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Donald Drumpf Theatre #243: War and Regime Change While The New/Old President Plays With His Erection · Donald Drumpf Theatre radio show

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  SPEAKER_00: You have tuned into episode 243 of the Donald Trump Theater radio show.
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  This week,
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  war and regime change while the new old president plays with
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  his erection.
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  Bombing and killing can wait on the new flagpoles at the White
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  House on episode 243
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  SPEAKER_03: of the Donald Trump Theater radio show.
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  SPEAKER_03: Stay tuned.
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  It's time again for Donald Drunk Theater No one knows what is
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  up or down or why
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  legal or impeachable Everything is make-believe in Donald Drunk
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  Theater So let's
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  pull the curtain back We are controlling transmission if we
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  wish to make it louder
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  SPEAKER_03: We will bring up the body.
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  SPEAKER_03: We can change the focus to a soft blur.
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  You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance,
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  of things and ideas.
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  SPEAKER_03: You've just crossed over into...
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  SPEAKER_03: I hear it's fake news, but maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think it's fake news, okay?
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, would I do that?
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  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
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  The president of the United States has the authority to do what
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  the president has
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  SPEAKER_03: the authority to do.
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  SPEAKER_03: his authority.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I've declared myself as king.
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  SPEAKER_03: I learned a lot from Richard Nixon.
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  SPEAKER_03: When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
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  SPEAKER_03: I could cause panic much better than even you.
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  SPEAKER_03: I could do much, I would make you look like a minor league player.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, Professor, would you say it's time for everyone to panic?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, I would, Ken.
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  SPEAKER_01: The things that this show has called him,
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  SPEAKER_01: this approach is,
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  SPEAKER_01: I guess it's kind of like we're living in the twilight zone.
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  SPEAKER_03: Rest easy, Americans, if there's one thing we all know.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's that first they come for the undocumented migrants.
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  SPEAKER_03: And as long as nobody speaks out, they stop.
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  Donald Trump floated the possibility of regime change in Iran
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  after an illegal
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  SPEAKER_03: military strike that was not authorized by Congress.
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  Then he claimed there was a ceasefire in the war that he had
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  just entered and that
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  SPEAKER_03: he refused to call a war.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that from now on, it should be called, quote, the 12-day war.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: For days now,
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  the world has been waiting for Donald Trump to decide whether
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  to accept Israel's
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  SPEAKER_03: Evite to go to war with Iran.
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  Now,
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  in the meantime,
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  the question has started a separate war inside his MAGA base.
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  SPEAKER_03: And today,
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  it exploded into a heated debate between the two most likable
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  and charming voices
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  SPEAKER_03: on the right.
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  SPEAKER_03: On the one side is Ted Cruz, who wants war with Iran.
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  And on the other is Tucker Carlson,
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  who thinks Ted Cruz doesn't know shit about Iran.
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  SPEAKER_03: How many people live in Iran, by the way?
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know the population.
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  SPEAKER_03: At all?
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  SPEAKER_03: No, I don't know the population.
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  SPEAKER_03: You don't know the population in the country you seek to topple?
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  SPEAKER_03: How many people living around?
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  SPEAKER_03: 92 million.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh!
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  SPEAKER_03: Damn, Ted Cruz!
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  SPEAKER_03: Are you a pair of $800 Ferragamo boat shoes?
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  SPEAKER_03: Because Tucker Carlson owned you, buddy.
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  SPEAKER_03: And Ted Cruz was like, I know the population.
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  SPEAKER_03: Just give me a second to count, OK?
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's see.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's the Ayatollah.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's one.
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  SPEAKER_03: The Iron Sheik, two.
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  SPEAKER_03: Is Aladdin one?
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_03: No.
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  SPEAKER_03: Why is it relevant whether it's 90 million or 80 million or 100 million?
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  SPEAKER_03: Why is that relevant?
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  SPEAKER_03: Because if you don't know anything about the country...
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  SPEAKER_03: I didn't say I don't know anything about the country.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, what's the ethnic mix of Iran?
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  SPEAKER_03: They are Persians and predominantly Shia.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, no, you don't know anything about Iran.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, I am not the Tucker Carlson expert on Iran.
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  You're a senator who's calling for the overthrow of the
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  government and you don't
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  SPEAKER_03: know anything about the country.
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  SPEAKER_03: No, you don't know anything about the country.
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  SPEAKER_03: I really believe that.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're carrying out military strikes today.
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  SPEAKER_03: You said Israel was.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right, with our help.
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  SPEAKER_03: I said we.
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  SPEAKER_03: Israel is leading them, but we're supporting them.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, you're breaking news here because the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_03: government last night denied,
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  the National Security Council spokesman Alex Pfeiffer denied on
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  behalf of Trump
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  SPEAKER_03: that we were acting on Israel's behalf in any offensive capacity at all.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're not bombing them.
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  SPEAKER_03: Israel's bombing them.
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  SPEAKER_03: You just said we were.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are supporting Israel.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is high stakes.
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  SPEAKER_03: We?
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  SPEAKER_03: I?
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  SPEAKER_03: You?
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  For the party that promised no confusion around pronouns,
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  this is really confusing.
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  SPEAKER_03: The point is,
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  SPEAKER_03: MAGA world is tearing itself apart,
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  SPEAKER_03: and everyone is waiting for Trump to make a decision.
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  SPEAKER_03: And remember,
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  Trump abruptly left the G7 summit so he could rush back to the
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  White House,
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  SPEAKER_03: meet with his national security team in the Situation Room,
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  SPEAKER_03: and decide if he's bringing America into this war.
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  SPEAKER_03: So we were all waiting for the big announcement.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then...
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  SPEAKER_01: Trump said in Truth Social Post,
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  it is my great honor to announce that I will be putting up two
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  beautiful flagpoles
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  SPEAKER_01: on both sides of the White House,
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  SPEAKER_01: North and South Lawns.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, that is definitely an announcement.
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  SPEAKER_03: Not the announcement we were waiting for,
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  SPEAKER_03: but sure,
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  SPEAKER_03: have a couple flagpoles installed at the White House.
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  That'll be something for the groundskeepers to take care of
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  while you're busy in
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  SPEAKER_03: the Situation Room dealing with more important matters.
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  SPEAKER_03: At 11 o'clock, we're lifting the flag.
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  But we're going to lift the pole now,
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  and then they're going to the other side.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, all right.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right, be out there introducing the whole thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, back to the Situation Room.
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  SPEAKER_03: So we'll have one on this side of the building.
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  SPEAKER_03: We'll have one on that side of the building properly placed.
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  SPEAKER_03: These are the best polls anywhere in the country.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're in the world, actually.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're tapered.
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  SPEAKER_03: They have the nice top.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, I don't know if you people are aesthetic.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, they're the fake news.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know about them.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if they are.
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  SPEAKER_03: But it's a very exciting project to me.
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  SPEAKER_03: What's going on here?
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  SPEAKER_03: Feels like someone told him, sir, you're not doing well in the polls.
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  SPEAKER_03: And he was like, I hear you.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm on it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now,
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  SPEAKER_03: personally,
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  I think it's cool that Trump found a new use for the 50-foot
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  pole that Melania
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  SPEAKER_03: refuses to touch him with.
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  SPEAKER_03: He was clearly having a good time.
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  SPEAKER_03: But okay,
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  SPEAKER_03: you came out,
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  SPEAKER_03: you talked about flagpoles,
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  SPEAKER_03: you met the flagpole guys,
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  SPEAKER_03: you made some flagpole-related dick jokes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Time to turn around, go back inside, and stop and or escalate this war.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's not waste any more time.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right.
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  He'd rather be doing home renovation projects than figuring out
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  how to fix all his f*** ups.
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  SPEAKER_03: And honestly, I agree.
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  I think we should encourage him to spend all his time on
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  landscaping projects as
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  SPEAKER_03: opposed to bringing America into another Middle East war.
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  SPEAKER_03: Last week,
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  SPEAKER_03: Israel launched strikes targeting Iran's nuclear facilities,
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  SPEAKER_03: top military figures,
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  SPEAKER_03: and nuclear scientists,
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  SPEAKER_03: but also hitting apartment buildings in Tehran.
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  The strikes are estimated to have killed over 700 people,
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  including 285 civilians so far.
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  In response,
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  Iran launched strikes on Israel,
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  including one missile which hit a hospital.
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  SPEAKER_03: And the country's reported over 20 deaths since the retaliation began.
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  SPEAKER_03: As for Trump,
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  he's been all over the place regarding what America's role in
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  this might be going
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  SPEAKER_03: forward.
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  SPEAKER_01: Does that mean you haven't made a decision yet on what to do?
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  SPEAKER_03: I have ideas as to what to do, but I haven't made a final.
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  SPEAKER_03: I like to make the final decision one second before it's due.
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  SPEAKER_03: Look...
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  SPEAKER_03: It is fine for some decisions to be last minute,
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  SPEAKER_03: what to wear in the morning,
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  SPEAKER_03: what to order at a restaurant.
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  Entering a war is not one of them,
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  and incredibly,
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  his answer got even stupider from there.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was very bad.
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  SPEAKER_03: There was no reason for this to be a war.
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  SPEAKER_03: There was no reason for Russia, Ukraine.
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  SPEAKER_03: A lot of wars there was no reason for.
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  SPEAKER_03: You look right up there,
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know,
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  SPEAKER_03: I see the Declaration of Independence and I say,
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  SPEAKER_03: I wonder if you,
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  SPEAKER_03: you know,
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  the Civil War always seemed to me maybe that could have been
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  solved without losing
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  SPEAKER_03: 600,000 plus people.
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  It is absolute malpractice that the journalists in that room
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  didn't have at least
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  SPEAKER_03: two follow-up questions.
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  SPEAKER_03: One, lay out the deal that would have ended the Civil War sooner.
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  What would your compromise be and how many fifths of a person
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  would it entail?
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  And two,
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  do you actually think the Declaration of Independence ended the
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  Civil War?
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  SPEAKER_03: That bust of Abraham Lincoln staring at the ground.
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  Clearly thinking there were literally four score and seven
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  years between the two events.
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  SPEAKER_03: I feel like I was clear about this.
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  SPEAKER_03: The arguments for US involvement here are not great.
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  SPEAKER_03: Netanyahu has justified the preemptive attacks by saying if not stopped,
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  SPEAKER_03: Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time.
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  But it's worth noting that's something he's been warning of for
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  more than 30 years now.
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  SPEAKER_03: And by next spring, at most by next summer, at current enrichment rates,
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  they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to
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  the final stage.
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  Iran is months away from having a nuclear bomb,
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  it says Netanyahu,
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  in 2012.
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  SPEAKER_03: Seriously, why did we have to bomb Iran now?
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  SPEAKER_03: Iran is so dangerous.
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  SPEAKER_03: Weeks away from having the fissile material
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  SPEAKER_03: for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs.
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  SPEAKER_03: Holy shit, that's why.
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  Iran's only weeks away from having an entire arsenal of nuclear
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  bombs,
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  says Netanyahu.
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  SPEAKER_03: In 2015.
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  SPEAKER_03: No, seriously, I'm not being facetious.
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  SPEAKER_03: I really want to know why we had to bomb Iran now.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna show you Iran's secret nuclear files.
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  SPEAKER_03: Here's the warhead.
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  SPEAKER_03: Here's the bomb.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that's from 2018.
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if Iran is any closer to having a bomb,
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  SPEAKER_03: but it is clear Israel now has the capacity to enrich their drawings.
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  Trump openly contradicted his own intelligence director on
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  camera in front of everyone.
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  SPEAKER_03: What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon?
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  Your intelligence community has said they have no evidence that
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  they are at this point.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, then my intelligence community is wrong.
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  SPEAKER_03: Who in the intelligence community said that?
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  SPEAKER_03: Your director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
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  SPEAKER_03: She's wrong.
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  Of course,
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  a hot war between Israel and Iran could threaten the United
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  States.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's best we stay out of it.
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  Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying Israel took unilateral
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  action against Iran
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  SPEAKER_03: and that the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_03: is not involved in strikes.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're not involved.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's good.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's good.
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  SPEAKER_00: The U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: says it was informed beforehand.
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  SPEAKER_03: Good neighbor policy.
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  SPEAKER_03: We were informed.
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  SPEAKER_03: They let us know.
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  SPEAKER_03: Still not being involved, really.
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  President Trump acknowledged yesterday that he was aware of the
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  Israeli operation,
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  SPEAKER_03: and he gave it a green light.
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  SPEAKER_03: They don't know what they're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_03: We were told we approved.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's still Israel's game.
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  SPEAKER_00: Israel used American equipment during its initial strikes against Iran.
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  SPEAKER_03: What the are we doing?
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  All right,
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  so we knew,
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  and we approved,
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  and we gave them all the shit to do it with.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm confused.
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  SPEAKER_03: Are we involved?
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  SPEAKER_03: I think I need clarification from our parade grand marshal-in-chief.
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  SPEAKER_00: The president made it clear that the United States is not involved.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wanted to make that very clear,
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  SPEAKER_00: but at the same time,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's possible that we could get involved,
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  SPEAKER_00: but we're not involved at this moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: See?
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  SPEAKER_03: We're Switzerland.
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  Perhaps the reason why the president is being cagey about all
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  this is because not
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  SPEAKER_03: all of the MAGA are embracing Netanyahu's bomb fetishes.
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  We cannot be dragged into,
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  inexorably dragged into a war in the Middle East.
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  SPEAKER_03: We put America first, and that means American interests first.
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  SPEAKER_03: Our MAGA base, they do not want the United States to be engaged in this.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know anyone that wakes up and thinks about bombing Iran.
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  SPEAKER_03: Last week, Trump's press secretary said this.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have a message directly from the president,
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  SPEAKER_01: and I quote,
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  based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of
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  negotiations that may or may
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  SPEAKER_01: not take place with Iran in the near future,
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  SPEAKER_01: I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.
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  SPEAKER_03: Saturday, Trump surprised the world, announcing that the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_03: launched strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, were we facing an imminent threat?
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_03: On one hand, Iran's slogan isn't life to America.
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  But it's hard to trust Donald Trump to be the one making these
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  kinds of decisions.
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  It kind of feels like we're all in the back seat while the Uber
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  driver goes on a road rage.
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  SPEAKER_03: I despise Cause it means destruction of this life
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  Warm me his tears to thousands of mothers die when their sons
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  go up to fight and
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  SPEAKER_03: lose their lives.
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  SPEAKER_03: I said, war!
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  Good God, y'all.
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  SPEAKER_03: What is it good for?
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  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely nothing.
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  SPEAKER_03: Say it again.
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  After the bombs were dropped on Sunday,
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  Trump posted this message with a key misspelling.
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  SPEAKER_03: The great B-2 pilots have just landed safely in Missouri.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for a job.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well done.
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  SPEAKER_03: Donacht J. Trump.
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  SPEAKER_03: President of the United States.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Donacht J. Trump.
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  Jay Trumps,
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  we're learning more about the actual bombing,
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  the attack plan.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's codenamed Operation Midnight Hammer.
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  SPEAKER_03: Here's what happened.
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  In order to avoid detection,
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  the plan was carried out by seven B-2 stealth bombers.
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  SPEAKER_03: The planes were carrying 30,000-pound bombs known as bunker busters,
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  SPEAKER_03: officially called mops or massive ordnance penetrators.
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  So America's spies must have truly compelling intelligence
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  indicating that Iran was
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  SPEAKER_03: close to building a nuclear weapon,
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  SPEAKER_03: or not,
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  SPEAKER_03: because America's spies said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon.
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  SPEAKER_03: But if the intelligence wasn't there,
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  SPEAKER_03: how did Trump decide it was time to attack Iran's nuclear program?
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  SPEAKER_03: Well,
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  SPEAKER_03: according to a senior administration official,
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  SPEAKER_03: it was based on a feeling the president had.
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  If you are making a decision that could endanger the lives of
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  American troops and
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  SPEAKER_03: civilians,
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  SPEAKER_03: help me out.
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  SPEAKER_03: Legal scholars, what does that require?
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  All of this has led to questions about whether the Trump team
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  is even listening to
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  SPEAKER_03: its own intelligence experts.
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  SPEAKER_03: But J.D.
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  SPEAKER_03: Vance put that question to rest on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_03: Do you and President Trump trust the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_03: intelligence community and its assessments?
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  Oh,
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  of course we trust our intelligence community,
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  but we also trust our instincts.
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, that puts me at ease.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm glad we bombed a country based on instincts,
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  SPEAKER_03: especially the instincts of Donald Trump and J.D.
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  SPEAKER_03: Vance, two of the weirdest human beings on the planet.
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  SPEAKER_03: And remember, this isn't America's first military industrial rodeo.
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  I've been making jokes about whether or not we should be going
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  to war in the Middle
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  SPEAKER_03: East for 22 years based on no credible intelligence.
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  SPEAKER_03: But I will say this.
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  SPEAKER_03: I will say this.
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  SPEAKER_03: Sure, sure.
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  SPEAKER_03: I will say this about the Bush administration.
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  SPEAKER_03: At least they respected us enough to lie to us.
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  SPEAKER_03: APPARENTLY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DOES NOT GIVE A DAMN WHAT WE THINK.
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  SPEAKER_03: THEY'RE NOT PRESENTING ANY EVIDENCE.
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  SPEAKER_03: JUST COME ON, GUYS.
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  SPEAKER_03: JUST AT LEAST SCARE US A LITTLE.
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  SPEAKER_03: I MISSED THE DAYS WHEN COLIN POWELL WENT TO THE U.N.
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  SECURITY COUNCIL AND PASSIONATELY WAVED A TUBE OF COUNTRY TIME
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  LEMONADE POWDER.
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  Trump should be out there telling us that Iran is hiding 50
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  tons of mustard gas on
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  SPEAKER_03: a turkey farm,
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  SPEAKER_03: or 50 tons of mustard turkey on a gas farm,
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  SPEAKER_03: or human-animal hybrids,
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  SPEAKER_03: or anything.
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  SPEAKER_03: Just sell it with sizzle.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is just lazy.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's got low production values.
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  SPEAKER_03: Put some effort in.
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  SPEAKER_03: No, I'm mad.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is me mad.
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  SPEAKER_03: What's going to happen next?
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  Whatever happens next,
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  you know they're going to make JD Vance go on TV and embarrass
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  himself.
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  Because here's what he said on Sunday,
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  to sell this war that is definitely not a war.
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  SPEAKER_03: Is the United States now at war with Iran?
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  SPEAKER_03: No, we're not at war with Iran, John.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're at war with Iran's nuclear program.
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  SPEAKER_03: Nope, nope.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's not how it works.
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  SPEAKER_03: Honey, I'm not cheating on you with Stacy.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_03: I'm cheating on you with parts of Stacy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Very selective.
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  SPEAKER_03: And yes.
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  SPEAKER_03: And yes, we do call it Operation Midnight Hammer.
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  SPEAKER_03: Then...
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  SPEAKER_03: Then J.D.
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  SPEAKER_03: sauntered over to press the meet with Kristen Welker.
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  What do you say to members of Congress who say it was
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  unconstitutional for the
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  SPEAKER_03: president to act unilaterally?
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  SPEAKER_03: First of all,
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  the president has clear authority to act to prevent the
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  proliferation of weapons of
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  SPEAKER_03: mass destruction,
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  SPEAKER_03: and the worst weapon of mass destruction of them all is nuclear.
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  When did President Trump exactly make this decision,
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  and did he coordinate with Israel?
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  SPEAKER_03: The president,
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  SPEAKER_03: honestly,
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  SPEAKER_03: Kristen,
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  I don't know that any of us knew exactly when the president
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  made the decision.
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  SPEAKER_03: Kristen, he doesn't tell a .
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  He follows his instincts,
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  and I follow my instinct not to ask him what he's up to.
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  SPEAKER_03: Don't worry, J.D.
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  SPEAKER_03: Vance would like to assure you that this time,
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  SPEAKER_03: things will be different from previous conflicts in the Middle East.
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  SPEAKER_03: I certainly empathize
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  with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign
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  entanglements in the Middle East.
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  I understand the concern,
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  but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Back then we had dumb presidents.
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  Now we have a president who's spelled his own name with a K.
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  Donald J.
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  Trump.
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  SPEAKER_03: He... He is smarked.
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  SPEAKER_03: You'll remember, back in 2003, the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_03: went into Iraq with the specific goal of toppling Saddam Hussein.
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  SPEAKER_03: This time, Vance promises that's not the idea.
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  SPEAKER_03: Does the United States support Israel killing Iran's leader?
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, look, that's up to the Israelis.
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  SPEAKER_03: But our view has been very clear that we don't want a regime change.
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  SPEAKER_03: We must abandon the failed policy of nation building and regime change.
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  The job of the United States military is not to wage endless
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  regime change wars.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're not looking for regime change.
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  SPEAKER_03: We've learned that lesson a long time ago.
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  SPEAKER_03: We do not seek regime change.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_03: We do not seek regime change.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're not looking, by the way, for regime change.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_03: We're not looking for regime change.
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  SPEAKER_03: I just want to make that clear.
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  SPEAKER_03: And now his team is trying to have it both ways.
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  They're trying to defend the bombing while also claiming
• 21:29
  they're not angling for regime change.
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  SPEAKER_03: This mission was not and has not been about regime change.
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  SPEAKER_03: When you heard the president's team,
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_03: they made it clear this is not about regime change,
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  that I'm sure the president listens to them and respects their
• 21:41
  opinion and won't
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_03: immediately contradict them a few hours later.
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  SPEAKER_03: President Trump is floating the idea of regime change in Iran.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_03: He wrote,
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  SPEAKER_03: It's not politically correct to use the term regime change,
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  SPEAKER_03: but if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran great again...
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_03: Why wouldn't there be a regime change, miga?
• 22:01
  Only Trump could take this moment to claim it's politically
• 22:04
  incorrect to say regime change.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like,
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  the problem is woke culture and not him dropping bombs without
• 22:10
  even telling
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  SPEAKER_03: Congress about it.
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  We used to be able to say regime change,
• 22:13
  but now they make us say leadership fluidity.
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  SPEAKER_03: It is very sad.
• 22:18
  The public was overwhelmingly opposed to any military
• 22:21
  intervention in the Middle
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_03: East,
• 22:22
  which is why Trump is sending mixed messages and trying to have
• 22:24
  it both ways.
• 22:25
  He's trying everything to keep the pro-war and anti-war sides
• 22:28
  of his MAGA coalition intact.
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  SPEAKER_03: Today, Iran launched missiles against two U.S.
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  SPEAKER_03: bases, including one in Qatar.
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  But both Qatar and the Trump administration were made aware of
• 22:39
  the Iranian attack ahead of time.
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  SPEAKER_03: And so, thankfully, no casualties were reported.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hopefully, that'll be the end.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_03: But who knows,
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_03: because immediately after the strikes on Saturday,
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_03: Iran warned there would be everlasting consequences.
• 22:54
  We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long
• 22:58
  and so hard that
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_03: they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
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  Thanks this week for the songs from Edwin Starr,
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  Vince Vance and the Valiants,
• 23:20
  and Boston.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for the clips and excerpts from Seth Meyers,
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  SPEAKER_03: Jordan Klepper,
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  SPEAKER_03: Tucker Carlson,
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  SPEAKER_03: Ted Cruz,
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  SPEAKER_03: John Oliver,
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  SPEAKER_03: Caitlin Collins,
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  SPEAKER_01: Benjamin Netanyahu,
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: John Stewart,
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  SPEAKER_01: Jacob Soberoff,
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  SPEAKER_01: Steve Bannon,
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  SPEAKER_01: Marjorie Taylor Greene,
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  SPEAKER_01: Stephen Colbert,
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  SPEAKER_01: Caroline Levitt, J.D.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: Vance, and Kristen Welker.
• 23:40
  Tune in again next week for episode 244 of the Donald Trump
• 23:44
  Theater radio show if
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: we're not sent off to a concentration camp in El Salvador first.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is a madhouse.
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  SPEAKER_02: Feels like we ain't alone.
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  SPEAKER_02: I read them and look at the moon and star.
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  So you will come to know When the bottle hits the bone So you
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  will come to know
• 26:14
  When the bottle hits the bone When the bottle hits the bone