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K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor | 05-22-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: Last week, Kat McFarland, who I respect as much as anybody,
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  Speaker 2: said that I should keep my eye on Spencer Pratt
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  Speaker 2: out in Los Angeles because he's a reality star like
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  Speaker 2: I was a sports guy, you know, no political experience.
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  Speaker 2: And she said, of Spencer Pratt wins in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 2: you need to find out who ran his social media campaign,
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  Speaker 2: hire those sane people, and then you should run for mayor.
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  Speaker 2: And I played that throughout the entire week this week,
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  Speaker 2: even Joe Buningo played it on a sports station. So
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  Speaker 2: you don't know this k t mcfallhand, but you're getting
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  Speaker 2: a lot of play from what you said. Last week
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  Speaker 2: that I should take a page out of Spencer Pratts
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  Speaker 2: book and maybe run.
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  Speaker 3: I think it would be brilliant. I mean, think of
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  Speaker 3: who the most effective politician is in the last generation.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump, Now he's had a politician. He wasn't a
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  Speaker 3: traditional guy. He had he was a businessman. He was
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  Speaker 3: in television, he even bottled wine. Then he tried everything.
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  Speaker 3: He was an entrepreneur. And he'd met every political leader,
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  Speaker 3: Republican Democrat for the last generation, because they all trooped
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  Speaker 3: over to Trump Tower to try to get donations from
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  Speaker 3: President Trump. And so he's seen the quality of or
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  Speaker 3: lack of quality of a lot of the leadership. And
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  Speaker 3: it's a certain point. And I think it was at
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  Speaker 3: a dinner, a White House correspondence dinner when President Obama
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  Speaker 3: took the podium and made fun of Donald Trump for being,
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  Speaker 3: you know, uneducated, but did he know, made fun of that,
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  Speaker 3: made fun of everything Donald Trump that Donald Trump had
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  Speaker 3: basically said I've had enough, I'm going to run. And
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  Speaker 3: look what happened. He has changed the political earthquakes at
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  Speaker 3: that's cost, because all of a sudden, people who are
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  Speaker 3: not career politicians are stepping forward and they're doing it
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  Speaker 3: very effectively. I mean, I look at Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 3: terrific senator, but he didn't come out of a political background.
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  Speaker 3: He was a West Pointer Army graduate and then a
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  Speaker 3: very successful businessman. So one after another, the people who
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  Speaker 3: seem to be breaking through the corruption, the sort of
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  Speaker 3: failure attitude of well, let's just spend more roma at
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  Speaker 3: it and not rethink the game. Those are the people
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  Speaker 3: who are winning. And those are the people who were
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  Speaker 3: actually governing and making a big difference. And you could
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  Speaker 3: be one of them.
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  Speaker 2: I could be thank you for that. I agree with
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  Speaker 2: you too. Those are the people. I know. I bought
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  Speaker 2: this up with you a couple of weeks ago, but
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  Speaker 2: I love the fact that you worked for four presidents,
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  Speaker 2: and two of them are the two best presidents of
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  Speaker 2: my lifetime. Some would argue, along with Abe Lincoln maybe Jefferson,
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  Speaker 2: the greatest presidents ever, and that is Ronald Reagan and
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  Speaker 2: President Trump. And I know that one guy does something
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  Speaker 2: better than the other guy. They each have their strengths,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, not many weaknesses, but I guess they're human.
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  Speaker 2: But in the end, if I asked you just flat out,
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  Speaker 2: who will go down as the better and more influential president.
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  Speaker 2: But it's all said and done because Trump is still serving.
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  Speaker 2: President Donald J. Trump or Ronald Reagan. What does your
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  Speaker 2: crystal ball tell you?
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  Speaker 3: It depends on the next I would say the next
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  Speaker 3: three months, but it could be President Trump. Now why
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  Speaker 3: do I say that, Well, everybody forgets that. When Reagan
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  Speaker 3: came into office, the United States was going to be
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  Speaker 3: the Civiet Union was going to take over the world.
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  Speaker 3: The Civic Union was expanding all over the world. The
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  Speaker 3: American economy was in the dumpster, high unemployment, very high inflation.
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  Speaker 3: The Middle East was enflamed and was not selling US oil.
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  Speaker 3: So our economy was bad, Our foreign policy was bad,
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  Speaker 3: and the American people just seemed the sense of, oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's over. I mean, before it's really begun. It's over.
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  Speaker 3: Where a failure America? Just the problem is you. Jimmy
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  Speaker 3: Carter told us the problem with you, Americans. And so
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  Speaker 3: President Reagan came in, It's morning in America and he
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  Speaker 3: flipped it all around. Right. The economy got fixed very quickly.
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  Speaker 3: We took down the Soviet Union and destroyed communism. The
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  Speaker 3: world had a generation of pro democracy around the world,
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  Speaker 3: and the American economy took off, but not only took off,
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  Speaker 3: but created a whole new industry, which was the computer industry,
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  Speaker 3: the technology industry. Now, where is President Trump and all that?
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  Speaker 3: I think his big takedown is going to be, does
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  Speaker 3: he revive America again? America is in a very similar position.
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  Speaker 3: But when he took off as America.
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  Speaker 2: I know what, oh you mean when he first took
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  Speaker 2: off is because what I remember, and I'll get back
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  Speaker 2: to you Trump point was I was thirteen years old
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  Speaker 2: and I remember being on a line in Brooklyn with
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  Speaker 2: my mom and dad and my sister. He was trying
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  Speaker 2: to get guess and the line was like miles and
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  Speaker 2: miles long. And I remember that Americans were embarrassed the
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  Speaker 2: hostages because you'll get to Iran. They had our hostages.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when Jimmy Carter was president, and you know
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  Speaker 2: when the hockey team one, for example in Lake Placid,
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  Speaker 2: that had less to do with a hockey goal against
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  Speaker 2: Russia or Finland and more to do with, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually proud to be an American again. Do you
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  Speaker 2: feel like when he beat Joe Biden that we were
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  Speaker 2: really at that point where we were with Jimmy corner
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy nine.
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  Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, but with a more formidable adversary, and that's China.
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  Speaker 3: And I do think that President Trump has it in him.
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  Speaker 3: And the difference is in a lot of ways. President
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  Speaker 3: Trump is knowledgeable about a range of things. You know,
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  Speaker 3: It's not just that he's really an expert on a
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  Speaker 3: couple of things, or he really has sort of toughness
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  Speaker 3: in one or two different areas. Reagan was tough in
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  Speaker 3: a couple of areas where he would just stick with
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  Speaker 3: what he thought was right no matter what, and that
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  Speaker 3: was on taxes, the economy, communists in the Soviet Union.
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  Speaker 3: Trump is really good on a whole lot more things.
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  Speaker 3: His breadth of intellectual curiosity is extraordinary, and yet at
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  Speaker 3: the same time he's still got that toughness. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: when he was asked about Iran, are you worried about
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  Speaker 3: gasoline prices? And Iran using oil in the Strait of
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  Speaker 3: Hormuz to as a blackmail ust And of course the
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  Speaker 3: quote that President Trump gave has been caught in dice
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  Speaker 3: and sliced and taken out of context. But what President
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  Speaker 3: Trump's meaning was, I'm not going to let these guys
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  Speaker 3: blackmail me. Or the United States over oil? So am
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  Speaker 3: I concerned? Well, I'm not as concerned about that as
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  Speaker 3: I am about Iran having nuclear weapons. And if they're
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  Speaker 3: willing to blackmail US with oil, think of what they
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  Speaker 3: will do if they have nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 2: So where are we with the Iran? Does this thing
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  Speaker 2: start up again in a couple of days or you know?
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  Speaker 2: They pulled a bunch of Americans, and Americans said when
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  Speaker 2: I asked the question, I saw this on Brett Pain.
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  Speaker 2: How long you think this thing will last? And they
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  Speaker 2: asked today, they asked a couple of months, they asked
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  Speaker 2: a year, and the majority of the people that were
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  Speaker 2: pulled said at least three months.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: No, I think President Trump's going to make a decision
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  Speaker 3: shortly to resume and show them. So all these talks
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  Speaker 3: about the talks, right, the rumors are either Iran wants this,
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  Speaker 3: the United States wants that, and round's about to fall.
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  Speaker 3: This is about to happen. There is some kind of negotiation.
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  Speaker 3: How serious it is for us? But the way President Trump,
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  Speaker 3: if you looked at how he's conducted himself, unlike most
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  Speaker 3: presidents who will either negotiate and then you have a ceasparwall.
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  Speaker 3: You negotiate, or you don't have a negotiation and you
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  Speaker 3: go to war. Trump is very good at doing both
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  Speaker 3: at the same time. It's finding the pressure at the
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  Speaker 3: same time, and so I wouldn't think it's out of
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  Speaker 3: the range of possibility for President Trump to start new
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  Speaker 3: hostilities in the sense of going after the remaining military
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  Speaker 3: targets to eliminate. Now we've eliminated the first, second tier
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  Speaker 3: of leaders, let's eliminate the third, fourth, fifth tier of
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  Speaker 3: leaders to finally get to somebody who wants to do
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  Speaker 3: a deal with us. The difference now is that the
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  Speaker 3: golf Arabs appear to be on our side, and that's
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  Speaker 3: important because we don't want to be in the Middle
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  Speaker 3: East forever having to enforce this agreement alone. We would
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  Speaker 3: want our neighbors and our allies in the region to
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  Speaker 3: do a lot of the heavy lifting for US intelligence
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  Speaker 3: as well as military heavy lifting. And I think that's
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  Speaker 3: a good thing. But I would not be all surprised
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  Speaker 3: if he resumes military action. He can't stop now. And
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  Speaker 3: when people say, oh, well, it's going to take three months,
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  Speaker 3: six months, whatever, he knows he's nose. He has to
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  Speaker 3: face the electorate in November, and he's a what happened
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  Speaker 3: in his first term when the Democrats took control two
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  Speaker 3: years into Trump's presidency, the rest of the presidency was
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  Speaker 3: in peach impeach impeach accused charge. It really hamstrong President Trump,
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  Speaker 3: and he can't let that happen this time around. So
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  Speaker 3: I do think that he'll force for some kind of
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  Speaker 3: a conclusion. I hope he forces for some kind of
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  Speaker 3: a conclusion with the Iran war in the short term.
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  Speaker 2: In the final sixty seconds, I agree with you. I
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  Speaker 2: think he knows was at stake here. And we'll see
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  Speaker 2: him later on this afternoon here in Rockland County. He'll
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  Speaker 2: be there to talk about the economy, but really to
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  Speaker 2: endorse my dear friend Mike Lawler, who's going to join
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  Speaker 2: us next He's about to close up this Iran thing, hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: but to start Cuba now. I did speak to our
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  Speaker 2: mutual friend Victoria Coats from the Herriage Foundation yesterday. She
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  Speaker 2: is great, and she said that this is not like Venezuela.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to be that type of military operation.
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  Speaker 2: This will be in terms of military a little easier,
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  Speaker 2: but she does expect that it's much like the Iran
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  Speaker 2: ending maybe just days away, and she does expect a
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent victory like we've seen most of the
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  Speaker 2: time with President Trump.
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  Speaker 3: What do you expect. Well, since Victoria is one of
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  Speaker 3: my mentees, I mentored her for years and thinks she's awesome,
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  Speaker 3: I also agree with her. I think Cuba will happen
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  Speaker 3: very quickly. I think all the pieces are already in place.
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  Speaker 3: The indictment. To me, that the indictment of the ninety
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  Speaker 3: four year old Raoul Castro, who's in mental and physical
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  Speaker 3: complete decline. You know, nobody's going to drag him in
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  Speaker 3: handcuffs in a jumpsuit. I don't think into a court
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  Speaker 3: that just it's the important thing is to make the
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  Speaker 3: marker that he was a criminal and he did very
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  Speaker 3: bad things to people, and that'll help the American Cuban
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  Speaker 3: community in Miami to say, right, we were right all along.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, it gets him off the
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  Speaker 3: script to a retirement home or hospital or wherever he is.
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  Speaker 3: And then the only thing standing in the way of
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  Speaker 3: an agreement is a bunch of corrupt and competent leaders
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  Speaker 3: that the Cuban people don't like him, and the opportunities,
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  Speaker 3: you know, people who were looking at Cuba as an
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  Speaker 3: American investment opportunity and a way to really have a
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  Speaker 3: very close relationship. They've already been to Cuba, they've already
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  Speaker 3: been measuring the drapes. So I think it's a matter
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  Speaker 3: of a short period of time.
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  Speaker 2: God, I love you, you know, I really love you.
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  Speaker 2: You're so great on this show. You're great on TV,
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  Speaker 2: You're smart. I really enjoy you coming on every Friday.
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  Speaker 2: So enjoy your three day weekend with Moyal Day coming
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  Speaker 2: up on Monday, and we'll do it again next week. Kat.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Thank you all right, Kat mcfalland
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  Speaker 2: right there with us every Friday. You can catch her
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  Speaker 2: throughout the week on Box News and again has worked
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  Speaker 2: for four presidents, including two pretty good ones, i'd say,
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  Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan and Donald J.
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  Speaker 1: Trump.
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