluate the deal. But I'll be honest, there's a split
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  Speaker 2: in the administration how everybody likes this deal, and that
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  Speaker 2: probably tells us it's not the perfect deal for people
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  Speaker 2: who want the Iran situation to be dealt with forever.
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  Speaker 2: It might be the perfect deal for the next eight
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  Speaker 2: months and then give the president flexibility after the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixth election to go back a second time. But
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  Speaker 2: we got to get the parameters. You know, all these leaks,
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  Speaker 2: we really don't know what's in the deal until we
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  Speaker 2: get the deal, and it looks like we will get
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  Speaker 2: it tomorrow and it will be signed on Friday, so
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  Speaker 2: I think we'll know more on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough talking about knowing more this plot at UFC
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  Speaker 1: two point fifty on Sunday, it is amazing. They've arrested
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  Speaker 1: five people. Now I believe all five people were in
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  Speaker 1: different states. They had guns, they had drones, they had bombs.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to drop explosives from the drones and then
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  Speaker 1: start shooting with snipers at people running in panic, and
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  Speaker 1: they had a very serious plan. It didn't go off,
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  Speaker 1: and I think at cash Puttel is coming under fire
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  Speaker 1: for once again they think he leaked too much about
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  Speaker 1: the investigation. But anyway, more importantly, what do you think
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  Speaker 1: about this whole thing?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first off, just think about that mom who turned
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  Speaker 2: in her own son because she didn't want to see
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  Speaker 2: the mayhem and the death and destruction that could have
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  Speaker 2: occurred from her son's alleged TAIRA plot. She's a hero.
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  Speaker 2: We don't often talk about people like that, but it's
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  Speaker 2: got to be a painful decision to turn in your
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  Speaker 2: son to make sure you saved lives. That's the first part,
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  Speaker 2: because that's the trigger. We had no idea what was
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  Speaker 2: happening until this mom came forward. When you look at it,
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  Speaker 2: there are three components about this that I think are
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  Speaker 2: very important for the future fighting terrorism in America. The
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  Speaker 2: first is, drones are going to be the preferred weaponry
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  Speaker 2: of terrorists going forward, just like to the preferred weaponry
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  Speaker 2: of Ukraine and Russian now in Iran. Two they're cheap
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  Speaker 2: and in expensive. Three they're deadly. And eight months ago,
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  Speaker 2: for the first time, even though it was obvious for
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  Speaker 2: a decade, the drones are going to be a threat
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  Speaker 2: to American public, we created the first ever national counter
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  Speaker 2: terrorism strategy for countering drones, and I think that that's
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  Speaker 2: a good thing. So even if this plot began to unfold,
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  Speaker 2: the capabilities at the White House that would have stopped
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  Speaker 2: some of this attack. The third part is these kids
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  Speaker 2: are very interesting. They're young, they have early Christian upbringing,
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  Speaker 2: they have early some libertarian leanings, and based on the
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  Speaker 2: early things we've learned about them, and yet they're radicalized
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  Speaker 2: to become leftists. They have the anti Semitism in their background.
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  Speaker 2: And what we're seeing now is an effort to recruit
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  Speaker 2: people on both sides, conservative or libertarian and others who
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  Speaker 2: could be quickly weaponized through social media, through influencers. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that this is a threat. We have an
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  Speaker 2: entire generation of young people who are drawn to the
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  Speaker 2: anti Semitic artigans, to the anti American arguments, and this
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  Speaker 2: is a threat that we're going to face for a
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  Speaker 2: decade because of what our education system did to pre
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  Speaker 2: condition our young people to think this way or be
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  Speaker 2: receptive to these arguments. We got to nip antisemitism, of
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  Speaker 2: about nip anti Americanism, of about nip these influencers. You
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  Speaker 2: sell Saint Goyle, but they don't have it and get
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  Speaker 2: a generation reclaim from America because these kids were easily weaponized.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's the scariest part of this blockable.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right, John, is always amazing information. I
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  Speaker 1: keep saying it to you. I think you're incredible. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: what do you do? So thank you for hopping off
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes. Heay, and I'll tell to
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  Speaker 1: you and to get back from Israel. Buddy, Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much.
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  Speaker 2: All right, love your show. Thanks so much, Love you too.
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  Speaker 1: John. It's John Solomon right there. He really is terrific.
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  Speaker 2: Is going on here.