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Henry Olsen: US Columnist on the impact of the US' strikes on Iran · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So the ceasefire that Trump declared decreed is currently holding,
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  Speaker 1: but was broken for a moment while we slept last
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  Speaker 1: night and lead to this outburst from Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not happy with Israel.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not happy with the run either.
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  Speaker 2: We have two countries that have been fighting so long
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  Speaker 2: and so hard that they don't know what the they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: So since then Nitya, who was sending warplanes, they've been
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  Speaker 1: turned around. There were a few bombs dropped, but it
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  Speaker 1: seems that they've come back from the brink. So as
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  Speaker 1: Trump is about to step out of Air Force one
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  Speaker 1: at Amsterdam Airport and go to NATO, can he does
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  Speaker 1: he have the wind at his back? So to speak.
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  Speaker 1: Henry Olsen is a columnist in the United States and
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  Speaker 1: it's with us this morning. Henry, Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me on.
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  Speaker 1: How how do Americans feel about Trump getting involved? You know,
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  Speaker 1: are they paying attention to this in the way that
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the world is.
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  Speaker 2: He's paying a lot of attention to it. You know.
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  Speaker 2: The whole suggests that the people who didn't like Trump
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  Speaker 2: coming in don't approve of his action with respect to Iran,
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  Speaker 2: but his base does, and his party does. The fact
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  Speaker 2: is that Republicans and people who voted for him overwhelmingly
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  Speaker 2: support him, and that's really what he needs. He also
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  Speaker 2: has a lot of understanding and praise for at least
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  Speaker 2: brokering a ceasefire and for ending what every administration going
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  Speaker 2: back thirty years has said is an unacceptable threat that
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  Speaker 2: Iran holds nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 1: If you, i suppose, if you can come away with
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  Speaker 1: sitting the nuclear program back a couple of years, if
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  Speaker 1: you can come away with Israel feeling about themselves and
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  Speaker 1: with no further US involvement in the region, then that
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  Speaker 1: is a massive win for US president, right.
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  Speaker 2: It would be a massive When the question, though, is
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  Speaker 2: if all you do is kick the program back a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years, then you still have a question that
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  Speaker 2: it's unacceptable to the United States that Iran because that's
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  Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon. If all you do is kick the
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  Speaker 2: nuclear program into low gear, then the next president is
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  Speaker 2: going to have to make a difficult decision as to
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  Speaker 2: what to do, and may have to make the same
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  Speaker 2: decision the President Trump did. But at the at least
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  Speaker 2: in the medium in short term, this appears to be
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  Speaker 2: a huge win both the United States and for the
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  Speaker 2: President Hey.
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  Speaker 1: Henry, big heat wave heading the States. At the moment
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  Speaker 1: I was looking in New York, it was felt like
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  Speaker 1: forty one degrees celsius to us.
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  Speaker 2: Very hot for you guys. Very and it's a primary
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  Speaker 2: election day for the New York Democratic mayoral primary. We'll
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  Speaker 2: see whether or not people decide to stay home rather
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  Speaker 2: than go out in such a heat, hot and humid weather.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be interesting to see what happens with Kumo
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  Speaker 1: having a second bite of the cherry. Eight minutes away
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  Speaker 1: from eight, that's Henry Olsen, who's an American columnist for
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