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K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor | 07-17-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: We love bringing on K team at falland devery Friday.
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  Speaker 1: She's I think she's the smartest political person out there.
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  Speaker 1: K T, Good Friday morning. How are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm terrific.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, you are terrific. So tell me what exactly
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  Speaker 1: the president accomplished last night? And to Norman Joshapiro's point,
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  Speaker 1: if he's been so upset, and I agree with him,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with him, But I do think the Chinese
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  Speaker 1: too medle Well, he had his opportunity in China not
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  Speaker 1: that long ago to walk up to she and say, hey, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: we know what you're doing. Cut it out. So what
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  Speaker 1: did you accomplished last night? And if he is so upset,
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  Speaker 1: why didn't you approach she when he was in China.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm scratching my head. I just don't understand it.
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  Speaker 2: It's disinformation campaign. Look, everybody does this disinformation campaign. So
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  Speaker 2: Russians of Chinese, they understand that the great strength of
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  Speaker 2: America is that we're self governing, a self governing democracy.
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  Speaker 2: But there's also, in many ways their greatest weakness because
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  Speaker 2: it can be people can countries, it isologies can scramble
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  Speaker 2: our brain. And they use China particularly uses TikTok. I'm
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  Speaker 2: much more concerned with China using TikTok to sort of
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  Speaker 2: targeted ads to scramble people's brains. Hate America, love America,
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  Speaker 2: this aspect of America, that aspect of America really than
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  Speaker 2: I am about all the other stuff. But it's a
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  Speaker 2: disinformation campaign the Russians have been doing since the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of the Civiet Union because they're feeling is that the
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  Speaker 2: United States can never be destroyed from without, but it
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  Speaker 2: could be destroyed from within, and so they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: foment division, animosity, doubt, distrust of the whole constitution and
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  Speaker 2: democracy in the electoral system. And when Schijin Thing came
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  Speaker 2: out last week and said, well we need to have
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  Speaker 2: state directed artificial intelligence, is state state? State? State just
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  Speaker 2: means that those are the guys in charge. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's the whole scam of communism, is that will be
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  Speaker 2: the ones in charge, and you'll take our orders, as
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  Speaker 2: opposed to we're going to take orders from you, You're
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  Speaker 2: going to take orders from us. I think to me,
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  Speaker 2: the more important speech that was given last week or
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  Speaker 2: yesterday was Marc Rubios, which was a stirring defense of
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  Speaker 2: democracy and personal integrity and accountability and entrepreneurial spirit. And
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  Speaker 2: it was a condemnation of the whole global leftist movement,
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  Speaker 2: which only seeks to tear down that's driven by envy
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  Speaker 2: and greed and is the word it brings out the
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  Speaker 2: worst angels of men's nature. To paraphrase Lincoln, I'm glad.
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  Speaker 1: You brought that up because I loved Trump. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I Lovema, but I really love Rubio like I love
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  Speaker 1: this guy so much. And I don't like Vans. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like them, okay, And I thought his performance with
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  Speaker 1: Joe Rogan was gross. I'm sick and tired. I hear
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  Speaker 1: the same garbage he put out there two days ago
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  Speaker 1: at Rogan from people like Tucker Crossing and Candice Owens.
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  Speaker 1: You're the vice president states if you're going to go
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  Speaker 1: out there and talk about all this Israeli money being
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  Speaker 1: funneled that made this decision. It wasn't the Israeli money
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  Speaker 1: that made the decision. It was the Iranians. They refused
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  Speaker 1: to cooperate. They don't want to play ball. So when JD.
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  Speaker 1: Ban says, well, I don't take my marching orders from
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  Speaker 1: Tucker Callson, and then he sounds exactly like Tucker Calson.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, enough of this, already, enough of JD. Bands
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  Speaker 1: and Tucker and all these people. Marco Rubio needs to
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  Speaker 1: run and he needs to win. You may build differently,
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  Speaker 1: but I am sick of JD. Vance.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not going to speak about JD. Bansling Way
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  Speaker 2: or the other, but I want to just tell you
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  Speaker 2: an example of something that happened to me years and
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  Speaker 2: years ago. It was when President Obama recognized Cuba and
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  Speaker 2: I was the Fox News international security analyst, had my
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  Speaker 2: own show on Fox what's now called a podcast, it's
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  Speaker 2: called Deaf Country. And so Marco Rubio's office called and
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  Speaker 2: said could I interview him. He wanted to make a
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  Speaker 2: statement on Cuba against what President Obama was doing, and
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  Speaker 2: he wanted to do it in a setting where I
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  Speaker 2: would interview him. So we did it in New York
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  Speaker 2: at the Women's National Republican Club. It's of old, beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: old but a little bit dilapidated building in Midtown now.
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  Speaker 2: But because it was Mark Rubio, he was the Senator,
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  Speaker 2: they had a lot of cameras there, not that huge
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  Speaker 2: an audience, but the whole point was he wanted to
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  Speaker 2: tell the world that he was against what President Obama
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  Speaker 2: was doing with regard to Cuba. So we walked up
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  Speaker 2: the back staircase, the service staircase, took three floors up
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  Speaker 2: to get to the floor that we were going to
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  Speaker 2: be making the speech on if he was going to
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  Speaker 2: be making the speech on, and I was going to
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  Speaker 2: interview him after the speech. And all along the wall,
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  Speaker 2: the very narrow remember old building, narrow staircases, All along
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  Speaker 2: the wall, assembled at attention were all of the Hispanic
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  Speaker 2: workers at that place. They were the maids, they were
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  Speaker 2: the janet, They were the guys who washed the dishes
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  Speaker 2: and cleared the tables. They were all Hispanic. They did
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  Speaker 2: not touch him, they did not say anything, they didn't
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  Speaker 2: try to take a selfie. They just stood at attention
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  Speaker 2: to honor him and to honor what he became. His
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  Speaker 2: mother was a cleaning lady's dad was a birch hunder.
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  Speaker 2: And at that moment, I thought, WHOA this man will
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  Speaker 2: be president someday. Look at the inspiration and hope he
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  Speaker 2: gives to our under the people who came to this country,
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  Speaker 2: fled whatever they fled, came to this country, made something
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  Speaker 2: of themselves. And they look at him and think my
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  Speaker 2: son could do this, my daughter could do this. And
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  Speaker 2: it was just a very telling, poignant moment. And he
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  Speaker 2: stopped along the staircase. You know, we're all crunched up
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  Speaker 2: together a little narrow staircase, and he, you know, shakes
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  Speaker 2: a hand, puts a hand on somebody else's shoulder, and
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  Speaker 2: it was just a moving moment and he handled it
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  Speaker 2: so well. And at that point I knew not only
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  Speaker 2: would Marco ruby Ol be president someday, he should be.
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  Speaker 1: What a great story. Well, that's a great story. Say
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  Speaker 1: who knows when? So you don't have to critique JD. Vans.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to compliment JD. Vans. Who do you
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  Speaker 1: think right now, if in fact they are both going
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  Speaker 1: to run, who do you think right now would be
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  Speaker 1: the more attractive candidate to the Republican voters?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I think we just have to wait and see.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how does Iran work out? I think it
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  Speaker 2: will work out extremely well.
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  Speaker 1: But it's going to work well, hold on, but wait, wait, wait, wait,
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  Speaker 1: if iron works out extremely well? Okay, and Brian kill me.
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  Speaker 1: He told me he thinks Monday could be a big day.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get your your thoughts on that. If iron works
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  Speaker 1: out extremely well. JD gets no credit for that. JD.
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  Speaker 1: I know this for a fact, not a rumor. For
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  Speaker 1: a fact. Somebody in the room told me he was
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  Speaker 1: a pain in the ass the whole way. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: want this conflict with Iran. By the way, this may
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  Speaker 1: be just a coincidence, but when the IRGC last week
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  Speaker 1: called the assassination of President Trump, Marco Rubio, Laurel Loomer, Benchapiro,
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  Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham, guess who wasn't on the list? JD vance.
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  Speaker 1: So if iron works out, and because of JD, he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to know part of this.
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  Speaker 2: I understand the sentiment of that wing of the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I share it. I was very much against
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  Speaker 2: the Iran War, the Iraq War after about the first
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  Speaker 2: three or four years, when it was clear. I went
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  Speaker 2: to Afghanistan in about two thousand and five six and
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  Speaker 2: it was clear to me we were never going to
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  Speaker 2: win this war, that we were in occupying force, that
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  Speaker 2: we had gone about it all the wrong way, and
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  Speaker 2: the idea that we were going to quote build democracy
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  Speaker 2: in a country like that was just a hopeless, hopeless
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  Speaker 2: waste of money, time, blood, and treasure. So I've come
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  Speaker 2: from the wing of being very cautious and skeptical of
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  Speaker 2: foreign engagements in foreign wars. I even wrote this what's
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  Speaker 2: called the Weinberger Principles of War that said, before we
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  Speaker 2: commit American forces ever seas, we should meet up a
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  Speaker 2: certain number of tests and do the American people really
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  Speaker 2: want this? Do we have the objective to win, do
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  Speaker 2: we have the resources to win? Is it in our
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  Speaker 2: vital national interests? But I look at it at the
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  Speaker 2: Iran situation, and there's where I would make the exception.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe JD. DEDs didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I would no, I'll tell you why though. Let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you why.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you why's gonna get nukes?
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  Speaker 1: Right? But besides that, you're right about Iraq, and everybody
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  Speaker 1: else was wrong. Just Jo and Bernard, we're right about that.
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  Speaker 1: I understand kt why you would have been against Iraq
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  Speaker 1: and ran years ago. Okay, My issue with JD is
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  Speaker 1: not only did not care if your on got nukes,
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  Speaker 1: but he was against this because him, like many others,
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  Speaker 1: believe this is Bibe's war. This is not all war.
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  Speaker 1: This is Bibe's war. When I hear that, it makes
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  Speaker 1: my hair stand up, and I'm bold this is where
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  Speaker 1: all this anger you're hearing this morning comes from with JD.
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  Speaker 1: Bantz because you can't boom me, you can't lie to me,
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  Speaker 1: and can happen. I'm not Israel first, I'm America first,
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  Speaker 1: but you bet your butt I'm Israel second. I'm Israel second.
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  Speaker 1: And when you do stuff like that, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: make me angry. So it's not that JD measured all
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  Speaker 1: of the pros and cons and figured out this is good?
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  Speaker 2: Does it?
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  Speaker 1: Bet? He didn't care about the nukes. He didn't want
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  Speaker 1: us to fight Bbe's war. You know that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what is motivation terror and I can't speculate,
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  Speaker 2: but this was not Phoebe's war. Maybe it partially DB's war,
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  Speaker 2: but it's our war because nobody else had the courage
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  Speaker 2: that Donald Trump had to say enough, Iron is not
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  Speaker 2: going to be allowed to have nuclear weapons. We went
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  Speaker 2: into it hoping that it would be more of a
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  Speaker 2: venezuela situation, that maybe we could get rid of the
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  Speaker 2: top tier guys, the second tier guys who say, okay, great,
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  Speaker 2: we had it, Well, we'll change our We're going to
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  Speaker 2: give up the nukes, but we're going to have a
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  Speaker 2: better economy, they will be a normalized nation. But that's
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  Speaker 2: not happened. So what it has done though, I mean
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  Speaker 2: no wars happening. Well you think they're going to happen
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  Speaker 2: because the other guy gets a vote. But what's happened
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  Speaker 2: now is it's given the president in the United States
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to emerge from this, and we will emerge
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  Speaker 2: from the victorious. There's just no question. Is the only
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  Speaker 2: matter of time is what happens next, And we will
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  Speaker 2: emerge from this with expanded Abraham Accords, with an entire
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  Speaker 2: Middle East alliance that is aimed against Iran or against
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  Speaker 2: this version of Iran. And at the same time, we
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  Speaker 2: are going to end up at the end of this
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  Speaker 2: with the United States controlling the world's energy supply. Well,
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  Speaker 2: everybody's focused on I run on a baby's war. Have
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  Speaker 2: you noticed the numbers on American oil lized have gone
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  Speaker 2: up thirty We now are the world's largest or crude
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  Speaker 2: oil exporter, refined that oil exporter, leguified natural gas export.
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  Speaker 2: We and it's not by like two percent seven percent,
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  Speaker 2: it's like twenty thirty percent. We own the world energy supply.
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  Speaker 2: And why does that matter? For the same reasons you
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  Speaker 2: and Bruce Wakeman. We're talking about artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
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  Speaker 2: You need energy to be the leader in that business,
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  Speaker 2: and we have the energy.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think all those things are
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. You know. My fear all along or concern,
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  Speaker 1: Maybe fear is a bit strong. My concern was that
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  Speaker 1: the American public, even Republicans, aren't aware of all this
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to coust Us come November. And I'd
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  Speaker 1: be lying to you if I said to you, I
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  Speaker 1: still don't have those concerns, because I do.
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  Speaker 2: I have those concerns too. And the way I would
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  Speaker 2: fault the administration is they never made the case, and
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  Speaker 2: they should have made the case. It's not just the nukes,
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  Speaker 2: it's the whole ideology. And I really wish the President
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  Speaker 2: had used this opportunity last night to make the case.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I worked for President Reagan and wrote a
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  Speaker 2: lot of President Reagan's defense related speechies, and he always
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  Speaker 2: made the case. His feeling was that you took it
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  Speaker 2: to the American people and then convinced the American people
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  Speaker 2: to see things the way you did. And that was
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  Speaker 2: so effective because even in times of economics, you know,
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  Speaker 2: This is the hardship. In the first several years of
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  Speaker 2: the Reagan administration, he had the support of the American
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  Speaker 2: people to take down the Soviet Union because he made
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  Speaker 2: the case time and time again. And I just wish
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  Speaker 2: President Trump and his team would make the case. Americans
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  Speaker 2: understand it. We're smart people. But if you don't make
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  Speaker 2: the case, then you know you're not started bringing people
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  Speaker 2: into democracy along for the time when things are hard
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  Speaker 2: for them. I don't understand why should I sacrifice? What's
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  Speaker 2: this for? Why do I have to pay all this
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  Speaker 2: money for my gasoline every week? What's it for? Make
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  Speaker 2: the case? And I think the American people get it.
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  Speaker 1: It's aught for me to say this because you know
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  Speaker 1: how much I love you. I mean, you know that,
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  Speaker 1: and how great I think you are. But this may
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  Speaker 1: have been your best performance ever right now, just now,
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  Speaker 1: that's how great you were this morning. And I agreed
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  Speaker 1: with everything you said. Everything you said was right on
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  Speaker 1: the money. Kathy mcmonland does always amazing job. Enjoy the
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  Speaker 1: Hamptons this weekend. We'll do it again next week. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much, thank you, oh bless you. Katie mcfallan
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  Speaker 1: right there on sitting friends in the morning. I know
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  Speaker 1: I made her a little uncomfortable with the jd Van stuff.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't like to critique anybody in the Trump administration, clearly,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought she was fair and she had a
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  Speaker 1: very good job of pointing out the things that we
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  Speaker 1: are doing very very well, and she even had a
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  Speaker 1: critique for the administration.
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