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Netanyahu orders 'thorough review' of foreign flights into Israel · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: There's going to be a very intense investigation. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: nobody honestly knows was he tied to a foreign entity
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  Speaker 1: or did he act on his own? The thing is,
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  Speaker 1: he acted. It was a terrorist act. He tried to
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  Speaker 1: kill everybody on that plane. He would have died, too,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't care.
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  Speaker 2: So this morning, new information about the radicalized co-pilot who
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  Speaker 2: tried hijacking a fly Dubai plane after hitting the captain
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  Speaker 2: with a crash axe. We now know the suspect was
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  Speaker 2: barred from flying with Oman over his extremist views. Now,
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  Speaker 2: all foreign flights to Israel are under review as the
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  Speaker 2: hero captain who unlocked the cockpit door shares the details.
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  Speaker 3: It just was a normal flight and.
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  Speaker 3: The co-pilot offered, I mean, he demanded, not demanded, but
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  Speaker 3: he wanted to pray. After, I think, I would say
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  Speaker 3: about four or five minutes, there was a big blow
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  Speaker 3: to the back of my head. And that's when I
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  Speaker 3: realized that it's not the aircraft, it's the other guy
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  Speaker 3: who was in the cockpit with me.
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  Speaker 2: So, former Deputy National Security Advisor Steve Yates joins us now. Steve,
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  Speaker 2: we find out that the co-pilot, he was not allowed
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  Speaker 2: to fly because he was kicked out of the flight
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  Speaker 2: to Dubai. Excuse me, he was kicked out after eight months,
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  Speaker 2: removed from his previous job at Oman's National Airline because
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  Speaker 2: of his extremist views.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Why is that not a red flag that if somebody
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  Speaker 2: wants to hire him in America or London or Australia
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  Speaker 2: or the UAE, why is that not the red flag
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  Speaker 2: that stops him from getting that job?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Brian, that's exactly right. And, of course, it is
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  Speaker 4: a red flag. And it's basically an embarrassing failure of
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  Speaker 4: screening among countries that know that this is a red
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  Speaker 4: flag and that there is a very, very real threat
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  Speaker 4: of radical Islam. The UAE is one of the few
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  Speaker 4: majority Muslim countries that is very explicit about outlawing even
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  Speaker 4: political Islam, like the Muslim Brotherhood. something that is, for instance,
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  Speaker 4: not restricted in the U.K., and they have their own problems. So,
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  Speaker 4: this is just a massive wake-up call. It's an absolute
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  Speaker 4: miracle this was not a mass casualty event. What we
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  Speaker 4: have heard is that the target was the major international
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  Speaker 4: airport in Tel Aviv, and that he had flown before
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  Speaker 4: and decided not to take down an earlier flight because
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  Speaker 4: he knew someone on board, allegedly. So, we have probably
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  Speaker 4: tempted fate a number of times. This just is a deep,
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  Speaker 4: deep reminder. With the Abraham Accords October 7th coming up
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  Speaker 4: and the Iran conflict ongoing, we have to be on
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  Speaker 4: high alert, and these homeland things need to be buttoned
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  Speaker 4: down much, much more.
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  Speaker 2: Again, you want to respect all religions. So this guy says,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go pray. So the pilot says, OK,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you respect. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: look at you. You just pray on your own. He
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  Speaker 2: ends up with an ax in the back of his head.
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  Speaker 2: Just a note for everyone at home.
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  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Air Force is removing all B-1 bombers from a British
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  Speaker 2: air base because of a targeted terror plot. Why do
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  Speaker 2: we have that reaction to pull them back? Did we
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  Speaker 2: not need them there?
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  Speaker 4: Well, of course, only the president and his secretary of
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  Speaker 4: war will know exactly what the answer is, whether those
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  Speaker 4: kinds of means were needed. They had been used in
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  Speaker 4: earlier parts of the Iran campaign, so it could be
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  Speaker 4: part of a rotation. But also, it just seems awfully coincident.
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  Speaker 4: with what seems to be a pretty significant homeland failure
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  Speaker 4: in the U.K., why keep them there if you don't
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  Speaker 4: have to keep them there? And the United States has
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  Speaker 4: lots of options to be able to strike at distance
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  Speaker 4: without detection. Those are not the only tools we need.
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  Speaker 4: But it does seem coincident that we have this— there are
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  Speaker 4: two significant terrorist plots in the U.K. that they might
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  Speaker 4: as well just go ahead and move them.
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  Speaker 2: All right. The Pentagon says we acknowledge now that all U.S.
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  Speaker 2: bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford were redeployed to
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  Speaker 2: their home stations.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Now to Iran. Huge story. You can't overstate it. Iran's
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  Speaker 2: National Security Advisor has warned of the rapidly deteriorating conditions
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  Speaker 2: in their economy and has plunged the country into one
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  Speaker 2: of the most difficult periods in Iran history. And also this,
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  Speaker 2: on the heels of a report their oil minister, after
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  Speaker 2: warning that things were so bad because of a basically
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  Speaker 2: unable to move oil out of their country or in,
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  Speaker 2: has resigned. There are more and more signs of unrest
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  Speaker 2: within that country, and you can see this video on
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  Speaker 2: social media today. What are you thinking, Steve?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I have thought for months that our military has
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  Speaker 4: been more effective at keeping things safe on the waterways
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  Speaker 4: than a lot of commercial reporting was indicating. And the
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  Speaker 4: Iranian forces that engage in economic terrorism will shoot at
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  Speaker 4: some of these vessels, but there's not a lot of
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  Speaker 4: evidence of them having much effect other than panic. So
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  Speaker 4: we've been living through panic prices and panic rates. perceptions
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  Speaker 4: of the security environment, what this tells me is that
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  Speaker 4: the maximum economic pressure that the administration is putting forward
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  Speaker 4: is real. And we're at that point where do— is there action,
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  Speaker 4: whether by us, together with our allies, or just by
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  Speaker 4: our allies, who all have just cause, having been hit
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  Speaker 4: in all of this, to hit the IRGC? That is
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  Speaker 4: the tipping point where the Iranian people could maybe have
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  Speaker 4: their say. But the IRGC is not going to negotiate.
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  Speaker 2: And we shouldn't, because it's not worth the time. We
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  Speaker 2: just continue to put pressure. Thanks so much, Steve Yates.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to keep our eye on this.