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John Solomon | Founder & CEO of "Just the News" | 05-13-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: John Solomon is really great. I read his stuff, I
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  Speaker 1: listened to him. But I'm a very shallow person. So
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  Speaker 1: I like John even more now because the only time
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  Speaker 1: he was on with me was a couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: and he unprovoked, voluntarily said that his whole family loves me.
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  Speaker 1: So I said, good, gun him back on here. He
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  Speaker 1: is my friend, John sum true.
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  Speaker 2: They listened every morning.
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  Speaker 1: She said, you are great, you really are. You're welcome.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you guys heard my interview with
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  Speaker 1: President Trump yesterday, but we did it. Oh you did, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you know that we did every major story going on.
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  Speaker 1: I did. He gave me forty minutes, and I still
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  Speaker 1: had about an hour of stuff to get to. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know John how he does it. This guy, he's
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  Speaker 1: got ninety things going on at once.
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  Speaker 2: It is an amazing thing. He doesn't rest. He is
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  Speaker 2: always working, always on, and he's told me, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in our private conversations that the reason is he's not
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  Speaker 2: going to rest for a minute because he feels like
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  Speaker 2: he has a job to fix this country so that
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  Speaker 2: his children and grandchildren will live in America much like
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  Speaker 2: his and not like the one that we were hurtling
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  Speaker 2: towards during the Joe Biden years, and I think it
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  Speaker 2: just motivates him every day. When he sees a young person,
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  Speaker 2: when he sees a soldier in the military at an event,
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  Speaker 2: he wants them to be living in the sort of
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  Speaker 2: country that he was able to grow up and then prosper.
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  Speaker 2: And he didn't believe we were on that course until
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  Speaker 2: he took over. And so it just keeps him chugging
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  Speaker 2: every day. It is amazing. He has the energy of
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  Speaker 2: a twenty year old and that's why he gets so
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  Speaker 2: much done on a daily basis true.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he really wanted to win in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: I think he was surprised he did, but he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to win. But he really wanted this one. He sat
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  Speaker 1: there in mar Lago for four years and watched Biden
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  Speaker 1: destroy this country, destroy it, and he's like, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: get back. He has no other reason than the love
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  Speaker 1: of country. The guy gets shot at, arrested, indicted, they
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  Speaker 1: take his money. He loves this country. You know, Johnny
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  Speaker 1: told him. He sat there for four years. I met
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  Speaker 1: him a couple of times, just waiting for this opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, there's no doubt and he understood that it
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  Speaker 2: was a narrow window to save America before it really
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  Speaker 2: hurtled towards where Europe is today. Look at Europe, it
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  Speaker 2: hardly resembles a Western civilization anymore. Same thing with Canada
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  Speaker 2: hurtling towards socialism on a daily basis, suppressing its people,
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  Speaker 2: blocking their donations, tracking their donations. That's not Western society.
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  Speaker 2: And I think he realized that if he could save America,
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  Speaker 2: America could save the rest of Western civilization as we
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  Speaker 2: knew it. And I think that's what motivates him. You're right,
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  Speaker 2: he's taken on more aggravation than someone at his age
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  Speaker 2: and his wealth and the success needs to take on
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  Speaker 2: at this age. But I think it's just personal firm.
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  Speaker 2: Listen on the stuff I do personally, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: work on the weaponization and try to help people understand
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  Speaker 2: just how bad the intelligence community acted and how bad
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  Speaker 2: the law enforcement. He says to me, I don't care
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  Speaker 2: about myself. I've been through that. I don't want a
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  Speaker 2: future president to be hampered the way I was. So
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  Speaker 2: he's always looking forward. He's thinking about the America he's
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  Speaker 2: leaving behind. It's fascinating a lot of times who do
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  Speaker 2: you think, Well, he's got to be upset the FBI
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  Speaker 2: did it to me. He is, But his motive now
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  Speaker 2: is I just don't want it to happen to a
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  Speaker 2: future president. And I find that so fascinating that his gaze,
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  Speaker 2: his view is always at the horizon, what comes next
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  Speaker 2: for America. And that's an insight that you can only
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  Speaker 2: get when you get a chance to talk to him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, and I believe it. Even the Grand Ballroom,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, that doesn't going to do with him.
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  Speaker 1: If we're lucky, if we get it built, he may
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  Speaker 1: be able to enjoy that for about four months, four months, right, right,
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  Speaker 1: So all these new presidents, many of whom you have
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  Speaker 1: to imagine, will be Democrats. They be the ones enjoying
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful pash way to treat people from other countries
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  Speaker 1: and possibly save a president's life, and yet they call
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  Speaker 1: him selfish. There's nothing to do with him. Maybe four months.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get to China, though, John, because it
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  Speaker 1: seems to be a back and forth. Is this a
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  Speaker 1: trip about Trump pulling she by his ear to another
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  Speaker 1: room and saying, if you don't stop providing Iran with weapons,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really gonna hurt you, or is it about Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I've got Tim Cook right there. Look, Elon Musk is
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  Speaker 1: right there. I've got seventeen of our brightest and best CEOs.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do some business. Which one is it?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit of both. I think
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  Speaker 2: there's a carrot and there's a stick, and some of
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  Speaker 2: these stick may be administered after the meeting if he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't get what he wants. Listen, China can't survive without
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  Speaker 2: access to American markets. It does not have a middle
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  Speaker 2: class to sell its wears to, and it could lose
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  Speaker 2: access even if it lost a little access to the
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  Speaker 2: stock market. If it lost just a little access to
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  Speaker 2: the American marketplace, its economy would go into a tailspin.
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  Speaker 2: And so that is the big stick he carries right now.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump's demeanor in these meetings is always to be positive,
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  Speaker 2: always to have frank discussions, but make it clear, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I could sanction China tomorrow for illicitly providing weapons to
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  Speaker 2: a rogue nation Iran, and good luck getting in our marketplace.
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  Speaker 2: And the American people would be with me if I
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  Speaker 2: told them what you sent, over, what you were contemplating
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  Speaker 2: sent and over. So do you really want to go
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  Speaker 2: down that path. And you know she for all of
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  Speaker 2: his rhetoric and for all of his communist tendencies, he's
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  Speaker 2: pragmatic at the end of the day. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that President Trump is going to be candid dangle the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for future cooperation with America, but be clear, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to become a war enemy in America, an
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  Speaker 2: economic war enemy if you keep up what you're doing
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  Speaker 2: with Iran. Let's make Iran is not worth jeopardizing China's
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  Speaker 2: future for Let's get them off the table and let's
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  Speaker 2: focus on this. And that's the sort of deal making
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  Speaker 2: I think he would do. I think there's a similar
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  Speaker 2: conversation that's been going on for months with Vladimir Putin.
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  Speaker 2: I think Vladimir Putin this past week and signal that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe this war thing with ukraine's getting old. It's not
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  Speaker 2: going anywhere. So if you could get those two number
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  Speaker 2: two and number three superpowers in the world to play
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  Speaker 2: ball knife on Iran, you make Iran go away, and
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  Speaker 2: then each of them has an opportunity to engage more
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  Speaker 2: constructively with the United States. And I think that's the
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  Speaker 2: big chess game that President Trun's playing. It's hard to do.
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  Speaker 2: These guys are wily, they're often dishonest. But I think
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  Speaker 2: he has the ultimate stick. You want, do you want
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  Speaker 2: access to the marketplace? You're gonna start playing a nice
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  Speaker 2: with us, no more looking the other way. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's the message that he'll deliver in private publicly.
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  Speaker 2: I think he'll be jovial and then we'll see what
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  Speaker 2: he comes back with. He'll give us an honest assessment
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  Speaker 2: when he comes back.
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  Speaker 1: This is the great John Solomon willing to revic And
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  Speaker 1: you're right. I think you know Trump laid it out
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  Speaker 1: that way yesterday, you just did it again. I think
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  Speaker 1: you're right. I'm not sure how any success because I
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  Speaker 1: don't trust the Chinese. I certainly don't trust the Russians.
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  Speaker 1: But I think he's going to do his best, and
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  Speaker 1: if anybody can do it, it's him. And people say
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  Speaker 1: to me yesterday they go, he's on his way to China.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on with Iran? Last night? Checked? You know
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  Speaker 1: the hole moves straight is still an issue. You know
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  Speaker 1: there were four levels down, but there's still a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of animals running that country. Let's diject. We still have
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  Speaker 1: not gotten that in which uranium out. What the hell's
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  Speaker 1: going on? What's the answer to that, John.
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  Speaker 2: Well, The answer is right now, is best bet in
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  Speaker 2: sparing lives and military money and military equipment is to
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  Speaker 2: just stranglehold Iron. The economy in Iron is teetering. It
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  Speaker 2: cannot afford to have its oil well start overflowing and burst,
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  Speaker 2: and so they're out of capacity. In some cases, they're
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  Speaker 2: dumping oil in the ocean short term to just keep
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  Speaker 2: the oil well from having to be capped. He knows
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  Speaker 2: that is a sandclock that Iron can't survive, and so
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  Speaker 2: he's just being patient. He doesn't react to their rhetoric,
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't react to their little antagonizations. If they really
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  Speaker 2: want to start a larger conflict, I think he'll rain
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  Speaker 2: heck don I think he'll unleash some of the laser
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  Speaker 2: weapons that we have that we don't currently use, and
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  Speaker 2: he'll create a shock in all moment to show Iron
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  Speaker 2: you're really nothing. But at this moment, I think he
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  Speaker 2: thinks the patience of strangling them economically is probably going
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  Speaker 2: to lead both them and Tying. To keep in mind,
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  Speaker 2: there are two other people soffering downstream from the block
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  Speaker 2: Tom whose one is China it ain't getting its cheap
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  Speaker 2: oil from Iran right now. And the other is Russia.
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  Speaker 2: It's not getting its cheap drones that it was using
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  Speaker 2: to fight a Ukraine, and Ukraine has made some pretty
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  Speaker 2: significant advances in the war the last few weeks. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: for the first time you've seen in Ukraine get making
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  Speaker 2: some gains because Russia's out of some of the drones,
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  Speaker 2: and so both those big players have an incentive to
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  Speaker 2: come and get Iran into a better negotiating position. I
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  Speaker 2: think President Trump is playing the patient game rather than
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  Speaker 2: just let missiles fly and keep beating him into smithereens.
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  Speaker 2: Let the economy, the economic salt clock wind down, because
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  Speaker 2: if they capped those wells Iran won't have an economy
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  Speaker 2: for five to ten years.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, you got two minutes. You got to run here, John,
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  Speaker 1: But I got to talk about mom, Donnie for a second.
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  Speaker 1: You're in this city. And he's such a liar. On
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  Speaker 1: top of being an anti Semite, an anti American, anti cop,
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  Speaker 1: communist socialist, he's a liar. I mean, this budget that
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  Speaker 1: he came out with yesterday, he didn't meet any needs.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't closed any guys. He begged the governor. She's
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  Speaker 1: just as bad. She's a liar to and no good.
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  Speaker 1: She gives this guy eight billion dollars. You actually read
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  Speaker 1: the budget at Marnojan earlier this morning. There's nothing there.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't closed anything significantly, and yet he's on the
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  Speaker 1: front of the newspaper. Look what I've done, and the
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  Speaker 1: story right above him has a bunch of mass people.
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  Speaker 1: John Solomon in Brooklyn terrorizing little Jewish kids outside of synagogue.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of liar? What kind of city is this
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  Speaker 1: guy running?
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  Speaker 2: I personally, I've said this from the beginning. I think
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  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie will turn out to be America's greatest prize
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  Speaker 2: to freedom, because after people live under him for eight
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  Speaker 2: to ten months, they are going to crave the sort
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  Speaker 2: of freedom that they had before this guy ran. And
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  Speaker 2: communism and socialism have never worked in America. In putting
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  Speaker 2: it in the capitalist city of the world, the capitalist
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  Speaker 2: capital of the world, will only make the contrast so dramatic.
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  Speaker 2: I think in eight or ten months, socialism's movement in
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  Speaker 2: America will have hit a blunt force called the Madami failure.
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  Speaker 2: I've always said that, I've just sort of felt as
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  Speaker 2: tragic as it is to watch the great city of
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  Speaker 2: New York fall into the hands of a socialist. It
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  Speaker 2: may be the greatest learning moment that two young generations
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  Speaker 2: that were told socialism is good by their crazy teachers
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  Speaker 2: are gonna have, which is wait, he destroyed the city
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  Speaker 2: in a year. I think that that's the course that
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  Speaker 2: we're on, and he'll actually do a favor for American history,
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  Speaker 2: though for himself he'll be a fool when he's done.
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  Speaker 2: But I think that's where he's at it.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're right too, about to hit on knees
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  Speaker 1: like an addict and admit me right rock Bottom and Ken,
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  Speaker 1: you'll go down to Miami and maybe John will go
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  Speaker 1: to Saint Petersburg, and you know, you'll go wherever you go,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll go wherever I want to go on maybe
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  Speaker 1: flowing on, maybe California, I don't know. And then we'll
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  Speaker 1: come to the realization that, yeah, but he did blow it. John,
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  Speaker 1: You're amazing, great job. This morning is always Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: So much on your show.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. This guy's terrific. John Solomon right there on
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