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John Solomon | Founder of "Just the News" | 06-10-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: Let me talk to John Solomon, John, let me read
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  Speaker 2: this to you. This is Trump's truth social It's on
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  Speaker 2: Fox News the last hour. I've talked about it with
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  Speaker 2: guests as well. Elon's military is a complete and total
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  Speaker 2: mass blah blah blah. Much of it, like the Navy
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  Speaker 2: and Air Force, doesn't even exist. I don't care. They've
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  Speaker 2: been completely defeated. No, they haven't. Eanon is all talking,
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  Speaker 2: no action. That's not true. The bully of the Middle
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  Speaker 2: East is dead. Not you either. They've taken too long
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  Speaker 2: to negotiate a deal that would have been great for them.
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  Speaker 2: Now they'll have to pay the price. John nobody loves
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  Speaker 2: this guy more than me nobody. I adore him, and
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  Speaker 2: I think the feeling is mutual with me and Trump.
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  Speaker 2: But this is nonsense. You've been on this show a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of times now, and I go back to that
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday night six weeks ago with Trump promised to light
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  Speaker 2: up the sky and they didn't do it. He said,
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  Speaker 2: now we'll give them a little more time. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to hear about Scott Pssant. I don't care. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to hear about how we're strangling them financially.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care because they don't care. Their people can
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  Speaker 2: die of starvation. They don't care. It is time for
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  Speaker 2: President Trump to do what he's been threatening to do
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  Speaker 2: time and time again, and finally just finish these guys off.
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  Speaker 2: John Solomon, your thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's finally hit that button. I think last
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  Speaker 3: night the proportional attack was they warm up to something
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  Speaker 3: much larger. And I think the proportional attack was designed
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  Speaker 3: to see, Hey, Ron, are you gonna take this one
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  Speaker 3: or you're gonna respond? They responded a little bit this morning.
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  Speaker 3: They don't have a lot to respond with, but they
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  Speaker 3: still have menacing weapons. I think Trump is gonna leash
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  Speaker 3: hell on them over the next several days, And really,
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  Speaker 3: I think what the assessment is inside the Trump administration
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  Speaker 3: is that the civilian leadership probably would make a deal,
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  Speaker 3: but the IRGC simply won't. So I wouldn't be surprised
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  Speaker 3: if he thinned out the IRGC by tens of thousands.
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  Speaker 3: I think you'll see some massive hits on IRGC compounds.
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  Speaker 3: Some of these cowards. These IRGC cowards, they've moved up
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  Speaker 3: to the Aftghan border so they can go flee and
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  Speaker 3: go hang out with the Taliban when they get roosted
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  Speaker 3: from their country. I think Trump knows where they are.
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  Speaker 3: I think he hit some hard over the next several
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  Speaker 3: days and finds out the primary opposition to making a deal.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, the intelligence that we get from my reporting
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  Speaker 3: is that the civilian leadership seems to want to make
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  Speaker 3: a deal rhetoric aside, they're making constructive offers, but the
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  Speaker 3: IRGC just continues to attack, attack, attack, And I think
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's going to show them, you think you got
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  Speaker 3: something left, take this and I think you may see
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  Speaker 3: some non conventional warfare. You may see some space based
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  Speaker 3: laser weapons deployed for the first time, but if I'm
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  Speaker 3: an IRGC commander, I think your next four or five
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  Speaker 3: days could be pretty ugly assuming the President hits the
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  Speaker 3: go butt. And I think this morning's announcement is a
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  Speaker 3: pretty clear thing that the president's patience is over and
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  Speaker 3: now fury is about to follow.
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  Speaker 2: Is it fair to assume, though, John and I know
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  Speaker 2: President Trump is a good guy. He's got a big heart.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't want to kill anybody. He really doesn't. Now
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  Speaker 2: Selamney's a different story, obviously, But isn't it fair to assume, though,
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  Speaker 2: that if he does what you're talking about, which I
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  Speaker 2: want him to do. I want him to do it,
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  Speaker 2: but there will be some pretty meaningful Euanian civilian debts
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  Speaker 2: over the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: There could be a lot of the IRGC are and
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  Speaker 3: fortified bunkers away from the city. It's hard to build
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  Speaker 3: a fortified bunker in the city because he got transit
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  Speaker 3: and roads that go over, so a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: IRGC are not in They're not stashed in civilian areas.
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  Speaker 3: We've got plenty of smart bombs that are pretty good precision,
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  Speaker 3: but I think the IRGC are in these deep, deep
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  Speaker 3: compounds way below the earth, in an area far from
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  Speaker 3: the urban area, so that you can literally get down
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  Speaker 3: and be bunkerd and even our bunker busters will have
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  Speaker 3: a hard time getting through on the first rounds. You
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  Speaker 3: may have to make two or three bunker buster rounds
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  Speaker 3: to really collapse them in. But I think that that's
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  Speaker 3: where they are. The original strikes when you go back
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  Speaker 3: to February, those are precision strikes right in downtown Teyran.
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  Speaker 3: In some cases, a lot of the IRGC masses, the
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  Speaker 3: ten twenty thousand groups of battalions, they're out in forty
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  Speaker 3: five bunkers away from the civilian leadership right now, because
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  Speaker 3: that's the only way you can build something that deep
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  Speaker 3: and strong, and so I think civilian casualties may be
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  Speaker 3: a little less. I mean, there are always civilian casualties
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  Speaker 3: in a ward. It's the cost of war, sadly, and
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  Speaker 3: I know the president doesn't want any, but I think
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  Speaker 3: you're going to see some pretty significant strikes that go
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  Speaker 3: at the large and mass gup if you can fin
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  Speaker 3: out the IRGCED. I think the current thinking in the
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  Speaker 3: CIA is that thinning them out could potentially lead to
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  Speaker 3: a deal. We'll see. If not, they'll just go all
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  Speaker 3: the way and conquer this tire regime until the people
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  Speaker 3: can overtake the country. I do think the president's moving
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  Speaker 3: in that direction.
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  Speaker 2: You should. And I've got buddies who are they're in
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  Speaker 2: the Pentagon that they are, and they've been telling me
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  Speaker 2: that these bunker buster bombs and John, you are clearly brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: I love you. I'm so impressed that these bunker buster
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  Speaker 2: bombs will not get the job done every time, right,
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  Speaker 2: And it's just a matter of time. We're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to put We're gonna have to put boots on the ground,
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  Speaker 2: send our kids in there to get to some of
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  Speaker 2: these people, even the uranium at some point. What are
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  Speaker 2: the odds of that now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think one of the things that that's
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  Speaker 3: why I mentioned the space based laser weapons. You can
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  Speaker 3: hit a compound and expose it with a bunker buster bomb,
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  Speaker 3: and then you can drop some laser in there to
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  Speaker 3: really penetrate. Then you can drop another bunker's buster bomb.
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  Speaker 3: I think you might see some new warfare unlike anything
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  Speaker 3: that America has ever unleashed. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we'll see, we'll see if they put that together. But
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  Speaker 3: the combination of space laser weapons, bunker busters and then
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  Speaker 3: returning to bunker busters could collapses or melt these compounds
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  Speaker 3: down to a point where no one can survive inside,
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  Speaker 3: and I do think that that's probably what we're looking at.
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  Speaker 3: I think last night there's some pretty pretty precision strikes
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  Speaker 3: that caused some pretty big casualties. I'm hearing that some
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  Speaker 3: of the IRGC commanders were killed this today. That's a
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  Speaker 3: good thing for our American perspective. But I think you're right.
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  Speaker 3: They're hunkered down. They think they're hunger down, but they've
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  Speaker 3: never faced weaponry that America has held in reserve for
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  Speaker 3: a long time. So I think it's possible the President
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  Speaker 3: could deploy some new types of weapons and new types
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  Speaker 3: of strategies. I don't think we'll see boots on the
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  Speaker 3: ground immediately, but I wouldn't be surprised if we send
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  Speaker 3: out the IRGC that a special operations team went in
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  Speaker 3: and got that uranium. It's about a four to five
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  Speaker 3: day mission, so you're gonna have to hold the ground,
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  Speaker 3: and that's why I think sending out the IRGC, and
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  Speaker 3: it's military there. One of the things that we've heard
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  Speaker 3: is that some of the traditional military people are leaving
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  Speaker 3: now and some of the IRGC support staff are leaving
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  Speaker 3: because they literally can't feed their family. So there are
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  Speaker 3: defections going on right now, which is a sign that
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  Speaker 3: the economic pressure has had some impact. But at the
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  Speaker 3: same time, I think there's no other way than from
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  Speaker 3: the people I talked to, it is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a very hard hit military that's going to be required
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  Speaker 3: to make a significant impact on these piece negotiations. I
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  Speaker 3: don't see boots on the ground in a large way.
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  Speaker 3: I do think some surgical boots at some point. Surgical
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  Speaker 3: strikes with our Navy, Seals and Special Force is probably.
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  Speaker 2: Likely four to five hundred strikes a day we may see.
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  Speaker 2: So John, I don't know if you know this, but
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  Speaker 2: I am well. I've been invited to speak at the
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  Speaker 2: second annual JNS dot org International Policy Summit. It's a
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  Speaker 2: three day event. We did it last year. Yeah, it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Wald Up a historian Jerusalem. It starts off Sunday night
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  Speaker 2: with Pebe and Huckabee and then Tuesday nights the last
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  Speaker 2: night of speakers. It's me. It's Mark Levan. It's a
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  Speaker 2: hue genre. I did it last year. I'm doing it
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  Speaker 2: again this year. But I am set to go my
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  Speaker 2: fifth trip back to Israel since twenty twenty three. I'm
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  Speaker 2: set to go a week from tomorrow. But if President
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  Speaker 2: Trump does what you and I both think he's going
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  Speaker 2: to do, is it bear to assume that my trip
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  Speaker 2: to Israel next week may be postponed.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a possibility because Israel will be the
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  Speaker 3: natural recipient of any Iranian aggression that's left. The Iranians
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  Speaker 3: really can't reach anything far now. They're long range missiles
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  Speaker 3: and mid range missiles are pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm glad you said that. That's why when people
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  Speaker 2: get mad at BB like I always say on the air, John,
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati's not in danger, Brooklyn and Oregon is not in danger.
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  Speaker 2: We piss off the Iranians and people are going to
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  Speaker 2: die in Televiv tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, That's exactly, and that's all that the Iranians
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  Speaker 3: have left. I think there is in this pause, and
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  Speaker 3: I think one of the things that maybe wasn't put
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  Speaker 3: into the equation on this pause is that we needed
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  Speaker 3: to resupply our missile batteries. We went through an awful
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  Speaker 3: lot of defense missiles protecting all of our allies in
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  Speaker 3: the region. So the pause may have had less to
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  Speaker 3: do with Donald Trump being patient with Iron. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think he's ever really figured thought that Iran was a
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  Speaker 3: good actor. It may have been to give our defense
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  Speaker 3: establishment the ability to get another ten thousand Patriot missiles
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  Speaker 3: and Tomahawk missiles resupplied for round two. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: that gets mentioned enough. But you saw those classified leaks
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  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago that we were a little depleted.
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  Speaker 3: My reporting indicates that's true. I think we're resupplied now
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  Speaker 3: in a good way, and so some of the possum
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  Speaker 3: here may have been less about tolerating Iron's bad behavior
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  Speaker 3: and more about allowing our defense establishment to recalibrate our
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  Speaker 3: weaponry so that in the second round we could protect
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  Speaker 3: everybody from Israel to Cutter and UAE and all of
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  Speaker 3: our allies that are now fully aligned with us. And
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  Speaker 3: so I think that may have been a part of
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  Speaker 3: the calculus. That six eight week pause may have been
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  Speaker 3: about resupplying more than anything. But I do think now
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  Speaker 3: you have a sense that the President has all the
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  Speaker 3: since he needs to really put a licking on Iron.
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  Speaker 3: I think if Iron thought they were hit first hard
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  Speaker 3: the last time, this one's going to be much more
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  Speaker 3: painfulk a little with.
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  Speaker 2: That final, I know you got a want final sixty seconds.
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  Speaker 2: When do you think when can Americans expect to see
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  Speaker 2: Box News break in with a whole bunch of explosions
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  Speaker 2: all over Iran? How quickly?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I think in the next forty eight hours, based
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  Speaker 3: on the President's comments this morning. But you know, the
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  Speaker 3: element of surprise is often our best element. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we've headfaked Iran many times, including last summer where they
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  Speaker 3: thought they were looking for the bombers in a different
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  Speaker 3: direction that came in a different way. So there's always
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  Speaker 3: a game of syops in an element of surprise. But
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  Speaker 3: based on the President's comments, I assume this is imminent
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  Speaker 3: and then sometime in the next forty eight hours, some
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  Speaker 3: very serious armaments are going to start flying.
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  Speaker 2: John Solomon, I love you everybody. Do give my best
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  Speaker 2: to your family. Your terrific Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: We listened to you every day. Thanks so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks John, I who love that guy. He's great.
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  Speaker 2: What the heck is going on here