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K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor | 07-10-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Let me get to the great k t mcfallen love
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  Speaker 1: having her on every body. And it looks like KT
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  Speaker 1: as I complained to you every week about you, Ron
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  Speaker 1: I do, but it looks like the president has finally
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  Speaker 1: gotten to where I've been for the better part of
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  Speaker 1: two and a half months.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, But I want to get into that in
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  Speaker 2: a second. But I also want to just associate myself
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  Speaker 2: with all the remarks about the Italian Americans because you
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  Speaker 2: may not know this because my married name is McFarland,
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  Speaker 2: but my maiden name is Troya, and I am on
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  Speaker 2: my dad's side. You know, came genetically sixty percent Sicilians.
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  Speaker 2: Why two Sicilian grandparents came over in before World War One?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. So you're not just Italian, You're
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  Speaker 1: a badass. You're Sicilian. No wonder Trump had you win
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  Speaker 1: those war strategies?
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  Speaker 2: How whether we won or we're winning all these wars? Right,
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  Speaker 2: you get to her, but.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get three round, then so then me because
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  Speaker 1: you just submitted your sixty percent Italian, but you didn't
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  Speaker 1: run over the mayor like the rest of us have
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  Speaker 1: been doing. You want to run them over?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think it's not worth it. He won't be
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  Speaker 2: around for long. You think he's gonna got I think
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  Speaker 2: he I think he's None of it's gonna work. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that the flirtation with communism happened exactly in the same
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  Speaker 2: way during the Great Depression, and what was the cure
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  Speaker 2: of the the Great Depression economic recovery. By the time
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  Speaker 2: you have economic recovery after World War two? World War two,
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  Speaker 2: after World War two, nobody, I mean, we hated communists
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  Speaker 2: at that point, So I'm not that concerned. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's a reaction of people who don't feel rightfully, don't
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  Speaker 2: feel that they can afford the American dream. And whether
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  Speaker 2: it was the Tea Party originally that said we can't
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  Speaker 2: afford the American dream because of taxes, the economy, or
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  Speaker 2: now it's young people, largely young people, who are flirting
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  Speaker 2: with socialism and communism. It's because they can't afford the
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  Speaker 2: American dream. Once you can afford the American dream again,
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  Speaker 2: nobody wants socialism stuff. Just look at Cuba. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: as concerned with it as other people. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be rocky for the next three or four years.
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  Speaker 2: As the Trump economy kicks in. We're looking at a
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  Speaker 2: period that's going to be like a generation of peace
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  Speaker 2: and prosperity and real prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're right, because I'm very concerned. You're smarter
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  Speaker 1: than I am. I admit that, but I'm very, very concerned.
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  Speaker 1: It's happening in just about every state. And this guy,
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie is a force. He's a force. And what
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  Speaker 1: bothers me is you got all these people in the media, okay,
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  Speaker 1: in the media, Italians, Irish, Greeks, Jews, Germans. He took
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  Speaker 1: them all out yesterday, all these communities, all those people
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  Speaker 1: I just mentioned. He left them off his immigrant enclave map.
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  Speaker 1: And yet you'll still see these people. Katie honean Irish
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  Speaker 1: lives in the Rockaways can't stay up nice things about him.
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  Speaker 1: Even people like Marshall Kramer on CBS and others not
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  Speaker 1: dance around the issues with this guy. When is the
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  Speaker 1: media going to get as pissed as I am?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I think it'll come around. I mean, just look
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  Speaker 2: at peak woke. We we're way past peak woke now.
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  Speaker 2: And remember a year ago, two years ago, three years ago,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it was all about DEI and well
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  Speaker 2: and now people and companies can't run in the other
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  Speaker 2: directions fast enough. I think it'll happen with communism and
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  Speaker 2: socialism and the man Damis and the aocs of the
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  Speaker 2: world as the economy improves, and it will improve, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: all the objective factors. We're just going to take off
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  Speaker 2: like a rocket ship.
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  Speaker 1: Well god, okay, that sounds good to me. And like
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  Speaker 1: I said, he's where I am now. He's hurting him
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  Speaker 1: pretty hard to hit him, I sh'd say, pretty hard
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of days. And you know, people call
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  Speaker 1: me all the time and they go, please tell me
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  Speaker 1: your friend. I hope he's still my friend. He stopped
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  Speaker 1: with Tony Mike text about two months ago. Hope he's
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  Speaker 1: not mad at me and Mark Levin. But at any
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  Speaker 1: rate I still consider him a dear, dear friend that
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  Speaker 1: I still love him. I just disagree about Turkey. I
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  Speaker 1: disagree about Iran. I dis agree the way he tweats
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie. But I still love, love, love him. But
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of friends who do text move there.
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  Speaker 1: They go, please tell me, said, there's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be more sea spiders and extensions. I say, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That's up to Trump. But my gut is those are
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  Speaker 1: probably over. What do you think.
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  Speaker 2: For now? I think it's hard to separate emotion from
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  Speaker 2: fact in dealing with these things. But let me just
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  Speaker 2: do some facts with you, okay. So we have the negotiations.
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  Speaker 2: He had the memorandum of understanding. We all knew it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't going to hold. But how did Trump negotiate it?
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  Speaker 2: He kept behind about fifteen twenty percent of the military
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  Speaker 2: target list, you know, the military industrial base, some of
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  Speaker 2: the missile arsenals, et cetera. He kept those behind. Why
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  Speaker 2: because he wanted another card to play. He knew they
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  Speaker 2: were going to break the agreement, but he wanted the
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  Speaker 2: ability to then punish them. If you've already destroyed all
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  Speaker 2: their military capabilities, then when they do something they cheat
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  Speaker 2: whatever they're doing, you don't have much less to go for.
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  Speaker 2: And then secondly, what did what did that month brought
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  Speaker 2: us with the memorandum of understanding and the ceasefire, Well,
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  Speaker 2: all that backed up oil that was in the Strait
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  Speaker 2: has all now gone off into the world. And so
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  Speaker 2: it's the price of oil. And that's where Trump will look.
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  Speaker 2: He always looks at the economic factor, the price of oil.
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  Speaker 2: Before the Iran War, was seventy dollars a barrel, terrific,
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  Speaker 2: it's great for everybody, great for the economy. And then
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  Speaker 2: the Iran War, the immediate price of oil spiked up
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  Speaker 2: to about I don't one hundred and twenty dollars a barrel,
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  Speaker 2: and then with the memorandum of understanding, it's now gone
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  Speaker 2: down to seventy a barrel. And now in the last
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  Speaker 2: forty eight hours three days, it's gone back up a
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  Speaker 2: little bit to like seventy eight dollars a barrel. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what does that tell you? That tells you that the shock,
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  Speaker 2: the oil shock, the ability of Iran to hold the
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  Speaker 2: world's hostage because of the Strait of Hormus has gone
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  Speaker 2: down a lot. Because what's happened in the last month,
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  Speaker 2: what's happened since the Iran War began, Saudi Arabia, Ua Iraq,
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  Speaker 2: they've all looked at their fast tracking their existing pipelines
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  Speaker 2: and they're building more pipelines. So they're not relying. In
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  Speaker 2: the future, they won't rely on the straight of wormoose.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to trust it, so they're going to
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  Speaker 2: find alternative roots. Now, what does that mean over time
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  Speaker 2: Iran's ability to hold the world hostage is diminishing every
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  Speaker 2: single day. Now, then look at what's happening inside of Iran.
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  Speaker 2: The estimates are that to rebuild it maybe costs them,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, as much as a trillion dollars. Some
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  Speaker 2: people think not just to rebuild their military, but to
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  Speaker 2: rebuild all the damage from the war. Now, if Iran
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  Speaker 2: starts getting oil income, what is it going to spend
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  Speaker 2: it on? They'll want to spend it on weapons to
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  Speaker 2: rebuild terrific. We'll just bomb those sites again, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: bomb the nuclear sites again. And what happens to ninety
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  Speaker 2: one million people who are already pretty stressed and strained
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  Speaker 2: if they watch their leaders spend money whenever they soon
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  Speaker 2: get money and spend it on the weapons and not
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  Speaker 2: on building bridges and factories and hospitals. Happen very angry, probably.
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  Speaker 1: But they're not do anything about it. They don't have guns.
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  Speaker 1: Who gures how angry they are. You're not gonna you know,
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  Speaker 1: they just mowed down fifty thousand in the street. And
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  Speaker 1: the truth is in two years when of course they can't.
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  Speaker 1: Why not and the President Trump is gone in two years.
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  Speaker 1: Not if when he's gone in two years, if God forbid.
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  Speaker 1: It's not Marco Rubio. Maybe I guess Vans. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think is gonna happen?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think the i ergyc will last for two years. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I think there'll be a slow moving coup. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, time will tell them, will tells. President tramp
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  Speaker 2: Away says, we'll see, we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you mentioned the igues. Yeah, we need
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  Speaker 1: to do some more damage to the IRGC. That's my opinion. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: now you are, you're you're very pro as you'll love
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  Speaker 1: that about you and the love BB and all that
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  Speaker 1: you're you're gonna tell me now, please tell me I
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  Speaker 1: should say that despite what he said, because love Turkey
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  Speaker 1: was the host nation, they rolled out the red carpet.
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  Speaker 1: He went overboard with Ortowan. I don't care what anybody
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  Speaker 1: says he did, just like he does it. M'm donnie,
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  Speaker 1: take it easy, Calm down. He's not a good guy.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, Order one is a terrible guy. We'll move
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  Speaker 1: aside from that per second. Okay, please tell me KT
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  Speaker 1: that Trump is not really going to sell f thirty
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  Speaker 1: fives to Turkey.
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  Speaker 2: Please, hasn't done it yet? Okay, you know, people, all
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  Speaker 2: the people said always going to come out of that
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  Speaker 2: meeting with an agreement to sell F thirty five to Turkey.
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  Speaker 2: Hasn't done it yet.
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  Speaker 1: Does your God tell you he's not going to do it?
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  Speaker 1: Is you got to tell you he's not going to
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 2: If he does it, it'll it'll be later, it'll be
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  Speaker 2: with such preconditions that it won't be. What you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about is would it be a military threat to Israel.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine President Trump ever putting Israel in a
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  Speaker 2: position where there's a military here's a threat against a
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  Speaker 2: new military threat against Israel. His whole career of his
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  Speaker 2: presidency has to be protecting Israel to start knocking off
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  Speaker 2: the many threats to Israel. I don't think Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: changes his mind. But if he does, it's only going
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  Speaker 2: to be because he's getting an awful lot from Turkey,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not going to be a threat to Israel.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, for example, I think Turkey is going to
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  Speaker 2: be essential any kind of a post around work deal.
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  Speaker 2: I think if Turkey joins the abraham A chorus, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: how would you feel about that Turkey makes peace with Israel?
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  Speaker 2: Then it would be a very different dynamic.
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  Speaker 1: Turkey you can't see it.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Aaron Wine is one of the meanest, toughest guys
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  Speaker 2: I've ever met. I've been in the room with him.
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  Speaker 2: He is just I mean, I would not want to
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  Speaker 2: be in that guy. We're around that guy in a
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  Speaker 2: dark alley. He's really tough. I mean, he's tougher than
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  Speaker 2: all my Sicilian ants and all my Socilian uncles. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Trump is ever going to do anything
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  Speaker 2: to endanger the security of Israel. And if somehow Trump
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  Speaker 2: gets Turkey and all these other countries to join the
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  Speaker 2: Abraham A Corus, that's the best long term prescription for
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  Speaker 2: peace and prosperity for theations, for the nation of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: And if you love Trump, and most of my listeners do,
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  Speaker 1: it's a very pro Trump audience, then you've got to
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  Speaker 1: be thanking Israel today because two different assassination plots to
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  Speaker 1: kill the president who got the intelligence not us once again,
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  Speaker 1: and Israel were the ones who warned President Trump and
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  Speaker 1: America with the plan to kill him twice. So when
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  Speaker 1: people ask I said this earlier to Brian, kill me.
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  Speaker 1: When people ask what is this fascination with Israel, it's
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  Speaker 1: coursing tax players money they're committing genocide. Morons. Okay, morons,
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  Speaker 1: they ask, what does Israel do? I don't know. When
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  Speaker 1: asked President Trump, they just saved his life.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe, and it's family. Yeah, you know, those threats are
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  Speaker 2: not just to Trump, to the family and to the
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  Speaker 2: other senior leaders. The issue is intelligent macad. Nobody can
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  Speaker 2: really figure out how or why. I mean, maybe it does.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's true that the Jewish people are the chosen people,
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  Speaker 2: but they are the smartest, best intelligence service in the world.
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  Speaker 2: There was a time when when President Trump in his
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  Speaker 2: first term, I wanted to take out the Syrian airfields
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  Speaker 2: where Asad was using chemical weapons against his own people.
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  Speaker 2: And I was my responsibility as a deputy National Security
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  Speaker 2: Advisor was to get in touch with foreign leaders and say, look,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, President Trump is going to do this.
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  Speaker 2: After the after the time our missiles were in the air,
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  Speaker 2: I had to call all the country say look, and
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  Speaker 2: don't worries that World War three. We're just going after
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  Speaker 2: these sites. So I made my calls and I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: get hold of the Israeli ambassador. Oh no, we haven't
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  Speaker 2: let Israel know. And then I later saw the ambassador
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  Speaker 2: about a week later, I said, you know, I feels
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  Speaker 2: just terrible. We couldn't get to you at four warn you.
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  Speaker 2: And he looked at me with a smile and he said,
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  Speaker 2: we saw the missiles go up. We knew exactly what
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  Speaker 2: you were doing. We didn't need the call. And I thought,
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  Speaker 2: right once again for me, Death.
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  Speaker 1: Intelligencer, they are not even close. And you're the best
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  Speaker 1: to kat So another excellent appearance here on the Briday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Love having you on, have yourself a beautiful weekend. God
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  Speaker 1: bless Sicily and God bless you. We love you, Thanks,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, take care Katie mcfauland right there with us,
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  Speaker 1: each and w body. How lucky you we have that
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  Speaker 1: wonderful lady.
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