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Iran war - 100 US soldiers injured in past 14 days, Pentagon says · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: The Pentagon says nearly one hundred US service members have
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  Speaker 1: suffered injuries, though mostly minor, in the last fourteen days.
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  Speaker 1: That's despite President Trump insisting that Iran's military has been destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: New CNN reporting finds the Pentagon has been slow to
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  Speaker 1: disclose injuries official site security needs for those delays. A
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration official says a dignified transfer will take place
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  Speaker 1: for four fallen service members tomorrow. Two have been identified.
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  Speaker 1: First Lieutenant Tyler Freehan and Private Isabella Gonzales were killed
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  Speaker 1: by an attack in Jordan on Friday. A third service
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  Speaker 1: member was killed in Iraq on Saturday, and remains have
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  Speaker 1: been recovered in the search for a fourth soldier missing
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  Speaker 1: in Jordan. Now, President Trump has warned that Iran will
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  Speaker 1: quote pay many times over every time it kills a
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  Speaker 1: US service member. Let's get right to see as Bessie
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  Speaker 1: Klein live at the White House with all the latest
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  Speaker 1: developments this morning, Bessie, what are you learning.
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  Speaker 2: Well, John?
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  Speaker 3: This has been multiple days of escalation for this conflict.
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  Speaker 2: In a particularly.
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  Speaker 3: Violent moment in this war, we have learned that the
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  Speaker 3: Pentagon has really been slow to report injuries, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: But Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announcing in a statement that
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  Speaker 3: nearly one hundred US service members have been injured since
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  Speaker 3: this conflict began to re escalate, and that ceasefell fire
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  Speaker 3: fell apart back on July seventh. Now, Parnell says that
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  Speaker 3: most of those injuries have been minor concussions. But of
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  Speaker 3: course this comes after three US service members were killed
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend, and we have learned that the US
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  Speaker 3: has located remains of an unidentified person after one US
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  Speaker 3: service member. Another US service member was reported missing in action. Now,
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  Speaker 3: US Central Command has announced a tenth consecutive night of
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  Speaker 3: strikes against Iran, this time, they say, again aimed at
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  Speaker 3: degrading Iran's capability of attacking those ships in the Strait
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  Speaker 3: of Hormuz, that critical oil thoroughfare. Now, this as mediators
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  Speaker 3: between the US and Iran are floating the possibility of
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  Speaker 3: a ten day ceasefire and effort really here to get
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  Speaker 3: diplomacy back on track. Now, this proposal would include lifting
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  Speaker 3: restrictions in the Strait of Horror moves, and that comes
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  Speaker 3: as the US has imposed this naval blockade on ships
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  Speaker 3: traveling to and from Iranian ports. In Iran as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: has been firing on commercial shipping vessels in recent days. Now,
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  Speaker 3: as we think about where the administration's.
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  Speaker 2: Ahead is at, the US official.
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  Speaker 3: Telling CNN in a statement quote right now, President Trump
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  Speaker 3: is focused on making Iran pay for their violations of
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  Speaker 3: the Memorandum of Understanding and their continued acts of terrorism
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  Speaker 3: in the Strait of horror moves. In addition, the President
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  Speaker 3: will make Iran pay for the recent.
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  Speaker 2: Deaths of US soldiers.
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  Speaker 3: That official goes on to say that diplomatic talks are
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  Speaker 3: continuing here, but in terms of next steps, it is
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  Speaker 3: possible that the Trump administration chooses to pursue this.
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  Speaker 2: Diplomatic off ramp here.
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  Speaker 3: It is also possible the President has threatened to target
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  Speaker 3: Iran's critical infrastructure. That it could include bridges as well
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  Speaker 3: as carg Island, a key oil hub that would almost
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  Speaker 3: certainly require boots on the ground.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump is very angry.
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  Speaker 3: He's made that clear in a series of posts to
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  Speaker 3: social media that says Iran killing US service members will
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  Speaker 3: have to pay quote many times over. He's set to
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  Speaker 3: meet with the President of Lebanon, a key ally in
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  Speaker 3: the region, later today and tomorrow will pay his respects
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  Speaker 3: at Dover for that dignified transfer.
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  Speaker 4: Congressman, the cost of this war has been profound, and
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  Speaker 4: in so many ways.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we understand in just the first few.
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  Speaker 4: Days of the war all of the THAD missile defenses
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  Speaker 4: in the region were taken out except for maybe one,
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  Speaker 4: and there's a lot more where that came from. So
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  Speaker 4: there's that, and then there is the human costs, which
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  Speaker 4: I find just so stunning for the American public at
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  Speaker 4: this point in this war to understand that one hundred
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  Speaker 4: American troops have been wounded in just the past two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: This is in just the past two weeks, and we
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  Speaker 4: were perhaps only finding out about it because reporters have
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  Speaker 4: been pushing and trying.
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  Speaker 2: To get to the to the truth.
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  Speaker 4: So what do you know the full extent of American injuries?
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  Speaker 4: And do you know the full extent of equipment losses?
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  Speaker 4: When I mentioned fact, we don't.
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  Speaker 2: We don't.
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  Speaker 5: Look, we don't because the Pentagon has not been transparent
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  Speaker 5: about that. You know, I get reports from people who
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  Speaker 5: they know a service member at a base in Jordan
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  Speaker 5: or Iraq or someone say yeah, we heard there was
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  Speaker 5: an attack. There's twenty or thirty people wounded, Pentagon done
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  Speaker 5: say anything about it. We dig into it, as the
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  Speaker 5: New York Times has you, and you then find out, Look,
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  Speaker 5: this is again no transparency. As he said, no pres com,
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  Speaker 5: no conversation about this. We have a dictator running this country.
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  Speaker 5: We have never had a situation where we've been at
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  Speaker 5: war and the president has treated it as his own
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  Speaker 5: war where he doesn't have to share him for with
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  Speaker 5: the American people or with the Congress. I mean, this
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  Speaker 5: is a frightening situation. And yeah, they have not been
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  Speaker 5: telling us what's been happening in terms of lost equipment,
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  Speaker 5: terms of the cost of the war, and certainly in
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  Speaker 5: terms of the service members who have been wounded.
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  Speaker 4: Can I just say something that I think is I
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  Speaker 4: guess it's painfully obvious, but I feel like I have
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  Speaker 4: to say, at Congressman, you are the top Democrat on
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  Speaker 4: the Armed Services Committee.
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  Speaker 2: It would seem to me.
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  Speaker 4: Definitional that if anybody knew the extent of losses of
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  Speaker 4: things like the entire missile defense system for the United
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  Speaker 4: States bases and countries that we support in the region,
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  Speaker 4: and American troops being injured, that your source wouldn't be
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  Speaker 4: somebody calling who has a.
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  Speaker 2: Friend who serves on a base. But you're telling me
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  Speaker 2: it is, yeah, well and not.
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  Speaker 6: And we're digging.
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  Speaker 5: My staff is costing in contact with as many people
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  Speaker 5: as we can, depending on you know, they are just
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  Speaker 5: not being transparent. We have to sort of pull it
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  Speaker 5: out of them or find it at one place or another.
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  Speaker 5: So look, I mean the lack of transparency certainly is concerning,
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  Speaker 5: But the bigger concern we're in a war that we
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  Speaker 5: have no idea how to get out of, and the
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  Speaker 5: costs are mounting. The service member's deaths are unbelievably tragic.
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  Speaker 5: They continue to be at risk the financial costs but
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  Speaker 5: also just the international economic costs. And now we've got
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  Speaker 5: the HOUTHI say, they're going to shut down the bob
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  Speaker 5: All Mendob straight.
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  Speaker 6: Which is only going to add to these pobs.
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  Speaker 5: We need to negotiate a settlement.
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  Speaker 6: And in this conflict, why.
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  Speaker 7: Do you think the administration has waited fourteen days to
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  Speaker 7: tell the American public.
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  Speaker 8: Because they're trying to. Donald Trump does not want to
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  Speaker 8: stand in front of the American people and make the
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  Speaker 8: case for this war. He never thought he'd have to.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, look, it's one thing to say we're into
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  Speaker 8: this thing, for five months now. The most egregious part
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  Speaker 8: of that, besides the launching of the war without a plan,
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  Speaker 8: is the fact that there was no effort to prepare
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  Speaker 8: the American people, and so Donald Trump, instead of actually
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  Speaker 8: doing the hard work of preparing the American people talking
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  Speaker 8: about what the goal is here, has instead tried to
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  Speaker 8: convince everybody every week that the war is over. And
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  Speaker 8: it's part of why why are you hiding the injuries?
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  Speaker 8: Because it's not something he wants to talk about. This
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  Speaker 8: is it's not unprecedented in American history in terms of
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  Speaker 8: this level of hiding these things, but it's disgusting. And
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  Speaker 8: by the way, Russia and China potentially are providing this
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  Speaker 8: targeting data and we're not hearing anything about that. In
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  Speaker 8: fat cash Hotel's go into Russia now in October.
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  Speaker 2: I want to hear more about that.
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  Speaker 7: General the Pentagon previously told CNN and that reporting delays
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  Speaker 7: they're necessary to protect troops across them in the least,
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  Speaker 7: and even top lawmakers have said that they're in the dark.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, they have.
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  Speaker 5: Not been telling us what's been happening in terms of
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  Speaker 5: lost equipment, terms of the cost of the war, and
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  Speaker 5: certainly in terms of the service members who have been wounded.
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  Speaker 2: Is that tendored protocol.
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  Speaker 9: It is something where obviously there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 9: a delay to be able to properly notify families of
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  Speaker 9: any kind of injuries or deaths. So that part is
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  Speaker 9: actually normal. However, we need to step back a second.
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  Speaker 9: As the previous congressman said that what.
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  Speaker 6: Are the objectives? What is it we're doing here?
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  Speaker 9: The President would like nothing more than the return to
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  Speaker 9: a pre war condition and declare success and get out
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  Speaker 9: of here. The problem is we don't have that clarity,
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  Speaker 9: and it's very disturbing whenever the President in his own
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  Speaker 9: tweets says words like hey, we're going to kill more
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  Speaker 9: of you if you kill any of ours. That is
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  Speaker 9: reminiscent of September sixteenth, nineteen forty one, where the Nazis
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  Speaker 9: said we will kill one hundred for every one German
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  Speaker 9: soldier killed. This is we don't fight for vengeance. We
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  Speaker 9: fight for honor and for the national security objectives.
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  Speaker 6: We don't even know what they are anymore.
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  Speaker 9: And that's very very sad, very dangerous, and we are
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  Speaker 9: in a quagmire.
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  Speaker 7: As you said earlier, Jeff, I want to bring you
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  Speaker 7: in because we're still telling CNN that mediators are pushing
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  Speaker 7: hard for a ten day ceasefire. And frankly, we've heard
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  Speaker 7: the ceasefire discussions many times before and wondered whether they
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  Speaker 7: were going to last.
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  Speaker 2: Is it an effect? Is it totally gone?
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  Speaker 7: The US sorry downplaying though any real chance actually is
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  Speaker 7: going to have the president agree to this idea. What
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  Speaker 7: has changed from the last discussion point about ceasefires till now.
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  Speaker 10: Well, what has changed is that both sides are attacking
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  Speaker 10: each other and that's that's changed everything. That's of course
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  Speaker 10: why the ceasefire was thrown out and why the memorandum
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  Speaker 10: of understanding was thrown out. And the President is not suggesting,
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  Speaker 10: at least in his public comments, that he's ready to
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  Speaker 10: move back to that. He has said a couple times
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  Speaker 10: and around wants a deal, But that's kind of a
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  Speaker 10: it's almost a verbal tick for the president. He constantly
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  Speaker 10: says that, even when there's no real evidence or at
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  Speaker 10: least no detail about that coming from from the other side.
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  Speaker 10: So right now it's conflict. But even Iran has acknowledged
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  Speaker 10: that there were that there was some outreach from potential mediators.
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  Speaker 10: We assume that's Pakistan and the guitar took me a
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  Speaker 10: second there. Sorry, okay, but you know they have an
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  Speaker 10: interest in seeing this end too. The region is really
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  Speaker 10: being affected by this right now. The whole world has
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  Speaker 10: been effective by this, and the President will be two
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  Speaker 10: and will face additional political consequences this fall if this
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  Speaker 10: war continues.
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  Speaker 7: General Iran was able to successfully hit a US air base.
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  Speaker 2: Not just once, but twice within a two day span.
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  Speaker 7: Do you think that Iran's firepower is more intact than
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  Speaker 7: the Pentagon's willing to admit.
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  Speaker 6: Here, absolutely yes.
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  Speaker 9: The President continues his propaganda that he has destroyed the
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  Speaker 9: Iranian military. That is far from the truth. They are
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  Speaker 9: able to hit. In all of the media, we see
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  Speaker 9: one crater, one target destroyed per missile. They are not
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  Speaker 9: bombarding the middle of nowhere. They have extremely good targeting data.
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  Speaker 9: They are able to hit their targets. In the US,
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  Speaker 9: While of course we can defend many of the drones
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  Speaker 9: and missiles, it is virtually impossible to secure every area,
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  Speaker 9: and our soldiers and military members are paying the price
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  Speaker 9: that we are not learning these lessons like the Ukrainians.
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  Speaker 6: Have so well.
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  Speaker 7: Congressman Tomorrow, Secretary Pete Hegseth and joined as the staff
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  Speaker 7: General Dan Kane. They're going to head the capital. They're
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  Speaker 7: going to ask for at least eighty billion.
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  Speaker 2: Dollars for this war.
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  Speaker 7: Several Republicans are not convinced yet. Do you expect pushback though.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, there's going to be. Look, they'll be a
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  Speaker 6: huge pushback.
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  Speaker 8: And again, the administration needs to make the case. The
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  Speaker 8: American people are willing to go to war. We've seen
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  Speaker 8: this through our history. If a case is made for why,
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  Speaker 8: and even if they can't go back in time and
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  Speaker 8: make the case for the initial strikes now to discuss. Look, hey, guys, honestly,
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  Speaker 8: we have two options. We either leave the straight offour
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  Speaker 8: moves to Iran that's untenable, or we have to escape.
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  Speaker 8: There's no good option here, but that is the case
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  Speaker 8: that has to be made. And I have heard too many, though, Laura,
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  Speaker 8: too many Republicans and even occasionally a Democrat out there saying, boy,
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  Speaker 8: this has been so successful. We've destroyed their navy, we've
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  Speaker 8: destroyed their air force. Okay, they had F fourteen Tomkins
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  Speaker 8: made me sad to blow those up, by the way,
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  Speaker 8: but that the air force was no threat to us.
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  Speaker 8: The Navy clearly doesn't need to be the threat because
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  Speaker 8: drones and ballistic missiles are. We've been told over and
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  Speaker 8: over that their ballistic missiles threat was degraded by eight
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  Speaker 8: ninety percent. Then we read in great publications like jeffs
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  Speaker 8: that in fact, that's not the case. They've only degraded
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  Speaker 8: about twenty percent. Tell the American people the truth. They're
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  Speaker 8: willing to make sacrifices if you tell them the truth.
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  Speaker 8: But this continued line is going to catch up, is
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  Speaker 8: catching up, and that's why nobody believes anything that these
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  Speaker 8: people say.