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K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor | 05-08-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Kat McFarland Fox News sitting Friends in the Morning every week,
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  Speaker 1: a fan favorite. They love her, I love her, Kat,
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  Speaker 1: Happy Friday. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just great. I really love listening to you and
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  Speaker 2: the guys just yuck it up in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Lest Ah, thank you, thank you. That means a lot
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  Speaker 1: coming from you. Even though word you used yuck. That
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  Speaker 1: was a staple for I. That was a staple. You
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  Speaker 1: know what's funny, Katie, you like this is you know
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  Speaker 1: I mis died and I pretty much lost touch with
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  Speaker 1: the i'mus family. And you know that I talk about
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  Speaker 1: Don all the time. And even though his friends go
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  Speaker 1: back to Deirdre and say Sid says terrible things, it's
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  Speaker 1: not true. Have given i'm miss a tremendous amount of credit.
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  Speaker 1: I even admit that a lot of his stick influenced me,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of mornings people say, man, you don't
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  Speaker 1: mind me of Imus. So I do miss him, And
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  Speaker 1: just recently, Deirdre Imus reached out to me. So did Wyatt.
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  Speaker 1: Wyatt was on this show about two weeks ago, and
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  Speaker 1: he texted me yesterday and he wants to come back
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  Speaker 1: for the Preakness Stakes next week. So there was a
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  Speaker 1: relationship once again between the Rosenbergs and the Imis. How
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's really impressive because that's a friendship that has
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  Speaker 2: gone on despite you know, potentially competing with each other.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think, you know, you've taken over the
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  Speaker 2: mantle and the throne of don Imus.
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  Speaker 3: So good for you, and good for Dietra and good
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  Speaker 3: for Yan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. They're doing great and they loved you too.
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  Speaker 1: Of course. On that radio show is such an important
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  Speaker 1: radio show, and I believe that this one, like you said, now,
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  Speaker 1: kind of carries out Paton and you know, we talk
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  Speaker 1: about everything from frivolous stuff like the Mets and music
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  Speaker 1: to important stuff like you and I are about to discuss,
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  Speaker 1: which is Iran. I know you on hold during the
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  Speaker 1: Brian Kilmead conversation. I'll say it again. I loved Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I was all for the move in Iran. You and
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about this already. I thought it was a
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  Speaker 1: courageous and great move. I do think we're winning. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think we've won. I'm not even sure what winning
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  Speaker 1: means to me. It's got to include regime change, which
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  Speaker 1: I don't think is going to happen. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure exactly how the President can tell us whether it's
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  Speaker 1: two weeks or four weeks or six weeks that we won,
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  Speaker 1: but above and beyond that, above and beyond that, every
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  Speaker 1: day that goes by that we're still involved in this, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: is a bad day for Republicans because yes, when we win,
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  Speaker 1: if we win, it'll be great. But until we do
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  Speaker 1: and we can really proclaim victory, which he can explain
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  Speaker 1: to the American people, because the messaging has not been great.
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  Speaker 1: I've got Trump supporters, people who love Trump. They have
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  Speaker 1: no idea what this win means. In Iran. There's like
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  Speaker 1: five different things they want to see happen. So my
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  Speaker 1: point is this needs to happen sooner than later. It
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  Speaker 1: will bite us come November.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm hoping that one of the things that comes
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  Speaker 2: out of the US China meeting next week, when President
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  Speaker 2: Trump meets with the Chinese president Hushing thing is that
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  Speaker 2: they talk about Iran, because what happened is last week
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  Speaker 2: the child Chinese foreign minister met with the Iranian foreign
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  Speaker 2: minister envision and I did he read on the Riot
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  Speaker 2: Act because China, you know, they support Iran, they haven't
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  Speaker 2: really done much for Iran. Maybe they're helping them a
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  Speaker 2: little bit with this war, but at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, China doesn't care about Iran's nuclear weapons program.
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  Speaker 2: China cares about China. China cares about oil and Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Because of the war and because of the blockade, and
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  Speaker 2: because of this straight up hour moves, Iran is really
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  Speaker 2: shutting down China's oil flow. So China doesn't just get
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  Speaker 2: oil from Iran. I guess they're from the Saudis, from
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  Speaker 2: the United air Emirates, from Iraq, and that all that
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  Speaker 2: oil together adds up to about forty fifty percent of Iran's.
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  Speaker 3: I mean of China's imported.
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  Speaker 2: Oil, which is probably ten fifteen percent of China's entire
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  Speaker 2: energy needs. So you've got a country that's getting ten
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  Speaker 2: to fifteen percent less than it needs for its energy.
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  Speaker 2: That has a massive impact on their petrochemical industry, their
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  Speaker 2: industrial manufacturing industry, on their intelligence and tech industry, so everything.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that Chinese want this or over more
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  Speaker 2: than anybody does.
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  Speaker 1: You just made such a great point, and I love
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  Speaker 1: Gordon Chang on next week to talk about this. I
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  Speaker 1: can confirm that true only because of what I read
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  Speaker 1: and here that the Chinese, believe it or not, have
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  Speaker 1: been putting pressure on Iran to end this war because
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  Speaker 1: selfishly they're getting hurt with the oil with goods. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: as Trump gets set to go there, it's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be one of these situations where they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: backing Iran. I'm hearing they're already communicating with Iran topics
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  Speaker 1: this because they're getting screwed and like you said, all
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  Speaker 1: they care about is themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that what will happen next week
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  Speaker 2: is a President Trump and President She will say, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: now the adults are in the room, how do we
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  Speaker 2: stop this war? And Trump will say, no, dukes, and
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  Speaker 2: he'll lay out his conditions for Iran and an agreement.
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  Speaker 2: And then I think the Chinese president will say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but here's what we want from you guys.
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  Speaker 3: But we have the unitation.
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  Speaker 2: China have much more important stuff. It's important as the
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  Speaker 2: Iran war is, and as important as the price of
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  Speaker 2: oil and price of gasoline and the political impact in
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  Speaker 2: the United States. As much as that's so important, China
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  Speaker 2: and the United States have more important things to deal
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  Speaker 2: with on a bilateral basis true, but we've got a
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  Speaker 2: much bigger agenda and China is the real problem, not
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  Speaker 2: Iron and you know the war, is it over in
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  Speaker 2: Iran or not? As speedboats that are like the kind
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  Speaker 2: of boats that pull water skiers. And we think that,
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  Speaker 2: and we think are some of Trump's critics think, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to defeat the United States? Are modern?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, guys, well.
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  Speaker 1: It's not amount of defeating. It's you know, look, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's gas prices are still too high.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, too high, and.
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  Speaker 1: There's no real regime change yet. We've killed a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people. But there's a lot of questions that bad questions.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get Trump on. I've been calling Caroline Levitch.
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  Speaker 1: You just had a baby, so she's out.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm calling it preoccupied.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's opreoccupy, but a little bitby so I call
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  Speaker 1: Margold Marden. But I want to get them on because
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  Speaker 1: I love them, I adorn them, but I'm gonna ask
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  Speaker 1: them those questions. I mean, there's a lot of questions
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  Speaker 1: that even his own so reporters have. What does victory
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  Speaker 1: really look like? It's not one thing, it's like five
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  Speaker 1: and you know, this right now. The country that's scared
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  Speaker 1: to death, that's not us, because guess what as angry
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  Speaker 1: as Iran is, They're not coming to Staten Island, They're
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  Speaker 1: not coming to Cincinnati, they're not coming to Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: It's Israel right now. Israel is I'm telling you terrified
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  Speaker 1: because part of this new proposal which we've given to
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  Speaker 1: Iran includes some loosening of the sanctions. Well, guess what
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  Speaker 1: last time that happened. That was Obama and Kerry. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sorry to say this. I love Trump. It's gonna bother you, KT,
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  Speaker 1: but this deal which I've seen, looks a lot like
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  Speaker 1: Obama carry two point zero, and it's gonna loosen up
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  Speaker 1: money and in five years, for ten years, Adan can
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  Speaker 1: once again start funding the hutis Kezbola Hamas. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: right back in that same place all over again. So
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  Speaker 1: while America and Iran are talking about the possible ability
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  Speaker 1: of peace, guess who's getting schooled along the way is.
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  Speaker 2: Real Now, That's why whatever agreement is reached, it's not
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  Speaker 2: worth the paper is printed on unless we have two things.
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  Speaker 2: One is snap inspections. In other words, we or our
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  Speaker 2: designated colleagues can go anywhere, anytime, any place in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: No advanced notice to knock on the door and say,
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  Speaker 2: let me see what's inside that tour And that's never
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  Speaker 2: happened before. So even with President Obama's deal, which the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats thought was so great, there was never snap inspections.
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  Speaker 2: It was Iran would give you the ability to inspect,
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  Speaker 2: you'd have to make an appointment, you'd have to give
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  Speaker 2: them enough lead time. They wouldn't let you open up
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  Speaker 2: every door. So, in other words, they were going to
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  Speaker 2: do what they were always going to do it.
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  Speaker 3: They were going to cheat.
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  Speaker 2: So we need the ability to have snap inspections. And
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  Speaker 2: then secondly, we need the ability to enforce. There was
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  Speaker 2: never any enforcement mechanism with any of these previous agreements.
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  Speaker 2: And here's what an enforcement mechanism looks like. We keep
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  Speaker 2: a significant percentage of the Armada in the region, and
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  Speaker 2: so the minute Iran violates it or delays just says
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  Speaker 2: you can't look behind this store. Fine, we assume they're
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  Speaker 2: in violation and we destroy that building that you immediately
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  Speaker 2: take it out. Now, does the United States have to
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  Speaker 2: have the Armada and three carrier task Force groups in
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  Speaker 2: the entire region forever?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: We will rely on our regional friends, the Saudi Is, UAE,
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  Speaker 2: particularly Israel, and others to help us enforce this. And
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  Speaker 2: we already controlled the straight. We already opened the straight.
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  Speaker 2: We just have to keep it open, and we need to.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever deal is done has to be with those two conditions,
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  Speaker 2: snap inspections and the ability to enforce. And by enforced,
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  Speaker 2: I mean not just a sanction here and there, I
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  Speaker 2: mean obliterate the building.
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  Speaker 1: Agreed. You know, k T. This redistricting battle seems to
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  Speaker 1: we worn't it out actually for us, Republicans are gaining seats.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like all over the place, much of the
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  Speaker 1: chagrin of the Democrats. They embarrass themselves again yesterday in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Not you saw that rowdy scene, but it was out
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  Speaker 1: of control. But it does seem like, at least because
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  Speaker 1: Virginia was such a mess and was so one sided
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  Speaker 1: boy the Democrats, it does seem like, if it run
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  Speaker 1: the Santis did down in Florida, that it may end
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  Speaker 1: up working out for us. What are your thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: what's become basically a nationwide redistricting battle to gain votes.
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  Speaker 2: What's interesting you say it because our daughter, Lieutenant Commander Reserve.
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  Speaker 2: Siana McFarland is a Sarasota representative to the state government
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  Speaker 2: in Tallahassee. So she drove up last week, Wow, from
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  Speaker 2: Sarasota to Talent, drove her five hours, put her vote in,
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  Speaker 2: voted for the redistricting in Florida, and it was a
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  Speaker 2: no brainer in Florida. But again the Democrats said they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be so tricky, they're going to challenge all this.
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  Speaker 2: But it's turning out that a state after state after state,
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  Speaker 2: if it's got a thirty percent Republican population and it
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  Speaker 2: has no Republican legislators, it tells you that the redistricting
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  Speaker 2: was already in place in the other guy's favor. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it's about time we clean it up and
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  Speaker 2: open it up.
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  Speaker 1: Are you following this California stuff as closely as I am.
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  Speaker 1: I had Samantha Edison two days ago, Elizabeth Parkahona on today.
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  Speaker 1: I had a lot of the conversation with Brian kill
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  Speaker 1: Me talking about it. I want Spencer Pratt to be
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  Speaker 1: the next mayor of Los Angeles. I want Steve Hilton
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  Speaker 1: to be the next governor of California. I look at
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  Speaker 1: California and that's us on the way. And the truth is,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be honest as bad as New York is,
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  Speaker 1: and it's really bad and trending worse. We have not
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  Speaker 1: hit the California stage just yet, but but we are
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  Speaker 1: certainly in the rear view mirror. We are catching up.
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  Speaker 1: And with a creep like Mom Donnie in power, we
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  Speaker 1: can get to the California stage very very quickly. But
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  Speaker 1: they're there right now. That state, that city, LA needs
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  Speaker 1: a lot of help. So I'm keeping my eye on
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  Speaker 1: it because that's a big percentage of our country. What
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  Speaker 1: are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 2: You know, the problem with all these big cities, the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat control cities, the sanctuary cities, whatever you on a calm,
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  Speaker 2: they're all in a death spiral. They're forcing out the
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  Speaker 2: people who pay the taxes. It tracks people who want to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, take take advantage of the benefits. The law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement issues, well they're not even you know, cut the cops. No,
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  Speaker 2: they're no police in any of them. And then the
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  Speaker 2: people who are stuck who can't move are not the
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  Speaker 2: super rich. It's the middle class. And so in every
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  Speaker 2: one of these sanctuary cities, they're in a death spiral,
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  Speaker 2: which they're going to have a hard time clawing their
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  Speaker 2: way back out of I mean the billionaires who are
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  Speaker 2: leaving New York, the industries that they are taking to Florida,
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  Speaker 2: to Miami. It's costing you know, thousands of jobs, and
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  Speaker 2: the multiplier effect is tens of thousands of jobs. California
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  Speaker 2: has already done that, and what do you have. It's
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  Speaker 2: not just that there's nobody left who's rich is paying taxes.
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  Speaker 2: It's that the grift and the graft and the incompetence.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I thinks the press commercial of the you know,
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  Speaker 2: of Gavin Newsom with blood and food dripping down his
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  Speaker 2: head in the Crazy Mayor. I've watched that about twenty
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  Speaker 2: times now. I just think he's the best commercial I've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: It is, I agree, And that's why I like this guy,
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  Speaker 1: Spencer Pratt, because he's a little out of the box.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a politician, he's a reality star or does
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  Speaker 1: that familiar with mark guys.
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  Speaker 2: Bryan was saying, he's really done his homework and he
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  Speaker 2: knows his issues and he's a straight talker. I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if anybody's paying attention in Los Angeles, maybe
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  Speaker 2: they're looking at that and saying, well, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: much about politics, but I like the commercial and the
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  Speaker 2: guy makes a lot of sense. So who knows can happen?
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  Speaker 1: Could be that easy, right, and he's winning right now.
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  Speaker 1: He's beating Cameron Bash in the latest post. So it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to take a miracle. It's just going to
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  Speaker 1: take a turnout a lot of folks. You need to
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  Speaker 1: go out there and vote, and if we get Spencer
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  Speaker 1: Pratt and we get Hilton one of the two or
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  Speaker 1: both of those, then California could be saved. So you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned your beautiful daughter down there in Florida doing all
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  Speaker 1: that great work in Sarasota. What does Kat mcfalland do Sunday?
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  Speaker 1: The great lady that you want to celebrate Mother's Day?
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  Speaker 2: I make reservations and then everybody takes me hot to lunch.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, that's great. Yeah, So don't tell anybody where
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  Speaker 1: you're going because there are crazy people out there. But
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of folks stopping.
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  Speaker 3: By and I'm going out.
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  Speaker 2: They're taking me out to lunch.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not Daniel.
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  Speaker 2: I mean my five children and eleven and a half grandchildren. Shady,
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  Speaker 2: I'll only have two of the children and a couple
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  Speaker 2: of grandchildren. But then I'm immediately going to Sarasota so
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  Speaker 2: they can celebrate Mother's Day again.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Well, good for you, Kat, enjoy your day
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. Is such a special lady, and have a
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  Speaker 1: safe tripped out to see your daughter down in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: And as my friend Jean says, God willing, we'll do
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  Speaker 1: it again next week as always. Amazing job. Thank you so.
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  Speaker 3: Much, Thank you. It's a pleasure mine too.
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  Speaker 1: Kat Mcfalland right then, if you don't love how you
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  Speaker 1: don't love Jesus, it's what you that simple.
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