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  Speaker 1: to the Big Weekend Pod. I'm Hugh hewittt. It was
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  Speaker 1: a quiet week in the war, if you call all
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  Speaker 1: those ceasefire violations by hesbillah lobbing missiles into Israel and
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  Speaker 1: by Iranian proxies in Iraq attacking Kuwait quiet, but full
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  Speaker 1: scale war has not yet broken out. Again. Looks like
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  Speaker 1: we're sending Special Envoy Witcoff and Kushner back to Pakistan.
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  Speaker 1: That's not been confirmed yet. At the time that I
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  Speaker 1: am laying this down, I don't believe this is going
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  Speaker 1: to end up in anything other than the return to
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  Speaker 1: combat in a pretty big way. Because Vahiti, who's the
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  Speaker 1: new czar of Iran, is he'd rather be martyr than rich.
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  Speaker 1: They have a new hunter. The head of the hunter
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  Speaker 1: is Bahiti he's an old school IRGC martyr guy and
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  Speaker 1: fought in the Big War eighty to eighty eight against
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  Speaker 1: Iraq in the Iraq Iran War, So I expect he's
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  Speaker 1: going to take a lot of persuading. I personally believe,
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  Speaker 1: as you'll hear me talk about with Ben Nominich, maybe
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  Speaker 1: Matt Continetti that the United States ought to hand them
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  Speaker 1: a target list, non exclusive target list just says when
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  Speaker 1: day one begins, we'll hit this oil target, and then
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  Speaker 1: day two, day whatever day, and then the final day
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't yielded the highly enriched uranium, taking the
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  Speaker 1: vow never to go after nukes again and put constraints
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  Speaker 1: on your missiles and eased up on your people, return
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  Speaker 1: the Internet, then we will take out carg Island. He
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  Speaker 1: could take two things to make a nuclear weapon. Time
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  Speaker 1: and money. They think they've got all the time in
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  Speaker 1: the world and all the oil. Well, we're not going
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  Speaker 1: to leave them with the oil if we don't have
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  Speaker 1: a deal on the nukes, because President Trump is not
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  Speaker 1: going to do that. So I'm hoping he pursues that.
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  Speaker 1: You'll hear me talk about that possibility with both Eli
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  Speaker 1: Lake and Matt Contnity and of course, Ben Damage. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot ahead on today's big weekend Pod. Don't miss
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  Speaker 1: a minute of it. And thank you for listening to
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  Speaker 1: the Hugh Hewitt Show. And I remind you if you
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  Speaker 1: or a evening race in America. I'm Hugh Hewett inside
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  Speaker 1: that built weigh. A good Friday to you. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you have a great weekend ahead. Cleveland Brown's drafted Spencer
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  Speaker 1: Fano in the first round, number nine overall after trading down,
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  Speaker 1: picking up an extra couple of picks from the Casey
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs or an easy mark, and they got their man.
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  Speaker 1: Spencer Fana win the Outland Trophy. If you're listening in
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  Speaker 1: twelve thirty in Salt Lake City, go uts. We're very
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  Speaker 1: excited about that. He give me left tackle. I think
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  Speaker 1: the last Brown who have won the Outland Trophy was
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Joe Thomas, so we'd like a repeat
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  Speaker 1: of that. Joe Thomas was drafted twenty years ago, so
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  Speaker 1: time for another era. The Spencer Fano era also picked
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  Speaker 1: up Kevin Kincepsian from Texas A and m speedy, speedy, fast,
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  Speaker 1: elusive returns punts as well, and we have nine more
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  Speaker 1: picks today, so I'll be covering that. No, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to cover the draft. I'll cover the news specially.
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  Speaker 1: Envoy Witkov and Jared Kushner are going back to Islamabad.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why, given the presser we have depending
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  Speaker 1: on this morning, let's start their secretary head seth cut
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  Speaker 1: number six on the blockade, glowing global, going global.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump said it again yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: We have all the time in the world, and we're
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  Speaker 3: not anxious for a deal.
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  Speaker 2: And I hear him say it every day in.
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  Speaker 4: Private as well.
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  Speaker 3: Naran knows that they still have an open window choose wisely,
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  Speaker 3: as we said previously, choose wisely at the negotiating table.
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  Speaker 3: All they have to do is abandon a nuclear weapon
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  Speaker 3: in meaningful and verifiable ways. Or instead they can watch
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  Speaker 3: their regimes fragile economic state collapse under the unrelenting pressure
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  Speaker 3: of American power, a blockade as long as it takes,
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  Speaker 3: whatever President Trump decides. Because the bottom line line remains
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  Speaker 3: the bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: Iran will never get a nuclear bomb.
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  Speaker 3: The choice is Theirs, but with this blockade, the clock
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  Speaker 3: is not on their side. Moreover, President Trump has authorized
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  Speaker 3: the United States Navy to destroy any Iranian fast boats
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  Speaker 3: that attempt to put mines in the water or disrupt
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  Speaker 3: passage through the Strait of Hormuz, to shoot and kill.
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  Speaker 2: Our commanders have clear rules of engagement.
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  Speaker 3: If Iran is putting mines in the water or otherwise
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  Speaker 3: threatening American commercial shipping or American forces, we will shoot
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  Speaker 3: to destroy, no hesitation, just like the drug boats in
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  Speaker 3: the Caribbean.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I think that even the Iranians have got to
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  Speaker 1: understand we know how to blow up the speedboats and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see who gets to drive and people who want
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  Speaker 1: to be martyrs. Secretary Hegseth had this to say about
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  Speaker 1: Iran cutt number three.
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  Speaker 3: The IRGC specifically has been reduced to a gang.
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  Speaker 4: Of pirates with a flag. They cloak their.
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  Speaker 3: Aggression in slogans, but the world now sees them for
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  Speaker 3: what they are, criminals on the high seas. They don't
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  Speaker 3: control anything. They're acting like pirates, acting like terrorists. They're
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  Speaker 3: the ones who lay in discriminate minds, who shoot at
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  Speaker 3: random ships, who killed forty five thousand of their own people,
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  Speaker 3: innocent protesters in the course of weeks, their own people.
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  Speaker 4: They are the bad actors, the vessels.
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  Speaker 1: With Matt Cotton to Eli Lake Ben Dominich. But I
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  Speaker 1: do want to play Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
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  Speaker 1: Staff Dan Caine here he is on the blockade cutt
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  Speaker 1: number seven.
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  Speaker 5: First.
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  Speaker 6: As I mentioned, US Central Command continues to maintain a
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  Speaker 6: strict blockade on all the ports. We're enforcing the blockade
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  Speaker 6: across the board against any ship of any nationality that
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  Speaker 6: is transiting to or from an Iranian port or territory.
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  Speaker 6: We're closely tracking vessels of interest headed towards Iran and
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  Speaker 6: those moving away from Iran that were outside the blockade
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  Speaker 6: area when this blockade was ordered, and as everyone saw
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  Speaker 6: this past weekend, were prepared and postured to intercept them.
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  Speaker 6: As of this morning, thirty four ships have met the
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  Speaker 6: US blockade and made the wise choice to turn around.
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  Speaker 5: One ship did not, and that ship was the.
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  Speaker 6: Motor vessel Tusca. Over several hours this past Sunday, April nineteenth,
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  Speaker 6: the US conducted maritime interdiction operations against the Tusca, whose
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  Speaker 6: crew attempted to breach the blockade line. The Tusca is
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  Speaker 6: a large container ship about nine hundred and sixty five
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  Speaker 6: feet long, or about the same size as the United
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  Speaker 6: States Navy.
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  Speaker 5: Aircraft carrier, and over one hundred feet wide.
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  Speaker 6: The operation began about four am Eastern Standard time when
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  Speaker 6: the United States Navy destroyer approached her and the crew and.
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  Speaker 5: The vessel ignored warnings.
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  Speaker 6: And I've described how the destroyer forces operating in the
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  Speaker 6: area prior. Upon intercept and coming within visual range, American
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  Speaker 6: forces began to issue issue several clear and unambiguous warnings
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  Speaker 6: and informed the vessel and their crew that they were
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  Speaker 6: in a violation of the US blockade and directed the
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  Speaker 6: ship to turn around. Over a six hour period, the
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  Speaker 6: vessel and her crew repeatedly ignored US warnings, and then
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  Speaker 6: the US Navy destroyer executed a series of pre planned,
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  Speaker 6: carefully calibrated escalation options, including firing five warning shots. The
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  Speaker 6: vessel and her crew continued to ignore warnings, and after
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  Speaker 6: exhausting all other measures, Sencom authorized disabling fire against the Tusca.
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  Speaker 6: US sailors warned the crew of the Tusca to abandon
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  Speaker 6: the engine room, and at approximately nine am Eastern time,
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  Speaker 6: the destroyer disabled the Tuska's engine by firing nine inert
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  Speaker 6: rounds from the destroyer's Mark forty five inch guns precisely
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  Speaker 6: into the engine room and engine space on board the Tusca.
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  Speaker 6: Not Surprisingly, the vessel and reported issues with their engine,
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  Speaker 6: went dead in the water and began to comply with
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  Speaker 6: US directions and orders. At four pm Eastern Standard time,
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  Speaker 6: Sentcom ordered United States Marines to seize the ship via helicopters.
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  Speaker 6: US Marines maneuvered quickly to the disabled ship, boarded her
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  Speaker 6: from fast ropes via helicopter infiltration methods, and.
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  Speaker 5: Took custody of the ship.
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  Speaker 6: The ship and her crew remained safe in US custody today.
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  Speaker 1: They also have been grabbing tankers. The blockade didn't go
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  Speaker 1: into effect until about four weeks of the war, and
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of tankers had left, and they're on the
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  Speaker 1: high seas full of sanctioned oil, basically pirated ships. Here's
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  Speaker 1: what the chairman said about the takeover of one of
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  Speaker 1: the tankers earlier this week, cutting number eleven.
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  Speaker 6: On Monday, April twentieth, US INDO pay Com forces, in
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  Speaker 6: support of a Department of Justice requests, interdicted the motor
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  Speaker 6: tanker Tiffany which was transporting sanctioned Iranian oil.
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  Speaker 5: The Tiffany is a very large crewed.
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  Speaker 6: Tanker VLCC for short, and is also about the size
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  Speaker 6: of a US aircraft carrier and capable of transporting approximately
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  Speaker 6: two million barrels of oil. At approximately eleven thirty PM
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  Speaker 6: Eastern time, US military forces and law enforcement forces also
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  Speaker 6: went to the ship via rotary winging platforms, fast roped
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  Speaker 6: onto her deck and secured her. After the ship was secured,
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  Speaker 6: a US Navy control team embarked aboard the Tiffani Tiffany
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  Speaker 6: or Tiffani and assumed control of the ship at four
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  Speaker 6: am Eastern Time on April twenty first. A Navy control
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  Speaker 6: team is comprised of sailors led by a boarding officer
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  Speaker 6: that assumes control of a sea ship in order to
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  Speaker 6: secure the crew, the cargo, and the vessel. And disposition
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  Speaker 6: of that first vessel is still pending. The next interdiction
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  Speaker 6: occurred on Wednesday this past Wednesday, twenty two April, when
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  Speaker 6: Indo Paycom conducted yet another interdiction, again at the request
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  Speaker 6: of the US Department of Justice, this time the stateless
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  Speaker 6: motor tanker Majestic X, also known as the Ponix, also
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  Speaker 6: in the Indian Ocean. This is again a VLCC or
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  Speaker 6: very large crewed tanker. At approximately eleven PM Eastern Standard time,
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  Speaker 6: US Forces began the interdiction, again, usering rotary wing assets
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  Speaker 6: to get to the ship, got on board and.
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  Speaker 5: Secure the bridge.
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  Speaker 6: Both ships, the Tefani, the Majestic X, and their crews
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  Speaker 6: remain in US custody and we will continue to conduct
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  Speaker 6: similar maritime interdiction actions and activities in the Pacific and
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  Speaker 6: Indian Oceans against Iranian ships and vessels of the Dark Fleet.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think you ought to go there. If
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  Speaker 1: you're in the Dark Fleet, come right back to the
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  Speaker 1: US show. Welcome back to America. Hewett Eli Lake is
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  Speaker 1: with the Free Press. He's the host of the Breaking
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  Speaker 1: History podcast, and he, like me, are both fixated on Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Eli the Kellen Levitt announced today that Special Envoys Witcoff
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  Speaker 1: and Kushner are going back to Islamabad. I feel bad
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  Speaker 1: for those guys. I don't think anything good's going to
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  Speaker 1: come out of that. I don't think Mehiti is going
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  Speaker 1: to throw in his cards. He's a hardcore old guard
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  Speaker 1: fought in the Big War eighty to eighty eight. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think there's any progress to be made here.
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  Speaker 7: I do think that the regime is facing economic collapse
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  Speaker 7: and the blockade of the blockade is probably going to
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  Speaker 7: have an effect. So I think that that right there,
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  Speaker 7: But I don't think I don't think they're feeling that
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  Speaker 7: pressure yet. And I think you're correct that Vahiti represents
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  Speaker 7: somebody who you know, he was part of the I
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  Speaker 7: mean Bahdi back in the day was during that Iron
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  Speaker 7: Iraq war. He was part of the faction that didn't
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  Speaker 7: want to take the deal with Saddam Hussein. When Hamani
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  Speaker 7: said it was like the drinking the chalice of poison.
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  Speaker 7: He represented the people who want to continue fighting that war,
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  Speaker 7: which was paid a horrible toll on the Iranian So
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  Speaker 7: I would not expect anything like that to come from him.
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  Speaker 7: But on the other hand, the way it was described
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  Speaker 7: to me by people, in terms of understanding how the
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  Speaker 7: leadership works, Bahdi is not does not have the loyalty
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  Speaker 7: or it does not necessarily have the command, or he
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  Speaker 7: doesn't the command, but it doesn't the loyalty of the
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  Speaker 7: entire Revolutionary Guard Corps. He is rather the strongest chieftain
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  Speaker 7: in that group. So there are other rivals to him,
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  Speaker 7: but right now that he is like sort of on
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  Speaker 7: this five person council, he's clearly the real power in
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  Speaker 7: Iran right now. I don't think you're going to see
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  Speaker 7: much yet, but that might change as the economic conditions worsen,
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  Speaker 7: as they understand the full extent of their military defeat.
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  Speaker 7: And even if nothing happens, I just think that the
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  Speaker 7: United States has plenty of military options to open the
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  Speaker 7: straight up her moves that and getting the remaining missiles
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  Speaker 7: and other things that were on the target list are
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  Speaker 7: military objectives. I think that's eminently doable. I think the
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  Speaker 7: United States remains in a really good position.
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  Speaker 1: So Eli, I talked to a senior official from Trump
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  Speaker 1: one today and not Trump too, not in now, and
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  Speaker 1: he told me a nuclear program requires three things. Expertise
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  Speaker 1: and the Runtians have at least the muscle memory of expertise.
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  Speaker 1: That they've lost a couple of dozen of their top scientists,
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  Speaker 1: the technology that you can buy on the open market.
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  Speaker 1: And number three, money and time, Money and time. We
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  Speaker 1: have sieged three of their tankers at siege at sea
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  Speaker 1: this month. I play General Okaine. That's two million barrels
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  Speaker 1: of oil a grab, and we've done it three times
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  Speaker 1: at sea. That forget the cargo ship, who knows what
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  Speaker 1: was in it, but we got the oil. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to run on oil. The Hewett option is this, Wick
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  Speaker 1: Coop and Kushner give them a list of the oil
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  Speaker 1: facilities in Iraq, you know, one through thirty, and say
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  Speaker 1: we're going to take out one of these each day,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna end with cart Island being in rubble.
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  Speaker 1: If you do not give us dialing, enriched uranium and
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  Speaker 1: inspection rights at Pickaxe Mountain and other places, because we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to leave you with any money. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think about that? Just lay it out, here's our
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  Speaker 1: target list. You can't stop us. They're all going to
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  Speaker 1: be rubble. You will have no oil.
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  Speaker 7: Well right now, I think if it's Fahiti calling the shots,
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  Speaker 7: they probably would not accept it because I think they're
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  Speaker 7: almost kind of living in I think Fahiti represents one
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  Speaker 7: of the true believers. But again, part of the strategy
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  Speaker 7: for something like that, which I think is actually pretty smart,
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  Speaker 7: is that are we sure that everybody around Bahiti wants
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  Speaker 7: to make that same decision exactly? And that's the key
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  Speaker 7: is that you know the fracturing in that respect is
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  Speaker 7: that is a good thing. I never understood the argument
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  Speaker 7: that was made by some of the critics of the
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  Speaker 7: war after the initial decapitation strikes isay, now you've got
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  Speaker 7: an even more hard line regime. They've always been hardliners.
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  Speaker 7: As you know, they killed they killed forty exactly right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: so the idea that you know, oh, we can't risk
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  Speaker 7: it because someone might the next person might be even worse.
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  Speaker 5: They're all in the category of horrible.
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  Speaker 7: So I mean, at this point, I am I'm, I'm
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  Speaker 7: I'm looking forward to the fracturing, and I think that
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  Speaker 7: there will be more of it, and at some point,
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  Speaker 7: you know, I think there's going to be a lot
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  Speaker 7: of different opportunities. And remember they still haven't turned the
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  Speaker 7: Internet back on. The Iranian people are going to, you know,
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  Speaker 7: enter into this at some point. I would love it
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  Speaker 7: if we were things that we were, we could start
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  Speaker 7: maybe doing to try to turn back on the Internet
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  Speaker 7: or provide alternatives. I think that that technology exists, and
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  Speaker 7: I don't exactly understand why that hasn't happened yet.
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  Speaker 1: But in both you've got storchs in Israel and UAE.
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  Speaker 1: Why is the UAE not building a big pipeline from
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  Speaker 1: the UAE to Israel so that they don't have to
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  Speaker 1: ship anything. Why, yeah, there's not would be like.
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  Speaker 7: That's a great question. I don't have an answer. I
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  Speaker 7: should say, great question. I don't have an answer for
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  Speaker 7: that right now. But one that's one issue is I
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  Speaker 7: think that you know, if you build a pipeline, that's
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  Speaker 7: another target. And the Iranians have the drones and we
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  Speaker 7: maybe they don't have the drone defense, but the UAE
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  Speaker 7: has been in the fight. I can tell you that.
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  Speaker 7: And I can also say that I don't know. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: we'll see what happens with the Saudis. The Saudis are
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  Speaker 7: right now, you know, very connected to the Pakistanis who
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  Speaker 7: are hosting the negotiations, and they're their outreach to Turkey,
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  Speaker 7: which I think is really troubling right now. But I
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  Speaker 7: think the Amoradis, and I think at least parts of
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  Speaker 7: this part of the Saudi royal family at least uh,
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  Speaker 7: they're at a new strategic reality after this war, and
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  Speaker 7: there will be there will be no option for the
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  Speaker 7: Iranians to sort of rebuild that relationship until there's regime change.
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  Speaker 7: So that's another strategic loss for Iran in this conflict.
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  Speaker 1: I noticed what the Libyans up their oil production in
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  Speaker 1: one month by a million barrels a day. And so
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  Speaker 1: there are other places around the world to get oil.
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  Speaker 1: It's not as cheap. But we're not going to be
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  Speaker 1: at ninety dollars a barrel. We're going to get back
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  Speaker 1: to seventy five, which is more than sixty. But the
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  Speaker 1: world can absorb that. They can't absorb a nuclear Iran.
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  Speaker 1: And so when you get rid of the Trump distortion
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  Speaker 1: effect and the Net and Yahoo distortion effect, isn't this
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  Speaker 1: clearly a win for the world.
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  Speaker 8: I'm so glad you put it like that, Hugh.
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  Speaker 5: It's become so frustrating to me.
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  Speaker 7: Even if the Iranians manage for a period of time
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  Speaker 7: to hold on to the straight of Hormuz a that
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  Speaker 7: is we've talked about before, a depreciating asset, because there
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  Speaker 7: will people will find alternatives yep to the straight up
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  Speaker 7: woe moves and alternative sources. But the most important thing
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  Speaker 7: is weighed against demolishing the vast majority of Iran's nuclear program,
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  Speaker 7: its defense industry, the conventional ballistic missile shield that Rubio
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  Speaker 7: has talked about, Weighed against all of that, is it
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  Speaker 7: worth it? Yes, because we're the whole reason for this
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  Speaker 7: entire war has been to stop these fanatics from getting
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  Speaker 7: a nuclear weapon. And pretty I mean, in theory they
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: could start again. But we just wiped away thirty years
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: and half a trillion dollars worth of investment. And that
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: is a military accomplishment, and I can take it, in
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: my view absolutely a strategic accomplishment. And again someone can say, yeah,
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: theoretically they're going to be more determined than ever to
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: rebuild it, to which I say, then the United States
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: and Israel will be determined to knock that out as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, theoretical we really wetting up. Yeah, if we had
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: gone after Hitler in nineteen thirty seven or thirty eight
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: when he took it Inland or Austria and the Aslish,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: or even when he took over the Roar, theoretically that
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: might have led to a lot of heartburn, but he
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have had the Third Reich. I really don't understand.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: It's the Trump distortion effect. Last word to you, Isn't
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: that what it is? The reason we can't say this.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: I think some of it's that's Trump distortion effect. I
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: think the other part of it is that we just
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: have a generation of people of Western elites that are
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: completely disconnected from the military. I did not serve, but
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: when the Iraq War was going on, I went to
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: a rock several times and served with Americans there. That
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: was something that was a been valuable experience for me.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: But so many have no idea what it means to
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: be in the military, what it means to quite a war.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: And amen to that, you know, I like, we're looking
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: for the breaking history. I had a lot of driving
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to do this weekend. And whatever you write in the
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Free Press, thank you, Eli. I'll be right back and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Mat Continent. He is next on the show Welcome Back America.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I'm Hewitt. Matt Connetty is here for his Friday a
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: week in review with me. Matt, of course free expressions
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: columnist at the Wall Street Journal, head of Domestic Policy
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Virginia elections analysts.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: First question, Matt, given your Free Expressions column in the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Journal today, who has freer elections Iran or Virginians after
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: this map goes into effect.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I would say that the Republicans in Virginia won't
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: be feeling very enfranchised after this map goes into effect,
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: and certainly the population of Iran is not enfranchised. So
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: it's a hard call, good call, hard call. Still I'll
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: still vote with the America in the end, but for freedom.
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: But nonetheless, this Virginia map is depressing to all those
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: who believe in fair representation because that's what really happened.
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: Virginia map that was six' Five Democrat, republican basically in
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: line with the share of the vote that each party
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: gets every four. Years trump went about forty six percent
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: of the vote last election in twenty twenty, four and
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: now you're going to attend to One Democrat republican, map
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: which means that the forty six percent Of republicans in
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: the state Of virginia will have one representative In. Congress
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: that is the definition of. Unfairness, Now, matt.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: There are No republicans In. Massachusetts they're only thirty four
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: percent vote For President trump in twenty twenty. Four i've
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: always set redistricting done by the. Legislature it's a political mischief.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Game just don't use, race And i'm okay with. It
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: but The virginians passed a constitutional amendment to prohibit in the.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: State that's up to the states to, decide and, basically
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: The virginia legislature just rolled over. IT i Heard Ken kochinelli,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: signing Former Attorney General virginia signing optimistic With Jake, tapper
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  Speaker 1: But i'm not because this is a very radical legislature In.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: RICHMOND i think they'll punish the State Supreme court if
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: they reverse the. Referendum do you have much hope for
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the court.
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  Speaker 9: CASE i think the only glimmer of HOPE i can
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: see in The Supreme court is that what the vote
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  Speaker 9: On tuesday showed you is that this is not open and.
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  Speaker 8: SHOT i, mean this.
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  Speaker 9: Was a close, vote about fifty one forty, eight maybe
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: fifty two forty, eight three or four. Points the no
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: vote that is rejecting this unfair map was higher Than
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: republicans earned in last year's gubernatorial. Election it was higher
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: Than President trump earned in twenty twenty four in the
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: state Of. Virginia and there might be some justices on
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: The State Supreme court who look at that and, say
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: you know what if we do overturn the map because
• 23:45
  Speaker 9: the process violated all of these constitutional and statutory. Requirements
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: the blowback from the voters won't be that.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: Much but as you, say.
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: They're going to be worried about the blowback from the
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: Radical democrats who now are in charge In, virginia AND
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: i think in the end they'll be more afraid of
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: the politicians than Actual virginia voters when they decide whether
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: or not to uphold this new and unfair.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Map Now Ron DeSantis has called a special. Session there
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: are twenty eight congressional, districts twenty or held By, republicans
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: eight By. DEMOCRATS i think you could go to Chech
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: ept And groc and, say draw me a map that
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: gets me twenty Eight republicans and then have them both
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: check each other's, work and that would hold up the constitutional.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Muster if The Supreme court throws Out section two of
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: The Voting Rights, act as is expected later this, month
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: do you Want DeSantis to do that or do you
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: want someone to call a halt to.
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: This, WELL i think after The virginia, Vote Governor DeSantis can, say,
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: look he's simply continuing a process and Redistricting florida if
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: he can find a way to do it and the
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: legislature approves of, it is the necessary response to what's
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: happening In. Virginia, unfortunately we're down this path now where
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: each party is retaliating against each. Other if it doesn't
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: happen In, florida and if The Supreme court decision you
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: mentioned doesn't go the way many expected, to which is
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: to say that these majority minority districts are misreadings or
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: violations of The Voting Rights, act well then, paradoxically The
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: democrats could come out ahead slightly from this jerrymandering war
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: we've been. Having SO i think that means That DeSantis
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: should try to go to get some more seats out
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: of The florida state. DELEGATION i will say this, though
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: all of these, gerrymanders including the one In, virginia you,
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: know they are very susceptible to waive elections that go
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: in a different. Direction and what we're seeing right now
• 25:51
  Speaker 9: on The republican states, is you, know the fact is
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: The republicans have lost a lot of support From hispanic,
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: voters and that means that even these gerrymanders could go
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: and end up Electing. Democrats the same, thing by the,
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: way could. Happen god, forbid if we have A democratic
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: president twenty thirty and a midterm election goes against that
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: president and elects a lot Of republicans well in these
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: districts that The Virginia State democrats of jerry. Mandered that
• 26:17
  Speaker 9: could blow up in their face as. Well so it's
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: a very dangerous game with the jerry, manders and unfortunately
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: we're in this race to the.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Bottom and the long game is that the census is
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: going to reward The south in twenty thirty two with
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: twelve to fifteen new, CDs and that means The democrats
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: are really. Screwt i'm kind of the about this because
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: we're gonna lose that house.
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: Anyway But i'm right back.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: With continety during the, break and he'll be back after
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the break of Talk. Iran we're going to talk presidential
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: candidates on The republican side when we come back with big.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: NEWS i am back With Matt continetti in its hypothetic old.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Time you have to actually listen to The Big Weekend pody
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: hear this. Part, matt the vice president is in the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: position for The republican nomination in twenty twenty. Eight there's
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: no denying. It, however if there was sort of a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: disqualification round where everybody not Named vance got in there
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: and did the, debate and you could See Glenn, youngkin
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and you could See Doug, deucy and you could See Mike,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: pompeio and you might See Rhonda. Santos if they could
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: come up with one person to run AGAINST, jd who
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: would your money be ON jd or that one? Person
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: And i'm Taking rubio off the.
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: Board, Okay so now you've put me in the position
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: of the liberal Theorist John. Rawls we have to have
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: a veil of ignorance right on. This and if we
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: create this new situation where it WAS jd against One
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: republican challenger for the twenty twenty eight, NOMINATION i think
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: that most the biggest threat TO, jd not Without rubio in,
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: there it would probably be someone Like Glenn, youngkin someone
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: with that political, Profile, southern someone who can also make
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: a case to independence and, suburbanites and someone who can
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: draw distinctions BETWEEN jd and JD's version of conservatism and
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: kind of the earlier forms of conservatism and, also by the,
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: way some trump conservative. Principles and As i'm talking right
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: now and, SAY i, said someone Like Clayton Glenn.
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: Younkin but actually.
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: The clearest contrast in a lot of ways and would
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: fit my geographic requirement as, well would Be Ted, cruz
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: who of course came in second To President trump in twenty.
• 28:37
  Speaker 9: Sixteen SO i might have to say cruise in the,
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: end but.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: They would have to consolidate down to, one wouldn't. They
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: they'd have to have to get in a, room and you,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: know Short straw wins or Short slaw.
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: Loses and that, was as you well, know that was
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: the problem in twenty. Sixteen that was the Reason Ted
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: cruz couldn't cross the finish line in first place in
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: twenty sixteen Against President trump was because he was still
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: contending With rubio and With John kasick even towards the end.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: There SO i don't know if you ever Read Axel rodd's,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Memoir David Axelrodg's, Believer did you true? Believer it might
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: be a, believer, yeah as a fabulous. Believer and he
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: believes in the theory of the personality most unlike the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: one that is in The White. House among The, republicans
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: which personality is most Unlike Donald trumps who might run
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: for the.
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: PRESIDENCY i Think youngkin is probably the most different From
• 29:36
  Speaker 9: trump in. Personality he has no sharp. Edges he always
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: is trying to reach consensus void. Conflict you, know it's
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: interesting that opposite effect That axelrod talks. About first TIME
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: i heard it but was From Chris, matthews The hardball
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  Speaker 9: anchor FROM.
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  Speaker 5: Hi we also Do.
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  Speaker 9: Americans matthews told, me always elect for the person that they,
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: did unlike the previous. Occupant BUT i never really THINK
• 30:08
  Speaker 9: i thought of it in terms of primaries before, you
• 30:11
  Speaker 9: AND i actually think in the, primary what people, are
• 30:14
  Speaker 9: What republicans are going to want is someone to carry
• 30:16
  Speaker 9: on The trump, agenda but to be able to do
• 30:19
  Speaker 9: so in a way that can secure another term for
• 30:23
  Speaker 9: The republicans in The White, house knowing the dangers that
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: this country faces from a radical left Any man.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Party we're coming back on the network Standby Welcome back In.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: America i'm, You Hugh hat joined By Matt continetti AS
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: i am Most. Fridays he is the head Of domestic
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Polity studies at The American Enterprise. Institute so also The
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Free expressions columnists at The Wall Street journal and The Thursday.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: PANELIST i listened to him yesterday on the commentary podcast
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: So mad AS i was listening to your podcast And
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Jay pod goes back and forth on where he is
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: on the. WAR i think we've won the ward. DECIDEDLY
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: i think it's a strategic win that will Follow trump through.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: History BUT i would end it this, way The hewet
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: plan Wi cooff And kushner on their way To islamabad right,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Now i'd have a piece of, paper a target, sheet non.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Exclusive just day, one we're going to hit this oil.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Facility day, two we're gonna hit this. One day, three
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: all the way down to you, know Carg island will
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: be the last, day and we'll destroy. That we'll level.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: That we're not going to occupy. It we're already picking
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: up their. Tankers we've picked up three of their tankers this.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Week that's about six million barrels of. Oil so that's
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: a six hundred million dollar. Loss they need money to build,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: nukes AND i would let them, decide do you want
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: an oil industry or do you want the? Nuke what
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: do you think of The hewet.
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: PLAN i think it's a good.
• 31:47
  Speaker 9: Plan very interesting to me THAT Jd vance is not
• 31:50
  Speaker 9: headed Toward islamabad this. Weekend of, course The iranians didn't
• 31:54
  Speaker 9: want to continue talking With kushner And wikoff Because kushner
• 31:58
  Speaker 9: And wikoff have been very resistant to The iranian attempt
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: to draw out these negotiations to gain financial benefit before
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: they have to deliver on any of their. Promises and
• 32:11
  Speaker 9: so here we're going to HAVE i, think another round
• 32:14
  Speaker 9: of kabuki conversations Between, raichi The iranian foreign, minister and
• 32:18
  Speaker 9: Then Jared kushner And Steve.
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: Wikoff so the question is what will? Happen?
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: Then the worst thing that could happen is we agree
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: to end the blockade and give sanctions relief to The
• 32:33
  Speaker 9: iranians without any real deliverables on their. PART i don't
• 32:38
  Speaker 9: think that's going to. Happen so then you have two.
• 32:41
  Speaker 9: Alternatives you have the resumption of the military campaign following
• 32:46
  Speaker 9: that Excellent hewitt target.
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: List i'd like to see that. LIST i bet it's
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: a great.
• 32:50
  Speaker 9: List or you have the status quo and either policy
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: resuming the military campaign, certainly but also the current.
• 33:00
  Speaker 8: Policy the status quot policy.
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: Will exact increasing pressure on The iranian, regime and that's
• 33:06
  Speaker 9: what we need to continue to. Do we've made great,
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: strides accomplished, much but the final effort needs to be
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: in depriving this regime of its financial lines of. Support
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: and then showing that The United States, navy the three
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: carrier groups we now have in the, region can take the,
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: lead clear the strait UP harmus and create a new
• 33:31
  Speaker 9: lane of escort traffic so that it's never held hostage
• 33:34
  Speaker 9: by this terrorist.
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: Regime again that interesting.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Question you're, right by the, way the target, list best,
• 33:40
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• 33:41
  Speaker 8: LIST i want to know this, list the perfect, list.
• 33:44
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  Speaker 1: about another one of your, Colleagues, ai did you ever
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: see the Movie big With Tom? Hanks everyone, Has i'm
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: just assuming you. Have have you Seen big many?
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: Times it's a, Classic so.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: You know the fortune teller in the boot that knows
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: exactly what's going to. Happen, yes all, right that's, you
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: of all. Eleven would you walk by and put a
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: coin in the machine and ask, you of all, eleven
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: why we don't have pipelines FROM uae To haitha already under,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: construction because it just seems to me pipelines are the.
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: Answer you, know, here that might be the one question
• 34:21
  Speaker 9: that you've all even cannot answer and probably wouldn't want.
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: To, YEAH i think it's. OBVIOUS i think it's.
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: Amazing that the world allowed itself to be put into
• 34:32
  Speaker 9: this situation fifty years of an approach to The iranian
• 34:36
  Speaker 9: regime that was de, escalatory that was our. Right we
• 34:39
  Speaker 9: would just want to avoid conflict with The iranian. Regime
• 34:42
  Speaker 9: we want to keep the oil. Flowing we'll put you,
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: know slightly under twenty percent of the global oil supply
• 34:48
  Speaker 9: through the straight Of, hermus will put twenty percent of
• 34:50
  Speaker 9: the world's fertilizer supply through the straight Of. Hermus who cares.
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: Well now we see why that was a huge strategic,
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: mistake AND i think it's important that the world knows.
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: That, So, yes why is this pipeline not?
• 35:07
  Speaker 9: There it's because people were invested in the status quo
• 35:12
  Speaker 9: of Allowing iran to continue to terrorize the, world to
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: continue its progress toward a nuclear, weapon to continue ITS icbm.
• 35:21
  Speaker 9: Program and it's finally this, President President, trump.
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: Who said enough is.
• 35:25
  Speaker 9: Enough and that means short term, pain but the long
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: term gain of disarming The iranian, regime ending its nuclear,
• 35:32
  Speaker 9: program and setting the conditions where its eventual collapse will be.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Historic, oh a strategic. Win BUT i think you Underestimate you've.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: All i've never met, him which is WHY i mispronounced
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: his last. Name BUT i still think you want to
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: ask him the second question That i'd like to. Know
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: are there no? Roads are there no tanker? Trucks are
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: there no fertilizer trucks that can move the fertilizer to
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: A mediterranean? Port because it is all. Connected it's not
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: like there's you don't have to go over The strait
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: to deliver fertilizer to the.
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: World, no you, know there are, alternatives AND i think
• 36:10
  Speaker 9: it's a matter of time of. REPRICING i think a
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: lot of the repricing of the energy supply is already
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: being done some of the other commodities that go through The.
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: Strait but the fundamental for, Me hugh is we cannot
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: knot allow hostile regimes to control the world's naval choke.
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: Points and that that.
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: Includes The, Gulf that includes The gulf Of aiden that
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: The huthis have been, terrorizing that includes The strait Of
• 36:34
  Speaker 9: hormuz and The Persian gulf That iran has shown it
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: doesn't care whether it blows up ships commercial, vessels it terrorizes.
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: Them and it also includes The Taiwan strait and The
• 36:46
  Speaker 9: strait Of. Malacca and so this is a wake up.
• 36:49
  Speaker 8: Call do you.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Mind if we impoverish The iranian, PEOPLE i didn't want
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: to do, it but if you, do destroy their oil,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: infrastructure and it's going to be destroyed simply because there
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: are capacity for storage right. Now when you stop, pumping
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: as The president tried to explain in The trumpian, way
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: it screws up the whole. System the plumbing gets. Broken
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: do you worry about impoverishing The iranian. People they're not
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: getting the money, anyway SO i don't worry about. That
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: did we lose Matt ranian? People, Yeah i'm hearing Newt
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: can you hear? Me oh you're? Back you got one? Minute,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: yeah you worry about it one.
• 37:22
  Speaker 9: Minute america didn't impoverish The iranian.
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: People The iranian government.
• 37:28
  Speaker 9: Did and that's that's the, truth and that's why we
• 37:31
  Speaker 9: can continue to exert this maximum. Pressure the, blockade interdite
• 37:36
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  Speaker 1: president as a. Person he is the most, decent, loving,
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  Speaker 1: kind Ethical christian. Man AND i Think i'm not even
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  Speaker 1: sure he made the wrong. DECISION i might. HAVE i
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  Speaker 1: think everyone would have made the same decision on the
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  Speaker 1: bad knowledgy was given but the perfect guy for nine to,
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  Speaker 1: eleven and we're coming up on the twenty fifth, year
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  Speaker 1: and then we had The obama, era and that's an
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  Speaker 1: era devoid of anything except sound and, noise representing. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: The Trump era begins in twenty fifteen with The. Escalator it's.
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  Speaker 1: Ongoing it's going to be a fifteen year period Of
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  Speaker 1: america that will be known as The Trump. Era what
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  Speaker 1: is the best and worst development of The Trump? Era
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  Speaker 1: it might not have anything to do With. Trump SO
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  Speaker 1: i think the.
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  Speaker 10: Best development of The Trump era is a reorienting that
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  Speaker 10: needed to happen regarding The Republican party and the coalition
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  Speaker 10: that they needed to. BECOME i think for years people
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  Speaker 10: had been sort of going back and forth about trying
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  Speaker 10: to make certain things. Work rodney, really to his, credit
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  Speaker 10: did his best to try them to make that coalition.
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  Speaker 10: Work Donald trump transformed that, coalition AND i think that
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  Speaker 10: transformation is a positive. ONE i think it's very, good
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  Speaker 10: AND i think it's going to lead to More republican
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  Speaker 10: successes when it comes to the presidential. Politics the flip
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  Speaker 10: side of that is that we have a more, toxic more,
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  Speaker 10: villainous more vile environment when it comes to the expressions
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  Speaker 10: of opinions THAN i have ever seen in my, life
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  Speaker 10: and you. LIVED i, mean you are aware of The nick.
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  Speaker 10: Scenario SO i feel like it's too much for me
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  Speaker 10: to say it's never happened In.
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  Speaker 8: America it's so.
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  Speaker 1: Much worse Than. Nixon it's so much worse Than.
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  Speaker 10: Nixon you, think, Okay so that actually vindicates something THAT i,
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  Speaker 10: think Because i've been arguing that In washington with some
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  Speaker 10: of my younger, COLLEAGUES i think IT'S i think it's
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  Speaker 10: much much. Worse AND i think that the simple fact
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  Speaker 10: is that that's not something that can be recovered from
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  Speaker 10: via an. Election you, know it's not going to be
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  Speaker 10: something where you have a cycle and you get through, it.
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  Speaker 10: Okay Like it's just that is the aspect of The
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  Speaker 10: trump era THAT i think is absolutely the. Worst it
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  Speaker 10: takes normal, people and it incentivizes them to be, radical
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  Speaker 10: to do crazy, things to say crazy, things and to
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  Speaker 10: hate their. Neighbors AND i hate all of. That BUT
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  Speaker 10: i also think that's Not Donald trump's. FAULT i don't
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  Speaker 10: think that he did any of. THAT i don't know
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  Speaker 10: reaction from the.
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  Speaker 1: Left, now let me talk to you about the clarity
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  Speaker 1: that he. BROUGHT i think the best thing that he
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  Speaker 1: ushered in was clarity everybody knows who everybody is and
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  Speaker 1: where they. Stand whether it's McCrone And starmer Or Tucker
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  Speaker 1: carlson And Candace, owen whether it Is John hick And
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  Speaker 1: looper Or Susan. Kallin everybody is out there in the
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  Speaker 1: middle with The cleague lights, on defined by a thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Voye but in the, END i think essentially understood for
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  Speaker 1: who they. Are AND i don't think we're misled about.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone what do you think about?
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  Speaker 10: THEM i think you miss the cold Where HUGH i
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  Speaker 10: appreciated the. Clarity that's where we're. At, NO i think
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  Speaker 10: you're completely. Right and look the other Thing i'll just
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  Speaker 10: say about, this AND i mean it's one of these
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  Speaker 10: areas where WHATEVER i compliment him for, it whatever anybody
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  Speaker 10: compliments him for, it you, know you get backlash for.
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  Speaker 10: IT i appreciate having a president who's this. Funny i'm,
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  Speaker 10: Yeah i'm in the business of. Journalism i'm in the
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  Speaker 10: business of. MEDIA i appreciate having a president who actually
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  Speaker 10: is entertaining and interesting and creates news himself simply from his,
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  Speaker 10: comments you, Know and that's something that you, KNOW i
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  Speaker 10: think we'll miss what he's gone BECAUSE i don't think
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  Speaker 10: that there's going to be anybody who is.
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  Speaker 1: Entertaining don't you really run him to do The Ruthless.
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  Speaker 1: PIKE i did it right along on The ruthless podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Ones AND i said.
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  Speaker 1: That maybe they're. Afraid carolyn And steve are afraid because
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  Speaker 1: it would be the funniest episode in the history of The.
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  Speaker 10: OBVIOUSLY i, mean, Yes, Look i've Known josh And i've
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  Speaker 10: Known duncan for. Years you know that they will get
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  Speaker 10: the best out of. Him he's got to do. IT
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  Speaker 10: i MEAN I i to the extent THAT i can
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  Speaker 10: help make that. Happen AND i MEAN i did. THERE
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  Speaker 10: i did it two weeks three weeks. AGO i can't
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  Speaker 10: remember which and, uh and it's still it's a phenomenal
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  Speaker 10: conversation always and it gets the best out of.
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  Speaker 1: You but were you? FUNNY i told them at the, Beginning,
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  Speaker 1: Look i'm not. Funny i've listened to your show for,
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  Speaker 1: years AND i know what you're supposed to do when
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  Speaker 1: you're ride. ALONG i can't Be Mary Catherine ham Or Ben.
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  Speaker 1: Dominic i'm not the right. Demo but they were nice to. Me,
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  Speaker 1: Uh trump would own.
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  Speaker 10: It, absolutely and you, know and maybe maybe that's the
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  Speaker 10: maybe that's the follow on. Career. NO i THINK i
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  Speaker 10: think that what we can appreciate about This trump era
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  Speaker 10: is that he has Reordered american politics in a way
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  Speaker 10: THAT i think is healthier for The republican. Coalition he's made,
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  Speaker 10: IT i, think a stronger presidential year, coalition emphasis on presidential.
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  Speaker 10: Year BUT i also think that he's someone who has
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  Speaker 10: unfortunately led to a toxicity that has made a lot
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  Speaker 10: of people be crazy who really need to just check.
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  Speaker 10: Themselves all, right you just gave me an, Idea ben
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  Speaker 10: friends as you AND i.
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  Speaker 1: good on, interviews but he Wouldn't he wouldn't be. Funny
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  Speaker 1: trump the podcast would be. Fabulous number.
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  Speaker 10: One number. One.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely all you would need to do is, say, No
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  Speaker 1: Roger goodell last, night what do you? Think and then
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  Speaker 1: lean back and get out of the.
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  Speaker 10: Way, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly he would tell you About rogers's entire life and
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  Speaker 1: he knows. Everyone then you'd go back over To. Broadway
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  Speaker 10: Information the funniest the funniest things that he says are
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  Speaker 10: typically off the. Record and and SO i think you,
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  Speaker 1: Person when did he become? Big so he.
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  Speaker 10: Became big in part because he's just this guy who
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  Speaker 10: name of one of WHICH i can't, name But dwayne
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  Speaker 10: will tell you in the. Break but but the thing
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  Speaker 10: THAT i think is really true about him is he
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  Speaker 10: is a Completely he's a perfect example of how fake
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  Speaker 10: The left. Is this is a guy who comes from
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  Speaker 10: a wealthy. Family he literally had a pony when he
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  Speaker 10: was growing, up not someone who is in any, Way,
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  Speaker 10: yes literally you. Can i'm writing. It it's and the
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  Speaker 10: whole point is like this is a perfect example of
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  Speaker 10: like elite capitalist children who just decide that they hate their,
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  Speaker 10: parents and so because of, that they're going to go
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  Speaker 1: Underground that's WHEN i was in high school and the
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  Speaker 1: weather underground were blowing themselves, up and they were all
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  Speaker 10: Percent these are Not these are not people who are
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  Speaker 10: coming from, that from you, know the underclass and revolting against. People,
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  Speaker 10: no these are wealthy people who who are absolutely doing
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  Speaker 10: this because OF i think deep seated psychological issues that
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  Speaker 10: should have been dealt with in. Therapy i'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Well, ben start thinking about right now being the host
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