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John Solomon | SGE & Founder/CEO of "Just the News" | 07-09-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: What is the cost of that is much higher prices
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  Speaker 1: in gas, maybe even we run out of gas scene
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  Speaker 1: it or boots on the ground. Is that a reasonable
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  Speaker 1: Is that a reasonable price to pay in order to
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  Speaker 1: take out the regime for America, not for Israel? But
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  Speaker 1: are you're an American?
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  Speaker 2: I'm an American and I'm a Maga Trump guy.
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  Speaker 3: I love Ques.
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  Speaker 2: If you're watching, I love you. We need to win
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  Speaker 2: in November. That's the bottom line. And to your point, Rachel, no,
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  Speaker 2: this is as asterous at this point, but there realies
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  Speaker 2: don't care. And the truth is for America, if we're
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  Speaker 2: going to win this, there's only one way to win.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I keep hearing well, diplomacy.
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  Speaker 4: Let's have an honest conversation. That's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm guaranteeing this audience right now. Iran will ain't never
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  Speaker 2: agree to a deal, and if they do, they will
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  Speaker 2: never comply. No one's been more right about this hereon
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  Speaker 2: conflict than me. Bottom line, and we're nowhere. Okay, Midnight Hammer,
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  Speaker 2: huge success, Operation Epic Fury, huge success. The last couple
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  Speaker 2: of months stuck in mud. John joined the White House
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, as an unpaid special government
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  Speaker 2: employee to lead a task force on government transparency. His
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  Speaker 2: role focuses on identifying withheld documents regarding election integrity, weaponization,
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  Speaker 2: and the twenty twenty election. While in this temporary government
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  Speaker 2: advisory position, Solomon has stepped aside as the editor in
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  Speaker 2: chief of Just the News, the media outlet of course
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  Speaker 2: he founded, though he continues his commentary and reporting work.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, he continues it right now because here he
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  Speaker 2: is back on sitting friends in the morning. I love
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  Speaker 2: this guy, John Solomon. I guess let me start with congratulations, John.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. Yeah. I was at five or so this
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  Speaker 5: morning looking through some documents who were working hard to
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  Speaker 5: get a large number of documents out. Over the next
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  Speaker 5: few weeks, I think people will begin to see the
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  Speaker 5: secrets that they've been kept from for a very long time.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm very excited to be part of this work
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  Speaker 5: and a great team that we're working with. And you'll
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  Speaker 5: start to see the fruits of our labor very soon,
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  Speaker 5: you know, with nine.
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  Speaker 2: To eleven coming up the twenty five year commemoration, and
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  Speaker 2: I saw it this Monday, John, I know you and
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  Speaker 2: your family listen. I play a cut every day that
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  Speaker 2: relates to that day, and it's mostly because I hate
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  Speaker 2: the mayor and I'm disgusted by the disrespect With this
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  Speaker 2: big date coming up, I'll admit that. I'll admit that that's
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  Speaker 2: my motivation. But Rudy Giuliani was so brilliant and his
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  Speaker 2: life has been ruined because he really believed he did
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  Speaker 2: I know he worked for the president, but he really believed,
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  Speaker 2: as does Trump, that that twenty twenty election was rigged
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  Speaker 2: and he'd taken a beaten for it. Are you telling me,
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  Speaker 2: John that sometime sooner than later you're going to provide
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  Speaker 2: some proof that'll free my boy Rudy Giuliani.
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  Speaker 5: Well, let the public decide how good the proof is.
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  Speaker 5: That we are definitely on going back a very long time,
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  Speaker 5: two decades. Really, we're looking at things about election integrity
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  Speaker 5: and security and weaponization that have not yet been released,
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  Speaker 5: that have been kept from us. We've had lots of investigations.
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  Speaker 5: It turns out even those investigations didn't turn up some
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  Speaker 5: very significant secrets. So the questions that we would like
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  Speaker 5: to answer, we don't know what they're going to be yet,
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  Speaker 5: because they're still going to the documents our election machine secure?
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  Speaker 5: What is the Intelligence Committee known about them? And what
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  Speaker 5: has there ever been any evidence of cheating that didn't
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  Speaker 5: get prosecuted. What did we know about that? Who in
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  Speaker 5: the intelligence community didn't tell Congress or didn't tell a
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  Speaker 5: president about vulnerabilities that should be fixed? Do we have
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  Speaker 5: a glass chin going into the twenty sixth election when
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  Speaker 5: it comes to the stability and or security of our elections?
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  Speaker 5: And so those are the questions. The answers are going
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  Speaker 5: to be in the documents, and we'll have to wait
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  Speaker 5: and see. I'm always a guy that likes to wait
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  Speaker 5: and see what we got before I predict. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: this is an important mission. But it's not just about elections.
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  Speaker 5: It's about the abuse of intelligence powers, the abuse of
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  Speaker 5: law enforcement powers, the invasion of our privacy. Perhaps our
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  Speaker 5: Fourth Amendment isn't as robust as we thought in recent years.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe we're being spied on more. So those are all
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  Speaker 5: questions that we're trying to get to the bottom of.
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  Speaker 5: Until we get to them, we don't know the answers.
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  Speaker 5: So we'll wait and see. But I go in with
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  Speaker 5: an open mind. Everyone does, and we'll see what the
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  Speaker 5: evidence shows. I think we'll start to produce some evidence
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  Speaker 5: in the next couple of weeks that people will begin
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  Speaker 5: to under you know, make their own assessments about where
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  Speaker 5: we go with.
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  Speaker 2: It spied on more. I mean, I've seen stories about
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  Speaker 2: people walking into supermarkets, you know, people walking into you know,
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  Speaker 2: these big supermarkets, and there's like something on their hand
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, they take some type of handprint or something,
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  Speaker 2: and the next thing, you know, I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: straight out of George Orwell nineteen eighty four. They know
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  Speaker 2: everything about you and the customer doesn't even realize that
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  Speaker 2: how was that.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, we are in a surveillance society, and by the way,
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  Speaker 5: it goes well beyond our government. There are some obviously
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  Speaker 5: very concerning things that we've learned about our government and
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  Speaker 5: our surveillance. The fact that they were getting bank records
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  Speaker 5: out with subpoenas, the fact that they got the FBI
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  Speaker 5: to director in White House cifa stat's phone records. We
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  Speaker 5: know that to be sure that they were getting phone
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  Speaker 5: records and members of Congress despite the protections of the
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  Speaker 5: separation of powers in the Constitution. But it goes beyond that.
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  Speaker 5: We have these large, massive data farms that private companies
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  Speaker 5: have created. You saw what TikTok was doing. I think
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  Speaker 5: we will learn that China was infiltrating significant important data
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  Speaker 5: about every American that goes beyond just their social media habits,
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  Speaker 5: maybe gets down to their driver's licenses, their social security,
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  Speaker 5: their voter registration cards. There's so much in the surveillance
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  Speaker 5: society we are in private companies, collected foreign powers hack it,
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  Speaker 5: and all of a sudden, the foreign powers have the
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  Speaker 5: benefit of that espionage, of that privacy information. I think
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  Speaker 5: that surveillance society that we're living in there's a reckoning
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  Speaker 5: moment for all of us to figure out, how do
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  Speaker 5: we make this better. We're too smart a country to
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  Speaker 5: allow this level of information security weakness to exist.
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  Speaker 2: Totally agree. John Solomon joining us right here. You heard
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  Speaker 2: what I said. I played that clip again me on
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  Speaker 2: Fox News again. I think that Midnight Hammer was a
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  Speaker 2: huge success. That's why the Iranians can't build a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 2: Has nothing to do with the last two months. Nothing
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  Speaker 2: that's right, right, Epic fury, big deal, great job, wiped
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  Speaker 2: out Kamane three other levels and showed them that here
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  Speaker 2: we come. But I've said this to you. You've ber
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  Speaker 2: on the show quite a bit now, John the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of months, we've been stuck.
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  Speaker 4: We've won nothing. We've won.
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  Speaker 2: For the president to say it, I get it, he's
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  Speaker 2: the president. What do you expect him to say. But
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of smart people I talked to every
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  Speaker 2: day that I say in the same thing, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: We've won nothing. Can you make an argument we've won
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  Speaker 4: this war?
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  Speaker 5: Well, if you take the objectives that were given to
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  Speaker 5: us when the military action started. We achieved those objectives.
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  Speaker 5: We got rid of Iran's navy, we got rid of
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  Speaker 5: its air force, we got rid of most of its
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  Speaker 5: military industrial complex, we got rid of its nuclear weapons capabilities,
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  Speaker 5: actially reduced the size of the Republican a revolutionary guard.
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  Speaker 5: Excuse me, those were the objectives. We accomplished that by
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  Speaker 5: March or April, very clearly. So from a military objectives
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  Speaker 5: to victory. Yes, the goal of getting to a peace
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  Speaker 5: deal always was going to be the sticky wicket. I
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  Speaker 5: think you and I talked about this could be cat
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  Speaker 5: and mouse, right, We'd go for a while, then Iron
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  Speaker 5: would act bad, we'd whack them, we get back to
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  Speaker 5: the table. I think that's played out exactly the way
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  Speaker 5: that you and I talked about this a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 5: The ultimate problem for President Trump, and I think you
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  Speaker 5: and I talked about this was his desire to get
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  Speaker 5: a peace deal may run into the fact that the
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  Speaker 5: Iranians don't, can't, or not possible to be trusted to
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  Speaker 5: accept such a peace deal. And I think that that's
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  Speaker 5: the point the President reached the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 5: He gave them a few months. Every time they acted bad,
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  Speaker 5: he punished them more. Then he gave them a little
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  Speaker 5: trust that's open up. We'll give you a little bit
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  Speaker 5: of money. They do a little bit oil sales. And
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  Speaker 5: what did they do? They acted bad, So the President
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  Speaker 5: like a like punishing of our calcagen teenager. Basically, now
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  Speaker 5: that we're done with this, we're finished. We'll see if
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  Speaker 5: that happens or whether the negotiators come back and say,
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  Speaker 5: give us one more shot.
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  Speaker 3: Boss.
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  Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, Iron has proven
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  Speaker 5: for forty seven plus years it is not a trustworthy
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  Speaker 5: member of the world community. It prefers violence over peace,
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  Speaker 5: it prefers radicalization over normalization. It wants nuclear weapons. It
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  Speaker 5: hates America, it hates Israel, and that's a very difficult
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  Speaker 5: enemy to negotiate with could there be a deal possible?
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  Speaker 5: But I think at this point the President is going
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  Speaker 5: to go in and finish some more military objectives and
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  Speaker 5: then declare it done and leave Iron in a set
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  Speaker 5: of rumble.
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  Speaker 4: No disrespect. You're lots more than me. It's not possible.
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  Speaker 4: It's not possible.
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  Speaker 5: You listen. I think that's exactly the president to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Every time Steve, every time Steve Witkop and Jared Kushner
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  Speaker 2: walks off a plane, I want it to be embarrassing
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  Speaker 2: for the United States.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody doesn't.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I understand, I understand the dynamic. I also understand
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  Speaker 5: the president's desires that give Piece a chance. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: in four months, three months, he's made a pretty clear decision. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: the language, the body language, everything the President said tells
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  Speaker 5: me that he's kind of finished with this. He gave
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  Speaker 5: them three months, he tried everything, even gave them some
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  Speaker 5: rope and let the mac bath and give him a chance.
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  Speaker 5: But I think he's determined now that this is not
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  Speaker 5: a country that ever wants a piece deal. And I
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  Speaker 5: think you're right. I think what we will do is
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  Speaker 5: finish our military objectives, leave Iran in a complete rumbled
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  Speaker 5: state and then go back and do the other things
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  Speaker 5: in America needs to do. But I think that what
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  Speaker 5: will happen in the next few weeks. In the reporting
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  Speaker 5: I've done, you have a growing number of civilian leaders
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  Speaker 5: that don't want any more war. They understand that. Then
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  Speaker 5: you have the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard. They are just
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  Speaker 5: radical nuts and they just continue to tug that. So
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  Speaker 5: I think the president will fin out the Revolutionary Guard.
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  Speaker 5: There were forty seven thousand, I think of their troops
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  Speaker 5: at the beginning, they're down below thirty from the reporting
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  Speaker 5: I've done. If you get him down below ten or five,
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  Speaker 5: they're not big a threat anymore. So I think they'll
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  Speaker 5: keep eradicating them and then maybe give the Iranian people
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  Speaker 5: a chance not to be suppressed by the IRGC and
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  Speaker 5: maybe take their country back. I think that's probably where
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  Speaker 5: he ends up. And then we go back to the
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  Speaker 5: business of all the other things America has to do,
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  Speaker 5: including the elections this.
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  Speaker 4: Fall, right, which is really important.
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  Speaker 2: In the final sixty seconds, John John Solomon, and again
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  Speaker 2: congratulations Now John, part of that SGA crew working at
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  Speaker 2: the White House, and we couldn't find it better. American
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  Speaker 2: and a smarter guy than John. You know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember this because you know, I spent a lot of
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  Speaker 2: years talking about Eli Manning and Carmelo Anthony. But right
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  Speaker 2: at what point exactly did Erdawan and Turkey become all
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  Speaker 2: brains where they get more compliments and bb in Israel?
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  Speaker 2: Can you help me out here, John?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, it's been a member of NATO for
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  Speaker 5: quite some time, and that always was a question for
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  Speaker 5: people was that a good move? And in some moments
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  Speaker 5: in history it's proven to be a good move. Turkey's
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  Speaker 5: done things that were beneficial to you, and I says,
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  Speaker 5: in other moments in history, it's been a troublesome movement.
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  Speaker 5: Turkey's added acted badly. It has ambitions of restoring the
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  Speaker 5: Ottoman Empire. When you listen to Erdawan, he has this
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  Speaker 5: very much like putin this romantic sized idea that he's
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  Speaker 5: going to create a new conquest. It's not possible, it's
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  Speaker 5: not going to happen. The recent comments by President Trump
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  Speaker 5: are designed to reward good behavior. Turkey didn't support the
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  Speaker 5: bad guys or get behind Iran. And secondly, they've been
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  Speaker 5: trying to create a more normalized relationship than Sirius SII
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  Speaker 5: was the other Iran remember Asada, one of the great
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  Speaker 5: state sponsors of terrorism. President Trump, Yes, they proposed removing
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  Speaker 5: Syria from the state sponsored terrorism list because Siria has
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  Speaker 5: been acting good. Turkey's been a big part of trying
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  Speaker 5: to push that dynamic. Now it's fragile, it could go sideways,
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  Speaker 5: just like Iran, but Siria is going in a direction
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  Speaker 5: that Iran hasn't proven to gone yet, and that is
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  Speaker 5: they're trying to become a more normal nation and become
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  Speaker 5: part of the Western world. That be one of the
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  Speaker 5: great hidden successes of Trump's foreign policy.
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  Speaker 2: John Solomon, You're amazing, You're willly areso again, congratulations on
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  Speaker 2: this White House position, and please just keep coming on
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  Speaker 2: with me because I listen.
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  Speaker 5: Family, listen to your show. So every time my mom,
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  Speaker 5: I'm talking to my family. It's great.
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  Speaker 4: I love it. John, You're great, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: Great job. You are terrific.
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  Speaker 2: John Solomon right here on sid and Friends in the
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  Speaker 2: morning once again editor in chief of Just the News.
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  Speaker 2: But these days he's got a very important job with
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  Speaker 2: the White House with the special Government Employee leading a
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  Speaker 2: task force on government transparency, which of course we could
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  Speaker 2: always use more of that.
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