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K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor Once Again Claims Victory in Iran · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: The great KT McFarland. Scott Jennings made his great debut
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  Speaker 1: on the program moments ago. KT, I know you heard
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  Speaker 1: every word from Scott. What did you think?
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  Speaker 2: He's terrific. You know, he can talk about American politics.
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  Speaker 2: He can talk about New York. He can talk about
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  Speaker 2: national security, foreign policy, Iran. He's got an amazing range.
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  Speaker 2: And he's very, very, very well-informed. But he's a heck
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  Speaker 2: of a nice guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great guy. He really is. We've been together
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  Speaker 1: on a couple of occasions. We'll be together this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: this Sunday in Las Vegas, speaking at the RJC. Can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm a big fan of his, and I do
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  Speaker 1: think he'd be great in that Caroline Leavitt position. the
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  Speaker 1: White House spokesperson, press secretary, I should say. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think?
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  Speaker 2: He would be great, but I'd rather see him do
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  Speaker 2: what he does, which is go out there and make
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  Speaker 2: the case for the president. You know, you and I
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  Speaker 2: have talked about this before. I think that one of
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  Speaker 2: the only things I would criticize President Trump for is
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  Speaker 2: they don't make the case to the American people enough.
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  Speaker 2: He assumes, and because he's so smart, he's like 10
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  Speaker 2: steps ahead, he assumes everybody already knows what he knows,
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  Speaker 2: and they don't. And it's worth making the case And
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  Speaker 2: if you've got somebody in the press spokesman's job, he's
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  Speaker 2: doing what he's doing. He's defending the president. She's defending
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  Speaker 2: the president at every single step. But there's nobody out
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  Speaker 2: there in the media world strapping on the armor and
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  Speaker 2: going against it because that's the biggest threat is the
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  Speaker 2: media and their constant Trump derangement syndrome where they discount
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  Speaker 2: everything that President Trump is doing that's good. And they,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, find some fault in it. So I
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  Speaker 2: kind of like the idea that Scott Jennings is out
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  Speaker 2: there every day strapping on the armor and going on
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  Speaker 2: CNN and every place else making the case.
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  Speaker 1: No, I understand that. In fact, when I've talked to
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  Speaker 1: people about running for office, people that really think I should,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because most people don't, they would have a fine.
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  Speaker 1: But people that really think I should, they go, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but the more I think about it, Sid, I need
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  Speaker 1: you doing what you're doing, whether it's on radio or
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  Speaker 1: a podcast in the future, doesn't matter. We need you
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  Speaker 1: out there defending President Trump, defending New York's values, defending
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  Speaker 1: America's values. And they've even said to me, Sid, to
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  Speaker 1: your point just now, KT, you're more valuable when you're
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  Speaker 1: doing that. Right. Rather than arguing with the city council
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  Speaker 1: or the. Albany legislature or the governor. So I've heard
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  Speaker 1: that from people about my future too, that people like Scott,
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  Speaker 1: like myself, like you, we need us out there because
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  Speaker 1: without us, we're already outnumbered. We're outnumbered in a big way.
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  Speaker 1: Without us, we're really in trouble.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's why, you know, again, Scott, you, myself,
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  Speaker 2: a number of others going out there and taking the case,
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  Speaker 2: including with hostile interviews. And I go on some places,
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  Speaker 2: especially the BBC and others, where they just they'll be
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  Speaker 2: like five people screaming at me that I keep making
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  Speaker 2: the case five. That's fine. I can have five to one.
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  Speaker 2: But but you got to make the case, because if
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  Speaker 2: you don't if you don't show up and make the case,
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  Speaker 2: then the left really owns that narrative. And we're a democracy,
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  Speaker 2: so you have to win hearts and minds of the
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  Speaker 2: American people. And if the American people are only listening
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  Speaker 2: and hearing one side of an argument, well, it's tough
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  Speaker 2: to then make your own case. I think that it's
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  Speaker 2: important to do that national service of making the case
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  Speaker 2: and getting into, you know, making your point, making your
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  Speaker 2: case in face of just enemy fire. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: Scott is so good at doing. He does it with
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  Speaker 2: a very nice sense of light touch.
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  Speaker 1: And how he does it. I would go nuts there
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  Speaker 1: on Abby Phillips and CNN.
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  Speaker 3: He does it.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't even raise his voice most of the time.
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  Speaker 1: He's got that Kentucky drawl going. And he's a better
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  Speaker 1: man than me because I would lose. I'd start throwing stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I really would. But, you know, listen, you and I
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  Speaker 1: have gone back and forth on this show. It's not
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  Speaker 1: enemy fire. We're on the same team and I love you.
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  Speaker 1: But we've had a couple of disagreements, and for what
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  Speaker 1: it's worth, especially on Iran, man, if I play back
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  Speaker 1: the Scott Jennings tape a moment ago, that's you. He
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  Speaker 1: said exactly what you've been saying on this show for
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  Speaker 1: the better part of three months. We've already won. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: down to your exact reasons why, he had the same
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  Speaker 1: exact reasons.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess he's listening too, isn't he?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, look, it's... We have already won. And whether Iran
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  Speaker 2: goes to a negotiating table and signs a form and
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  Speaker 2: acquiesces in unbended knee, that's probably not ever going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: But the objective reality is Iran is finished. And the
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  Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz, which they have used for 47 years
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  Speaker 2: to blackmail the world, That's gone as a threat because
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  Speaker 2: they overplayed their hand by closing the strait, by mining
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  Speaker 2: the strait, by threatening yet again the world economy. What's
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  Speaker 2: happened is that because the U.S. armada is there, we
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  Speaker 2: can blockade Iran completely. And so ships are getting through.
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  Speaker 2: We've been able to clear now all the mines in
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  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz. So the only thing that Iran
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  Speaker 2: can do to block trade at this point is a
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  Speaker 2: couple of shoulder-fired missiles. you know, on one or two guys.
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  Speaker 2: The mines are gone. The strait is open. Oil is moving.
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  Speaker 2: But because Iran overplayed its hand, countries in the region
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  Speaker 2: had started doing workarounds. They started beefing up and full
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  Speaker 2: steam ahead and, you know, Manhattan Project doing new pipelines.
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  Speaker 2: So more and more oil is now going to move
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  Speaker 2: by pipelines today. And then two years from now, three
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  Speaker 2: years from now, Almost all of it's going to move
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  Speaker 2: by pipeline. And then some of the slack that used
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  Speaker 2: to come from the Middle East oil has been picked
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  Speaker 2: up by American oil. The countries are sending empty tankers
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  Speaker 2: to the Gulf of America to get filled up instead
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  Speaker 2: of the Persian Gulf. So stupid Iran, they overplayed their hand.
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  Speaker 2: They overplayed their hand in a lot of ways. And
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  Speaker 2: they're coming out of this not only broke at home,
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  Speaker 2: but much, much, much weaker in the sense of the
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  Speaker 2: power they could use to threaten the world. And I
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  Speaker 2: think it only reinforces the necessity that President Trump took
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  Speaker 2: the move to destroy their nuclear program because they threatened
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  Speaker 2: the world for 50 years with the Strait. Can you
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  Speaker 2: imagine if they actually had had nuclear weapons?
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  Speaker 1: No, God, no.
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  Speaker 2: They would threaten the world.
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  Speaker 1: No, they wouldn't threaten it. Use it. Israel will be
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  Speaker 1: off the map by now. Use it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I had a very interesting conversation yesterday on
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  Speaker 1: the show with Gordon Chang. And, you know, he's Mr. China. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're talking about Iran today. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: Canada today. Something that Trump is going to look out
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  Speaker 1: of the way, Lake America. I don't care. I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. He wants to rename a body of water.
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  Speaker 2: I think he gets up at three o'clock in the
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  Speaker 2: morning and then he just sort of like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like a little twinkle in his eye. And he thinks,
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  Speaker 2: how am I going to get those girls on the
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  Speaker 2: view really mad today? Right. How am I going to
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  Speaker 2: get everybody, you know, riled up? And then he comes
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  Speaker 2: up with, you know, Gulf of America. Let's take Greenland, Canada,
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  Speaker 2: 51st state and Lake America.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just piss him off. So I know he does
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  Speaker 1: all that. But but we're talking about China. And look,
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  Speaker 1: they're the ones that we should still be worried about. OK,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it ain't Iran. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't Canada. It's not Venezuela, Cuba or Russia. It's China.
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  Speaker 1: But you're talking about how we weakened Iran so much.
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  Speaker 1: And the conversation with Gordon yesterday was China, not the
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  Speaker 1: same either. Now, look, they're still doing pretty well in
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  Speaker 1: the AI race. There's no doubt about it. But look,
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  Speaker 1: they got to get their oil from Iran. Their economy
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  Speaker 1: is not exactly great. The people there are losing confidence
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  Speaker 1: in their leader. So while Iran is always the subject
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  Speaker 1: of the conversation, Iran can't do anything, right? They never
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  Speaker 1: were able to fund all those terror proxies, Hezbollah, the Houthis,
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  Speaker 1: and Hamas, any of that without China. Some say China
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  Speaker 1: is still through the Caspian Sea providing weapons. Some say
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  Speaker 1: China is still having Arab countries get money to Iran.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if any of that is true. All
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  Speaker 1: I know is... China still remains our biggest issue in
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  Speaker 1: the world today.
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  Speaker 2: Yes? 100%. And the AI race will determine the future
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  Speaker 2: of the world. Whoever gets AI first, it's a transformative technology.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever gets there first is going to dominate. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: dominate like superpower dominate. Soul superpower dominate the world for
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  Speaker 2: at least a generation. And that's why the race with
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  Speaker 2: China over AI is so important. So it's really important
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  Speaker 2: for us to continue to invest in it. to allow innovation,
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  Speaker 2: to allow data centers, et cetera. And it's also important
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  Speaker 2: for us to control the world energy supply because what
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  Speaker 2: does China not have? Energy. They're one of the most
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  Speaker 2: energy-poor countries in the world. They have to import their energy.
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  Speaker 2: And if the United States, as I've said in President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: his brilliant idea of making the United States the world's
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  Speaker 2: dominant energy power, in other words, not only do we
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  Speaker 2: export the most oil, natural gas, LNG products, crude, refined oil,
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  Speaker 2: we also have ownership or great influence over a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the rest of the world's oil, whether it's coming
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  Speaker 2: from Venezuela, the United Arab Emirates, et cetera. So we
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  Speaker 2: can dominate the world energy supply. And then when we
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  Speaker 2: dominate the world AI technology, we're way ahead of everybody
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  Speaker 2: because China still has to import its oil. I think
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  Speaker 2: when President Trump meets with President Xi next month, one
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  Speaker 2: of the conversations should be, Hey, Mr. President of China,
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  Speaker 2: why don't you buy American oil?
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to get a camera on the president of
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  Speaker 1: China's face when Trump says that, because he's very friendly
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  Speaker 1: when Trump is there. He says nice things. He does
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  Speaker 1: nice things. Somebody gives Trump a chair for a midget.
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  Speaker 1: But he he doesn't like us. Not even a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be honest. OK, let me go back to Canada
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  Speaker 1: for a second, though, because this is quite the story.
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  Speaker 1: You heard about this. The CBC News. So the director
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  Speaker 1: of journalism tells a journalist there that you cannot refer
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  Speaker 1: to September the 11th as terrorist attacks. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: the words terrorism or terrorist attacks even used. Think about this.
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  Speaker 1: They sent out a memo and it said, don't use
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  Speaker 1: those words. Instead, describe the events as hijackings that led
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  Speaker 1: to passenger jet crashes in Washington, Pennsylvania, and Manhattan. And
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, the World Trade Center was also destroyed. They
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  Speaker 1: will not allow their journalists to use the words terrorist
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  Speaker 1: or terrorism attack Canada.
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  Speaker 3: Is that unbelievable?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially because after September 11th, one of the first
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  Speaker 2: countries that tried to help America was Canada, where they
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  Speaker 2: sent the thing that when President Bush was asked, well,
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  Speaker 2: how can we help you? He said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: send people to come come to America. You know, we're
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  Speaker 2: open for business again. And Canada was one of the
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  Speaker 2: first that filled that void. The other thing that is
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  Speaker 2: just stunning to me is I spent I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I ever told you this, but I When I
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  Speaker 2: did my graduate degree at Oxford, I studied communism and
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  Speaker 2: Lenin and Marx. And how do you take over countries?
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  Speaker 2: What was their blueprint? And it was always to rewrite history.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing you did was to rewrite history, whitewash history,
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  Speaker 2: so that the countries and people didn't feel proud or
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  Speaker 2: acknowledge the sacrifices that their people made in history. And
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  Speaker 2: you rewrite it so that instead of being heroes... the
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  Speaker 2: people who respond, they become villains.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what they're doing. This is the rewriting
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  Speaker 2: of history.
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  Speaker 1: Well, a guy used to be a friend of mine.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a friend any longer, but that's really on him,
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  Speaker 1: not me. He rewrote history yesterday. You got to hear this.
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  Speaker 1: Former mayoral candidate, former WABC talk show host, and a
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  Speaker 1: damn good one. I'll give him credit for that. Curtis
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  Speaker 1: Sliwa talking about rewriting history, KT McFarlane. This one you
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  Speaker 1: can't make up. The guy's name is Adam Friedland. He
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  Speaker 1: does a podcast. Curtis was on his show yesterday. And
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  Speaker 1: you tell me if Curtis did not, I should say,
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  Speaker 1: as you just said, rewrite history.
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  Speaker 3: Does it piss you off when people try to s
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  Speaker 3: * * * on Columbus? Like Native Americans and stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Christopher Columbus, right? Yeah, yeah. He was a degenerate. He
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  Speaker 3: had his problems.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He had his eccentricities.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He was Jewish. Did you know that? It's actually fake. No, no.
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  Speaker 3: They try to say he's Jewish, but he's not. No,
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  Speaker 3: he had a bris. Trust me. He had to drop
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  Speaker 3: his drawers to prove that. He had a brisk.
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 3: Some people just like that style. You know, back then.
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  Speaker 3: People like a hoodless style. You know, why do you
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  Speaker 3: think he had to escape Spain in 1492?
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  Speaker 1: When Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand launched the Inquisition on
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  Speaker 1: your people and said either convert or die.
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  Speaker 3: And he decided to leave with the Nina, the Pinta,
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  Speaker 3: the Santa, and the Maria. Well, there's three, actually. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: You're wrong. No, no, Santa Maria was the second one.
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  Speaker 3: The Nina, the Pinta, the Santa, and the Maria. The Nina,
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  Speaker 3: the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. That's right. Four of
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  Speaker 3: the ships. Three of them made it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: As he went. Oh, so he called one the Santa
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  Speaker 3: Maria after one lot. You combine the names? Excuse me?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 3: Are you trying to instruct me on the hero of
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  Speaker 3: my peeps, Christopher Columbus? I thought you, so you're Jewish.
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  Speaker 1: No, he is Jewish. Okay, so I had to go
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  Speaker 1: back and look because I trust Curtis so much. I go,
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  Speaker 1: wait a second. I was under the impression it was
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  Speaker 1: three boats. The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
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  Speaker 1: And everything I read said it was not four boats.
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  Speaker 1: It was three boats. So the question is, because you're Italian, KD,
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  Speaker 1: did Curtis rewrite history there?
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  Speaker 2: I think Curtis has jumped the shark. I mean, A,
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  Speaker 2: rewriting history. Christopher Columbus is Jewish. I mean, he's, I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to some strange place. And that's a shame.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because he did do great things for the country and
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  Speaker 2: New York.
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  Speaker 1: He did.
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  Speaker 2: Decades ago. Yes. That was a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: It's over, right? That's it. Now he belongs in maybe
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  Speaker 1: a room with Lindsay Clancy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not a funny story. That's a horrible story.
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  Speaker 1: She killed her three kids. But, you know, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to find out, I guess. There's definitely five different verdict
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  Speaker 1: possibilities in this case. And we're going to find out. Me, personally,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think she's evil. I think she did an
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  Speaker 1: evil thing. And I think that she should never see
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  Speaker 1: daylight again. But I would put her in a mental
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  Speaker 1: institution and not a maximum security prison. Do you have any,
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  Speaker 1: as a great mom and grandmother, any opinion on that case?
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  Speaker 2: Your heart breaks. Your heart breaks for every one of
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  Speaker 2: those five, you know, outcomes and conclusions that you talked about.
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  Speaker 2: Your heart just breaks. And for me at that point,
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  Speaker 2: I just think you turn to prayer and you don't
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  Speaker 2: rail at God. You just turn to prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good idea. KT, you're such a sweet
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  Speaker 1: and beautiful and smart lady. You know, I love you
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  Speaker 1: so much. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You're the best. KT McFarlane right here on Sid and
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  Speaker 1: Friends in the Morning does an amazing job, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to Sid and Friends in the Morning.
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  Speaker 3: You can hear Sid and.
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  Speaker 1: Friends in the Morning weekday mornings at 6. What the
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  Speaker 1: heck is going on here?