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Joe - Trump is doing everything he can do to help Putin · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Tehran says it will retaliate. After the US military attacked
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  Speaker 2: and seized an Iranian cargo ship yesterday, the President claimed
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  Speaker 2: on social media that the ship was attempting to get
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  Speaker 2: past the American blockade of Iran's ports and coastline. That
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  Speaker 2: action is threatening a second round of peace talks for
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  Speaker 2: planned for today in Pakistan. The White House says Vice
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  Speaker 2: President j d Vance is leading the delegation, after President
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  Speaker 2: Trump initially told reporters yesterday the Vice President would not
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  Speaker 2: be traveling to the Middle East, but a spokesman for
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  Speaker 2: the Iranian Foreign Ministries has said that Iran has no
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  Speaker 2: plans for another round of negotiations with the US. All
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  Speaker 2: of this has oil prices rising this morning, with markets
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  Speaker 2: in both the US and internationally jumping five percent, sitting
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  Speaker 2: right now at around eighty eight and ninety six dollars
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  Speaker 2: a barrel. The Trump administration, meanwhile, has again lifted sanctions
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  Speaker 2: on Russian oil for thirty days. That is, despite Treasury
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  Speaker 2: Secretary Scott Bessant ruling out that move. Vowing to rule
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  Speaker 2: it out while speaking to reporters Wednesday at the White House.
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  Speaker 3: We will not be renewing the general license on Russian oil,
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  Speaker 3: and we will not be renewing the general license on
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  Speaker 3: a Rainian oil against that was oil that was on
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  Speaker 3: the water prior to Marshall Levenars, so all that has
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  Speaker 3: been used.
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  Speaker 4: So it's very clear Donald Trump is doing everything he
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  Speaker 4: can do to help Vladimir Putin at a time when
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  Speaker 4: Vladimir Putin finds himself backed into a corner because of
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  Speaker 4: an ongoing war in Ukraine, a war that he thought
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  Speaker 4: was going to be over in three days. It continues
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  Speaker 4: to drag on a year after year. The Trump administration
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  Speaker 4: has been lying for over a year saying that Don
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  Speaker 4: Boss is about to fall. They've continued to lie about
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  Speaker 4: Russia's ability. They've continued to lie about how strong Russia is.
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  Speaker 4: They've continued to lie about how strong Vladimir Putin is.
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  Speaker 4: They've continued to lie about how the Ukrainians have to
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  Speaker 4: back down and do everything they can and just hope
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  Speaker 4: for a piece deal with the Russians. They've continued to
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  Speaker 4: lie about the strength of the economy, the Russian economies,
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  Speaker 4: and tatters that continue to lie about Putin's stability in Russia.
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  Speaker 4: It is at an all time low right now. And
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  Speaker 4: so what do they do they give him another thirty
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  Speaker 4: day lifeline after lying to the American people about not
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  Speaker 4: giving him another thirty day lifeline. It just continues. This
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  Speaker 4: war could be over. Putin could have been forced to
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  Speaker 4: the negotiating table. I know a lot of people in
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  Speaker 4: the past that Putin's going to do what Putin's going
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  Speaker 4: to do, A deal could have been struck. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump himself and people around him, continue to despise
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  Speaker 4: the freedom fighters, continue to despise the Ukrainians, continue to
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  Speaker 4: despise Zelenski, continue to despise the very people that were
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  Speaker 4: invaded by Vladimir Putin's Russian invaders. And as I've said
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  Speaker 4: time and time began on this program, if they didn't
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  Speaker 4: hate the Ukrainian freedom fighters so much, they wouldn't have
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  Speaker 4: stumbled blindly into Iran thinking that they were going to
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  Speaker 4: be able to just knock ran over in three or
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  Speaker 4: four days or in two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: They would have looked at.
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  Speaker 4: What the Ukrainians did, like the Secretary of Army and said,
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  Speaker 4: my god, they've changed the very face of warfare. And
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  Speaker 4: in changing the very face of warfare, they have sent
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  Speaker 4: a real warning signal to us, which we will take
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  Speaker 4: heed of and the president keeps making up wars that
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  Speaker 4: he ended when he won't end the one war he
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  Speaker 4: has the power and leverage to end, and that is
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  Speaker 4: the one between Vladimir Putins, Russian invaders and the Ukrainians.
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  Speaker 4: He just refuses to do it. And Admiral Kirby I
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  Speaker 4: have no idea why he continue use collect Vladimir Putin
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  Speaker 4: off the hook when the Russian leader is so weak
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  Speaker 4: right now, now, look.
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  Speaker 5: Putin wants three things. He wants Ukraine obviously, he wants
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  Speaker 5: to divide the West, and he wants to rebuild from
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  Speaker 5: a wartime economy to a more stable economy.
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  Speaker 1: And many of the.
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  Speaker 5: Decisions that this administration has made in the last fifteen
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  Speaker 5: sixteen months have actually aided him in all three of
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  Speaker 5: those ways, including Besson's you know, extension now of the
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  Speaker 5: waivers here and lifting of the oil sanctions. But to
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  Speaker 5: your point, the war could have could have been ended,
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  Speaker 5: but it would have required things of mister Trump that
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  Speaker 5: I just don't think he's capable of exploring. And one
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  Speaker 5: of them is supporting Zelinsky. I mean, there's a there's
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  Speaker 5: a grudge share that goes way way back to his
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  Speaker 5: first administration with President Zelinsky and Ukraine in general, and
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  Speaker 5: so not supporting them militarily has definitely caused the stasis
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  Speaker 5: that we're seeing along the Donbas, the eastern and the
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  Speaker 5: southern part of Ukraine, and the fact that either side
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  Speaker 5: has really made much progress, but the war drags on,
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  Speaker 5: and again that benefits Vladimir Putin. That's exactly what he wants.
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  Speaker 5: And these the castigating of allies, the lack of pulling
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  Speaker 5: together some kind of international coalition to help in Iran,
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  Speaker 5: all of that also satisfies Putin's desires to further divide
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  Speaker 5: the Western and to divide NATO. I go back to
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  Speaker 5: my trip to Europe this past week speaking to NATO officers,
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  Speaker 5: military officers, I mean they're moving on.
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  Speaker 1: They're moving on without.
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  Speaker 5: The United States, Joe. They see a future in the
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  Speaker 5: Alliance that either has a very minimal American leadership or presence,
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  Speaker 5: or maybe even none, and they are adjusting their realities
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  Speaker 5: to that, and that is exactly what Vladimir Putin wants.
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  Speaker 4: Well and Caddy, the Europeans saw you had the President
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  Speaker 4: of the United States, the Vice President of the United States,
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  Speaker 4: the Secretary of State of the United States, all going
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  Speaker 4: to Hungary. All trying desperately to help a man get
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  Speaker 4: re elected is prim during that country, a man who
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  Speaker 4: told Vladimir Putin basically, I will be your foreign agent here.
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  Speaker 4: The same thing with Lavrov having conversations with his foreign minister,
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  Speaker 4: with Hungary's foreign minister, they were nothing but Putin's dupes.
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  Speaker 4: They were doing everything they could do to help Vladimir
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  Speaker 4: Putin from Hungary to stop every bill that could have
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  Speaker 4: gone through, every funding mechanism that could have gone through
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  Speaker 4: the EU to help the Ukrainians out. It was constantly
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  Speaker 4: orbon standing in the way. And you actually had Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump and Vladimir Putin both desperately trying to help this
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  Speaker 4: man who was desperately trying to help the Russian invaders.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you had the irony during the election in Hungary
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  Speaker 6: that you had jd Events, the Vice President of the
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  Speaker 6: United States, and officers of the GIU, the Russian security services,
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  Speaker 6: both in Budapest at the same time with the same
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  Speaker 6: aim to get Victor Orband elected. And they didn't. And
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  Speaker 6: maybe we'll look back, Joe and think twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 6: was the year of peak popularism. And you've got the
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  Speaker 6: midterm elections in America here coming up that will deal
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  Speaker 6: a blow to populism. You've had the defeat of victor
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  Speaker 6: Orband despite the White House light weighing in that is
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  Speaker 6: also a blow to populism. But Admiral Kirby's quite right.
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  Speaker 6: The net outcome of this escapade that Donald Trump undertook,
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  Speaker 6: this war of choice that he undertook in around the
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  Speaker 6: biggest outcome of it is that it's benefited Russia and
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  Speaker 6: it's benefited China and Mark. One of the things that
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  Speaker 6: is so interesting as we head into this incredibly confusing
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  Speaker 6: week which we really don't know about the Strait, We
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  Speaker 6: don't know about the negotiations, but I keep thinking and
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  Speaker 6: listening back about those negotiations. The White House has been
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  Speaker 6: telling reporters that they're very optimistic, and they were very
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  Speaker 6: optimistic last time around that Vance and the Iranians who
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  Speaker 6: were sent were very close, they almost had some kind
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  Speaker 6: of a deal. Part of me wonders whether that was
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  Speaker 6: just misinformation being spread by the administration because we know
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  Speaker 6: how long it took last time it took twenty months
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  Speaker 6: of direct negotiations to get the JCPOA. Were they really
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  Speaker 6: that close and even if they were closed last time around,
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  Speaker 6: what are the chances for negotiations this week as we
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  Speaker 6: come into as we come head into Pakistan.
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  Speaker 1: So so, Katy, you know, I bought in on Friday
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  Speaker 1: to the same kind of optimism that I think so
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  Speaker 1: many others did as well. I mean, there was kind
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  Speaker 1: of repeated efforts by US officials on background to basically
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  Speaker 1: the entire Washington press corps that things were rather optimistic,
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  Speaker 1: and then they all fell apart. So you do have
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  Speaker 1: to ask yourself, you know, why was this just spin?
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  Speaker 1: Were they trying to do? And I hate to bring
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  Speaker 1: this up at market manipulation? You know, obviously Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: cares about the price of gas being low, oil prices
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  Speaker 1: going down, the stock market going up, all those things happened.
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  Speaker 1: It could be that there also is the notion that,
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  Speaker 1: of course there was a dissension even within the Iranian ranks.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps they were hearing this from certain Iranians they were
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  Speaker 1: talking to. But we've seen over the last twenty four
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  Speaker 1: hours the IRGC, the hardline elements, seemed to be in control,
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  Speaker 1: those with guns make the decisions, and Bahiti, the RGC chief,
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  Speaker 1: seems to be the one calling the shots now. So
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  Speaker 1: it could be a combination of all of those, But
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I think we have
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  Speaker 1: to be cautious when we do hear this kind of
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  Speaker 1: spin from the White House, even if these are sources
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  Speaker 1: that the press have, because the enemy, the Iranians, get
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  Speaker 1: a vote, and I think it turns out at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day that might not have been accurately.
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  Speaker 1: What's happening. One quick point with what Joe said about
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  Speaker 1: David Ignatius. I always have to bring this up. He
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  Speaker 1: wrote a book about his time in Beirut in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty three, the bombing of the US Embassy barracks. It's
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  Speaker 1: called Agents of Innocence. It's about the CIA, the role
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  Speaker 1: there that the CIA had in recruiting agents. I gave
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  Speaker 1: that book to every young case officer whoever worked for
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  Speaker 1: me when I was the deputy op chief of the
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  Speaker 1: Neeres Division, and so David a little bit younger, but
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  Speaker 1: his impact is pretty profound, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Ms NOW National Security and Intelligence Analysts retired CIA officer
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  Speaker 2: Mark Moropolis and ms NOW National Security analyst retired Rear
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  Speaker 2: Admiral John Kirby, thank you both very much for coming
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  Speaker 2: on this morning.