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K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor | 04-24-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: How long are you willing to wait until you get
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  Speaker 1: a don't.
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  Speaker 2: Rush me, Jeff. You know guys like you want to say, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: so we were in Vietnam like for eighteen years. We're
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  Speaker 2: in Iraq for many, many years. We're in for all
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  Speaker 2: the I don't like to say World War two because
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  Speaker 2: that was a big ee, but we were four and
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  Speaker 2: a half almost five years in World War Two. We
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  Speaker 2: were in the Korean War for seven years. I've been
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  Speaker 2: doing this for six weeks, and we're Their military is
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  Speaker 2: totally defeated. They're outside of the little wiseguy ships. I
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  Speaker 2: call them the wiseguy ships, the little boats that they
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  Speaker 2: have running around with guns in them. We'll take them
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  Speaker 2: out too when we see them. But their navy is gone,
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  Speaker 2: their air force is gone, their anti aircraft is gone,
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  Speaker 2: All of their anti aircraft machinery has gone. Maybe they
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  Speaker 2: loaded up a little bit during the two week hiatus,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll knock that out in about one day. If
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  Speaker 2: they did, we've done an amazing job. They'll a gun
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  Speaker 2: leagua zero gun.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump says, don't bust me, leave me alone, like
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  Speaker 3: we said. Vietnam eighteen years, World War two, five years,
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  Speaker 3: six years of the Korean War, Iraq, Afghanistan forever.
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing this for six weeks, six weeks.
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  Speaker 3: I got one more I want to play before I
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  Speaker 3: get to the great k t Mcfalland he also discussed
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  Speaker 3: yesterday the possibility, if not probability, of a nuclear holocaust
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  Speaker 3: with those no good bastards in Europe. They've all turned
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  Speaker 3: their backs on us, all of them. We'll get them
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  Speaker 3: in the end. This is President Trump talking about that possibility.
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  Speaker 3: Lewis cut number twelve.
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  Speaker 2: I think that there's nothing worse than a nuclear weapon
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  Speaker 2: that takes out one of your cities, or two of
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  Speaker 2: your cities or three. I think there's nothing worse than
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  Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon that's going to destroy the Middle East,
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  Speaker 2: including Israel. I think there's nothing worse than Europe being
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  Speaker 2: under attacked by people that have missiles now that reach Europe.
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  Speaker 2: As you know, they don't reach us, but they reach Europe.
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  Speaker 2: But they will reach us it sometime probably they're not
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  Speaker 2: too distant future. Unless we stop them now. I think
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  Speaker 2: there would be nothing worse than having nuclear holocaust in Europe. London, Paris,
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  Speaker 2: various places in Germany all targeted. Now, what I say
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  Speaker 2: is you can't let them have I don't think it
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  Speaker 2: will happen, by the way, I really think we actually
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  Speaker 2: it turns out that we are drill, baby drill, and
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  Speaker 2: it turns out we're produc They got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: oil and they're buying the oil. They're going to Alaska,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to Texas, Louisiana, and our guys have done
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  Speaker 2: a fantastic job. We're putting out right now more oil
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  Speaker 2: and gas than we ever have in the history of
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  Speaker 2: our country. And one other thing, there are more people
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  Speaker 2: employed today in the United States than ever in the
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  Speaker 2: history of our country.
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  Speaker 3: There he is President Trump yesterday. So we're going to
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  Speaker 3: talk to Blair White and Adam Weis's after Kat. And then,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, Joe Takapinos got Lobato, the brilliant sports
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  Speaker 3: voice of Stephen A.
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  Speaker 1: Smith. But I want to read this to KT.
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  Speaker 3: KT, of course, has worked for four presidents over her
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  Speaker 3: legendary career, most recently President Trump. She's on Fox News
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  Speaker 3: multiple times a week, and she is an amazing guest
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  Speaker 3: with us every Friday. So I don't name names often
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  Speaker 3: sometimes I do, but this time I'm not going to KT.
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  Speaker 3: But somebody who I respect a lot sent me this
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  Speaker 3: text from the Pentagon. This person was actually in the
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  Speaker 3: Pentagon when I received this text a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 3: Now you know that I was behind this war one
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  Speaker 3: hundred percent and still am. Anybody who says this war
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  Speaker 3: is not a necessity doesn't know what.
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  Speaker 1: They're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it is unnecessity, and we didn't start it.
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  Speaker 1: For you folks that are complaining, I thought Trump was
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  Speaker 1: America first. He is. Iran started this war.
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  Speaker 3: Forty seven years ago, and six or seven presidents promised
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  Speaker 3: that we'd do something about it, and they didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 3: So President Trump decided, I'm going to be the guy
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  Speaker 3: to fix it. And it's not easy. It's a big country,
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  Speaker 3: ninety million people, and they hate us.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm all for it, okay.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm also saying, with every ceasefire, with every stoppage,
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  Speaker 3: Americans care less and less, and Americans are not believing
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  Speaker 3: that we are winning. That's just my opinion. So here's
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  Speaker 3: a text that I got kt before the war. Iran
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  Speaker 3: did not control the Strait of Hormuz. Now it does.
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  Speaker 3: Iran oil was sanctioned, Now it's not. Iran was not
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  Speaker 3: really building a nuclear weapon. According to the Pentagon Intelligence Agency,
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  Speaker 3: now they will The US bases and the Gulf were
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  Speaker 3: assets now the liabilities. And everyone is laughing at us
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  Speaker 3: because the truth is the reason why the President of
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  Speaker 3: United States keeps stopping and going is because we are stuck.
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  Speaker 3: As reported the last two days that heck Sath is
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  Speaker 3: not being truthful either, and that Iran has a lot
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  Speaker 3: more weaponry than we are telling the fine folks in
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  Speaker 3: America your thoughts on some of these criticisms.
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  Speaker 4: So they're all wrong, They're all dead wrong, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Iran wasn't getting close to having a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 4: Iran has had one goal for forty seven years to
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  Speaker 4: have a nuclear weapon. And if you look at what
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  Speaker 4: they're doing now and how they're holding the world hostage.
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  Speaker 4: Then when people say, well, they didn't control the straight
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  Speaker 4: of from absolutely they could have turned nothing on and
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  Speaker 4: off anytime they wanted. When I was working for President
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  Speaker 4: of Ringan, they tried to stop, They tried to close
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  Speaker 4: down the Strait of Marmouse. We shopped some ships out
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  Speaker 4: of the water, and then they went back to their caves.
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  Speaker 4: But so all every one of those points is actually incorrect.
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  Speaker 4: And the thing that I guess is reinforced to me
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  Speaker 4: The necessity of doing what President Trump did at the
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  Speaker 4: eleventh hour is that look at what Iran is willing
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  Speaker 4: to do now with the world, world trade countries are
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  Speaker 4: going to go into economic tailspons. Why because a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of a military dictatorship, which is what it is, a
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  Speaker 4: military dictatorship in Iran, wants to have nuclear weapons and
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  Speaker 4: they're willing to put the whole world in chaos, economic
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  Speaker 4: chaos in order to do that. And can you imagine
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  Speaker 4: what a country like that would do. A bang of
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  Speaker 4: dictators will do if they actually had nuclear weapons, they
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  Speaker 4: would use them, they would blackmail the world for whatever
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  Speaker 4: reason they wanted to blackmail the world, for whatever purpose
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  Speaker 4: came into their heads. So the necessity of doing this,
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  Speaker 4: and doing this now, and doing this very surgically, I
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  Speaker 4: think is pretty amazing. And when people say, well, President
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  Speaker 4: Trump doesn't know what he's doing, come on, guys, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you guys are so far behind you think you're ahead.
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  Speaker 4: He set out to do this on day one of
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  Speaker 4: his first term, when he realized that he needed peace
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  Speaker 4: between Israel and Golf Arabs. He crafted the Abraham Accords.
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  Speaker 4: What that did was take Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
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  Speaker 4: and all those countries which either sat on the sidelines
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  Speaker 4: of any Israeli conflict in the region or cheered and
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  Speaker 4: worked against Israel. Now they're fighting with Israel against Iran.
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  Speaker 4: President Trump drill baby drills. He just mentioned in the
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  Speaker 4: clip that you paid played that meant that world oil
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  Speaker 4: prices went down because American oil came into the mix.
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  Speaker 4: What did that do? Bankrupted Iran? Iran's only source of
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  Speaker 4: income is oil exports. And then finally, what's happened in
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  Speaker 4: the last several weeks is degrading Iran's military, killing their first, second,
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  Speaker 4: and third tier of leaders, destroying their command and control,
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  Speaker 4: their army, their navy, their air force, the proxies. All
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  Speaker 4: of this put into place the final move in the chessboard.
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  Speaker 4: We knew that they were shut down the strait, as
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  Speaker 4: I said, they've done it before, but we also knew
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  Speaker 4: we had one more move after they show down the street,
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  Speaker 4: which is a blockade. We could never have done a
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  Speaker 4: blockade unless we already had all of those military assets
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  Speaker 4: in the region. And now we sit back and wait.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we wait for long, but we wait
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  Speaker 4: for them to either come have some pramatic negotiations, or
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  Speaker 4: we wait for their economy to completely collapse.
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  Speaker 1: I don't disagree that you just said. I would just
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  Speaker 1: say that, you know my frustration.
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  Speaker 3: Seventeen days ago, seventeen days ago, President Trump was about
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  Speaker 3: to unleash hell on that civilization, and we've got like
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  Speaker 3: two seas fires since. And I think you may be
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  Speaker 3: met at me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: These people tell me you're crazy, stop at Morgan Morton,
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  Speaker 3: but I have been pretty outspoken that I'm tired of
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  Speaker 3: the seasefires.
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  Speaker 1: Do what you say you're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry because I've got people who love him like
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  Speaker 3: I do, like you do, love him to death. We
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  Speaker 3: don't want anybody else in that seat. I'm not critical
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  Speaker 3: of the president when I'm saying he shouldn't be. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's the best. He's the best in my lifetime, and
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  Speaker 3: thank god he's there. I don't want him to ever leave.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to cry the day he leaves. But I'm
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  Speaker 3: getting tired of the ceasefires. You know, you keep threatening people,
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  Speaker 3: and you keep threatening people, and you don't do it,
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  Speaker 3: and eventually the Iranians who don't care anyway, they're not
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  Speaker 3: intimidated by any of Trump's threats, they're going to start
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  Speaker 3: laughing back. So that's my prostration here. Everything you said
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  Speaker 3: is fine, that's all great, but these constant not today,
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  Speaker 3: maybe tomorrow, maybe four days, maybe ten days, maybe two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't want to be rushed, but he's promising the
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  Speaker 3: American people one thing on one day, and then it's
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  Speaker 3: another story on the next. That part you have to understand.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, there are two ways to kill a snake. You
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  Speaker 4: can cut off his head where you can starve him
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  Speaker 4: in the cage, and then Iran is now in a cage.
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  Speaker 4: The cage is the blockade. So here's let me just
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  Speaker 4: go through the economic steps as the Sexuary Treasury has
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  Speaker 4: talked about them. The economic steps that now are half
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  Speaker 4: have started to happen. So Iran is losing half of
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  Speaker 4: billion dollars a day in revenue. They're not getting their
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  Speaker 4: oil revenue because the tankers aren't full of oil. The
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  Speaker 4: tankers are not getting past the blockade. They're not getting
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  Speaker 4: consumer goods into Iran because any ships on their way
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  Speaker 4: to Iran or are not getting through the blockade. So
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  Speaker 4: the blockade is preventing only ships going to and from Iran,
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  Speaker 4: not anybody else's ships, but just to and from Iran,
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  Speaker 4: and so Iran may have some revenues that they could get,
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  Speaker 4: like a reserve that they could use. The problem is,
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  Speaker 4: thanks to Donald Trump, the problem for Iran is that
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  Speaker 4: all of those assets are frozen in foreign banks, so
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  Speaker 4: they cannot access them. So they're getting no revenue, they're
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  Speaker 4: getting no consumer goods. The inflation rate is by the
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  Speaker 4: day is clicking out, and within about you know, period
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  Speaker 4: of time, not too long a period of time, Iran
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  Speaker 4: is not going to have any income to pay the weapon,
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  Speaker 4: to pay their military, to do all the things that
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  Speaker 4: their government needs to do to function. Added on top
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  Speaker 4: of that is the way oil works. Because oil wells
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  Speaker 4: they pump the stuff out of the ground, puts it
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  Speaker 4: in a pipeline, goes to Carbon Island, and then the
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  Speaker 4: pipeline puts the oil into empty tankers. The tankers fill
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  Speaker 4: up and go on their merry way, usually to China.
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  Speaker 4: They're not doing none of that's happening now because the tankers,
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  Speaker 4: empty tankers are not getting into Iran. Full tankers they're
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  Speaker 4: not getting past the blockade. So what's happening is that
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  Speaker 4: the oil wells are backing up. You can't just flip
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  Speaker 4: a switch and turn off the pipeline. You can't just
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  Speaker 4: slip a switch and turn off the well without doing
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  Speaker 4: enormous damage to the well, probably permanent damage to the well.
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  Speaker 4: So within a short period of time, starving the snake,
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  Speaker 4: Iran is going to have no income and no prospects
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  Speaker 4: because in a post war run, the way they would
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  Speaker 4: rebuild their country is the revenue they would get sanctions
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  Speaker 4: were lifted and they could produce oil again. They won't
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  Speaker 4: be able to produce oil if all those oil wells
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  Speaker 4: are flooded. I mean, think about a sink. You've got
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  Speaker 4: a clog drain and the faucet keeps going. You can't
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  Speaker 4: turn the faucet off, and what havoc does that wreak
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  Speaker 4: on your sinking, on your kitchen. That's what could happen
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  Speaker 4: to Iran, and that's what can happen to around. Most
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  Speaker 4: experts believe that the storage capacity excess capacity to absorb
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  Speaker 4: all of that ex or oil in the pipeline is
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  Speaker 4: one two weeks. Nobody thinks it's three months, right. The
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  Speaker 4: estimates are that it's a couple of weeks. So when
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  Speaker 4: President Trump is saying, well, I've got all the time
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  Speaker 4: in the world. What he knows is that the clock
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  Speaker 4: is ticking for Iran. You know, President Trump has six
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  Speaker 4: months to three faces the voters. Iran probably doesn't have
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  Speaker 4: six weeks, probably doesn't even have six days that they
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  Speaker 4: can survive without income.
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  Speaker 1: Well, heah six months before the election.
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  Speaker 3: But you don't want to some people making up their
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  Speaker 3: mind today that I'm not going with a Republican I
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  Speaker 3: mean it's not He has six months of the election,
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  Speaker 3: but he's in danger of losing people because I just
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  Speaker 3: got a text, for example, from a guy that's served
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  Speaker 3: in Iraq, served in Afghanistan, served in Kuwait, dragged people
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  Speaker 3: out of a burning building on one to eleven. One
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  Speaker 3: guy did all that. His name is Thomas Sullivan. He's
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  Speaker 3: running prop us in Queens. He's a wonderful guy. He said,
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  Speaker 3: no more ceasefires. What he wants to see is unconditional surrender.
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  Speaker 3: And he loves Trump. So we don't have six months.
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  Speaker 3: If this thing ends in six months, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be too little, too late. He needs to figure out
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  Speaker 3: a way to end this way before that and start
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  Speaker 3: to fix some of these economic issues. We're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: our asses handed to us come November. That's the bottom line.
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  Speaker 4: I guess I would disagree because if President Trump pulls
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  Speaker 4: US off in three months and the economy US economy
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  Speaker 4: will immediately start turning around, He'll be hailed as a great,
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  Speaker 4: a great wise leader, and a great vix. So that's
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  Speaker 4: saved America, I hope.
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  Speaker 1: So you know I want that more than anybody. You
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  Speaker 1: know that. But yeah, i'm and I love him, but
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  Speaker 1: i'm I talk to a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of people, go to a lot of events and try
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  Speaker 3: to help out a lot of Republicans in all.
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  Speaker 1: These states, and they're very, very nervous.
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  Speaker 3: But I did like what I heard from Mike Huckabee
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  Speaker 3: today that were ambassador to Israel, and I hadn't the cut,
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  Speaker 3: but we can't seem to find it. But he talked
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  Speaker 3: about the seafire between Israel and Lebanon Lebanon, and he said, listen,
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  Speaker 3: the people of Lebanon and the people of Israel on neighbors.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, I've got two friends defends of
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  Speaker 3: us to some of the most beautiful people Lebanese, one
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  Speaker 3: being Joseph A. Bood, who I think is the greatest
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  Speaker 3: men's fashion designer ever. The other being a US attorney
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  Speaker 3: in Washington, D C. Jeean Piro. These are great Lebanese people.
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  Speaker 3: They love Israel. They got no issue with the Jews.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is has Bola, and Israel is going to
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  Speaker 3: do whatever they have to do to wipe those mother
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  Speaker 3: efras out.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And the Lebanese government has now agreed with Israel,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, people aren't even paying attentions. Is just
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  Speaker 4: like a little piece agreement, right, the seasfire agreement that
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  Speaker 4: happened to sign yesterday between Israel and Lebanon in the
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  Speaker 4: Oval Office, with the President extending the ceasefire for three weeks,
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  Speaker 4: with the idea that it'll probably become permanent. And you
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  Speaker 4: have the leaders of Israel and of Lebanon saying, we
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  Speaker 4: agree that the scourge with the problem is not between
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  Speaker 4: the Jews and the Lebanese. The problem is between the
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  Speaker 4: two of us and hesbe Law and Hesblah with the
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  Speaker 4: golden shining example of Iranian Iranian ambitions and Iranian lethality
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  Speaker 4: and Iranian evil, and that's what's being wiped out. The
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  Speaker 4: fact that they could have this kind of an agreement
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  Speaker 4: now with the potential of wiping Hesbela out, is largely
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  Speaker 4: because of what Israel's done already, but it's also because
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  Speaker 4: Hesbela is not being funded anymore because Iran doesn't have
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  Speaker 4: the money. I always think, you know how, the money
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  Speaker 4: is usually a pretty good plan when you're looking at
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  Speaker 4: geopolitical event.
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  Speaker 1: Always always the case.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that was an unbelievable conversation. You're brilliant. You know
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  Speaker 3: things that no one else knows. It's all You're so
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  Speaker 3: great on this show every Friday, will you, Kat, That
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  Speaker 3: was a spectacular job today, sweetheart. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: It's an honor, Thank you, my honor.
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  Speaker 3: Kat mcfallden. She is terrific here every Friday. You know,
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  Speaker 3: see her all week long on Box News, and she
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  Speaker 3: knows her stuff. She's been in those rooms, those strategy
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  Speaker 3: rooms with four different presidents too, that I think we
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  Speaker 3: all agree are pretty good, right, Monald Reagan and President
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  Speaker 3: Trump not bad. So Kat mcfallan is with us every Friday.
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