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New details on Irans plot to kill Trump · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: A security threat to Trump and Air Force One. The
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  Speaker 1: New York Times reporting tonight that Iranian threat to Air
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  Speaker 1: Force One is the reason Trump abruptly ditched his new
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  Speaker 1: plane and flew on the old presidential jet back to
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  Speaker 1: the US from Turkey. Trump's flight to the NATO summit
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  Speaker 1: was his first overseas trip in the new four hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollar jet given to him from the Middle Eastern
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  Speaker 1: country of Qatar. But according to the Times, while Trump
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  Speaker 1: was in Turkey, a threat emerged that Iranian proxy forces
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  Speaker 1: were targeting him an Air Force One from inside Turkey
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  Speaker 1: for miss simple so Trump left on the old Air
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  Speaker 1: Force One, which is more secure now at the time.
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  Speaker 2: This is why Trump said he was swapping jets.
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  Speaker 3: It's lying to Europe to one of the big bases,
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  Speaker 3: two or three of the big bases, where we can
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  Speaker 3: show it to the people and we'll be going home
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  Speaker 3: by normal methods. But we have it going to your Urope,
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  Speaker 3: to a couple of bases, actually one in particular, but
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  Speaker 3: it's going to go to a couple of bases stop
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  Speaker 3: so the soldiers can see it. Because it's truly magnificent.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that was a lot of detail.
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  Speaker 1: You know that they that it was going because the
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  Speaker 1: soldiers wanted to see it and it was magnificent, But
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  Speaker 1: it turned out to not be true that day, though
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  Speaker 1: Trump did allude several times perhaps to the real truth,
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  Speaker 1: which is that Iran wants him dead.
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  Speaker 3: They want to take out the US leader.
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  Speaker 4: Me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm on every list. I saw things this morning. I'm
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  Speaker 3: on every single one of their lists. I'm number one
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  Speaker 3: on the killer list for Iran. They're lovely people. I'm
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  Speaker 3: number one. I may be gone to because I'm their
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  Speaker 3: number one target. It's out all over the place. I'm
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  Speaker 3: their number one because there's scum you wear.
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  Speaker 5: Any incredible run by Iran agains there. Well, I haven't
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  Speaker 5: run all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I'm number one on the list before you. But if
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  Speaker 3: I go, you go.
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  Speaker 1: What new details are you learning about this specific threat
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  Speaker 1: against the president?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Erin, thanks for having me, and what we're what
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  Speaker 6: we have learned is that there was a specific, credible
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  Speaker 6: threat that US officials identified from an Iranian proxy group
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  Speaker 6: targeting President Trump and Air Force one from inside Turkey.
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  Speaker 6: So this was what caused that swap in planes, A
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  Speaker 6: very specific threat that officials determined was credible causing the switch,
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  Speaker 6: which has obviously created a lot more questions about the
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  Speaker 6: security of the Katari jet that has been serving as
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  Speaker 6: Air Force One.
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  Speaker 1: So many more questions, And I mean, what you already
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  Speaker 1: lay out here, Tyler is very specific, right, a threat
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  Speaker 1: from an Iranian linked group inside Turkey to Air Force One.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, that's already very specific, but it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like there were even many more details.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how specific was it.
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  Speaker 6: Of course, this was the first international trip he took
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  Speaker 6: with this new Katari donated plane, and so it has
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  Speaker 6: raised questions about the security systems on that plane, which
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  Speaker 6: had already been raised months before the President even took
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  Speaker 6: his first flight. In terms of more specific than that,
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  Speaker 6: I think that is as granular if we've gotten at
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  Speaker 6: this point in Iranian proxy group inside Turkey making threats
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  Speaker 6: that clearly caused concern for US officials and prompted the
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  Speaker 6: Secret Service to urge the President to take the old
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  Speaker 6: Air Force One that has been in service flying presidents
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  Speaker 6: around the world since the nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 1: So we've heard the President publicly talk about this threat
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  Speaker 1: now multiple times. How did he react when he found out?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, what we know is what we saw in public
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  Speaker 6: from the president. The President was told about this, and
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  Speaker 6: obviously the change was made publicly. The President said it
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  Speaker 6: was because he wanted to send the new Air Force
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  Speaker 6: one to a military base in England to show it
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  Speaker 6: off for the troops, but it was clearly on the
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  Speaker 6: president's mind throughout the day. At the NATO summit earlier
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  Speaker 6: this month, hours after he found out about this very
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  Speaker 6: specific threat, he talked openly about Iran wanting to kill him,
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  Speaker 6: saying he was number one on the list, and alluded
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  Speaker 6: to some new information that he had seen. He did
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  Speaker 6: not get specific into the threat, and in fact, Aaron
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  Speaker 6: on the plane back to Washington, reporters asked him if
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  Speaker 6: there was a specific security threat that prompted the changeing plane,
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  Speaker 6: and he said no. But then when he returned to
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  Speaker 6: Washington a week later, he then told reporters that the
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  Speaker 6: new Katari jet was going to go under some go
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  Speaker 6: out of service for a little bit, to be macked,
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  Speaker 6: to be maxed up. And what we have learned is
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  Speaker 6: at the plane will be out of service to get
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  Speaker 6: additional enhancements and upgrades. The White House has declined to
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  Speaker 6: specify what those are, but it's clear this prompted even
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  Speaker 6: more conversation and introspection within the administration about the safety
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  Speaker 6: and security of the presidential aircraft.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Tyler, thank you very much. I appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me, and now Colonel Cedric
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  Speaker 1: Layton and Iran expert Holliy Dagris.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate both of you. Colonel, let me just start
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  Speaker 2: with you here.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler is reporting Iranian proxy group inside of Turkey, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's obviously specific right to whatever aircraft President's on.
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  Speaker 2: One of them was secure, one of them was not.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you think that means in terms of
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  Speaker 1: what this strike could have been? And what do you
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  Speaker 1: make of the fact that Trump had traveled to Turkey
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  Speaker 1: on the unsecure jet to begin with?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's very interesting, Aron. You know, I think we're
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  Speaker 4: seeing here is that there was clearly a perceived increase
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  Speaker 4: in the threat level against the president from these Iranian
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  Speaker 4: proxy group or this Iranian proxy group, depending on exactly
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  Speaker 4: what which entity it is. The Iranians have a very
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  Speaker 4: practiced effort where they go out into their neighboring countries
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  Speaker 4: and they have sleeper cells in many different areas to
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  Speaker 4: include in Turkey, and so they, you know, combined with
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  Speaker 4: their intelligence services, and you know, potentially other groups that
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  Speaker 4: they that they work with. They are a viable threat.
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  Speaker 4: So I think the threat was probably not detected as
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  Speaker 4: he was coming to the NATO summit in Ankara, but
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  Speaker 4: they realized that while he was there that there was
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  Speaker 4: something brewing and quickly moved him to the other aircraft,
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  Speaker 4: to the original Air Force one.
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  Speaker 1: So Ali Trump has talked a lot about Iran trying
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  Speaker 1: to kill him, of course, after the start of the war,
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  Speaker 1: right where the US and the Israelis killed the Iranian
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Leader and so many of the leadership of Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Let me play some more of what Trump has said.
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  Speaker 3: They want to take out the US leader me. I'm
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  Speaker 3: on every list I saw thinks this morning. I'm on
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  Speaker 3: every single one of their lists. I'm number one on
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  Speaker 3: the kill list for Iran, the lovely people, I'm number one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the number one because there's scum. I'm number one
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  Speaker 3: on their list before you. But if I go, you
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  Speaker 3: get right.
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  Speaker 2: Halla.
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  Speaker 1: You have tracked Iran's threats against Trump for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: You know how much I guess how central of a
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  Speaker 1: focus is this for this Iranian regime and its proxies.
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  Speaker 2: How much do they want to get Trump aaron.
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  Speaker 5: This threat predates that Iran wore. It started after the
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  Speaker 5: killing of Clodes Force Commander Rossom solemony in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 5: in Baghdad after a US strike, and that threat has
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  Speaker 5: grown over the years. It's not just President Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 5: He's got dozens of former US officials, including National Security
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  Speaker 5: Advisor John Bolton, Sarcretary of State Mike Pompeo, Special Special
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  Speaker 5: Envoy for Iran, Brian Hooked. Two of those, Bolton and
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  Speaker 5: Pompeo had foiled plots against them, and so this predates
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  Speaker 5: this war. But we've been hearing a lot more rhetoric
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  Speaker 5: actually coming from Tehran, especially during Supreme Leader Ayatola Ali
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  Speaker 5: Haamani's funeral just in recent weeks. The mouthpiece of the
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  Speaker 5: Supreme Leader, Khan, actually put one hundred million dollars bounty
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  Speaker 5: on his head just two weeks prior. So this is
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  Speaker 5: not something new, but it's becoming more present because of
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  Speaker 5: the Iran War.