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This shows China has BLOOD on its HANDS, says retired US Navy commander · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Senator President Trump also responding to reports that China has
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  Speaker 1: offered a deadly, has offered rather deadly support to Iran.
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  Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal says satellite images from Beijing were
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  Speaker 1: used in Tehran's attack on a U.S. base in Jordan
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  Speaker 1: that killed three American troops. Let's bring in retired Navy
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  Speaker 1: Commander Kirk Lippold. former commanding officer of the USS Cole. Kirk,
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  Speaker 1: good to have you with us this afternoon. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal wrote about this in part. They said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: before Iran carried out its attack that killed three U.S.
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  Speaker 1: troops in July, Tehran acquired high-resolution satellite images of the
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  Speaker 1: base in Jordan from Chinese entities, according to U.S. officials
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  Speaker 1: familiar with the tales of the incident. It is the
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  Speaker 1: clearest evidence so far that Chinese support for Iran during
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  Speaker 1: the war has had lethal consequences for U.S. forces. If,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, that is the case, that would seem to
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  Speaker 1: be serious transgression on China's part.
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  Speaker 2: John, it's more than a transgression. It shows that China
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  Speaker 2: has now got blood on their hands when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to them directly supporting the number one state sponsor of terrorism,
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  Speaker 2: who has killed hundreds of Americans over the years. And
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  Speaker 2: now they are targeting the Americans in Jordan and resulted
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  Speaker 2: in three service member deaths. And we've seen over time
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  Speaker 2: past failed presidents in dealing with Iran that allowed that
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  Speaker 2: threat to metastasize to a point that we are dealing
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  Speaker 2: with a country pursuing nuclear weapons. And here you have China...
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  Speaker 2: part of the resistance, part of the axis of resistance,
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  Speaker 2: working with Iran, targeting U.S. forces. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: you're going to see them continue to do that until
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  Speaker 2: the United States starts drawing a line. And hopefully President
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  Speaker 2: Trump will do that come the 25 September meeting he
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  Speaker 2: has with President Xi.
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  Speaker 1: We shall see. But at the moment, at least in
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, the president seems to be downplaying China's involvement.
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  Speaker 1: This is what he said aboard Air Force One. You
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  Speaker 1: recently reported that Chinese entities may have provided Iranians with
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  Speaker 1: satellite imagery of the air bases in Jordan.
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  Speaker 3: They do what we do. They basically do what we do.
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  Speaker 3: I would say this. I think he's behaved reasonably well,
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  Speaker 3: and we behave reasonably well. You know, when they say
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  Speaker 3: that China spies on us, I say, you're right, and
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  Speaker 3: we spy on them, too.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I mean, obviously, we spy on China and
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  Speaker 1: they spy on us. But providing targeting data to an
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  Speaker 1: enemy of the United States would seem to be a
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  Speaker 1: move that the president should be very concerned about.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he doesn't want to derail the summit that's coming
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  Speaker 1: up at the end of the month.
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  Speaker 2: He may not want to derail it, but the bottom
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  Speaker 2: line is, John, I lived through the consequences of two presidents,
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  Speaker 2: Clinton and Bush, who downplayed the threat of al-Qaeda after
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  Speaker 2: killing 17 of my sailors on USS Cole. And what
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  Speaker 2: was the result? We saw it last week with the
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  Speaker 2: 25th anniversary of the attacks of 9-11. Downplaying China's involvement
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  Speaker 2: in what they are doing for the sake of political
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  Speaker 2: expediency is the wrong signal to be sending. Because when
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  Speaker 2: you look, China is paying attention to how the United
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  Speaker 2: States is dealing with the Strait of Hormuz. the Strait
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  Speaker 2: of Bab al-Mandeb at the southern end of the Red Sea,
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  Speaker 2: what the other allies in the region are doing, because
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  Speaker 2: they look at the militarization of islands throughout the South
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  Speaker 2: China Sea, and that is a signal that we don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be sending. We need to draw the line
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  Speaker 2: with China and tell them, do not engage in this,
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  Speaker 2: do not be involved with this, and you need to
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  Speaker 2: decouple yourself from Iran, because the consequences over time, the
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  Speaker 2: United States is not going to allow this to continue
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  Speaker 2: to grow where China can threaten the world.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I don't know if this has anything to do
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  Speaker 1: with it, but apparently 10 days ago, a Chinese reconnaissance
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  Speaker 1: satellite simply disintegrated in space. But, I mean, to your point,
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  Speaker 1: when the president gets together with Xi at the end
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  Speaker 1: of this month, he's got to have some difficult conversations
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  Speaker 1: with him behind closed doors.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I think he needs to address the issue that's
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  Speaker 2: fairly accurate, both in the news— And through sources that
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  Speaker 2: I've heard, those 400 man-portable anti-aircraft missiles that China has
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  Speaker 2: supposedly given Iran to protect some of their facilities, like
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  Speaker 2: Pickaxe Mountain and others, you have to look at the
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  Speaker 2: fact that they're providing this level of targeting data. You
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  Speaker 2: need to remember that virtually every Iranian drone that flies
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  Speaker 2: today flies with a Chinese-made engine. So at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, when you look at what Russia and
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  Speaker 2: especially China are providing to Iran, it is bogging us
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  Speaker 2: down into the Middle East. And the United States needs
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  Speaker 2: to have some of our allies in the Middle East
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  Speaker 2: step up. The Saudis clearly aren't doing anything when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to taking on the Houthi rebels and doing what
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  Speaker 2: they need. Saudi Arabia needs to bleed for their own
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  Speaker 2: national security interests. And they need to back up the
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  Speaker 2: Yemeni forces and take it on. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, just on the subject of those man pads,
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  Speaker 1: we saw how effective they could be. They took down
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  Speaker 1: that F-15 back in the spring and saw that 60
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  Speaker 1: Minutes piece last night with the WIZO.
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  Speaker 3: Bravo. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: What a moving story he has to tell. Kirk, always
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  Speaker 1: good to catch up with you. Thanks so much. Really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, John.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Sandra.
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