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Brig. General Blaine Holt | 06-19-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: On the line with us, we have General Blaine Holt,
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  Speaker 2: and well, there's nobody better than him. I found him
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  Speaker 2: to be very reliable and in really getting the information out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, General, where do you want to start this morning?
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  Speaker 2: It's early in the morning and the Sunday is trying
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  Speaker 2: to shine. What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Well it's gonna shine, John, Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 3: But man, do we have a royal mess in the
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  Speaker 3: geopolitical realm or forward affairs? As we knew we would.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump's strategy is not very much appreciated in tel
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  Speaker 3: Aviv right now, and it's got to be we seriously
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  Speaker 3: got to work out these misalignment problems with our ally Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, Israel has to do what they have
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  Speaker 2: to do. And I think Trump understands that. Americans understand that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I understand it. In if the hesbe
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  Speaker 2: Lah attacks them, you know what I would do if
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  Speaker 2: I was Israel, I attack them twice as bad, and
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  Speaker 2: you do what you have to do. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: Trump may say, naughty, noughty, you shouldn't have done that,
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  Speaker 2: But bottom line, Israel has to do what they have
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's exactly right. They are in a survival
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  Speaker 3: sense having to defeat Hesbela. What I'm wondering is is
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  Speaker 3: how much does Hesbela have some left, meaning their supply chains,
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  Speaker 3: their intelligence, the IRGC is shredded, There's nothing left for
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  Speaker 3: them to support Hesbla with. So I think it falls
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  Speaker 3: to President Aoun of Lebanon where We've got to go, Listen,
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  Speaker 3: what types of things do we have to do to
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  Speaker 3: support you so that you stop material any kind of
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  Speaker 3: material support that has blows demanding from Lebanon.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you know what I said last night, Trump, You
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  Speaker 2: know President Trump says make my day that if they
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  Speaker 2: continue or we're sending me the ships along the along
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  Speaker 2: the Hormouth coast, and if they attack one of those ships,
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  Speaker 2: Trump is going to go in. My opinion, my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't talked to the President. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna do, but just my opinion, he's going to
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  Speaker 2: go in and knock out not not gonna hunt any civilians,
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  Speaker 2: but wherever the what do you call the I are GC,
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  Speaker 2: whatever the IRGC is, they'll knock out every colonel, they'll
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  Speaker 2: knock out every major, and it can hurt them personally.
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  Speaker 2: And that's my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: What do you say, Jim, I think you're exactly right
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  Speaker 3: if there are colonels and majors even left. They took
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  Speaker 3: a terrible blow last time, but that doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 3: there's not more to do. You've heard me say this.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that we get to a final agreement
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  Speaker 3: without IRGC leaving the planet. But the concern we should
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  Speaker 3: all have is as a martyr group of psychopaths that
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  Speaker 3: only dream of our armageddon leave the planet, then we
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  Speaker 3: have to watch for terror cells here as their last
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  Speaker 3: calling card. We have to take care of domestic security,
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  Speaker 3: and just like the Israelis are taking care of their
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  Speaker 3: own security. But I do think that President Trump, you know,
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  Speaker 3: memorandum of understanding means we agree that we're going to
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  Speaker 3: find a way to get to an agreement. We're just beginning.
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  Speaker 3: Diplomatic sausage making is underway. It's unfortunate that the Switzerland
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  Speaker 3: meetings are not going to begin in earnest, but I
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  Speaker 3: think that they eventually will.
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  Speaker 2: They will. They're taking the weekend off. I guess in
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning. You know what you're gonna see Monday morning. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Israel shouldn't have done that, but they did
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  Speaker 2: what they did, and our talks are continuing. The ships
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  Speaker 2: are moving and the price of oil is going.
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  Speaker 3: Down twelve million barrels yesterday, and they are I'm watching
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  Speaker 3: the maritime tracker. The ships are rolling through and that
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  Speaker 3: oil is needed Europe. I can't even begin to explain
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  Speaker 3: with the time we have how bad off Europe is
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  Speaker 3: now in the energy department. Much of their leadership's owned doing.
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  Speaker 3: But that's okay. We don't begrudge the European peoples. And
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  Speaker 3: then the other thing is we really tried to help
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  Speaker 3: out the world by draining down our own stocks. We've
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  Speaker 3: got to get healthy again. And so it's very very
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  Speaker 3: good to see the straight I.
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  Speaker 2: Know President Trump, I know them a long time. You
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  Speaker 2: know when he's going to fill up their reserves again.
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  Speaker 2: When oil is below fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be there soon. It looks like it's on its
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  Speaker 3: way there.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, General, Hold, this is Jake Novak. I just want
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  Speaker 4: to talk a little bit more about this breaking news.
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  Speaker 4: This attack last night, Fesbeola hitting an Israeli tank, either
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  Speaker 4: with an anti tank missile or a weaponized drone, we're
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  Speaker 4: not sure yet, killing the entire crew, including the battalion commander,
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  Speaker 4: lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Army. Israel hitting back hard
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  Speaker 4: in the Macaw Valley, as you just said, and John
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  Speaker 4: just said, so far no word from the White House.
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  Speaker 4: And I had to tell you, as someone who knows
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  Speaker 4: the Israeli political situation very well, if that's going to
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  Speaker 4: be the mo going forward, that Israel goes and retaliates
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  Speaker 4: for attacks from Fesbola and there's no word from the
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  Speaker 4: White House, the Israelis will be a lot more okay
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  Speaker 4: with this deal. If that's the way it's going to go.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're right, But I also think there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of back channel diplomacy between Tel Aviv and Washington
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  Speaker 3: going on right now, and they're going to define you know,
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  Speaker 3: and this is what we probably should have done at
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  Speaker 3: the outset, and I had hoped that they had is
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  Speaker 3: there needs to be joint rules of engagement about how
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  Speaker 3: what we're when, and how do you neutralize targets. And
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  Speaker 3: I think they're going to get on the same page
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  Speaker 3: with that. Look, if Israel season attack, they've got to
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  Speaker 3: go after it, there's no question about that. The other
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  Speaker 3: part is is logistically, now is an opportunity to go
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  Speaker 3: finish off Hesbealah by choking off all of their weapons
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  Speaker 3: stores and supply chains because the IRGC is so bad
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  Speaker 3: off or Scott descent is tearing up the money laundering
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  Speaker 3: that they've been doing from Venezuela into Lebanont. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: very optimistic. It's just it's a rough couple of days.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to get back on the same page with
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  Speaker 3: our ally, but I think we're on the path to
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  Speaker 3: a very good place. I'm overall very optimistic, but in
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  Speaker 3: the short term we have to all remain very watchful well.
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you, you know, knowing Trump, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: and well, the Intelligence agency is listening to this station.
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  Speaker 2: They do listen. Is Trump is waiting to see you.
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  Speaker 2: You touch one of those ships going through through make
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  Speaker 2: my day because he's going to go in there and
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  Speaker 2: bload a crap out of.
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  Speaker 3: Him and he'll start the revolution and Aidan a Bettett
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  Speaker 3: as well. Yes, so we'll see a whole new Iran
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  Speaker 3: come together. And I look, I think at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, you're going to see a new Iranian government.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to see a non Islamic Republic of Iran
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  Speaker 3: that's going to be good for everybody. And people will
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  Speaker 3: after forty seven years of being used to these terrorists
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  Speaker 3: that are psychopaths, We got to get used to the
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  Speaker 3: Iranians as something else. But this is these are the
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  Speaker 3: dangerous days. These are the ones, and that's why the
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  Speaker 3: President selected his vice president, taking it that seriously to
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  Speaker 3: get this thing across the line. But I think he will.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, let's go. Let's go to that BE fifty two.
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  Speaker 2: Any update on those that BE fifty two going down?
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  Speaker 3: You know, the only thing I can see that's new
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  Speaker 3: is that one of the crew members has now come
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  Speaker 3: out and made a statement that he had had serious
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  Speaker 3: concerns about the mission overall going into it. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know whether that was aircraft related or that maybe he
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  Speaker 3: thought the new equipment going onto the bird was incompatible.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, when you take off with an aircraft
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  Speaker 3: like that, you're not going to have combat radars engaged
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  Speaker 3: until you're up airborne in a safe regime of flight.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot more to learn something. Still interested
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  Speaker 3: in how much gas they had, because something's.
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  Speaker 2: Wrong, Something is rotten somewhere, because one of the crew's
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  Speaker 2: wives was saying that that they canceled it three times before. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they had two Boeing engineers aboard. Something they don't want
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  Speaker 2: to tell.
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  Speaker 3: Us yet, right, But for overall air safety, we do
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  Speaker 3: need to understand something of what happened without them having
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  Speaker 3: to divulge classified information. There was nothing left of that airplane.
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  Speaker 3: An entire B fifty two vaporized, and that's not that's
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  Speaker 3: very unusual. Look if it was full of gas and
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  Speaker 3: other things, then maybe maybe I could see it talking
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  Speaker 3: if they had test fuel on board. I have no
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  Speaker 3: knowledge that they had any kind of test fuels on
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  Speaker 3: board that airplane or sustainable aviation fuel as they call it.
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  Speaker 3: But there's no wreckage with it descending from not a
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  Speaker 3: very high altitude. That's very unusual.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you. Anything in that citation check the
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  Speaker 2: first time a net jet plane went down.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just talked to a couple of corporate pilots yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of looking like what you and I had
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  Speaker 3: surmised that we're I think we're going to find out
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  Speaker 3: that the pilot had a legitimate emergency and an unlandable configuration.
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  Speaker 3: But but there are ways to mitigate the impact of
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  Speaker 3: such an emergency from the cockpit. I wish the crew
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  Speaker 3: would have taken more time when they were flying. I
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  Speaker 3: wish they would have delayed their decision to come down
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  Speaker 3: and get that airplane on the ground. Less fuel is
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  Speaker 3: a much better thing when you have an airplane that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have its landing gear anymore. As you will know,
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  Speaker 3: you want to drain it on down to whatever the
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  Speaker 3: lowest you can is and then hold it off. And
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  Speaker 3: and what I will be interested to know is what
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  Speaker 3: kind of human factors were happening between the first officer
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  Speaker 3: and the captain. What was that conversation like when when
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  Speaker 3: the black box recordings come out. If we can get
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  Speaker 3: access to those, that'd be very helpful. I'm sure for
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  Speaker 3: nets gets as well well.
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  Speaker 2: General Blaine Helt, thank you so much for everything you've done.
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  Speaker 2: You know, continue to tell our listeners and the American
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  Speaker 2: people the truth and we'll catch up with you again
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  Speaker 2: real soon.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to it. Take care, everybody.
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