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Nicole Malliotakis | Congresswoman, New York District 11 | 07-08-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, the beautiful congresswoman. We love this girl. She's
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  Speaker 1: so terrific. Staten Island Brooklyn does an amazing job. Nicole
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  Speaker 1: maly o'taka, she's got to run in about nine minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get to her right away. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as President Trump lifted the sanctions on Turkey yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: said nice things about Erdawan and is now considering this
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  Speaker 1: is unbelievable, selling up thirty fives to Turkey. I believe
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  Speaker 1: Nicole had the same response as I did, as bb
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  Speaker 1: Netanyau did, as Billy Mark Levin, Laura Loomer, budget Gable
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  Speaker 1: is going to join me later. We all have the
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  Speaker 1: same response, which is, what in God's name is President
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  Speaker 1: Trump thinking? So let me get to Nicole, who loves
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  Speaker 1: the president as much as I do. But there's been
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  Speaker 1: some head scratching moves coming out of the administration the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of months between Iran and Turkey, to say
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  Speaker 1: the least. So tell the audience the call exactly what
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  Speaker 1: you were thinking when you heard the whole exchange between
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  Speaker 1: Trump and Lan.
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  Speaker 2: Very troubling. I mean those of us who know Erdogan's
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  Speaker 2: history here, I mean, look, Turkey is in the time. However,
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  Speaker 2: under Erdigon's leadership, we have seen them take from very
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  Speaker 2: dangerous positions lining a Turkey with Iran, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if people were called they should google. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: that photograph Erdigon Putin and riisy of Iran from a
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  Speaker 2: number of years ago, just a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 2: actually incredibly disturbing. And this was when after the Russia
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine War even started. In fact, Turkey is the only
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  Speaker 2: NATO ally that is not sanctioned Russia. And they're also
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  Speaker 2: harboring Hamas and calling for the destruction of Israel. And
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  Speaker 2: then we know the longstanding issues of bullying NATO ally
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  Speaker 2: Greece with illegal military overflights above the Greek Islands, the
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  Speaker 2: illegal occupation of PSI, another ally of the United States,
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  Speaker 2: and in the region they've conducted, they've interfered with counter
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  Speaker 2: ISIS operations. So there's real reason for concern here that
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  Speaker 2: the United States could potentially sell our most prestigious technology,
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  Speaker 2: the F thirty five jet, to Turkey, even after they've
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  Speaker 2: also purchased Russian equipment as four hundred and so that
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  Speaker 2: those are our concerns, and that is why we urged
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  Speaker 2: the White House to not make any type of deal
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  Speaker 2: with Erdigan to sell those F thirty five jets.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've done it, so did BB with planing kill
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  Speaker 1: meet on parks yesterday. Doesn't seem to matter President and
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  Speaker 1: Trump is going to do what he wants to do.
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  Speaker 1: So my question to you is why do you think
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  Speaker 1: the President is doing this?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know that he's going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, where there's many members Republican and Democrat who
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  Speaker 2: are urging him not to do this. I think that
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  Speaker 2: the Leadership and Foreign Affairs Committee, both from the Minority
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  Speaker 2: and the Majority, have indicated that this would be problematic,
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  Speaker 2: and there's also that sentiment being shared by the chairman
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  Speaker 2: of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. I know where Secretary
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  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio stands because he's long been an ally of
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  Speaker 2: Greece and Cyprus and has been very strong on this position.
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  Speaker 2: So I believe that there's many people are advising him
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  Speaker 2: not to do this. Perhaps this was posturing because Turkey
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  Speaker 2: was the host nation at the NATO summit, which also
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  Speaker 2: raises another question, why is the only NATO ally that
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  Speaker 2: did not sanction Russia becoming the host of this summit?
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  Speaker 2: Because this has been chosen just in the last year.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that was a mistake to begin with.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that enough of us speaking out against this,
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  Speaker 2: people who the President respects, Admyers and trusts, people like you, Sid,
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  Speaker 2: who are also very close with the president. Hearing those
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  Speaker 2: voices there us speaking out, I think will hopefully prevent
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  Speaker 2: this from happening.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny because people was coaching my son's basketball game
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  Speaker 1: last night and they said, Sid, we think you're afraid
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  Speaker 1: to get too tough on the president because you're afraid
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  Speaker 1: he'll get mad at you. And look, he could, he
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  Speaker 1: could get mad at me because I have been critical
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  Speaker 1: Nicole about Iran. I don't know what the hell we're
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  Speaker 1: doing there. I mean, this morning again the ceasefires over
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  Speaker 1: their bad people. Did he just come to that realization?
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  Speaker 1: Miss saying that for four months? And now you got
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  Speaker 1: this Turkey situation and the way he treats Mom Donnie,
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  Speaker 1: which is a heck of a lot better than he
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  Speaker 1: treats Bibi Nittanyao. So I find myself lately, I find
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  Speaker 1: myself lately criticizing President Trump more than loving them, which
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  Speaker 1: is really different from me. But I'm not afraid, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when it he gets upset with me. Then I got
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  Speaker 1: to live with that. Okay, he's got two years to go.
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  Speaker 1: I want him to go out as the best president ever.
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  Speaker 1: He's been that up to this point. But I gotta
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  Speaker 1: be honest, the last couple of months, I am really confused.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not afraid to criticize President Trump, are you guys?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we know that you've criticized us many times.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, yes, And I love you as you know that.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the thing, This is the thing. No
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  Speaker 2: one is going to agree with somebody one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: of the time. That's the bottom line, right, If your
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  Speaker 2: own we're all our own individual people. And that's why
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  Speaker 2: I tell my constituents, like exactly what our friend Mayor
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  Speaker 2: Ed Koch said, If you agree with me seven out
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  Speaker 2: of twelve times, you should vote for me. If to
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  Speaker 2: agree we twelve out of twelve times, you should seek
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  Speaker 2: a psychiatrist. Nowadays, you know, if you disagree with somebody
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  Speaker 2: one time, they want to primary you out of office. Right,
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  Speaker 2: you have to recognize that, you know, if we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be individuals and we're going to be representing our
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  Speaker 2: constituency and doing what we think is the best for
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  Speaker 2: our constituents and the country that that's going to differ
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  Speaker 2: from district to district. And I always try to explain
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  Speaker 2: that when I meet people who may be upset with
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  Speaker 2: one vote or two votes at at of you know,
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  Speaker 2: a thousand votes. So that's the thing here. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think for the most part, we are happy with
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  Speaker 2: the leadership of President Trump. We're happy, we agree with
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  Speaker 2: them with most of the positions. We've delivered amazing things together.
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  Speaker 2: We secured the border, we're deporting those criminals. We are
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  Speaker 2: making sure that we are delivering tax relief and letting
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  Speaker 2: people keep their money. We're attracting businesses and trillions of
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  Speaker 2: dollars in investment. We delivered on our promises of eliminating
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  Speaker 2: most taxes on tips on overtime seniors, thirty four million
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  Speaker 2: across the country gained the money returned to them that
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  Speaker 2: they paid in social security taxes. So we are doing
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  Speaker 2: good things. Every now and then there's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a hiccup here where we're not going to agree and
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  Speaker 2: we need to be vocal about it. And I think
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  Speaker 2: this is one of those times that this is actually
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  Speaker 2: very important not just for the Middle East, for the
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  Speaker 2: Eastern Mediterranean, but for the United States of America. We
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  Speaker 2: cannot allow thirty five technology, the most superior jet, to
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  Speaker 2: be able to fold in the wrong hands. And knowing
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  Speaker 2: Erdegan's desire to destroy Israel and that they've interfered with
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  Speaker 2: counter ISIS operations in the past, and the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they've aligned themselves with Iran and Russia is all the
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  Speaker 2: reason we need to not allow this to happen. And
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  Speaker 2: I think deep down that the President knows this. I
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  Speaker 2: hope this was just posturing because of the Neto Summit,
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  Speaker 2: but we will continue to be vocal against this.
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  Speaker 1: Final ninety seconds. Again. He came out this morning, President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: He said, Look, this cease fire, it's all over. These
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  Speaker 1: people are scum. You actually use that word. He called
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  Speaker 1: them a scum, He called them Google. You know, all
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  Speaker 1: these wonderful adjectives. What do you guys in Congress stand
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  Speaker 1: on the future of America and Iran?
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think for all of us, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: Iran is a country, a regime that cannot be trusted,
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  Speaker 2: and so you know, we want to always give the
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  Speaker 2: President the benefit of the doubt and allow him the
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  Speaker 2: flexibility to negotiate the best possible deal that would eliminate
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  Speaker 2: Iran's ability to have a nuclear weapon. Obviously, the questions
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  Speaker 2: during this entire process that we've been asking is, how
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  Speaker 2: are we going to make sure that they're complying with
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  Speaker 2: actual inspections and making sure that any sanction relief or
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  Speaker 2: any any unfreezing of assets, that that money's not going
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  Speaker 2: to go to continue acts of terrorism, It's not going
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  Speaker 2: to continue to fund hamas and HESBLA, and that those
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  Speaker 2: are the hard questions. How are you going to ensure
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  Speaker 2: that that's going to happen? And so you know, we
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  Speaker 2: we we've been giving the president flexibility to negotiate. Clearly,
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  Speaker 2: the ceasefire has been very fragile. Now it seems that
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  Speaker 2: it could be broken. But but we'll have to see
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  Speaker 2: what the President does moving forward here and how he's
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  Speaker 2: going to handle it. But those are the questions that
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  Speaker 2: we've been asking as members of Congress. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't had a classified briefing, by the way, and
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  Speaker 2: this is actually something that's problematic, the fact that Congress
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  Speaker 2: has not been given a classified briefing on the details
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  Speaker 2: of the piece the agreement that is in the works.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a deal yet, but there was a framework
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  Speaker 2: in place, and we don't have any details on what
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  Speaker 2: they where they're going. But look, and that's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: We had a briefing last week with Senator Marco Rubio
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  Speaker 2: and wit Cough, but it wasn't classified and therefore it's
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  Speaker 2: the same stuff you read on Twitter. We need to
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  Speaker 2: have more information to make informed decisions here and if
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  Speaker 2: they want us to fund, if they want funding for
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  Speaker 2: the Department of War, they need to give us this
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  Speaker 2: classified briefing. That's all I'll say.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough. Nicole is always amazing job. Glad to hop
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  Speaker 1: to on for a couple of minutes. Continued success. You're
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  Speaker 1: really all great, Nicole, Malo talkis Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Good to be with my friend.
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