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Trump says he's not sure he wants to make a deal with Iran · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Right off the top in Turkey, where President Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: wrapped the NATO summit with the news conference just moments ago.
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  Speaker 1: Here's some of what he had to say.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're much more rational than level one, level two.
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  Speaker 2: Level one is gone, Level two is gone. This is
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  Speaker 2: level three. I think they are more rational, but based
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  Speaker 2: on their actions over the last week or two, they're
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  Speaker 2: not doing a service to the people. And I think
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  Speaker 2: more than anything else is I got to know him,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not sure I want to make a deal
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  Speaker 2: with him. We can play games, but I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: I want to make it deal. Let's just finish the job.
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  Speaker 1: President's latest words on Iran. He went on to say
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  Speaker 1: he could strike Iran tonight if he wanted to Live'm
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  Speaker 1: notu at CBS News Chief White House correspondent Nancy Courtis
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  Speaker 1: and Washington. Nancy, I know you watch took notes as well.
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  Speaker 1: What are your top lines?
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  Speaker 3: I think you just played the most important one, read
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  Speaker 3: President Trump saying he is not necessarily that interested in
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  Speaker 3: cutting a deal with Iran anymore. He thinks that it's
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  Speaker 3: leaders are scum and are too difficult to deal with.
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  Speaker 3: But then, when he was asked the obvious next question,
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  Speaker 3: which was okay, So what happens next. Are we going
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  Speaker 3: back to war with Iran? Is the blockade over what's
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  Speaker 3: going on? He simply said, no, no, you know, whatever
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  Speaker 3: we do, it will happen very quickly and it'll be
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  Speaker 3: over very fast. So he has really left the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the world read wondering exactly what this means. He
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  Speaker 3: continues to insist that the US is going to prevent
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  Speaker 3: Iran from having a nuclear weapon, whether we have a
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  Speaker 3: nuclear deal with them or not. But what this means
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  Speaker 3: for the ceasefire, what it means for ships going in
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  Speaker 3: and out of the Strait, and what it means for
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  Speaker 3: the future of combat with Iran is still very unclear.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's one hotspot to talk about, obviously, but I
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  Speaker 1: know you're aware of what he had to say relative
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  Speaker 1: to the war in Ukraine. What came out of the
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  Speaker 1: President's meeting with Ukraine's president at the Native Summit.
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  Speaker 3: The biggest thing that came out of that meeting read
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  Speaker 3: was President Trump announcing that the US would be granting
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  Speaker 3: Ukraine a license to build its own Patriot missile interceptor systems.
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  Speaker 3: This is something that President Zelenski had been asking for
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  Speaker 3: for quite some time. Ukraine is out of those crucial interceptors.
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  Speaker 3: Without it, Without those systems, it's unable to block missiles
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  Speaker 3: coming in from Russia. But the problem is that stockpiles
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  Speaker 3: are low all around the world, and so the US
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been able to sell those interceptors to the Ukrainians.
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  Speaker 3: Zelensky wants to make them himself. The problem is that
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  Speaker 3: this is all coming as news to the companies that
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  Speaker 3: make those systems, and so how quickly they are going
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  Speaker 3: to be able to get set up in Ukraine to
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  Speaker 3: actually build those systems is an open question. Obviously, if
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  Speaker 3: they can't produce any patriots for a couple of years,
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  Speaker 3: that's not going to help Ukraine very much in the
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  Speaker 3: short term.
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  Speaker 1: I also heard the President compliment Mark Rota of NATO,
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  Speaker 1: But you know, he continues to beat a drum that
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  Speaker 1: he has for decades, and that is being very critical
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  Speaker 1: of our NATO allies, wanting them to step forward with
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  Speaker 1: more money for their own defense. He had something to
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  Speaker 1: say about Spain once again today and also acquiring Greenland.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't heard that headline for a while. Walk us through.
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  Speaker 3: Yep well to the dismay of his European allies. He
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  Speaker 3: said once again today that he needs control of Greenland,
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  Speaker 3: that it's not enough for the US to be able
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  Speaker 3: to build bases there, the US needs to own Greenland. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: that's something that his European allies, Denmark in particular, disagree with,
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  Speaker 3: and even Ruta tried to sort of steer clear of it,
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  Speaker 3: saying he's not involved in those discussions. As far as
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  Speaker 3: Spain is concerned. The President slam Spain earlier in the day,
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  Speaker 3: said that they're very difficult to deal with. He said
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  Speaker 3: they're hopeless, bad people. All of this because he believes
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  Speaker 3: that Spain is not contributing enough to NATO and to
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  Speaker 3: its own defense. But then later at that press conference
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  Speaker 3: read to walk back from that. He said that he
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  Speaker 3: had a great meeting with the other NATO leaders and
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  Speaker 3: that one country in particular had really good things to say,
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  Speaker 3: and that he was pleased with what he heard from them.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't say that that country was Spain, but that
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  Speaker 3: was the implication. So perhaps as he prepares to depart
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  Speaker 3: Turkey and depart this summit, he's feeling a little bit
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  Speaker 3: better about Spain than he has in the past.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, Nancy Cordus, thank you so much for getting
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  Speaker 1: US caught up much more ahead throughout the day. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about investor reaction on Wall Street to all
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  Speaker 1: of these headlines. Put your eyes at the corner of
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  Speaker 1: your screen to see the Dow dropping dropped hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: points today in reaction to the president's words. Oil prices jumped,
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  Speaker 1: so there's a lot of uncertainty among the investors set
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  Speaker 1: about the flow of oil out of that critical oil
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  Speaker 1: shipping route, the Straight of Four Moves where we saw strikes.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump threatens to strike Iran as early as tonight.
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  Speaker 1: This after more US and Iranian strikes happened overnight and
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  Speaker 1: you can see them right there on your screen. The
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  Speaker 1: Defense Department confirms eighty Iranian targets hit. Mental Command says
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  Speaker 1: those strikes come after Iran's Revolutionary Guard attacked three ships
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  Speaker 1: in the Strait. You know, Iran seems to focus on
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  Speaker 1: hitting US military targets in Kuwait and bah Rain. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: they've been pretty vocal in recent minutes about those areas.
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  Speaker 1: Those countries' air defense knocked out incoming Iranian missiles earlier today,
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  Speaker 1: so they were grateful to have that ability to do so.
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  Speaker 1: But it still raises that threat level. And what about
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  Speaker 1: the memorandum of understanding it was signed just days ago
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  Speaker 1: between the US and Iran. Think about this, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's over.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to deal with them, and then with
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  Speaker 2: this scum. You know what scum is. There's scum, there's
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  Speaker 2: sick people. They're led by sick people, and they're vicious,
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  Speaker 2: violent people, and if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd
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  Speaker 2: use it. As far as I'm concerned, it's over. I'll
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  Speaker 2: speak to our negotiators. They want to negotiate their good people,
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  Speaker 2: Steve Woodcuff, Jared Kusher, but they have to come back
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  Speaker 2: to me. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a
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  Speaker 2: waste of time dealing with them.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about the Iranians. This is mister gollibof
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  Speaker 1: there On X. He is a top Iranian official. He warned,
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  Speaker 1: quote the era of bullying and extortion is over. He adds,
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  Speaker 1: this leads to nowhere, and we don't fold. So let's
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  Speaker 1: go live to Robert Morett. He's a retired Navy Vice
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  Speaker 1: admiral and professor at Syracuse University. There are some big
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  Speaker 1: words thrown around today from Iran, also from the President
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  Speaker 1: of the United States. What are you watching out for
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  Speaker 1: because we heard the President say if he wanted to,
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  Speaker 1: he could strike Iran as soon as tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Raid, And I thought the updates that A. Nancy
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  Speaker 4: has provided and the other clips that it has shown
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  Speaker 4: are important. You know. I think there are four key
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  Speaker 4: points that have been made in the last couple of
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  Speaker 4: days from the Iranian perspective. You know, one of the
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  Speaker 4: things we always try to do, and the military has
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  Speaker 4: put ourselves in the shoes that the paper were up against.
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  Speaker 4: And the things that I think they're most concerned about
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  Speaker 4: were the attacks that we already had and as you said,
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  Speaker 4: the President is till it graff, it might be more tonight.
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  Speaker 4: And Iran what they describe is violations of the Straits
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  Speaker 4: of Horror moves that is, not using the there's three
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  Speaker 4: routes through it now, not using the approved Iranian route,
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  Speaker 4: but rather one that is closer to the other side
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  Speaker 4: of the golf, a little safer, a little easier to
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  Speaker 4: protect their concerns about Lebanon. And then the fourth one
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  Speaker 4: read that I think is probably as significant as anything
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  Speaker 4: else that kind of got lost in the news the
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  Speaker 4: last couple of days is that the oil sanctions that
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  Speaker 4: we have against Iraq Iran rather which we're part of
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  Speaker 4: the memorand of understanding or back and forth, and that
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  Speaker 4: was a huge financial windfall for Irene Iran that they
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  Speaker 4: no longer have. And I think that's probably, in terms
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  Speaker 4: of long negotiations, one of the most significant developments you
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  Speaker 4: pen in the last few days.
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  Speaker 1: I also want to ask you about Iran's military capability.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime we hear anything that ranges from saber rattling, which
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  Speaker 1: we've heard even in recent minutes, mister gollibof right there
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  Speaker 1: all the way to Iradian strikes in the strait of
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  Speaker 1: horror moves, which are why the usblilitary said they hit
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  Speaker 1: back using the president's words. I often also hear the
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  Speaker 1: President say we've decimated the Iranian military, But have we.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I would make two points. The first point I
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  Speaker 4: would make is that, as you know, political leaders on
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  Speaker 4: all sides, who include the Iranians, make statements for different audiences.
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  Speaker 4: I think his statements are probably targeted at a domestic
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  Speaker 4: audience rather than the important negotiations that will continue to
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  Speaker 4: take place whether we agree on things or not. The
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  Speaker 4: second point I would make is that you know, the
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  Speaker 4: Iran has emerged with leverage over the straits of pro moves,
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  Speaker 4: and they have little incentive to give that up, and
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  Speaker 4: then they're able to hold at risk the straits of
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  Speaker 4: horror moves for shipping companies and their insurance carriers and
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  Speaker 4: so forth, with relatively cheap, easy to manufacture weapons that
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  Speaker 4: from a pure targeting standpoint, from a military standpoint rate,
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  Speaker 4: I think you and I've had this discussion before, but
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  Speaker 4: they can be manufactured and garages and basements, and trying
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  Speaker 4: to wipe out their ability to have some kind of
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  Speaker 4: military capabilities unmanned vehicles of various types to hold the
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  Speaker 4: straight to her Chris was going to be a huge challenge,
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  Speaker 4: Robert Morett.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly the hours ahead with President Trump saying he could
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  Speaker 1: hit Iran tonight, will be crucial. I'm so grateful to
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  Speaker 1: have your service to our country informing our conversation today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much,