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Rich Lowry | Editor-In-Chief of National Review | 05-13-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Here is the great Rich Lowry, editor in chief, National Review.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear that unbelievable forty minute conversation I had
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  Speaker 1: with President Trump yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hear the entirety of the forty minutes, but
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  Speaker 2: I heard some of it, and it was great. You
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  Speaker 2: asked the important questions. You guys obviously have a rapport,
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  Speaker 2: so it's fantastic. I know, by the way, you're a
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  Speaker 2: McDonald's guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like the egg mcmuppin with a hairsh brown
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  Speaker 1: and a small orange juice. It's not crazy big in calaries,
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  Speaker 1: and I heard Greg Kelly talking about he lost eleven pounds, which.
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  Speaker 3: I lost eleven pounds. Amazingly.
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  Speaker 1: They have a lot of similarities these days, me and
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  Speaker 1: Greg Kelly. So I'm kind of watching what I'm eating.
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  Speaker 1: No late carbs, very few deserts, if any at all.
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  Speaker 1: But I will still every now and then cheat with
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  Speaker 1: an egg mcmuppin, hairshpround and small orange juice. And Rappaport
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  Speaker 1: knows it. We used to do video its way back
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  Speaker 1: when Rich when Bernie was still alive, and they would
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  Speaker 1: catch me eating by McDonald's and then put it on Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: Then we reached out to McDonald's and said, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: about advertising on sid show.
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  Speaker 3: He loves it and they hate me, so they didn't
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  Speaker 3: do it.
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  Speaker 2: I think I underappreciated McDonald's breath breakfast offering his pancakes.
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  Speaker 2: Things he got to be eating in to eat those pancakes.
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  Speaker 2: But they're good, No, they are good.
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  Speaker 3: They are good.
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  Speaker 1: So big McDonald's fans on the show this morning. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see at Rappaport. He is going to do it eventually,
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  Speaker 1: I think you will. Everybody's running for mayor. You know, look,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's doing such a horrendous job. He comes out
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  Speaker 1: yesterday with this new one hundred and twenty five billion
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  Speaker 1: dollar budget. He's bragging that he closed the gap right
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of weeks ago. He's talking about property
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  Speaker 1: tax increases, he's talking about second home tax increases. And
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  Speaker 1: this governor, she's a complete waste of time. She found
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  Speaker 1: eight billion dollars. The state's broke, the city's broke, but
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  Speaker 1: Hoko found eight billion over two years to help this
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  Speaker 1: mensa mayor out. In the meantime, between the two of them,
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  Speaker 1: they're destroying this place.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, he's not just a socialist. He's not a serious person.
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  Speaker 2: So those are not good combinations. Even if you were
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  Speaker 2: a conservative, I think he's completely light. He's never done
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  Speaker 2: anything in his life and wouldn't be capable of running
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  Speaker 2: the city. So in the ad communist on top of that,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a good combination.
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  Speaker 3: It's very good.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get to this China trip. He's there now,
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  Speaker 1: and of course Trump is set to meet with President
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  Speaker 1: she tomorrow. And the question is was this about Iran
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  Speaker 1: or about business? And at least with me yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: in many interviews since, President Trump is making it sound
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  Speaker 1: like business. I mean, look, folks, he's taking seventeen CEOs
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  Speaker 1: to China. Some big names you recognize, Larry think, Tim
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  Speaker 1: Cook from Apple, Elon Musk, Kelly Ortberg from Boeing just
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  Speaker 1: four of the seventeen names. So you know, will he
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  Speaker 1: bring up to China to g that, Hey, whose side
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  Speaker 1: do you want? If you're really supplying weapons for the Iranians?
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  Speaker 1: Whose side do you want? You want us to make
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  Speaker 1: sure you get your oil? You better be nice to us.
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  Speaker 1: Sure that will come up at some point. Buddy's kind
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  Speaker 1: of bending over backwards to make it seem like this
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  Speaker 1: is about business more than he ran.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think I think we've talked about this before.
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  Speaker 2: He's like a governor. You know, governors travel the world
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  Speaker 2: trying to get business for their state. That's how he
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  Speaker 2: thinks about the United States of America. So I do
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  Speaker 2: think business is foremost on his mind. He is going
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  Speaker 2: to bring up straight up our moves and all these
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  Speaker 2: strategic matters, of course, but I think that the downside
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  Speaker 2: here is potentially China promises as I have before. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to invest, We're going to buy your soybeans
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  Speaker 2: like you've never seen before, you know, flashes big numbers
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  Speaker 2: up there, and then get some sort of concessions on
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  Speaker 2: Taiwan or something like that. That's what I think we
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  Speaker 2: have to avoid. I'm not sure there's much upside from
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  Speaker 2: the summit except for maybe some good feelings, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's worth having because we need to replenish and
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  Speaker 2: rebuild before we're involved in any confrontation with China, God forbid.
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  Speaker 2: And they have a lot of cards, and we also
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  Speaker 2: need to develop our rare earth and what not to
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  Speaker 2: eliminate their leverage. So I get sort of what Trump
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  Speaker 2: is doing. He's been relatively soft on China compare the
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  Speaker 2: way he was first term.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, and I have those conversations with Gordon Chang
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  Speaker 1: and Trump actually called out Gordon Shang a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that the other day, yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 1: And then Gordon was critical again a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 1: Go see, this is why, this is why President Trump
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  Speaker 1: yells at you.
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  Speaker 3: But it's true. He was all over she the first
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  Speaker 3: time around.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, right now he's got to deal with Iran,
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  Speaker 1: even though again China is a major player on the
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  Speaker 1: other team in this conflict.
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  Speaker 3: But here he goes to China.
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  Speaker 1: Iran is still out there, right, I mean, there's no
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  Speaker 1: there's no ending yet. The ceasefire, I guess, is in place.
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  Speaker 1: It's the only ceasefire ever where both sides are allowed
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  Speaker 1: to bomb each other.
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  Speaker 2: Shooting, shooting cease fire. They're the greatest, the greatest guy. Still,
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  Speaker 2: unless he can traces take the straight back by force,
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  Speaker 2: which I think they can in theory, but I think
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  Speaker 2: would be risky and protracted, and Trump obviously doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: an appetite for it. You're you're stuck this stalemate. I
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  Speaker 2: think eventually we'll get a deal. I don't think it'll
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  Speaker 2: be a great deal. But if you layer a not
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  Speaker 2: great deal. On top of the destruction we've brought on
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  Speaker 2: their military and their economy, you've set them back years.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that that is a net benefit to
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  Speaker 2: our national security. But for the moment, we're stuck. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Trump wants five dollars gas. No, you know,
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  Speaker 2: after Labor Day.
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  Speaker 1: He can't even wait till Labor Day because that'll hurt
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  Speaker 1: us come November, at least I believe that. So depending
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  Speaker 1: on who you talk to, this is which Lowry, the
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  Speaker 1: great editor in chief of.
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  Speaker 3: How's the name of film magazine? Again?
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  Speaker 2: Damn you get it together? Said I have an invitation
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  Speaker 2: in your text for lunch today, and I never I
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  Speaker 2: didn't get a reply. Maybe you're watching your calories.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on a second, No, no, I'm always up for
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  Speaker 1: a free lunch. Let me see something here. What time
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  Speaker 1: was this yesterday?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I was looking back.
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  Speaker 1: Well here it is five forty two pm. Hey, sid
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  Speaker 1: are you free for lunch tomorrow? If not, I'll try
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  Speaker 1: you again soon, son of a bitch. I'm not free today,
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  Speaker 1: but I want I do want to go, But I
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  Speaker 1: do want to go. Are we going to do Collari?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll it on a date.
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  Speaker 3: Are you in the city every day? Now?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going in the city more so.
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  Speaker 3: We have Why why are you coming here now? Now?
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  Speaker 3: It's the worst time to come to this.
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  Speaker 2: I know I have a home office that's being blown up,
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  Speaker 2: so I got to work somewhere and it's in New
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  Speaker 2: York City.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I'd love to go to lunch with you.
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  Speaker 1: The last time we had such a great time.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me know when you're free.
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  Speaker 1: Any day next week. Pick one day next week. Text
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  Speaker 1: me after this great appearance.
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  Speaker 3: And will do it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do it.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for that. That's very sweet.
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  Speaker 1: But I was about to tell you that, depending on
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  Speaker 1: who you talk to, there's three different angles that people
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  Speaker 1: are talking about when it comes to Iran, three different
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  Speaker 1: issues they're worried about. One is regime change. So I
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  Speaker 1: had a conversation with Morton Klein. He wants z O Way,
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  Speaker 1: that Zionist Organization of America rich, and he wants regime change.
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  Speaker 1: He's worried that, you know, if these creeps are still
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  Speaker 1: in charge, even if it's the fifth or six layer,
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  Speaker 1: that they will do whatever they can to rebuild Iran
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  Speaker 1: and the terror proxies and issue will be in troubled again.
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  Speaker 1: Then you've get of course, see straight over, most people
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  Speaker 1: were worried about oil and gas prices.
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  Speaker 3: That's a big one.
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  Speaker 1: I think you'd agree, And then you get the nuclear
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  Speaker 1: weapon people. Depending on who you talk to, there are
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  Speaker 1: people who view this differently as to what's most important.
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  Speaker 1: You do realize is this is not a one issue
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  Speaker 1: conflict now.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Well, if you get regime change, though, you
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  Speaker 2: take care of everything, presumably, But how can we do
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  Speaker 2: that right? So that's the problem. I don't think we
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  Speaker 2: have the power to force regime change on any schedule
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  Speaker 2: that's predictable or that we can directly influence. So maybe
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  Speaker 2: they'll be regime shames a year from now, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think we're doing it militarily, which we've demonstrated here
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  Speaker 2: over the last couple of months. I think you want
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  Speaker 2: as much of the nuclear concessions as you can get.
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  Speaker 2: I think if you get them to say they're going
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  Speaker 2: to stop enriching and in some verifiable way for ten
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  Speaker 2: or fifteen years, that's great. You know, who knows what
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  Speaker 2: the world's going to look like ten or fifteen years
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  Speaker 2: from now. But you got to get the straight reopened.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm afraid they're not going I'm afraid they're going
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  Speaker 2: to still have some form of control over the Straight
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  Speaker 2: even if it's open. But you got to get it
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  Speaker 2: going again. It's a debacle and kind of an embarrassment.
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  Speaker 1: One more for you, because you're so great at predicting
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. I would ask you every week, Biden, Trump,
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  Speaker 1: Trump this one, Biden that one. You always got it right.
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  Speaker 1: So let me go back to me and Trump, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: and you got a run here shortly. This is our thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Lewis talking about the potentials coming up a president in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight Trump and said cut thirteen. What are
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  Speaker 1: we going to do when President Trump's not here anymore?
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, I love marcol Ruby. That's a
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  Speaker 1: whole other discussion. But the Democrats, I'm hearing Kamala Harris,
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  Speaker 1: I'm hearing AOC. Let me say it again because you
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  Speaker 1: have to say it. These are not smart people.
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  Speaker 3: OK.
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  Speaker 1: If you're gonna give out the fact that there are men, women, black, white,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: They're not smart people.
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  Speaker 1: These are the people whether it's Gavin Newsom or Bootage Edge,
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  Speaker 1: these are the people that the Democrats are going to
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  Speaker 1: put out there in twenty twenty eight.
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  Speaker 3: It's an embarrassment.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, it's not good. And we do have a
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  Speaker 5: good bench. I will say, we have a great bench
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  Speaker 5: with some great people. As you know, we're doing great.
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  Speaker 5: The economy is going to be unbelievable as soon as
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  Speaker 5: this war ends. It already is. They said, we just
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  Speaker 5: broke the record for the best stock market four oh
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  Speaker 5: one case of booming for people. And I think we're
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  Speaker 5: going to have I had the best economy in history
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  Speaker 5: in my first four years, and I think this one's
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  Speaker 5: going to blow it. But I had to take a
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  Speaker 5: little excursion down to the beautiful country of Iran. I
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  Speaker 5: had to do a little excursion and get rid of
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  Speaker 5: the nuclear weapons. And by the way, you know, Commanding's
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  Speaker 5: not there, Solomon is not there any longer. All those
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  Speaker 5: you know, what we had to do is incredible. But
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  Speaker 5: they have evil intentions. These people have evil intentions, and
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  Speaker 5: you can't let it happen. They cannot have a nuclear weapons,
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  Speaker 5: so and people understand that, and if they did, they'd
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  Speaker 5: use it. They'd blow up all sorts of parts of
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  Speaker 5: the world. It could be us two, could be No,
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  Speaker 5: we're not going to let that happen.
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  Speaker 3: No, we're not. Ye, I'm not going to let that happen.
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  Speaker 1: But going back to the beginning of that conversation, talking
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  Speaker 1: about the potentials the two thousand twenty eight I listed
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  Speaker 1: a bunch on that left side, and maybe I left
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  Speaker 1: out Shapiro out of Pennsylvania, maybe out of Kentucky, Broshire.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting some legwork here the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: But talking about benches, is it even close?
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  Speaker 3: Witch?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So there's no one on the other side that
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  Speaker 2: you look at and you're like, oh, I hope they
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  Speaker 2: don't run that person because he's he or she's going
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  Speaker 2: to be so formidable politically, right, it looks like a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of little fusions new Well. See, you know people
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  Speaker 2: always look different after they win a nomination because that's
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  Speaker 2: a sagesicant fight and you come out of victor. But
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  Speaker 2: this is the best thing Republicans have going for them
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  Speaker 2: at the moment, as a Democratic party's image is still
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  Speaker 2: in the toilet, and they seem to have no idea
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  Speaker 2: how to climb out.
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  Speaker 1: Bottom line, which amazing appearance is always thank you for
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  Speaker 1: the lunch date. We will definitely do it next week.
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  Speaker 1: I love you, Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Pout toxic.
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  Speaker 1: Rich Lowry right there, the editor of the National Review,
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  Speaker 1: does a great job on this show every week and
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  Speaker 1: has become one of my dearest friends.
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  Speaker 3: I love Rich.
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