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Trump reportedly weighs MASSIVE STRIKE against Iran · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Those continued strikes come as the President's reportedly reaching the
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  Speaker 1: end of his rope with the Runs regime and now
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  Speaker 1: considering a full scale military assault. It's also weighing in
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  Speaker 1: today on other global players in this conflict, saying he
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  Speaker 1: is agreement now from Vladimir Putin and Dshijin Ping that
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  Speaker 1: they will not sell weapons to Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Retired US Snavy Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery will join us
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  Speaker 2: right here in moments.
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  Speaker 1: The first you go to Chief International Correspondent Steve Harrigan.
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  Speaker 1: He's in Tel Aviv this afternoon for US High Steve.
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  Speaker 3: Jillian. Ship traffic through the Strait of Horror moves really
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  Speaker 3: almost at a complete stand still, just three ships a
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  Speaker 3: day for the past three days passing through that straight
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  Speaker 3: And this happens as US forces continue to grind away
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  Speaker 3: night after night, attacking Iranian military positions inside of Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Last night, the thirteenth night in a row. The attacks
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  Speaker 3: began about two am. They lasted for more than two hours.
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  Speaker 3: Time President Trump spoke to Axios warned about a potential
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  Speaker 3: massive invasion of Iran, but he did say he hadn't
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  Speaker 3: reached that decision yet. I think President Trump's stresses over
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  Speaker 3: and over is that Iran cannot feel allowed to have
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  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the president, We're doing very well against the Islamic
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  Speaker 4: Republic of Iran. We're doing extremely well. They would like
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  Speaker 4: to do something, but I say they're not ready yet.
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  Speaker 4: They need more of the same. They're not ready yet.
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  Speaker 4: They had some evil intentions. We cannot let them have
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  Speaker 4: a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 3: One sign perhaps of a bigger battle ahead on the horizon,
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  Speaker 3: the number of mayors of Israeli cities have opened up
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  Speaker 3: bomb shelters across the country. They usually do that when
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  Speaker 3: the threat level has been raised. It is raised now
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  Speaker 3: Chilean back to you.
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  Speaker 1: See, we're hearing a increased chatter from administration officials through
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  Speaker 1: reporters of the presidents considering making some kind of a
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  Speaker 1: major military move and escalation in this conflict. What are
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  Speaker 1: you hearing from your sources on the ground in the region.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's clear by the surge in forces, the
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  Speaker 3: surge not only in material but also things like medics
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  Speaker 3: to Germany, that there is a range of options for
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  Speaker 3: the president. With fifty thousand forces in the region, there's
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  Speaker 3: certainly a wide range of options he could have, including
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  Speaker 3: what he says, a massive invasion, a massive attack. That's
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  Speaker 3: something that certainly people here feel a sense it could
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  Speaker 3: be coming. Bomb shelters are open, people are on really
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  Speaker 3: high alert walking around. There is a sense of tension
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  Speaker 3: in the region. But for the president, one of his
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  Speaker 3: great strengths is that he's unpredictable. So whether he'll take
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  Speaker 3: that route or whether he'll use it for a compromise
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  Speaker 3: ordeal still not clear at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Steve, A big obvious part of the equation
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  Speaker 2: here has been the rise and energy prices as things
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  Speaker 2: have been escalating. We see oil back near that ninety
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  Speaker 2: dollars mark, although it is down just a bit today.
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  Speaker 2: Gas prices you're at home have top four dollars a
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  Speaker 2: gallon in this escalation, in this phase of the war, Steve,
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  Speaker 2: how much are you hearing that this puts pressure on
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  Speaker 2: the situation, It increases the urgency.
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  Speaker 3: Certainly that's been a key factor the President and the
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  Speaker 3: administration aware of the pain that those high gas prices
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  Speaker 3: cause people, of course, gas jumping over oil jumping over
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  Speaker 3: one hundred dollars a barrel. Briefly this week, that's when
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  Speaker 3: the Hoo thieves opened up a potential second front. They
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  Speaker 3: attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea. So
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  Speaker 3: you have the problems in the Strait of Horror moves,
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  Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia trying to go around that through the Red Sea.
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  Speaker 3: Now attacks by the hoo Thies there that really spiked
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  Speaker 3: oil prices. That is another problem, a potential second front
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  Speaker 3: for this administration to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Steve, we've got to leave it there. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for joining us, Thank you stay close. Actually, you know
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  Speaker 1: what before we let you go, one last question here.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at the timeline real fast eve, we're
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  Speaker 1: getting towards the end of the sixty day period that
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be essentially a moratorium on any kind
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  Speaker 1: of military engagement while this MoU played out. It is
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  Speaker 1: dead and gone at this point. But are you hearing
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  Speaker 1: from the Israelis any hope that in the next few days,
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  Speaker 1: in the next week, it might yet be reborn again.
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  Speaker 3: Just actually the reverse. We're hearing a backbencher Israeli lawmaker
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  Speaker 3: really getting criticized for coming out and saying, well, everybody
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  Speaker 3: knows there's going to be a major invasion, perhaps as
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  Speaker 3: early as this weekend, and that Israel will take part
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  Speaker 3: in it. So there is a sense here of impending
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  Speaker 3: major action. That lawmaker was rebuked for speaking out of turn,
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  Speaker 3: but there is a sense here that things are building
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  Speaker 3: even after three years of war, a real weariness here,
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  Speaker 3: a real fatigue with war, and yet high alert that
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  Speaker 3: big things could be ahead and Israel could play a
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  Speaker 3: major part.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Steve, We're gonna let you go for real
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  Speaker 1: this time. Stay safe out there, thinks.
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