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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: March 10, 2026 | Allen Jackson Now | March 10, 2026

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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Depending on who you listen to.
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The joint u.s.
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Israeli military operation
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Is going to last several more weeks, perhaps more.
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President trump writes the success
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So far as a 15 on a scale of 1 to 10.
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And predictably, the democrats are complaining from coast
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To coast, sounding like they're rooting for an american defeat.
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Well, for now,
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The president seems comfortable just shrugging them off.
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If anyone you know has any doubt,
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Just ask them if they saw what hamas did on october the 7th.
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It was two years ago
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Or 40 some years ago, on a sunday in april,
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When a suicide bomber drove a truck
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Full of explosives into the us embassy in beirut.
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Well, this time iran has its back to the wall.
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And the war secretary, pete hegseth.
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He's assured the nation
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That whatever time it takes, america will win.
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Iran will still be able to shoot some missiles
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And still be able to launch one way attack drones
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At civilian targets,
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And their proxies will attempt
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To attack our embassies, bases and soft targets.
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They are terrorists, after all.
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And they need to target civilians
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Because they can't fight toe to toe.
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But we will find them
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And we will kill them.
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Well, so far it's working even better than expected.
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For more than four decades,
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The leadership in iran has been a very violent
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Islamic religious sect
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Based on the observable fruit of his life.
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The ayatollah was a murderous, evil person.
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Over the last few weeks, tens of thousands of iranian people
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Were murdered by the ayatollah and the republican guard.
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Let that sink in for a moment.
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Tens of thousands of his own people.
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And it seems that regime is on the verge of being toppled.
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Here across our nation, iranian american communities
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Have taken to the streets in cities like new york,
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Los angeles and boston
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To openly celebrate the military action taking place in iran.
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For many in the diaspora who fled decades of repression
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Under the islamic republic, this moment represents hope
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For a future free from authoritarian rule.
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Demonstrators waved pre 1979 iranian flags,
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Chanted for a free
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Iran, and expressed gratitude toward president trump
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For his bold decision to do what no other president has done
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When dealing with this evil iranian regime.
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When i watched the state of the union,
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I felt president trump
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Helped redefine for our country who are real heroes are.
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He honored the officer who took part in the covert
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Operation that helped capture
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The hostile leader of venezuela, nicolas maduro.
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Trump said the officer is still suffering
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From his wounds from the operation,
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And he praised his actions above and beyond his duty.
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He honored captain royce williams, who's 100 years old,
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A navy fighter pilot who trump called a living legend.
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He served in world war two and korean war and the vietnam war.
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He honored a coast guard swimmer who's rescued 164 girls
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At camp mystic during the deadly texas flood last year.
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He said the servicemen displayed extraordinary
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Heroism during his first rescue operation.
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Staff sergeant andrew wolfe survived
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A gunshot wound to his head after being shot
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Just blocks from the white house last year.
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He was awarded a purple heart.
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Trump thanked wall for his service
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And he praised his miraculous recovery.
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National guard member sarah backstrom.
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She died from a gunshot wound after the attack,
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And she was posthumously awarded the purple heart.
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Her parents accepted the award in her honor.
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Trump said she was a true
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American patriot who will be greatly missed.
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What a wonderful celebration of american exceptionalism.
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And it wasn't too long ago when previous administrations
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Were defining heroes as transgender people.
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Well, in this season, trump has been working hard
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To reestablish and reorient us to who our heroes truly are.
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He did that with iran as well.
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It may be a nation that has a worldview
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That is dramatically different from those of us in the west,
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But even the people of that nation
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Have a right to not live
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Under the brutality and tyranny of a murderous regime.
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Trump has presented the iranian people
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An opportunity to choose
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A different kind of leader with the choices they make.
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We all know this administration is not of gratitude
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For helping shape heroes and heroic acts of courage.
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It would have been much easier to overlook the iran problem
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And to pretend like we didn't notice.
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President trump has expended political capital
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And put his own future on the line.
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His own legacy on the line, to try
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To extend some sense of liberty toward the people of iran.
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And many in the media and the political establishment
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Will, predictably, they're in an uproar.
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We even have some on the far right
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Who are triggered that trump would help israel
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Spewing out
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Hot takes that blame jews for wars around the world.
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Well, you don't have to be intelligent
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For your response to be, for instance.
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It's the jews controlling everything again.
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That trope is 2000 years old.
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You and i,
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We have to have the courage to walk through this season.
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It can be frightening. it can be uncomfortable.
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It's definitely easier not to notice
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And just go to disneyland instead.
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Well, i like the navy seals motto.
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The only easy day was yesterday.
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We're going to have to get over
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Easy if we want to get from where we are.
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As a culture to a place of excellence.
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God is moving.
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Let's ask to grow us,
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To mold us, to train us so we're ready for what's ahead.
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Iran has fired more than 2500 missiles and armed drones,
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But they're no match for what
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Israel in the united states sent their way.
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In a moment, we'll get behind the numbers
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And hear from the former naval intelligence officer,
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Don bremer.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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Well, a lot of the country has been glued
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To the news trying to keep track of the progress in iran.
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We have the benefit tonight of having our friend don
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Bramer on again.
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He worked in the bush
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Administration and naval intelligence
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And is now chairman of the bramer group.
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Welcome back. don.
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Hey, alan.
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Thanks for having me back.
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We've got a lot to go over.
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Beginning with the news that iran is firing off fewer
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And fewer missiles every day since this started.
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How good a sign is that?
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Well, you know, i remember when i started
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Getting text messages about 230 in the morning
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This past weekend.
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And in iran, you know, they were they were hitting us
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And our allies with as much as they could.
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But we've now seen that drop substantially to we're about,
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An 86% drop of ballistic missiles
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And about 73% of drone strikes,
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Have have gone down in just the last 48, 48 hours.
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Well, iran is a huge country, is almost as big as alaska.
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And we're seeing that a lot of their weaponry
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Seems to have been set up along
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Their western border, as close to israel as possible.
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Do you have any idea how much of it
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Has been aboveground and how much underground were?
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It's harder for us to get to?
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Well, iran's been
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Historically really, really good at hiding what they have
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Because they know that in the bulk,
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The most of the world is against them.
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Other than their few small allies.
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So they've been hiding a lot.
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And i think that's
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What hurt us going into this is we weren't quite sure,
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Everything that they had, their capability.
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I think a lot of it is above ground.
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But what is hidden still remains to be unseen.
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You know, i still feel that there could be
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Another wave coming from iran that we need to be prepared for
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And that, i think we're taking all the right steps here.
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Well, iran has made what most people believe
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Is a huge mistake by firing at other countries in the region.
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So now they have a lot more enemies than just the u.s.
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And israel.
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How much of that is going to hurt them in the long run?
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Well, you know,
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They're saying that when you start firing at your allies
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Or you start firing at innocent bystanders, i'll say,
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And i think that's part of a strategy
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That iran thought they could
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They could expand this conflict in this war
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So that it would turn countries against the united states,
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Or it would draw other countries into this fight.
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But what they found of that
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Is completely backfired against them.
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And that they're they're now standing all alone.
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They,
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You know,
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They're fighting a little bit with china now,
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But even china is starting to push back a little bit
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And not wanting to be a part of this fight.
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So i'd say iran made a lot of bad gambits.
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They are trying to make this a financial crisis as well
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As an international crisis.
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Well, the u.s.
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Is pumping a record 13.6 million barrels of oil a day.
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So the oil trading community seems less fearful
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That taking iran's oil off the table
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Will not have much of an effect on supply.
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Maybe, except in the case of china,
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Which would now lose venezuela and iranian oil.
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Tough loss for china.
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A very tough loss for china.
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You know, china has been dealing
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With some financial hardships for quite some time.
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You know, having an aging workforce,
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Having a lot of their resources slowly diminishing.
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And now you take oil off the
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Table, especially from venezuela and now iran.
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The global power that they were is now feeling
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A little tight under the collar when it comes to its finances.
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You know, i know it's not simple to anticipate president trump.
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But do you think a part of the incentive for
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The move on iran was to limit some more of china's oil?
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You know, it's always hard to say,
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What is going on in the broad strategy
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With this administration.
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But but what i will say is that i don't think that
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That is much of what was going on was just about iran.
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Iran was increasing their capabilities.
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There was, imminent danger, towards u.s.
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Troops in the region that was forthcoming.
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And that's where
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He had to take a step, because if he hadn't, then
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While we have the tragic loss of six of our soldiers right now,
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That number would be even larger.
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Had the president and this, department of war
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Made the step and the decision to do what they did.
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You know, admittedly, i'm an outsider,
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But there's something refreshing seeing a u.s.
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President be proactive in defending american values.
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Americans. military.
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Does it feel that way to those of you
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A bit more inside the loop?
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Absolutely.
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You know, i was telling someone just the other day on the air
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That, you know, a lot of good military members
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Left the military.
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Over the past few years, because the military
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Was becoming a social experiment.
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And we, we weren't given the power to to do the job.
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We were more worried about how people felt.
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And i'm glad to say that we have a secretary of war
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And a president that believes in our troops,
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That believes in making us warriors and promoting that.
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You know, you don't always have to play fair.
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You just got to play to win.
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And i think that's what this white house is doing.
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And i think anybody that's wearing the uniform right now
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Should be very proud to be weari
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Well, let me ask you about the sinking
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Of iran's naval assets, including a submarine.
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Taking them all out has been key to keeping
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The strait of hormuz open.
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And a lot more than oil passes through that important waterway.
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So 21 miles wide,
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But only four miles of it can handle the big ships.
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So whatever will be left
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Of iran's economy beyond oil is going to suffer as well.
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Am i correct in that?
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You're absolutely correct.
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And, when you bring out the ships,
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A phrase that i've been using the last few days
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Is that, you know, thanks to iran,
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The the persian gulf now has the largest,
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Manmade reef that's in the region right now.
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And i think the
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I think the iranian navy for that because,
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You know, a few years ago, some incredible dive sites, but,
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You know, there's a lot sitting at the bottom.
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They aren't what they thought they were.
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And to think that the iranian navy could ever be a,
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To go up against the us navy and our allies.
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I don't know why they thought that was a good job, but,
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The strait, you know, that strait is crucial to the world.
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And i think with our president saying he will escort ships
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That are coming through, not just oil,
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It is shows that we are here
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To support the economy of the globe.
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I've been diving on some of those reefs in the red sea.
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I look forward to the new opportunity in a few years.
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You know, overall, the four
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Pillars of the mission have been shut down.
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So, i mean, i'm sorry
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They've been to shut down iran's nuclear plans,
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Eliminate as many ballistic missiles
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As possible
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To keep the straits of hormuz open, and let the people of iran
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Put up a leader who operates for them
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And not against them and the rest of the free world.
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What would you like to add to that?
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Well, you know and, you know, going back to that,
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I remember in high school saying,
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Our embassy fall and saying, what happened to that country
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That was, you know, a pillar of the west and,
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You know, the freedom and liberty is back then.
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And i hope they remember that.
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And i hope the new leadership remembers that.
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You know,
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Iran doesn't have to be part of the stone age to survive,
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But that they there's so many opportunities.
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And for many iranian people, they will never
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Have this opportunity again in their lifetime
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To to take their country back, to actually be able
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To feed their families, give them a livelihood.
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And they should think about that
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When they're trying to pick their new leadership
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And, and the people.
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The streets should now
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Not be afraid to go out and, and voice their opinion and
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Take back what is theirs.
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Well, don, we need to take a short break.
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Stand by for another segment.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now with the chairman of the bramer
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Group, former naval intelligence officer, don bramer.
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It was less than a week into the mission.
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We were told that we have complete
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Control of iran's airspace.
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Air supremacy, as they call it.
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So u.s.
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And israeli jets can fly wherever they need to,
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And our big bombers can fly right over the target.
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And drop what you guys in
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The military called gravity bombs,
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Which we apparently have a lot more of.
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Former secretary of state commented
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On details of the mission.
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Let's listen to her comments.
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I think if the goal of the administration
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Is to render iran incapable
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Of using its military forces outside of its borders,
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Of threatening our neighbors,
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Our allies, of
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Threatening our bases abroad, which we are seeing
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They are capable of doing if it is trying to deny them
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A conventional umbrella for their nuclear ambitions.
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I that is a worthy, goal.
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Do you agree that that's a worthy goal?
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Absolutely.
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You know, the secretary said it very well.
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And you know what?
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I think here that a lot of people
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Have not taken into consideration
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Is if you look at the amount of money that iran
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Has filtered down to its proxies through the years, you know,
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Billions and billions of dollars that always came at a cost.
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And that cost was that these proxies where
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We're storing munitions and they were
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They were harboring people. and operatives
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That would be there when the time would do.
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And that's what we're seeing.
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A lot of this, a lot of these actions aren't
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Originating from iran.
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They're coming from from
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Likes of hezbollah and the other proxies.
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And that's where this this where a lot of it originates from.
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So we have to
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Not just think of iran as the enemy,
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But all those proxies that are now
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Fighting for their own livelihood because, you know,
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Their financial sources are gone as well.
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So it's not just one enemy that we're battling here.
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We've seen that the
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Iraqi kurds have launched a ground invasion in iran.
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Iran's military leadership, what's left of them.
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They have to be scrambling,
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Given that they can't even effectively communicate
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Without fear that they might be killed.
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Tell us what else it means to have the kurds helping.
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Well, you know,
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The kurds have have a longtime relationship
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With the united states and the region.
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They've always been a strong ally for us.
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And sometimes of that relationship,
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It causes issues with some of our other allies.
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But i,
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I believe in this case that, you know, we should support them.
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I'm not sure what level that,
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We will publicly say we're going to support them
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Because we have to be
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Cautious of the kurds and cost of our other relationship.
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But, you know,
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They're a good friend to have on the ground,
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And we should support them in every way that we can.
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They were they were there to support us in iran.
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They've been there for us in afghanistan
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And at times, and we've often turned our back on the kurds.
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They are still here with us.
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Well, there's a big scramble
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To get someone else to run the country.
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And the unofficial word is that harmony's
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Son may be the next leader or should i say target?
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Know i'm assuming that it's too early
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To figure out if he would lead, or if he would shut down arming
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Hamas, hezbollah and the houthis.
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Do you have any sense of whether the next leader
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Will try to get on the side
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Of the 75% of the population that wanted change,
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Or just give us ayatollah number three?
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I think if it's the son that all that is is more of the same.
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You know, most people know that,
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The son also fought in the, the,
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The iran war many years ago for a very brief time.
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And then he left the service to become a cleric.
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So you know him in power, you're just going to be,
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You know, just a younger version of what they've had.
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If that's what iran wants for future,
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Then that's not the right way to go.
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Iran needs to take this opportunity.
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They need to voice their opinion
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And realize that this is the chance.
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This is your one shot in life.
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Do to take your country back.
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And don't take what is presented to you
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And think that that's the only option you have.
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Do you think there's enough structure amongst
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The just the general population of the iranians to push
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Forward a leadership or assert a government?
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You know, i think there's a lot of structure battles
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That are iranian, iranian citizens and iranian people
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Who may not live in the united states or in iran.
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My fault.
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Who are willing to to support, who want to come home?
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If you're here in d.c., you'll see, you know,
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They're not protest, but they're gatherings
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That are people supporting who who,
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You know, say they can go home.
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I was really pleased over the weekend.
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Just see so many cars up and down pennsylvania avenue
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That were carrying
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The original iranian flag
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And blowing their horns and shouting
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In praise of this president and this administration.
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And that's what they don't show on the news.
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They they'll show protesters,
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But they won't show
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The positive side of this, of
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How many people are actually thankful.
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Even a few of the cab drivers
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That i've talked to who are from that region,
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I, you know, i always ask their opinion
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And they're,
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They're they're full of praise and thankful
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That they finally feel like this is
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A good change for the region.
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Well, last question.
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How do you think your friends in
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The military are holding up with this multi-pronged mission?
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I think they're doing exactly what they've been trained to do.
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From my friends, i have family members
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That still serve and that are still in uniform.
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And the biggest thing they say is that finally,
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We have a commander in chief that believes in us,
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Lets us do our job, lets us take the gloves off
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And gives us the tools that we need to do the job right.
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You know, it's never it's never about a fair fight.
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It's about fighting to win.
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And that's what we see right now. amen.
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Well, don bramer, thank you for sharing
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What you know about all that's going on.
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Truths are hard to find these days,
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So we appreciate your insights.
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Thank you alex.
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Always a pleasure. stay in touch.
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I'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
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I'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
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Wayne from ann arbor, michigan wrote
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I really enjoy your insights.
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My question is
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Why are young people so enamored with socialism?
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If they knew their history, they'd realize
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Socialism will keep them from the american dream
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And it will destroy their way of life.
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Maybe if tiktok told the truth about what socialism is and what
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It does, young people wouldn't be so eager to embrace it.
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Well, history reminds us that the young people
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Are always a fertile place to sow discord for change.
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It seems like it can shortcut the processes
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That often seem too long when you're young.
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I think we need the courage to start
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Telling the truth about social media.
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You know,
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It took donald trump to come along
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And look at the media outlets
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That we trusted for so long and say they're fake news.
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I pray god will raise up a voice amongst the younger generation
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To say the same about social media.
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Christine from baldwinsville,
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New york, emailed, i'm an upstate new yorker
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Wondering how the new york city fiasco may spill over onto us.
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Upstate is so different from new york city,
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But with the loss of so much wealth to other states.
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Not only is new york city losing
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Tax revenue, but the whole state is losing state taxes as well.
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If i didn't look to the lord to be my source,
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I'd be a basket case.
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But he's still firmly on the throne.
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Well, christine, i agree.
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God is greater than mamdani.
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There is hope. don't despair.
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A youtube viewer on the episode with wayne
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Allen root remarked, one year like no other year ever.
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President trump was ready to do business
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For the american citizens.
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It was a great speech.
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The left or some did stand once in a while.
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They seldom stood up.
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It was disgusting to see their silence.
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President trump gave them a public scolding.
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It was awesome to see.
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And that will be in the archives forever.
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President trump is not a dictator
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As some like to label him,
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But he will put bullies in their place.
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He's like a grandpa monitoring the playground.
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Looking forward to watching the video today.
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I love the image of president
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Trump as grandpa on the playground.
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Seems like to me at the moment he's putting some things right
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On the playground in the middle east.
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I hope you pray for him on a regular basis.
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He's certainly deserves that.
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Thank you for a few minutes of your day.
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God is moving in the earth.
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God bless you and have a good evening.
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