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Inside Scoop with Breitbart News - Capitol Hill Reporter Nick Gilbertson · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 2: White House correspondent Nick Gilbertson's writing about. Welcome back, Nick Gilbertson,
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  Speaker 2: writing on Trump in the Middle East piece, You ever
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  Speaker 2: thought you'd see the day you got two dozen world leaders,
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  Speaker 2: big ones too, Egyptian president, the Americutter, you got the
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  Speaker 2: Turkish president. They're all standing there signing documents to put
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  Speaker 2: an end to this ridiculous war between Israel and Gaza.
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  Speaker 2: It's an amazing accomplishment, Nick, Welcome back. It's good to
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  Speaker 2: hear from me this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Brian, it's great to be here. And certainly yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's a I think this is Trump's crowning achievement thus
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  Speaker 1: far in his term. And you know, it's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I think some thirty countries were there, yes, from all
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  Speaker 1: over the world, so just really remarkable, remarkable stuff and
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  Speaker 1: what to show you to be.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a lot of details that need to be
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  Speaker 2: ironed out. I know one of the remains of the
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  Speaker 2: deceased hostages, which is sad in and of itself that
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about. You know, they didn't even keep
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  Speaker 2: the hostages alive. A lot of them died, so we've
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  Speaker 2: got that really black mark on the whole process. But
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  Speaker 2: finding the remains of the balance of them. Hamas claims
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  Speaker 2: that it doesn't even know where they are. There's so
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  Speaker 2: many different I suppose factions of Hamas out in the world.
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  Speaker 2: They're fighting amongst themselves now. But are these like splitter
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  Speaker 2: groups within the Hamas umbrella that are keeping these the
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  Speaker 2: dead hostages.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think at this point there's been so all
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  Speaker 1: twenty of the living hostages were you know, returned right
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  Speaker 1: day and reunited. But I know they were saying that
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  Speaker 1: there were twenty. They believed the presidents of last week
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  Speaker 1: that we're still or that that were deceased tragically, horrifically
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  Speaker 1: and I know they returned. For of the deceased, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they've been identified yet those remains. So by
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  Speaker 1: deduction there there's twenty four bodies that need to be
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  Speaker 1: you know, relocated and recovered and brought home and returned
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  Speaker 1: to their loved ones.
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  Speaker 2: Do we know right now? One of the original terms
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  Speaker 2: of the twenty point plan that Donald Trump rolled out
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  Speaker 2: was HAMAS must disarm. A question have they agreed to
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  Speaker 2: do that? And second question is sort of a follow
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  Speaker 2: up to the where are the dead hostages? If HAMAS
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  Speaker 2: doesn't even know within its multiple splitter organizations where the
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  Speaker 2: dead hostages are, can it really agree on behalf of
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  Speaker 2: you know, like the I don't know campaign for Free
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  Speaker 2: Galilee subset of Hamas. Can they guarantee that all of
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  Speaker 2: these different entities would disarm?
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  Speaker 1: That's a that's a great question, Brian. And I know
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  Speaker 1: the President said yesterday and these other countries that were
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  Speaker 1: kind of intra are key here in bringing this deal about.
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  Speaker 1: And I know, uh, you know, like Egypt, Turkey, Katar,
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  Speaker 1: all those other countries. President Trump when when he was
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  Speaker 1: talking about supporting Gaza yesterday, he put a major emphasis
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  Speaker 1: on militarization of Gaza, you know, of of of the
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  Speaker 1: police and or rather of Gozzin's and he was talking
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  Speaker 1: about a police force that would kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: be be separate and kind of you know, keep order
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  Speaker 1: in Gaza, but a heavy emphasis on demilitarization. And I
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  Speaker 1: think the term he used was an honest civilian police
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  Speaker 1: force to create, you know, a safe condition for the
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  Speaker 1: people in Gaza. So I know that's where we put
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  Speaker 1: a heavy emphasis on. So again, we'll we'll see. And
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  Speaker 1: this is all very uh, you know, as this piece still,
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  Speaker 1: I think they're on step six or seven somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: or seven or so. Yeah. This as this goes on,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so far, so good, right, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see how things continue to work.
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  Speaker 2: Out well, Nick, And I hate to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 2: I want to be very optimistic, but I'm old enough
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  Speaker 2: to remember, you know, everyone in every presidential administration since
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  Speaker 2: I've been born has been trying to negotiate peace in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East. It doesn't often and hardly ever if
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  Speaker 2: it ever works out. I know, with the Abraham of Corns,
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump made some really great inroads and getting folks
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  Speaker 2: to play nicely together for their own economic benefit. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: who can argue with that? Hey, if we quit fighting
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  Speaker 2: and spending all of our money on guns in military,
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  Speaker 2: we might have booming economies. There's an idea. But how
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  Speaker 2: do you feel about this going forward? The devil's always
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  Speaker 2: in the details, as I've said too many times, But
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  Speaker 2: you got six of the steps toward twenty being accomplished,
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  Speaker 2: and there are some large stumbling blocks, notably disarmament and
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  Speaker 2: then how much of the of the Goza territories? Ill
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  Speaker 2: is Israel going to control if any and who's going
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  Speaker 2: to govern? Lord knows they need better government than Hamas.
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  Speaker 2: So what about those items? Nick?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely, I think I think one thing that is good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they have going for them here, every everybody
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  Speaker 1: in the steel has going for them as the presence
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  Speaker 1: of President Trump. And I think, you know Secretary of
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  Speaker 1: State Marco Rubio down to Special Envoy Steve witcoff right,
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  Speaker 1: And I think as they go along through this, if
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  Speaker 1: there are any hiccups, I think, you know, these are
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  Speaker 1: very competent people, and I think they've shown that they can,
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  Speaker 1: you know, bring bring different people to the table, kind
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  Speaker 1: of work things out between them, whether it be the
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  Speaker 1: character or the stick right, and I think that that's
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  Speaker 1: a that's a that's a critical thing here, and that's
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  Speaker 1: something we certainly didn't see in the last administration. That
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even you know, get the ball rolling any anywhere
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  Speaker 1: close to a potential piece deal here. And so I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, well, we'll see how it all shakes out. Again.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's you know, very tensitive here, but I think so far,
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  Speaker 1: so good. And I think that was such a strong
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  Speaker 1: showing yesterday too in the region to have all those
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  Speaker 1: different leaders kind of kind of come together, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's a very promising sign
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  Speaker 1: and a positive one. So that's that's that's what I
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  Speaker 1: can share that well.
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  Speaker 2: And I suppose that there was a lot of maybe
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  Speaker 2: i'll use the word pressure, whether or not was pressure
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  Speaker 2: or not to get all of those world leaders to
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  Speaker 2: appear to sort of as a massive showing of force
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  Speaker 2: against Hamas. The rest of the world is on one side
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  Speaker 2: of the argument, you're on the other. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 2: in a losing position, Hamas. I think that was on
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  Speaker 2: full display yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely you had countries represented from from every single continent.
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  Speaker 1: I think even the President of Paraguay was there yesterday
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  Speaker 1: from the uh, the all important. But I think that
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  Speaker 1: just goes to show what a what a broad coalition
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  Speaker 1: of countries were present yesterday. And then you know you
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  Speaker 1: had all these not just Trump, right, but you had
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  Speaker 1: Western leaders from uh, you know, I think Native Secretary
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  Speaker 1: General Secretary Mark Mark Rudy. You had Italian Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Maloney, uh uh, Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: Emmanuel McCrone from France, Mark Carney from Canada. So really,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you have the Western world involved. You had
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  Speaker 1: all these countries from Asia as well. I believe you
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  Speaker 1: had a Japan over there, and then even countries that
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  Speaker 1: Trump has already broken peace deals with, right so our
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  Speaker 1: media Azerbaijan, they were there together. Trump just ended you know,
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  Speaker 1: I believe a thirty plus a or something war between
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  Speaker 1: those two countries a few months ago, one of you know,
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  Speaker 1: seven dealsies made that have held up between country. He's
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  Speaker 1: leading up to this right between, you know, bringing Jamas
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  Speaker 1: to the table and getting them to accept this deal.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, he's got eight so far under his
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  Speaker 1: belt since returning to office in January, kind of averaging
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  Speaker 1: one a month's here, and I think, you know, this
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  Speaker 1: is a granddaddy of them all.
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  Speaker 2: So far, it is truly remarkable, Nick, as you run
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  Speaker 2: through that, it's just absolutely amazing in such a short
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  Speaker 2: period of time. You know, I can be a critic
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  Speaker 2: of Donald Trump from time to time, and everybody is
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  Speaker 2: worthy of some measure of criticism. No one walks on water.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, just since January of this year, how
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  Speaker 2: much he's been able to accomplish. I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I just I'm amazed at what this, what Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: has been able to do. And the other component of this,
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  Speaker 2: which is allowed for this peace process to move forward,
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  Speaker 2: Egypt finally opened its border up so we can have
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  Speaker 2: the flow of humanity going back and forth into the region.
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  Speaker 2: That that was a huge.
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  Speaker 1: Hurdle, absolutely, And I think that that goes to show
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  Speaker 1: to how how President Trump's relationship with Cisi over there
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  Speaker 1: is just very different from how Obama and Biden kind
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  Speaker 1: of alienated Egypt as an ally. And so, you know, again,
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  Speaker 1: I think it goes to show Trump. Trump being the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate deal maker and and pragmatists. He works with what
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  Speaker 1: he has right, what you give him, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's very good at understanding what's going to motivate
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  Speaker 1: people and what won't. And I we've literally seen this
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  Speaker 1: from him for the past what fifty years, going back
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  Speaker 1: to his part his private sector days, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: he was kind of repainting the skyline there in New
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  Speaker 1: York City. So for me, it's it's it's truly remarkable stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's it's it's quite something.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what I think to go ah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And I think too, you know, I just
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  Speaker 1: people forget too. Like two months ago, he just like
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  Speaker 1: brokeer this amazing or rather historic trade deal between the
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  Speaker 1: European Union and in the United States. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just just whether it be deadlines. He hit Tamas with
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  Speaker 1: this pretty pretty serious statement on October thirties, like he said, look,
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  Speaker 1: this is the last chance for a master agree or
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  Speaker 1: quote all hell like no one has ever seen will
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  Speaker 1: break out against it, right, And you know, within a
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  Speaker 1: couple hours you get them agreeing to come to the table.
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  Speaker 1: And and we've seen just Trump use the deadline over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over again, whether it be the tariffs,
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  Speaker 1: whether it be with his legislative agenda with one big
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  Speaker 1: beautiful bill. He's he's very good at this and bringing
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  Speaker 1: different sides together and getting them to agree to this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Nick, because he follows through, unlike Barack Obama, who
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  Speaker 2: drew red lines left and right and never did bother
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  Speaker 2: do anything after someone crossed the red lines, almost an
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  Speaker 2: open defiance of Barack Obama, and to a certain degree,
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  Speaker 2: to the extent Joe Biden did anything, no one paid
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  Speaker 2: any attention to what he was doing. I mean, if
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  Speaker 2: you don't listen to Trump, he tells you exactly what
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  Speaker 2: he's going to do and then pull then delivers on it.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think that all hell's going to break.
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  Speaker 2: Luke's comment in the wake of an aftermath of him
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  Speaker 2: bombing the hell out of Iran with those bunker busters,
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  Speaker 2: with Israel bombing Cutter, with whom they have no adversarial relationship.
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  Speaker 2: If you got Hamas in your house, We're going to
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  Speaker 2: come after your house. I mean, these are all realities
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  Speaker 2: that everybody was facing. So yes, a strong president who
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  Speaker 2: delivers on his red lines needs to be taken seriously.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this along those lines, Nick, what
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  Speaker 2: does Iran make of this? If you can guess, and
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  Speaker 2: I want to put you on the spot, but Iran's
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  Speaker 2: got to be I think a little bit uh concerned
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  Speaker 2: about these developments.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, this isn't good for Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday and they're dealing with these massive sanctions. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Trump just kind of set there or you know, made
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  Speaker 1: their neutralize their nuclear program a few months ago with
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  Speaker 1: those strikes on Cordona Tons. That's pahand like you were,
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  Speaker 1: like you were saying, and that you know, sends a
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  Speaker 1: message to everybody else too, that's a side thing. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know this that you have all
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  Speaker 1: these countries in the region and you know, kind of
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  Speaker 1: pushing towards a stabilized region, pushing towards peace. And you
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  Speaker 1: know when we see this, this happened with Hamas yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I mean if if I think that goes to show
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  Speaker 1: you know, Hamas is a cell essentially right of Iran.
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  Speaker 1: They get funding from there, they traditionally did, so I
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  Speaker 1: think that goes to show, you know, the weakness of Iran.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the President Trump said yesterday he thinks Iran
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  Speaker 1: what wants to make a deal, wants to come along
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  Speaker 1: and make a deal eventually. So he was kind of said, look, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I hope to talk to them and eventually
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  Speaker 1: right when they want to come to the table, and
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  Speaker 1: he said he wants to take the sanctions off and
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  Speaker 1: he wants to see Iran prosper also noting too, like
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  Speaker 1: they can't survive with with these massive sanctions they're facing.
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  Speaker 1: So basically seriously, you know, using using the stick there
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  Speaker 1: pretty heavy, also offering the carrot in terms of you know,
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  Speaker 1: wanting to bring the Middle wanting to bring them into
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh uh, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, a peaceful coalition.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, You've got the words for me. But President
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  Speaker 1: Trump said yesterday too, I think, you know, the Middle
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  Speaker 1: East incredible destiny, and he said is a safe and prosperous,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful crossroads of culture and commerce, faith in humanity, and
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  Speaker 1: a geographic center. He also said it could be the
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  Speaker 1: geographic center of the world. So I think that goes
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  Speaker 1: to show his vision. And that's that's also you know,
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  Speaker 1: I ran could go down that path. I think if
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  Speaker 1: if they made an honest and earnest effort and showed
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  Speaker 1: President Trump that they wanted to, then again, if if
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  Speaker 1: they don't want to, you know, you can uh because
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  Speaker 1: and trumpell, you know, we'll do what he feels he
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  Speaker 1: needs to do.
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  Speaker 2: Right clearly. Well, and you know, honestly, if you step
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  Speaker 2: back from whatever is driving and motivating them, and I
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  Speaker 2: would I would say it's obviously it's hatred toward Israel.
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  Speaker 2: It's religious fundamentalism. There is the core of their problems.
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  Speaker 2: If they just walked away from that ideology and said,
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  Speaker 2: all right, we're going to be Muslims, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be Islamic, We're going to be you know, enjoy our
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  Speaker 2: own faith. But you know what, it's not worth fighting
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  Speaker 2: with our next door neighbor. It's costing us. It's our
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  Speaker 2: economy's ruin. We have nothing to show for all of
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  Speaker 2: this war for decades and decades, if not centuries. If
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  Speaker 2: we just put down our war weapons machine and just
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  Speaker 2: start talking about commerce and industry, we're going to have
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  Speaker 2: a healthy, prosperous country and we can just abide our
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  Speaker 2: own religion within our own within the four corners of
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  Speaker 2: our own country. Problem solved.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's that's literally the easiest route for
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  Speaker 1: them to take, right, Like, you know, but obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's there's all sorts of years of fundamentals that
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  Speaker 1: have taken place, all sorts of youths that were raised
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  Speaker 1: under this too. So again, you know, it's it's it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of hard to read the tea leaves,
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  Speaker 1: but it's it looks peace looks promising right now, especially
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  Speaker 1: after yesterday, especially that show of unity. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: have again from around the globe, every single continent essentially
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  Speaker 1: represent maybe not Australia, right, but uh yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: it shows the show of unity and the show where
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  Speaker 1: everybody wants this to go and everybody's kind of on
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  Speaker 1: the same page here. And and I think the key
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  Speaker 1: is those other Arab countries in the region that are
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  Speaker 1: you know, brought into this prosperous coalition already as you said,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, want to uphold that and even broad
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  Speaker 1: in it, expand it. And look, I think if you
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  Speaker 1: can bring peace to the region too, like, imagine what
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  Speaker 1: this does for a potential trade route maybe, right, or
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  Speaker 1: what could mean for that. I know much was made
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  Speaker 1: in the first term about a potential Imat corridor, right
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  Speaker 1: and that run from India through the Middle East, through
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  Speaker 1: Europe into the United States. So you know, peace in
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East would be massive for that. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure China is a little worried about about what happened
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  Speaker 1: yesterday too, so pretty interesting stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, doors wide open for peace. Everyone prospers with peace,
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  Speaker 2: read about it every single day. White House Correspondent Nick Gilbertson,
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  Speaker 2: always a wonderful conversation with you. I appreciate you and
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  Speaker 2: everybody at Breitbart is doing each day. And again we'll
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  Speaker 2: encourage my listeners to the bookmark your website Breitbart dot com. Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Until we talk again, have a great day and week,
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  Speaker 2: my friend.
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  Speaker 1: You too, Brian, Thanks again for having.
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  Speaker 2: Me, always a pleasure. Eight twenty two. Right now, stick
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  Speaker 2: around the Daniel Dave