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War with Iran | Iran War: No Congressional Approval · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 2: show in all the years I've been doing this program. Okay, now,
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  Speaker 2: the attack on Iran over the weekend. I can't even
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  Speaker 2: scratch the surface as to the layers of the attack.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many, as I said, moving pieces, and
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to unload the information on CNN and Fox
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  Speaker 2: and BBCs covering it. We've you know, for example, the
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  Speaker 2: question was this and eminent? Were we under the possibility
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  Speaker 2: of an eminent attack? Okay, you have the Democrat by
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  Speaker 2: the way, the Democrats and the Republicans almost in lockstep.
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  Speaker 2: Republican backing the president, the Democrats arguing against the president.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how many people.
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  Speaker 2: Why is it that virtually everybody in their party backs
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  Speaker 2: the president and or attacks the president.
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  Speaker 1: No one can have mixed feelings about this.
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  Speaker 2: There's no such scene as a Republican that is pro abortion,
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  Speaker 2: or a republic or a Democrat that is anti abortion.
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  Speaker 1: It just doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 2: And I think you're seeing the same thing pan out
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  Speaker 2: with the war, this attack on Iran. So the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: are arguing I saw Adam Shift being interviewed over the
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  Speaker 2: weekend that there was no eminent threat to the United
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  Speaker 2: States And if you look under the War Powers Act
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  Speaker 2: and the Constitution, and therein lies a whole controversy which
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  Speaker 2: I hope I'll have time to deal with And that
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  Speaker 2: is the big one, no eminent attack that was contemplated.
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  Speaker 1: Iran was not a threat to the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Now I analyze or analogize this to what happened
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  Speaker 2: in Europe in nineteen thirty eight with Hitler. Let's just
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  Speaker 2: let it happen, let's not deal with it. And you
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  Speaker 2: have Iran that is the state sponsor of terrorist groups
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  Speaker 2: all over the world. They pay for it. They give
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  Speaker 2: money and arms to Hamas, to Hasballah, to the Hohu.
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  Speaker 2: This it's said, they're the Western world is at risk
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  Speaker 2: because we take attacks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look at.
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  Speaker 2: How life has changed because of the of the possibility
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  Speaker 2: of terrorist attacks. Look at how we get on airplanes. Now,
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  Speaker 2: look at how during the Olympics, a zillion dollars is
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  Speaker 2: probably the biggest expense of security because of the fear
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  Speaker 2: of terrorist attacks. And so here is Iran pushing it
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  Speaker 2: like crazy. Okay, that's one, Okay, death of a thousand cuts.
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  Speaker 2: We're not under eminent attack because this is bits and
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  Speaker 2: pieces and it just keeps on growing, growing, or reducing.
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  Speaker 2: And then the other issue is the nuclear capabilities. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this one's kind of strange because the president has gone
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  Speaker 2: from we've obliterated the nuclear capability, nuclear war capability, nuclear
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  Speaker 2: weapons capability of Iran, and now we haven't, and now
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  Speaker 2: we are attacking the nuclear capability. And here is Iran
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  Speaker 2: saying the enrichment of Iranian is simply for peaceful purposes,
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  Speaker 2: that's all they want. Do you think they really need nukes?
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  Speaker 2: They are a wash in oil, They are floating on oil.
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  Speaker 2: They need peaceful uses of nuke, like I need another
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  Speaker 2: hole in my body. Yeah, I'm trying to do that
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  Speaker 2: without I've got to be No, I've got to be
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  Speaker 2: very careful about that because the language. Hey, the language,
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  Speaker 2: the language anyway. So and they say only peaceful purposes, well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean the bottom line is peaceful purposes. You need
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  Speaker 2: to enrich uranium for a nuclear power plant, about three
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  Speaker 2: point seven enrichment percent. They were It takes in the
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  Speaker 2: nineties to make nuclear capability. They were already I think
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  Speaker 2: in the seventies eighties percent they are building an atomic weapon.
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  Speaker 1: They are building.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think anybody has any doubt because
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  Speaker 2: they don't want the International Atomic Energy Commission going in
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  Speaker 2: and reporting on and investigating. No, No, we don't want them
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  Speaker 2: in there, but we only have We're only interested in
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  Speaker 2: peaceful uses of this nuclear energy or nuclear enrichment. And
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  Speaker 2: so does anybody have any doubts that they're building a
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  Speaker 2: nuclear weapon? I don't know how many countries do. So
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  Speaker 2: do we wait until they have the bomb? Yeah, let's
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  Speaker 2: wait because we're not under in an attack. Do you
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  Speaker 2: prophylactically allow Iran to have that bomb? Well, Israel says,
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  Speaker 2: really simply the United States? Well, Trump says, the US
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  Speaker 2: and the Western world cannot let Iran have the bomb.
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  Speaker 2: He said that clearly. The President said, we cannot let
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  Speaker 2: them have it. So what do we do? No eminent
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  Speaker 2: threat to the United States? When when does it become eminent?
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  Speaker 1: When they have it? And Israel lays it right out.
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  Speaker 2: If they come close to it, Israel is going to
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  Speaker 2: attack Iran. And in fact, Israel did join the United
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  Speaker 2: States in this attack. So was there a reason for
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  Speaker 2: the attack?
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  Speaker 1: Hell?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I believe so. On the other hand, was there
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  Speaker 2: a reason not to engage in the attack?
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  Speaker 1: Hell? Yes. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, the president is supposed to speak, we
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  Speaker 2: have that right hand. The President is supposed to spak
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  Speaker 2: at eight o'clock. We're going to start with his comments
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  Speaker 2: his press conference. However, from what I understand, it is
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  Speaker 2: the bestowing of the Congressional Medal of Honor to people.
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  Speaker 2: Have you noticed that the President is handing out the
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  Speaker 2: Medal of Honor the way we hand out candy at
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  Speaker 2: Halloween is going rather quickly.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people are getting it.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a quick word about the medal of Oh I
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  Speaker 2: got so much to cover the Medal of Honor. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it is so rarely bestowed that it is such a big,
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  Speaker 2: big deal, even to the point, and I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you knew this that if a soldier, even a private,
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  Speaker 2: wearing his medal or it would so far his medal
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  Speaker 2: if the joint chiefs of Staff, if a forced are
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  Speaker 2: general is in front of that soldier, the general salutes
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  Speaker 2: the Medal of honor. It's that big a deal. And
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  Speaker 2: now they're going to be so many handed out that
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  Speaker 2: these generals will need elbow replacements, surgery because it's just
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  Speaker 2: going crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we'll start that at eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: See if it's only the metal being given out, and
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  Speaker 2: then we're going to bail out of that. Now more
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  Speaker 2: a for what happened the War Powers Act versus the Constitution.
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  Speaker 1: Big big deal.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what the Democrats are really putting all
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  Speaker 2: of the pressure on the presidency and the attack. And
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  Speaker 2: that is no one is saying that Iran really bad guys,
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  Speaker 2: that it wasn't okay to kill Hamani, the head, han Sho,
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  Speaker 2: the Supreme Leader, or a huge number of the hierarchy.
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  Speaker 1: The issue is the War Powers Act.
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  Speaker 2: Now starting with the Constitution itself, and this is where
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  Speaker 2: you have the Republicans and Pete Hegseth and the President saying,
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  Speaker 2: if you look at Article one, the power to declare
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  Speaker 2: war is only given to Congress. Congress declares war. However,
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  Speaker 2: the President, as commander in chief, is given the authority
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  Speaker 2: to direct the military once hostilities have begun.
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  Speaker 1: And here we go.
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  Speaker 2: The argument is war imminent because that is a defensive posture,
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  Speaker 2: and the President is saying what we did is defensive
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  Speaker 2: and I agree. And so the framers intended the president
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  Speaker 2: to have the authority to repel sudden attacks, no attacks
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  Speaker 2: or yes, we're looking at the possibility of attacks without
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  Speaker 2: a formal declaration of war. So now you have the
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  Speaker 2: War Powers Act. Oh, Congress has formally declared war eleven
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  Speaker 2: times in the history of the United States five separate conflicts.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the last time Congress declared war was December eighth,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen forty one, the day after Pearl Harbor. Was the
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  Speaker 2: last time war was declared by this country. And so
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  Speaker 2: what happened is in recent decades, Congress used the authorizations
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  Speaker 2: for the use of military force instead of formal declarations
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  Speaker 2: to sanction military action. Read Vietnam, the war in Cambodia.
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  Speaker 2: Nixon had bombed Cambodia and Laos, and Congress passed a
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  Speaker 2: bill saying you have to go to Congress. He vetoed
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  Speaker 2: that bill, and the veto was overridden by Congress, Congress
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  Speaker 2: saying you cannot do this without our permission. Guess what
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  Speaker 2: he did it without our permission. The president did this.
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  Speaker 2: Truman did it with a Korean War.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have.
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  Speaker 2: Johnson did it with a Gulf of Tonkin resolution where
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  Speaker 2: he made up the attack on American warship in North
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  Speaker 2: Vietnammese waters that probably didn't even exist. And so that's
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  Speaker 2: what's going on here. So the argument is, and the
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  Speaker 2: Republicans are saying this is not constitutional, the democrats.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are saying, or the.
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  Speaker 2: Republicans Republicans are saying this is constitutional. The Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: saying it is not. There's one argument that's going on,
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  Speaker 2: all right, how about the political fallout and the Republicans
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  Speaker 2: versus the Democrats. That is going to be a major
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  Speaker 2: major problem here in the States in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: political fallout. Then there is the issue of the response
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  Speaker 2: from our allies. Now, originally our allies we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: the Gulf States, even Jordan and England said you cannot
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  Speaker 2: use military bases, American military bases, of which we have
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  Speaker 2: all over the Mid East, over all over Europe. Cannot
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  Speaker 2: use those bases, and even our airspace you cannot use
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  Speaker 2: to go and attack Iran because they have to fly
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  Speaker 2: over those airspaces. That's how American forces go into Iran.
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  Speaker 2: They have to fly over that airspace. Nope, shut it down. Starmer,
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  Speaker 2: who is the Prime Minister of England, originally said that.
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  Speaker 1: Changed his mind.
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  Speaker 2: He has come back and said, Okay, you can use
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  Speaker 2: our bases.
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  Speaker 1: And our airspace. Okay, so you've got that.
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  Speaker 2: And the allies are moving further and further in the
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  Speaker 2: direction of the attacks, helping the attacks. Have they joined
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  Speaker 2: the attacks, not yet, Will they join the attacks yet?
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  Speaker 1: I think so.
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  Speaker 2: I think so, because Iran is stupid enough to already
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  Speaker 2: attack its neighbors in the Gulf States.
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  Speaker 1: Why, I don't know. It makes no sense.
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  Speaker 2: There was an interview with the Iranian foreign minister, who
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  Speaker 2: speaks pretty decent English, and was asked by a reporter,
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  Speaker 2: why are you attacking some of these foreign states, your neighbors. Well,
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  Speaker 2: because there are American bases on there and we have
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  Speaker 2: the right to attack. To do the attack, and then
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  Speaker 2: was asked, well, why did you attack Dubai, Why did
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  Speaker 2: you attack the capital? Why did you go into civilian areas?
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  Speaker 2: We didn't. We had nothing to do with it at all.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lie. I'm this typical what happens in that
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  Speaker 2: part of the world. So the Allies are they going
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  Speaker 2: to be involved?
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  Speaker 1: Are they not?
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  Speaker 2: Iran keeps on sending missiles out to its neighbors. So
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  Speaker 2: now there was a rift, for example, between Oman and
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  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia, a big rift. All of a sudden, you
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  Speaker 2: have these these states in the middle in the in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East are now combineding.
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  Speaker 1: They're coalescing against Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Because Iran didn't limit its attacks just to American basis.
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  Speaker 2: It went forward and is attacking civilian targets in Saudi Arabia,
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  Speaker 2: in Kuwait, in the Emirates, and no one understands why.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you look at all of the pundits, I
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  Speaker 2: mean people that know you're talking about military experts that
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  Speaker 2: are on all the news outlets, and they're all shaking
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  Speaker 2: their heads and going, this is crazy. And maybe it
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  Speaker 2: has to do with the United States taking out whomany
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  Speaker 2: whom and I humani whomany? Whatever the hell this name is,
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  Speaker 2: the Grand Pooba, you know, the Imperial Wizard, the guy
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  Speaker 2: who is in charge. Boy, do I know my stuff?
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  Speaker 2: Don't I? Certainly the pronunciation of names. Boy, So much
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  Speaker 2: is going on, I mean, the big story of the
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  Speaker 2: massive story of the attack on Iran by Israel in
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  Speaker 2: the United States early Saturday morning, our time, and what
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  Speaker 2: my goodness, what news. That is how the world has
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  Speaker 2: changed literally in a matter of well just a few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: When the president who had said, who had warned Iran
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  Speaker 2: we may attack, I'm thinking of attacking.
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  Speaker 1: It may come in a matter of days. You have
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  Speaker 1: to sit down with us, You have to negotiate.
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  Speaker 2: You have to get rid of your Enrichmond program, you
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  Speaker 2: have to get rid of your nuclear weapons program, and
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  Speaker 2: Iran kept on saying, oh no, it's peaceful purposes, getting
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  Speaker 2: rid of your missiles.
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  Speaker 1: Man, what a missile arsenal?
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  Speaker 2: They have long range missiles, medium range missiles, short range missiles.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on now with the attack?
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  Speaker 2: First thing is reel did and the United States just
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  Speaker 2: take out Iran's ability to shoot down airplanes and to
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  Speaker 2: shoot down an attack. And that's exactly what happened. At
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  Speaker 2: this point. The allies that is Israel particularly is real
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  Speaker 2: and the United States have complete air superiority over Iran.
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  Speaker 2: No way that Iran can shoot down any of these
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  Speaker 2: air assets. Matter of fact, we only lost two airplanes
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  Speaker 2: and shut down by Kuwait by accident. All right, oh
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  Speaker 2: and eight o'clock. We're expecting the president to have some comments.
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  Speaker 2: But if all he's going to do is give out
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  Speaker 2: the medal of honor to everybody in the room, not interested,
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  Speaker 2: we'll bail out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the question is why now? And this one thing
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats have argued, why now? What's your choice of timing?
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  Speaker 2: No eminent threat, no real proof that Iran was building
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  Speaker 2: up its nuclear weapons because of the attack in June. Well,
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  Speaker 2: here's why, and this is what the President with Pete
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  Speaker 2: Hexth and those that are in favor of the war,
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  Speaker 2: the hierarchy and the military said Iran is now.
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  Speaker 1: At its weakest point that it has been in decades.
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  Speaker 1: This is the time.
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  Speaker 2: Iran is a legitimate threat to the world and to
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  Speaker 2: the Mid East. And for those of you that think
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  Speaker 2: it's not, you are crazy. Iran is the biggest source
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  Speaker 2: of support and weapons and money to terrorist groups all
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  Speaker 2: over the United's all over the world. And if you
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  Speaker 2: let Iran keep on doing this is death of a
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  Speaker 2: thousand cuts. And so this is what the President said,
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  Speaker 2: We're done and right now, right now is the time.
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  Speaker 2: And here is why it made so much sense militarily.
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  Speaker 2: The argument is, you don't screw with Israelis and you
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  Speaker 2: don't screw with the United States when you have a
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  Speaker 2: president that's willing to go balls for the wall, much
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  Speaker 2: like Trump does.
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  Speaker 1: And here's why.
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  Speaker 2: The attack intelligence that Israel and the United or Israel
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  Speaker 2: in the United States has is phenomenal in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 2: I mean phenomenal. They know everything and they had followed
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  Speaker 2: who may need for months, and the hierarchy and the
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  Speaker 2: various high.
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  Speaker 1: The the what's the word I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 2: The top of the military chain, the top of the
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  Speaker 2: military forces of Iran, and they all were meeting in
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  Speaker 2: a war council in a building at the headquarters.
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  Speaker 1: This is how dumb they are.
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  Speaker 2: How you shake your head or the Allied forces are
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  Speaker 2: just shaking their heads and going.
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  Speaker 1: How can you be this stupid?
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  Speaker 2: So you have a war council with the head honcho,
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  Speaker 2: and head of the Revolutionary Guard, and head of the
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  Speaker 2: military and head of the judiciary, and they're all meeting
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  Speaker 2: in one room at the headquarters of the military and
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  Speaker 2: they said, we have the chance now to take literally
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  Speaker 2: take out this entire group of people, and the head guy,
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  Speaker 2: we are not gonna wait, We're not gonna have this
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  Speaker 2: opportunity again.
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  Speaker 1: Boom, the decision was made.
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  Speaker 2: So if you think the attack was legitimate, which I
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  Speaker 2: do a lot of argument against it. As I said,
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  Speaker 2: if you think the attack was legitimate, as I do,
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  Speaker 2: you couldn't time it better. You could not let this
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  Speaker 2: opportunity go. The head has been decapitated. Now what happens
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  Speaker 2: as a result of the head being decapitated? What goes
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  Speaker 2: on after this, what's the future of what's going on
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  Speaker 2: in Iran? That is hugely complicated. In and of itself.
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  Speaker 2: I'll share that with you when we come back. And
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind, at eight o'clock the President is scheduled
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  Speaker 2: to speak. Okay, we'll tune in on that. Unless it's
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  Speaker 2: all about giving the Medal of Honor just like popcorn.
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  Speaker 2: And that is really unfortunate that he has taken the
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  Speaker 2: Medal of Honor and reduced.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the reduced.
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  Speaker 2: How holy it really is, and how rarely it's handed out,
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  Speaker 2: and how sacrisanct it is.
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  Speaker 1: We're very very folks. Yeah, it's all military. It's the
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  Speaker 1: highest honor of the military can give.
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  Speaker 2: But they have to do something to get it. Oh yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: these guys all did. It's extraordinary valor. I mean they
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  Speaker 2: all do. But when you have the Silver Star, for example,
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  Speaker 2: the Bronze Star, those guys could all deserve the Medal
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  Speaker 2: of Honor. It's it's not easy, and it's so rarely
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  Speaker 2: given out that it is considered something so extraordinary that,
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  Speaker 2: as I said earlier, if a soldier, even a private,
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  Speaker 2: is wearing his Medal of Honor, the Chiefs the Joint,
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  Speaker 2: the Chief of the Joint, the Chairman of the Joint,
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  Speaker 2: Chiefs and generals salute a private. That's how rare and
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  Speaker 2: special it is, and now it's being handed out like crazy.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, I'm talking obviously about what's going on in
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  Speaker 2: Iran and going through so many of the moving pieces.
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  Speaker 2: I started this at seven o'clock. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: suggest if you just come in, please podcast the well
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  Speaker 2: this entire hour, parts that you missed because trying to
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  Speaker 2: explain what happened and more importantly to me, at least
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  Speaker 2: my take on all this, my analysis, which you may disagree,
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  Speaker 2: and the point is everybody's right and everybody is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Another piece of this puzzle are is the demonstrations that
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  Speaker 2: are going on all over the world among Iran Iranian
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  Speaker 2: expats and the biggest population of Iranians outside of Iran
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  Speaker 2: is right here in Los Angeles, and the second biggest
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  Speaker 2: is in New York and demonstration is going all over.
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  Speaker 2: I heard one man, actually it was Los Angeles time,
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  Speaker 2: said the ninety two million people of Iran are now free.
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  Speaker 2: They are not regime change. Is there going to be
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  Speaker 2: regime change? No? Is there going to be another head
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  Speaker 2: honcho because the Supreme leader was killed, as well as
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  Speaker 2: members of the hierarchy, both politically and military. And clerical
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  Speaker 2: have been killed, but that just means they're going to
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  Speaker 2: put someone new in or a group in. Is there
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  Speaker 2: going to be a regime change very difficult because you've
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  Speaker 2: got the government, you've got the Revolutionary Guard is a
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  Speaker 2: police state that is so entrenched in Iran that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be very difficult to overturn it. Also, this government
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  Speaker 2: in Iran is prepared to kill and has killed tens
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  Speaker 2: of thousands of demonstrators, literally at point blank range, have
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  Speaker 2: killed demonstrators.
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  Speaker 1: It takes real balls for the demonstrations to come out.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, there are some demonstrations in Iran and you're
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  Speaker 2: not seeing the killing of them because the Iranian government
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  Speaker 2: is too busy scrambling to stay in power, and they
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  Speaker 2: are probably going to do so. And if you talk
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  Speaker 2: about the demonstrations, look at the hundreds of thousands of
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  Speaker 2: supporters the current regime has. So is there going to
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  Speaker 2: be massive regime changed? Not until literally the people of
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  Speaker 2: Iran overrun and in massive numbers. It's like the Arab
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  Speaker 2: Spring that happened years ago, where the governments just collapsed,
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  Speaker 2: but the army, the military switched over to the other
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  Speaker 2: side instead of protecting the regimes. It switched over to
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  Speaker 2: attacking them and joining the population. I believe, this is
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  Speaker 2: my take on it. That's the only way it's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen. Interestingly, the president, who originally said this is
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  Speaker 2: not about regime change at all, has added regime change.
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  Speaker 1: When this started, a regime change was added to the mix.
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  Speaker 2: The big mix is the nuclear weapon the big issue,
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  Speaker 2: and he has said much like Natanyahu and the Israelis
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  Speaker 2: have said, we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon,
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  Speaker 2: which they are.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, does anybody believe that.
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  Speaker 2: They're not building or attempting to build or planning to
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  Speaker 2: build a nuclear weapon?
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  Speaker 1: And what do you do? You wait until it's done.
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  Speaker 2: And the issue among the Democrats and those that are
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  Speaker 2: anti the war saying no eminent threat.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that means.
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  Speaker 2: Do you wait until Iran has the bomb and then
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  Speaker 2: it becomes an imminent threat or is about to launch
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  Speaker 2: a bomb or give it to some terrorist group to use,
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  Speaker 2: which they would in a heartbeat.
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  Speaker 1: That's an imminent threat. Let's wait for that.
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  Speaker 2: So celebrations around the world doesn't have much to do
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  Speaker 2: with what's going on in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Not much.
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  Speaker 2: Is there going to be a regime change, probably not.
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  Speaker 2: It's much like what happened in Venezuela. Is there a
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  Speaker 2: regime change? Absolutely not. However, the president arresting Maduro, what
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  Speaker 2: has he done? He has cut a deal with Iran,
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  Speaker 2: with Venezuela, where Venezuela is not so much an ally
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  Speaker 2: of the United States, but doing business with the United
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  Speaker 2: States selling oil to the United States, not selling oil
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  Speaker 2: to Cuba, not selling oil to countries around the world
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  Speaker 2: that are not our allies, are our enemies. The president
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  Speaker 2: was able to pull that off without regime change. Is
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  Speaker 2: the same thing going to happen? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: Why because you have the moula is in charge. Oh
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  Speaker 2: that's the other one. What do you do with a
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  Speaker 2: government that says death to America, death to America constantly
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  Speaker 2: from the time they came into power in nineteen seventy nine,
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  Speaker 2: Death to America.
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  Speaker 1: No eminent threat.
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  Speaker 2: All we're gonna do is support terrorist groups who attack
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  Speaker 2: Americans all day long. And of course Israel, because the
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  Speaker 2: premise of the entire well a good part of the
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  Speaker 2: Iranian government is Israel must not exist. We must destroy Israel,
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  Speaker 2: and that's our closest ally tell me there is no
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  Speaker 2: eminent threat, even though it's not tomorrow, all right, Coming up,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to cut to the President and we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what he does in terms of this. If he speaks
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  Speaker 2: other than just handing out the medals of honor, we'll
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  Speaker 2: be right back with that. And at eight thirty retro
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  Speaker 2: point forty.
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