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Mike Lawler | Congressman, New York District 17 | 06-16-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Mister salt, my guy, Mike Lawler, Michael, good morning. How
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Speaker 1: are you?
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Speaker 2: I'm good, said, how are you?
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Speaker 1: I'm not so good, Mike. I'm not so good because
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Speaker 1: I want somebody to explain to me who's not just
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Speaker 1: sucking up the trump. I'm tired of that. If you
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Speaker 1: use the quote he's playing chess, I will literally jump
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Speaker 1: through the phone and break your nose, which I want
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Speaker 1: to do to bread Lander today. Anyway, I really want
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Speaker 1: to punch bad Lander across the face. But somebody needs
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Speaker 1: to explain to me. I just want to punch him
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Speaker 1: right across the face. And I'll get in trouble for
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Speaker 1: saying it, but I don't care. Let me say it again.
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Speaker 1: I want to punch Brad Lander right across the face.
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Speaker 1: Somebody explained to me, other than spending a lot of
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Speaker 1: money getting a lot of people killed everywhere everywhere, Israel
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Speaker 1: bases it on what the hell have we accomplished?
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Speaker 2: So give me a few minutes because it's a little
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Speaker 2: bit complicated.
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Speaker 1: No it's not. No, it's not, but you're gonna make
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Speaker 1: it complicated. Let me, God damn it, tell me then, yes.
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Speaker 2: All right, So everybody needs to take a deep breath,
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Speaker 2: and take a step back. Number one, what was the
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Speaker 2: president's objective? The president's objective was to ensure that Iran
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Speaker 2: does not get a nuclear weapon and that we obliterate
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Speaker 2: their military capabilities.
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Speaker 1: I never heard about it. Hold hold on, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: stop each step of the way. The military capabilities came later.
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Speaker 1: No one gave a rock ass about the Imanian needy
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Speaker 1: when this thing started. No, no, no.
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Speaker 2: When he when he made the decision to go in,
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Speaker 2: it was precisely because they were mass producing ballistic missiles
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Speaker 2: at a very alarming rate.
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Speaker 1: And they still have the uranium. So what what? So wait?
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Speaker 1: They still the uranium? What have we done this?
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Speaker 2: Yes, if you're gonna let me do it?
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, you got it. They still I'm gonna have
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Speaker 1: to do it. They still have the uranium. How how
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Speaker 1: would we stop their nuclear program? They still have the uranium.
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Speaker 1: How have we stopped it?
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Speaker 2: Did? Here's the bottom line? What what has transpired over
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Speaker 2: the last three plus months. Their ballistic missiles program, their
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Speaker 2: drone capacity, their naval fleet, their air defenses have effectively
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Speaker 2: been obliterated. The leadership the Ayatola, the clerics, and the
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Speaker 2: leadership of the IRGC, the top levels are eliminated. They're gone,
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Speaker 2: They're dead like a dog. Okay, when you look at
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Speaker 2: what is left, what has happened over the last you know,
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Speaker 2: two plus months with the blockade. It crippled their economy.
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Speaker 2: They were losing five hundred million dollars a day. They
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Speaker 2: couldn't move the oil. This is the oil trade with
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Speaker 2: China is what has allowed the Iranian regime to pursue
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Speaker 2: all of these things, finance, terrorism, pursued their nuclearian.
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Speaker 1: Did you did you hear that? Did you hear that
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Speaker 1: Cauto gave them? Did you hear that recently Caudo gave
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Speaker 1: them a billion dollars? Bet you knew about and didn't report?
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Speaker 2: Yes, to protect to protect their ships in the Strait
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Speaker 2: of four Moods, which again, this has been the challenge
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Speaker 2: with Cutter from the very beginning. Cutter plays all.
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Speaker 1: Sides and we shot.
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Speaker 2: I understand that is something that I've been talking about
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Speaker 2: for years that Cutter needs to be effectively dealt with,
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Speaker 2: and that is something that I think the administration needs
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Speaker 2: to take a harder line on. At the same token,
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Speaker 2: they have been helpful in some ways with respect to
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Speaker 2: some of the negotiations that took place with respect to Hamas.
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Speaker 2: But that's a sidetrack the bottom line here, Okay, unlike
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Speaker 2: the Obama deal, Unlike what the Biden administration tried to do,
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Speaker 2: where they were easing sanctions, where they were allowing the
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Speaker 2: illicit oil trade to take place, to the tune of
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Speaker 2: hundreds of billions of dollars, where Obama was handing them
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Speaker 2: pallets of fucking cash. Okay, we're not doing that. Number one.
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Speaker 2: Number two, they get nothing if they don't turn over
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Speaker 2: the enrich uranium. They get nothing if they pursue a
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Speaker 2: nuclear weapon. In fact, what they'll get is rising, escalating strikes.
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Speaker 2: So if I were them, this is the first time
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Speaker 2: in forty seven years that they've actually made a somewhat
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Speaker 2: wise decision, which is to say, Okay, our economy is
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Speaker 2: in shambles, our military is effectively gone. Maybe maybe now's
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Speaker 2: a good time to give up the news.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what hold on a second? Hold on? Hold on.
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Speaker 1: They don't care. They don't care about the people who
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Speaker 1: live there, the folks.
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Speaker 2: Of course they don't. Right, So all of them onto power.
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Speaker 1: Oh, they want to hold onto power, and they want money.
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Speaker 1: So what's going to stop them from signing a stupid
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Speaker 1: piece of paper in Switzerland on Friday, deciding them with
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Speaker 1: Obama and carry and activate excuse me, an upper in
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Speaker 1: the same exact way as they've done for forty seven years.
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Speaker 1: I got news for you. They're not scared of us.
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Speaker 1: They're not scared. Do not so the piece of paper
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Speaker 1: you can wipe the rest with it. What does it
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Speaker 1: really mean? What does it really means?
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Speaker 2: Sciatola? If they're not scared, okay, so one to kill them?
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Speaker 1: Great, Well they got at They got a thousand of
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Speaker 1: those guys. What do you think we killed? All the
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Speaker 1: bad guys are dead now. Now they're all dead.
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Speaker 2: So I said, what were you going to do? Continue this?
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Speaker 1: I purpose you know, yeah, yes, keep bombing the hell
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Speaker 1: out of these people, blow everything up, and do what
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Speaker 1: you said you were going to do.
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Speaker 2: The problem here's Brian and I and I've listened to
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Speaker 2: some of my democratic colleagues opine over the last twenty
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Speaker 2: four to forty eight hours. These are the same people
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Speaker 2: that have voted repeatedly over the last three months to
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Speaker 2: order an immediate withdrawal, and now they're complaining that they
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Speaker 2: don't like the terms of the deal. First of all,
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Speaker 2: they haven't seen the deal matter of you matter, am I.
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Speaker 1: It's weird too. Okay, that's weird too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it will come out, it will come out.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: But the bottom the bottom line here is this. You
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Speaker 2: have a regime that has been severely beat back. Okay,
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Speaker 2: their military capacity has been severely diminished. What we wanted
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Speaker 2: out of this ultimately is the nukes. The President will have,
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Speaker 2: you know, sixty or so days to negotiate to get
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Speaker 2: the dust. If they don't give the dust, they get nothing.
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Speaker 2: They get absolutely nothing. Well, other country, We're probably back
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Speaker 2: in a situation where we strike the ever loving ship.
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Speaker 1: They are They are getting money from other places. They
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Speaker 1: don't care. We've been having these negotiations with cough wasted
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Speaker 1: our time.
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Speaker 2: That is true. That look the sanctions regime that we
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Speaker 2: have put in place, and listen, I've been a leader
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Speaker 2: in this. This has been in my time in Congress. Okay,
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Speaker 2: from a foreign affairs standpoint, I've been on the Foreign
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Speaker 2: Affairs Committee, I'm the chair of the Middle East. Have
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Speaker 2: spent an exorbitant amount of time focused on the sanctions
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Speaker 2: regime against the Iran. Okay. It was my bill, the
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Speaker 2: Ship Act, with Marco Rubio. We passed it last Congress
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Speaker 2: to go after the illicit oil trade between China and Iran,
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Speaker 2: precisely to go after their funding. The Biden administration would
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Speaker 2: not enforce it. Janet Yellen came before Congress. I asked her,
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Speaker 2: have you started to enforce implement the Ship Act? She goes,
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Speaker 2: what what act? Is that?
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Speaker 1: That's true?
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Speaker 2: I mean it was embarrassing. Trump came in, He started
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Speaker 2: implementing the terms of the Ship Act, put crippling sanctions
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Speaker 2: on their illicit oil trade with China. The blockade was
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Speaker 2: strategically brilliant because what it did was it cut off
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Speaker 2: their ability to move their oil, and they don't have
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Speaker 2: the storage capacity. This is why the Iranian regime is
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Speaker 2: actually negotiating. This is what people don't seem to grasp.
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Speaker 2: The reason they're negotiating is not because we bomb the
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Speaker 2: crap out of them, not because we killed the Ayatola.
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Speaker 2: Is because we literally crippled their economy by putting this blockade,
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Speaker 2: of their blockade, and they could not move the oil.
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Speaker 1: They've been negotiating. They've been they've been negotiating. They've been
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Speaker 1: negotiating for a long time. Kushner President, never in good faith,
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Speaker 1: never in Oh wait, so you believe they're negotiating in
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Speaker 1: good faith. Maybe I'm just stupid. I don't know, Maybe
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Speaker 1: I'm just stupid.
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Speaker 2: No, what I'm saying to you is, this is the
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Speaker 2: first time that they they have finally looked at they've
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Speaker 2: done nothinguation.
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Speaker 1: They've done nothing.
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, this is the first time they've looked
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Speaker 2: at the situation and said, Okay, this ain't working, and
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Speaker 2: they recognize for the first time that they actually have
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Speaker 2: to make a deal. Now, what does what does that
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Speaker 2: ultimately mean? If they don't give the dust, if they
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Speaker 2: if they hold on to the nuclear material, which they will,
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Speaker 2: if they continue to pursue, maybe.
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Speaker 1: They will do well. But how is this a win
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Speaker 1: if they still have the dust? Right, and it's all
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Speaker 1: based on the nuclear program and the dust they still
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Speaker 1: have it. The bottom line is the negotiate to get
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Speaker 1: the dust.
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Speaker 2: You either sent you either send troops in to get
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Speaker 2: the dust or.
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Speaker 1: No, well send them in, send them in and take
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Speaker 1: the goddamn dust. Negotiating doesn't work with these on.
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Speaker 2: All Congress when half of Congress is voting for an
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Speaker 2: immediate withdrawal by like like like a bunch of stupid
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Speaker 2: people undermining the negotiations, giving the Iranian regime cover well
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Speaker 2: makes it very difficult to do that.
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Speaker 1: No, but these are two different things for arguing here.
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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I know you're on the right side,
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Speaker 1: and half of Congress isn't. But as much as I
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Speaker 1: love Trump, I'm not going to sit here and tell
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Speaker 1: you moving the naval blockade. We just put it back.
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Speaker 1: There was no naval blockade before we started the war. Okay,
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Speaker 1: the straight up hor Moves was open before we started
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Speaker 1: the war. Really, what we've done the last couple of
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Speaker 1: days in this agreement is put things back in place
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Speaker 1: and acquired nothing. They still have the dust. There are
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Speaker 1: still bad guys running the show there. They're just acting
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Speaker 1: as if they're not.
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Speaker 2: No, nobody is under any any illusion here that you're
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Speaker 2: you're all of a sudden, the Iranian people are are
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Speaker 2: now governed by some great uh you know, uh leadership.
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Speaker 2: They're not. But that's ultimately a decision for the Iranian
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Speaker 2: people to make. If they have the capacity and the
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Speaker 2: drive and the willingness to overthrow this regime.
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Speaker 1: We stop it, Please stop it. What's not happening.
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Speaker 2: If you think we're going in, if you think we're
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Speaker 2: sending in troops for for regime change that's never happening.
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Speaker 1: Well, then we then we did nothing because I got
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Speaker 1: news for you. The people can want whatever they want.
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Speaker 1: But last I checked, forty thousand got mowed down in
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Speaker 1: the street. So unless we're going to provide these people
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Speaker 1: with guns, who cares what they want to do? How
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Speaker 1: are they going to do it?
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Speaker 2: Providing them with arms is a different conversation I'm talking about.
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Speaker 2: I'm talking about sending troops in which we're not doing.
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Speaker 1: Okay, then how about with buy of these people with arms.
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Speaker 2: I would have no problem with that in the long term.
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Speaker 2: But that's but that again, that's that is a separate conversation.
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Speaker 2: The issue to me was always about the nuclear material.
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Speaker 2: That is, that is where and unless you are willing
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Speaker 2: to send in troops on, the way you're getting there
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Speaker 2: is through negotiating.
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Speaker 1: I'll send in troops. I don't believe them negotiating anymore.
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Speaker 1: They still have it, so you can't tell me you're right,
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Speaker 1: they still have the dust. Another issue with this, but.
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Speaker 2: Not one penny okay, is going to be released through
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Speaker 2: sanctions relief by the UN.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true. I don't even know
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Speaker 1: if that's true. So that true. How so, because it
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Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me if I found out later that we
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Speaker 1: did give them a couple of bucks to try to
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Speaker 1: coax them to make that to make that deal, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, wouldn't shock me. I mean, we haven't seen
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Speaker 1: the deal is.
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Speaker 2: Not giving them the United States. It is not giving
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Speaker 2: them one penny.
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Speaker 1: Ever, well, depends on who you listen to it it
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Speaker 1: comes to that, and I hope you're right. I think
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Speaker 1: Trump knows better. Here's the other thing I've an issue with.
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Speaker 1: By the way, Lawler explain this one to me, Mam,
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Speaker 1: Donnie's still a nice guy. I heard President Trump this
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Speaker 1: morning at the G seven talk about how nice and
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Speaker 1: smart and easy the Amanians are to deal with. But
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Speaker 1: again this morning, and it's not four consecutive days, he
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Speaker 1: found a way to humiliate Boebe. Now you're gonna tell
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Speaker 1: me that's all part of him playing chess. That's all
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Speaker 1: smart because he wants to throw Israel under the bus
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Speaker 1: to make the rest of the world happy. How am
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Speaker 1: I supposed to be okay with President Trump continuously lately
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Speaker 1: lately bashing Biebe. He's difficult, he's an asshole, he's a
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Speaker 1: pain in the ass And yet Mam Donnie's a great guy.
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Speaker 1: The Iranians are great guys. I never talked badly about
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Speaker 1: he called Urdawan a good guy. How much wass to
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Speaker 1: deal with that?
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Speaker 2: I've been very straightforward in my view that the despots
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Speaker 2: and dictators of the world should never get any cover,
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Speaker 2: from Putin to Erdawan, to she to the ayatola uh.
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Speaker 2: And I don't agree with the president on that. I
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Speaker 2: think you know, when it comes to Zelenski, when it
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Speaker 2: comes to net Yahoo, I look at it very simple.
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Speaker 2: They are fighting for the survival of their country. What
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Speaker 2: people don't seem to grasp in the United States, especially
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Speaker 2: those that are extremely critical of Israel and of Net Yahoo.
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Speaker 2: Bibi said this to me last year, we fight or
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Speaker 2: we die. If they don't fight, if they don't defend themselves,
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Speaker 2: they die. And the many of the countries in the
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Speaker 2: Middle East would be just fine with that, wouldn't care
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Speaker 2: one one ounce if Israel was wiped off the face
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Speaker 2: of the earth. And so from my vantage point, you know,
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Speaker 2: Bib has a responsibility to not only defend his country,
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Speaker 2: but to ensure it's survival. What the President is dealing
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Speaker 2: with right now, obviously is ultimately getting a deal done
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Speaker 2: that results in the nuclear material being removed. Period. That's it.
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Speaker 2: That is the objective, and that is what the focus
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Speaker 2: is this. Obviously you would love for the deal to
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Speaker 2: be done in a way where the material is removed immediately.
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Speaker 2: You're not dealing with rational actors, dealing with dealing with
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Speaker 2: the regime that is held bent on death to amagine. Right.
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Speaker 1: And you're the one who just said negotiating any good faith.
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Speaker 1: I didn't say that.
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Speaker 2: No, what I said to you is they've never negotiated
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Speaker 2: in good faith. For the first time, they are actually
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Speaker 2: sitting at the table dealing. It's the first time you're
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Speaker 2: actually getting a real negotiation on something. You and I
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Speaker 2: may may disagree on some of this, but the fact
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Speaker 2: is that there is one objective to me get the dust.
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Speaker 2: If we don't get the dust you want to get,
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Speaker 2: not only do they not get anything want, then we're
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Speaker 2: going to be dealing with this very expeditiously.
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Speaker 1: See. I love the start of this. I loved Operation
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Speaker 1: Epic Fury. I really did. And I gave President Trump
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Speaker 1: the credit he deserves because the truth is, here's what
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Speaker 1: you got to give Trump credit. President after President said
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Speaker 1: they would do something about it, and he did. So
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Speaker 1: you got to give Trump all the credit in the
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Speaker 1: world for doing that. But there was no exit plan.
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Speaker 1: There was nothing. They really thought this administration, who I love,
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Speaker 1: that Iran was going to crumble and just quit, take
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Speaker 1: their guns and go home. And when they didn't, when
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Speaker 1: they didn't, we didn't have a plan. So to sit
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Speaker 1: down at a table with these lying thieves, these murderers
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Speaker 1: and scumbags who promise us the world while they still
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Speaker 1: have the dust, means nothing. So the intent was great,
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Speaker 1: the start was great.
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Speaker 2: I'll disagree with you.
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Speaker 1: I'll just well, you can't disagree because you don't have
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Speaker 1: the dust. We don't have the dust.
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Speaker 2: I see. Here's the difference. I never thought they were
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Speaker 2: just going to fold this idea, that somehow, this this
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Speaker 2: regime was just going to say, okay, all good.
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Speaker 1: But you think this exit plan is good. You think
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Speaker 1: that we knew this like you did an idea and
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Speaker 1: this is a good exit plan. This is good.
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Speaker 2: It's not. It's not a question of good or bad.
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Speaker 2: It's a question of reality. And in this moment, okay,
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Speaker 2: what the president is dealing with. As I said, he
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Speaker 2: had he had one objective, which was to address their
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Speaker 2: military capacity. That has largely been done. The second objective
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Speaker 2: is to get the dust. Obviously, they decided to shut
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Speaker 2: down the straight of four Moves, and what the President
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Speaker 2: did was took advantage of that and did a blockade
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Speaker 2: on their blockade. And what did it do. It crippled
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Speaker 2: their They were losing five hundred million dollars a day,
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Speaker 2: They have three hundred inflation, They their economy is in
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Speaker 2: complete shambles. And they recognized that if they couldn't move
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Speaker 2: their oil, if they couldn't have a flow of commerce,
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Speaker 2: that it would create devastating consequence. Now, you could have
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Speaker 2: kept this in perpetuity, and maybe, and maybe some people
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Speaker 2: think that's the wisest course of action. But when you
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Speaker 2: have half of Congress acting belligerently under UH, you know,
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Speaker 2: undermining UH these negotiations, undermining these issues, it creates it
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Speaker 2: creates a challenge domestically. And obviously you look at oil prices,
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Speaker 2: that of course is a concern. We don't want oil
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Speaker 2: prices to be high in this country. We want we
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Speaker 2: want UH core inflation to be low. We don't want
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Speaker 2: the American people suffering. But there's a balance of all
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Speaker 2: of these issues and working towards a resolution. The end result.
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Speaker 2: To me, if you get the dust, it is a success.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that is agree how I am.
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Speaker 2: Going to measure this. I agree, you get the dust,
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Speaker 2: it is a success. I agree. If you don't get
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Speaker 2: the dust, right, if they don't give the dust, not
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Speaker 2: only do they get nothing, but you will have to
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Speaker 2: take military action again. And that is and that to
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Speaker 2: me is all things are on the table. But you
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Speaker 2: get you get the dust through negotiation if you are
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Speaker 2: not sending troops in and the reality is we're not
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Speaker 2: sending troops, which.
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Speaker 1: We should have done. But either way, I love you.
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Speaker 1: This was a great conversation. I mean, you're gonna send
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Speaker 1: troops in there to blow up a whole bunch of
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Speaker 1: stuff going there and get the most important thing that
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Speaker 1: you want. That's the bottom line. That's what we should
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Speaker 1: have done. I don't want to keep this thing going
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Speaker 1: for years and years and years and years, and I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna sit blowing up bridges and oil fields going there
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Speaker 1: and get the damn dust. That's what we should have done,
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Speaker 1: because you're not going to give.
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Speaker 2: It to us. I get I get it, But I
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Speaker 2: will say this, when you are talking about sending troops
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Speaker 2: on the ground an Iran. Uh, there is a devastating
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Speaker 2: cost to it.
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Speaker 1: And don't start the warm Then don't start the war.
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Speaker 2: The president made a decision, and don't work.
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Speaker 1: Then don't start the warm. I don't start it because
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Speaker 1: you're not You didn't finish it. They're not going to
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Speaker 1: give you the dust. You can talk to your base
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Speaker 1: turns blue. Negotiating, You're not going to get it, So
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Speaker 1: don't start it. Don't start it.
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Speaker 2: We will see.
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Speaker 1: Are you mad at me?
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Speaker 2: No, I'm not mad at it.
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Speaker 1: That was a pretty good conversation. Now, it was a
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Speaker 1: good conversation. I'm telling you, I'm going to Israel Thursday
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Speaker 1: morning and I'm going to speak with bb at UH
19:38
Speaker 1: the international policy sum up for JNS. Those people ninety
19:41
Speaker 1: n love Trump under fifty. Now the furious, the furious,
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Speaker 1: let don't see anything changing, and now they're in bigger trouble,
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Speaker 1: especially if you Ron gets some money, which I know
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Speaker 1: you said won't happen.
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Speaker 2: I think one of the things that's going to come
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Speaker 2: out of this is you are going to see greater
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Speaker 2: normalization between the Arab states. Uh end Israel. I have
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Speaker 2: met repeatedly with the different ambassadors throughout this conflict, they
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Speaker 2: have been united in wanting to stop a nuclear Iran.
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Speaker 2: They have been united in supporting the decisions made by
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Speaker 2: the United States, and they've been united in defending not
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Speaker 2: just their own territory, but in defending Israel. And so
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Speaker 2: I do think there is a greater hope coming out
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Speaker 2: of this for normalization, greater economic and military cooperation throughout
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Speaker 2: the region. I do believe fundamentally when you look at
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Speaker 2: the end result here, Iran is severely decimated in terms
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Speaker 2: of its military capabilities, and I think ultimately the outstanding
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Speaker 2: issue is getting the dust. And if the president gets
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Speaker 2: the dust, all of these naysayers, all of the people
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Speaker 2: that have been critical, we'll have to eat crow.
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Speaker 1: One hundred percent. No, he gets the dust and forgot
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Speaker 1: about the Nicks. You you make a ticket taper rate
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Speaker 1: for President Trump here in New York, and I'll be
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Speaker 1: right there at the very first float. I just don't
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Speaker 1: see it, but I love you. This was a great conversation,
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Speaker 1: amazing and you're the best, great congressman, great guy, and
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Speaker 1: I just hope you're right. That's all, Mike. I love you,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, I'll talk to you soon. See you Mikey,
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Speaker 1: Mike Lawler right there, the King of Rockland County, mister Salt. Oh,
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Speaker 1: now we should call him mister dust. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: He loves to say that word dust. We're gonna get
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Speaker 1: the dust. He ain't getting dick, he ain't giving us
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Speaker 1: no dust. Maybe angel dust.
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