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The Daring Rescue of a Downed Airman in Iran · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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  Speaker 1: you had a happy Easter and blessed passover. What a
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  Speaker 1: remarkable weekend, perhaps the most amazing thing I've seen the
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  Speaker 1: American military do in my many, many, many decades of
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  Speaker 1: doing the news, and I'm still astonished by it. President
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  Speaker 1: just wrapped up a press conference. I want to bring
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  Speaker 1: you parts of that press conference right away. Here's cut
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  Speaker 1: number twenty two. President Trump answering questions at the pressroom.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Merath thoughts news.
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  Speaker 3: I know that, Oh thank you, go ahead, America's watching, No, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Can we go back to the weekend?
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  Speaker 4: First off, was everyone on.
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  Speaker 2: Board with the operation or were there people that were
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  Speaker 2: trying to talk you out of going through with the
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  Speaker 2: operations weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Not everybody was on board.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody else within know there.
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  Speaker 5: Were military people, very professional that prefer not doing it.
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  Speaker 5: These two worked totally important, which was very important.
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  Speaker 6: They weren't.
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  Speaker 5: It would had a little difficulty, but no, there were
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  Speaker 5: military people that said, you just don't do this.
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  Speaker 3: You don't go into.
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  Speaker 5: The heart of a very powerful military. You know, this
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  Speaker 5: is hey, you have countries and countries, you have some
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  Speaker 5: countries where military is not. There s wrong sit This
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  Speaker 5: whole thing is militarized like nobody's ever seen before. Half
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  Speaker 5: the people are wearing uniforms, and we had people within
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  Speaker 5: the military. Usually it's not done. That's one of the
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  Speaker 5: reasons I was surprised. Somebody said it's the only time
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  Speaker 5: it's ever been done. I said, that's not possible. But
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  Speaker 5: it is possible because you're going into hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 5: of soldiers along the path. I mean, look at some
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  Speaker 5: of the helicopters. How they got hit. So yeah, there
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  Speaker 5: were people within the military that said, it's so wise.
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  Speaker 6: And don't forget how.
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  Speaker 5: Many meant did you send all together approximated only for
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  Speaker 5: the operation.
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  Speaker 6: I'd love to keep that a secret.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well we had, but I will tell you the number.
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  Speaker 5: I'll keep it a secret. But it was hundreds and
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  Speaker 5: hundreds of these people. It's pretty good. Is he central?
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  Speaker 5: Is he central casting? But hundreds of people went into
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  Speaker 5: this journey. Hundreds of people could have been killed. Forget
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  Speaker 5: about the equipment, A lot of equipment nobody kisses. Hundreds
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  Speaker 5: of people could have been killed. So we had people
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  Speaker 5: that were within the military that said this is not
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  Speaker 5: a wise and I understood that, but I decided to
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  Speaker 5: do it.
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  Speaker 7: Was there a point that they were going to that
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  Speaker 7: you were thinking, there's too much on the line, and
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  Speaker 7: somebody was saying, maybe we abort this now. And wait,
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  Speaker 7: I mean given the resources, like the general said, it
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  Speaker 7: seemed like there was so much on the line here
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  Speaker 7: you must have been thinking, well, this could have completely changed.
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  Speaker 5: So the first one, which was in many ways as
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  Speaker 5: dangerous as the second, I guess it gets because flying
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  Speaker 5: over daylight, you know, we're the best at the world.
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  Speaker 3: At night, we have goggles.
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  Speaker 6: At nobody we have goggles. I've tried them. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 5: I see better with the goggles at night than I
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  Speaker 5: see without them during daylight. I mean daylight today we
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  Speaker 5: have a beautiful day you see just as well with goggles.
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  Speaker 5: In many ways it's enhanced. So we have the best
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  Speaker 5: of the world. So it's much safe for us, for
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  Speaker 5: us to do it at night, whereas other people, No
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  Speaker 5: other country has that capability. They don't have the they
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  Speaker 5: don't have that particular piece of equipment like we do.
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  Speaker 5: But when I was told flying and in daylight, I
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  Speaker 5: think we flew seven hours over Iran and that's a
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  Speaker 5: long time over unbelievably hostile territory where they have nothing
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  Speaker 5: but weapons. We took out their anti aircraft, which is great.
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  Speaker 5: We took out their radar, which is guare We took
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  Speaker 5: our a lot, but they still have you know what
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  Speaker 5: hit this one was a shoulder hand held shoulder missile
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  Speaker 5: heat seeking missile.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not like, you know, they totally whatever. But
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  Speaker 3: and they have probably a little.
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  Speaker 6: Luck because you got to get lucky.
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  Speaker 5: But they shot it and it got sucked in right
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  Speaker 5: by the engine. But these guys were out of there.
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  Speaker 5: They were great. The timing was great. But no, I
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  Speaker 5: was told that this is a very dangerous mission. They
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  Speaker 5: didn't say it's a foolish mission. They said, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we're going to be sacrificing hundreds of people do this.
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  Speaker 5: This is I mean, you have tankers that are flying
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  Speaker 5: over this area so that they could The flight was
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  Speaker 5: so long they had to refuel. It's a very dangerous mission.
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  Speaker 5: I just felt it was worth it. If you would
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  Speaker 5: have told me that we would have been successful, gotten
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  Speaker 5: both and nobody was even essentially injured, I.
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  Speaker 6: Would have said that would be impossible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, President, thank you, uh, thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome back to given that you are now dealing you say,
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  Speaker 8: with a more reasonable, less extreme leadership and Iran, what
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  Speaker 8: does that mean for the protesters for the human movement
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  Speaker 8: in that country after this content?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, if they assume control, if we do something and
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  Speaker 5: they assume control, I think it's very positive, a big step.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think you see the radicalization that you have
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  Speaker 5: seen in the last Look what happened. I mean women
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  Speaker 5: are being executed because they're not properly clothed. They say
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  Speaker 5: they're not properly clothed, and they execute the women. They absolutely,
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  Speaker 5: they shoot them right on the street. No, you have
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  Speaker 5: a much different group of people now. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 5: we are dealing with them essentially.
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  Speaker 3: They have till eight o'clock tomorrow night at Eastern time,
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  Speaker 3: but we are dealing with them.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's going well.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Whitcoff is here and JD's involved, in the dealing.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Whitcoff is sitting right here, and I think it's
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  Speaker 5: going fine, but we'll have to see. You have to
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  Speaker 5: understand we've been dealing with these people for forty seven years.
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  Speaker 5: I'm standing here with a much more powerful run.
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  Speaker 3: As of a month ago, not anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Right now they are decapitated, but I'm standing here a
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  Speaker 5: month ago with a much more powerful round than it
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  Speaker 5: was at any point during forty seven years. This should
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  Speaker 5: have been handled by seven presidents and a lot of presidents,
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  Speaker 5: and those presidents are saying now, every one of them
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  Speaker 5: to their friends, we should have done this a long
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  Speaker 5: time ago.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not something I like doing.
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  Speaker 5: It's very dangerous, and we're getting them at the height
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  Speaker 5: of their strength. If I didn't terminate the Barack Cusain
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  Speaker 5: Obama a RAN nuclear deal, they would have had a
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  Speaker 5: Don't forget that was a path to a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 5: Remember this, he chose I ran over Israel, pure and simple.
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  Speaker 5: How Israel can vote for a Democrat is if you're
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  Speaker 5: Jewish in New York City or anyplace else in this country.
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  Speaker 5: And how you can vote for a Democrat is zimblibut.
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  Speaker 5: Because he chose a Ran a very hostile Iran. Remember
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  Speaker 5: when he filled up a seven fifty seven with cash,
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  Speaker 5: millions of dollars of cash, and he sent it over
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  Speaker 5: to them. Then they gave him tens of millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 5: He chose, I ran over Israel and really the Arab
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  Speaker 5: world if you look, because you know the other Saudi Arabia,
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  Speaker 5: Guitar UAE, I mean, you take a look. I mean
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  Speaker 5: I could add Kuwait, and I can add Bahrain, and
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  Speaker 5: you can add others.
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  Speaker 6: He chose.
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  Speaker 3: It's such an unlikely candidate. Nobody could believe it.
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  Speaker 5: Frankly, if you're going to choose between Iraq and Iran,
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  Speaker 5: he should have chosen. He should have befriended Iraq. He
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  Speaker 5: went in the exact opposite direction of all thinking, and
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  Speaker 5: he made a terrible mistake. But that was a road
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  Speaker 5: to a nuclear weapon. And when I terminated that, everyone said,
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  Speaker 5: oh he terminated it. It was one of the best
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  Speaker 5: things we ever did, because he had a road to
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  Speaker 5: a nuclear weapon and it was going to It was
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  Speaker 5: a very short term deal. You know, countries don't do
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  Speaker 5: ten year deals. Countries do hundreds of years. You don't
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  Speaker 5: do a ten year deal for a country. You need
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  Speaker 5: This isn't you're a landlord, you're renting a store on
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  Speaker 5: a certain street, and you give somebody a five year
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  Speaker 5: or ten year lease. This is a country. It was
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  Speaker 5: a short term deal. It was ready to expire. I
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  Speaker 5: terminated it before it expired. Took a lot of heat,
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  Speaker 5: and it was one of the best things they ever did,
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  Speaker 5: because he would have had a nuclear weapon. Then he
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  Speaker 5: would have had another nuclear weapon had those beautiful B
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  Speaker 5: two bombers not gone in eight months ago and obliterated that' said.
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, the word is obliteration. CNN said, well,
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  Speaker 5: maybe it wasn't complete. It was so complete that they
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  Speaker 5: still haven't been able to get it. It was obliteration.
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  Speaker 5: But if we didn't hit them, that was a courageous
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  Speaker 5: decision too, because we had all those planes flying it
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  Speaker 5: at night with very little unbelievable stealth.
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  Speaker 3: Planes and they were able to do their job.
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  Speaker 5: If we didn't do that, Iran would have had a
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  Speaker 5: nuclear weapon at a high level either one of those
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  Speaker 5: two instances. And if they did, in my opinion, I
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  Speaker 5: told this to bb NET in Yahoo yesterday, Israel would
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  Speaker 5: have been extinguished. Large portions of the Middle East would
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  Speaker 5: have been extinguished, whether it's Saudi Arabia, Guitar UAE or others.
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  Speaker 5: And you saw that with thousands of missiles raining down
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  Speaker 5: upon them, they didn't think they were going to be hit.
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  Speaker 3: They thought they'd be watching us fight. And all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden, Yui got hit by fifteen hundred missiles.
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  Speaker 6: He would have taken.
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  Speaker 3: Them out also, and they were powerful.
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  Speaker 5: If I didn't come along and terminate the Obama deal,
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  Speaker 5: which was terrible. The Iran nuclear deal was a road
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  Speaker 5: to a nuclear weapon, a big one, unlimited legally. I
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  Speaker 5: terminated it without even much thought. It was so easy.
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  Speaker 5: I terminated that, and then the B two bombers, and
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  Speaker 5: I did one other thing.
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  Speaker 3: I had killed Cassem Solimani, who was an evil genius.
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  Speaker 5: And the reason I did it I heard he was
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  Speaker 5: going to knock out five of our military basis. And
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  Speaker 5: had he lived, I believe we would be fighting perhaps
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  Speaker 5: a different Ran right now.
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  Speaker 6: Because it was the most important exchange.
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  Speaker 1: I will bring you more from today's press conference with
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  Speaker 1: President Trump. He also had John Radcliff, Director of the
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  Speaker 1: Central Intelligence Agency, Secretary of War Pete he Haig Sath,
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  Speaker 1: Chairman of the Joint Chief Dan Caine. They all spoke,
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  Speaker 1: but it's the Q and A with the reporters that
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  Speaker 1: I think is most interesting. So I'll bring that to U.
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  Speaker 1: Stay tuned the Salem News Channel watching the Hugh Hewitt Show.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be right now.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back America, you Hewett and the Relief Actors Studio
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  Speaker 1: joined now by former Israeli Ambassador to the United States,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Michael Oran, Ambassador Orren great to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: Until yesterday, I thought the Ntebbie rescue was the most
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  Speaker 1: amazing thing I'd seen in my life. But that was
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  Speaker 1: done with an l of surprise that was thorough The
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  Speaker 1: Iranians knew the Americans were coming. What did you make
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  Speaker 1: of the last forty eight hours in Iran?
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  Speaker 4: It's going to make a great movie someday, Hugh.
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  Speaker 9: You can see it now behind them in lines too,
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  Speaker 9: with lots of you know, ups and downs.
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  Speaker 4: Those two hercules that couldn't get off the runway because
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  Speaker 4: the sand was wet.
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  Speaker 9: The pilot or navigator who couldn't communicate for fourteen hours
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  Speaker 9: because he was unconscious, then managed just to climb seven
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  Speaker 9: thousand feet up the side of a mountain with a
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  Speaker 9: badly wounded leg. Apparently the commandos who came down and rescued.
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  Speaker 4: Them, extorting and by the diversions.
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  Speaker 9: That thought that was brilliant that they had seven different
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  Speaker 9: diversions according to the President, and had the Iranians running
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  Speaker 9: in all different directions.
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  Speaker 4: So it's quite quite a feat.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say all shows thank you to the Israelis.
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  Speaker 1: They helped us. I've seen that detail in a few places.
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  Speaker 1: It's omitted in other places, but the Israelis were at
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  Speaker 1: our side with Intel and maybe some special operators. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure. I've seen that in one one report. And
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  Speaker 1: it was a bad day for Israel yesterday four killed
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  Speaker 1: in Hypha and you guys are under a barrage, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I have talked for years about Hesbalah having this
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  Speaker 1: arsenal of missiles. Apparently they found some and they're using
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  Speaker 1: them around the clock.
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  Speaker 9: Yep, they are Listen. Last night was a tough night.
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  Speaker 9: We really got any sleep. This today was what can
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  Speaker 9: I say, no picnic either. We had about a large
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  Speaker 9: missile fall not far from where I'm talking to you
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  Speaker 9: right now, and it goes on. The North is getting
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  Speaker 9: rockets won every ten minutes, and up north there's almost
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  Speaker 9: no there's no pre warning and we have several minutes
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  Speaker 9: to get into a bomb shelter, they have none. And
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  Speaker 9: some of the people who the people were killed in hipA,
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  Speaker 9: for example, was an aged person who had just gotten
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  Speaker 9: out of the hospital, didn't have time to run to
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  Speaker 9: a bomb shelter, and his family stayed with him and
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  Speaker 9: paid that ultimate price.
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  Speaker 4: So, yes, this is this.
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  Speaker 9: Is one of the most trying times in Israel's history.
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  Speaker 4: We don't see an end to it yet, but neither
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  Speaker 4: do We're going to be very frankly, we don't want an.
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  Speaker 9: End to it because if Iran's live is able to
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  Speaker 9: recover and rebuild its nuclear program, we build its ballistic program,
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  Speaker 9: restore its monetary support for terror around the region, and
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  Speaker 9: certainly keep hold on to that nine hundred pounds of
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  Speaker 9: highly enricheranium. We're going to keep on experiencing an existential
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  Speaker 9: threat for iron and from its proxy from Hbolah. So
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  Speaker 9: what Israel needs more than anything else, and you know,
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  Speaker 9: maybe even more than AMMO at this point, we need time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what the President said today is that the US
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  Speaker 1: has a plan to destroy every bridge and power plant
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  Speaker 1: in Iran by midnight tomorrow if there is no deal.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want a deal or do you want to
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  Speaker 1: destroy every bridge and power plant in Iran?
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  Speaker 9: We'll have destroying every bridge and power and Iran is
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  Speaker 9: certainly sending an unequivocal message we don't want to hurt
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  Speaker 9: the people of Iran, and to hope that that that
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  Speaker 9: operation does go into fact, that they'll understand that we're
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  Speaker 9: doing this because we have no choice and not because
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  Speaker 9: we want to hurt them.
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  Speaker 4: But we would prefer a deal, depends on the nature
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  Speaker 4: of the deal.
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  Speaker 9: In a deal that ends the Iranian threat, it's ballistic threat,
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  Speaker 9: the nuclear threat, the terror threat, the enrich uranium threat,
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  Speaker 9: and the h Hisbala threat in addition to all that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, lifting the siege.
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  Speaker 9: Of the Straits of Hermus, Do you think the Ruanians
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  Speaker 9: are there They're about to do that?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of doubt it, you know, Michael, I think you
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  Speaker 1: were at Princeton. I don't know if you were with
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  Speaker 1: James Macpherson thought. I wrote a column for Fox Tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: about Sherman's two marches from Atlanta and Savannah and then
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  Speaker 1: through South Carolina.
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  Speaker 6: That was done to send.
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  Speaker 1: A message into free the enslaved people, and it was
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  Speaker 1: not easy on the citizenry of either Georgia or South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: But it had its effect, and that was because Jefferson
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  Speaker 1: Davies would not accept a peace that was acceptable to Lincoln.
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  Speaker 6: Aren't we in the same position right now?
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  Speaker 9: And you know, as Sherman said, it's a good thing
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  Speaker 9: that the war as hell or else, we'd enjoy it
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  Speaker 9: too much.
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  Speaker 4: We're not exactly enjoyed. I was there during.
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  Speaker 9: Mcpheerson was at Prince in a great great historian. I
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  Speaker 9: think the comparison here is not necessarily between say Iran
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  Speaker 9: and the Confederacy, but rather between Iran and Hamas.
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  Speaker 4: It's very simple.
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  Speaker 9: The Hamas was offered a time limited ceasefires in order
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  Speaker 9: to release a certain number of hostages. Iran is being
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  Speaker 9: offered a limited ceasefire in return for lifting their hostage,
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  Speaker 9: basically their kidnapping.
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  Speaker 4: Of the straits of her moves following the metaphor.
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  Speaker 9: And just like Hamas said, no, we want an end
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  Speaker 9: to the war, we want the total end of the war,
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  Speaker 9: so Iran says, we want a total end to the war,
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  Speaker 9: which will lead them again in a position to both
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  Speaker 9: rebuild their nuclear and ballistic programs, restore support for terror,
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  Speaker 9: and continue to bring terror and pain and death to
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  Speaker 9: the entirement. Least, I would hope that would be unacceptable
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  Speaker 9: to the policymakers in Washington.
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  Speaker 1: If you were an Iranian, just an average joe at
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  Speaker 1: the bizarre, would you want the Ni States would take
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  Speaker 1: out the infrastructure in the hopes of having freedom.
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  Speaker 9: Certainly, but certainly, and I can't speak for all the
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  Speaker 9: people of Iran, but certain the people out protesting the
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  Speaker 9: street might understand that we the degree that we take
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  Speaker 9: out the energy plans.
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  Speaker 4: If we take out the infrastructure.
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  Speaker 9: We're doing this with great reluctance, and we're doing this
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  Speaker 9: emphatically not to hurt the people if you're on to
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  Speaker 9: give them a hope for the future.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not an easy call. And you know in Israel.
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  Speaker 9: They say about politicians, that's why we get the big shekels.
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  Speaker 4: Well, in the United States, you know, you get some
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  Speaker 4: big dollars to make.
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  Speaker 9: These very very hard decisions and they are brutal.
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  Speaker 4: But no one said war was going to be easy.
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  Speaker 1: Last question, President Trump appears very confident. This is the
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  Speaker 1: thing I look for in time to crisis is how
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  Speaker 1: does a leader project, how does Prime Minister net and
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  Speaker 1: Yahoo appear to the Israeli public?
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  Speaker 9: And see he has his base, and to his base
• 16:58
  Speaker 9: he peers, peers strong. To his critics, he feels less
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: cross he had less strong. He had a speech tonight
• 17:05
  Speaker 9: that was very severely criticized by many segments of Israeli public,
• 17:09
  Speaker 9: where he said to this the inhabitants of the north,
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: particularly to this town of riot, Shimona, which has just
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: been blasted, you know, every ten minutes, saying, you know,
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: you know, stop feeling sorry for yourself. Buckle up, you know,
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: chin up. The rest of the countries under fire too.
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: And I don't think that was well received by the
• 17:24
  Speaker 9: people in Karrage Simona.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Different.
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: They say, it's different. The Prime Minister is not the
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: commander in chief of Israeli Army. The government is. It's
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: a different situation, different power to the political system. But
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: as I said on this program before, if President Trump
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: it holds the line, stays the course on this, he
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: will go down not as one of the great presidents
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: in the history of United States, but one of the
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: great leaders of the world. And I firmly and utterly
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: believe that, Hugh. It's not a political statement, it's a historian.
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: No, No, it's a maligning years from now.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a malign in evil regime that it has
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: to come to the end.
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: And I might ask the people who are against this war,
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: would you want your kids and grandchildren to face a
• 18:04
  Speaker 9: nuclear armedy rum.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Well foot as always, Doctor Michael Lauren, thank you for
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: joining us.
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  Speaker 6: Welcome back, America. I'm too quite.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Senator Tom Cotton represents the great state of Arkansas. He's
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: also chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Senator welcome. First,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: your reaction to the remarkable weekend we witnessed over.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: The Easter weekend.
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: Well, Hugh, I assume you're talking about the Guardian's performance.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Hey, we came back from behind against the Cubs. No,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about grabbing the Colonel.
• 18:37
  Speaker 10: Well, I will say this to you before we get
• 18:39
  Speaker 10: in the more serious matters. I do think we should
• 18:41
  Speaker 10: acknowledge Jose Ramirez day. I believe today is the day
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: he becomes. Indeed, I'm leader game Slade for the Indians
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: Guardians franchise. I know you're a diehard fan, but more importantly,
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: Jose Ramirez not just a great baseball player, but a
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: great person.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: So good for you chose to stay in Cleveland for
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: less money. I just I want multiple times, multiple times.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, but of course, the big news over we
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: can here, as you said, is the daring, audacious rescue
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: of a down to airman. I think most of your
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: listeners probably heard the President give more details about it
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: today at his press conference. But hats off not only
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: to that airman for the guile and the courage to survive,
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: but for the many hundreds of our troops, whether they
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: were pilots or weapons officers, or special operations forces or
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: logisticians who played critical roles in bringing him out. I
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: think it's once again an important reminder to all of
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: our troops that will never leave any man behind. And
• 19:38
  Speaker 10: it sends a very strong signal toure run of what
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: we're capable of, that we could send that many forces
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: into Iran for many many hours to rescue one of
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: our down airmen and they could barely lay a finger
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: on us.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Senator, you and I are about readers of thrillers,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Danny Silva and others. This is more remarkable than anything
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I've read in to Brad Thorne novel or Dan any
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Silver novel, or any of these novels, and that it
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: happened in forty five hours. First question, you're in the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: gang of eight, a group of members of the House
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: and Senate who are adjacent to the chain of command
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: in those forty five hours, were you briefed?
• 20:17
  Speaker 11: Hugh?
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: I spoke with both Secretary of Hexath and the President
• 20:19
  Speaker 10: over the weekend, but as you know, we're not in
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: session right now, so I'm not near a secure information
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: of facilities, so they only spoke in generalities they could,
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: but they assured me that everything was going as well
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: as it could be. And then I spoke to the
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: President afterwards as well, and obviously again he was extraordinarily
• 20:37
  Speaker 10: grateful for the skill and the bravery of all the
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: men to bring that airman home. So again, kudos to
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: everyone who was involved in this amazing operation.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Now, you served your time in the United States Army
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: one hundred and first Airborne and in Afghanistan a different
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: capacity and with the Old Guard, and so you've seen
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the ability of the American military to execute How many
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: people do you the long tail this going back to
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the Pentagon, going back to the people who are working
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the late night shift to keep the lights turned on there.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: How many people are involved in forty five hours? I'm astonished.
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's very say thousands, hues spread across
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: the globe to include people who often don't get the
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: heralds they deserve. You know, the men and women who work,
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: for instance, at cybercom or in the Space Force, and
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: for that matter, as the President very appropriately observed today
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: at this press conference, the men and women at the CIA,
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: who I think he explicitly said, don't get the thanks
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: they need for the great work they do. Exceptional military
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: operations require exceptional intelligence, and that's exactly what the CIA
• 21:44
  Speaker 10: provided to the military.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Now, I want to ask you about the President's threat
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: to destroy every bridge and power plant by midnight tomorrow night.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I went back to James McPherson's battle Cry of Freedom
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: and looked up what William Sherman argued to Grant and
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Lincoln to allow him to do his march through Georgia
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and then through South Carolina. He said, if we can
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: march a well appointed army right through Jefferson Davis's territory,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: it would be a demonstration to the world foreign and domestic.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Then we have a power that Davis cannot resist. Is
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: that demonstration aspect.
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  Speaker 6: At work here?
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: Stud It may be a part of it, but I
• 22:21
  Speaker 10: think it's more direct as well, you know, many of
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: these power plants are owned by or associated with the
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: military or the Revolutionary Guard CORE, so it's a direct
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: source of revenue they're using to fund their military operations.
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: Since the beginning of time, or at least as long
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: as WILL vehicles have been in place, you know, bridges
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: have been critical military targets to prevent ground reinforcements. So
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: I think these are obviously vital targets that the remnants
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: of the regime in Iran still profit from and put
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: in use in service of their war efforts. And I
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: think they should be mindful of the president's threats. He's
• 23:02
  Speaker 10: proven time again he does not make idle threats.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Jake Auchencloss was on before me on Fox News Sunday
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: yesterday and Congressman Fromachius has farm major in the Marine Corps.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: He had this to say, congress Maths, Senator or cotton
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: cut number one, Congressman Auten class, do you.
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: Doubt that we will get the straight reopen or that
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: we have the ability to?
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: Yes? I do.
• 23:24
  Speaker 12: And as always with this president, it's you know, all
• 23:28
  Speaker 12: it's all hat and no cattle, right. I mean, he's blustering,
• 23:32
  Speaker 12: he's threatening, and yet he always backs down, and the
• 23:35
  Speaker 12: reason is because he misunderstands the nature of grand strategy.
• 23:38
  Speaker 12: The nature of grand strategy is about choke point control.
• 23:41
  Speaker 12: It is not about the raw exercise of power. So
• 23:43
  Speaker 12: last year this president tried to pick a trade war
• 23:46
  Speaker 12: with China. He lost it, and he lost it because
• 23:48
  Speaker 12: China choked off critical minerals. This year he's picking a war,
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: a kinetic war with Iran. He's losing it because Iran
• 23:54
  Speaker 12: has choked off oil transit to the street.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: We're losing it. I stunning the green room centator. What
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: do you think about that?
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: No, Hugh, Look, anyone who's looked at a map going
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: back five hundred years since the Portuguese first seled through
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: it knows that Iran has the power to temporarily close
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: the straight up removes. That's not a sign of strength, though,
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: that's a sign of weakness. It's the last thing they
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: wanted to do in a conflict with the United States
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: and Israel because it hurts them so badly as well.
• 24:24
  Speaker 10: And the fact that they did it in the early
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: days of this war again shows how badly we've hit them.
• 24:29
  Speaker 10: But just as they have the ability to temporary close
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: it to you, there's no question we have the ability
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: to permanently reopen it and presserably. That would be done
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: not ourselves, but in concert with other nations who frankly
• 24:41
  Speaker 10: depend on it a lot more than do we. Of course,
• 24:44
  Speaker 10: the simplest way to have it reopen and not vulnerable
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: threat is to have a sane and pro American regime
• 24:51
  Speaker 10: inside of Iran. As the President said today and other times,
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: the regime is basically done for because we've killed everyone.
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: Israel destruct another senior leader of the Revolutionary Guard Corps overnight.
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: So again, whatever remnants remain inside of Tehran should be
• 25:08
  Speaker 10: very mindful of what the President's threatened. If they know
• 25:11
  Speaker 10: what's good for them, they'll accept the terms he's imposed
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: and they'll stop it with the threats against the Strait.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: So last question, Senator, I read the polling, and I
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: never know if they're pulling New York City or Arkansas.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling that this is a red state,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: blue state approval of this conflict, and that the Red
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: states are behind the president.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Is that your sense of it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 11: Be few?
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: What we see in Arkansas is very strong support for
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: the president, even people you know who you know maybe
• 25:42
  Speaker 10: not be you know Ultramaga, you might say, still recognize
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: that Roan has been terrorized in the United States and
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: the civilized world for forty seven years. And again, if
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: you look at polling, you take a step back from
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: just talking about the war. It sale for President Trump's
• 25:56
  Speaker 10: performance on the war. But if the objectives he's laid out,
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: stopping their clear program forever, eliminating their missile forces, stopping
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: their support for terrorism, those are still wildly popular objectives
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: and their objectives on which we're gaining ground every single day.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Center Tom Cotton, always good to talk to you. Thank
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: for you, Thanks to you for joining me during recess.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck to you when you get back here. There's
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  Speaker 1: I'm Hugh Hewett, joined now by Selena Zito, America's columnist
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  Speaker 1: Tries for The Washington Post, the New York Post, the
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• 27:32
  Speaker 1: else in the world. Selena, I hope you had a
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: wonderful Easter, riveted as we were by the amazing rescue
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: of the American pilot and weapons officer.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: Tell me how your weekend went.
• 27:43
  Speaker 13: Oh, my weekend was lovely, church, a visit to Harper's Ferry,
• 27:48
  Speaker 13: spending the day with my family.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 27:51
  Speaker 13: It was absolutely lovely, just the way it's supposed to be.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: So how did your family react.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I'm always interested in people not in the business their
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: reaction to a story like this. All I could do
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: was find another detail anywhere, listen to another podcast, try
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: and find more, because I was so captured by the story.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: What'd your family think?
• 28:13
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 28:13
  Speaker 13: Yeah, the family was absolutely riveted, you know, by the
• 28:18
  Speaker 13: whole situation is as the work kept leaking out, that
• 28:22
  Speaker 13: that that, this, that this soldier was rescued. Uh and
• 28:28
  Speaker 13: and just sort of the details started to it came
• 28:31
  Speaker 13: out very slowly, So it was, you know, it was
• 28:35
  Speaker 13: a very American moment. And and after a series of
• 28:40
  Speaker 13: wonderful things that have happened with our country across multiple
• 28:45
  Speaker 13: different you know, within sports, with baseball, with hockey, with
• 28:50
  Speaker 13: the Olympics, with with Artemis, and then this happens, there
• 28:55
  Speaker 13: was just a swelling of pride that Americans accepttionalism is
• 29:01
  Speaker 13: sort of back, and we're all in, especially on our
• 29:06
  Speaker 13: two hundred and fiftieth birthday, and it kind of you know,
• 29:10
  Speaker 13: being the history nerd that I am, you know, right
• 29:13
  Speaker 13: around the same time, two hundred and fifty years ago,
• 29:16
  Speaker 13: Washington completed one of his most sneakiest of adventures where
• 29:24
  Speaker 13: he surprised the British in Boston, and there was the
• 29:28
  Speaker 13: great evacuation because of how Henry Knox had brought all
• 29:33
  Speaker 13: those cannons in from Taekwondreundo.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: And so history made me not always repeat, but it certainly.
• 29:40
  Speaker 13: Rhymes with itself, and I just thought it all sort
• 29:44
  Speaker 13: of came together all at the same time.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: That was in fact, I'm glad you brought that up.
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: Henry Notch.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Getting the cannon from ty taekwonder Ruga down to Boston
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: is a miraculous story in itself. Sleds ice Lake horses,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: dead guys Native Americans that are hostels, and they then
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: one day the British wake up and they're in under
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: range in the direct fire.
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: They have to run away, Yeah.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: They have to run away.
• 30:10
  Speaker 13: Their cannons can't reach Dorchester Heights and they are completely
• 30:16
  Speaker 13: just surprised by the tactics and by the way those
• 30:20
  Speaker 13: were that they accomplished. That was nothing short of a miracle, right,
• 30:25
  Speaker 13: sort of like what happened this past weekend.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: So did you say you were in Harper's ferry.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm interested in this because the Cleveland Guardians have
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: a new super hitter, Chase the Latter, and every time
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: he comes up to the plate, they play John Denver
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Country Roads because he's from West Virginia every time and
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the guys at five home runs in ten games. So
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: it's amazing starting how many people involved in you know,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: America's fighting military tradition runs through Scott's Irish America, through
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: West Virginia, through Kentucky through Tennessee.
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: How many of the people in.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: The long tail of this mission do you think come
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: out of military families.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, I think a lot of a lot of them.
• 31:12
  Speaker 13: That's just sort of our tradition in our country. It's
• 31:15
  Speaker 13: what our fathers did, our grandfathers did. We want to
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: follow in their footsteps lots of times, and you just
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: see it over and over again every military operation within
• 31:27
  Speaker 13: this country. In doing research for my next book, of
• 31:32
  Speaker 13: the traits of people signing up because duty runs through
• 31:38
  Speaker 13: their family is really remarkable and it's incredibly moving.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: And so you've had to.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Give a look at James Webb's book. James Webb wrote
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: a book Born Fighting, and not a lot of people
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: know about the Scotts Irish and up through Appalachia and
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: how they have always.
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: Been in the warrior class.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Clean when the press, are you making a list of
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: questions about this operation for when the President calls you next?
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, I.
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: Want to know.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I have a suggestion. I want to know how hard
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: he has to work. Not to give away details. He
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: looked over at Dan Kane and said, General, how many
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: people were involved in The General said I'd rather not
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: say that, and he went on to say, well, there were.
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: Hundreds of people in He can't not tell people.
• 32:29
  Speaker 13: He cannot tell people, but he also has a little
• 32:32
  Speaker 13: bit of fun not telling people. He's really wrapped his
• 32:36
  Speaker 13: arm around intrigue and deception in terms of making people
• 32:43
  Speaker 13: think one thing is going to happen when something else
• 32:46
  Speaker 13: is going to happen. And he was completely riveted by
• 32:51
  Speaker 13: everything that he watched in the situation room.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I mean it was clear that he was part.
• 32:57
  Speaker 13: Of it, he was glued to it, and he was
• 33:00
  Speaker 13: not going to walk away until that everyone.
• 33:03
  Speaker 9: Was accounted for.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: So Tomorrow night, eight pm is the deadline for the
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: IRGC to come to a deal with the United States.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Do you think we'll end up bombing the bridges and
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the power plants.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I'd like to think that we come to a deal.
• 33:19
  Speaker 13: I would like to believe that we come to a deal,
• 33:21
  Speaker 13: but I don't think that he's going to hold back
• 33:24
  Speaker 13: if we don't.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: And a little off topic, since you brought up.
• 33:29
  Speaker 13: The Guardians, just so you know, the Pirates swept the
• 33:31
  Speaker 13: Orioles this past weekend for the first time since eighteen
• 33:36
  Speaker 13: eighty three.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: What team this year? We got a team?
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that that the Pirates are playing the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Orioles in eighteen eighty three. They're in different leagues now,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: so they don't get together very often. That they pitched
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the kid from the Tyler three times?
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: Is that how they did it?
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: No, and we beat them in the seventy nine World Series.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Just thought I pointed that out too.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: All right, I'm glad for you.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: You folks in Pittsburgh are always living in the seventies.
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: That's fine by me, Selena Zato, Thank you broking back
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: in America. I'm here here it.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: When I come back from the next break, I'm going
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: to play the most annoying song in America maybe in
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: fifty years. I heard it briefly this weekend, and it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those songs you don't know how to empty
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the song. So I'll play that when we come back
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: in the meantime. First time caller is only what do
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: you think about this weekend? Gigi in San Francisco, Hello, Gigi,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I'm there, Thank you.
• 34:37
  Speaker 14: For taking my call.
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: I love this president.
• 34:40
  Speaker 15: I just posted on Facebook yesterday.
• 34:43
  Speaker 14: We got him.
• 34:44
  Speaker 10: And then you wouldn't believe how many people said, what.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: Being in San Francisco?
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Right, you're in Marin County, so you're like alone, You're
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: like that down airman.
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's no one coming to get you. You can drive
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: away if you want.
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: Though, You're right, And I mean today I posted something new.
• 35:10
  Speaker 16: I never would have bet, but it was the little
• 35:13
  Speaker 16: snippet with the President saying, and you know why.
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: They want a deal. They want to deal.
• 35:20
  Speaker 14: Because they got the blake bombed out of them.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we had Dwayne had to do some editing on
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the fly to day because while the President can say
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: whatever he wants, whenever he wants, we can't. We're Brendan
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Carrbill knock On my door and say here's one hundred
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Fine, So I have to edit very carefully.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Luckily I have the technical skills that Dwayne lacks. Thank you, Gigi.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Just be careful out there in Marin County. Let's go
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: from the top of California down to Jacksonville, Florida.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: Talk to Blake.
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: Hi, Blake, you, it's great to talk with you, brother man.
• 35:53
  Speaker 17: I just was thinking it.
• 35:55
  Speaker 18: About Osama be in a loud and saying that we
• 35:57
  Speaker 18: were the weak horse, not anymore who We've got to
• 36:01
  Speaker 18: remember that that it's okay for them if they if
• 36:05
  Speaker 18: they kill themselves and everybody else in battle, because they're
• 36:07
  Speaker 18: going to heaven. We've got to destroy their violence, making
• 36:11
  Speaker 18: a capacity and just completely obliterate that whole process.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: But you know, I do want to be fair to
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: our friends of the Islamic tradition. It is only their
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Wahabist crazies and their Shia crazies who believe in suicide
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: and that's not martyrdom, and I want to make sure
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: people understand that is a What is Hamioni and Hamoni
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: did to the Shia tradition is like what David Koresh
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: did to the Seventh Day Adventists. Only the Homanian Hamani
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: got to take over a country of ninety two million people.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: And that's the difference. It's they're not crazy. It's just
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: that the lunatics atp of Iran are well, they're corrupt
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: more than they're crazy. Now they're all filthy rich, and
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: he keep waiting for someone to tell me that the
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: money's been disintermediated. By the way, I was down in
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: your neck of the woods last month, Blake. You have
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: a lovely city, loved a Milia Island, loved Flavor College,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: loved Saint Augustine. How long you lived down there? Oh
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: he's gone, all right, Dave and Beverly Hills. Back to
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the West Coast.
• 37:20
  Speaker 14: Wonderful to hear your show. I've been never called, but
• 37:24
  Speaker 14: I really really respect everything that you say. I put
• 37:28
  Speaker 14: over thirty two years in the military in the Air Force.
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 37:33
  Speaker 14: I hate to tell you my background. I did rotc
• 37:38
  Speaker 14: and you wouldn't believe where Berkeley Vercy of California, and
• 37:42
  Speaker 14: then I went to Stamford and I played a little
• 37:46
  Speaker 14: football at cout. But here's here's where I'd listened to
• 37:50
  Speaker 14: you and I agree on a lot of things. But
• 37:53
  Speaker 14: I don't agree, and I did vote for Trump, but
• 37:56
  Speaker 14: I'm not totally on everything you did, of course, not
• 38:00
  Speaker 14: neither mind. I agree, and I think you'll appreciate this.
• 38:08
  Speaker 14: It's not bringing them back twenty or thirty years. It
• 38:12
  Speaker 14: is getting a take, is allowing the people to be free.
• 38:16
  Speaker 14: Remember this radical movement there that controls ninety two million
• 38:21
  Speaker 14: in Iran. If we take worldwide in the Middle East,
• 38:25
  Speaker 14: this group, you're talking about a couple of one hundred
• 38:28
  Speaker 14: million without.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Adapt Hey, Dave, let me ask you a question. You're
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: right about that. It's an enormous strategic gain for the world.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: When you were in the Air Force, did you ever
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: do anything.
• 38:39
  Speaker 14: Like this, Yes, but not in the den of where
• 38:46
  Speaker 14: they were they were looking when that plane went down.
• 38:49
  Speaker 14: I would look. You could see how dysfunctional the Iranians were,
• 38:53
  Speaker 14: that they really couldn't secure that area around those men.
• 38:58
  Speaker 14: That shows a great way. So we are hitting them. Well,
• 39:02
  Speaker 14: but here's the real here's the thing up to forty
• 39:04
  Speaker 14: seven years and I think Trump fell into this too,
• 39:09
  Speaker 14: that we what we want to show the people to
• 39:12
  Speaker 14: rise up. They've been slaughtered by them. You have to
• 39:15
  Speaker 14: stop them to have any any value left in the
• 39:21
  Speaker 14: country that they can show. One big way is to
• 39:24
  Speaker 14: take out the generators to make the lights go out.
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: And you know, I think you're right. I don't believe
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: he doesn't want to do this. But they murdered.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Between thirty five and forty five, some people say fifty
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: thousand of their own people in January. If the lights
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: go out, the people might realize they can go back
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: out with some safety that they didn't have in January.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Dave for your service and for the call.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: More calls coming up one eight hundred and five to
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: oh one two three four. What'd you make in a mission?
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: But you got to be at first time caller to
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: the UQT show.
• 40:01
  Speaker 16: Mind, whatever laid a hand on you.
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: Mind, Welcome back to America. I'm Hugh hewittt On.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: One of the dangers could see walking into a CBS
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: or a supermarket is that the soundtrack will be playing
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: the music of the seventies, because it's the people who
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: shop this book from And this song was on this weekend.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: It's Frankie Valley nineteen seventy four, release nineteen seventy five
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: made the charts, and of course it just infected the
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: summer of nineteen seventy five when I'm lifeguarding, so I
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: probably heard it five thousand times. Like Donald Tru'm saying,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: and Ron cannot have a nuclear weapons. I think it's
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: the hardest song to purge. Now, Dwayne, you were like
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: fifty years ago a DJ, were you not?
• 40:53
  Speaker 10: H Yes?
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah? How do you get a song out of your head? Yeah?
• 40:58
  Speaker 10: You're asking the guy that sat through It's a small
• 41:00
  Speaker 10: world fifty times. Sometimes it never does.
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: I mean, don't you think this is up there with
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: MacArthur's Park?
• 41:07
  Speaker 10: No, No, Bred, this isn't as bad as MacArthur's Park.
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: Bread close.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just saying I caught it this weekend and
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: now I can't.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it sucking your head.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go back to our wonderful callers. Bob, what
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: suck Georgia? What'd you make it this weekend?
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: Bob?
• 41:25
  Speaker 15: Well, I thought it was fantastic, everything from start to finish,
• 41:28
  Speaker 15: just incredible. But my concern is if we destroy their infrastructure, oil, electric,
• 41:36
  Speaker 15: everything and devastate Iran and they have nothing loss to
• 41:40
  Speaker 15: build on. People don't realize how crazy these zealous are.
• 41:44
  Speaker 16: If they're going to sacrifice forty.
• 41:46
  Speaker 15: Five thousand of your own people. They're not going to stop,
• 41:50
  Speaker 15: so I think we will need I hate to say it,
• 41:52
  Speaker 15: the ground troops. If we want to finish the job
• 41:56
  Speaker 15: and this Congress approves a war declaration after sixty if
• 42:00
  Speaker 15: we have.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: To do that, well, hey, number one, they don't need that.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: The War Powers Act is unconstitutional. I just like to
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: put that on the record. No Republican president has ever
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: acceeded to. It was passed over Richard Nixon veto in
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three.
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: So we don't need it.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: We do not need declaration of war, but I don't
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I'm against ground troops except for very limited operation. We
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: had ground trips with boots on the ground for forty
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: five hours. And by the way, I want to thank
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: you for the call. I want to read something Jhen
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Griffin reported ten minutes ago. On any other given day,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: this would lead the news. But it's a Trey Yinks exclusive.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: In between the two rescues, remember the two pilots, pilot
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: and a weapons control officer in the back backseater Dude
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: forty four or something.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: In between the two.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Rescues, Admiral Bank Brad Cooper, the head of US Central Command,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: ordered several B two bombers to fly thirty six hour
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: round trip from Whitman Air Force Base to drop massive
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: ordnance penetrator bunker bus bombs, the same ones used last
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: summer against Iran's nuclear sites. Their target and underground IRGC
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: headquarters in Tehran after he received intelligence that a large
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: number of top IRGC commanders were meeting there. Many from
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: the IRGC command are presumed killed in the strike. According
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: to a US Defense official, that was from ten minutes ago,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: and that happened during the forty five hours they're all
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: gathered together. They can't imagine that we can walk into
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: gum at the same time and the American military wipes
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: out an IRGC command center that they didn't even know
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: that we knew about with bombs that they knew we had,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: but we wouldn't use it there in the middle of
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: that operation. So it just gets more and more incredible.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Dan in Kentucky, Hi.
• 43:45
  Speaker 11: Dan, Hey, you how you doing today?
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: I am feeling great. I'm proud to be an American.
• 43:52
  Speaker 11: I am too, And it was a great age for
• 43:55
  Speaker 11: morning at one o'clock when I found we found the
• 43:58
  Speaker 11: weapons operator officer, and what a wonderful change from the
• 44:04
  Speaker 11: same almost the same date in April nineteen eighty and
• 44:10
  Speaker 11: desert one.
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: So I brought that up on the Fox New Sunday.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: It was a little bit later, in April April twenty fourth, right,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: I thought.
• 44:21
  Speaker 11: It was a little Yes, it's a little later. Charlie
• 44:24
  Speaker 11: Beckwith and his guys, they had that unfortunate he's a
• 44:27
  Speaker 11: great American.
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, they had.
• 44:30
  Speaker 11: That unfortunate refeeling. But notice it was put in a
• 44:33
  Speaker 11: C one thirty deep in Iran on a desert road.
• 44:38
  Speaker 11: And now it's an improved or hasty made airfield that
• 44:43
  Speaker 11: is tough and night operations are inherently dangerous.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Mitchell, are you a veteran, by the way, I am
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: thirty years.
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: Thank you, sir for all those years.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: I do think that that unfortunate disaster in the desert
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: led to the reorganization of a marria A Special Forces
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: and the refinement of operability between the I mean, we've
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: got marine recon, we've got the seals, we have Delta
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: and rangers, and we've got the Air Force, the super pilots,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: the rescue para rescue teams. They all work together now
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: because nothing worked together back then.
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: And what a remarkable machine it is.
• 45:24
  Speaker 11: It's I understood that unit was a test bed unit
• 45:28
  Speaker 11: and not really meant to be deployed, and then they
• 45:31
  Speaker 11: threw it together. But one thing about our military, we
• 45:34
  Speaker 11: do the after action review process DIE set whatever went wrong,
• 45:39
  Speaker 11: and we learn a lot from what went wrong. And
• 45:41
  Speaker 11: it looks like they pulled it together.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: But still, hey, can you give me an estimate on
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: howeld the colonel is?
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: Dude forty four.
• 45:53
  Speaker 11: In the Air Force, I can give you an estimate
• 45:58
  Speaker 11: he could be in it if he's a bird and
• 46:00
  Speaker 11: six he's in his forties.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Well that yeah, I just can't imagine. I do backseaters
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: get the fly longer than pilots.
• 46:10
  Speaker 11: You know, I'm not Air Force, I'm Army, So I'm talking.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: I have a fighter pilot's son in law, and they
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: age out after a while, they have to go over
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: to swow or where they have to be a air wing commander,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: and after a while, even then the air wing commander
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: has to stop flying. And then I mean, they can
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: still qualify, but they're not the sharp, smart young guys
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: who are full of and young women who are full
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: of zip and vigor. So I'm just wondering, maybe if
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: he's forty five years old, he climbs his seven thousand.
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: Feet That's a story. That's a real story.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your service and the call, Jesse,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: New York City got forty five seconds.
• 46:51
  Speaker 17: Jesse, how are we doing?
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: Boss?
• 46:56
  Speaker 17: I just had some questions about how greatest ally Israel
• 47:03
  Speaker 17: and the either physical ground troops or intelligence support that
• 47:10
  Speaker 17: they provided in the rescue of these two pilots, if anything.
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: They were involved.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: They're being very cautious and cagy about how they were involved,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: and nobody really wants to.
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: Say, but we owe a lot to our ally.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: And how did we find out about the IRGC debunker
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: that we hit in the middle of this.
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: I would guess.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Massad they have got the IERGC so deeply penetrated. You've
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: just got to wonder who in Iran is working for
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Israel because in US and our CIA, because we blow
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: them up in the middle of the operation. That's just
• 47:44
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  Speaker 1: I said once Adam, welcome back America.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Hugh Hewett.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: I got to tell you breaking new swumran is that
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: they are evacuating Special Economic Zone for petrochemicals in Iran.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: They anticipate strikes all night long from both US and Uron,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: but not the big one comes after eight pm tomorrow night.
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: Rick, You've been waiting in at LANDA. You get a call,
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: go ahead, Rick, Yeah.
• 49:15
  Speaker 16: You would have mentioned about a first caller. I've never
• 49:18
  Speaker 16: called before, but I just got to tell you the
• 49:19
  Speaker 16: press conference, everything that happened this weekend is absolutely awesome.
• 49:24
  Speaker 16: And the fact that he gives up any political capital
• 49:27
  Speaker 16: that he may or may not count in order to
• 49:29
  Speaker 16: do the right thing, without a focus group, any of
• 49:31
  Speaker 16: that stuff. It gives me chills. I love it, Rick,
• 49:35
  Speaker 16: so do I.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: And that leads me to the last clip from Fox News.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I was asked about, boy, isn't the economy bad?
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: What about the elections?
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: And here's what I had to say yesterday is Shannon
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Bream cut number four proof.
• 49:47
  Speaker 9: So he especially in a midterm year, he's.
• 49:48
  Speaker 10: Got a lot of work to do.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: You got to get it done by June. That's when
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: a kick in, That's when voters lock in. But deregulation
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: has an amazing effect on the economy. Combine it with
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: the working Families tax cut, which kicks in on April fifteenth.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: I'm confident about the economy and I'm confident about the war.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: So I think the Republicans, well, yeah, historically the title
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: charts are bad for the out here. They never left.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: They got a fighting chance on that job report. Maybe
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: this the first of many piece of goodness.
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: And we did have this great job report.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: Rick, So, I mean there was great economic news this
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: weekend too, I uh true, Yeah, And so I'm feeling
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm feeling.
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: Proud of being American today.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: And I know that the people with TDS are all
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: upset about what he posts, which I think he's just
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: playing with the mula's mines, don't you.
• 50:34
  Speaker 11: I do too.
• 50:35
  Speaker 16: I love that those comments. I mean, I think it
• 50:38
  Speaker 16: displays exactly what a whole lot of people are feeling
• 50:41
  Speaker 16: a lot of.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Frustration and forty seven years. We don't want to hurt
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: the Iranian people. They're a great nation. They were our
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: allies forever. Jimmy Carter blew that, demonstrating he knew nothing.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: He knew nothing about the world, and he knew nothing
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: about how to handle the shop he dealt with for
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: four and he didn't know anything about OMENI They thought
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Omeni was going to be a nice Sufi intellectual cleric
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: with human rights on his agenda, not the mad mula
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: that he turned.
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: Out to be.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Thank you Rick, Thank you everyone for listening. Thank you
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Adam and Harley and General Lisimo. Come back tomorrow on
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: the Salem New Channel, the Salem Radio.
• 51:21
  Speaker 6: Network, all of our great affiliates.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: Check my YouTube channel as well, and I'll see you
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: tomorrow and the next give you a show.