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Opening Segment 9/23/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: W-O-R. Oh, Larry. Wow. First day of fall yesterday. My wife, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: was dancing the Tarantella, the polka, because temperatures have dropped.
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  Speaker 1: You felt it today. The threat of a nor'easter coming up. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have Ray Stajic later on in the
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  Speaker 1: program to give us the pre-pre-pre-pre hype of whether it's
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  Speaker 1: going to hit us hard or or whether it's just
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  Speaker 1: going to float offshore.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to be listening at 7.50 because this
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  Speaker 2: could go either way. And Ray Stajic is one of
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  Speaker 2: the best in the business. He's been covering it since
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  Speaker 2: it was down there, since they thought it was going
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  Speaker 2: to be a hurricane. And so he will be able
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  Speaker 2: to tell you if it's going to hit, if there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be any flooding, especially coastal flooding. And he's
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  Speaker 2: coming up in just a little bit over an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the UN yesterday and Donald Trump's speech.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be covering this a few times today
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  Speaker 2: because there's several news stories coming out of it. But
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump held the speech, spoke for just under an hour.
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  Speaker 2: It was heralded as a pretty darn good speech, even
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  Speaker 2: by some of the people that he's banning from being
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  Speaker 2: at the White House. And there were a couple of
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  Speaker 2: walkouts about 10 minutes in. The contingent from Iran walked
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  Speaker 2: out when he talked about Iran. And then a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later, the contingent from Cuba walked out. But it
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  Speaker 2: was a packed house. And that's to be expected when
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  Speaker 2: the president of the United States gets up. But more
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  Speaker 2: than anything else, and this has been the signature of
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  Speaker 2: this president in two terms, it was America first.
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  Speaker 3: America is back and our country is stronger today than
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  Speaker 3: ever before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was the theme throughout. America first, America first,
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  Speaker 2: America first. What is getting the most attention, however, is
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  Speaker 2: when he talked about Iran. And that took up a
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  Speaker 2: huge portion of his speech. But this, you may have
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  Speaker 2: heard it already because it's played a lot, but it's
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  Speaker 2: worth playing again and worth talking about.
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  Speaker 3: But I have a big decision to make. Will a
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  Speaker 3: deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and
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  Speaker 3: create a far greater country than it ever was before,
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  Speaker 3: maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or
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  Speaker 3: even the world? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic
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  Speaker 3: and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to
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  Speaker 3: kill and destroy people and countries again?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and right after that, his son-in-law, Jared and Witkoff,
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  Speaker 2: spoke with an Iranian contingent for about three hours at
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  Speaker 2: the U.N. They're trying to work out a deal, but
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  Speaker 2: as Trump said, they're not going to make a deal
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  Speaker 2: until after the midterms. They're going to try to hurt
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  Speaker 2: me in the midterms, which is smart on his part
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  Speaker 2: for a couple of reasons, because what he's saying to
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  Speaker 2: the American people is if you vote against Republicans, you're
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  Speaker 2: helping Iran.
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  Speaker 3: I call on all nations to join us in enforcing
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  Speaker 3: the complete economic isolation of Iran until they stop their
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  Speaker 3: attacks on commercial shipping, relinquish their nuclear ambitions, and cease
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  Speaker 3: their support of terror.
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  Speaker 2: Well, many of those nations met at the UN in
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  Speaker 2: a private meeting, especially the European nations. And afterwards, the
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  Speaker 2: president of France, Emmanuel Macron, said that they don't agree
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  Speaker 2: completely with the president. Here's the big thing they want.
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  Speaker 2: They want diesel fuel and they want oil. And they
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  Speaker 2: want this to stop. And so they want to do
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  Speaker 2: anything possible to stop this as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 4: For me, the main objective of our discussion with your
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  Speaker 4: president and other colleagues is to find the right deal
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  Speaker 4: in order to reopen almost straight and decrease the pressure
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  Speaker 4: on diesel, on jet fuels, on crude oil.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oil, oil, oil, oil, oil. That's all they talked
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  Speaker 2: to in the NATO coalition that was there, and they
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  Speaker 2: met privately both before and after the speech. One last
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  Speaker 2: thing that President Trump said, and I'll play this, and
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  Speaker 2: we can then talk more about the speech and the
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  Speaker 2: long-lasting effects of the speech. He did take a veiled
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  Speaker 2: shot at the media, and he took a shot at
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  Speaker 2: the leakers. And he is especially upset at one lie
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  Speaker 2: that was told. And that is that the munitions are
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  Speaker 2: way down. And he's upset about that because getting that
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  Speaker 2: out into the world, especially to our enemies, weakens us
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  Speaker 2: in the world. So it is actually a national security issue.
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  Speaker 3: The cowards and traitors would love to say the United
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  Speaker 3: States is low on munitions, but that's not true. We
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  Speaker 3: have more munitions than... we could ever possibly even think
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  Speaker 3: of using. And we're building them at levels that we
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  Speaker 3: have never done before.
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  Speaker 2: Right. That was important for him to say to the world,
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  Speaker 2: because whoever leaked that information, whoever printed that information, did
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  Speaker 2: harm to the United States and put us at a
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  Speaker 2: level of weakness in the world by printing that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And it really isn't just true. The Pentagon put out
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  Speaker 2: its numbers for munitions, and we still have more munitions
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  Speaker 2: than any other country. As a matter of fact, more
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  Speaker 2: than the top other three combined. Number two, three, and four,
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  Speaker 2: you add them together, we have more munitions than them.
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  Speaker 2: So that was just a lie. So if you're wondering
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  Speaker 2: about why some organizations were kept from the White House,
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  Speaker 2: their hard passes were taken, that was probably one of
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  Speaker 2: the biggest reasons. What was your takeaway, Curtis? The escalator
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  Speaker 2: worked this time. So Madam First Lady Melania and President
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump got a normal escalator ride, remember the last time,
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  Speaker 2: The escalators, Trump believes, were interfered with because the first
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  Speaker 2: family was going to go up the escalators. Number two,
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  Speaker 2: he got really testy with Caitlin Conlon, whatever the hell
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  Speaker 2: her name is, from CNN, was in the scrum before
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  Speaker 2: he went into the General Assembly.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't have done that. Because, of course, CNN is going
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  Speaker 1: to be there. The whole world, every media outlet is there,
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  Speaker 1: from the smallest to the biggest. But to single her out, petty, petty, petty. Look,
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  Speaker 1: a federal judge is going to determine that today. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to hear the arguments as to whether they can
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  Speaker 1: keep them out of the White House scrum. You know,
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  Speaker 1: with our own WOR White House correspondent, we'll find out
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  Speaker 1: very quickly from him. But, again, it all gets down
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  Speaker 1: to foreign policy. That's why you're at the U.N. I
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  Speaker 1: know he spent a lot about talking about his domestic issue.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure if you were watching it, it played
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  Speaker 1: to the home crowd of all the things that he
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  Speaker 1: feels that he has done that he's not getting credit for.
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  Speaker 1: But it's really this war in Iran. And the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he would once again go back to this, well,
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  Speaker 1: either we have peace or I annihilate them. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how many times has he said that? You know, bomb
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  Speaker 1: them back to the Stone Age. it's sort of like,
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  Speaker 1: I think Americans are tired. Oh, we'll see. Tired of
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  Speaker 1: hearing this. If you look at polling results, he's doing
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  Speaker 1: most poorly with foreign policy. Only about 30% of Americans,
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  Speaker 1: and that would probably account for his MAGA supporters, are
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  Speaker 1: supporting his foreign policy. Now, obviously, when you think foreign policy,
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  Speaker 1: you're not thinking of the totality of it. You're really
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  Speaker 1: just thinking this war in Iran. 70% are not happy.
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  Speaker 1: That's why going into this midterm election, which you said
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  Speaker 1: is what, five weeks away? This Iranian war hangs over everything. Pricing,
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  Speaker 1: cost of living, affordability. As Macron was talking about the
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  Speaker 1: diesel fuel, very important for us. He forgot to mention,
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  Speaker 1: with fall upon us, home heating fuel oil. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: going to need more home heating fuel oil because that's
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  Speaker 1: mostly how people stay warm other than natural gas. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the same petroleum supply that you get diesel from
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  Speaker 1: when it goes to the refinery. So there's a number
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  Speaker 1: of different issues there. I know that they were going
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  Speaker 1: back channeling for about three hours, as you had mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: Witkoff and the president's son-in-law, Kushner, with the Iranian emissaries
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  Speaker 1: before the Iranian president comes today. He's going to speak
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  Speaker 1: at the General Assembly. But I just felt, OK, we've
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  Speaker 1: heard this speech before. What are you going to do? And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the war is going to end after the
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  Speaker 1: midterm elections. It's just you're not getting that feeling from Iran.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting the feeling that like in Cuba, right? Cuba
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to roll over, you know, with no oil
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  Speaker 1: at all. And yet they somehow is still afloat out there.
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  Speaker 1: So I would just suggest.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: President, you've got to deal with this quickly. You've wanted
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  Speaker 2: them to surrender from the beginning. You've wanted them to
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  Speaker 2: pull out from the beginning. So you're not saying anything new.
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  Speaker 2: This is what your position was when we first went in.
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  Speaker 1: Declare victory. We've done that before. Declare victory and get
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  Speaker 1: the hell out of here.
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  Speaker 2: But we obviously don't have victory, especially when we set
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  Speaker 2: the goal as making sure they will never have a
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  Speaker 2: nuclear weapon. Let's see how these talks go. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't expect you to give the president's speech a
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  Speaker 2: glowing review, although surprisingly, many of the people who are
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  Speaker 2: normally his enemies gave it a resounding thumbs up. And
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  Speaker 2: also many of the people there that have laughed at him.
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  Speaker 2: him in the past aren't laughing anymore. So I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was an excellent speech about American dominance in the world,
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  Speaker 2: and that is absolutely true at this point. We have
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  Speaker 2: the best economy, we have the most powerful military, and
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  Speaker 2: now what we're looking to do is get out of
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  Speaker 2: Iran and Without Iran ever having a nuclear weapon. And
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  Speaker 2: the talks are taking place right now. So we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just remind you. There was a time in
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  Speaker 1: which he was sugar and nice with the evil seed
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  Speaker 1: of Kim Jong mentally ill. And he didn't want him
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  Speaker 1: to have a nuclear weapon. So he said instead of
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  Speaker 1: this hard tact, we'll use the soft tact. The president
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  Speaker 1: most recently said that Kim Jong mentally ill in North
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  Speaker 1: Korea now has 57 nuclear weapons and they have the
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  Speaker 1: capability of now hitting the West Coast. So how did
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  Speaker 1: that work out?
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  Speaker 2: How many countries have as Korea attacked?
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  Speaker 1: North Korea?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they threaten everybody.
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  Speaker 2: How many of the attacked? None.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How many is Iran attacked? Wait a second.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, North Korea is involved with Russia now and attacking Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: They have 30,000 troops in the Ukraine. Yeah, they're helping them.
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  Speaker 1: But how many has the country themselves started a war
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  Speaker 1: with or shot? Nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody. Iran has continually through themselves and their proxies. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a completely, completely different issue. We know there are
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  Speaker 2: different points of view in Iran. They battle with each other.
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  Speaker 2: There's only one point of view in North Korea. So
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  Speaker 2: if the cult leader decides, hit the button, they hit
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  Speaker 2: the button and they launch a nuclear war. Anybody can
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  Speaker 2: do that. Anybody in the world that has a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't think that they stand different than anybody else.
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  Speaker 2: When we come back, Oh, here it is. There is
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  Speaker 2: a new map for the marathon. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be really kind of fascinating to see
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  Speaker 2: where they're going to run now. It's actually, if you
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  Speaker 2: look at it, it's much, much better for the runners.
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  Speaker 2: Plus a chance to see Kenny G at 825.