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Trump places new conditions on Saudi nuclear deal · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Fox News Alert last hour, President Trump giving an update
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  Speaker 1: on American nuclear innovation, highlighting plans to unleash an energy
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  Speaker 1: renaissance in the United States. This comes as Trump draws
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  Speaker 1: a firm line when it comes to Saudi Arabia's nuclear ambitions.
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  Speaker 2: In order to do it, they have to be a
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  Speaker 2: member of the Abraham Accords, which have been very successful.
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  Speaker 2: But it's time now that they do. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: very important for the future of the Middle East. The
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  Speaker 2: Abraham Accords have been incredibly successful for the countries, as
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  Speaker 2: you know, for the countries in them, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it's very important. So you know, at some point they'll
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  Speaker 2: they'll join and they'll do their civil It's who echo,
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  Speaker 2: it's civil nuclear, But that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: The Abraham Accords is the landmark agreement that normalized relations
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  Speaker 1: between Israel and several Arab nations during President Trump's first term.
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  Speaker 1: The message is clear, no normalization, no nuclear deal. So
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  Speaker 1: joining me now is White House Deputy Chief Staff for
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  Speaker 1: Policy Stephen Miller. Stephen, good to see you on this Friday.
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  Speaker 1: So is it fair to say that's put a pause
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  Speaker 1: on Saudi Arabia's nuclear ambitions or are they prepared to
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  Speaker 1: recognize the Abraham Accords, Well.
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  Speaker 3: That's up to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The President
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  Speaker 3: has been very clear about his priority to establish a
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  Speaker 3: framework for long term sustainable Middle East peace. No American
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  Speaker 3: president in our lifetimes has done more to establish peace
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  Speaker 3: to the Middle East, and President Trump in his first term,
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  Speaker 3: the Abraham Accords was a breakthrough that nobody thought possible.
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  Speaker 3: In order to establish that more hopeful future for the region.
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  Speaker 3: Now here the second term, the President's making clear he's
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  Speaker 3: developed a close relationship, a close partnership with the Kingdom
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  Speaker 3: of Saudi Arabia to advance our shared security interests. But
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  Speaker 3: he's very clear in order to take the relationship to
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  Speaker 3: this next dimension with civilian nuclear energy, there are certain
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  Speaker 3: conditions that have to be met. That is underscores the
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  Speaker 3: fact that President Trump knows how to use all of
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  Speaker 3: America's leverage military, diplomatic, financial, economic, and technology to advance
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  Speaker 3: our national interests.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen any concern within the administration of opening up what
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  Speaker 1: is a pretty exclusive club in embracing nuclear energy nuclear
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  Speaker 1: advancement to Saudi Arabia, who yes, now has been a
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  Speaker 1: great partner to the administration many things, but in the
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  Speaker 1: past has been concerns about Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian connections
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  Speaker 1: to nine to eleven of the presence although not at
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom's level, with the presence of radical Islam inside
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  Speaker 1: of Saudi Arabia, any concerns about opening up nuclear capabilities
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  Speaker 1: to that country.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think two important points on this will. First
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  Speaker 3: is that the United States has developed an ironclad, replicable
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  Speaker 3: system for being able to help nations develop civilian nuclear
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  Speaker 3: capabilities without any risk urgain of that migrating into a
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  Speaker 3: weapons program. So this is tried, tested and proven around
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  Speaker 3: the world. We have the tech that know how, the
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  Speaker 3: capabilities to help nation has developed the civilian infrastructure without
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  Speaker 3: any risk or concern of it ever becoming anything else. Secondly,
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  Speaker 3: with respect to Saudi Arabia, President Trump, just to take
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  Speaker 3: you back in time a little bit. Here Will twenty
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  Speaker 3: seventeen riadd President Trump speaking to the assembled leaders of
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  Speaker 3: the Arab nations, the Middle Eastern Nations, the Muslim nations.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump gave a speech about the future of the
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  Speaker 3: region and the need for the kings, the leaders, the rulers,
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  Speaker 3: the monarchs of the region to use their state power
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  Speaker 3: to crush radical Islam and to be a force for security, stability, moderation, normalization.
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  Speaker 3: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which hosted that event, took
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  Speaker 3: up and heeded the president's call and has spent the
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  Speaker 3: years since developing a model framework for dealing with radical
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  Speaker 3: Islam and violent Islam in a way that other nations
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  Speaker 3: in the region should emulate. So if you look at
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  Speaker 3: them ad at least today, we see radical Islam comes
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  Speaker 3: out of primarily two places. Violent jihadist terrorist Islam comes
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  Speaker 3: out of ungoverned spaces, unstable spaces. Right, So still a
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  Speaker 3: legacy for example, of Bush's war in Iraq, and also
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  Speaker 3: particularly of course Iran, which is the primary funder and
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  Speaker 3: has been for a long time since the Islamic Revolution,
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  Speaker 3: and that of course relates to Iraq because they're funding
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  Speaker 3: the Shea militias in Iraq. Iran has been the primary
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  Speaker 3: funder and financier of Islamic terrorism for generations now, and
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  Speaker 3: of course under Obama that reached New Zennis because he
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  Speaker 3: provided them with the cash lifeline they needed. So when
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  Speaker 3: you think about what President Trump has achieved for the world,
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  Speaker 3: one of the most important things that he's done by
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  Speaker 3: decimating the Iranian regime by degrading their capabilities to such
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  Speaker 3: an astonishing extent, is he has prevented generations what would
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  Speaker 3: have been Iranian terror hegemony not only waged against their allies,
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  Speaker 3: but ultimately, because of their penetration across the West through
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  Speaker 3: years of migration other mechanisms, their ability to launch collateral
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  Speaker 3: attacks in Western societies.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is distinguished from making the point from
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  Speaker 1: twenty years ago when it was today it's ungoverned spaces
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  Speaker 1: in Iran versus twenty years ago when radical jihadism was
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  Speaker 1: more spread throughout the region. And honestly, Stephen and I
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  Speaker 1: find these conversations both intellectual and educational, and I could
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  Speaker 1: go with you for a long time, but I'm already
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  Speaker 1: way over time. But I do want to ask about
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  Speaker 1: this because there has been some concern about immigration and deportations,
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  Speaker 1: and there's been some concern about whether or not those
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  Speaker 1: numbers would go down. We did get numbers for June
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  Speaker 1: and it looked like deportations continue to hold steady and
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  Speaker 1: that the administration looks to continue to deport it numbers
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  Speaker 1: that are expected. What is the approach of the administration
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  Speaker 1: now on the numbers and the expectation for deeper iportations.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, there's a great segue because when you talk
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  Speaker 3: about security against radical Islam and you talk about security
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  Speaker 3: against Jahadism, that all comes down to immigration enforcement. In
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  Speaker 3: other words, we have to make sure that people who
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  Speaker 3: are here are not a threat to us. And so,
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  Speaker 3: in addition to record deportation numbers, something that your audience
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  Speaker 3: may not know is that USCIS has undertaken the largest
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  Speaker 3: ever project of revetting every foreign national who was admitted
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  Speaker 3: in prior years for ties to terrorism, ties to Jahadism,
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  Speaker 3: also ties to drugs, to gangs, to cartels. So it's
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  Speaker 3: not just that they're deporting illegal aliens, it's they're systematically revetting, reinterviewing,
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  Speaker 3: and reassessing the millions of refugees, LPRs, foreign visitors, and
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  Speaker 3: others who came here from the Third World, from the
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  Speaker 3: regions that are known for Islamic terrorism, from the failed
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  Speaker 3: states of the planet. They're revetting, reinterviewing, re analyzing. Just
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  Speaker 3: this week alone, from the last report I got, there
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  Speaker 3: were one thousand immigration benefits that were terminated based on
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  Speaker 3: public safety, national security eligibility grounds that had been previously
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  Speaker 3: issued by another administration. So yes, the ICE members are
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  Speaker 3: climbing up steadily. Financial enforcement, so we're beginning the process
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  Speaker 3: right now of working with our financial institutions under the
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  Speaker 3: President's executive order to cut off illegal alien financing. You
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  Speaker 3: also see we've issued eighty one billion dollars in fines
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  Speaker 3: two welegal aliens for failing to depart, and that is
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  Speaker 3: now going through a civil collections process. But again, in
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  Speaker 3: addition to that, the President understands that the quality, character
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  Speaker 3: and nature of immigration past and present is what spells
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  Speaker 3: what the future quality and character of our nation is.
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  Speaker 3: So there is an unprecedented effort happening beneath the waterline
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  Speaker 3: to look at the tens of millions of people that
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  Speaker 3: were led in previously to see who rightfully belongs here.
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  Speaker 1: So let's change how we do this. Stephen, you know
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  Speaker 1: you can on every once in a while. Let's do this. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Now I would just talk to you off line. Let's
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  Speaker 1: do so, Let's do it on are We'll start booking
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  Speaker 1: you regularly. Let's just do a longer conversation. There's so
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  Speaker 1: many things to dig into here at a deeper level
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  Speaker 1: and follow up questions. Let's just the cable news format,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm telling my producers too, we're gonna go longer.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna do these longer interviews, and you're gonna commit
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  Speaker 1: to it, right Steven.
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  Speaker 3: I commit right now. I am committed.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, done?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, then next time when I get back in about
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  Speaker 1: a week, Steven.
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  Speaker 3: I'll see I look forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, my friend, Okay, see you all rights
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