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This was one of the 'FINAL STRAWS' for Starmer, expert says · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: We are back with a Fox News alert.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: Starmer's stepping down as Prime Minister of the UK after
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  Speaker 1: growing pressure from the Labor Party.
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  Speaker 3: Former Deputy National Security advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney,
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  Speaker 3: Steve Gates joins us. Now, Steve, thanks for coming to
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  Speaker 3: talk about this. So Starmer's out, It's going to kickstart
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  Speaker 3: this whole process for the country to see at seventh
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  Speaker 3: liter in a decade. So what are your thoughts on
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  Speaker 3: this news this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first and foremost, I think there's just been a
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  Speaker 2: tectonic shift in politics, not just in the UK but
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  Speaker 2: in many, many different places, and a lot of it
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  Speaker 2: just comes down to a population that is fed up
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  Speaker 2: with the kind of governance that seems to have contempt
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  Speaker 2: for the civilizations on which our politics are based. And
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  Speaker 2: I think especially the very tragic Henry Noak case, I
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  Speaker 2: think was one of the final straws that just exposed
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  Speaker 2: this combination of open borders plus wokeism that I think
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  Speaker 2: has just rereaked havoc across a lot of the UK,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of citizens of the UK feel as
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  Speaker 2: if this is just not fair to them and want
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  Speaker 2: to change, and I think that's why we had an
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  Speaker 2: overwhelming turnout in recent local elections for Nigel Faraj's party
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  Speaker 2: and probably why there is this ground swell against Starmer's
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  Speaker 2: leadership in the Labor Party.
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  Speaker 1: And for those that don't know, the Harry Noai case
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  Speaker 1: is a young man who was stabbed to death and
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  Speaker 1: as he lay bleeding to death, he in fact was
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  Speaker 1: the one that was arrested and not the illegal immigrant. Generally,
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  Speaker 1: if you're waking up here at five twenty one and
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  Speaker 1: East Coast, you're wondering, why do I care about this
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  Speaker 1: Kere Starmer news As an American, so answer that, why
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  Speaker 1: does this matter to the average American waking up this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first and foremost, there are a lot of common
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  Speaker 2: objectives that everyday Brits and everyday Americans share, and some
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  Speaker 2: of those interests have clashed because of political decisions made
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  Speaker 2: by the UK government. First and foremost, honoring an alliance
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  Speaker 2: a fundamental proposition for the United States and the UK.
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  Speaker 2: We call it a special relationship. A lot of British
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  Speaker 2: citizens would honor that. Whether the UK was not standing
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  Speaker 2: by the United States when we were engaging in major
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  Speaker 2: military operations build up in the Middle East against Iran,
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  Speaker 2: it was a break with the past. I think that
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  Speaker 2: was felt President Trump felt it, and there's also been
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  Speaker 2: I think somewhat greater animus aimed at our president and
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  Speaker 2: our policies in some ways than there have been against
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  Speaker 2: what are real threats in the world. And so a
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  Speaker 2: different leadership in the UK presents an opportunity for a
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  Speaker 2: smoother relationship with allies that can stand up. The question
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  Speaker 2: is whether a new Labor leader can do that or
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  Speaker 2: whether it has to be a change from labor in
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  Speaker 2: order to break with this wochism that I think is
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  Speaker 2: the fundamental cancer in their politics at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I want to get to this. The first
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  Speaker 3: round of peace talks in Switzerland came to a close
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  Speaker 3: after President Trump he called out the Islamic Republic if
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  Speaker 3: they refused to open this Strait of Hormuz and then
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  Speaker 3: reign in their terrace. You know, at one point in
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  Speaker 3: these negotiations this past weekend, these Iranian negotiators just walked
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  Speaker 3: out of the meeting. Obviously they were not happy about that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think anybody should be shocked by that necessarily,
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  Speaker 3: but it kind of sets the tone for how the
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  Speaker 3: next sixty days, at least in my opinion, about how
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  Speaker 3: the next sixty days are going to go, because then
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  Speaker 3: you have to also consider Israel. As we heard Trey
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  Speaker 3: Yinks say, Israel is not happy about all this either.
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  Speaker 3: So where do you see this going?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the administration has a significant challenge. It was always
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  Speaker 2: going to be a challenge because they've chosen to go
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  Speaker 2: between two extremes that haven't worked for the United States,
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  Speaker 2: between sort of invading and occupying a country and one
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  Speaker 2: of just negotiation, borderline buying the threat. And so this
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  Speaker 2: middle ground of using American overwhelming capabilities to pressure financially
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  Speaker 2: and militarily a change is I think a prudent use
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  Speaker 2: of American force, but it comes with the risks of
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  Speaker 2: having unclear lines of authority in Iran after taking out
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  Speaker 2: a couple of layers, and in terms of politics, there
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  Speaker 2: are some fundamentals that have gone very very well for
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  Speaker 2: the United States militarily and in terms of strategically in
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  Speaker 2: the broader Middle East, but it doesn't look good along
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  Speaker 2: the way because of these spasms that come from the
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  Speaker 2: Iranian side with regard to the strait of hormuse and
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  Speaker 2: sort of the theatrics of the summetery. Now we're told
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  Speaker 2: that some progress has been made. I tend to believe
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  Speaker 2: the broad arc of this direction is going in the
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  Speaker 2: right way, but it doesn't look good. And that's sort
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  Speaker 2: of one of the basic rules of politics. It's not
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  Speaker 2: enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where I think the US and its allies
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  Speaker 2: need a few wins to show people that this is working,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope they're close. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I also think we're going to find out right away
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  Speaker 1: how truly serious in air quotes Iran is when we
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  Speaker 1: see how they spend the unfrozen funds. If it goes
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  Speaker 1: to building a hospital, you know, col callor me shocked,
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  Speaker 1: but as we all expect, it's probably going to go
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  Speaker 1: to fund and the bad guys, regardless of where they
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  Speaker 1: are in the world, and that's concerning Steve Yates. Appreciate
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  Speaker 1: your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. Thank you.
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