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Backlash unleashes against Trump's 'EVIL' anti-immigration games · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Diplomatic push is underway in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: Trump Special Envoy Steve Wyckoff and Jared Kushner just arrived
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  Speaker 2: a short time ago by train in Kyiv for their
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  Speaker 2: first visit to Ukraine as part of a renewed push
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  Speaker 2: from the Trump administration to end Russia's war. Within the
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  Speaker 2: past hour, they were greeted by Ukrainian President Zelensky. His
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  Speaker 2: office posted on social media moments ago that the talks
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  Speaker 2: have now just begun. Just yesterday, Wyckoff and Kushner met
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  Speaker 2: with Vladimir Putin in Moscow for more than three hours.
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  Speaker 2: Criminal officials told The New York Times that those talks were, quote, meaningful, constructive,
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  Speaker 2: extremely frank and, quote, trusting. And in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 2: the fighting with Iran is escalating. The Associated Press reports
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  Speaker 2: Iran is claiming responsibility for an attack on an unmanned U.S.
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  Speaker 2: vessel this morning attempting to enter the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 2: That comes one day after U.S. forces struck three Iranian
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  Speaker 2: tankers following an Iranian missile attack on two U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Navy warships. All right. The panel is back with us.
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  Speaker 2: We're having a little trouble getting Congressman Jonathan Jackson's fees.
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  Speaker 2: So Miles Taylor and Congressman Susan Wilde are here. Congressman
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  Speaker 2: Woman Wilde, of course, was a member of the Foreign
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  Speaker 2: Relations Committee during her time in office.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you all for sticking with us.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, we saw really this past week, the president, the
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  Speaker 2: vice president really tried to downplay what was happening.
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  Speaker 1: And with regard to this conflict. Right.
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  Speaker 2: They're not even calling it a war. President Trump called
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  Speaker 2: it small potatoes. I mean, you were a member of
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  Speaker 2: the foreign relations for this. What's your reaction to that
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  Speaker 2: type of stuff?
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  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 1: You know, how do you think the the family members
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  Speaker 1: of the servicemen and women.
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  Speaker 2: Who lost their lives in this war, how do they feel?
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  Speaker 4: Imagine them hearing that this is small potatoes. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you just can't even fathom how what would it be?
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  Speaker 5: Stab that is to the heart.
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  Speaker 4: And not to mention the amount of money that we're
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  Speaker 4: spending in Iran, what it's doing to gas prices, what
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  Speaker 4: it just and who knows this these recent strikes on U.S. vessels.
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  Speaker 5: Did we lose more lives?
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  Speaker 1: Do we know?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we just got that news in.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 4: Are we going to is this just going to be
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  Speaker 4: an ongoing thing? And I don't think there's no exit
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  Speaker 4: strategy whatsoever. So I don't know whether he's diverting to
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  Speaker 4: Ukraine now thinking he can do something there and take
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  Speaker 4: people's minds off.
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  Speaker 5: What strikes me.
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  Speaker 2: Really is the abdication of the responsibility from Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: House Republicans, Senate Republicans.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: When you are going to commit men and women, U.S.
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  Speaker 2: citizens to combat, to war zones, you owe it to them,
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  Speaker 2: to your constituents to do your due diligence.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: The Congress requires, the Constitution requires the Congress to authorize
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  Speaker 2: a war, Miles. They, the Republican majority in Congress, refuse
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  Speaker 2: to do that. You know, they should have been, in
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  Speaker 2: my opinion, they should have been demanding questions. What is
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  Speaker 2: the objective? What's the strategy? What is the exit plan?
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  Speaker 2: We got none of that from them. And now, fast
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  Speaker 2: forward seven months, we are in a place where they
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  Speaker 2: are reaping the political consequences of their inaction and their
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  Speaker 2: lack of asking and demanding questions and answers on the
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  Speaker 2: front end.
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  Speaker 5: Well, straight talk.
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  Speaker 6: It's an illegal war and. It's not a political talking point.
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  Speaker 6: They're outside of the window of the War Powers Act.
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  Speaker 6: In fact, we got news this week that the Trump
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  Speaker 6: administration was now directing service members to stop calling it
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  Speaker 6: Operation Epic Fury.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 6: Because Operation Epic Fury is now outside of the scope of.
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  Speaker 1: The War Powers Act.
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  Speaker 6: So if they're calling it that, they're admitting they're continuing
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  Speaker 6: to engage in a war that's beyond the congressional authorization window.
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  Speaker 1: So one, it's an illegal war.
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  Speaker 6: Number two, the situation that we're in right now shows
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  Speaker 6: me that there are not serious people left on the
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  Speaker 6: National Security Council and in these top political jobs in
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  Speaker 6: the administration, if there ever were in a second term.
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  Speaker 6: It was so foreseeable before they went into this conflict
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  Speaker 6: that if they were going to go to war with Iran,
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  Speaker 6: they needed a plan for China and Russia.
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  Speaker 5: What do I mean by that?
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  Speaker 6: Iran was always going to use its great power patrons,
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  Speaker 6: China and Russia, as a backstop, no matter how bad
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  Speaker 6: we pummeled them. This administration went to war anyway, thinking
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  Speaker 6: it would take days or weeks because.
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  Speaker 5: They thought they were just going to war with Iran.
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  Speaker 6: Our adversaries see this as an opportunity to bleed us dry.
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  Speaker 6: You want to go back decades, you see examples of
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  Speaker 6: that throughout American history on both sides of conflicts of
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  Speaker 6: great powers trying to bleed each other dry through proxy conflicts.
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  Speaker 5: It's happening to us now.
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  Speaker 6: And look at the most recent thing the administration tried
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  Speaker 6: to do, economic D-Day. You know who's not scared about
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  Speaker 6: economic D-Day? The Iranians, because they say, guess what? We
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  Speaker 6: got two big rich friends behind us. Until you take
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  Speaker 6: care of them, ain't nothing D-Day for us.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we still haven't even heard of any of the
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  Speaker 7: details of this economic strangulation that Besant promised.
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  Speaker 5: Two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 7: But Congressman, I wonder if you can talk a little
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  Speaker 7: bit more about the interplay between Iran, China, and the
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  Speaker 7: way it connects to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Because Steve Witkoff
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  Speaker 7: and Jared Kushner are the people who are also handling
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  Speaker 7: negotiations for the Iran war. They seem to have diverted
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  Speaker 7: their attention. Do you think that that is connected to
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  Speaker 7: the overall game plan with Iran?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they're there to conduct these talks, but I
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  Speaker 4: don't think anybody really believes that President Trump is interested
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  Speaker 4: in handing Ukraine a victory.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, wasn't this a war that he was
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  Speaker 4: going to end on day one, the Ukraine war of
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  Speaker 4: his administration? But so so now we've got the two fronts.
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  Speaker 4: But yes, I think there's a huge connection because they're there.
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  Speaker 4: And they're talking to Putin and there's all kinds of
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  Speaker 4: things going on in Iran. And yes, Russia, China, Iran,
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  Speaker 4: it's all connected. And that is the real fear that
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  Speaker 4: I have, is that both economically, in terms of what
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  Speaker 4: they can do to us trade-wise and otherwise, oil, and
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  Speaker 4: with might, with military might.
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  Speaker 1: We've taken on.
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  Speaker 4: You know, two big superpowers pretending that we're just getting
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  Speaker 4: involved in a little, what, something they won't even call
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  Speaker 4: a war now.
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  Speaker 3: So we were just looking at pictures of Steve Witkoff
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  Speaker 3: and Jared Kushner arriving in Kiev.
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  Speaker 5: The pictures look very serious.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like normal diplomatic relations that we've seen under
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  Speaker 3: Democratic and Republican administrations. And yet what we're talking about
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  Speaker 3: is an administration that is unbelievably unserious about what they're
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  Speaker 3: doing from the president on down. I want to play
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  Speaker 3: the small potatoes comment from the president.
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  Speaker 5: I have more to say on the other side. Watch this.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, a lot of people don't call
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  Speaker 4: it a war. I call it a military conflict because
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  Speaker 4: it's small potatoes for us.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a big thing.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's outrageous to hear.
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  Speaker 3: But it speaks to the the unseriousness with how he
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  Speaker 3: got into all of this. I'll never forget, Jackie, you
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  Speaker 3: remember we were awakened in the middle of the night
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  Speaker 3: because the president of the United States in a big
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  Speaker 3: white hat with USA.
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  Speaker 5: On it announced by video.
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  Speaker 3: That the country was attacked, had launched a war against Iran,
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  Speaker 3: never came to the American people to explain why. what
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  Speaker 3: he was doing, why he was doing it, what the
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  Speaker 3: objectives were, and said it would be all done in
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  Speaker 3: four to six weeks. We are now more than six
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  Speaker 3: months into this. And we, to your point, Congresswoman, we
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  Speaker 3: have no idea what the exit strategy is.
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  Speaker 5: And to your point, Miles.
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  Speaker 3: When we the reporting came out that the generals told
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  Speaker 3: him that, you know, the Iranians could close the Strait
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  Speaker 3: of Hormuz and his reaction was not worried about that.
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  Speaker 5: The regime is going to fall. We'll be fine.
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  Speaker 3: It speaks to a level of unseriousness that they wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: even listen to the generals. And I bring that up
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  Speaker 3: because the Pentagon is now a shell of what it
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  Speaker 3: used to be given.
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  Speaker 4: Just get rid of the generals if we don't like
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  Speaker 4: what they say.
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  Speaker 3: Real fast, real quick, like 30 seconds altogether because I've
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  Speaker 3: chewed up.
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  Speaker 5: All the time.
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  Speaker 4: This is the whole reason for requiring an AUMF from Congress,
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  Speaker 4: an authorization for the use of military force, because these
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  Speaker 4: questions get asked before the AUMF is issued.
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  Speaker 5: We don't have that.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't had that.
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  Speaker 6: And I'll just add, you want to know how bad
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  Speaker 6: it is? Do our allies still think we are the
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  Speaker 6: leader of the free world? Survey came out last month
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  Speaker 6: that showed nine out of 10 of our European allies
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  Speaker 6: no longer see the United States as leader of the
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  Speaker 6: free world. 90 percent.
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  Speaker 5: Bad news.