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Ryan Bridge: Is Joe Kent this week’s voice of reason? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Is Joe Kent this week's voice of reason. Is he
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  Speaker 1: the guy speaking truth in the fog of war?
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  Speaker 2: But there was no intelligence that said, hey, on whatever
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  Speaker 2: day it was March first, the Iranians are going to
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  Speaker 2: launch this big sneak attack. They're going to do some
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  Speaker 2: kind of a nine eleven Pearl Harbor, etc. They're going
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  Speaker 2: to attack one of our bases. There was none of
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  Speaker 2: that intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: So he's going to sit down Attacker Carlson on his podcast,
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  Speaker 1: It's worth a listen.
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  Speaker 2: The Israelis drove the decision to take this action, which
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  Speaker 2: we knew would set off a series of events meaning
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  Speaker 2: the Iranians would retaliate.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's a mega guy. He was a Trump guy,
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  Speaker 1: but this week he turned his back on the President.
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  Speaker 1: He quit his job as America's top counter tourism terrorism official.
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  Speaker 1: I should say he was a soldier. He served in Iraq.
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  Speaker 1: His wife was killed in a suicide bombing in Syria.
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  Speaker 1: He's no snowflake. He just doesn't want the US getting
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  Speaker 1: bogged down and wars that he thinks they can't win.
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  Speaker 1: It's one thing to bomb the hell out of a country,
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  Speaker 1: but when the dust settles and the troops go home,
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  Speaker 1: and the victory banners have been unfurled. Then what in
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  Speaker 1: Iraq a power vacuum? An isis so in calling this
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  Speaker 1: out in quitting, Is Joe Kent a hero or a
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  Speaker 1: traitor to America? The FBI is now investigating him. That's
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  Speaker 1: not unusual. Look at Jerome Powell, the spending on the
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  Speaker 1: building of the FED chair, John Bolton, right down to
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel, remember that investigated by the US TV regulator
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  Speaker 1: for criticizing Trump. Only time will tell whether there was
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  Speaker 1: a pressing need for starting this war that we're all
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  Speaker 1: paying for now. But history tells us it won't end
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  Speaker 1: just because the US President says so.
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