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The 11th Hour Breakthrough | Episode 263 · V

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  Speaker 1: Hey, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Vince on a Wednesday. It is great to
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  Speaker 2: have you with us. And how about that? A deadline
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  Speaker 2: arrived and no strikes. Why is that? Because a breakthrough
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  Speaker 2: in negotiations occurred last night just before the president's deadline.
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  Speaker 2: Massive news ahead. on everything that's transpired between the United
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  Speaker 2: States and Iran and how President Trump pulled it off.
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  Speaker 2: It's all ahead on this edition of Vince. Also, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to take a closer look at going after fraud
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  Speaker 2: across the country. The United States Department of Justice, serious
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  Speaker 2: about this, urged by President Trump to do that. And
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  Speaker 2: we saw Todd Bland step up to the microphone yesterday
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  Speaker 2: and explain it. And then we saw reporters ask him
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  Speaker 2: very stupid questions, and he slam dunked them for their
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  Speaker 2: very stupid questions. I've got all of that ahead. On
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  Speaker 2: this edition of Vince, it is as always so great
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  Speaker 2: The president gave a mighty ultimatum yesterday. He said, you
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  Speaker 2: better come to the table. You better start making a
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  Speaker 2: deal with me or else we're going to blow you
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  Speaker 2: to smithereens. Smithereens. He didn't use that word, but he
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  Speaker 2: did say that civilizational destruction was en route to Iran,
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  Speaker 2: which got the whole internet going crazy yesterday. Did you
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  Speaker 2: guys see this yesterday? People were going absolutely ape. over
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  Speaker 2: the fact that the president said that he was about
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  Speaker 2: to destroy an entire civilization. And, you know, it's interesting
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  Speaker 2: because as soon as I saw that, I go, well,
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  Speaker 2: this is typical. This is typical Donald Trump. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: is maximum carrot and maximum stick. It's always that way.
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  Speaker 2: Every negotiation that this guy uses is it's always, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to make your world incredible. But if you fail me,
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  Speaker 2: I will destroy you. Those are the options. So pick one.
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  Speaker 2: You can pick the one you like. Do you want
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  Speaker 2: to have an amazing future? Or do you want to
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  Speaker 2: be remembered as a complete failure? These are your options.
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  Speaker 2: And every single time, it's the same exact thing. And
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  Speaker 2: then you get a bunch of chicken littles running around,
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  Speaker 2: going absolutely ape, just going crazy. And the reality is,
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  Speaker 2: you need to keep cool, my babies. This is why
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  Speaker 2: I tweeted last night, keep cool, my babies. And that's,
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  Speaker 2: of course, with all due credit to Conan O'Brien, Years ago,
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  Speaker 2: he came up with that. Keep cool, my babies. Just
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  Speaker 2: keep your head on right. You know, just a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of, you know, masculine foot planting. Just plant your feet,
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  Speaker 2: survey the atmosphere, and then kind of like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: remember how the president operates. And he operates pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: If you go back in time in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: way the president has conducted this business in the past,
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  Speaker 2: let me show you something. You remember back in 2017?
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  Speaker 2: President Trump was dealing with an out of control North
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  Speaker 2: Korea and Kim Jong-un. And the Kim Jong-un kept threatening
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  Speaker 2: to like destroy America. And this was getting really belligerent
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  Speaker 2: and out of control. And he was doing these this
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  Speaker 2: nuclear missile testing, firing in the direction of the Hawaiian islands.
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  Speaker 2: There's there was a lot going on. And the president
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  Speaker 2: took time out of an opioid meeting, an opioid meeting.
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  Speaker 2: to send a message to North Korea. And here's the
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  Speaker 2: message he sent at the time. Remember this one? Stand by.
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  Speaker 1: Hold up.
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  Speaker 2: Let me make sure I get you the audio correctly.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is. Here's the president at the time.
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  Speaker 4: North Korea best not make any more threats to the
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  Speaker 4: United States. They will be met with fire and fury
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  Speaker 4: like the world has never seen.
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  Speaker 5: North Korea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. They will be met with fire and fury like
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  Speaker 2: the world has never seen. What did the president achieve
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  Speaker 2: with that statement? Does anybody remember the history of this?
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  Speaker 2: After he made that statement, he shook free historic diplomacy
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  Speaker 2: with North Korea, meetings with Kim Jong-un. They decreased their
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  Speaker 2: nuclear missile testing dramatically. They actually were making ovations to
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  Speaker 2: the United States to try and improve the quality of
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  Speaker 2: the relationship. The president came in with a clear goal.
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  Speaker 2: In 2017, we have to stop the belligerence of a
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  Speaker 2: nuclearized North Korea. North Korea already has and had at
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  Speaker 2: the time nuclear weapons. And the president's overriding priority was
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  Speaker 2: how do I mitigate that threat? And that's what he
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  Speaker 2: came up with. He threatened them into compliance. He meets
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  Speaker 2: with them and he decreases their belligerence. That's a huge deal.
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  Speaker 2: And so here he is talking about Iran, an issue
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  Speaker 2: that he's been talking about his entire political life and
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  Speaker 2: even before that. From the moment he came down the
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  Speaker 2: golden escalator in 2015, he said we need to denuclearize Iran.
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  Speaker 2: And here he is pursuing it with success. They strike
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  Speaker 2: the nuclear facilities last year. They take out as much
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  Speaker 2: of the nuclear stockpiles as they can. And now as
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  Speaker 2: Iran was developing this massive conventional weapons arsenal to try
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  Speaker 2: and safeguard its ability to rebuild the nuclear program, President
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  Speaker 2: Trump cut them off at the pass. Beat them into submission.
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  Speaker 2: And now they've come to the table and they say
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  Speaker 2: they want to make a deal. They've cried uncle. No more.
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  Speaker 2: No more. Here's what developed last night. President Trump posting
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  Speaker 2: to Truth Social at, let's see, 6.32 p.m. Eastern time
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  Speaker 2: last night. He said, based on conversations with Prime Minister
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  Speaker 2: Shabazz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir of Pakistan, Pakistan
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  Speaker 2: involved in the negotiations last night. wherein they request that
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  Speaker 2: I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran,
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  Speaker 2: and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to
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  Speaker 2: the complete, immediate, and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz,
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  Speaker 2: I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran
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  Speaker 2: for a period of two weeks. This will be a
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  Speaker 2: double-sided ceasefire. The reason for doing so is that we've
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  Speaker 2: already met and exceeded all of our military objectives. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we destroyed their whole air force, we sunk their navy,
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  Speaker 2: we're destroying all their missile stockpiles. We're very far along
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  Speaker 2: with a definitive agreement concerning long-term peace with Iran and
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  Speaker 2: peace in the Middle East. We received a 10-point proposal
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  Speaker 2: from Iran and believe it is a workable basis on
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  Speaker 2: which to negotiate. Almost all of the various points of
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  Speaker 2: past contention have been agreed to between the United States
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  Speaker 2: and Iran, but a two-week period will allow the agreement
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  Speaker 2: to be finalized and consummated. On behalf of the United
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  Speaker 2: States of America as president and also representing the countries
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  Speaker 2: of the Middle East, it is an honor to have
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  Speaker 2: this long-term problem close to resolution. Thank you for your
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  Speaker 2: attention to this matter, President Donald J.
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  Speaker 1: Trump.
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  Speaker 2: So a bunch of people breathing a sigh of relief.
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  Speaker 2: The markets, by the way, instantly popping last night. Oil futures, like,
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  Speaker 2: just absolutely plummeting. The cost per barrel dropping immediately below $ 100.
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  Speaker 2: Just massive improvements very quickly to the markets as a
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  Speaker 2: calm set in. A bunch of, excuse me, among a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of people who were absolutely panicking about where this
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  Speaker 2: thing went next. On the Iranian side, the Iranian foreign minister,
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  Speaker 2: Syed Abbas Araghachi said the following. He said, on behalf
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  Speaker 2: of the Islamic Republic of Iran, oh my gosh, here
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  Speaker 2: it is. On behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran,
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  Speaker 2: I express gratitude and appreciation for my dear brothers, His Excellency,
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  Speaker 2: the Prime Minister of Pakistan and His Excellency, the Field
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  Speaker 2: Marshal of Pakistan for their tireless efforts to end the
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  Speaker 2: war in the region. He said, in response to these
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  Speaker 2: brotherly requests, we are considering the United States' 15-point proposal,
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  Speaker 2: as well as the president's announcement of accepting the 10-point
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  Speaker 2: proposal as a general framework from Iran as a basis
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  Speaker 2: for negotiations. I hereby declare that if attacks against Iran
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  Speaker 2: are halted, this made me laugh, our powerful armed forces
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  Speaker 2: will cease their defensive operations. Literally, as I'm reading this
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  Speaker 2: live last night, I'm laughing to myself. our powerful armed forces.
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  Speaker 2: For a period of two weeks, safe passes to the
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  Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran's
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  Speaker 2: armed forces and with due consideration of technical limitations, says Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Got it. So now we're in an actual negotiation. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 2: we were able to shake free a meaningful negotiation where
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  Speaker 2: the United States has offered a 15-point plan. What are
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  Speaker 2: the primary two points, which is stop attacking shipping in
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  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz and get rid of your nuclear material.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the two big priorities. Forget the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the 15. Those are the two big priorities. And then
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  Speaker 2: for the Iranians, what is their 10-point plan? What is
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  Speaker 2: President Trump working with here? Well, The Guardian has a
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  Speaker 2: summary of this, what's in the 10-point plan. And they
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  Speaker 2: say that the Iranians are demanding the following. and they
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  Speaker 2: don't have all 10 points listed out, but they say
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  Speaker 2: the list published by Iranian media includes a number of conditions.
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  Speaker 2: The lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions on Iran.
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  Speaker 2: They want their sanctions lifted. I'm telling you what right now, Iran,
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  Speaker 2: if you actually play ball with President Trump and you
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  Speaker 2: get rid of your nuclear program and you open up
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  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz, you do all these things, you
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  Speaker 2: stop your terrorism, your future can be very bright. The
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  Speaker 2: whole reason sanctions are imposed upon you is because of
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  Speaker 2: your nuclear program. threatening the Strait of Hormuz and conducting
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  Speaker 2: terror attacks in the region. You stop all that crap,
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  Speaker 2: you lose these sanctions. So that's easy. You want that?
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  Speaker 2: That one's easy. President Trump will play ball with that
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  Speaker 2: if you knock off your garbage. They say continued Iranian
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  Speaker 2: control over the Strait of Hormuz is what they want. Interestingly,
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  Speaker 2: the president spoke to a reporter this morning. I'm seeing
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  Speaker 2: on X immediately that once again on the phone reports today.
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  Speaker 2: And he spoke to Jonathan Karl of ABC News about this.
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  Speaker 2: And here's what Jonathan says. He said, I just got
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  Speaker 2: off the phone with the president. I asked if he
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  Speaker 2: was OK with the Iranians charging a toll for all
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  Speaker 2: ships that go through the Strait of Hormuz. He told
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  Speaker 2: me that there actually may be a joint U.S.-Iran venture
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  Speaker 2: to charge tolls. So here's the this is the president negotiating.
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  Speaker 2: How can we get a piece of the action here?
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  Speaker 2: We're thinking of doing it as a joint venture, the
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  Speaker 2: president said. It's a way of securing it, also securing
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  Speaker 2: it from lots of other people. It's a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's a beautiful thing. So here's the president saying, OK,
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  Speaker 2: I can work with this. We can figure out a
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  Speaker 2: way to make this happen. I'm a dealmaker. Here's another one.
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  Speaker 2: The U.S. military's withdrawal from the Middle East is an
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  Speaker 2: Iranian demand. I don't anticipate that that's actually going to
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  Speaker 2: be the case. I don't know what that's. the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the Middle East is very happy with the United States.
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  Speaker 2: So the idea that we would leave the entire Middle
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  Speaker 2: East doesn't seem likely. I don't think the Trump administration
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  Speaker 2: is going to do that. An end to attacks on
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  Speaker 2: Iran and its allies. Well, sure. You stop being belligerent idiots,
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  Speaker 2: then we'll stop attacking you. The release of frozen Iranian assets. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: that would be the drop of sanctions. And the UN
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  Speaker 2: Security Council resolution making any deal binding. Not Nobody here
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  Speaker 2: cares about that. The UN is nothing. The UN is
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  Speaker 2: a ridiculous operation. So if they want to send out
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  Speaker 2: some ceremonial letter, by all means. But this is what
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  Speaker 2: the Iranians want. Now, the Guardian points out, which is
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  Speaker 2: kind of an interesting and almost hilarious acknowledgement. They said
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  Speaker 2: in a version that was released in Farsi, Iran also
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  Speaker 2: included the phrase acceptance of enrichment for its nuclear program. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's not going to happen. That's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: That's a non-starter. And we've got all the leverage in
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  Speaker 2: this conversation. So, yeah, that's not happening at all. But
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  Speaker 2: for reasons that remain unclear, that phrase was missing in
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  Speaker 2: English versions shared by Iranian diplomats to journalists.
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  Speaker 1: Hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think they left it out of the
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  Speaker 2: English language versions, Guardian? Come on. What do you mean
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  Speaker 2: for reasons that were unclear? It's clear to any thinking
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  Speaker 2: person why they would exclude that detail from the English
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  Speaker 2: language summary of their demands. Of course. Hysterical. They want
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  Speaker 2: to pursue nuclear weapons. That's why. And they're not trying.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want the English speaking world to dwell on that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: how did this happen? How did we get to this
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  Speaker 2: breaking news? Well, it took a lot of behind the
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  Speaker 2: scenes negotiations. And there is reporting this morning that there
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  Speaker 2: were two very critical parties who were involved in this.
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  Speaker 2: that helped get this to the point that we saw
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  Speaker 2: last night. One of them was the Vice President of
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  Speaker 2: the United States. Multiple reports are indicating that Vice President J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance got involved in negotiations late Tuesday and was able
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  Speaker 2: to help bring this to kind of a final resolution,
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  Speaker 2: or at least this intermediary resolution right now, which is
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  Speaker 2: great news. The other is China. China, the Chinese Communist Party,
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  Speaker 2: the Chinese government got involved yesterday and has been involved.
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  Speaker 2: And here's what the reporting tells us. We've seen this.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the Associated Press, a woman by the name of
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  Speaker 2: Farnoosh Amiri. She says, an official from one of the
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  Speaker 2: mediating countries tells me that the 11th hour deal between
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  Speaker 2: the United States and Iran came together after the involvement
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  Speaker 2: of two unlikely actors. Vice President J.D. Vance, it's actually
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  Speaker 2: not that unlikely. President Trump's been saying J.D. Vance has
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  Speaker 2: been essential to the negotiations, but whatever. And China, China.
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  Speaker 2: So Vance was looped in late Tuesday, she says, and
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  Speaker 2: China helped get Iran on board. I mentioned to you
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  Speaker 2: yesterday that China needs the Strait of Hormuz to be open.
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  Speaker 2: It needs it. Why is that? Because somewhere between 40
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  Speaker 2: to 50% of all of their oil and gas comes
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  Speaker 2: through the Strait of Hormuz. China has so much on
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  Speaker 2: the line here. And so Just again, to the president's credit,
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  Speaker 2: understand where we work. A week ago, the president was outraged,
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  Speaker 2: and he has been outraged by the lack of involvement
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  Speaker 2: of the global community to assist us in resolving this
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  Speaker 2: entire crisis. The president said, I'm taking care of a
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  Speaker 2: terror threat. I'm denuclearizing Iran. We're finally cleaning up a
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  Speaker 2: mess that's been there for 47 years. Where the hell
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  Speaker 2: are the rest of you? Where's NATO? Where are the
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  Speaker 2: Asian countries? Where are all these countries who are dependent
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  Speaker 2: on the energy that flows through that region? You're not
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  Speaker 2: going to be a part of this? You're not going
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  Speaker 2: to assist us at all? And what happened? We got
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  Speaker 2: Middle Eastern countries who all rushed in. Pakistan rushed in.
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  Speaker 2: They're playing mediators to try and make this thing come
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  Speaker 2: to an end. They want this thing to come to
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  Speaker 2: an end. And meanwhile, China gets involved because its own
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  Speaker 2: energy future is on the line. And now it's a
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  Speaker 2: part of helping us negotiate an end to this war,
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  Speaker 2: to this conflict. So the president was able to score
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  Speaker 2: a lot of victories here. and get the whole world
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  Speaker 2: to wake the hell up. That's how we get here.
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  Speaker 2: This is a victory for the United States that President
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  Speaker 2: Trump and our incredible military made happen. Caroline Leavitt sharing
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  Speaker 2: this message last night. From the very beginning of Operation
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  Speaker 2: Epic Fury, President Trump did estimate that this would be
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  Speaker 2: a four to six week operation. Thanks to the unbelievable
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  Speaker 2: capabilities of our warriors, we have achieved and exceeded our
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  Speaker 2: core military objectives in 38 days. Ladies and gentlemen, pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to the timetable that the White House is giving
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  Speaker 2: us right now. Four to six weeks was the operation,
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  Speaker 2: they say. We've exceeded and achieved our core military objectives
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  Speaker 2: in now 38 days. The way the White House is
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  Speaker 2: now talking about this is we're essentially done. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: just a matter of working out the details that are
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  Speaker 2: going to appear on paper, getting Iran to agree to
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  Speaker 2: this deal. But a negotiation, a very real one, is underway.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen some reporting that we could have in-person negotiations
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  Speaker 2: as early as the end of this week. Perhaps by
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  Speaker 2: Friday of this week, you could see a major administration
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  Speaker 2: official overseas meeting at a table directly with the Iranians.
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  Speaker 2: Keep your eyes open for that. The Secretary of War
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  Speaker 2: and Chairman Dan Kaine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
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  Speaker 2: addressing the press this morning about all of the details.
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  Speaker 2: Caroline Levitt says the success of our military... created maximum leverage,
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  Speaker 2: allowing President Trump and the team to engage in tough
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  Speaker 2: negotiations that have now created an opening for a diplomatic
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  Speaker 2: solution and long-term peace. Additionally, President Trump got the Strait
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  Speaker 2: of Hormuz reopened. Never underestimate President Trump's ability to successfully
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  Speaker 2: advance America's interests and broker peace. So again, this is
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  Speaker 2: an operation, they said four to six weeks. Here we
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  Speaker 2: are still inside of that window. And it looks like
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  Speaker 2: the White House is ready to say, we've done what
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  Speaker 2: we came to do. We've done exactly what we came
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  Speaker 2: to do, which is an amazing development. Now, there is
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  Speaker 2: a very interesting piece that I want to take you
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• 18:27
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  Speaker 2: moment by moment, blow by blow way that the president
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  Speaker 2: to tell you The spoiler alert on this piece is
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  Speaker 2: immediately you realize how thoughtful and how competent and how
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• 18:53
  Speaker 2: of this. There was nothing impulsive about this. There was
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: no hip firing going on. There was a clear-eyed assessment
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  Speaker 2: of what they were about to do and what they
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: engaged in as they went into Iran. And for that matter,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: There was a pushback on the Israelis because the Israelis
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  Speaker 2: had all these big schemes that they wanted to play
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  Speaker 2: out here. And the American government, all the advisors around
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  Speaker 2: the president and the president himself said, no, some of
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  Speaker 2: We have goals. We can achieve those ones. That's what
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• 19:34
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  Speaker 2: So the New York Times has this great piece. that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you never quite know how much they nail
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  Speaker 2: the details, but this piece rings to me as a
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  Speaker 2: very true recitation of the facts. And here's what they said.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: How Trump took the U.S. to war with Iran is
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: the headline on the piece. And you can mostly ignore
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: the headline. I mean, fundamentally, it's about, you know, what's
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: the back and forth. And the scene setter, the piece
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: begins by describing a meeting on February 11th when Benjamin
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Netanyahu arrives at the White House. and makes the case
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: that now is the time to strike Iran. This is
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: the time. So he's trying to convince the United States
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: that this is a worthwhile endeavor. And he makes a
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: number of asks. In fact, the US intelligence community breaks
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: it down into four components that Netanyahu asked for. And
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: the US intelligence community reviewed it, and then they came
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: back to the president, and then they said, two of
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: these are achievable, two of these, are ridiculous. Here's what
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: they said. The results of the U.S. intelligence analysis were
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: shared on February 12th with the president in a meeting
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: for only American officials in the Situation Room. Before Mr.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Trump arrived, two senior intel officials briefed the president's inner circle.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: The intel officials had deep expertise in U.S. military capabilities,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: and they knew the Iranian system and its players inside out.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: They broke down Netanyahu's presentation into four parts. First was decapitation,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: killing the Ayatollah. Second was crippling Iran's capacity to project
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: power and threaten its neighbors. Third was a popular uprising
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: inside of Iran. In other words, Netanyahu was hoping to
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: arm everybody and get an uprising going and overthrow the regime.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: And fourth was regime change, with a secular leader installed
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: to govern the country. The U.S. officials assessed that the
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: first two objectives were achievable. Those first two, remember, that's
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: kill the Ayatollah and destroy cripple Iran's military. Those, we
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: can definitely do that. But fomenting an uprising? Regime change? Yeah,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: that's way more complicated. And Netanyahu's pitch was detached from reality,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: the U.S. intel assessment was. So when Mr. Trump joined
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the meeting, John Ratcliffe briefed him on the assessment. The
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: CIA director used one word to describe the Israeli prime
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: minister's regime change scenario. Farcical. It's a farce. Not achievable.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: At that point, Mr. Rubio cut in. Secretary Rubio. Quote,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: in other words, it's bullshit, said Rubio. Listen to how
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: clear-eyed these guys are. These are not guys who are
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: being yanked around by Israel, not being led around by
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: the nose by the Israelis. These are guys who are saying, well,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: these two things are achievable. These are in our interest.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Those other two, Netanyahu is like way overstating what's possible here.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Let's just ignore that. So Ratcliffe added that given the
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: unpredictability of events in any conflict, regime change could happen, could,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: but it shouldn't be considered an achievable objective. General Cain
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: weighed in. He was asked by the president what he thought.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: He said, sir, in my experience, standard operating procedure for
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: the Israelis, what they're doing. They oversell and their plans
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: are not always well developed. They know they need us
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: and that's why they're hard selling. Mr. Trump quickly weighed
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: the assessment. Regime change, he said, would be, quote, their problem.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: their problem. But he appeared to remain very interested in
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: accomplishing parts one and two. Okay. So here's the president deliberating,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: talking about how we do this, what's actually achievable, what's
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: in the American interest, how out of control Israel is
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: being here. And then the other piece was, you know,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: what did these guys all think of going in? And
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: so the president asked each of his cabinet members what
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: they thought. all of this. And it came down to,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: in the end, that J.D. Vance expressed skepticism about going in.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: This is, here's Thursday, February 26th. Let me take you
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: to that moment. They said they had a final situation
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: room meeting. It got underway. By now, the positions of
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: everybody in the room were clear. Everybody had discussed everything
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: in previous meetings. Everybody knew where everybody else stood. The
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: discussion would last about an hour and a half. Listen
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: to how healthy and productive this is, guys. This is
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: the way adults handle conversations. This is the way a
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: healthy administration conducts this.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Trump was in his usual place at the head of
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: the table. To his right sat the vice president. Next
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: to Mr. Vance was Susie Wiles, then John Ratcliffe, then
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: the White House counsel, David Warrington, then Stephen Chung, who's
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: the White House comms director. And then there's Caroline Leavitt,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: the White House press secretary, and then General Cain, Pete Hegseth,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: and Marco Rubio. They kept it tight, the group.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Hegseth and Mr. Kaine ran through the sequencing of attacks.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Then Mr. Trump went around the table and got everybody's views.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: J.D.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Vance, whose disagreement with the whole premise was well established,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: addressed the president. You know I think it's a bad idea,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: but if you do it, I will support you. In
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: other words, the president asked for J.D. Vance's advice. He
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: disagreed with going in or disagreed with some element of it.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: We don't quite know. We're just kind of relying on
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the New York Times recitation here. He goes, but whatever
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: you do here, I'm supporting you. And the report that
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the New York Times said that J.D. Vance said, if
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: you're going to do it, we've got to do it hard.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: So if you're going to go in, we absolutely have
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: to achieve our objectives. So we can't, no half measures.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: We got to decimate them. That was J.D.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Vance.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: So is there anything wrong with that, ladies and gentlemen?
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Is there anything wrong with being asked for your advice,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: giving your authentic take, and then when the president makes
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: his decision, just going full bore on behalf of the
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: American people? How about no? There's nothing wrong with that.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: That's precisely what I would expect out of a vice
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: president or anybody else in a trusting relationship with the
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: president of the United States. Susie Wiles told President Trump
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: that if he felt he needed to proceed for America's
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: national security, he should do it. John Ratcliffe offered no
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: opinion on whether to proceed, but he discussed the stunning
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: new intel that the Iranian leadership was about to get
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: together on that fateful Saturday morning. The CIA director said
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: that the regime change was possible depending on how we
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: would define the term. If we mean just killing the
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Supreme Leader, yeah, we can probably do that. Which is why,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: by the way, you've heard the president say over and over,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: the regime has changed because the old regime is dead.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: All the people at the top are dead. When calling
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: on Mr. Warrington, that's the White House counsel. He just
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: said it was all legally permissible to conduct the operation
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: the way the president had laid it out. He didn't
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: offer a personal opinion, but the president pressed him and
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: he said as a Marine veteran, he knew an American
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: service member killed by Iran years earlier. That issue was
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: deeply personal to him. So the president asked him for
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: his actual thoughts and he gave them. Stephen Chung warned
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: the president about the risks of engaging in wars overseas.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: He said people had not voted for conflict. The plans,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: he warned, also flew in the face of what the
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: administration had been saying about the bombing campaign against Iran
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: last year. In other words, I thought we destroyed their
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: nuclear program. Why are we going in in light of
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: the fact that the nuclear threat still exists? How can
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: we say both things at the same time? Stephen Chung
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: is asking. And I think the answer to that, by
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: the way, is completely resolved. Yes, we destroyed the totality
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: of their nuclear program last year, set them back many years.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: but their ambitions to rebuild it included building a conventional
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: missile shield to try and stop anybody from upending their
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: nuclear development again going into the future. And so now
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: we're trying to get all of the uranium out of
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: the country. We want all of that material out. That's
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: one of the details that the president's pursuing. And we
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: get this. Caroline Leavitt told the president this was, of course,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: his decision and that the press team would handle it
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: the best that they could, which, of course, should be
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: always the way they operate. Pete Hegseth adopted a narrow position.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: They would have to take care of the Iranians eventually,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: so they might as well do it now. And he
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: offered technical assessments. They could run the campaign in a
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: certain amount of time with a given level of forces.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: General Kane was sober. He laid out the risks and
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: what the campaign would mean for munitions depletion. In other words,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: what we would have to expend. He offered no opinion.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: His position was merely, if you ordered it, we'll execute.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a general officer to me. It sounds like
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: the kind of general officer you want around you. Just
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: neutral and non-emotional advice. And then when it was his
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: turn to speak, Marco Rubio offered more clarity. He told
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: the president, if our goal is regime change or an uprising,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: we shouldn't do it. But if the goal is to
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: destroy Iran's missile program, that's a goal we can achieve.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Everybody deferred to the president's instincts. No one would impede him. Quote,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: I think we need to do it, the president told
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: the room. Aboard Air Force One the next afternoon, he
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: gave the order. He sent it out and he said,
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Operation Epic Fury is approved. No aborts. Good luck. I
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: just described to you the way a presidency is supposed
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: to work. the way big foreign policy decisions are supposed
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: to be conducted. The media, including the New York Times,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: for that matter, traditionally, they often describe President Trump as impulsive,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: that he's just making ridiculous hip shots, that he's some
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: out of control authoritarian, that he doesn't care about whether
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: or not it's legal or constitutional. And what I just
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: described to you is a guy who is considering every
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: element in an honest, thoughtful, deliberative way. Does this fit
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: with my goals for the American people? What is actually achievable?
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Is it legal? He's got the White House counsel in
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: the room. What do all of my top advisors who
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I trust in this term think about this? Give me
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: your honest assessments. And then every single one of those people,
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: when the president made the call, they all saluted and
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: they got to work following the president's agenda, not subverting him,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: working with him. This is what I voted for. That
• 31:58
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• 32:03
  Speaker 2: these guys. These are very big decisions. These are very
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: high stakes decisions. And yesterday, it's crystal clear that they
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: paid off. Meaningful progress being made, massive breakthrough as the
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: president of the United States conducts foreign policy on behalf
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: of the rest of us. I'll get to more in
• 32:21
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• 32:23
  Speaker 2: including what's going on domestically, because there's a new push
• 32:28
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• 32:32
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• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Major, here.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: Please?
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Please?
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Sit down. Good boy. Good boy. Look at Major. Sit down, buddy.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: You got to get your face into the camera, man.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Look at that. He's a star. He's a star. I
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: love Major. No, Major's really good. He's a great dog.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: He's so funny. We had company last night. And if
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: you ever come over to my house, Major will roll
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: over in front of you and just push his body
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: up against you. He's not going to kill anybody. I
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: have to admit. Like, I'm pretty sure if somebody broke
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: into my house, this dog is straight up just going
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: to hug them. My other dog, Raina, will go ballistic.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: She's like a, she's an alarm. She's just, she'll go nuts.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: But Major's a lover. Major's a lover, not a fighter.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Good dog.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about problems. I got a problem. It's Capitol Hill.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: On Capitol Hill, there's a plot afoot to hand out
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: amnesty to illegal aliens. Now, for those of you who've
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: been with me for some time, you've already heard me
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: talk about this massive idiotic legislation. It's called the Dignidad Act.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: I know. Dignidad. What is Dignidad? Dignidad is Spanish for dignity.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: It's Spanish. They named the legislation Dignidad. Now, again, we
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: talked about this some time ago. I want to say
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: it was February of this year we reviewed this with you.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: And This gigantic flaming pile of garbage is the brainchild
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: of a Florida Republican congresswoman, you heard me correctly, called
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Maria Salazar. Maria Salazar. And she's been gathering, I don't know,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: how is this even happening? She's been gathering a head
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: of steam here with 20 Republicans and 20 Democrats in
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: the House, all co-sponsoring a piece of legislation to give
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: amnesty to illegal aliens and then scolding anyone who calls
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: it amnesty. This week, the fact that this bill exists
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: just got kind of a lot of attention thanks to
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: a lefty ex-post from a guy called Brian Allen. He
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: posted this. He said, breaking 20 Republicans and 20 Democrats
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: just co-sponsored the Dignity Act, the first serious bipartisan immigration
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: bill in decades. It's not serious. F that noise. It's
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: not serious. It's a scam. It's a sellout. What it
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: actually does, says Brian, then he lies to you. No amnesty,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: no citizenship. Those are lies, by the way, right away.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: No handouts. That's a lie. A pathway to legal work status.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: for long-term undocumented immigrants who meet strict requirements, fully funded
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: by restitution payments from immigrants themselves, requiring zero taxpayer dollars.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Mike Lawler, also a Republican's own words, this is not amnesty,
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: it's accountability, it's fairness, it's dignity. It's a scam. It's
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: a scam is what it is. And it's infuriating that
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: we have to keep putting fires out on our own
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: side What is wrong with you people? What a bunch
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: of sellouts. So Brandon Gill is a great Congressman. He's
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: proven himself to be. Great Republican congressman from Texas. He's
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: producer Jim's congressman, actually. And Brandon Gill said the following,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: the dignity act is mass amnesty, and it would constitute
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: a terrible betrayal of our voters. A terrible betrayal. Yeah,
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: what did you vote for in 2024? Was it amnesty?
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it was mass deportations. It wasn't amnesty.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: It was the exact opposite of that. Brandon Gill correctly
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: assessing this would be a terrible betrayal of American voters.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Lots of them. The majority of them. The popular vote
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: in the United States of America. Maria Salazar is freaking
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: out about it. She's mad that Brandon Gill called her out.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: Good. Good.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Keep freaking out. I love that she freaked out. You
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: know why? because the freak out that she has on
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: display right now is calling more attention to the betrayal
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: that she's manufacturing. Listen to this woman. She types in
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: all capital letters, puts a period between every word like
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: a child. Read the bill before you open your mouth,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: she writes, angry at Brandon. Calling the Dignity Act amnesty
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: isn't just wrong, it's a deliberate distortion. It exposes just
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: how little you know about the bill. This is enforcement first,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: zero tolerance for criminals, permanent border security, hard-earned requirements to
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: step forward and face the law so American workers are protected,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: not undercut. Amnesty is the chaos you've defended.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: What?
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Amnesty is the chaos Brandon Gill has defended? Millions in
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: the shadows, no control, no accountability in a system that
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: stopped working a long time ago. Brandon Gill supports enforcing
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: the law. You colossal liar. Who is this woman? She's
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: pushing amnesty and then accusing those of us who want
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: to deport illegals of being for amnesty. This is projection.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: This is classic left-wing projection coming out of the mouth
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: of a nominal Republican. You're for amnesty if you support
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: the status quo. I don't support the status quo. I'm
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: done with the status quo. I support the rule of law.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Get the hell out of my country if you're here illegally.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: If you break my laws, you've got to go. Consequence culture,
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: that's what we call it. You need to have the
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: consequences imposed upon you. Accusing me of supporting amnesty. It's laughable.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: That's psychotic. As you push amnesty and then accuse everybody
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: else of being for amnesty.
• 42:03
  Speaker 7: Nice.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: No shortcuts, no giveaways, no blanket forgiveness. That's law and order.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: That's dignity, she says. So what you just heard was
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: a series of lies. Let me just start with video
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: of Maria Salazar, though. I want you to hear directly
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: out of her own lying mouth that the whole point
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: of this operation is to give citizenship to illegal aliens.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Here's Maria Salazar. Where did she admit this? Huh, where
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: was this? Oh, it was at the World Freaking Economic
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Forum in 2023. Watch Congresswoman Salazar. Check it out. We
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: give them dignity.
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: At some point in the future, another legislator will write
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: another law to give them path to citizenship.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Right now, what we need.
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: To do is to buy peace for these people, allow
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: them to stay, to continue working, because they are needed.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: This is crazy. Is that the World Economic Forum, Josh?
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: The real goal, sorry, the real goal of the Dignity
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: Act is to keep the illegals here. The real goal
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: of the Dignity Act is to keep the illegals here.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: So they'll eventually receive citizenship. Okay. So that's Salazar. That
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: was her in an ABC interview. She did a local
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: ABC interview. I've got the World Economic Forum for you.
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: Overhaul of the immigration system. Because not only we need
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: those hands, like the Congress, like us, A senator was saying,
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: but we need to also give dignity to those people
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: who are in the country. And those are the people
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: that I represent. We're talking about 13, 15 million people
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: who are most of them Hispanics. I would say 85%
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: who speak my language, look like me and sound like
• 43:51
  Speaker 6: me that are contributing with the economy of this country.
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: And they live in the shadows. So it's time to
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: seal the border, like she said. put order, let's see
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: who comes in and who doesn't, and then turn around
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: and give dignity. That doesn't mean path to citizenship.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: That means to.
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: Include them and make them dignified members of our community.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: All right, so amnesty. So she says, it's not amnesty.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: I don't mean amnesty. So she's running away from the
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: word because she knows it's so freaking politically unpopular. But
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: let me just tell you with certainty that what she's
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: describing is amnesty. And you know who actually warned us
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: about this in July of last year? That would be
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: the late, great Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk warned everybody about
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: this particular piece of legislation advanced by Maria Salazar. And
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: he said there are a handful of Republicans in Congress
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: who are pushing the so-called Dignity Act of 2025, the
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Dignidad Act. Even as they describe it to you, they
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: lie to you about the name of it. which would
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: shield illegals from deportation if they've been in the U.S.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: since 2021. Here's the trick, said Charlie. We don't actually
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: know when many or perhaps most illegals even entered the U.S.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: All they have to do is say the magic words
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: and then they're allowed to stay. At best, their case
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: would be bogged down in court for years. This is
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: a ruse. Do not fall for it. This will grind
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: President Trump's mass deportations to a halt. This is worse
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: than a soft amnesty. This de facto ends the mass
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: deportations that Americans just voted for. Additionally, when I went
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: through the bill with you in February, I laid out
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: a In the details of the bill, they include things
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: like a path to, quote, permanent legal status for illegal aliens. Now,
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: those of you who either are part of the immigration system,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: meaning you are here as a legal immigrant or you're
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: familiar with the immigration system, you know what that means.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Permanent legal status is a green card. Green card. A
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: green card is a path to citizenship. Once you score
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: a green card, you are on track, if you so desire,
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: to become a United States citizen. That's how it works.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Maria Salazar is handing out citizenship. It's amnesty. Anytime someone
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: violates our laws and then is given some sort of
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: get out of jail free card for that violation of
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: the law, where we mitigate the consequences to you, where
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: we don't actually deport you, that's amnesty. So she'll try
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: and dress this up. She'll scream. She'll type in all
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: capital letters. It's not amnesty. It's not amnesty. It's amnesty.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: And this thing deserves to be strangled in the cradle.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: There's no way we could possibly advance an amnesty. And
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: the American people are attuned to this. Now, there are
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: a lot of big money forces that are pushing it, though.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: If you're wondering, like, what is this? Why are these
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: guys supporting this? What made them do this? Check out
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: the list. This is on Maria Salazar's website. of the
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: organizations that are backing this. It's so big, I can't
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: even fit it on the whole screen. These are operations
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: in the United States that are pushing this. And you'll
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: recognize some of these. And a lot of them are
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: basically just trying to exploit cheap foreign labor. There's the
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: African-American farmers of California. The African-American farmers of California.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: What?
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Importing cheap foreign labor hurts black Americans, you psychos. American
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Bakers Association. There's the American Latino Coalition. The American Legion
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: is on this list. What is the American Legion doing
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: on this list for amnesty? America's veterans? By the way,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: anybody in chat a member of the American Legion? Did
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: you know that? That the American Legion is on this?
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: Americans for Prosperity. Remember that organization? The Anti-Defamation League. What
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: else is in here? The Center for American Progress, of course.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: This is the Clintons. That's about as establishment Democrat as
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: it gets. The Jewish Federation of North America, the Latin
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Chamber of Commerce, the Libre Initiative. They've always been for
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: illegal aliens. And the list goes on here. The U.S.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Chamber of Commerce is on this list. You see the U.S.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Chamber of Commerce? Any surprise?
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: U.S.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: Chamber of Commerce. So basically what you have is a
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: crap ton of money being dedicated to passing an amnesty
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: so that these operations can protect and exploit cheap foreign
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: labor at the expense of American workers. So this doesn't
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: help American workers. This sells you out. This screws you over.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: And that's why you just saw 20 Republicans get on
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: board with this. 20. Because they're in on a corrupt deal.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: That's why their names are on that list. for amnesty,
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: and then they lie to you about it. Anyway, so
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: keep your eyes on that and help me bury that,
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: would you? Help me suffocate that particular thing. It deserves
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: to die a very quick death. It should not be
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: in any way a serious piece of legislation. And I'm
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: glad a lot more people are becoming attuned to it now.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Suddenly there's a critical mass of attention on it. That's good.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: We need to destroy this thing. Definitely. All right. One
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: more big thing happened for you yesterday I want to
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: share with you, which is the acting attorney general of
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: the United States, now officially Todd Blanche, Pam Bondi has
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: completely left. So Todd Blanche is now the acting attorney
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: general of the United States. He stepped out for a
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: press conference yesterday and announced that the United States Department
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: of Justice is not just taking fraud kind of seriously.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: They're taking it very seriously. Remember, Vice President J.D. Vance
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: is in charge of fraud force at the White House.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: And they have a new assistant attorney general who is
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: going after fraud all across the country. He's got jurisdiction
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: over the whole country to prosecute these fraudsters. And yesterday,
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Todd Blanch stepped up to the microphone to announce that
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: they've got over 8,000 active cases against fraudsters going as
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: we speak all across the country. Here is Attorney General
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Blanch yesterday, cut four, watch this.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Every day, Department of Justice investigators and prosecutors work to
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: punish those who commit fraud. For example, just this week,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: and it's only Tuesday, a criminal defendant was sentenced and
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: the department obtained two additional guilty pleas in matters totaling
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: over half a billion dollars in healthcare and COVID fraud.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: If you think about that, Just since yesterday, we had
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: a guilty plea in a $ 160 million healthcare enrollment fraud
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: scheme and a sentencing in a $ 100 million COVID-19 fraud.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: So much money.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: And a guilty plea in a $ 160 million healthcare fraud
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: scheme as well. Each of these cases represents countless hours
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: of dedication from the prosecutors and the federal agents and
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: local law enforcement.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Who work them.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: The Department of Justice is holding criminals accountable for stealing
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: over half a billion dollars from taxpayers. And across our U.S.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Attorney's Offices, all over this country, we currently have over 8,000
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: fraud matters underway. Unfortunately, as you've heard a lot about recently,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: because it's true, these cases represent a fraction of the
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: fraud ripping off our country every day. Thanks to the
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: leadership of President Trump, This department, working closely with the
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: task force to eliminate fraud, is supercharging efforts to take
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: down every fraudster and bring them to justice.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: 8,000 cases. Oh, I definitely voted for that. I definitely
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: voted for that. That's what I wanted. And that's what
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: we're getting. They're cracking down on fraudsters like crazy. And
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: that's good news. I'm seeing like, you know, all these
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: hospice fraudsters in Los Angeles, people stealing from the American
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: taxpayer and living these lavish lifestyles, high on the hog.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: They're getting taken down right now, being arrested on camera.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: The Trump administration is telling the media, hey, show up
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: with your cameras. CBS News crews there. It's great. More
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: of that, please. More perp walks, more walks of shame.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Do everything you can to crush fraud in this country.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: But then Todd Blanch also took some questions yesterday. And
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: what made this different than a customary Justice Department press
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: conference is he took a lot of questions, actually. It
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: was fascinating because the media engaged in this typical conspiracy
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: theorizing yesterday. And I want to share with you, here's
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: cut two. This is Todd Blanch talking about, responding to
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: a question about weaponizing the Justice Department. Have you noticed
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: that these lefty reporters, they'll invent this thing like, oh,
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: why is Donald Trump weaponizing the Justice Department? Why is
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: he trying to punish his political enemies? And listen to
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Todd Blanch, first of all, dunking on this reporter and
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: then giving a very revealing answer. about the pursuit of justice. Watch.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: That is supposedly a, that when we talk about ending weaponization,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: as if that's a bad thing for us to do. Okay,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: people in this room, okay, people in this room for
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: four years, some of you, same people, sat here with
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: the last administration when you saw a weaponization of this department,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: the likes of which had never been seen in history.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: And some of you are looking down now, and I
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: get it, because you had a president who was indicted
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: four times by this department. You had a president who,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: along with this department, had assistance. So this department helped
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: two other local DAs go after the president. You had
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: this department who stood idly by while states tried to
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: keep President Trump off the ballot.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: That's what happened the past four years.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: And so when I'm asked questions or when I see
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: reporting about shock and awe at this supposed weaponization of
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: this Department of Justice, It means nothing to me because
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: it's completely false. What we're doing and what we've been
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: doing for the past 14 months is changing this department.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: It's changing this department. We're no longer, people.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Say the president wants to go after his political enemies. No,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: the president has said time and time again that he
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: wants justice. And if you look at what happened to him,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: his family, his administration, the agents that protected him, People
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: that happened to just walk by him on a given day,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: they got subjected to massive investigations by this department. So
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: I understand the question, and I understand the pretty constant question.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: role of the media that somehow this department is weaponizing itself,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: but it happens not to be true. We have tens
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: of thousands of prosecutors all over this country putting bad
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: guys in jail. That's something that wasn't happening like it
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: should have been happening for the past four years. That's
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: going to happen tomorrow, and it's going to happen in
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: the coming days.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: It's going to happen in the coming days. How great
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: is that? How great is that? So it's like weaponization. Oh,
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: shut up. Weaponization is what happened at this Justice Department.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: We're finally cleaning it up. We're pursuing justice. Josh, there
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: was a moment. So one of the reporters asked in response,
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: they were bewildered by the fact that he said that
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: the Justice Department had produced four indictments against Donald Trump.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: Do you have that clip, Josh? Let's play this clip.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Let's just play it and see what it was. This
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: is Todd Blanche talking cut three. Let's watch this one.
• 55:38
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Acting Attorney General, President Trump has made no secret of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he wants to see his perceived political
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  Speaker 1: enemies prosecuted.
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  Speaker 5: So now that you're in this position, how are.
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  Speaker 1: You going to balance that relentless pressure with this administration's
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  Speaker 1: promise to end the weaponization of this department? Well, look,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, we have thousands of of ongoing investigations
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  Speaker 1: and prosecutions going on in this country right now. And
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  Speaker 1: it is true that some of them involve men, women,
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  Speaker 1: and entities that the president in the past has had.
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  Speaker 2: Issues with and that believe should be investigated. That is
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  Speaker 2: his right.
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  Speaker 1: And indeed, it is his duty to do that, meaning
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  Speaker 1: to lead this country. And so I do not view
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  Speaker 1: this as pressure. I do not view this as something
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  Speaker 1: that is going to keep me up at night, except
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that we are investigating every case that
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  Speaker 1: we have to the fullest extent of the law and
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  Speaker 1: using all the resources we can.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. All right, so Todd Blanch just absolutely
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  Speaker 2: crushing it. And the reporters in that room, they don't
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  Speaker 2: even know what to do with it. They're just so
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: accustomed to telling lies about the way the president operates.
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  Speaker 2: It's unreal. And finally, I've got this clip for you.
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  Speaker 2: I want to play for you cut one. This is
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: Todd Blanch. Accusing one of the reporters of just being
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  Speaker 2: a liar there as he's making a very strong case
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  Speaker 2: for why he might be the right guy to stay
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  Speaker 2: in the job full time.
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  Speaker 1: Watch.
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  Speaker 6: What if the White House or somebody in the White
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  Speaker 6: House says, we want you to investigate this state or
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  Speaker 6: this program?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, how do you handle that?
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  Speaker 1: Because historically, as you know, since Watergate, there's been a
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  Speaker 1: kind of a firewall, if you will, on criminal investigations
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  Speaker 1: between the White House and the Justice Department. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that is the most false statement I've ever heard in
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  Speaker 1: my life. There is always communication between a president and
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  Speaker 1: his priorities and what the Department of Justice should be
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  Speaker 1: focused on and not focused on. That is not a
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  Speaker 1: new thing in this administration, although I know it sounds
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  Speaker 1: fun to say that it is. So as far as
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  Speaker 1: whether we would take a referral from the White House
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: or take a referral from you even, yes. I mean, yes,
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  Speaker 1: if somebody knows about fraud, please tell us. And so
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: if the president of our United States says, I have
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: heard that there is ongoing fraud in Minneapolis, Minnesota— And
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: like any president before him, I hope that the attorney
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  Speaker 1: general would absolutely say, yes, we'll investigate that.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So we learned a lot, actually, from this one.
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  Speaker 2: We basically got without him outright saying it like full
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  Speaker 2: blown confirmation that they do have that grand jury case
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  Speaker 2: going on in South Florida. He was talking about how
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  Speaker 2: the people who've broken the law and abused their power
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  Speaker 2: are being subjected to investigations right now, which could lead
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  Speaker 2: to indictments. That's basically confirmation that the grand conspiracy case
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  Speaker 2: down in South Florida is hot on their trail. James Comey,
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: John Brennan, these guys receiving subpoenas, they're very busy dealing
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  Speaker 2: with the legal ramifications of those consequences. That's good news
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  Speaker 2: for the rest of us. The other piece here is
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  Speaker 2: I just want to lean into what he said a
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  Speaker 2: moment ago. I've been saying this for many years, that
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Of course the president directs the Department of Justice. It's
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: the Constitution of the United States. He's in charge of it.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: If he tells them drop everything and go after drug dealers,
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: they drop everything and they go after drug dealers. That's
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: the way it's supposed to work. So if the president
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: says go after anybody who broke the law and abused
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  Speaker 2: their power in government, that's the way it's supposed to work.
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  Speaker 2: They do that. They do that. That's not some mystery
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  Speaker 2: or some weird extra-constitutional thing or out of control or whatever. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's the president's job to direct the executive branch to...
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  Speaker 2: fulfill the will of the American people. That's what he
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  Speaker 2: was elected on. So it's totally normal. And I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: to hear Todd Blanch just say it, just say it.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: And it's funny because it's so unimpeachably true that even
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: the worst, most hysterical, frothing at the mouth left-wing critics
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: don't even really know how to handle it. Like, for instance,
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: yesterday on Ms. Now, that guy, Mark Elias, you know him,
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: that like crazy Democrat election lawyer, he reacted to that
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: moment on Ms.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: And he was like, wow, this guy's really good at lying. Like,
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: in other words, like, you can't stop the talking point
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: he just used because it was true. Watch Mark Elias
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  Speaker 2: yesterday freaking out.
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  Speaker 3: I think what he's actually doing is trying to say
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  Speaker 3: that there's never been a line. Like, I think in
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: some respects, Sub Blanche is acknowledging that like they are
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  Speaker 3: Or let's put it this way. He is at least
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: more acknowledging it than Pam Bondi did. that this line
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: doesn't exist. And I would add to your list of names.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think you cannot explain the prosecution of
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: LaMonica MacGyver in New Jersey as anything other than the
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: weaponization of government against political opponents.
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  Speaker 2: She assaulted ICE officers.
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  Speaker 3: She's a member of Congress who's been indicted for essentially
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: doing oversight of ICE facilities at a time when the
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: Trump administration didn't want oversight of ICE facilities.
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  Speaker 2: It's more of a right cross. You could go down
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: the list.
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  Speaker 3: You could look at the Cassidy Hutchinson story that you
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: played a clip on. You know, the idea that they
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: would be looking at Cassidy Hutchinson only, again, because it's
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: a political opponent.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: Who lied to Congress.
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  Speaker 3: So I said that Todd Blanch is an unusually good liar,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: and that is a problem. Because as you say, he
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: is lying when he is saying that this has always
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: gone on.
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  Speaker 2: He's intimidated. That's so funny. So Mark Elias is intimidated
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: by Todd Blanch. He's really worried about Todd Blanch because
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: he knows Todd Blanch is telling the truth. And nothing
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: is more effective than telling the truth. Good to see
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: him doing that. We've got a lot more to get
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: to today. I've got a very busy day ahead. I'll
• 1:01:01
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• 1:01:04
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• 1:01:07
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• 1:01:38
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• 1:01:41
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• 1:02:13
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• 1:02:36
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• 1:02:40
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  Speaker 5: I think a lot of people are underestimating the Trump
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 5: effect in this midterm. You've heard it yourself. Act like
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 5: I'm on the ballot. Why is he saying that? You
• 1:03:00
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• 1:03:03
  Speaker 5: X factor. Folks, elections are a math issue. That is it.
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