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Mark interviews columnist Liz Peek. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now more Marximone on seven ten R.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're looking for Liz Peak.
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  Speaker 3: Hey.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, a lot of people have asked about
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  Speaker 2: Michael Goodwin. You know, he's been under the weather for
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  Speaker 2: a while, but I spoke to him late last week.
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  Speaker 2: He's feeling much better and should be back with us
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  Speaker 2: on the show probably next week. Well, we'll hope next week.
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  Speaker 2: He'll let us know when he's ready to come back.
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  Speaker 2: It's taking some time off to but we'll have Michael
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  Speaker 2: Goodwin back on the show soon. So that's been tough
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  Speaker 2: on Democrats. You know, first they Maduro, they all had
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  Speaker 2: to go out and buy Venezuela flags. They already had
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  Speaker 2: their Ukrainian flags. This is it's just tough on them.
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  Speaker 2: Now they got to all run around buying Iranian flags
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  Speaker 2: and it's not easy on them. And everybody is stunned
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  Speaker 2: at some of the Democrats in their reaction. Adam Schiff
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  Speaker 2: on the Sunday Shows when asked should we have taken
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  Speaker 2: out Komani said no, a very harsh reaction. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get back to that. Well, we got Liz Peak,
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  Speaker 2: oh right, b the brilliant columnist list Peak of course,
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  Speaker 2: you see her all over television, and you should check
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  Speaker 2: out her site, your website lizpeak dot com if you
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  Speaker 2: want great news and analysis and sign up there because
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  Speaker 2: you'll get the daily briefing. It's really good stuff. Go
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  Speaker 2: to lizpeak dot com, lizpeak dot com, Lizpeak. How you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm terrific. Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, great to have you. You know, if you watch
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  Speaker 2: all the foreign television Europe, everywhere, there just celebrating the
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  Speaker 2: liberation of Iran, the death of Colmany. But if you
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  Speaker 2: put on American television, you get the opposite of what
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  Speaker 2: is going on here.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I've been thinking about this, Mark and I
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  Speaker 3: think party partly, the wing of the Democratic Party that
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  Speaker 3: has exposed exposed itself as being somewhat anti Semitic, is
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  Speaker 3: sort of taking it one step further.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that the United States partnered.
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  Speaker 3: With Israel is viewed as an offensive thing that we've done,
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  Speaker 3: and the fact that we attacked a Muslim nation, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just sort of doubles down on that. I guess it's
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  Speaker 3: hard to figure. I mean, I think, look, Trumps arrangement
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  Speaker 3: syndrome is alive and well and it isn't going anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: And the fact that this president did this, of course
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  Speaker 3: makes it almost immediately a knee jerk negative.
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  Speaker 1: Reaction from Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: But you also see that to some degree on the
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  Speaker 3: far right as well, with Candice Owens and Tucker Carlson
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  Speaker 3: and these people condemning this action in part because again
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  Speaker 3: of our ties to Israel. I mean, it's really it's
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  Speaker 3: pretty horrifying. And I love these Democrats who are saying
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  Speaker 3: it's an I legal war.
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  Speaker 1: They have no plan.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that the Trump administration gave a lot
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  Speaker 3: of thought to sharing their plans with the likes of
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  Speaker 3: Chris Murphy or Elon Omar No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: I mean so, I think there's a lot to be
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  Speaker 3: said here. I must say, I don't know if you
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  Speaker 3: saw Pete Hegseat this morning at his breast conference and
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  Speaker 3: then also the general in charge of I think Sentcom.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they just did a fabulous job of laying
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  Speaker 3: out not just the rationale, but kind of what was
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  Speaker 3: going on.
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  Speaker 1: I was on Maria Barbaromo's show this morning.
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  Speaker 3: We had Jack Keenan who said, look, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: forty eight hours the missiles coming out of Iran have
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  Speaker 3: been knocked down to fifty percent of the volume that
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  Speaker 3: they were. The navy has been crushed, not eliminated, but
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  Speaker 3: certainly very badly hurt. There has just been an enormous
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  Speaker 3: amount going on. And the Iranians amazingly thought that they
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  Speaker 3: could attack the Gulf Arab nations with impunity, and what
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  Speaker 3: they've done is now solidify the entire region in opposition
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  Speaker 3: to them. It's a pretty fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: Thing to do.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's unbelievably gutsy of this president because guess what,
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  Speaker 3: Politically this is really dicey. When oil prices are up
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  Speaker 3: almost thirty percent from the beginning of the year, that
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  Speaker 3: is a high cost to Americans and it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a high political cost to Republicans and to this president.
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  Speaker 3: But you just have to say, I give them enormous
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  Speaker 3: credit for taking the war to where it should be
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  Speaker 3: in the Middle East, which is Iran. And we've been
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  Speaker 3: dancing around this for decades, allowing these truly truly evil
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  Speaker 3: people who not just slaughter their own citizens happily, but
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  Speaker 3: also obviously have attacked Americans repeatedly over the years. We
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  Speaker 3: have finally taken it to them, and I think that's great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I guess you could you could fairly
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  Speaker 2: say that the Ayatola was the closest thing to Hitler
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  Speaker 2: on Earth today, killing his own people, and a month
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  Speaker 2: recently wanting to wipe out Israel and the Jews, just horrible, horrible,
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  Speaker 2: the main sponsor of terrorism in the world. And then
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  Speaker 2: explain to us the obituaries that we're you're right about
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  Speaker 2: this at lispeak dot com, the obituas in the New
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  Speaker 2: York Times, in Washington Post.
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  Speaker 1: It's staggering.
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  Speaker 3: You know, how Kamanie really had poetry in his heart.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I mean, the concept that this fellow
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  Speaker 3: was anything but an evil tyrant is so offensive. Mark,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, every now and then you
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  Speaker 3: just kind of think, well, these people have just lost
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  Speaker 3: their minds, and I think a little bit that's the case.
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  Speaker 3: I just cannot imagine a reporter sitting down to write
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  Speaker 3: an oh bit about one of the most hated people
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  Speaker 3: on the face of the earth. I mean, it really
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  Speaker 3: would be writing an obituary about Hitler and saying, well, gosh,
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  Speaker 3: he had a lovely place in.
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  Speaker 1: The mountains, you know. Yeah, it would be like saying stupidity.
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  Speaker 2: It would be like saying selling author and pain killed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, yeah, exactly, he penned mind
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  Speaker 3: comp and oh my goodness, wasn't that a work of genius. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what's wrong with these people, I really don't.
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  Speaker 3: It seems to me this is a moment truly of
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  Speaker 3: moral clarity.
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  Speaker 1: Iran was a great nation.
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  Speaker 3: Educated people, freedom for women, all the rest of these things,
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  Speaker 3: and it became a murderous theocracy that constantly funded and.
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  Speaker 1: Supported terrorism in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why, by the way, Saudi Arabia and the
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  Speaker 3: UAE and elsewhere have joined pretty happily, I would say,
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  Speaker 3: the United States in fighting Iran. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: not an easy thing for them. They have undoubtedly residents
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  Speaker 3: in their own countries who were in league with the
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  Speaker 3: Shia Muslim world there. It's going to be a very
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  Speaker 3: divisive thing in some of these Arab countries. But the
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  Speaker 3: answer is, you know, enough's enough, and they know perfectly
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  Speaker 3: well that these are these are bad guys. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to imagine with Israel the United States, the
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  Speaker 3: combined military and intelligence capabilities of those two countries and
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  Speaker 3: now Jordan, Saudi.
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  Speaker 1: Arabia, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: Some of those countries have pretty sizable militaries. I cannot
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  Speaker 3: imagine this goes on terribly long.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so as soon as they started, Iran started bombing
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  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. They hit all the neighboring countries. Well
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't that a big miscalculation. It brought all those
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  Speaker 2: countries on board with US immediately.
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  Speaker 1: What were they do?
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  Speaker 2: So what were they thinking?
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  Speaker 1: I think they must have been thinking.
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  Speaker 3: You know, actually you probably saw they came out with
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  Speaker 3: the thing thing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that was not intentional. It was a rogue military operation. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think there's a lot of rogue military groups
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  Speaker 3: with their hands on missiles in Iran, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: I could be wrong, but yes, I think they were
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  Speaker 3: assuming that the Arab countries, which have let's face it,
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  Speaker 3: enabled and turned their attentions away from Iran for a
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  Speaker 3: very long time, and let this go on, Let Hesbela
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  Speaker 3: carry out terrorist attack from Lebanon. Let you know, Saudis
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  Speaker 3: aren't exactly keen on the hooties, but let's face this
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  Speaker 3: little dingback group, the hoodies had been allowed to run riot.
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  Speaker 1: Around Saudi Arabia in the Gulf, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I think the Iranians just miscalculated.
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  Speaker 1: They've just didn't see that. They were just ready to
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  Speaker 1: say enough.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, they may not have understood that
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  Speaker 3: President Trump and Muhammed Bin Salomon, the de facto head
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  Speaker 3: of Saudi Arabia, have been partners, have been working on
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  Speaker 3: a workable partnership for a long time since his first term.
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  Speaker 1: And that's one of the reasons.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's one of the reasons that Joe Biden
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  Speaker 3: went after MBS so aggressively and was insulting to him.
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  Speaker 3: He couldn't stand the fact that Trump had actually worked
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  Speaker 3: with the guy. Well, that didn't turn out too well
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  Speaker 3: because when Biden wanted more oil out of Saudi Arabia,
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  Speaker 3: NBS said, no, thanks, we don't think we're going to
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  Speaker 3: help you out. So, I mean, I think the Biden
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  Speaker 3: and Obama whitehouses were so incredibly instinctively wrong about everything
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  Speaker 3: that they should do in the Middle East, and Trump,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta say, has kind of got it right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Liz Peak brilliant as always. Everybody go to
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  Speaker 2: a website because you'll get great news, great analysis, you'll
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  Speaker 2: get a columns, you get everything there. Lizpeak dot com,
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  Speaker 2: p e e K lizpeak dot Com and great stuff
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  Speaker 2: and Liz Peak, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 3: Let's pray for our soul and pray for the families
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  Speaker 3: that have already lost.
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  Speaker 2: Some my good thoughts. All right, thanks for being.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, take care, Okay, thanks right.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, coming up in the next hour, we'll get to
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  Speaker 2: Neil Sidaka, who is the most wonderful guy in real life.
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