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Katie Fisher: US Correspondent on the US' involvement in the Iran-Israel conflict, Republican response · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: A white watch and whites Trump and his comments on
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  Speaker 1: the situation in the Middle East. He's done a media
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  Speaker 1: staying up a short time ago. Katie, for sure, are
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  Speaker 1: US correspondent, Well, that's Caddy. What's he saying.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's not doing anything to end this speculation as
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  Speaker 2: to whether or not the US is going to go
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  Speaker 2: in and help Israel and its strikes in Iran. He
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  Speaker 2: basically said, look, I may or I may not. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: knows what I'm going to do. He suggested it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: too late for negotiations. Still, but the Iran Supreme Leader
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  Speaker 2: has dismissed Donald Trump's calls for an unconditional surrender, and
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  Speaker 2: he has warned that the Americans should know that any
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  Speaker 2: US military intervention will undoubtedly be accompanied by quote irreparable damage.
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  Speaker 2: So we still don't have a clear idea of what
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  Speaker 2: the US president intends to do, but we do know
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  Speaker 2: that it's causing some rifts visions within his Republican party,
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  Speaker 2: who generally up until this point in his second presidency,
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  Speaker 2: have been completely in lockstep with him, supporting everything that
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  Speaker 2: he's done, But here we see some of his right
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  Speaker 2: wing cheerleaders like Tucker Carson, who used to be on
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  Speaker 2: Fox News and Marjorie Taylor Green coming out and saying
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  Speaker 2: that by going into this Iranian war, it would mean
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  Speaker 2: that Donald Trump was turning his back on his America
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  Speaker 2: First policy. He promised in his inauguration that he would
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  Speaker 2: not be starting wars, he would be ending them, and
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  Speaker 2: so this would go really against that. Then you've got
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  Speaker 2: others like Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz who want
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  Speaker 2: him to go forward and join as well in the
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  Speaker 2: fight against Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Katie, thank you for that up there, Katie Fusher, our
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  Speaker 1: US correspondent. For more from early edition with Ryan Bridge,
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