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Russia's Secret Hand in Iran's War Against America? · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Do you think that the DOJ should reopen the investigation
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  Speaker 1: to the autopen specifically pertaining.
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  Speaker 2: To Fauci, Well, the only thing you can really think
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  Speaker 2: about is the autopen because the most powerful thing the president,
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  Speaker 2: as they say, is the power of pardon.
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  Speaker 3: So he was pardoned by Biden.
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  Speaker 4: I signed my things directly.
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  Speaker 2: He signed very few. The only thing I know that
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  Speaker 2: he signed was Hunter Biden's pardon, but I'm not.
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  Speaker 4: Sure that he signed. He probably didn't sign this one.
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Saturday Morning nights.
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  Speaker 5: Have you with us on the forty seven Morning Update,
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  Speaker 5: and we've got two big stories for you.
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  Speaker 4: First up and Bomb Show revelations.
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  Speaker 5: There's an extremely good chance now Russia is actively involved
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  Speaker 5: in helping Iran, and that would mean coming after and
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  Speaker 5: killing American troops. So what does that mean for America's response.
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  Speaker 5: We'll explain it to you. Also, doctor Anthony Fauci, Well,
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  Speaker 5: we've got diary entries now that show that not only
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  Speaker 5: was he a nar, he was obsessed with his own
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  Speaker 5: celebrity literally as quote millions of Americans were dying. So
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  Speaker 5: is there going to be any accountability for what Fauci
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  Speaker 5: said in his diaries compared to what he said to
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  Speaker 5: the American people publicly, because somebody was getting lied to,
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  Speaker 5: and there's a very good chance it was all of us.
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  Speaker 4: It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, story number one.
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  Speaker 5: So we've got some breaking news and it involves Ukraine, Russia, Iran,
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  Speaker 5: and the United States of America, and it can have
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  Speaker 5: enormous consequences not just for Europe, but for every American
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  Speaker 5: with troops serving in the Middle East. The Ukrainian President
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  Speaker 5: Zolenski says he's bringing what he described as evidence directly
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  Speaker 5: to the White House alleging that Russia has actually been
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  Speaker 5: helping Iran target American military bases across the Middle East.
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  Speaker 5: This according to Zelensky, Ukrainian intelligence has tracked Russian satellite
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  Speaker 5: surveillance of Gulf States and US military facilities and says
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  Speaker 5: those images were later used by Iran before and after
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  Speaker 5: attacks on American positions. Some of those attacks have killed
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  Speaker 5: American troops. Here's more on this from Fox News Channel.
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  Speaker 6: Ukrainian leader Vodimerzelensky says he is bringing evidence to the
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  Speaker 6: White House tomorrow that Russia is assisting Iran in targeting
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  Speaker 6: US bases in the Middle East, use Chief National Security
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  Speaker 6: correspondent Jennifer Griffin.
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  Speaker 2: I'll ask you quoting about it. We'll find out.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's response to Ukraine's Volodimir Zolenski's claim that Russia
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  Speaker 1: is helping Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Hasn't had much impact because we've knocked the hell out
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  Speaker 2: of him.
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  Speaker 1: Zelensky says he will share evidence with President Trump. Russia
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  Speaker 1: is providing Iran satellite imagery of US bases in the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East, helping Iran target US troops. Zelenski will be
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  Speaker 1: in Washington Tuesday to attend Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral and
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  Speaker 1: says it struck in Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea
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  Speaker 1: that was carrying military cargo, highlighting the growing Russia Iran
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  Speaker 1: partnership and eliciting anger from Iran's Foreign minister quote, Zelenski
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  Speaker 1: has attacked an Iranian commercial vessel, killing a sailor, a
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  Speaker 1: blatant un charter violation. What the freeloader in Kiev did
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  Speaker 1: cannot go unanswered. Iran has provided Russia with thousands of
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  Speaker 1: one way Shahid attack drones since the start of the war,
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  Speaker 1: and now there are new signs the conflicts in Europe,
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  Speaker 1: in the Middle East, maybe converging and expanding.
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  Speaker 7: North Korea will send to Russia. So two thousand of
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  Speaker 7: soldiers Iranians will sell missiles to Russia.
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  Speaker 4: Then what is really a big problem.
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  Speaker 7: China began to work with Russian and they work on
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  Speaker 7: satellites and on technologies and etc. To be more how
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  Speaker 7: to say it precise.
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  Speaker 1: Taking us earlier, today's smoke was seen billowing out of
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Ramco oil facilities at sites across Saudi Arabia after
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  Speaker 1: being hit by projectiles as part of a growing proxy
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  Speaker 1: war with Iran. For the first time, Saudi Arabia's defense
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  Speaker 1: ministry is calling out Iraq for allowing Iranian back militias
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  Speaker 1: to fire drones and missiles from Iraq at targets in
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Gulf. Today, a spokesman
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  Speaker 1: for the Iraqi Prime Minister said Iraq will not allow
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  Speaker 1: its territory to be used to launch attacks against neighboring countries,
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  Speaker 1: but they already have read now.
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  Speaker 5: The president was also asked on Air Force one about this,
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  Speaker 5: and here's more of what the president had to say.
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  Speaker 2: Lenki Araba, Lensky says.
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  Speaker 4: Selensky says that.
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  Speaker 2: Russia is giving Iran satellite immagery of US meats in
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  Speaker 2: the Gulf help them target.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think about that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll find out of this, I'll ask you blutin
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  Speaker 2: about it. We'll find out hasn't had much impact because
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  Speaker 2: we've knocked the hell out of it. When you think
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  Speaker 2: if that's the case, Look, you know they gave Venezuela
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  Speaker 2: a lot of equipment. Venezuela had all Russian equipment. How
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  Speaker 2: did that work out? That's too good. So they may
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  Speaker 2: be giving But if they are, it hasn't worked out
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  Speaker 2: because they have no army, they have no air force,
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  Speaker 2: they have no navy, they have no nothing. So it
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  Speaker 2: hasn't worked out well. I don't think. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: they've been doing it, certainly not at a high level,
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  Speaker 2: and if they have, it has been very un impactful.
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  Speaker 5: Now, for years, Americans have viewed the war in Ukraine
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  Speaker 5: is largely separate from America's military challenges in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 5: But if these allegations are ultimately substantiated, this would represent
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  Speaker 5: a significant escalation. Now, Zolensky is arguing that these conflicts
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  Speaker 5: are no longer separate. They are becoming one interconnected battlefield.
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  Speaker 5: According to the Ukrainian president, this isn't simply Russia's selling
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  Speaker 5: Iran weapons or drones. He's alleging that Russia is providing
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  Speaker 5: the intelligence and support needed by collecting satellite imagery of
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  Speaker 5: US military installations, and that there is a correlation between
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  Speaker 5: the surveillance and then the Iranian strikes. Now, I also
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  Speaker 5: want to be clear, this isn't the first time concerns
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  Speaker 5: about Russian assistance to Iran have surfaced.
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  Speaker 4: Earlier this year.
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  Speaker 5: Multiple US officials told CBS News that Russia had been
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  Speaker 5: providing intelligence regarding US military positions in the Middle East
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  Speaker 5: to Iran during the conflict. Other reporting has also described
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  Speaker 5: US intelligence agencies examining whether Russian assistants may have played
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  Speaker 5: a role in improving Iran's ability to strike the American
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  Speaker 5: targets that they were going after. And then that brings
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  Speaker 5: us to the larger strategic picture here. If you look
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  Speaker 5: at all of this, what we're now seeing is there
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  Speaker 5: is clearly a new alliance that is taking place. There's
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  Speaker 5: a new you could even call it, axis of evil.
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  Speaker 5: You have Russia, you have Iran, and you have North Korea.
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  Speaker 5: And then you can add in a bigger player than
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  Speaker 5: all three of those combined, China, because increasingly China is
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  Speaker 5: providing diplomatic and economic backing for almost all of the
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  Speaker 5: individuals that I just mentioned. So this is like a
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  Speaker 5: axis of evil superpower. You would have Russia, Iran, North Korea,
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  Speaker 5: and China all working together to undermine and kill American
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  Speaker 5: soldiers in the Middle East, and hopefully they hope that
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  Speaker 5: America will at some point just disappear from the Middle
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  Speaker 5: East and they can say we want it now. These
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  Speaker 5: countries they don't have to sign a formal military alliance
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  Speaker 5: to coordinate their actions. In fact, they probably would never
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  Speaker 5: do that because then they have plausible deniability. If they
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  Speaker 5: share intelligence, they share technology, they share military equipment, if
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  Speaker 5: they share the same strategic objectives, they're already acting in
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  Speaker 5: ways that directly affect our national security. And that's part
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  Speaker 5: of what Zelensky is coming to the US to say,
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  Speaker 5: Because what Zelensky's case is, Hey, you're now at war
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  Speaker 5: with Russia, whether you want to admit or not, and China,
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  Speaker 5: whether you want admit it or not, and Iran, whether
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  Speaker 5: you want to admit it or not. Right even when
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  Speaker 5: there's a quote ceasefire, and his message to Washington is
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  Speaker 5: basically this, don't think of Ukraine as a regional conflict anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Think of it as one in a broader you contest
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  Speaker 5: involving America's principal adversaries. Now, why would he do this.
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  Speaker 5: It's clear because he wants to draw us more into
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  Speaker 5: the conflict if he believes that America being involved in
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  Speaker 5: the conflict would help him help his country more than
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  Speaker 5: anybody else. From Kief's perspective, if Russia is willing to
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  Speaker 5: help a ran target American forces today, then what does
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  Speaker 5: that say about where this conflict is heading tomorrow? In
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  Speaker 5: other words, America, you better get involved now.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 5: Let me also say it's very much worth remembering. Now,
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  Speaker 5: let me also say this, and this is important. We
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  Speaker 5: have seen flash points like this before. I don't think
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  Speaker 5: the President's going to walk out this meeting and immediately
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  Speaker 5: say all right, here we go Russia. Game on in
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  Speaker 5: the way that Zelensky is probably hoping. The United States
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  Speaker 5: has thousands of troops stations throughout the Middle East. Those
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  Speaker 5: service members, by the way, there aren't political talking points.
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  Speaker 5: That's what the president does care about. And when Americans
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  Speaker 5: are being killed because there's other countries like Russia China
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  Speaker 5: helping target them, then this is in fact an American
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  Speaker 5: issue because these service members, they're wearing the American uniform.
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  Speaker 5: And if any foreign government knowingly helped another country improve
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  Speaker 5: its ability to attack and kill American forces, well, then
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  Speaker 5: how would you not look at this at a bare
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  Speaker 5: minimum as an extraordinarily serious national security issue and matter?
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  Speaker 4: So what happens now?
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  Speaker 5: Well, well, the first question is whether US intelligence reaches
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  Speaker 5: the same conclusion as Ukraine. By the way, Ukraine has
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  Speaker 5: a objective here that well could easily be to juice
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  Speaker 5: the Intel to help them out because they want America
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  Speaker 5: more involved. So we have to be cautious. In other words,
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  Speaker 5: trust but verify. And the second issue is whether the
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  Speaker 5: White House believes the evidence that supports Zelensky's claims is
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  Speaker 5: worth US actually acting on. There's also the most consequential question,
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  Speaker 5: and that's this, how is Donald Trump going to respond
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  Speaker 5: if American intelligence determines that Russia did provide meaningful assistance
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  Speaker 5: to Iran? Does that change the US policy towards Moscow
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  Speaker 5: with major sanctions, Does it effect ongoing diplomatic efforts, does
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  Speaker 5: it lead to additional sanctions on top of the fact
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  Speaker 5: that we may actually get involved in the war and
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  Speaker 5: help Ukraine more than we already have. These are all
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  Speaker 5: the questions that shape American foreign policy in the months
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  Speaker 5: to come. And this story he also highlights something we've
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  Speaker 5: been watching develop for quite some time. The world's major
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  Speaker 5: conflicts are increasingly interconnected and overlapping. The same Iranian drones
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  Speaker 5: that Russia has used in Ukraine have now become central
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  Speaker 5: to fighting in the Middle East. Military technologies developed on
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  Speaker 5: the battlefield are quickly showing up on another battlefield. Intelligence
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  Speaker 5: collected in one region is now being used in another.
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  Speaker 5: The lines of this conflict are becoming much harder to draw.
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  Speaker 5: And that's exactly why Zelensky wants this meeting with the
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  Speaker 5: White House. He's trying to convince the United States of
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  Speaker 5: America that whatever's happening in Ukraine cannot be viewed as
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  Speaker 5: an isolated issue anymore. It must be looked at as
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  Speaker 5: a threat to the United States. Now, Donald Trump hass
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  Speaker 5: aside how he responds to all of that, And we'll
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  Speaker 5: have it for you here.
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  Speaker 4: I can promise you that now story number two.
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  Speaker 5: They say that fame can be one hell of a drug,
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  Speaker 5: and no one loved that drug more apparently than doctor
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  Speaker 5: Anthony Fauci. He was not a name that anyone knew
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  Speaker 5: before the COVID pandemic, but by the end of it,
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  Speaker 5: his name ID in this country and honestly around the world.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it was superstar status.
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  Speaker 5: We now know just how much Anthony Fauci was obsessed
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  Speaker 5: with his image.
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  Speaker 4: The newly released.
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  Speaker 5: Diary entries from doctor Anthony Fauci suggests that the former
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  Speaker 5: White House COVID advisor became increasingly quote preoccupied with his
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  Speaker 5: growing celebrity status, even as the coronavirus pandemic claimed tens
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  Speaker 5: of thousands of American lives. The journals, released this past
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  Speaker 5: weekend by Senator Rand Paul chronicle Fauci's private thoughts during
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  Speaker 5: the early months of the pandemic, when he served as
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  Speaker 5: the nation's top infectious disease expert and a leading member
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  Speaker 5: of the White House's coronavirus task Force. In an April seventh,
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty diary entry, when more than sixty thousand Americans
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  Speaker 5: were already dead from COVID nineteen, Fauci wrote, quote, press
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  Speaker 5: still hot and heavy about me, multiple stories per day,
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  Speaker 5: directly or indirectly involving me. Weeks later, on May twenty first,
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  Speaker 5: Fauci described his national and international fame as explosive and
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  Speaker 5: really unimaginable quote unquote. He also added that it was
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  Speaker 5: quote not hyperbole to characterize his level of global recognition
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  Speaker 5: by that way. By then, nearly eighty nine thousand Americans
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  Speaker 5: had died from the virus, and he was excited about
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  Speaker 5: everybody knowing who he was now. The diary also shows
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  Speaker 5: Fauci receiving invitations tied to his newfound celebrity. In late
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  Speaker 5: June twenty twenty, as daily US COVID nineteen cases climbed
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  Speaker 5: to a then record forty thousand, he wrote that he
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  Speaker 5: had been in to appear on ABC's Dancing with the Stars.
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  Speaker 5: Faunci also documented growing tension with President Donald Trump's White House,
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  Speaker 5: writing that extensive media coverage was turning him into a
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  Speaker 5: star that outshines his words, a star that outshines the president.
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  Speaker 5: He recalled secret Service officers at the White House security
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  Speaker 5: gates routinely recognizing his vehicle and waving him through without
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  Speaker 5: requesting identification. And that is what power drunk sounds like
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  Speaker 5: in a diary, my friends, Now, despite the attention, Fauci
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  Speaker 5: wrote that he had quote no desire to conflict with,
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  Speaker 5: embarrassed or showed up. Now, of course, despite the attention,
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  Speaker 5: Fauci wrote that he had quote no desire to conflict with,
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  Speaker 5: embarrass or show up the potus and later decided to
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  Speaker 5: stop participating in profile interviews. Now, Senator Paul releasing this
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  Speaker 5: is pretty interesting. He's a long time Fauci critic. He's
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  Speaker 5: also the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental
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  Speaker 5: Affairs Committee, and he released the diary entries days before
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  Speaker 5: Fauci is scheduled to testify before the committee under a
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  Speaker 5: subpoena issued by the Kentucky Republican Senator Paul argues that
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  Speaker 5: the journal depicts a senior public health official overly focused
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  Speaker 5: on his public image and media profile during one of
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  Speaker 5: the nation's worst public health crisises. Quote Anthony Faucio will
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  Speaker 5: answered to the American people, Paul wrote in a June
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  Speaker 5: twenty eighth post on x, accusing federal health officials of
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  Speaker 5: prioritizing self promotion and media narratives during the early months
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  Speaker 5: of the pandemic over telling you what was actually happening. Now,
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  Speaker 5: the takeaway from all of this for me is actually
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  Speaker 5: pretty simple. It is clear that Anthony Fauci was obsessed
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  Speaker 5: with his fame.
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  Speaker 4: He was obsessed with being the Senate of Attention.
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  Speaker 5: He was obsessed with doing interviews and being on the
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  Speaker 5: cover of magazines and newspapers.
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  Speaker 4: He was obsessed with the.
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  Speaker 5: Countless stories that were coming out each and every day
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  Speaker 5: around him. He was a man that was drunk on
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  Speaker 5: his own supply. And doctor Utch now is going to
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  Speaker 5: have to answer these questions. Was he actually focused on
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  Speaker 5: saving American lives or was he more focused on, well,
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  Speaker 5: how big a star was getting in America and around
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  Speaker 5: the world.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
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