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Malcolm Nance: Former US Navy Senior Chief on the ceasefire between the US and Iran · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So Pete Higsith was out overnight. Rickins, the ceasefire will hold.
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  Speaker 2: Now we have a chance at real peace and a
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  Speaker 2: real deal. The War Department four now four now has
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  Speaker 2: done its part. We stand ready in the background to
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  Speaker 2: ensure Iran upholds every reasonable term. And as everyone knows,
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  Speaker 2: nobody makes a better deal than President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: There's got a Malcolm Nance, intelligence foreign policy analyst and
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  Speaker 1: former United States Navy senior chief Malcolm nice to have
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  Speaker 1: you on the program. What are your thoughts, What are
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts? What are your feelings about the chance of
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  Speaker 1: this thing's going to hold?
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  Speaker 3: I should expect it's going to hold principally because the
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  Speaker 3: global economy could not take much more of this. And
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  Speaker 3: that's where Donald Trump's real pressures came from. That came
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  Speaker 3: from the people who were saying that, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: entire world system could have gone into recession. The oil
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  Speaker 3: that was coming out of the Gulf was being limited.
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  Speaker 3: Natural gas have been cut off twenty percent. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's like doing a you know, one of those vulcan
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  Speaker 3: pressure holds on your corot at artery. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: might be able to hold it for a while, which
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  Speaker 3: you can't hold it forever you said, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: start killing the system. So I don't I think Trump
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  Speaker 3: was trapped. He had to take this deal, and now
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  Speaker 3: the worst part is a round comes out of it stronger.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we think. And the White House is saying that
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  Speaker 1: the ten point plan that everyone's talking about is not
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  Speaker 1: the ten point plan that they've signed up to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I've noticed that they said that after they
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  Speaker 3: had already written. Donald Trump had retweeted Minister around she
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  Speaker 3: the previous bar Minister's statement which said the basis of
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  Speaker 3: it was the original fifteen point plan lost. The ten
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  Speaker 3: point plan that around it sad set and that's supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be the basis of negotiations. The fifteen point plan
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  Speaker 3: wasn't any better. So you know, if Trump took this
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  Speaker 3: as an off ramp to stop the collapse of the
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  Speaker 3: world economy to save money for his friends, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Gulf States lost brillions in market capital with these attacks.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to have to deal with what's been played
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  Speaker 3: now because there's no restarting this war. It will collapse
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  Speaker 3: the global of global economy if they do it again.
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  Speaker 1: Which begs the question was it worth doing in the
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  Speaker 1: first place.
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  Speaker 3: No, and they should never have done it in the
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  Speaker 3: first place. Look, they have been preparing for this war
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  Speaker 3: since nineteen forties, since nineteen seventy nine, forty seven years.
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  Speaker 3: I fought the Iranians multiple times in the Persian Gulf
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  Speaker 3: during the nineteen eighties, and it was very clear back
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  Speaker 3: then their geographic choke hold was over the straight Oh Hormons.
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  Speaker 3: This was done almost haphazardly. They didn't consult anybody, and
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  Speaker 3: they didn't listen to the advice of military planners. We
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  Speaker 3: are awesome, America at blowing things up. We're apparently really
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  Speaker 3: awful at meeting our stated objectives.
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  Speaker 1: Malcolm Nance, intelligent foreign policy analysts and former United States
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  Speaker 1: Navy senior chief. Nice to have you on the program.
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