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K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor Recaps Israeli P.M. Netanyahu's U.N. Address · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Joining me right now, she's on everybody because she's great.
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  Speaker 1: A regular now on Fox News, has worked for four presidents,
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  Speaker 1: most recently President Donald J.
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  Speaker 2: Trump, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: KT McFarland, I know you heard the conversation, KT, between
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  Speaker 1: me and Brian. And it's been a crazy week for me.
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  Speaker 1: Last Thursday, I was in the Oval Office with President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I met with J.D. Vance in his office in the
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  Speaker 1: White House on Tuesday. while Marco Rubio was here in
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  Speaker 1: New York at the UN. Him and I spoke for
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  Speaker 1: quite some time, and here I was yesterday in the
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  Speaker 1: United Nations, front row with Alan Dershowitz, watching Bibi Netanyahu.
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  Speaker 1: I would think you would agree that's a pretty good week, huh?
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  Speaker 3: You know, not only is it a pretty good week
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  Speaker 3: for you, but it's a historic week. The meetings that
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  Speaker 3: you were having with those people in a time of
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  Speaker 3: enormous change in the country and in the world... You
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  Speaker 3: really have the, you know, you were like the fly
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  Speaker 3: on the wall. Not the fly on the wall. You
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  Speaker 3: were a guy at the seat at the table. Very impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Very impressive.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And I really thought that B.B. was tremendous, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. You heard me. I had to fight
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  Speaker 1: off a bunch of these stinky, filthy, disgusting, lying pro-Palestinians,
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  Speaker 1: idiots like Susan Sarandon. Almost came to fisticuffs two or
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  Speaker 1: three times with the cops.
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  Speaker 2: Love me. They took care of me.
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  Speaker 1: But going in there and listening to Bebe point out
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  Speaker 1: all the lies from the mayor, this genocide, which is
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  Speaker 1: not happening.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lie. War criminal. You know, the world was
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  Speaker 1: just waiting for an opportunity to jump on Israel because
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  Speaker 1: it's a cool thing to be anti-Semitic these days. And
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  Speaker 1: these morons in this country and around the world are
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  Speaker 1: buying all the propaganda, all of it. It's all lies
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  Speaker 1: that Hamas is throwing at them. And it's disappointing and
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  Speaker 1: it's sad. But Bibi said, I'm here today to tell
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  Speaker 1: the truth.
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  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what he did.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I first met him just decades ago when
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  Speaker 3: he was just making his way, making his way as
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  Speaker 3: a junior politician. And I remember thinking at the time, well,
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  Speaker 3: if there's anybody who's going to make peace in the
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  Speaker 3: Middle East, who's going to bring security to Israel, it's
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  Speaker 3: this guy. And remember, I've met most of the Israeli leaders,
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  Speaker 3: Golda Meir, et cetera, et cetera, over the decades. And
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  Speaker 3: he struck me as somebody who, first of all, had
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  Speaker 3: a vision. And secondly, it wasn't about his own personal popularity,
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  Speaker 3: political popularity, and that it was a cold-hearted vision where
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  Speaker 3: he understood that Israel is always going to have to
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  Speaker 3: live in that neighborhood. It's always going to have tough neighbors.
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  Speaker 3: How can you ever get to the point where Israel's
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  Speaker 3: not fighting with its neighbors? And the Abraham Accords, which
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  Speaker 3: obviously were President Trump. It was obviously the Gulf Arabs.
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  Speaker 3: But really, it was Bibi Netanyahu. So I think he's
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  Speaker 3: always been, to me, somebody who had potential to be
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  Speaker 3: a great leader. And at the U.N., it was a
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  Speaker 3: brilliant speech. I mean, he laid it all out. Did
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  Speaker 3: it change anybody's mind? No, no. People who already hate
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  Speaker 3: Israel are going to hate Israel. People who love Israel.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's a very important thing to make
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  Speaker 3: the case, to put it on the record that that's
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  Speaker 3: what the truth is so that people can look back 5, 10,
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  Speaker 3: 50 years from now and say, okay, that was the
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  Speaker 3: reality at the time.
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  Speaker 2: We can only hope. I mean, you get the New
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  Speaker 2: York media, and I'm going to play an interview that
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  Speaker 2: I did when I walked out of the brilliant speech
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  Speaker 2: yesterday with some guy on the street. He's relatively popular
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  Speaker 2: here in New York, and He's like, well, why would
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  Speaker 2: the prime minister take his time on an international speech
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  Speaker 2: and talk about the mayor? I said, Timmy, you're not
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  Speaker 2: that stupid, are you? What does the mayor do every day?
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  Speaker 2: Every day in a city that's got a million issues. KT,
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  Speaker 2: he's fixed nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing. There are still potholes, okay? There are still hate crimes,
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  Speaker 1: especially against Jews, every day. Taxes are out of control.
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  Speaker 1: People are leaving every single day. Cops don't want to
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  Speaker 1: work in this city. I mean, this guy's done nothing
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  Speaker 1: but make it worse. And all he talks about, All
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  Speaker 1: he talks about every day is Bibi.
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  Speaker 2: He's a war criminal, which is a lie.
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  Speaker 1: He's committing genocide. That's a lie. He wants to arrest him,
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  Speaker 1: which he knows he can't do. So when the press
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  Speaker 1: in New York has the nerve, the nerve to actually
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  Speaker 1: criticize Bibi for bringing up the mayor in a city
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  Speaker 1: where they've been threatening to arrest him for the better
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  Speaker 1: part of nine months, that's where you see the bias,
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  Speaker 1: the prejudice, and the anti-Semitism.
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And why is Mondami doing this? I'm sure he truly
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  Speaker 3: believes that, you know, Israel should be exterminated and all
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  Speaker 3: Jews are terrible. But he's doing it to distract from
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  Speaker 3: the fact that he's done none of the things he promised. Remember,
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  Speaker 3: he had a huge list of things, all the free
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  Speaker 3: stuff that was going to happen. None of it has happened.
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  Speaker 3: And so what is it convenient for him to do? Well,
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  Speaker 3: let's look at a boogeyman. Let's go find a foreign enemy.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go after somebody who can't really come after me.
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  Speaker 3: And again, I think it was an important thing for
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  Speaker 3: Bibi to make that speech, to call out Mandami, not
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  Speaker 3: to pretend that it's, oh, it's all fine, paper it over. No,
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  Speaker 3: it's not all fine. And I guess the final thing
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  Speaker 3: I would say about Bibi is when you think of
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  Speaker 3: where the world was five, seven, ten years ago, what
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  Speaker 3: has Bibi managed to do? And you take the big,
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  Speaker 3: long picture. Well, all of Israel's enemies surrounding Israel have
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  Speaker 3: all been either decimated or exterminated, Hezbollah, Hamas, etc., He's
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  Speaker 3: gotten a peace agreement as a security agreement. No, but
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  Speaker 3: as a trade agreement, yes, with the Abraham Accords, which
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  Speaker 3: now have turned out with the Iran war to really
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  Speaker 3: morph into a security arrangement with those countries. And when
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  Speaker 3: the Iran war is finished, and I do think it
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  Speaker 3: will be finished, whether it's a month, six months, a year,
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  Speaker 3: it will be finished. Then there will be an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: for peace in the Middle East for the first time in,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, three, four thousand years.
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  Speaker 1: We kept saying for a long time, though, that the
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  Speaker 1: Iran war needed to.
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  Speaker 2: Be over certainly months before the midterms. And that's not
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  Speaker 2: going to happen because it's not going to happen before
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  Speaker 2: the midterms at all. And even if it ended today,
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  Speaker 2: we're still not months before the midterms. So clearly, President
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  Speaker 2: Trump decided that the Iran war.
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  Speaker 1: Was not going to hurt us, the Republicans, come November.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's right. I love the president.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's right. I hope he's right.
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  Speaker 1: But why is this Iran war still happening?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think President Trump has concluded, at least
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  Speaker 3: President Trump first term and second term are very different leaders.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump first term was fighting his way, was being constantly,
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  Speaker 3: you know, impeached and everything else, couldn't get his agenda accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that could happen again. That could happen
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  Speaker 1: again very, very soon.
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  Speaker 3: And he knows it. And he knows it. And I
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  Speaker 3: respect the moral courage of Donald J. Trump. for saying,
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  Speaker 3: I am not going to let Iran get nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to let Iran be the bully of
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  Speaker 3: the Middle East. I know it's going to cost me.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's going to cost my reputation. I know
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  Speaker 3: it's going to cost me in the election box. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do it anyway, because it's the right
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  Speaker 3: thing to do. And God bless Donald Trump for putting
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  Speaker 3: not just the country, but the world in front of
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  Speaker 3: his personal popularity. He knows it's going to cost him,
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  Speaker 3: but he knows that he's got to do it. And
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  Speaker 3: from the Iranian perspective, they think, ha ha ha, we
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  Speaker 3: are going to, we're not going to give any victories
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  Speaker 3: to Donald Trump before the election. We're going to make
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  Speaker 3: sure that the election goes against Donald Trump and we're
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  Speaker 3: so powerful. We can do it. And what they don't
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  Speaker 3: understand is that as usual around overplaces hand, what they
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  Speaker 3: don't understand is that day after the election, Trump has
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  Speaker 3: no inhibition. There's nothing to stop him from finally settling
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  Speaker 3: the score. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Could get ugly.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I, uh, I watched all the poppin' circumstance,
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  Speaker 1: and again, these morons on the left that say, why
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  Speaker 1: is he doing that? What do you want him to do?
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  Speaker 1: Xi did the same thing when Trump went to Beijing.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you do when world leaders come to town,
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  Speaker 1: even if you don't like them. Now, Mamdani's a different story,
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  Speaker 1: because he's a mayor in an American city, and he's
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  Speaker 1: an anti-Semite and a communist, and all the things that
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  Speaker 1: Trump rails about. So I was very critical of President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not going back on that. I hated what
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  Speaker 1: I saw Monday. But I get it. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Like Marco Rubio said, we're not going to bring the
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  Speaker 1: president of China here. and not go out of our
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  Speaker 1: way to make them feel comfortable. But my question to
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  Speaker 1: you is, with all the pomp and circumstance and smiling
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  Speaker 1: and handshaking, do you have any doubt that President Trump
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  Speaker 1: and America hates China every bit as much as we
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  Speaker 1: hate Iran?
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  Speaker 3: You know, the great thing about China historically, what they've
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  Speaker 3: always done with other countries is, is that they bring
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  Speaker 3: them to Beijing and then they treat the leaders, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like kings and they fawn all over them while they're
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  Speaker 3: at the same time stabbing them in the back while
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  Speaker 3: they're doing it. And President Trump, first of all, is
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  Speaker 3: a consummate host, as Brian Kilmeade just said. He just
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  Speaker 3: loves to be the host. So he's the consummate host
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  Speaker 3: to the Chinese. But think about if you're Xi Jinping,
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  Speaker 3: what have you just seen in the last week? You've
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  Speaker 3: seen Donald Trump get that Greenland deal, which is completely
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  Speaker 3: edged China out of Greenland. and edge China out of
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  Speaker 3: the Arctic Circle. You've seen Donald Trump in the last
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  Speaker 3: several months. Venezuela, oil used to go from Venezuela to China,
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  Speaker 3: not going there anymore. Donald Trump, blockade of Iran, oil
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  Speaker 3: used to go from Iran to China, not going there anymore.
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  Speaker 3: So you might have the bans and it's all very
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  Speaker 3: nice and everybody's really happy clinking the champagne glasses. But
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  Speaker 3: at that White House dinner, you had all of the
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  Speaker 3: tech titans of the world They're not Chinese. They're American
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  Speaker 3: tech titans. There aren't very many tech titans in China.
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  Speaker 3: It was Americans. And Xi Jinping was there after seeing
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  Speaker 3: this sort of series of disadvantages that have been brought
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  Speaker 3: to China by Donald J. Trump's give him all the
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  Speaker 3: pomp and circumstance you want. The reality is that Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump has been one tough president on China.
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  Speaker 2: Final 60 seconds. What's going on with Cuba? I kept
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  Speaker 2: hearing right after Venezuela, Cuba was next. What's going on there?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think it's ready to go. Cuba's ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: They've had the meetings between You know, the people who
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  Speaker 3: want to invest in Cuba, some Cuban-Americans who are in
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  Speaker 3: Miami now who might go back and invest. Marco Rubio's
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  Speaker 3: thing is all lined up. It's just a matter of
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  Speaker 3: when they do it, when they want to pull the plug.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they're waiting for Iran to be finished. Maybe they're
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  Speaker 3: waiting for the elections. But I think Cuba is ready
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  Speaker 3: to go. And it will be, as President Trump talked about,
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  Speaker 3: this is his vision. We're not going to be Europe-centric
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  Speaker 3: or we're not going to be Asia-centric. We are focused
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  Speaker 3: on the Western Hemisphere. a hemisphere of peace and prosperity
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  Speaker 3: with each other. And that's the goal. And Cuba's the
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  Speaker 3: last piece of the puzzle.
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  Speaker 2: It really is.
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  Speaker 1: KT, another magnificent appearance. I love when you call early
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  Speaker 1: she would sit on hold for literally 30 minutes just
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  Speaker 1: to listen and then come on and do a magnificent
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  Speaker 1: job yourself. So thank you, as always, for a great appearance.
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