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Iran deal - Trump blasts GOP critics as signing ceremony delayed · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: You see Donald Trump running around saying that people are
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  Speaker 1: stupid per se. But I think the only stupid one
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  Speaker 1: is him. Let's look at the terms of the deal
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  Speaker 1: for I mean, well, look, let's let's let's picture. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's not let's do it's four hundred billion dollars to
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  Speaker 1: the Iranian regime, one hundred billion in sanctioned relief, three
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  Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars in a reconstruction fund. That's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money flowing to the regime. That's well, that's that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't sound like unconvin unconditional.
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  Speaker 2: Let's let's let's pick that apart. The three hundred billion
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  Speaker 2: that we're talking about for reconstruction does not go to
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  Speaker 2: the regime. It goes to corporations. It's an investment, and
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  Speaker 2: it's to rebuild the infrastructure that the world relies upon
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  Speaker 2: for the oil supply chain. And it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: paid for primarily by the Gulf States.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to get the revenue from the oil sales.
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  Speaker 2: No, I understand that.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're if you're going to commit to rebuilding
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  Speaker 1: Iranian infrastructure, who gets the revenue from that you just
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  Speaker 1: lifted sanctions?
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  Speaker 2: They will be as part of the program am in
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  Speaker 2: the plan, there will be imf oversight of those funds.
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  Speaker 2: They will.
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  Speaker 3: That has has been finalized by the administration. And and
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  Speaker 3: look we I mean, we bombed them. The ira audience
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  Speaker 3: have been clear they want reparations for that. And now
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  Speaker 3: there's a vehicle by which they could potentially get it
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  Speaker 3: for uh a war that we started, which is kind
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  Speaker 3: of amazing to think about. But that's really what's being
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  Speaker 3: contemplated here. But even if we don't get to that, uh,
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  Speaker 3: apparently immediately, according to this MoU, they get oil and
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  Speaker 3: gas sanctions waivers. They are able to sell their oil
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  Speaker 3: and gas on the open market in a way that
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  Speaker 3: they haven't for a very long time. That is going
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  Speaker 3: to net them tens of billions of dollars every single month.
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  Speaker 3: So the president, I think what's interesting is that I
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  Speaker 3: think that he feels like he can say that it's
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  Speaker 3: been unconditional surrender. But then he also says things like this,
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  Speaker 3: this is more from Axios. He says, the only way
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  Speaker 3: I can get tougher is if I go in there
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  Speaker 3: for another two or three weeks and continue to bomb
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  Speaker 3: the hell out of them, Right, But where that get
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  Speaker 3: Where does that get us? The straight up. Hormouse will
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  Speaker 3: not be opems to know the more bombing is not
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  Speaker 3: actually going to help the situation, which is why he
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  Speaker 3: decided to just cut his losses.
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  Speaker 4: He feels like leverage to me. He doesn't want gas
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  Speaker 4: prices getting up to five dollars and six dollars a gallon.
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  Speaker 4: And the Iranians know that, Yes, they're being bombastic, by
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  Speaker 4: the way, but they also know they have leverage here.
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  Speaker 4: It's clear to me somebody was walking around the Senate
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  Speaker 4: with the thesaurus today because the Republicans found eight different
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  Speaker 4: ways of saying this is terrible Republicans, it's he's getting
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  Speaker 4: bad advice, this is appeasement, a colossal failure, very concerning.
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  Speaker 4: These are his teammates in the party. And oh, by
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  Speaker 4: the way, the House Republicans aren't in town, or we'd
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  Speaker 4: be hearing from dozens of them expressing their concern. This
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  Speaker 4: is a political mess, and he wants to turn the
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  Speaker 4: page on Iran. He has just glued the book open
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  Speaker 4: for at least sixty more days.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the problem is he also doesn't have any options,
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  Speaker 5: and he's running out of options here and he knows that,
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  Speaker 5: and which is very unfortunate. Is that around holds all
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  Speaker 5: the cards at this point, and they understand that they
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  Speaker 5: have the president and in America in a very vulnerable
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  Speaker 5: position right now. Something that was supposed to last a
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  Speaker 5: few weeks is now lasting months, could last now he's
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  Speaker 5: saying that he could potentially now bomb them again. So
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  Speaker 5: this sixty day potential deal or whatever, it has to
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  Speaker 5: be better, by the way, than the JCPOA, because if
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  Speaker 5: it is not, then I think that is a complete
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  Speaker 5: failure on Donald Trump's part. And Donald Trump has not
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  Speaker 5: shown us one bit that he has a leadership to
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  Speaker 5: actually produce something that is better. There is not one
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  Speaker 5: part of this process whatsoever from the beginning, whether it
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  Speaker 5: is whether he is claiming he obliterated the nuclear program,
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  Speaker 5: which he absolutely didn't, he has not been full to
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  Speaker 5: the American people at all, and every step of the
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  Speaker 5: way it has been a failure. And this is going
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  Speaker 5: to be part of his legacy moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: Let me play Mike Pompeio, the former Trump Secretary of
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  Speaker 3: State and CIA director. This is his assessment of the
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  Speaker 3: deal that Trump's duck.
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  Speaker 6: There's also some things there that just don't make any
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  Speaker 6: sense to me to somehow think that because they've written
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  Speaker 6: down on a piece of paper something they promise for
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  Speaker 6: decades that they won't build a nuclear weapon. That's just
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  Speaker 6: that's that's foolish at best. These there are no there's
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  Speaker 6: three m's.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 6: We now are going to say it's okay for them
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  Speaker 6: to have missiles. We're going to allow them to have money.
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  Speaker 6: The sansience relief that we're about to provide them is
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  Speaker 6: going to give them billions of dollars and they'll rebuild
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  Speaker 6: many of their programs. And so that's the second M.
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  Speaker 6: That's a mistake. And the third one is is this
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  Speaker 6: idea that somehow there are Iranian moderates. There's no such thing.
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  Speaker 6: These are all radical Islamis, and so only time will
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  Speaker 6: tell how this agreement will play out.
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  Speaker 3: No one has been more emphatic about this idea that
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  Speaker 3: they that the Iranians have changed their ways than Jade Vance,
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  Speaker 3: who's I guess supposed to be the chief negotiator here
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  Speaker 3: for the government. He has in several interviews this week
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  Speaker 3: really hammered home that he just believes that they've had
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  Speaker 3: a change of heart. They're ready to do things differently.
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  Speaker 3: They're ready to come to us and be a part
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  Speaker 3: of the global stage, and by Pompeio was pointing out
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  Speaker 3: that makes no sense. I mean, and that's what this
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  Speaker 3: whole deal is kind of predicated on.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that the triumph of hope over experience. Look, I
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  Speaker 7: think this is fundamentally a very pragmatic deal given the
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  Speaker 7: political situation, and you highlighted some of the folks who
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  Speaker 7: were critical of it.
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  Speaker 2: All of those.
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  Speaker 7: Republicans who are criticizing it, they either lost their primary,
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  Speaker 7: they either are not running for reelections, or they're running
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  Speaker 7: in it, not Roger Recker, or they are running in
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  Speaker 7: deep red sta.
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  Speaker 3: Not Roger Ricker, and not Ted Cruz, Ted Cruise, not for.
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  Speaker 7: Reelection this year.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't mean people are the only people that like
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  Speaker 3: who does my point eliminated?
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  Speaker 7: My point is that this is a This is a
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  Speaker 7: pragmatic deal, and a lot of Republicans actually have been
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  Speaker 7: thrilled to see this is the outcome.
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  Speaker 6: But how.
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  Speaker 7: Can I speak for more than two They were alarmed
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  Speaker 7: heading into the midterms that there were some documents to
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  Speaker 7: suggest we would have seven dollars gas prices. So I
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  Speaker 7: think Republicans are glad to see that now gas prices
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  Speaker 7: are down below four dollars a gallon on average nationally,
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  Speaker 7: we're going to see inflation come down. They are glad
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  Speaker 7: and relieved to see that Iran is going to be
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  Speaker 7: on the back burner and they can focus on domestic issues,
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  Speaker 7: Socialist candidates, and so again, there's many many Republicans who
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  Speaker 7: are glad to have some sort of relief.
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  Speaker 5: Valve because they're not going to this is they're okay.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, this mlu is lasting sixty days, You're
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  Speaker 5: getting closer and closer to the midtermal Lie actions. If
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  Speaker 5: he does not come up with a solution that is
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  Speaker 5: better than the j c p o A, there is
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  Speaker 5: no way that this is resolved before the midterm elections,
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  Speaker 5: and every vulnerable Republican is going to have to deal
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  Speaker 5: with this when it comes to gas prices. First of all,
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  Speaker 5: they're potentially opening the straight.
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  Speaker 6: This straight was not.
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  Speaker 2: Its open.
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  Speaker 1: Four dollars.
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  Speaker 5: I want to ask, you have several times that the
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  Speaker 5: straight will open?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, of course we have.
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  Speaker 5: And has it opened every single time?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I'll tell you this scorning the scoring.
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  Speaker 5: Why is the why was the straight closed?
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  Speaker 2: Why was the straight?
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 5: Because Donald Trump? Donald Trump caused it to be closed.
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  Speaker 5: So at the end of the day. We are now
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  Speaker 5: at an m o U. That is putting this back
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  Speaker 5: to where we were at the beginning of estate, which
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  Speaker 5: means the United.
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  Speaker 2: They would have probably a very different perspective if it's just.
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  Speaker 1: The way it was. The regime is still there, the
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  Speaker 1: people are still being oppressed. I don't know what you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about.
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  Speaker 2: People. When did that become a constitution?
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  Speaker 3: I do wonder. I mean, you just brought up the
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  Speaker 3: Iranian people. Their lives haven't changed matter, They're still being
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  Speaker 3: run by I told.
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  Speaker 1: Us like four hundred, there's nothing.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing if you're in Iranian, right There's not If
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  Speaker 3: you're an Iranian right now? What has changed for you? You
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  Speaker 3: are you still have the same structure, government structure that
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  Speaker 3: you had before. Now you have that government structure being
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  Speaker 3: promised billions of dollars of funds that only helps to
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  Speaker 3: reinforce their control over society. What positives are they getting
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  Speaker 3: out of?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not a lot at me. But we kind of
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  Speaker 2: have to pick a lane, don't we. Right either, we
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  Speaker 2: want to have this humanitarian purpose, which is going to
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  Speaker 2: require a more dedicated effort there and higher gas prices.
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  Speaker 2: Let's be honest. For the American people, this is about
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  Speaker 2: their wallets and what they pay at the pump, and
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  Speaker 2: we have no tolerance for it. But why is patriotic
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  Speaker 2: mission behind this? Is not like World War Two, Let's
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  Speaker 2: go and work and well, you know, airplanes and be
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  Speaker 2: part of the war effort and buy war bonds that
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't exist anymore. That's part of what the bomb
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  Speaker 2: was talking about.
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  Speaker 3: That's a transparent answer because honest basically it is that
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  Speaker 3: we don't have the stomach for this, which is what
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  Speaker 3: the Iranians knew