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Trump readies RETALIATION after Iran targets US bases · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: We are also awaiting America's next move after Iran attacked U.S.
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  Speaker 1: forces in Jordan overnight. President Trump telling Fox the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: will hit back hard after the first known exchange of
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  Speaker 1: strikes in a month. I'm John Roberts. Welcome to Monday, Sandra.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little bit of Groundhog Day when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to Iran.
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  Speaker 2: It is good to be with you and start this
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  Speaker 2: new week with you, John. I'm Sandra Smith in New York.
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  Speaker 2: This is America Report. So Iran's attack comes just hours
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  Speaker 2: after U.S. forces hit Iranian military positions in one of
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  Speaker 2: the narrowest parts of the street of Hormuz. And the
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  Speaker 2: military pressure is only one part of it.
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  Speaker 3: The U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Is also tightening the economic squeeze on Tehran.
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  Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Scott Besson now pressing G20 finance officials to
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  Speaker 1: cut trade ties with Iran and says their latest attack
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  Speaker 1: is a sign that pressure is working.
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  Speaker 3: They are lashing out kinetically because they are losing economically.
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  Speaker 3: The economy doesn't have to collapse.
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  Speaker 4: We just have to have the regime come to their senses.
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  Speaker 2: Brent Sadler will react here in moments. But first, let's
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  Speaker 2: get to our chief foreign correspondent, Trey Yinks, who's reporting
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  Speaker 2: live out of Tel Aviv.
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  Speaker 4: Trey.
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  Speaker 5: Sandra, good afternoon. President Trump told Fox News there will
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  Speaker 5: be a response to that Iranian attack on U.S. forces
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  Speaker 5: overnight in Jordan. The president said, we're going to hit
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  Speaker 5: them hard. There will be a response. Now, this comes
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  Speaker 5: after Iran launched at least eight ballistic missiles at U.S.
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  Speaker 5: forces in Jordan. The president says all of the missiles
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  Speaker 5: were shot down, with the exception of one that wasn't
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  Speaker 5: going to hit anything significant. The attack came after U.S.
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  Speaker 5: forces struck Iran's Larak Island after identifying preparations for an
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  Speaker 5: IRGC rocket launch. that was meant to place new sea
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  Speaker 5: mines in the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM released a statement
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  Speaker 5: saying U.S. forces took limited, precise action against IRGC mine-laying
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  Speaker 5: forces posing an imminent threat in the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 5: In essence, Iran created the threat, and the U.S. military
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  Speaker 5: eliminated it to protect civilian mariners, commercial shipping, and the
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  Speaker 5: free flow of global commerce. This is the first known U.S.
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  Speaker 5: strike against Iran since late July. The event comes as
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  Speaker 5: reports indicate the U.S. may ramp up economic pressure this
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  Speaker 5: week against Iran.
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  Speaker 6: We continue to have a lot of tools at our
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  Speaker 6: disposal to prevent them from doing so or at least
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  Speaker 6: cut down on them from doing so. And that's what
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  Speaker 6: the president is saying is, look, you guys are shooting
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  Speaker 6: at commercial shipping. You guys are behaving like a terrorist country.
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  Speaker 6: You've got to stop or there are going to be
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  Speaker 6: some consequences.
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  Speaker 5: Following new sanctions last week, Iranian officials reacted over the
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  Speaker 5: weekend with Iran's supreme leader, Moshtaba Khamenei, urging more domestic
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  Speaker 5: production and less reliance on the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Dollar.
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  Speaker 5: The pressure is starting to build in Tehran, with civilians
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  Speaker 5: speaking out about the rising cost of goods and broader
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  Speaker 5: economic situation.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, that overshadows things somewhat. Maybe if the economic situation
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  Speaker 3: was a little better now, perhaps the war wouldn't have
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  Speaker 3: been reached that ceasefire. They might have kept going a
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  Speaker 3: bit longer. But I think the economic situation could become
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  Speaker 3: more challenging.
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  Speaker 5: The region now waits to see how the United States
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  Speaker 5: will respond to that Iranian attack on U.S. forces overnight.
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  Speaker 4: Sandra.
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  Speaker 2: Trey Yinks with that out of Tel Aviv for us. Trey,
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  Speaker 2: thank you.
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  Speaker 3: John.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Senator Brett Sadler is here, retired Navy captain,
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  Speaker 1: former Pentagon official. So the president, according to Trey Inkst,
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  Speaker 1: in his conversation, said about Iran that there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be retaliatory strikes coming. He said, quote, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to hit them hard. This after attacks on the Al-Azraq
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  Speaker 1: Air Base and the King Hussein Air Base in Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, all of the missiles except one were intercepted.
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  Speaker 1: The one that wasn't intercepted fell in a place where
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't going to hurt anybody. There were no injuries
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  Speaker 1: as far as we know from this, but it's pretty clear.
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  Speaker 1: that the president is saying, I'm done with this game
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  Speaker 1: that Iran is playing. I'm not going to sit back
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  Speaker 1: and let them retaliate and not hit back again.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: I think the tempo and the response, the size of it,
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  Speaker 7: is for the president to decide. And I think that
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  Speaker 7: is something that gives us the benefit of time, not
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  Speaker 7: to go too high and right or too excessive in
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  Speaker 7: the response, but keeping the main thing the main thing,
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  Speaker 7: that is, allowing the economic D-Day to play out, but
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  Speaker 7: at the same time having an adequate and very timely
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  Speaker 7: military response— Another point that I think is important to note,
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  Speaker 7: the attack on Larrak Island, where there was apparently, like,
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  Speaker 7: rocket-assisted mines that were going to be placed, that proactive
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  Speaker 7: military response, not waiting until after the Iranians' attack, is
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  Speaker 7: a key thing. And that should probably be something to
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  Speaker 7: be looking for, to be continued, and more aggressively along
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  Speaker 7: that coastline in the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, just looking at the map there, Larrak
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  Speaker 1: Island is about 20 miles off of the coast of Iran.
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  Speaker 1: It's near Keshim Island and Hormuz Island. That's where they
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  Speaker 1: had some missiles with mines somehow attached to them that
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  Speaker 1: they were going to try to fire into the Strait
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  Speaker 1: of Hormuz. And what's really interesting, too, if we could
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  Speaker 1: put up this other graphic of transit routes through the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz, going in between Larik Island and Keshem Island,
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  Speaker 1: as demonstrated here in this— or illustrated here in this graphic,
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  Speaker 1: was the so-called Iranian extortion route. You get them close
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  Speaker 1: enough to Iranian territory, you can charge them a million
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  Speaker 1: dollars to go through.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 7: Larrick Island is definitely a tactical importance in the control
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  Speaker 7: of the Strait of Hormuz. And with the amount of
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  Speaker 7: American military assets in the region, it's clear there's a
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  Speaker 7: lot of eyes along that coastline. So if the Iranians
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  Speaker 7: are bold enough to move or to try to put
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  Speaker 7: a missile in place, it gets hit before it even
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  Speaker 7: gets the shot off.
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  Speaker 1: So Jack Keane was on Newsroom earlier this morning and
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  Speaker 1: said he thought that the Iranians trying to remine the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz and using missiles to do as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to boats because they don't have a lot of boats
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  Speaker 1: left really was a sign of the desperation that they're.
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  Speaker 4: In right now. Listen to what he said. I think
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  Speaker 4: clearly the Iranians, I think, are in a more desperate
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  Speaker 4: mood here than what we've seen in the past by
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  Speaker 4: imposing this now. And obviously we dealt with that. Cooper
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  Speaker 4: has what we call preemption authority. If he sees Iran
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  Speaker 4: getting ready to do something, he doesn't have to ask
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  Speaker 4: permission to act.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the president said last week that the Space
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  Speaker 1: Force is watching every square inch of the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 1: And if the Iranians get ready to do anything like
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  Speaker 1: they tried to over the weekend, they're going to get
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  Speaker 1: punched and punched hard.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely. And as far as those missile launches, again, continuing
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  Speaker 7: on after the first two weeks of this conflict, the
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  Speaker 7: Iranians are not able to really launch massive missile strikes
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  Speaker 7: and certainly not coordinated. So that's still the truth. But
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  Speaker 7: they're also every time they take a shot at our
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  Speaker 7: bases in the region. It's like a finger pointing right
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  Speaker 7: back to where they're operating or where they're moving from.
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  Speaker 7: And so, if the president does decide to go after
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  Speaker 7: those launchers, they probably have a pretty substantial amount of
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  Speaker 7: intelligence to make it hurt.
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  Speaker 1: So, what do you think the president does go after?
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  Speaker 1: Does he just go after the launchers? Because, obviously, Space
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  Speaker 1: Force saw everything happening. Or does he go after a
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  Speaker 1: different target to send a stronger message? I think he
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  Speaker 1: does both.
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  Speaker 7: He continues the proactive military posture in the Straits of Hormuz,
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  Speaker 7: see a threat, attack the threat. as well as going
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  Speaker 7: after these actual ballistic missile attacks, because that's been the
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  Speaker 7: other option the Iranians have kind of fallen back on.
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  Speaker 7: They don't have much left to do, and their only
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  Speaker 7: leverage is in the Strait of Hormuz, which we are
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  Speaker 7: rapidly removing completely.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I said over the weekend on X that
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  Speaker 1: it's like a juvenile delinquent with a box of matches.
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  Speaker 1: They just can't help themselves.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Brent, always great to see you. Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
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