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Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt | 06-23-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: We have general faith with us and he's one knowledgeable guy,
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  Speaker 1: one good friend, and he knows where everything, which way,
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  Speaker 1: everything is going. Well, general halt, what the heck is
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  Speaker 1: going on? I mean, can you do you have any
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  Speaker 1: pulse of what's going on?
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  Speaker 3: And I ran good morning, Yes I do. They're in
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  Speaker 3: complete chaos and disarray, but there's very good reasons to
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  Speaker 3: be encouraged by that. What we're seeing in Iran is
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  Speaker 3: an eye RGC that is on its last gas. It's
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  Speaker 3: running out of weapons, it's certainly broke, and it's are
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  Speaker 3: they getting paid now? They're not getting paid. Scott Dessents
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  Speaker 3: done a marvelous job of mopping with all that money,
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  Speaker 3: and you know they're not receiving any oil revenue as yet,
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  Speaker 3: and they can't pay anybody anyway, they're isolated. The number
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  Speaker 3: one and number two issue in Iran right now today
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  Speaker 3: is food and water. And so this puts the Vice
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  Speaker 3: President into a marvelous leverage position to get what he
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  Speaker 3: wants from a group of civilian Iranians that are as
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  Speaker 3: terrified of the IRGC as the population is. And so
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  Speaker 3: the IRGC is really the long pole in the tent, John,
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  Speaker 3: and I believe that that's going to take care of,
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  Speaker 3: if not itself, the United States will certainly help with
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  Speaker 3: that as we get Iran to the next chapter.
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  Speaker 1: And in general, I mean some of these fake newses
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  Speaker 1: that go out in Panics com in the media about Iran,
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  Speaker 1: we're on again, off again, on again, off again. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't the media be small enough to realize that you
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  Speaker 1: have to decide who's speaking and who's giving them the
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  Speaker 1: fake news?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they should, and they're certainly capable of doing that.
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  Speaker 3: But they're welded to one idea, and that is throw
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  Speaker 3: rocks at President Trump, and they all want to see
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  Speaker 3: him fail, and they certainly don't want to see him
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  Speaker 3: get this victory in the Middle East ahead of the
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  Speaker 3: midterms like this, and so they're going to criticize every
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  Speaker 3: molecule of everything that happens every day, but let's be honest,
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  Speaker 3: what President Trump has done is amazing. We have an
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  Speaker 3: Iran that's basically defanged. It doesn't have much of a
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  Speaker 3: military at all left, it's certainly not going to be
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  Speaker 3: able to make any nuclear weapons or start producing weapons,
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  Speaker 3: and it's got a very expectant population that wants their
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  Speaker 3: country back. And I see the Venezuela model emerging, and that, yes,
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna make a lot of eyeballs bleed in the
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  Speaker 3: media circles, but so be it.
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  Speaker 1: Are ships moving, tankers moving there.
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  Speaker 3: I just checked again this morning. We see a steady stream.
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  Speaker 3: We're not at capacity by any stretch of the imagination,
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  Speaker 3: but where we normally see one hundred and twenty ships
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  Speaker 3: a day transitting, we're now probably looking at about forty
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  Speaker 3: maybe fifty on a good day over the last five days.
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  Speaker 3: And that's only going to pick up from here. They're
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  Speaker 3: probably going to be extra safe about the mining thing.
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  Speaker 3: And again the IRGC is an impediment here, but I
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  Speaker 3: believe all that's getting cleared up over these next few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Give us the pulse on Lebanon. What the heck is
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  Speaker 1: going on Israel in are they still exchanging?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, we had a broken, broken piece of this
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  Speaker 3: yere So you have the IRGC, which is telling Hesbela
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  Speaker 3: to go throw everything you've got at Israel. Israel then
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  Speaker 3: predictably going on into Lebanon, than the Lebanese getting upset
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  Speaker 3: about their sovereignty. And so what I see coming together
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  Speaker 3: is a really brilliant plan. Vice President Advance and President
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  Speaker 3: Trump are trying to wicker the Lebanese and the Israelis
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  Speaker 3: their defense forces working together to eradicate the last of
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  Speaker 3: Hesbalah there in the south. These Lebanese can take care
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  Speaker 3: of Beirut, and they'll do so under a common framework
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  Speaker 3: and rules of engagement that the United States can monitor.
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  Speaker 3: And doesn't that just make sense? Because if we handle
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  Speaker 3: it that way, as Hesbela dies out from supply chain
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  Speaker 3: issues and money issues, we'll be on our way to
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  Speaker 3: the Abraham Accords, and it'll give you a clear path
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  Speaker 3: towards that and you won't have adversaries in Lebanon and Israel.
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  Speaker 4: General Holt, this is Jake Novak. We got some really
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  Speaker 4: dramatic news over the weekend that the IDF had surrounded
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  Speaker 4: hesbalas Pentagon, their underground Pentagon and the Ali Tahara Ridge
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  Speaker 4: and it's still surrounded now. Apparently we heard reports that
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  Speaker 4: they were told not to move in. This seems to
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  Speaker 4: be like something that may have helped turn the Iranians
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  Speaker 4: into a little bit more of a death sprint actor
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  Speaker 4: in the talks.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's still very volatile, as you said.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, we just got a report from Israeli media
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  Speaker 4: that some gunmen near the troops in Lebanon were hit
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  Speaker 4: by the Israelis and hesbel I was saying the truce
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  Speaker 4: is violated. We're gonna hear this kind of stuff for days.
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  Speaker 4: But this Alita hair Ridge and this underground control center
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  Speaker 4: for Kasabella built for them by Iran, can you tell
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  Speaker 4: us anything about that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a monker system in a tunnel system,
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  Speaker 3: and this probably is not the only one, but the
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  Speaker 3: fact that they have a line on it. If they
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  Speaker 3: can bring in the Lebanese forces to help them close
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  Speaker 3: the deal there, that'd be great. But when we go
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  Speaker 3: back to the mothership, which is really the IRGC, and
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  Speaker 3: the reason I say IRGC, and I'm specific about that
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  Speaker 3: is because you can't say Iran or the Iranian regime anymore.
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  Speaker 3: If you ask me about the Iranian regime, I'd say
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  Speaker 3: which one. There's three at maybe four by next week
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  Speaker 3: because the mulas are dying out Washtaba, a man without
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  Speaker 3: legs is the last legs of that. And then you
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  Speaker 3: have the IRGC, which is running out of everything and
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  Speaker 3: all they can do is phone it into Hesbalah. But
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  Speaker 3: the IERGC is still dangerous, and so you have these
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  Speaker 3: civilian negotiators in the middle who could be the new
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  Speaker 3: interim leaders. But if they come home to tear Ron
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  Speaker 3: saying yeah, we're going to do everything the United States
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  Speaker 3: wants because we're we lost, then the IERGCAL just killed
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  Speaker 3: those guys. And so it's a very very complex situation.
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  Speaker 3: But I think when you take a look at all
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  Speaker 3: the different agendas and all the different things going on,
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  Speaker 3: we're managing it quite well. And let's remind everybody that
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  Speaker 3: there's no one hundred and thirty thousand US forces on
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  Speaker 3: the ground in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just saw a bulletin that one point nine
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  Speaker 1: million barrels moved yesterday. There's a straight.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, yep, it's moving. It's moving, and it's going to
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  Speaker 3: alleviate a lot of pain. It's also going to keep
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  Speaker 3: the Chinese on the sidelines. The Europeans, all they can
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  Speaker 3: do is say thank you because they didn't lift a
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  Speaker 3: finger on what would be their vital interest. And here's
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  Speaker 3: the adversary. Nobody really talks about Lloyd's of London. They're
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  Speaker 3: the ones who have stopped up the Straits financially. And
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  Speaker 3: when President Trump went up to the G seven basically
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  Speaker 3: gave them all a reminder. Let's remember that President Trump
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  Speaker 3: the night before here Starmar resigned, had said he would
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  Speaker 3: do just that. So one can only wonder what Starmer
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  Speaker 3: and President Trump had talked about when the G seven
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  Speaker 3: was going on.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you had some information on the last question
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  Speaker 1: Putin and Zarrensky, Ukraine and Russia. What the heck is
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  Speaker 1: going on?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's getting more dangerous and it's probably going to
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  Speaker 3: escalate before we start to see the end of it.
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  Speaker 3: I imagine President Trump was pretty stern with the Europeans
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  Speaker 3: that not only did they not lift a finger in
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  Speaker 3: the Middle East, but none of them has lifted a
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  Speaker 3: diplomatic finger to try to end this war. And Putin
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  Speaker 3: is getting very frustrated with the attacks on Russia. But
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  Speaker 3: then you know, the Neo coms want it both ways.
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  Speaker 3: They say, if we don't stop Russia here, they're going
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  Speaker 3: to take over all of Europe. They can't even get
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  Speaker 3: past the Neeper River. At the other end of the spectrum,
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  Speaker 3: they have the best nuclear weapons on the planet, and
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  Speaker 3: so why keep poking the bear? Why not just cut
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  Speaker 3: a deal? And unfortunately that's the situation KEIV finds themselves,
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  Speaker 3: and they they're a valiant fighting force that they're not
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  Speaker 3: going to be able to defeat Russia. And if that's
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  Speaker 3: the case, then then why aren't we exploring the end
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  Speaker 3: by other means, which is exactly what Europe needs to
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  Speaker 3: do immediately instead of doubling down with this ninety billion
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  Speaker 3: in garbage anything else.
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  Speaker 1: The American people should know on the what is it
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, I'm losing traffic time. I don't know. Oh
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  Speaker 1: that's right, I can't even go vote. There's nobody to
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  Speaker 1: vote for.
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  Speaker 3: Vote off, vote early. The Americans should be very encouraged
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  Speaker 3: by what they see overseas, but that doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 3: a force called the IRGC, which is about to go
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  Speaker 3: into martyrdom, won't do something drastic on the way out.
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  Speaker 3: And that means watch for cell activity here if they
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  Speaker 3: activate cells as a last gas, we need to see something,
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  Speaker 3: say something. Keep our heads on a swivel. After all,
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  Speaker 3: we do have the fourth of July coming up, and
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  Speaker 3: we certainly have the World Cup going on. Yeah, speaking
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  Speaker 3: of the World Cups to watch after everybody speaking of the.
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  Speaker 4: World Cup, Jurnale. Not a lot of people picking up
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  Speaker 4: on this story, but we learned that there was evidence
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  Speaker 4: of a plot by the IRGC to insert terrorists into
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  Speaker 4: the Iranian national soccer team. Now the good news is,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it looks like that has been at least
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  Speaker 4: alerted to us, and they are still they're under heavy security.
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  Speaker 4: But that's really really frightening, it is.
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  Speaker 3: And as a military man, I would tell you that's
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  Speaker 3: probably what I would call a tactical deception. It's so
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  Speaker 3: obvious that they would try to infuse the earth there.
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  Speaker 3: So what I wonder is, what is the real operation
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  Speaker 3: that they're working on. They would always put some of
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  Speaker 3: their cannon fodder to go get picked up by the FBI.
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  Speaker 3: What are they really doing? And that's so I would
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  Speaker 3: just say, we're not out of the woods. Everybody needs
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  Speaker 3: to just keep their head on a swivel and report
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  Speaker 3: anything that looks absolutely off base here, because you know,
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  Speaker 3: success overseas means a little bit of danger here because
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  Speaker 3: of four years of open borders.
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  Speaker 1: General Blaine, Hold, any update on the B fifty two,
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  Speaker 1: how it just disappeared.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're still looking for the fuel count, and the
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  Speaker 3: Air Force hasn't really said anything. We should be getting
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  Speaker 3: an official announcement in the next two weeks. But the
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  Speaker 3: only reason I can think that that fuselage doesn't exist
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  Speaker 3: anymore is because it was full with fuel. But the
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  Speaker 3: other thing we have to find out, of course, and
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  Speaker 3: you and I have talked about this is what was
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  Speaker 3: faulty on the test menu for that mission that they
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  Speaker 3: had to delay it by weeks and crew members were
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  Speaker 3: getting increasingly concerned.
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  Speaker 1: General Hope, thank you so much for coming on this
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday morning. And well, is there an election near you?
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  Speaker 1: You're near Idaho, right, is there?
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  Speaker 3: What? I'm in the great state of Idah. We've already
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  Speaker 3: had our primaries and we've duked it out locally, and
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  Speaker 3: you know what we're doing. We're having a great American
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  Speaker 3: day out here, and I hope you all do the same.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, God bless America, and thank you for
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  Speaker 1: everything you've done for our country and continue to speak
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  Speaker 1: out for our country.
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  Speaker 3: God blessed, take care.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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