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"Perils of Posturing Politicians" (Thursday, March 19, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 5: Gathered together where I tell you what went on last night.
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Speaker 5: is find out how all this stuff is impacting you
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Speaker 5: where you are never a good day when the phrase
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Speaker 5: intelligence is used over and over again on Capitol Hill.
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Speaker 5: But the hearings went on and on and on regarding
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Speaker 5: what did you know when did you know it? In speechification,
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Speaker 5: we'll get into all of that, a lot of posturing.
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Speaker 5: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a snit because nobody
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Speaker 5: asked them to hold hearings, But interestingly enough, the questions
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Speaker 5: seem to be more along the lines have helped me
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Speaker 5: set up my reelection campaign ad so I can be
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Speaker 5: seen as being tough and somebody like Tolsy Gabbard. And
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Speaker 5: then the hearings into Mark Wayne Mullen got kind of
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Speaker 5: strange and not really sure what the anger issues have,
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Speaker 5: but in a leadership position, it seems like this is
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Speaker 5: the tack they're going. Remember it was the same issue
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Speaker 5: with Pete Hegsith was that he had both an anger
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Speaker 5: and drinking problem and that was going to hurt his
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Speaker 5: leadership ability at the Pentagon. And now it seems that
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Speaker 5: they were saying the same thing about Mark Wayne Mullen,
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Speaker 5: that he's got a hair trigger and that's going to
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Speaker 5: cause problems at the Department of Homeland Security. I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I think maybe getting them a budget pass so they
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Speaker 5: can pay their people. That would be my first job.
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Speaker 5: But you know, let's have the hearings, because that's what
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Speaker 5: Congress people seem to do these days. Although Wednesday night,
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Speaker 5: as we begin our first things. Last night, the Senate
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Speaker 5: defeated a measure to push war powers resolutions brought by
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Speaker 5: Tim Kaine and Ran Paul kurktailing President Trump's authority to
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Speaker 5: launch any further military strikes against Iran. The resolution, sponsored
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Speaker 5: by Senator Cory Booker, would have ordered Trump to remove
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Speaker 5: US armed forces quote from hostilities within or against Iran
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Speaker 5: unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a
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Speaker 5: specific authorization for a use of military force. The measure
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Speaker 5: was defeated, interestingly enough, not needing kloture to get to
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Speaker 5: the floor, fifty three to forty seven, with one Democrat,
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Speaker 5: John fetterman of Pennsylvania, voting with the Republicans. Cutter said
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Speaker 5: Wednesday that while successfully intercepted four out of five ballistic
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Speaker 5: missiles launched out of Iran, the fifth hit the ross
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Speaker 5: Laffen industrial city, causing extensive damage. Ross Laffen is where
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Speaker 5: Cutter Energy's LNG processing takes place. The state oil giant
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Speaker 5: had earlier evacuated the LNG installations. There's no report as
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Speaker 5: to how much of the LNG manufacturing facility was damaged.
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Speaker 5: CIA Director John Ratcliffe said US intelligence has shown that
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Speaker 5: Iran posed an immediate threat to the United States and
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Speaker 5: that the rogue regime had not abandoned its nuclear ambitions.
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Speaker 5: This is reports in the Wall Street Journal. Though Ratcliffe
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Speaker 5: was not called to testify in yesterday's hearings. Israel's defense
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Speaker 5: minister said Wednesday the military killed Iranian intelligence minister s
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Speaker 5: mil Katib. Katib's killing follows Israel's top Iranian security official,
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Speaker 5: Ali Larijani and the head of the Revolutionary Guards, all
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Speaker 5: volunteer Basige force. About ninety ships, including oil tankers, have
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Speaker 5: successfully crossed the Strait of Horne moves since the beginning
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Speaker 5: of hostilities between the US, Israel, and Iran, and they're
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Speaker 5: still exporting millions of barrels of oil through the waterway Forider.
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Speaker 5: National Security Advisor John Bolton says President Trump should pursue
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Speaker 5: external regime change in Iran, otherwise, he doesn't see why
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Speaker 5: we went in to do this in the first place.
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Speaker 5: He said the logic of regime change is anexorable and
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Speaker 5: Jim Jordan said he'll support a short term extension to
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Speaker 5: the Section seven h two Faiza Authority, shifting from where
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Speaker 5: he was saying the events in Iran have changed his
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Speaker 2: That opening statement, as submitted to the committee in advance
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Speaker 2: of this hearing, stated that as a result of last
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Speaker 2: summer's airstrikes, quote, Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated.
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Speaker 19: End quote, bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran.
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Speaker 4: Bom bom bom bom bomb Iran.
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Speaker 5: They play with words.
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Speaker 1: So if.
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Speaker 5: You take all the different parsing that was done during
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Speaker 5: the hearings yesterday with d n I Galbert Galbert, who's
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Speaker 5: Galbert Gabbard, that they will pick on different So if
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Speaker 5: the nuclear program is obliterated, that's eliminating the threat. So
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Speaker 5: the question for the esteemed senator as opposed to esteemed
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Speaker 5: to me is how many times has Irun used their
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Speaker 5: nuclear program to kill all the people? How much of
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Speaker 5: their nuclear program have they given to Hezbola or Hamas
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Speaker 5: or Isis or any of the other client gig economy
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Speaker 5: terrorists that they hire to drive them to the airport
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Speaker 5: and blow it up.
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Speaker 2: The question goes on correct and is that in fact,
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Speaker 2: the assessment of the intelligence community. So the assessment of
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Speaker 2: the intelligence community is that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was
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Speaker 2: obliterated by last summer's airstrikes. Yes, and the opening statement
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Speaker 2: you submitted to the committee last night also stated, quote
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Speaker 2: there has been no efforts since then to try to
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Speaker 2: rebuild there enrich capability end quote. Correct, that's right, and
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Speaker 2: that's the assessment of the intelligence community.
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Speaker 16: Yes.
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Speaker 2: The White House stated on March first of this year
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Speaker 2: that this war was launched and was quote a military
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Speaker 2: campaign to eliminate the imminent nuclear threat posed by the
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Speaker 2: Iranian regime.
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Speaker 1: End quote.
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Speaker 2: That's a statement from the white House, quote the imminent
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Speaker 2: nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime. Was it the
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Speaker 2: assessment of the intelligence community that there was an imminent
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Speaker 2: nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
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Speaker 20: The intelligence community assessed that Iran maintained the intention to
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Speaker 20: rebuild and to continue to grow their nuclear enrichment.
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Speaker 2: Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there
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Speaker 2: was a quote imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
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Speaker 5: Yes?
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Speaker 20: Or no, Senator, the only person who can determine and
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Speaker 20: what is and is not an imminent threat is the president.
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Speaker 19: False.
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Speaker 2: This is the Worldwide This is the Worldwide Threats Hearing
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Speaker 2: where you present to Congress National Intelligence, timely, objective, and
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Speaker 2: independent of political considerations. You've stated today that the intelligence
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Speaker 2: community's assessment is that Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated,
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Speaker 2: and that quote there had been no efforts since then
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Speaker 2: to try to rebuild their enrichment capability.
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Speaker 5: So the theme is Trump was doing this because he
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Speaker 5: had a stray hair, or that he was doing it
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Speaker 5: because Israel owns him, which of course is apparently they
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Speaker 5: picked him up at a yard sale, because it used
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Speaker 5: to be Russia owned Trump, but somebody obviously owns Trump,
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Speaker 5: and that he is doing this just because what I liked.
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Speaker 5: There was one blogger that was writing that Trump wants
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Speaker 5: to build Trump golf course and resort in Iran and
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Speaker 5: along the straight of horror moves, and that's why he's
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Speaker 5: doing it. I like it when they bring back the
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Speaker 5: classic hits like Trump's just doing this to make himself money.
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Speaker 5: So you tell me, is the role of the Director
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Speaker 5: of National Intelligence advice to the executive or do they
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Speaker 5: tell the executive what to do? Because that was the
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Speaker 5: premise of Senator Gordon's questions, was that the Intelligence Committee
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Speaker 5: serves to direct the president and tell the president what
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Speaker 5: he can do and what he can't do? Or do
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Speaker 5: they give advice? Do they say, here's what we've got,
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Speaker 5: here is our intelligence. What they didn't ask is did
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Speaker 5: Israel offer up any intelligence that contradicted what the American
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Speaker 5: intelligence was? But the hearing went.
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Speaker 2: On imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime?
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Speaker 1: Yes or no?
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Speaker 20: It is not the intelligence communities responsibility to determine what
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Speaker 20: is and is not an imminent threat.
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Speaker 11: That is up.
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Speaker 2: Here's the problem volume it is. It is precisely, it
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Speaker 2: is precisely your responsibility to determine what constitutes a threat
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Speaker 2: to the United States. This is the Worldwide Threats Hearing.
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Speaker 2: Where as you noted in your opening testimony quote, you
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Speaker 2: represent the ICs assessment of threats.
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Speaker 5: But you see how they're parsing the words. See if
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Speaker 5: you say you have a threat and the president says,
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Speaker 5: I see it differently. At the end of the day,
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Speaker 5: he's the one that was elected. And it's interesting because
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Speaker 5: if you go back through any number of misadventures during
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Speaker 5: the Biden administration, none of these hearings were held. Where
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Speaker 5: were the hearings, you know, during the misadventures in Fterghanistan?
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Speaker 5: Where was Avril Haines being dragged in front of the
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Speaker 5: Senate every time something.
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Speaker 1: Went bad.
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Speaker 5: I think Avril Haynes may have only appeared before that
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Speaker 5: during her appointment hearings during her vetting. But where were
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Speaker 5: the hearings into the assessments regarding the abandonment of Afghanistan?
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Speaker 5: And I think it's a fair question either was this
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Speaker 5: a threat or not? But to act like and this
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Speaker 5: is classic Hits one on one again where it's Trump
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Speaker 5: is just doing whatever the hell he wants. It's chaos.
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Speaker 5: It's chaos because you know, the experts aren't telling the
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Speaker 5: president what to do. And maybe four years of Joe
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Speaker 5: Biden needing to be told what to do by Jill
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Speaker 5: or whoever his other experts have left them believing that's
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Speaker 5: what you do. But when it's Joe Biden or Barack Obama,
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Speaker 5: where were the hearings on Syria? That's the fun in
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Speaker 5: this is this is posturing for other campaigns. This is
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Speaker 5: video that will be used in mid term elections. We
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Speaker 5: must take the majority in the House and Senate so
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Speaker 5: that we can stop Donald Trump from doing whatever the
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Speaker 5: hell he wants. And they'll play clips of this interaction
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Speaker 5: over and over and over again. Now you want a
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Speaker 5: president who's going to listen to the Director of nationally Intelligence. Sure,
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Speaker 5: but does the Director of National Intelligence tell the president
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Speaker 5: what to do or at the end of the day,
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Speaker 5: after the advice of your director of National Intelligence and
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Speaker 5: maybe the Director of National Intelligence for Israel, the director
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Speaker 5: of National Intelligence for England, or whoever it may be.
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Speaker 5: Because remember, the Director of National Intelligence told FDR to
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Speaker 5: stay the hell out of the battles in Europe and Asia.
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Speaker 5: They weren't our fight. And war is ugly, war is expensive,
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Speaker 5: war is deadly, so you need to go into it
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Speaker 5: with full forethought. But the more of these hearings I see,
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Speaker 5: the less likely I feel like Americans are looking at
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Speaker 5: these congress people saying, yeah, sure, I want you making
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Speaker 5: I did get to say I was right because in
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Speaker 5: Virginia that is what happened here in our flagship state.
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Speaker 5: But they had put in a proviso, which was the
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Speaker 5: And I appreciate catching up with you out on the
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Speaker 5: road again after all these years. How are you doing, sir?
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Speaker 13: I'm great man. We're to be back in this this
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Speaker 13: cherry entering fight. I thought that was one that we
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Speaker 13: had wont and put in the past. But here we are.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Unfortunately, I guess there's nothing, nothing forever there. And I
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Speaker 5: guess when when you heard that this might be happening.
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Speaker 5: And certainly it begins with the court order that Texas
31:20
Speaker 5: has to reduce some districts, and then people start suggesting
31:24
Speaker 5: that maybe you do it to lean towards the Republicans.
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Speaker 5: California's reaction, the dominoes start to fall all across these
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Speaker 5: states trying to find a way to do mid Desenniel redistricting.
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Speaker 5: Did you think it would ever come to Virginia because
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Speaker 5: you had worked so hard to have this put in
31:45
Speaker 5: as a constitutional amendment.
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Speaker 13: You know, I thought I thought it would not happen
31:50
Speaker 13: in Virginia. I really thought we would be insulated from it.
31:54
Speaker 13: I will say that when when President Trump said to
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Speaker 13: Texas that they needed, you know, to get five more
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32:02
Speaker 13: honestly was that they're they're overest, they're overplaying their hands.
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Speaker 13: The pendulum swings pretty quick in politics, and the Texas
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Speaker 13: Republicans made a strategic choice at the beginning of this
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Speaker 13: decade when they were redistricting normally, when they were Jered
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Speaker 13: Andrew normally if you will, to to not extend themselves
32:21
Speaker 13: because of this, this the pendulum swinging. And obviously Trump
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32:26
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Speaker 13: But that feels like that's that's gone back now. And
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Speaker 13: so banking on twenty four numbers for twenty six, uh,
32:36
Speaker 13: seems like a dangerous prophosition for the Republicans. So I'm
32:39
Speaker 13: sure they'll get another seat or two out of it,
32:40
Speaker 13: but I highly doubt they'll get five. And which made
32:43
Speaker 13: me think California didn't need to do it. But then
32:45
Speaker 13: California went and did it, and you get this, you know, say,
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Speaker 13: you got a handful of states doing it.
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Speaker 17: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's like middle school all over again. You
32:52
Speaker 5: just have to have one kid do it and then
32:54
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Speaker 5: a pin in everyone's new four letter word in Virginia,
33:04
Speaker 5: which is fair because I know you embraced the embodiment
33:10
Speaker 5: of it, but you talked about overplaying your hand. And
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Speaker 5: I've been controversial in my circles because right now, sadly,
33:20
Speaker 5: because it's a campaign, it's either you're with us or
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Speaker 5: you're a Guinness. And I pointed out that if you
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Speaker 5: use the twenty twenty election, twenty twenty one gubernatorial election,
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Speaker 5: not the twenty twenty five gubernatorial election, the Democratic Party
33:36
Speaker 5: of Virginia could actually lose a seat in this attempt
33:40
Speaker 5: to read district because they've taken several very heavily Democrat
33:45
Speaker 5: turnout districts and stretched them into one or two percentage
33:49
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33:52
Speaker 5: out in twenty twenty one with Glenn Youngkin running for governor,
33:56
Speaker 5: the Republicans at least hold on to the same number
34:00
Speaker 5: of seats that they have now based on that turnout,
34:03
Speaker 5: because we don't know who lives where, we just know
34:06
Speaker 5: how the votes flesh out. Once the votes are cast,
34:12
Speaker 5: which makes Virginia an interesting animal in that because you
34:15
Speaker 5: don't have records saying well, here's how many Republicans live
34:18
Speaker 5: in the district or not. It's all based on who's motivated,
34:21
Speaker 5: who turned out. You know, the candidates play a big
34:24
Speaker 5: role in this. So there's no guarantee in this though.
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Speaker 5: I think the Democrats feel there is.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, it feels like the Democrats are overreaching and that'll
34:34
Speaker 13: probably be okay in twenty twenty six. I mean since
34:38
Speaker 13: World War Two, the average party out of power in
34:42
Speaker 13: midterm elections picks up twenty five seats. That's the average. Yeah,
34:46
Speaker 13: last time Trump was in office, the Democrats. The midterm election,
34:50
Speaker 13: the Democrats picked up forty seats. So like, I look,
34:54
Speaker 13: I think the Democrats can overreach this year, but how
34:57
Speaker 13: about the following year or the year after that. It
34:59
Speaker 13: feels like if you're putting themselves at risk for exactly
35:01
Speaker 13: what you're talking about in a way that just doesn't
35:05
Speaker 13: seem politically smart over the long haul.
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Speaker 5: Is is there anything? From where you're standing now? Brian
35:14
Speaker 5: has got the band back together, the same folks who
35:16
Speaker 5: really pushed and won over the Commonwealth in twenty twenty one.
35:23
Speaker 5: You are out back out there. You've got Governor Allen,
35:26
Speaker 5: You've got chat Peterson. It's a bipartisan group of folks
35:30
Speaker 5: who are going around barnstorming around the Commonwealth again reminding
35:35
Speaker 5: people about why they took this out of politicians' hands
35:39
Speaker 5: in the first place. There is there a different feel
35:44
Speaker 5: though because of President Trump that wasn't there in twenty
35:48
Speaker 5: twenty one. What are you sensing as you barnstorm the Commonwealth?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I think a lot of folks are confused because
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Speaker 13: if you're a Democrat, and let me clear, I'm a Democrat, I.
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Speaker 5: Just think we shouldn't We don't need to cheat to win.
36:02
Speaker 13: Right, But if you're a Democrat, the messaging you're getting
36:06
Speaker 13: from national party leaders, whether it's Barack Obama or even
36:09
Speaker 13: Abigail Stamberger or Louis Lucas or whomever, is that this
36:14
Speaker 13: is the only way to fight back against Donald Trump,
36:17
Speaker 13: and we must do this or you're not fighting about
36:19
Speaker 13: you're not fighting back against Donald Trump hard enough, and
36:23
Speaker 13: that's just not true. Right, Like, Democrats can win there's
36:26
Speaker 13: two very competitive seats. If they run good candidates and
36:29
Speaker 13: good campaigns, they can have an eight to three Democratic
36:32
Speaker 13: majority coming from Virginia and Congress that they don't have
36:35
Speaker 13: to do this. But what I'm finding as I go
36:37
Speaker 13: out and talk to folks is a lot of the
36:39
Speaker 13: folks that were with us before are still with us.
36:42
Speaker 13: Maybe they're a little quieter this time because it's a
36:46
Speaker 13: politically toxic time to stand up for your principles. But
36:50
Speaker 13: then there's some folks sadly yeah, But then there's some
36:52
Speaker 13: folks that are just and I say, this is a Democrat.
36:56
Speaker 13: It feels like there's a real case of Trump derangement
36:58
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Speaker 19: And I get it.
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Speaker 13: I don't like the guy either, but they won't listen
37:06
Speaker 13: to basic facts like I just said, Like you know,
37:09
Speaker 13: twenty five seats is the average. Last time, it was
37:11
Speaker 13: forty seats.
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Speaker 19: Right now the.
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Speaker 13: House of Representatives is like two or three seats plus
37:15
Speaker 13: plus for Republicans. Like the extra two seats there jerrymanderin
37:19
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37:25
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37:27
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Speaker 5: And I like what the way I said, And thank
37:33
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37:37
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37:40
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 5: And all these folks who did vote to give the
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Speaker 5: executive branch authority to wage the war on terror as
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Speaker 5: they saw fit. So while they have a fit yesterday,
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Speaker 5: they're whistling past the graveyards of their predecessors who said, hey,
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Speaker 5: you know what, let's do it, and this is part
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Speaker 5: and parcel of one of the dangers. So in two
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Speaker 5: thousand and two was a Democrat like Barack Obama. It
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Speaker 5: was a moment where we came together because three thousand
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Speaker 5: people had been killed. But as the Senate was voting
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Speaker 5: to give George W. Bush authorization to wage this war
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Speaker 5: on terror much in the same way we were going
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Speaker 5: to wage the war on drugs, there were already people questioning,
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Speaker 5: you know, why did the Saudi royal family get a warning?
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Speaker 5: There were reasonable questions that a reasonable senator might have
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Speaker 5: asked before rubber stamping these, but they didn't want to
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Speaker 5: do it then because it was bad optics. It wouldn't
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Speaker 5: have made a good campaign re election ad. And it's
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Speaker 5: not just because you know, everyone's saying, oh, Tulsey Gabbard
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Speaker 5: threw Trump under the bus. No, the narrative is back
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Speaker 5: to the greatest hits of twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 5: It's chaos. Donald Trump is in over his head. He
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Speaker 5: doesn't know what he wants to do. And here is
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Speaker 5: the most important part of all of that. In over
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Speaker 5: his head. This isn't about Democrat or Republican. It is
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Speaker 5: about getting control back to the professional political leaders, the
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Speaker 5: people who have passed through the political digestive system and
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Speaker 5: are there floating in the water of your political commode
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Speaker 5: waiting to be you know, polished up and run for office. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: I know what I'm saying, because you know, first you
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Speaker 5: ingest all of the raw materials. A young person enthusiastic
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Speaker 5: about being enthusiastic, wants to be popular, sees political you know,
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Speaker 5: involvement as a path to popularity, maybe as a way
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Speaker 5: to rankle mom and dad. So you recruit them, maybe
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Speaker 5: in high school, maybe in college, more likely in college,
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Speaker 5: and you go to the right colleges. You go to
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Speaker 5: the Harvards and the Yales and the Pens, you go
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Speaker 5: to the ivys. You look for people at New York
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Speaker 5: University or Virginia. Oh, Virginia is a hotbed of it.
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Speaker 5: And you go and you find the folks who are
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Speaker 5: ready to become a staffer, and they are good. I mean,
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Speaker 5: I know some great people who write some great law,
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Speaker 5: and then you know, the congress person or the Senator
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Speaker 5: puts their name on the law that was written by
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Speaker 5: one of their staffers, pats the staffer on the head
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Speaker 5: and said, someday, young.
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Speaker 1: Man, all of this could be yours.
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Speaker 5: And those are the people, the ones who have been vetted,
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Speaker 5: the ones who have gone through the process, the ones
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Speaker 5: who aren't going to ignore their director of National Intelligence.
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Speaker 5: And you start the end of a forty seven year war.
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Speaker 5: Do I need to go get Tom Speciali's visit with us.
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Speaker 5: Guy's been studying Iran for decades in the American intelligence
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Speaker 5: for US. He wasn't up on the days, but he
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Speaker 5: was on the radio with us yesterday. You can get
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Speaker 5: it podcast up at Spotify just search first thing today
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Speaker 5: if you want to, or just go to Joe Thomas
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Speaker 5: in the Morning dot com. But you know, this intelligence
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Speaker 5: expert who had worked for decades told us right here
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Speaker 5: on the radio, in front of all of us, that
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Speaker 5: this has been going on long before there was a
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Speaker 5: Donald Trump to look at.
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Speaker 23: I worked at the you Iran warplan back in nineteen
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Speaker 23: I'm sorry, in twenty eleven to twenty thirteen or fourteen.
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Speaker 5: Twenty eleven. Who was president in twenty eleven, wasn't Donald Trump?
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Speaker 23: I worked with the Iran Warplan back in nineteen I'm sorry,
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Speaker 23: in twenty eleven to twenty thirteen or fourteen. I called
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Speaker 23: it the Iran castration war plan, and the idea being
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Speaker 23: that you don't have to go boots on the ground
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Speaker 23: to get rid of the Iranian regime. You just have
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Speaker 23: to destroy their power projection capability.
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Speaker 5: So if you were doing this, and this is an
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Speaker 5: interesting part of what Tom said to us, so that
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Speaker 5: means Barack Obama knew he could have done this. Keeping
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Speaker 5: in mind that President Trump said and hasn't backed down
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Speaker 5: from his statement that a previous president has confessed to
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Speaker 5: him that he wished he had done what Trump is
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Speaker 5: doing to end this war. And they parsed things, while
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Speaker 5: do they have nuclear missiles? Do they have nuclear missiles
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Speaker 5: that can strike New York? Do they have nuclear as
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Speaker 5: if that was the only reason that they were a threat?
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Speaker 5: Ask the people on the u us cole or asked
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Speaker 5: the Marines that were in Beirut, if they're, you know,
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Speaker 5: support of this gig terrorism was a reason an existential
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Speaker 5: if not direct threat on Americans anywhere, but they're playing
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Speaker 5: games with Oh look, Chelsea Gabbert said she didn't tell
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Speaker 5: Trump to do this. Trump's just out of control. This
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Speaker 5: is why you need professional politicians, people like these guys. King,
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Speaker 5: Senator King, Senator Warner.
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Speaker 3: Let me move to Iran.
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Speaker 13: Now, I understand and I appreciated Director Gabbage in comments
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Speaker 13: yesterday about the agreeing that the president has sole authority.
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