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K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor | 07-02-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: KT McFarland. So here's the deal, KT, So my job
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks has been to take people
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  Speaker 1: like you who are much smarter than me. I admit
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  Speaker 1: it much smarter to take people like you. And have
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  Speaker 1: you admit that I've been right using the words stuck nowhere?
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  Speaker 1: Those words the last couple of months to describe where
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  Speaker 1: we are with the Iran war. I shut down on
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  Speaker 1: the Kurvy Couch on Sunday, and I think I shocked
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  Speaker 1: the hell out of Rachel Campost Duppy and Charlie Hurton
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  Speaker 1: Griff Jenkins because I think they expected me to say, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we won, We're doing great, and we're not. We're not.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to use it Dow Jones as a measure,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, but that's not the measure. We're not. So
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  Speaker 1: the question is, KT, can I get you admit that
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  Speaker 1: we have not won anything at this point anything, and
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  Speaker 1: that right now we are basically.
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  Speaker 2: Stuck No, And I don't understand why do you think
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  Speaker 2: we've lost.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say we lost, but we didn't. There's a
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  Speaker 1: big difference between we've lost and we won. We won nothing.
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  Speaker 1: We won nothing. The straight up our moves was open
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  Speaker 1: before we started this, we made this problem. The naval
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  Speaker 1: blockade wasn't there before we started this, we made that problem. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you want to sell me on Midnight Hammer. That was amazing,
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  Speaker 1: It was perfect. We really did knock out their centifuge.
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  Speaker 1: They can't even they can't even enrich this uranium. That
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  Speaker 1: was a tremendous effort. You want to tell me. Operation
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  Speaker 1: Epic Fury was great. I agree with that too. But
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  Speaker 1: the last two months, these constant ceasepiers, which is ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: because we're still firing on each other, these constant extensions.
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  Speaker 1: Now for the last two months, we've done nothing nothing,
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  Speaker 1: that's my point.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, First of all, as far as ceasefire negotiations go,
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  Speaker 2: we're negotiating while you have a ceasefire. There's a long
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  Speaker 2: history of a lot of fighting, ticks for tap fighting
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  Speaker 2: going on during the negotiations. And I remember being with
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  Speaker 2: Kissinger when we were negotiating the end of Vietnam War,
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  Speaker 2: and we were negotiating for two years and they was
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  Speaker 2: fighting throughout. But in the end you get a deal. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when I look at sort of objectively, okay, what have
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  Speaker 2: we achieved? And you're right, Operation the Nighthammer. Operation epic theory,
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  Speaker 2: particularly operation economics theory, has put Around in a position
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  Speaker 2: where there's no way they win anything. Their proxies are diminished,
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  Speaker 2: maybe not all of Hasbolot.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what I Won's economic situation is. I
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  Speaker 1: care about America Now the Dow Jones is off and
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  Speaker 1: the SAP is op. But guess what Goods are still
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  Speaker 1: too expensive? Interest rates are still high, inflation is still high.
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  Speaker 1: What do I care? What do you want? Looks like Economically,
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  Speaker 1: that's not going to stop them, Katie, and you know better,
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  Speaker 1: that's not going to stop them from continuing to get
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  Speaker 1: weapons from other countries, money from other countries, and continue
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  Speaker 1: this nonzene.
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  Speaker 2: Well, where are they getting the money? They're not getting
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  Speaker 2: the money.
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  Speaker 1: From any of the are.
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  Speaker 2: At a discounted price. The access are all still frozen.
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  Speaker 2: The money is now moving as around selfish oil in dollars,
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  Speaker 2: which means that we now can have the visibility of
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  Speaker 2: it because it has to go through American banks and
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  Speaker 2: we can see who's buying it for how much are
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  Speaker 2: they paying? Where is the money going once Around achieves it,
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  Speaker 2: And as far as the economic part of it, where
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  Speaker 2: I think your main complaint is that it's screwed the
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  Speaker 2: American people economically. I would disagree with that. The price
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  Speaker 2: of oil this morning was fifty seven dollars a barrel,
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  Speaker 2: about half of what it was during Biden, and it's
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  Speaker 2: starting to come down dramatically. Oil national average price of
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  Speaker 2: oils under four dollars a gallon. You and I live
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  Speaker 2: in New York, so it's a bit you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a foreign plus, but throughout the country it's a sort
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  Speaker 2: of three fifty three seventy three eighty that's going down
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  Speaker 2: because the price of oil remains down as Iran is
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  Speaker 2: selling this oil, and a funny way, that helps our
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  Speaker 2: economy because it puts more oil in the world and
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  Speaker 2: that the drives supply and demand. It drives found the
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  Speaker 2: price of oil. So if I'm looking at sort of
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  Speaker 2: what's Iran gotten out of this, what have we gotten
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  Speaker 2: out of this, and what is the long term prospect
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  Speaker 2: for the United States, I would say Iran doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: nuclear weapons. Iran's so that doesn't threaten Well, maybe they
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  Speaker 2: were ready to threaten the United States with nuclear weapons
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  Speaker 2: because they didn't have long range missiles, but they have
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  Speaker 2: medium range missiles which could have hit Europe certainly could
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  Speaker 2: have been Israel. Their nuclear weapons program is decimated, their
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  Speaker 2: missile program where they were trying to build missiles they
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  Speaker 2: could reach the United States. That's gone. Their ability to
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  Speaker 2: reconstitute their networks, their Hesbelahamas, et cetera networks. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's greatly diminished. Israel's taken a lot of chunks out
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  Speaker 2: of Hesbela. Israel got a deal last week, an agreement
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  Speaker 2: with Lebanon to Lebanon now recognizes that now he Bela
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  Speaker 2: is the odd man out right. Is Israel plus Lebanon
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  Speaker 2: against Hesbelah. That's a good thing. Hamas is almost gone.
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  Speaker 2: The the peace plan, the hamaspe, the Goss, the peace
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  Speaker 2: plan is proceeding. So I'm looking at this and these
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  Speaker 2: are all wins. Now, do we have some surrendered document
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  Speaker 2: where they're signing on the dotted line. No. But the
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  Speaker 2: American economy is in pretty good shape and going to
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  Speaker 2: get better.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but is true what you just said is one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent true. But when we started this war, at
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  Speaker 1: least back then, it wasn't about the American economy. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's great that that has become a byproduct of all
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  Speaker 1: of this. And you're right, the nuclear stuff, but they
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  Speaker 1: still have the dust. Now. I know that we hurt
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  Speaker 1: them badly when we hammer them during midnight hammer, but
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  Speaker 1: they still have it. And the straight you know, they
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  Speaker 1: do run that straight. It's not us.
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  Speaker 3: The naval blockade, the terrific jobgraphy they run one of
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  Speaker 3: they're freedoms and lanes in the strait.
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  Speaker 2: They run there, and there's around the Oman side of it,
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  Speaker 2: we're running that. Ships are going in and out what
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  Speaker 2: like one hundred and sixty seventy eighty one hundred a
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  Speaker 2: day or climb out and all that's all that pano
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  Speaker 2: oil on the tankers is now flooding into the market.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the dust. We see who's going into those
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  Speaker 2: you know, cratered mountains. We know if they're going to
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  Speaker 2: try to get in there, they're not tricky enough to
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  Speaker 2: somehow dig a five thousand mile tunnel where they're going
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  Speaker 2: to get out the dust. So is the dust buried?
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  Speaker 2: Has the dust been accounted for it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Let me we'll get there. But it's gone. They're not
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  Speaker 2: using that enriched uranium to make weapons, and they don't
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  Speaker 2: have any missiles to deliver those weapons. So I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: at all that and I'm thinking, Okay, in the fullness
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  Speaker 2: of time, what's likely to happen next. If Iran decides
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  Speaker 2: it's going to spend its money on Hesbalanhamas and death
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  Speaker 2: to America, then the Iranian people who were pretty angry
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  Speaker 2: about their economy six months ago are going to be
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  Speaker 2: really angry about their economy now. It's not getting any better.
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  Speaker 2: For the Ranian people, they can't.
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  Speaker 3: They shot down, Yeah, but we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: Them this time around. I guess what they start shooting
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  Speaker 2: forty thousand tomorrow. I would think the United States could
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  Speaker 2: happen a reaction, a military reaction, an economic reaction, better reaction.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to get away with shooting fifty thousand
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  Speaker 2: people in the streets with the whole world Washington.
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  Speaker 1: I would hope.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: I hope not. I should say so. You said to me,
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  Speaker 1: what makes you think we're losing? Some of the losing,
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  Speaker 1: But it sounds to me like you think we won.
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  Speaker 2: I think we were ready one. And the fact that
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  Speaker 2: these negotiations don't have a sign on the dotted line
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  Speaker 2: thing is of less concern to me than the several
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  Speaker 2: factors that I pointed out. The economic wind for the
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  Speaker 2: United States, price of oils down a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: If you look at Iranian oil, where is that going? Well,
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  Speaker 2: the whole world was supposed to buy Iranian oil, right
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  Speaker 2: if it ever was unsanctioned. It's been unsanctioned. Who's buying it?
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  Speaker 2: Only China and a big discount. So where are the
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  Speaker 2: countries that want to buy oil buying it from? They're
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  Speaker 2: buy it for us. They were buying it from US
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  Speaker 2: before they were buying it from Iran Gulf country. So
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  Speaker 2: I think that's been as terrific for our oil industry
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  Speaker 2: or natural gas industry. The price of oils, I said,
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  Speaker 2: is coming down. We're kind of at that sweet spot
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  Speaker 2: where American companies can make money, but it's not so
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  Speaker 2: high that it affects us as the gas tank. Now
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  Speaker 2: the inslation that the Iran war temporarily caused start coming down.
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  Speaker 2: I think we've already seen signs that it is.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think the American people agree with you?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean you're a politician, said, you're
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  Speaker 2: the guy who is a.
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  Speaker 1: Policy I have no idea. Listen, the people that I
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  Speaker 1: speak to don't agree with you, but in the big numbers,
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  Speaker 1: they don't. They think that we're stuck in a mess.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't completed anything. And while you're giving us really
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  Speaker 1: great stuff here, this is great, and you're making a
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  Speaker 1: very very good point that we have done well. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't agree with you that we want anything yet, but
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  Speaker 1: certainly you're making an argument towards that, towards that stage
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  Speaker 1: them we're losing if people think that. But there are
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  Speaker 1: very few people I speak to that think that we've
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  Speaker 1: won over winning O. We're doing great. Anecdotal it's just me,
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  Speaker 1: but very few.
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  Speaker 2: No, and I'm sure that a lot of people feel
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  Speaker 2: that way. I think the administration has done a pretty
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  Speaker 2: lousy job of communicating the success has had. But I
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  Speaker 2: would also say, we're moving on from Iran. So what's
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  Speaker 2: going to be next? Cubis next? And that will be
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  Speaker 2: a shue.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on before you get the Cuba, I know, before
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  Speaker 1: you get the Quba said we're moving on from Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know where it was last week? I was
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  Speaker 1: in Israel for eight days.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's right, yeah, right, And the last thing.
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  Speaker 1: The Israelis want to hear is we're moving on from Iran.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I said this all week long. At one
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  Speaker 1: point last year, President Trump's approval rating in Israel was
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  Speaker 1: like ninety nine percent, and again anecdotal. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I spoke to one Israeli that's not angry with President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: not one, not one. Because they really thought that a
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  Speaker 1: miracle was in this to annihilate Iran, not to get
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  Speaker 1: the Dow Jones up, not to get oil prices down.
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  Speaker 1: They thought they were in this to make sure Iran
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  Speaker 1: does not have the capability to make a nuclear weapon,
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  Speaker 1: and also make sure that Iran was basically done. And
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  Speaker 1: that's not close either. And the Israelis are pissed.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you this, Okay, So Iran does no longer
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  Speaker 2: have the ability to make a nuclear weapon. That should
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  Speaker 2: make a lot of Israelis really happy. But number two
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  Speaker 2: obliterated around what's it supposed to mean? This is ninety
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  Speaker 2: one million people. This is like the people who chant
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  Speaker 2: death for Israel. I don't want ninety one million Iranians
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  Speaker 2: to be obliterated.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want they don't need to be leadership, right,
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  Speaker 3: so we're not going to do it? Why the regime?
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  Speaker 1: Why not? Why not? What what do you mean when in
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  Speaker 1: the regime? Why why let the the I on JC
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  Speaker 1: stays in power? What do you think is going to
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  Speaker 1: happen in five years.
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  Speaker 2: I think that the IRGC stays are limited, and the
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  Speaker 2: fact that the Iranian people, you know, again, in the
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  Speaker 2: fullness of time, what's going to happen in Iran? Fast
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  Speaker 2: forward six months, nine months, twelve months, where's Iran going
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  Speaker 2: to be. It's not going to have It's not if
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  Speaker 2: it decides to use the money from its oil revenue,
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  Speaker 2: this which is not as significant as people thought it
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  Speaker 2: would be. If it decides it's not going to rebuild
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  Speaker 2: bridges and hospitals and better the Iranian A lot of
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  Speaker 2: the Iranian people, they're going back to the streets and
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  Speaker 2: the world will be watching. And like I said, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think anybody's going to tolerate the Iyers you see
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  Speaker 2: gunning people down now, So where's the run in six
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  Speaker 2: months time? The Iranian people are angry? Where is the
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  Speaker 2: iris you see? We already are seeing splits in the
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  Speaker 2: Iranian leadership. There are probably three groups in the Iranian
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  Speaker 2: leadership right now. One is the iyers. You see in
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  Speaker 2: those one hundred and sixty thousand guys, they don't want
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  Speaker 2: to settle anything. They'd much rather be martyrs for the cause.
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  Speaker 2: You then have the parliamentarians and they're looking to do
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  Speaker 2: a deal. They're pragmatists, they've got a country to run.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have the Iranian people who were were
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  Speaker 2: pretty convinced don't like anybody there, but they're not they're
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  Speaker 2: certainly not going to back the iris. You see, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to see, in the fullness of time, how the
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  Speaker 2: Iranian government regime survives in any sense of power when
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  Speaker 2: they've got ninety one million people angry at them and
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  Speaker 2: they've got a Bible alternative. There's a reason President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: I think, kept the Iranian Army, the regular Iranian Army,
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  Speaker 2: the guys that were in the you know, that's an
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  Speaker 2: army that predates the Iranian Revolution and the Iranian Police Force.
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  Speaker 2: They're regular guys, not the besiege, not the IRGC. Those
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  Speaker 2: guys are still intact. The good guys, the Iranian Army
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  Speaker 2: and the Iranian they're still intact. That could be the
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  Speaker 2: basis of a new government in the run. So for me,
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  Speaker 2: my big success here is a slow rolling coup getting
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  Speaker 2: rid of the i RGC.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, cut you up. I'm sorry about Cuba. You said
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  Speaker 1: they're next, They're on next. What do you see there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I think that that deal is more or less
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  Speaker 2: in place, that the that the business leaders have gone
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  Speaker 2: back and forth. Marco Rubio is talking in Spanish in
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  Speaker 2: Cuban Spanish to a lot of the leadership there, especially
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  Speaker 2: even the Castro grandchildren, their grandson, and that the only
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  Speaker 2: things that are standing in the way is like Maduro,
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  Speaker 2: it's those top you know, incompetent, corrupt, apparatic communist leaders.
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  Speaker 2: But the country wants, the country wants to change. The
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  Speaker 2: leaders of the country want to change and economic change.
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  Speaker 2: They'll be massive investment in Cuba, and I think it'll
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  Speaker 2: become My guest is Donald Trump goes to Havana before
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  Speaker 2: the end of his term and that Cuba five years
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  Speaker 2: from now is a close American ally love it one more.
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  Speaker 1: You know, President Trump really did campaign against socialism in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and just winning everywhere. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: got nine different I believe nine different candidates who won.
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  Speaker 1: Here in New York. We all watched Colorado in horror
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  Speaker 1: A couple of nights ago, we watched the primaries. I
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  Speaker 1: was in Israel. I was watching in horror last Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: when people like Chevalier and Valdez and Brad Lander, I
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  Speaker 1: are you afraid of what this country is going to
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  Speaker 1: look like in the very near future, not in.
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  Speaker 2: The near maybe in the near future, not in the
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  Speaker 2: long term future. Why so, what are these socialists? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they don't you know, they didn't even know what socialistsm is.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the people who were voting from the leaders
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  Speaker 2: of the socialist movement communist movement do But I think
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  Speaker 2: the people who were voting for them are voting because
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  Speaker 2: they don't like this. They don't like their lot in
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  Speaker 2: life right now. They don't think the economy is good.
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  Speaker 2: They're not getting they had to can't buy a house,
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  Speaker 2: their college education, they have a lot of student debt,
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  Speaker 2: no jobs, and so.
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  Speaker 3: How do you fix that?
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  Speaker 2: If I look back in history, we had a very
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  Speaker 2: similar pro communist socialist movement in the nineteen thirties why
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  Speaker 2: heart of the Great Depression. Then World War Two comes
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  Speaker 2: and then after World War two prosperity. What happened to
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  Speaker 2: socialism in the nineteen fifties and sixties and comic gone.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that the cure for this the socialist
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  Speaker 2: movement in the country is prosperity, and I think we
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  Speaker 2: are headed there. And I do think the next twenty
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  Speaker 2: five years will be a golden era for the United
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  Speaker 2: States economically. In the technology, I think we're ahead in
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: artificial intelligence and we're going to keep that lead, and
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: then we're going to, like by light years, jump ahead
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  Speaker 2: of everybody else, and that's going to be the way
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  Speaker 2: of the future. So I don't like what they're doing
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  Speaker 2: right now, and they'll do some really stupid stuff and
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  Speaker 2: these cities will lose more people and they'll be horrible
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  Speaker 2: places to live. But in the long run, as the
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  Speaker 2: greater economy starts improving, then I think the whole dream
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  Speaker 2: of socialism kind of goes away because there is a
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  Speaker 2: good alternative to a corrupt government and to socialism, which
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  Speaker 2: nobody really thinks it's going to work.
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  Speaker 1: This may have been your greatest performance ever. You know that.
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  Speaker 1: That's how great you were today, Immune Katie, just fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: You came armed with a whole bunch of wheelbox and
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  Speaker 1: you were great. So I love you already. You know that.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're the best. But thank you very much
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  Speaker 1: for this.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, and I'll be your foreign policy advisor when
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  Speaker 2: you're mayor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, you are going to be I'm serious.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe even cheap of staff. I don't know
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: something big for you, because you are a genius. Oh quickly,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: how are you celebrating Saturday?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Well, we have a parade in Southampton. It's like
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: a Hallmark movie parade where the kids ride their bikes
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: with their little streamers and people re enacted the Revolutionary War.
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  Speaker 2: We have cannons that go off. The fire departments of
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: the whole area come and I have Let me think
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  Speaker 2: I have eleven grandchildren. I think I've got nine of
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  Speaker 2: them who are going to be with me. You're right
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  Speaker 2: there watching the parade.
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  Speaker 1: Is your daughter in from Florida.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Too, she's here with her four children.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Oh fantastic, that's beautiful. Well listen you enjoy the big
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: birthday on Saturday. And again, thank you so much for
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: being great on this program. I love you, Kat, Thank you.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Can I just tell you one great thing everybody should
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: do on the fourth of July? Shall we do it
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: every year?
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Sure?
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Read the Declaration of Independence.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Get your family around, everybody gets to read a paragraph.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: It'll just strike courage in your heart.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: I really do love that. I do read the Declaration
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: of Independence on Saturday. And we're gonna do it. I
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: love that idea. Kat, thank you so.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Much, Thank you and happy.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: For us you too, I love her.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to Sit In Friends in the Morning.
• 16:44
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• 17:07
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• 17:09
  Speaker 1: wonder what the heck is going on here.