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K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor | 06-12-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Doctor turned sixty six yesterday. President Trump turns eighty on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: and Katie mcfalland turns thirty five on Monday. Isn't that right?
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  Speaker 2: Kat actually is in two weeks? But thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Are you also a June baby? O? Kidding aside?
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  Speaker 2: No, actually I'm a July baby.
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  Speaker 1: Oh a July baby. July when.
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  Speaker 2: July?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you're gonna be like July fourth or something. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks now miss that one? So what happened?
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever do it? Do you? Are you like
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  Speaker 1: a big like? I like my wife, for example. I
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  Speaker 1: love that she'll celebrate her birthday for weeks. My daughter
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  Speaker 1: is the worst. Her birthday lasts like a month. You
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  Speaker 1: know me, it's like one day. Here's a pair of socks.
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  Speaker 1: Let's move on. Are you the type two is a
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  Speaker 1: one day birthday celebration? Do you do it for like
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks with the kids? What do you do?
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  Speaker 2: I have five grown children, eleven grandchildren. Nobody remembers my
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  Speaker 2: birthday for a minute. So I celebrated by you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I'll say myself out to lunch with a girlfriend,
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  Speaker 2: but really it's nobody's given me a birthday present a
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  Speaker 2: long time other than my grandchildren and my children. And
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  Speaker 2: that's the best present to follows my family.
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  Speaker 1: One eleven grandchildren. God bless you. All Right, Well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you heard the conversation. I just had an amazing guest.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Michael could be great guy, and you know everybody's he is,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody's talking about the same thing today, which is
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  Speaker 1: did President Trump come off looking weak? That's the word.
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  Speaker 1: I don't use it. I love him, but that's the word.
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  Speaker 1: Even Trump supporters looking weak again yesterday with all these
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  Speaker 1: threats that he never really follows through one or or
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  Speaker 1: is he working out something better? What is kat.
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  Speaker 2: Mcfalland think something better. The reason I thought yesterday was
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  Speaker 2: a different announcement was a statement that came out of
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  Speaker 2: the White House where you know, he said yet again,
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  Speaker 2: around's not going to have no clear weapons. We're winning
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  Speaker 2: the war, blah blah blah. He said that the following
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  Speaker 2: countries have seen the agreement and they're on board US
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  Speaker 2: and Israel, Cutter Staudi Arabia, and then he went on
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  Speaker 2: to list all of the Golf Arab countries. The reason
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  Speaker 2: that's important is you need their buy in if you're
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  Speaker 2: ever going to verify or enforce that agreement. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we know that they're going to cheat, so you have
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  Speaker 2: to have snap inspections that they're going to cheat. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to say it's that convenient for you to come
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  Speaker 2: here and inspect today, maybe two weeks from now in
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  Speaker 2: another place. You know they're moving to the stuff around
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  Speaker 2: that they have, So you have to have the ability
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  Speaker 2: to snap inspection. You also have to have to know
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  Speaker 2: what's really going on on the ground. I'm sure we
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  Speaker 2: have fairly good intelligence. Israel has the best intelligence of
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  Speaker 2: what's happening inside Iran, but the golf Arabs know a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And then finally, if we get an agreement, how to
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  Speaker 2: even force that agreement. That's always been the problem with Iran.
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  Speaker 2: You know they're going to cheat, but then so, hey,
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  Speaker 2: what are you going to do about it? And if
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  Speaker 2: there are if it's buy in by those golf Arab
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  Speaker 2: countries which have strong militaries in the region, very strong
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  Speaker 2: intelligence services, and that's where those countries are, the places
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  Speaker 2: their banks are where Iran has pulled out of their money.
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  Speaker 2: So those countries have opened their books to us. And
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  Speaker 2: this is really in the last month or so they've
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  Speaker 2: opened their books to us, so we can see where
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  Speaker 2: those Iranian accounts, offshore accounts are. We've also cracked into
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  Speaker 2: their crypto accounts. So any money that's going to move
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  Speaker 2: around after an agreement, either if there is some kind
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  Speaker 2: of sanctions relief, we're going to know where it's spent.
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  Speaker 2: In the Obama era, they said well, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: spend it on hospitals, and then they spend it on missiles.
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  Speaker 2: Will know if they're spending it on missiles. When they say, well,
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  Speaker 2: the proxies aren't really ours, we're not using the money
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  Speaker 2: for proxies. We'll know when that money moves to proxies.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of what the enforcement is.
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  Speaker 1: Up come back to be KT. Come on, you're doing great,
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  Speaker 1: You're doing great. Come back to me.
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  Speaker 2: Is follow the money, follow the money.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you this. I bought up the
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  Speaker 1: possibility that we loosen these sanctions and Unon gets money.
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  Speaker 1: As far as I'm concerned, it's a bad deal. That's
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  Speaker 1: the case. I don't care what else they do. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care because whatever else they say they're gonna do,
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  Speaker 1: they're not gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, they're not gonna do it.
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  Speaker 1: Right, so right, so if they end up signing some
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  Speaker 1: piece of paper, we're gonna stop enriching uranium. They're gonna lie,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna lie. They're not gonna stop it, right, So
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  Speaker 1: and then we're gonna give them money. And like I
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  Speaker 1: keep saying all morning long, they're not gonna build hospitals,
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  Speaker 1: they're not gonna build schools. But Huckaby said was listen,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you one hundred percent. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: something tells me sodas President Trump. So his recommendation was,
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  Speaker 1: don't listen to everything Trump says. Don't listen certainly to
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  Speaker 1: what the media is reporting. Put your faith in Trump
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  Speaker 1: that he knows, he knows that money. To wern it's
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  Speaker 1: like crack. To Charlie Sheen, he didn't say that, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying that it's a very good analogy. But in
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  Speaker 1: all serious we can't have that. We can't have it.
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  Speaker 2: You have to know where the money's going. If you
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  Speaker 2: can't give block grants to Iran, you can't unfreeze assets
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  Speaker 2: and say okay, here's your money, go do with it
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  Speaker 2: what you want. You have to know what they're giving
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  Speaker 2: the money to. So, for example, we could oversee those accounts.
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  Speaker 2: So if Iran says I'm going to build a hospital,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to see where the money goes. If
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to the hospital, we freeze it or
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  Speaker 2: we give it to somebody else. I think that at
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  Speaker 2: this point, from this point on, it'll be follow the money,
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  Speaker 2: and thank Goodness, as Secretary of the Treasury has been
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  Speaker 2: vigilant about tracking down those accounts that are in offshore
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  Speaker 2: accounts of the Iranian officials and the IRGC, and really
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  Speaker 2: brilliant at cracking their cryptocurrency accounts where they've been moving
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  Speaker 2: money around on cryptocurrencies, which is normally invisible, but the
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  Speaker 2: Treasury Department has figured out where it goes. Look, is
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  Speaker 2: it going to be a great deal, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be perfect. Is it going to be surrender, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like the Japanese surrender. No, it's not. It's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be perfect. There'll be ups and downs and backs
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  Speaker 2: and forests, and they'll be Iranian Guard members who want
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  Speaker 2: to sabotage it. But it's a slow nudging towards peace.
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  Speaker 2: And I just keep thinking of two things. Won the
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  Speaker 2: gods a piece of chorus? Remember, No, that was never
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  Speaker 2: going to work. It's going to never you can never
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  Speaker 2: trust Tomas. Well, that's worked out pretty well, largely because
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  Speaker 2: of all those other Arab countries have bought into it.
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  Speaker 2: And then with regard to Iran, it's the Abraham Acorus
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  Speaker 2: is the bigger thing here. It's not even just Iran.
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  Speaker 2: It's getting all those countries in the region to recognize Israel,
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  Speaker 2: to trade with Israel, to invest in Israel, and Israelis
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  Speaker 2: to invest in their countries and then have an interlocking
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  Speaker 2: web of relationships between Israel and the golf Arab countries.
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  Speaker 2: That's how the peace will ultimately be kept in the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: You know what my fear is Trump does all this
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  Speaker 1: and maybe it starts to work just a little. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the jury is still out on that, not because of
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  Speaker 1: Trump's best attempts. In the United States. You just can't
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  Speaker 1: trust Iran. And then the elections come in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight and it's not JD. Vance or the guy that
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  Speaker 1: I really want is Marco Rubio. You know, I haven't
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  Speaker 1: talked to anybody, I mean, anybody, any Trump supporter, any Republican.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in New York, of course, I've pete the people
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  Speaker 1: in Florida. In Israel too. I haven't spoken to anybody
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  Speaker 1: that would rather have JD. Vans as a nominee over
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  Speaker 1: Mark Rubio. Nobody, maybe Erica Kirk. That's about it. But
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  Speaker 1: either way, if it's not one of them, with Ted
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  Speaker 1: Cruz or Glenn Younkin or Ron DeSantis, who knows, and
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  Speaker 1: it ends up being a Democrat, whatever Trump has been
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  Speaker 1: doing will be completely unraveled. You realize that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, and no. If it if it is sort
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  Speaker 2: of established enough, it's hard to have him unravel it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: why do I say that? Look at the Abraham and
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  Speaker 2: Court signed at the end of Trump's first term, and
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  Speaker 2: that allowed travel and vest trade between Israel and several
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  Speaker 2: of the golf Arab countries that was not undone during
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  Speaker 2: the Biden administration. They couldn't have unwound that because it
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  Speaker 2: was so profitable and it was so successful for the
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  Speaker 2: signatories of the Abraham Accords. So I think the Abraham Accords,
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  Speaker 2: President Trump said, and then he didn't really follow it up.
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  Speaker 2: But as he said a couple of weeks ago, part
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  Speaker 2: of this Iron Deal, if we get a deal, is
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  Speaker 2: so all those countries sign on to the Abraham a chorus.
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  Speaker 2: Once that happens, it becomes too lucrative, too quickly, and
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  Speaker 2: so in two years time a Democrat may want to
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  Speaker 2: undo it and may want to I don't know, give
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  Speaker 2: around nuclear weapons like Barack Obama did. It'll be very
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  Speaker 2: hard to unlind it.
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  Speaker 1: I think, well, I hope you're right at least, and
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  Speaker 1: you have a lots more than me, So my money's
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  Speaker 1: on you, Kat mcfauland as always an excellent, excellent body segment.
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  Speaker 1: Have yourself a beautiful weekend. We'll do it again next week.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, great job, Thank you all right, Kat,
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  Speaker 1: You're great, Kat mcfalland right there was so lucky out
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