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Trump tells Axios there are no limits to his power after the Iran war · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: President Trump sat down with XOS reporter and CBS News
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  Speaker 1: contributor Marcut Pluto after returning from the g seventh Summit.
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  Speaker 1: I spoke with Mark about his conversation with the President.
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  Speaker 1: Please listen. You asked the president important question about power
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  Speaker 1: and whether any limits he perceives. Let's play it.
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  Speaker 2: What have you learned about not just the exercise of power,
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  Speaker 2: but the limits on your power as.
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  Speaker 3: A result of the conflict. There are no limits, no
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  Speaker 3: limit No not I haven't learned that lesson yet. I
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  Speaker 3: know there are, but you know there are no limits.
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  Speaker 1: Was he serious in your evaluation with the answer?
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  Speaker 2: I think he was, you know, just it's typical Trump right.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, you can almost see my shoulder giggle a little,
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  Speaker 2: thinking like, well, that's actually kind of funny, because I
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  Speaker 2: did not expect him to say none. There no limits
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  Speaker 2: are Like, I'm sure they're out there, I just haven't
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  Speaker 2: encountered them. And yeah, he surely believes that now he
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  Speaker 2: has encountered his limits though in the Iran war. That's
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  Speaker 2: just beyond a doubt. But he's just not going to
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  Speaker 2: admit it.
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  Speaker 1: He's not going to admit it. Yeah, you also asked
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  Speaker 1: him out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel writ
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  Speaker 1: large and what may or may not happen that is
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  Speaker 1: possibly uncomfortable between the two nations in the not too
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  Speaker 1: distant future. Let's listen to that.
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  Speaker 3: If it weren't for Donald Trump and Bibi Netanya worked
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  Speaker 3: well with me, but he will tell you we're the
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  Speaker 3: ones with the guns, We're the ones with the whole deal,
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  Speaker 3: We're the ones with the beat two bombers, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: If it weren't for Donald Trump, Israel would have been eviscerated.
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  Speaker 2: The relationship with Nan Yahu's it's good.
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  Speaker 3: But we have to keep them a little bit sane.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to be able to control Israel from
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  Speaker 2: attacking Lebanon?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I will be.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, uh, they have a lot of respect for me,
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  Speaker 3: and they do as I.
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  Speaker 1: Say, Mark, you know what I do. There are three
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  Speaker 1: things in there that the President said. They're pretty important
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  Speaker 1: and will resonate in Israel for quite some time. Essentially
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  Speaker 1: the implication that without America and without him leading America,
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  Speaker 1: Israel at sovereignty and it existence may not be guaranteed,
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  Speaker 1: which I think the Israelis would take as a possible
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  Speaker 1: affront Second, BB Netanyahu without President Trump can be insane.
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  Speaker 1: Two last, they will do as I say.
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  Speaker 2: WHOA, Yeah, well that's a lot, man, it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: I detect, and I have gotten indications I'm being very
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  Speaker 2: cautious and careful with my words from advisors to Trump
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  Speaker 2: who say that while they haven't asked him this because
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  Speaker 2: they wouldn't dare they suspect that if Donald Trump had
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  Speaker 2: a time machine, or if back on February twenty eighth
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  Speaker 2: he had the ability of foresight, he would not have
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  Speaker 2: gone into war the way he did against Iran. Now
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  Speaker 2: this is just their suspicion, their guests, their feeling, and
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  Speaker 2: my feeling is is that deep inside of Trump there's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of resentment to Netanyahu, who was a
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  Speaker 2: leading proponent for this action. The comedian Yeah, don't get
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  Speaker 2: me wrong. I think it's wrong to say that. But
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  Speaker 2: for if Netnahu didn't exist, Trump would have never done this.
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  Speaker 2: I think Trump probably would have. But netnaw who was
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  Speaker 2: a major proponent of this war, a major marketer of
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  Speaker 2: selling how easy it's going to be in the opening
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  Speaker 2: days of the conflict to Corna. My colleague Bockravid, who
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  Speaker 2: writes extensively, both stateside, and you know from Israeli politics
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  Speaker 2: side that netyawho thought that this would be over very quickly,
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  Speaker 2: and that was sold to the president. Now, the CIA
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  Speaker 2: had its own assessments that the President bought. But deep inside,
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  Speaker 2: I think what you're hearing from Trump is a sense
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  Speaker 2: of like I got sold to billow Goods here.
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  Speaker 1: Would you go so far as to say buyer's remorse?
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  Speaker 2: I think he would and admit it. But again, in
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  Speaker 2: my conversations with people who know is thinking that's probably
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  Speaker 2: deeply buried in there.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else from the interview that struck you that we
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  Speaker 1: did not play just.
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  Speaker 2: The general sense of relief that Trump had. And understand
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  Speaker 2: that when I talked to Trump, he had just flown
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  Speaker 2: back from Europe, he had only two hours of sleep
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  Speaker 2: tops he's eighty, Like I would have just been a mess.
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  Speaker 2: He nevertheless has carried this positive sense that the sense
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  Speaker 2: of relief that he's found a way out. And that's
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  Speaker 2: and that's evidence by the fact that in the interview
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  Speaker 2: you'll see we have the full interview at Access dot com.
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  Speaker 2: He talks about stock markets up, oil is down, and
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  Speaker 2: then he says at one point this great line he says,
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  Speaker 2: he's like it's a gusher, as if he's discovered an
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  Speaker 2: oil field. And I think that sort of gusher symbolism
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  Speaker 2: or imagery sort of symbolizes how he feels about this,
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  Speaker 2: like this sort of release.
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  Speaker 1: One man's gusher is another man's off frame Markaputo Axios
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  Speaker 1: great stuff as always, thank you, I appreciate it.