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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Blockade Impact | Allen Jackson Now | April 17, 2026

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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You know, it's
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Certainly been a stressful time for a lot of reasons,
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But now there are reasons for hope.
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The u.s. blockade of iran.
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It's working.
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The treasury secretary says gas will be back to $3 a gallon
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This summer.
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The battle in iran
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Is expected to be over in days or weeks at most.
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There's a ten day truce between israel and lebanon.
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Stock market hit a record high, and many of us are getting
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A better than expected return on our taxes.
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Yet even as things are winding down, iran's leadership
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Or what's left of it,
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Is holding more than a thousand people ready to execute.
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Simply for demonstrating in the streets.
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If you stand against the regime, that's the price you pay.
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And they've executed more than 600 people already.
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This year.
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And for what's next?
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President trump clearly has the upper hand.
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Here's his view of it.
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If i pulled up stakes right now, it would take them
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20 years to rebuild that country.
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And we're not finished.
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We'll see what happens.
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Everything is blocked and iran's economy is frozen.
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The billions of dollars they collect from their fossil
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Fuel economy, it's been shut down.
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They tried threatening passage to the strait of hormuz,
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But it didn't work.
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And they still have uranium hiding underground.
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But there's nothing they can do with it as it is.
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It has to be removed.
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And they should never be allowed to hold uranium ever again.
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Well, life
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For iran is only going to get more difficult as the days pass.
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Unless and until they negotiated into their evil ways.
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You know,
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The mainstream media
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Is not doing a good job informing the american people.
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Their efforts are focused on
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Shaping opinion so they can maintain their narrative.
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It's dishonest.
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Case in point,
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A viral nbc news social post asked the following.
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What else could the u.s.
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Have gotten to support american workers
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And families for the estimated
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28 billion it's been on the war in iran before the cease fire.
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Well, an analysis by nbc news proposed
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That money could have instead funded a year of free daycare
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For 2 million children, or rent for 1.2 million people.
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Well, i'd like to say, with all due respect,
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I don't want my tax dollars to pay for your daycare,
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And i don't want to pay for your rent.
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It's my money.
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How about instead we focus on the lowering of taxes?
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I'd love to hear our elected leaders say
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We're going to stop collecting income taxes
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Until we can reduce fraud by 50%.
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You know, fraud is just a fancy word for stealing.
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They were stealing.
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They are stealing billions of dollars.
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And for the most part,
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There's not that much outrage from the media.
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We should get caught up in the politicized narratives
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That lead with which party you're affiliated with.
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When we attacked iran,
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It was clear that the radical islamic regime
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Was equipped
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And intent on inflicting a tremendous
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Amount of damage with their missiles,
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Drones and production facilities.
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They were not a paper tiger.
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They fully intended
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To use their capabilities to bring destruction
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On innocent lives, including utilizing their terror
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Proxies hezbollah, hamas and the houthis.
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Using common sense, it's easy to see that the us and israel,
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We've done the world a favor.
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President trump
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Had the courage to go in there and to dismantle the threat.
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This administration should be celebrated.
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But hardly anyone in the media
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Is going to celebrate what trump does.
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The previous administration said our border was secure
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And the legacy media, well,
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They happily
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Passed along that narrative, which they knew to be false.
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The media knew
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Hundreds of thousands were crossing
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Our border illegally every month.
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Yet they told us
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A porous, unsecure border was just our imagination.
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We have elected officials, city mayors, escalating lawlessness
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In their own communities. they pushed
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To defund the police, to completely eradicate ice.
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And the messaging being pushed on us by the media
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Is that these lawbreakers who block streets
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And turn peaceful neighborhoods into war zones.
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They say they're peaceful protesters.
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These are not peaceful protesters.
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They are professional agitators
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Of a gentleman that helps our church with security.
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He's in charge of all the security
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For a chain of hospitals in middle tennessee.
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He shared the story of how an ice recently
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Went to arrest an individual
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In nashville who was here illegally.
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The individual
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Jumped out of a second story window, broke a leg and arm.
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So he ends up in the hospital to be treated.
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The staff of the hospital were awful.
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They were belligerent towards the ice officers.
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The staff didn't want the officers in the building.
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Wasn't even safe for the ice officers
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To get food from the hospital cafeteria.
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The gentleman at our church
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Had to go buy food for them offsite,
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Bring it into the hospital so they could eat.
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Think about it.
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Hospital staff
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Is treating this illegal individual with the utmost care,
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But they're treating the ice officers as if they are wicked.
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And the reality is, a hospital administration is allowing that.
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They fired somebody on staff
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For not treating officers with common decency.
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The rest would behave.
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So it's the hospital administration
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That's sanctioning awful behaviors.
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And it's not limited to nashville.
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We can't tolerate lawlessness.
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We're all in trouble.
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It's the old line from the holocaust.
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I can't quote it exactly,
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But they came for the plumbers, and i wasn't a plumber.
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They came for the teachers.
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I didn't say anything because i wasn't a teacher.
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They came for the pastors, and i wasn't a pastor,
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So i didn't speak up. and they came for me,
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And there was nobody to say anything.
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Well, let's have the courage
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To speak up and to lead with our faith.
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I admire the willingness of trump
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And his administration
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To do difficult things both domestically and abroad.
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This administration is making our country safer.
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They're making our military better and improved.
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Global standing makes the world a safer place.
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The middle east is less
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Threatened today by the radical islamic
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Regime in iran and its terror proxies
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Than it has been in decades.
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The updates from the mideast, they're changing quickly,
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And we've brought in the formal naval intelligence officer
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And bush administration official,
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Don bramer, to talk it all through.
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Don's here in nashville, and we'll hear from him face to face
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In just a moment.
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In just a moment.
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You know, no one in this
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Country wants to be at war, but there are
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People around the world that want to take us on.
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Iran has been pushing our buttons for 47 years until now.
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And for those who still question why we would do that,
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We'll ask them to consider the fact that they've killed
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40,000 of their own people for protesting.
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So, given the chance to attack
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The great satan or to launch a nuclear missile
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In our direction, of course they would do it.
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No question about it.
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Operation epic fury it's not over yet.
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So we're going to get an insider briefing tonight
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By a formal naval intelligence officer.
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Have you seen on our show before?
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Don draper, welcome to nashville.
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Alan, thank you for having me.
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We're delighted to have you here.
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Rod is losing more than $400 million a day with the u.s.
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Blockade of the strait of hormuz.
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No imports coming in, and all the oil money
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They usually receive, it stopped.
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It appears that the removal of mines
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And the centcom blockade
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Has brought the crippled iranian leadership to its knees.
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Am i right in the assessment?
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Alan, you're absolutely right.
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And what people don't realize is the united states
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Has the ability to cut that oil flow all the way down to zero.
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And if you do that, not only will it affect their oil
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Economy, it will have an impact on china's economy.
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It will also what we're facing now potentially,
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If iran does not come to the table,
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There could be a regional food shortage across the region,
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Which could have a huge impact across the region.
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And i think that's why you see leaders
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From all the neighboring
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Countries coming forward and pushing around,
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Finally come to the table and make a deal
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Because they haven't proven to be
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The most stable negotiating partners so far.
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Well, i think part of that is because
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You have two different sides
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Giving their opinions, so to speak.
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You have the political leaders who actually finally see that
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They need to come to the table, and they need to negotiate.
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But you have the extremists
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And you have the military leaders
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Who are the ones still funneling money
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To all their proxies, their spiderweb of terrorists
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And pushing that forward.
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So it's two different voices and not having the same opinion.
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Well, it's getting worse for
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Their fossil fuel economy and other ways too.
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They're running out of storage for what they've been drilling
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Maybe 2 or 3 weeks left in capacity,
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And they'll have to stop extracting oil.
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They have less than that.
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Actually, if you look at what we saw
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In the economist just a few days ago,
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That it's dwindling down fast, and that because their own usage
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Has not dissipated,
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Their their citizens are still using
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At the same pace as normal,
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Even though they should be rationing.
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They're not.
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So that's changing the dynamics of the regime.
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And it's actually giving power to the people
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Where there could be an even greater chance,
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Where they finally stand up and raise their voice.
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They're still quite scared.
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You know,
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It wasn't that long ago when they were just slaughtered
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In the streets for for voicing their opinion.
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And most recently, you know, one of their top olympians,
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A dynamic young wrestler, was executed
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For for voicing his opinion publicly.
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They've been oppressed for almost 50 years.
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So the younger part of the population
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Has no memory of freedom or liberty or autonomy.
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It seems like that would be harder to ignite
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A response from the people
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With that much oppression over that long.
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It would. and and even now.
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So when you have a country that has completely eliminated
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The internet in that in their country,
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But the other side of that, they're losing about $45
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Million a day just in revenue from from the internet itself.
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And global internet traffic.
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So they have a voice that they can't hear.
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And finally, you have young people
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That that happen to know
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What the life is out there,
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Because they'd have gone to china
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And they have gone to other countries that are allies.
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So they've seen even limited
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What the potential of communication is.
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So at some point these people,
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They're going to wonder what is outside of iran,
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And they're going to want to come forward
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And see what is life like out there.
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And they still have grandparents and that tell them
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What was life back.
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You and i remember
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Not dating ourself, but you know, i remember
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Being in high school and middle school
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And hearing about the overtake, of the embassy.
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So there's enough people that still remember
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Those days and iran in its early days was a
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Was the new york of the middle east.
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And it was, you know, just prosperous.
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And i think people want to go back to that.
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Absolutely.
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With products disappearing from the store
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Shelves and gasoline with even, there's getting more expensive.
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There may well be this uprising
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That we're kind of talking about.
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People they're fed up with how they've been treated.
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No internet, high food prices, no real life as we know it.
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You think they will finally get organized?
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I don't know, they don't have weapons.
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So how did they launch that response
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Against a regime that's so tyrannical?
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Well, there are there are those who believe that
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For the kurds that there are weapons flowing into to iran.
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No one will confirm nor deny that.
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But i think that opportunity is there eventually.
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It's like anything if you bake a dog into a corner,
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At some point it will attack and it will bite.
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And i think once the iranian people realize that
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Those who came after them, before
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Those who slaughter them in the streets are no more,
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They will stand and they will take their country back.
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And i pray that that's what they do.
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Amen.
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Well, there are unconfirmed reports
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That china may still be trying
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To send more shoulder fired missile launchers.
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Be hard to get in past
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The blockade, but she has denied that they're doing it.
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They did say that chinese satellites to help them
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Target american forces in some of their rocket attacks.
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China going to keep doing everything they can to prop
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Iran up.
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You know, i think china is one of those those voices.
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They've had it.
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They have a 25 year economic partnership with iran.
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They started just a few years ago, 2021.
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So they don't want to completely eliminate that partner.
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However, they know the consequences
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If they push too hard.
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So i think president
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Z is basically speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
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He's telling the president and our allies of here's
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What we're doing.
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But he's also doesn't want to burn those bridges with
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With iran and russia because they've been holding,
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You know, naval exercises since about 1991.
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But we need to take a short break.
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Since you're in town today, i've got a pretty good feeling
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You'll stay for the next segment.
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I think i'll be around. it's good.
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We'll both be right back in just a minute.
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We'll both be right back in just a minute.
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We're back now with a veteran military analyst
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And a former naval intelligence officer, don bremer.
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You know, speaking of intel, do you have any sense of how
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Iran's leadership or the people of iran
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Are operating with the internet shut down the past six weeks?
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And how does that help us?
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Well, you know, one of the oldest forms of intelligence
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That goes back since the beginning of time
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Is human intelligence, or humint, as we call it.
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So we don't really need all these electronic means
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To have intelligence gathering,
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Voice to voice, person to person.
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I mean, in the old ways it was pigeons or passing messages.
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And the good thing or not, the good thing.
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But in the middle east, and even when we were in iraq,
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They've never forgotten those skill
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Sets of how to pass information from person to person,
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Like when we were in school, when you would speak in
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One side of the room and go all the way around.
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That's what they still do.
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I think sometimes in this modern age,
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We have grown to rely on technology and realize that,
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You know, human intelligence and gathering from allies
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And sources is still the best way.
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And i believe
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The network that they established
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Through their spiderweb of the hezbollah,
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The houthis and hamas,
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That's still working for them,
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And they're still able to pass this information
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And send it by carrier, by courier, or whatever it may be.
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Well, in the middle east, israel is generally regarded
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As having an exceptional human intelligence network.
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I'm assuming they're helping us
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A great deal with what's going on in iran.
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You know, there are rumors that,
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The mossad has had operatives
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Inside iran, inside their their leadership for years.
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And that very well
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Could be how we have taken out such a high number
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Of their leadership over the past few weeks.
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You know, here we are, 49 days into this, this war.
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And perspective wise, if you look across the branches,
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We've had casualties of about 6000 on the iranian side,
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Record number of desertion and about 250 of their top tier
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Leadership, you know, either eliminated or not able
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To operate at this point.
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I mean, i wouldn't want the job
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Of becoming the next leader of iran
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Because that pretty well puts a target on your head
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And you're not going to be around much longer.
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Well, the israelis weaponizing the pagers for hezbollah
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Is one of the most remarkable intelligence coups
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That i remember in my lifetime. completely phenomenal.
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I remember reading that story, and i mean,
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What a long game.
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And that's what it was.
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It took, you know, months of planning and
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And reestablished in that work and then distributing them.
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You know, the israelis
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Have been phenomenal about playing the long game.
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And i think sometimes in the west, we believe
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And i call it the mcdonald's mentality,
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Where you want everything that is fast as a drive through.
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And as americans, we want we want to see results now.
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And sometimes the best results take time and patience.
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You know, i'm always telling my team
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To just be, you know,
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Mindful and conservative
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Because that's how you play the long game.
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Patience.
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That's not a value we celebrate in the public
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Square much anymore is not we need a little bit.
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There's been speculation
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That the people who took over after the death of the ayatollah
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May be a bit more pragmatic, except for the sun.
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Do the words iran and pragmatic go together in any way?
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You know, i don't think they go together.
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But if i were a new leader of iran or a future leader of iran.
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The one thing i would consider is
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Look around you and understand that everything that you see now
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And the results that you see now
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Is because of the steps that your previous leadership took.
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If you want to go forward and you want your country
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To go forward,
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Then learn to cooperate with the world outside you.
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If you don't
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Look around you and continue this path of destruction.
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Well, it seems that the leadership
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That's been in control,
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I think it's more than their ideologues.
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They've been so drunk with power that they'll do anything
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To maintain their power, and they don't care
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What the consequences are for the people.
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So that leadership
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Has to be removed, broken, replaced somehow.
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You know, i think, you know, if people asked the president,
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You know, do you think there's been a regime change?
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Well, whether it is the regime, we want it or not.
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There has certainly been a change,
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Because when you do eliminate the leadership, as i discussed,
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That is a change no matter what you want.
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What i truly feel is that
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Where this began first, 47 years ago when we saw the fall,
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But it also saw a resurgent when the obama administration
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Gave back all of that money back to iran,
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Because since then, you've seen a huge spike in money
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And funding go to these proxies.
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So that they could do
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The bidding, if you will, of iran.
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And while most of that money went to the proxies,
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The rest of it went into swiss bank accounts
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For the islamic leadership that buried it away,
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While the people around still got nothing,
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And they were still,
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You know, sadly, digging out of trash cans to survive.
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There are billions and billions of dollars that go to,
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You know, who does hezbollah and hamas every year.
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And that's that is the funding that still needs to be cut off.
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You know, there's a lot of voices
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In social media and other places chirping that the u.s.,
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Inappropriately supports israel.
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But if i understand correctly,
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There were billions and billions of u.s.
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Dollars that came from us administrations, obama and biden
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That went directly to support hezbollah, hamas, the houthis,
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Those terrorist proxies throughout the middle east.
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In my understanding, that correctly. absolutely.
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You know, through the years, we have continued to fund them.
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Whether it was channeled through or
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Like usaid, under the guise of being humanitarian.
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But we all know in those regions,
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Anything that is humanitarian is used as a way to control
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The people.
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And if it's food,
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You only get food for yourself and your family if you cooperate
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With the leaders of those organizations.
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So and we even saw this beginning of the attacks in,
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In gaza earlier, since october of seven.
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That is how you control power.
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It is the way people have controlled power for centuries.
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If you if you go back to, you know, beginning of time,
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If you control people's food, you control
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Their source of information, then you control them.
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And that's what they were still doing.
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Not a new strategy.
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There's another school of thought
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Before their tank runs dry.
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Iran might try one last attack,
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Maybe a cyber attack, maybe an assassination attempt.
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An attack where no one expects it.
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What's your feeling about that theory?
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I feel
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That our biggest vulnerability is our cyber security system.
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Because they have farms
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Of all these young hackers that are brilliant.
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The same as you have in china, and you have across the globe
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That are already looking at weaknesses, weather.
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And it doesn't have to be defense.
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It doesn't have to be our army or government.
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If we use the simplest thing
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As our health care systems, as our municipalities,
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There's always a way to get in.
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And, you know, they've been collecting
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Information for years.
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You know, china, through its use of apps on
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Phones, have been collecting information
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With them as partners.
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We have a lot of vulnerabilities,
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And we need to look at how do we address that.
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We're taking the right steps,
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But sometimes there's too little too late.
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And, you know, sadly, i've told people this country
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May need another large incident to come back together again.
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And maybe we need, you know, the cyber equivalent of a 9/11
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To bring us back together as a people.
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We're almost out of time.
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But one question
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We hear from iranians
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Who fled to the us, pleading with us
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Not to forget about the people who were stuck in iran.
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Do you have any final thoughts
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About how we can help them through this season?
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You know, i don't,
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But i also feel like, as i mentioned earlier, we,
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You know, have been working through friends and allies
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That are in the region that are able to
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To work in the region, for example, the kurds.
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And i think that's what we're doing.
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There are a lot of people there.
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But, you know, at some point the iranian people need
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To help themselves.
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And i think that's the lesson learned here is
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This is your country,
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And you have an opportunity that you haven't had in decades.
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Take it back.
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Move your country forward and it may not be for you,
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But it will be for your children and their children.
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Well, don, it was great to have you on set today.
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Hope you get to enjoy nashville
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A little bit before you head home.
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I'm so glad to be here and i can't wait to be back.
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Good. we look forward to that.
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Americans are thirsting for the truth.
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This man's got the inside knowledge.
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He'll help us understand
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These crazy seasons we're living through.
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We'll be back in just a moment with your emails.
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We'll be back in just a moment with your emails.
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Thank you for taking the time
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To send your emails, your thoughts and opinions.
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They're always a highlight.
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Susan t from california.
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She said, please explain why the beliefs and political
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Machinations of mom donnie, ilhan omar, rashida, talib
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And the squad are not guilty of treason.
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Well, susan, i'm not sure i have a full explanation.
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This i do know.
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I believe they're entitled to their opinions.
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I don't have to agree with them or support them.
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But as an elected official, they take an oath to support
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The constitution of these united states.
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And i think we have to demand of all of our elected officials
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That america first leads with their policy decisions,
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Or they need to be removed and replaced.
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My opinion.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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God is moving in the earth and we want to be a part.
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