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K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor on Trump Playing Too Nice with Putin & More · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: KT McFarland is on. She's back here on this Friday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, KT.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm great. Thank you so much. Good morning. I'm thrilled
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  Speaker 3: to be with you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God, I love you. I really do. And I
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  Speaker 2: know you love me, too.
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  Speaker 1: We have this, well, we've just built this unbelievable relationship.
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  Speaker 1: And when they first came to me and said, KT McFarland,
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  Speaker 1: she's great on Fox News. And she loved Imus. And
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  Speaker 1: I really wanted you to enjoy this program.
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  Speaker 2: I really did. So it makes my heart warm when
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  Speaker 2: you say things like that. I get thrilled to be here.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to piggyback on what Bill O'Reilly was
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  Speaker 1: just talking about, because you know this stuff better than anybody.
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  Speaker 1: And he's trying to figure out why President Trump is
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  Speaker 1: kind of being nice to Putin.
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  Speaker 2: So am I. This diesel deal.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, well, listen, Bill said maybe it's because
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  Speaker 1: Trump thinks it will lead to cheaper energy around the world.
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  Speaker 2: I started thinking the other thing I started making maybe.
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  Speaker 1: This will be the impetus for Vladimir Putin to stop
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  Speaker 1: killing innocent Ukrainians. Either way, there are reasons why we
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  Speaker 1: would want Putin to be happy and stop doing a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But he hasn't proven, not even a little. If you
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  Speaker 2: do something in the past, he's not going to stop
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  Speaker 2: doing what he wants to do anyway. So with that said,
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  Speaker 2: why is Trump doing this?
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  Speaker 3: He's got competing interests, right? On one hand, America First,
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  Speaker 3: he worries about the price of gasoline, especially American farmers.
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  Speaker 3: So diesel fuel is a big deal. It's a major
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  Speaker 3: part of the budget of any farmer in America. And
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  Speaker 3: so he wants to somehow try to figure out, well,
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  Speaker 3: there's a shortage of diesel fuel. Now it's gone up
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  Speaker 3: higher than even gas has percentage-wise. And so he wants to,
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  Speaker 3: how do we get more diesel fuel? How do we
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  Speaker 3: get it quickly? And that's why I did the the
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  Speaker 3: conversation with the Russians, right? You release the diesel fuel,
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  Speaker 3: it'll help American farmers, and then let's go from there.
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  Speaker 3: But on the other hand, the other competing interest is
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  Speaker 3: you give Russia more money, which you do by buying oil,
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  Speaker 3: and then Russia has more money to fight in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 3: The irony and the thing that just makes me so
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  Speaker 3: mad is to listen to these Europeans who say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: this is so terrible, Donald Trump. He's giving the Russians
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  Speaker 3: the money to fight on. You want to know something?
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  Speaker 3: The Europeans still buy Russian oil. They still buy Russian oil. LNG.
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  Speaker 3: What is that? To what tune do they buy it?
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  Speaker 3: They buy they give Russia more money in revenues from
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  Speaker 3: those sales of energy than they give Ukraine in military
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  Speaker 3: and other assistance. So don't talk to me about hypocrites.
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  Speaker 3: The Europeans are paying for Russia to fight Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: 100 percent true and a very fair statement. But just
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  Speaker 1: because they do it, why should we? shouldn't we consider
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  Speaker 1: just completely strangling Putin? Because it's not only innocent Ukrainians
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  Speaker 1: he's killing, but you know that Russia, along with China,
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  Speaker 1: have their hand in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: They're also friends with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing, there's nothing that Putin does, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that says, eh, give him the benefit of the doubt.
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  Speaker 2: He's in bed with every one of our adversaries, enemies,
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  Speaker 2: and very, very, very bad people. So why not just
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  Speaker 2: Strangle him to death.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you don't have leverage, somebody I forget
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  Speaker 3: who said it anciently said, go out and get some.
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  Speaker 3: So what's your leverage over Russia? Well, you don't have
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  Speaker 3: a lot right now. I mean, President Trump could like
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  Speaker 3: invite him into the world, you know, back into the
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  Speaker 3: into the real world. But how do you do that?
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  Speaker 3: So one way you do it in a funny roundabout
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  Speaker 3: way is you buy oil from Russia and then you
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  Speaker 3: threaten to shut it off. So then when oil is
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  Speaker 3: flowing again, he could just go to Russia and Putin
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  Speaker 3: and say, hey, look, by the way, that freebie I
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  Speaker 3: gave you of buying Russian oil, I'm going to stop it.
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  Speaker 2: You're screwed. As you're saying this, you're probably right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about Mamdani because I hear the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be nice to Mamdani and nice to Mamdani,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'm going to shut it off.
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  Speaker 2: I swear to God, you.
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  Speaker 1: Could have been talking about Mamdani because I keep hearing
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. Look, I know in my heart of hearts,
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  Speaker 1: I know this. Trump doesn't like him.
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  Speaker 2: And guess what? Mamdani, he can't stand Trump. He can't
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  Speaker 2: stand him.
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  Speaker 1: Trump is everything Mamdani hates. So this little clown show
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  Speaker 1: they both put on.
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  Speaker 2: Is just for show. But what you just said about Putin,
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  Speaker 2: that's Trump and Mamdani. I'll help him. I'll help him.
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  Speaker 2: And then I won't.
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  Speaker 3: Right? Yeah, I get it. But on the other hand,
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  Speaker 3: when you look at what is Trump doing tough to Mondami,
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  Speaker 3: what is he doing tough to Putin? Well, tough to
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  Speaker 3: Putin is that President Trump is giving Ukraine sharing intelligence,
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  Speaker 3: which is extremely important. He's also giving them massive offensive weapons. Now,
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  Speaker 3: we used to give it to them in the Biden administration,
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  Speaker 3: although we didn't give the Ukrainians the kind of weapons
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  Speaker 3: Trump is. This time Trump's giving them, but he's making
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  Speaker 3: them pay. The Europeans are buying the weapons and the
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  Speaker 3: Europeans are giving them to Ukraine. So when you talk
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  Speaker 3: about what's he doing with Putin, he's tougher on Putin
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  Speaker 3: than Biden ever was. He's definitely tougher on Putin than
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  Speaker 3: Obama ever was. Now he's tough on Mondami. Well, he's
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  Speaker 3: not rushing over to give Mondami to bail him out
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  Speaker 3: of this, that, and the other thing. So talk is
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  Speaker 3: one thing. being nice to, you know, you know, Trump,
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  Speaker 3: every time he sort of shakes a hand, somebody will
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  Speaker 3: say to him, well, did you meet so-and-so? I said,
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  Speaker 3: oh yeah, he's a good friend of mine. He's not
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  Speaker 3: a good friend. No. He just met him once.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't even care.
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  Speaker 3: You know, what he, so not, it's my words.
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  Speaker 2: I remember he first said that about me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, the guy loves it. I, um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm keeping an eye on this big election in Israel.
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  Speaker 2: I'm America first. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Alex Jones, before you start tweeting and, General Mark Flynn,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Flynn, before you start tweeting, I'm America first. I'm
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  Speaker 1: very concerned about 18 days from today. But I can
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  Speaker 1: do more than one thing at one time. So in
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  Speaker 1: 25 days, they've got elections in Israel. And Bibi Netanyahu
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  Speaker 1: is trying to stay in power now off the record,
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  Speaker 1: which is now on the record between you and I.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Israelis want me to charter planes, literally, KT.
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  Speaker 1: charter planes to have Israeli New Yorkers fly home. Because
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  Speaker 1: if they fly home, they can vote. I know you
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  Speaker 1: know that. And I know a bunch of anti-Bibi New Yorkers,
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  Speaker 1: these psychos, they are going back. They are literally flying
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  Speaker 1: back to vote against them. I don't know if the
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  Speaker 1: people that love Bibi like me are planning on doing
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  Speaker 1: the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: So they're reaching out to me to say, Sid, let's get.
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  Speaker 1: Those New York Israelis back here so we get Bibi
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  Speaker 1: the win.
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  Speaker 2: Are you paying a lot of attention to that race?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't pay attention to the Sid Rosenberg air system,
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  Speaker 3: but I have paid a lot of attention to the race.
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  Speaker 3: And I think whatever happens, whether in Israel or the
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  Speaker 3: United States, the day after the elections, I think we'll
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  Speaker 3: go back to military action.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you do?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You think both?
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  Speaker 1: So Israel goes back to, whether it's Gaza with Hamas
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  Speaker 1: or Hezbollah, in Lebanon or Iran, and you think day
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  Speaker 1: after midterms, Trump, now, if he goes back, KT, he's
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  Speaker 1: going to do what I've been begging for for basically
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  Speaker 1: five months.
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  Speaker 2: If he goes back, he goes back hard. Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Look, there's a small, medium, and large option here. And
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  Speaker 3: whenever I would give options to the president or suggestions
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  Speaker 3: of policies, there would always be the minimum option. The medium,
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  Speaker 3: the maximum. Usually he would take the medium, sometimes the maximum.
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  Speaker 3: But here's what I think are the options that the
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  Speaker 3: president has the day after the election. Number one, continue
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  Speaker 3: as the small option. The minimum option is to continue
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  Speaker 3: as we are with the blockade. Strangle Iran economically. Continue
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  Speaker 3: to open the Strait of Hormuz. The middle option is
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  Speaker 3: the one that says, OK, we go in, but we
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  Speaker 3: don't go in alone. We go in with Israel. We
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  Speaker 3: go in, oddly enough, with the Gulf Arabs, including Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 3: And we go after their remaining military targets, not just Iran,
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  Speaker 3: but it's the proxies as well, Hezbollah, Hamas, and particularly
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  Speaker 3: the Houthis. The maximum option is you just go in
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  Speaker 3: scorched earth. But what I find is sort of Iran's
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  Speaker 3: worst nightmare, and the reason we're here where we are
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  Speaker 3: today in the world, is three years ago, the Crown
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  Speaker 3: Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, went on Fox
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  Speaker 3: News and he said, we're getting close to joining the
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  Speaker 3: Abraham Accords. Even Netanyahu, a night later, said, we're getting
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  Speaker 3: close to having Saudi Arabia join the Abraham Accords. And
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  Speaker 3: what did Iran do? They went nuts. They said, oh
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  Speaker 3: my gosh, our worst nightmare, Saudi Arabia joining with Israel
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  Speaker 3: and the United States. Peace with the Gulf Arabs and
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  Speaker 3: Israel and the United States. We're finished. Let's unleash Hamas.
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  Speaker 3: And that's when the massacre happened. So their worst nightmare,
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  Speaker 3: Iran's worst nightmare, is that somehow you have that coalition
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  Speaker 3: of the Gulf Arabs led by Saudi Arabia, Israel, United States.
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  Speaker 3: So what's Iran brought about? That worst nightmare. Because after
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  Speaker 3: October 7th, Israel went after Hezbollah and Hamas, more or
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  Speaker 3: less destroyed them. And then the United States went in
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  Speaker 3: and destroyed Iran's nukes with the mother of all bombs,
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  Speaker 3: the bunker buster bombs. And then what do you have now? Well,
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  Speaker 3: now Iran is, you know, strangled economically. It's increasing the
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  Speaker 3: scope of the war. It's bombing Saudi Arabia. And so
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  Speaker 3: you're now going to have the worst nightmare of Iran.
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  Speaker 3: And that is going to be all those countries joining
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  Speaker 3: together in righteous anger and indignation to go after Iran.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the first place they go is you
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  Speaker 3: better believe Mossad has, you know, the trackers on the
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  Speaker 3: top 100,000 guys of the IRGC. Yeah. I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to write the life insurance policies. It's a limited time.
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  Speaker 3: But then they're all the other side. So small, medium
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  Speaker 3: and large. My guess is it's medium. But the difference
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  Speaker 3: this time between any other previous action against Iran is
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  Speaker 3: that you now have the entire Middle East united against Iran.
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  Speaker 1: It does seem that way. They're pissing off everybody. They're
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  Speaker 1: bombing everybody. I mean, they're ridiculous. And those MOABs, those
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  Speaker 1: mother of all bombs, I think would be used again.
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  Speaker 1: I really do this time around.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you about Ilhan Omar. I know you're
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  Speaker 2: following that one closely.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I, you know, some of these news stories,
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, Katie, I root them on
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  Speaker 1: like the giants playing the saints on Sunday. Like I
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  Speaker 1: want so badly Mahmoud Khalil to be deported.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel the same way about this creep, Elon Omar.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: I think that the reason, you know, there's a reason
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  Speaker 3: you go in that you justify the action. And then
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  Speaker 3: there's maybe what you're really looking for. I think that
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  Speaker 3: the reason that they did the raid on her house
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  Speaker 3: and her computers and all that, It was supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be about immigration violations. Is she really an American citizen?
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  Speaker 3: Was there some funny paperwork? But maybe the real reason
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  Speaker 3: behind it is how deeply tied into the Somali fraud
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  Speaker 3: network is she?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Where is she getting her money? Yes. How did her husband,
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  Speaker 3: who was worth, I don't know, $ 100, 000 on one filing
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  Speaker 3: for your financial filings, And then, like, all of a
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  Speaker 3: sudden it's worth $ 30 million. And then he's back to
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  Speaker 3: worth $ 100, 000. There's something really funny going on there with
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  Speaker 3: the accounting of her family. And so I think the
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  Speaker 3: real thing that they're looking for, that they might stumble
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  Speaker 3: upon as they look at her computer and her text
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  Speaker 3: messages and all that, is that she might be deep
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of the Somali fraud operation.
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  Speaker 1: I think you nailed it. Final 60 seconds. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: remiss not to ask you. You're a Long Island native,
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  Speaker 1: and you are the queen of Southampton. What do you
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: think of our guy's Bruce Blakeman's performance a couple nights ago?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it was awesome. I mean, if anybody was doing
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  Speaker 3: this on the merits of the case, he was great.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm a Suffolk County resident. But Nassau County, which
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  Speaker 3: was going the way of the worst of New York City,
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  Speaker 3: he totally turned it around. Nassau County is great now.
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  Speaker 3: It's prosperous. It's thriving. It's safe. They got rid of
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  Speaker 3: the gangs. If there's a merit, if anybody's voting this
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  Speaker 3: election on the basis of merit, vote for him.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. KT, I love you. Great today. Great always.
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  Speaker 1: We really look forward to you coming on on Fridays.
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  Speaker 1: You never disappoint. Amazing job today. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you. KT McFarlane right there.
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  Speaker 1: We're lucky enough to have her every Friday on Sid
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  Speaker 2: never have to wonder. What the heck is going on here?