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David Smith: Guardian Washington Bureau Chief with the latest on US/Israel strikes on Iran · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So, as you've been hearing all kicking it off in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East over the weekend, you, the.
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  Speaker 2: Great, proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the
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  Speaker 2: hour of your freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered, don't
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  Speaker 2: leave your home. It's very dangerous outside. Bombs will be
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  Speaker 2: dropping everywhere. When we are finished take over your government,
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  Speaker 2: it will be yours to take.
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  Speaker 1: So he wants the regime change, but he wants the
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  Speaker 1: Iranians to help him do it. Basically around supreme leader
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  Speaker 1: that I had told AHMENI has been killed. That has
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  Speaker 1: been confirmed by both sides. Now other leaders have been killed,
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  Speaker 1: not sure exactly who at this point in the joint
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  Speaker 1: US's RADI strikes on Tehran. Now, Tehran responded with missile
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  Speaker 1: strikes reported Dubai and the UAE Qatar's capital Doha, Bahrain, Kuwait,
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  Speaker 1: anywhere they can get to. Basically, you might find an American.
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  Speaker 1: David Smith, Washington Bureau, Chief of The Guardian, joins US Live. David,
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  Speaker 1: what is the latest from Washington?
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  Speaker 3: Hi?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Donald Trump has been doing some media interviews. He
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  Speaker 4: told Fox News that some forty eight leaders have been
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  Speaker 4: killed so far in Iran, which I guess you know
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  Speaker 4: is going to raise a technical question, you know, when
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  Speaker 4: does it constitute regime change? How deep does it have
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  Speaker 4: to go. In a separate interview with Atlantic Magazine, Trump
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  Speaker 4: said Iran's new leadership wants to talk to him, and
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  Speaker 4: he has agreed. He said, said, you know, they should
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  Speaker 4: have done it sooner. They waited too long. But he's
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  Speaker 4: he's happy to talk now. So I guess there's a
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  Speaker 4: hint there of a beginning of an end to this,
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  Speaker 4: but we're still a long way off. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 4: Billy Iran is striking back and hitting Israel and the
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  Speaker 4: United Arab Emirates. And in the meantime, we've had the
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  Speaker 4: first report of US service members among casatives. Three military
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  Speaker 4: personnel killed and five or seriously wounded, a acording to
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  Speaker 4: the US Central Command.
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  Speaker 1: Right, how long does it go? I mean, you hear
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  Speaker 1: Nitya who's say this is going the bombing will go
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  Speaker 1: on for at least days from here. What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's an interesting tension there because Benjamin Netigner,
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  Speaker 3: who is ready Prime Minister, probably very influential in getting
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  Speaker 3: us to this point in the first place. He's always
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  Speaker 3: craved regime change in Iran. And past the US presidents
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  Speaker 3: were not receptive to that, but despite the friction between them,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes Trump was. And you know, this is his ambition realized,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm sure nessa who would like to see it
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  Speaker 3: through for as long as possible. On the other hand,
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  Speaker 3: I think the gravitational pull from Washington will be in
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  Speaker 3: the opposite direction. There will be many members of Congress
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  Speaker 3: who already feel flighted by this, who feel that Trump
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  Speaker 3: failed to get their consent as he should have done,
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  Speaker 3: and according it unconstitutional and unlawful. They will say that Trump,
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  Speaker 3: you should take the win, take the fact that Ama
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  Speaker 3: Dinashad and so many others sorry Ayatolla, how many I
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  Speaker 3: should say and reportedly form the president Ama Dinishad and
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  Speaker 3: others have been killed, and get out as soon as possible,
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  Speaker 3: before more American lives are lost and before the financial
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  Speaker 3: cost of this piles up. And right now very hard
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  Speaker 3: to say which way will go. I think Trump's latest
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  Speaker 3: remarks about talking to the remnants of the Iranian regime indicates
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  Speaker 3: that he would probably like to wrap this up sooner
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  Speaker 3: rather than later.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, David, appreciate your time. David Smith, Washington bureau
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  Speaker 1: chief for the Guardian.
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