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John Solomon| Screen Time And The Iran War · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, now we have John Solomon coming on. And me
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  Speaker 1: and John worked together 40 years ago when we started
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  Speaker 1: the Hale newspaper. And, well, the president admires him and
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  Speaker 1: has put him to work at the White House. John Solomon,
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  Speaker 1: you always have breaking news for us. And tell us
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  Speaker 1: what you're telling the president.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, today, a lot of breaking news in the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East. First, Iran is trying to create an exclusion
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  Speaker 2: maritime zone outside the Strait of Hormuz. trying to put
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  Speaker 2: pressure on the United States to drop its naval blockade.
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  Speaker 2: This is a good sign for President Trump. It sounds threatening,
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  Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, it shows that
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  Speaker 2: Iran is under such economic pressure. It's going to try
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  Speaker 2: to do something it probably doesn't have the military capability
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  Speaker 2: to do. It has so few ships that it probably
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to enforce such an exclusion zone. So
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people in the Trump administration reading this
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  Speaker 2: as a desperate plea by Iran. Meanwhile, in the Middle
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  Speaker 2: East as well, Today, Israel launched a bunch of attacks
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  Speaker 2: against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. First time we've seen a
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  Speaker 2: lot of action in Lebanon in several weeks. There's been
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  Speaker 2: sort of a general truce there, keeping a close eye
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  Speaker 2: on that. Closer to home, the Maha movement and the
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  Speaker 2: Maha chiefs inside the Trump administration, they're taking on a
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  Speaker 2: major health crisis, one we don't talk about enough. Extraordinary
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  Speaker 2: effects of screen addiction. Our children are addicted to their
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  Speaker 2: video games, to their tablets, to their phones. And it's
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  Speaker 2: beginning to create some enormous medical issues, including nearsightedness at
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  Speaker 2: a much younger age, sedentary lifestyle and diabetes and being overweight.
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  Speaker 2: Last week, the Trump administration put together a massive plan
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  Speaker 2: to force parents or to work with parents to get
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  Speaker 2: their children more healthy, get them off the screens. get
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  Speaker 2: him into real life, they've released a guide, they've got
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  Speaker 2: a storybook for children, encouraging them to do things other
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  Speaker 2: than spend time on their screens. A major health initiative,
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  Speaker 2: all the major health figures in the Trump administration, part
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  Speaker 2: of this effort, the Surgeon General, Bobby Kennedy at HHS, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Bhattacharya at NIH, a full assault on what's become a
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  Speaker 2: really significant health syndrome in America today. Those are some
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  Speaker 2: of the headlines we're tracking today at Just the News, John.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you. And I understand that right now happening
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  Speaker 1: in the last hour or so, Zelensky is meeting with
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  Speaker 1: Woodcoff and meeting with what's going on. What do you hear?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the second day of meetings in Ukraine after the
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  Speaker 2: American delegation met with Vladimir Putin and Russian leaders over
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  Speaker 2: the weekend, just continuing to try to keep the ceasefire
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  Speaker 2: that started 24, 48 hours ago going, try to build
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  Speaker 2: momentum towards a peace deal. Peace has been very elusive,
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  Speaker 2: but both sides, I think, are wary of war. The
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  Speaker 2: drone warfare has extended an extraordinary amount of pain on
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  Speaker 2: both sides of the equation. Russia has another problem, which
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  Speaker 2: may put it a little closer towards wanting to negotiate.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't getting its cheap Iran oil anymore, now that
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  Speaker 2: the Iran straits are closed, or the administrative removes its clothes.
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  Speaker 2: And it's also running out of some of its drones,
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  Speaker 2: because Iran used to be the maker of its cheap drones.
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  Speaker 2: So Russia may have a little bit more incentive than
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  Speaker 2: it has in the last three, four years to want
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  Speaker 2: to negotiate. We'll see if this round of negotiations will
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  Speaker 2: be different from the prior ones, which ended with sort
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  Speaker 2: of a stalemate.
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  Speaker 3: John Solomon, it's Jake Novak. John, you were talking about
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  Speaker 3: the Maha thing and the screen addiction. I am noticing
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  Speaker 3: a number of school districts around the country, some of
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  Speaker 3: them are public schools, and then, of course, I'm talking
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  Speaker 3: about some private schools as well, that have now passed edicts,
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  Speaker 3: not just to keep your phones, you have to lock
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  Speaker 3: up your phones to come to school, but they are
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  Speaker 3: not going to use screens anymore. in the classroom anymore
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  Speaker 3: than a move away from powerpoint and all this other
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff and basically say we understand you're on
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  Speaker 3: screens of the times of the day but in school
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  Speaker 3: you're going to be with actual books in the good
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  Speaker 3: old-fashioned blackboard is that something that the maha people are
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  Speaker 3: pushing as well for the school specifically it it.
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  Speaker 2: Was in fact it was one of things that was
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  Speaker 2: applauded by bobby kennedy and other health officials at a
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  Speaker 2: symposium last week forty states are thirty nine states of
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  Speaker 2: the district of columbia have imposed some form of a
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  Speaker 2: cell phone ban in school during school hours. It's been
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  Speaker 2: a major movement. Now the secondary movement, individual school districts
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  Speaker 2: saying we're going to take kids off of tablets and computers,
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  Speaker 2: even during the learning environment, and go back to books
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  Speaker 2: and chalkboards and things like that to try to reduce this.
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  Speaker 2: Both a positive move, according to the Maha movement leaders
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  Speaker 2: in Trump. They like it. They're applauding it. Another big
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  Speaker 2: one that's also weighing in on this, Meta settled a
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  Speaker 2: screen addiction or the fact that it was accused of
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  Speaker 2: making its products, like Instagram, addictive to children. It put
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  Speaker 2: $ 17 billion into a settlement for states, but more importantly,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to create some restrictions. It's going to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that during school hours, kids can't use Instagram. So
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  Speaker 2: from the private sector to the public sector, a real
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  Speaker 2: significant declaration of war on this addiction to screens.
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  Speaker 4: One of the big things are parents getting involved because,
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  Speaker 4: you know, school, it's a few hours a day. It's
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  Speaker 4: a big chunk of the day, but the rest of...
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  Speaker 4: A kid's life is spent at home with their parents,
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  Speaker 4: and they're going to do what their parents teach them,
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  Speaker 4: lead by example. I remember years ago, it was very
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  Speaker 4: impolite during dinner to take your phone out and start
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  Speaker 4: going through it. No one would really do that. That
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  Speaker 4: didn't last very long. Now you go out, no matter
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  Speaker 4: who you're out with, friends, family, they will pull phones
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  Speaker 4: out and start using them when you normally would have
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  Speaker 4: had a social occasion, conversation. And kids will pick up
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  Speaker 4: on that. It's like a perfect storm. They see their parents.
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  Speaker 4: Their parents like the fact that it's kind of like
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  Speaker 4: a babysitter, especially for younger kids, to just hand them
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  Speaker 4: a phone or a tablet. And I think the parents
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  Speaker 4: bear a lot of the responsibility for what we're seeing
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  Speaker 4: these days. with kids just welded to their screens. Anthony,
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  Speaker 4: you know something that I find very interesting since you
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  Speaker 4: bring that up? I want every single person who's listening
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  Speaker 4: to our voices now, the next time you go out
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  Speaker 4: for dinner, look around. I start seeing young people, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm talking about 20s, 30, and so on. They're out
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  Speaker 4: on dates, and you know that's a date. But they
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  Speaker 4: are all consumed on their cell phone. There's no talking anymore.
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  Speaker 4: They're each literally either taking photos of the food or
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  Speaker 4: they're constantly texting with one another. What sort of a
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  Speaker 4: date is it when you're actually spending more time dealing
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  Speaker 4: with your phone than you are with the person who
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  Speaker 4: you're sitting across the table with? Michael, that's so funny
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  Speaker 4: because I don't know who you see people taking pictures.
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  Speaker 4: It's amazing. We all have amazing cameras on us 24
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  Speaker 4: hours a day, seven days a week. But have you
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  Speaker 4: ever seen somebody come up to you and go, oh, look,
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  Speaker 4: I got to show you this veal pond from last night?
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  Speaker 1: The answer is yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, because I'm the one who actually made it. Or
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  Speaker 5: my lasagna, which is known as, you know, Michael's exceptionally
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  Speaker 5: delicious lasagna. I do have photos of it and I
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  Speaker 5: show people what a better cook I am than they are.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't have anywhere to go for Rosh Hashanah, Michael.
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  Speaker 1: Hint, hint.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, I have a great story about that. I
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  Speaker 5: had cooked a lasagna once for Ivanka. That was pre
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  Speaker 5: her becoming Orthodox, where now, of course, she can't because
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  Speaker 5: I make it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you didn't say you have meat in there.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I do. And you can't eat it anyway. No.
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  Speaker 5: So my point is we finished three quarters of it
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  Speaker 5: and there was one slice left. And I'll never forget
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  Speaker 5: Ivanka turns around and says to me, hey, MC. Wrap
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  Speaker 5: that up for me. I'm going to have it tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: I said, no, no, no. I'm actually going to bring
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  Speaker 5: it to the office tomorrow to cook for myself. So
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  Speaker 5: she goes, I will fight you to the death for it.
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  Speaker 5: And that's how good it is. And if you don't
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  Speaker 5: believe that story, Anthony, you ask Ivanka herself.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Anthony.
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  Speaker 4: No, I was going to say, well, I'd like to
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  Speaker 4: see a picture of it then. I already just sent
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  Speaker 4: it to you.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: John Solomon, getting back to the Iranian situation and whether
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  Speaker 3: we're in.
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  Speaker 1: uh... a.
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  Speaker 3: New stage so it's very interesting to me that it
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  Speaker 3: seemed like our standard operating procedure changed over the weekend
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  Speaker 3: where we hit oil tankers is as opposed to missile
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  Speaker 3: launchers or other things like that now i'm looking at
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  Speaker 3: oil prices right now they're up about one percent right
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  Speaker 3: so the ninety two dollar barrel level which is where
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  Speaker 3: we were on friday uh... so and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: that has to do with the fact that yes we
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  Speaker 3: did destroy those oil tankers they were going anywhere i
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  Speaker 3: mean they were part of the blockade they were not
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  Speaker 3: on the open market that said uh.
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  Speaker 3: We heard from General Blaine Holt that we're getting close
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  Speaker 3: to that point where CENTCOM will tell both the Kurds
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  Speaker 3: and some of the other resistance leaders in Iran that
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  Speaker 3: this is the time to go. Is there something, John Solomon,
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  Speaker 3: with all of your contacts at the White House, is
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  Speaker 3: there something that will tell you that something's up? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: speaking of food, we know that when a lot of
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  Speaker 3: pizzas get delivered to the White House, that's usually a
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  Speaker 3: big one. Is there something that's going to signal to
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  Speaker 3: you that we could have a change?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe we should send pizzas to Iran. That should sort
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  Speaker 5: of loosen them up a little. What do you say
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  Speaker 5: to that, John?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they may need it soon. They have food shortages.
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  Speaker 2: They have gas shortages and oil shortages. An oil-rich company
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  Speaker 2: has oil and gas shortages right now because of the
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  Speaker 2: extraordinary impact of Donald Trump's economic blockade. So the military
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  Speaker 2: leveled the main offensive weapons along and mid-range weapons a
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  Speaker 2: long time ago. They every so often will take out
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  Speaker 2: some short range to try to protect the region and
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  Speaker 2: our soldiers in it. But the real suffocating moment, the
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  Speaker 2: one that may cause Iran to topple, is now this
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  Speaker 2: economic blockade, which is so extensive. Plus, the mullahs have
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  Speaker 2: all of their money frozen. They can't even tap their
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  Speaker 2: own bank accounts anymore. That's the moment when unrest starts
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  Speaker 2: to go. Remember back in January before the president had
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  Speaker 2: the first strikes in February, there was an enormous amount
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  Speaker 2: of street protests. Those street protests were not young people
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  Speaker 2: or women protesting. They were the bizarre folks, the people
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  Speaker 2: who sell the merchants. It was the first time we've
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  Speaker 2: seen that. The economic situation has gotten five or six
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  Speaker 2: times more dire since that time. If you start to
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  Speaker 2: see street protests again driven by the merchants and those
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  Speaker 2: in the marketplace, that will be the signal that maybe
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  Speaker 2: a larger resistance movement is about to form. and then
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  Speaker 2: the Kurds and people like that will start moving. I'd
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  Speaker 2: be watching for another round of protests. That will tell
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  Speaker 2: you that the Iranian people are done.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Anthony.
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  Speaker 4: We've seen this before, and we've seen the people of
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  Speaker 4: Iran and other countries, too, when they get a little
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  Speaker 4: tired of what their government is doing, try to stand
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  Speaker 4: up and take the reins. It really depends on the
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  Speaker 4: support that they get from other countries and from the
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  Speaker 4: United States. I mean, we dropped the ball. years ago
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  Speaker 4: and uh.
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  Speaker 5: didn't support uh.
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  Speaker 4: the people when they wanted to go against the uh...
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  Speaker 4: the government in iraq.
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  Speaker 2: A green revolution oh nine was such an extraordinary missed
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for bronco we could have potentially embrace it and
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  Speaker 2: overthrew the regime and i think this time if the
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  Speaker 2: street protesters go you'll start to see some sort of
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  Speaker 2: conglomeration maybe of uh... israeli uh... secret forces the Kurds,
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  Speaker 2: and then there is a group of Iranian resistance leaders
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  Speaker 2: that are pretty successful. They've been pretty good even when
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  Speaker 2: the IRGC was at its full force. That combination could
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  Speaker 2: create a hodgepodge that could tip the revolution. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's what Americans are working on now, to put that
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  Speaker 2: sort of hodgepodge team together so that when that moment comes,
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  Speaker 2: there is a meaningful resistance, one that could topple the government.
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  Speaker 3: John Solomon, thank you so much for joining us. Anthony,
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  Speaker 3: we've got to take a break. But John Solomon, thank
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  Speaker 3: you so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Great to be with you guys.
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  Speaker 3: And thanks for all these updates and your usual breaking news.
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  Speaker 3: We've got a lot more to get to, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: coming up pretty soon. Bruce Blakeman, the Republican candidate for
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  Speaker 3: governor in New York, who is not going to be
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  Speaker 3: at the West Indian parade because he says he was
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  Speaker 3: blocked from going by Kathy Hochul. So before you attack
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  Speaker 3: Bruce Blakeman for not getting out on the streets to campaign, remember,
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  Speaker 3: it's not as easy as it looks.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back.