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Charlie Kirk Today | John Kennedy: March 11, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | March 11, 2026

We live in historic times.
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Blake, where you could make
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The argument that reagan in the 80s
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Gave rise to clinton's booming economy in the 90s.
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Right.
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And so we are in that kind of an era
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Where president trump is doing a lot of hard things.
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You don't have to agree with everything.
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I'm not asking you to beat the drums of war.
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I certainly am not.
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But when you think about
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The foundations in the middle east
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From an energy security standpoint,
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From a geopolitical standpoint,
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First, we got to get to what happened.
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There was another shooting
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At an american consulate, this time in toronto.
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Let's get the press clipping.
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We're going to explain what's really going on here.
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Clip.
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Let's say here, let's do, clip eight.
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At this stage, i can confirm that the rcmp's
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Working closely with the toronto police service
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And our international partners, who will assist us
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In a fulsome investigation into the shooting
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That took place overnight early this morning
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At the american consulate behind us.
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At this time, the incident team has been engaged,
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As this
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Is a national security incident,
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And we are working with toronto police and others
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To understand the motivations of those involved.
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We all know what this is.
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Obviously, over the weekend, we saw those two young men
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That were inspired by isis propaganda to go
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Throw ids at a bunch of protesters in new york.
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And now we have a shooting at a u.s.
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Consulate.
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There was obviously the austin, bar nightclub shooting where
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A number of people were shot, few were killed.
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We know what the motivation is.
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So this is essentially the bargain
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That your leaders have made with you in the west.
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They've said, don't be racist.
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You've got to import the third world,
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Or you're racist and you're going to like it, invade you.
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You know, your communities invade me.
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Harder, daddy.
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That's the the bargain.
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Now, what did you get out of that?
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You got approximately nothing.
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Except now, every time the muslim community
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Feels offended,
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You have to watch fellow americans get shot up
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And bombs thrown at him.
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So congratulations, western man.
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This is the world that you've created.
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And for no particular reason.
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But this is the sad truth of this
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New reality that we live in.
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We have a bunch of muslims all over the country now,
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All over the west,
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Including canada, england, france, germany.
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And when they get offended, there might drive their car
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Into your parade or your christmas festival.
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They might shoot up
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Your consulate or throw ids at you
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When you're protesting on the street.
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Or they might just be your mayor in new york.
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So that's the breaking news.
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It's not good news,
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But it's unfortunately the reality that we live in now.
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There is another angle that is also happening.
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And we're going to get into
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This with senator kennedy
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When he joins, he had a vote come up.
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So he's going to be joining us in the b block here.
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But president trump
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Told some reporters last night
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That the military mission is nearly complete now.
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The markets loved this.
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The dow jones was down all day
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Yesterday when shooting back up
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Ended the day up almost 240 points.
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Oil, which had spiked almost as high as 100
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And $1,520 a barrel, is down around 90 now.
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So the war is very nearly complete.
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Is the interesting way that that he he put this.
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So let's make sure he said it's very complete
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But also just beginning, which i think.
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And then a reporter asked him about it and he said
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In the way only trump can, it could be both.
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Yeah. well, both were very complete so far.
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And we're just beginning.
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How complete are the words of charlie?
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The unpredictability is the point.
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But it is interesting to see the markets react to this.
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Let's see here. cut seven iran.
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You called it an excursion.
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You said it would be over soon.
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Are you thinking this week it will be over ten days,
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I think soon, okay.
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And very soon.
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Look, everything,
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Everything they have is gone, including their leadership.
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In fact, they have two levels of leadership.
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And even actually, as it turns out, more than that.
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But two levels of leadership are gone.
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Most people have never even heard about the leaders
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At they're talking about.
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So, it's obviously been very, very powerful, very effective.
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It seems he could possibly
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Even declare victory while still waging the conflict.
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I actually think there is a strategic brilliance
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To this, though.
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Actually, i think the president understands that the navy
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Has been essentially degraded to the point that it's
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Going to take them years, if not decades to recreate
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The military infrastructure.
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I think they've got about 20% of the rocket
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Launchers, missile, missile launchers, remaining.
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I'm assuming those are going to be
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Some of the cleanup work that's going on right now.
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The real question, though, is at what point,
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From a regime standpoint, is victory real?
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You know, that you understand the regime tried to assassinate
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President trump a couple of times.
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At least they are.
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And by the way, the new leader, the son of, khamenei or
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Whatever, his wife was killed, his son was killed.
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He was killed. his dad was killed.
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No one has seen him yet.
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He might be a figurehead.
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The president, like the president said,
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He it's not going to be a long, drawn out conflict.
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We have to hope that's true.
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I think it will be politically harmful if it is not true.
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So, of course, he we want to have this end quickly.
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I think everyone wants it to end quickly.
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But,
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The question is, is how much will
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They be able to achieve before they can just say,
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All right, we're done and go home. right.
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But i think that is inevitably true is it's a lot easier
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To start a conflict than to end it.
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And to some extent, as you said, all that,
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All the new supreme leader's family members got killed.
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What if he doesn't want it to end?
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What if he says, i'm going to send
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Suicide bombers everywhere that we can?
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Well,
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There's a larger question about what it's going to take
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To get the population to take back their country.
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Or do we even want that? do we even care?
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And it seems that
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In recent days, last two days, specifically,
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The admin, has been signaling that that's not as
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That's not as huge of a concern is maybe we anticipated
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At the beginning
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Remember, they've lost about 50 of their their,
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You know, sort of political leaders, their top brass.
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So it'll be interesting to see,
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So it'll be interesting to see,
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All right.
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We have, senator john kennedy on his first time on the show.
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So honored to have you here, sir.
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We're.
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You know, there's so much to talk about.
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You are the senator of,
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Of an oil state, a senate, state that
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A lot of its economy is, revolves around refineries
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And shipping and there's a lot of news right now.
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So i wanted to get into that
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As a first step,
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And then we'll get into some of the dhs stuff.
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What's going on in iran?
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How are you feeling about it?
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How is louisiana feeling about it?
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And, give us your perspective.
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I don't want america
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To be the world's policeman,
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But on occasion
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We have to intervene
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Because one of the bad guys is trying to
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Be the world's policeman.
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Here's what
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Our intelligence showed.
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You would think after the curb staffing,
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That america and israel gave iran back in june,
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That they would have learned their lesson.
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They didn't.
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Our intelligence showed that
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Iran had restarted its,
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Nuclear weapons program.
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It was producing between
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200 and 600 missiles a month.
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Its goal
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Was to stockpile so many drums
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And so many ballistic and cruise missiles
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That it could threaten to destroy
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The entire middle east if anybody interfered
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With their renewed efforts to get a nuclear weapon.
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That's not a world
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That's safe for america.
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The president, in my opinion,
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Did not start a war.
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He, he was trying to prevent a war.
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It will be a limited excursion.
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So far, we've destroyed 75% of their missile launchers.
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We're destroying their their missile manufacturing
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Facilities, their drone manufacturing facilities,
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Their new efforts to get a nuclear warhead.
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We're destroying
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All the infrastructure for the revolutionary guard.
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I think that will be complete,
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Gentlemen, in the next few weeks.
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And then i expect the president to withdraw.
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I do not believe he will send troops.
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If he sends troops,
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The third you hear will be me
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Face planning from surprise.
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Now, the the question, though, is
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There's also a political calculus.
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And one of the things that i've been aware of
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Is that this could be the absolute spot
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On right decision from a national security perspective,
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But it could have political ramifications.
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I can tell you, senator, that, you know, the gen zers
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That we're talking to on campus are students.
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They're telling us that
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Young people, they don't want this conflict.
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They even those that voted
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For president trump, do not want this conflict.
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What would your message be to gen zers
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Watching and listening that are skeptical of any war?
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Well, look, so those
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Are fair questions that are being asked.
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People, remember.
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Well, afghanistan, people remember.
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Well, libya, people remember,
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Well, iraq, those are very fair questions.
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What i would tell them is the truth.
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What i just said, i'm not going to repeat it.
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This is, a limited, intervention.
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It's not something we want it.
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We negotiated
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With, the late ayatollah, who's now,
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Who's now as dead as woodrow wilson.
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And i don't shed a tear for him.
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We negotiated with him for weeks.
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He said no to everything except lunch,
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And it became clear that we were going to get nowhere.
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I would like to see the president.
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He hasn't asked me for advice.
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So, you know, i'm offered.
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Anyway,
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I would like to see the president address
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The nation and say, here's why i went in.
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And here's what i'm coming out.
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Here's what we've accomplished.
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Here's my objective.
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Senator, so we've been told
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We played the clip before you joined that.
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You know, this could be nearly complete
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And that it's going to be short.
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So now we're hearing the messaging kind of pivot.
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There's a little bit of a pivot in the messaging.
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What what is success look like in this conflict?
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If khamenei's son is still, you know, the
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The new supreme leader?
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Well, here's what success looks like to me.
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And and i don't speak for him, but i think it, president
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Trump would agree success to me is iran.
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Are the political theological leadership in iran.
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Having four wheels down
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And their axle dragging,
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Drone manufacturing
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Facilities gone, missile manufacturing facilities gone,
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New steps to, obtain a nuclear warhead.
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Gone.
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Iranian navy gone.
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Iranian air force gone.
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The as much infrastructure as we can find
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For the revolutionary guard.
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Gone.
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And then the good people, and they are good people
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Of of iran who don't want these,
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These, these nob heads running their country
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Any more than anybody else in the world does.
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Well, have an opportunity, perhaps maybe
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To, to choose their own government.
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Look, the the the the
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The new, supreme leader,
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Just like the old supreme leader,
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They believe that their god tells them
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To kill everybody who doesn't agree with them.
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Not just americans, not just the right israelis,
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Even their fellow muslims.
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I don't think any fair minded person believes
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That they are not trying to obtain a nuclear weapon.
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I don't think any fair minded person believes
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That if they obtain a nuclear warhead
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And the missile technology to deliver it, they will use it.
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And, once they get it, i don't think any fair
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Minded person believes that that will not lead
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To nuclear proliferation.
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Every country in the middle east
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Will obtain a nuclear weapon.
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So will japan.
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So or south korea, so will australia.
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And then it's off to the races.
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We have a chance to stop it.
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Is it does it necessarily mean regime change?
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I don't know, guys.
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I hope so, but, you know, i have to
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I can't predict the future.
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I have to wait for, like everybody else.
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Let me say it again.
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I don't want america to be the world's policeman.
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But there are times that we have to intervene
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To keep the bad guys from being the world's policeman.
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And this is one of those times.
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Yeah. and i.
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And let me just say, i talked about this in my book,
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We have the
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I don't know why
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There's i don't know why this is guys,
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But there's some people in this world.
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They're not mixed up.
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They're not confused.
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They're not sick.
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It's not that their mama and daddy didn't love them enough.
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They're just bad people.
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If i make it to heaven, i'm
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Gonna ask god why some of them are unconscious.
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And if you weakness around them
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Invites the wolves
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Every single time,
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You have to be careful.
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We don't want another war in the middle east. but.
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But this limited excursion is necessary.
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I think that's so well said in the title of your book
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Is just too good.
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We have to have to mention it.
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How to test negative for stupid
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And why washington never will.
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And, by senator john kennedy.
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Everybody check it out.
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One little quick break.
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Senator, i'm not saying goodbye,
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But we're going to take one quick, intro break.
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Be back in one second.
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Be back in one second.
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Senator, you did the country a great service.
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And i'll explain why i think that, in just a second.
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But you had a questioning, a line of questioning that led
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To a series of events at dhs.
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And i'm going to play that clip for everybody.
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Cut three.
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You're testifying that president trump
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Approved this ahead of time.
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So i understand,
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We had conversations about making sure
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That we were telling people, no, ma'am,
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I'm asking you, charlie, interrupt,
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But the president approved ahead of time.
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You're spending $220 million running tv
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Ads across the country in which you are featured prominently.
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Yes, sir.
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We went through the legal processes.
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Did it correct, president?
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Yes. yes he did.
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Yes. okay.
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And one thing, senator, i think would be helpful
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To know is how effective that communications has been.
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Senator, obviously, that interaction
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Led to your colleague, senator mark
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Wayne mullen, being announced as the new dhs secretary.
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So i have a i have a question.
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What do you have against senator mullen?
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Why? yeah. why are you giving him up to this?
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Voice him into the bureaucracy?
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Yeah, this he must.
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I hate to lose him.
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Look, i, i,
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I accept full responsibility for that.
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That was me.
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Nobody put me up to it.
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Nobody asked me to do it.
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Nobody approved my questions.
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That was me.
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I have i have a lot of gratitude
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To the former secretary and her department for securing
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The southern border.
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Actually, it was president trump
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Who secured the southern border.
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She she and her team implemented his policies.
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But there there are management
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Problems at the department of homeland security.
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I only got to talk about two of them in the limited time
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I had.
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But there are others and they are distracting
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And more distracting from president trump's agenda
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And our agenda to make this country better.
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Number two, a quarter of a billion,
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Not a million quarter of $1 billion
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To run a ranch,
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In which the secretary starred.
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To me, that looked like
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Political nads quarter of $1 billion.
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And apparently they weren't built out,
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And they, they allegedly went to friends of hers.
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I consider that spending porn.
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I'm going to call out spending porn every single time.
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Doesn't matter who doesn't.
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And you can write that down
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And take it home to mom
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And if somebody gets upset about that,
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They need to fill out a hurt feelings report,
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Because i'm going to keep doing it.
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And that's all there was to it.
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It wasn't some deep, dark agenda.
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It was my doing.
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Some liked it, some didn't.
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But, i will tell you this,
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I've seen president trump mad
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Before, but, this time, as i said
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The other day, he was mad as a murder hornet.
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Tell us what success looks like at dhs.
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Deportations.
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It's one of the central planks of the president's agenda.
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Illegal immigration is legal.
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Duh.
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Our immigration laws are
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Not some second tier statutes
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That people can violate without consequence.
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We need to enforce our immigration laws.
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Number two, how you enforce them matters.
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They have to be enforced in accordance
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With due process, with equal protection,
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In accordance with the standard
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Set forth for reasonable suspicion
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In the supreme court case of terry v ohio.
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If you want to protest
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Them, you have every right as an american,
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You do not have the right to protest violently.
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Violence undermines,
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The the morality of you,
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Of what you say your movement stands for.
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Gandhi knew that, doctor king knew that.
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Mandela knew that, protesting
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Violently is also exquisitely stupid.
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You're going to get hurt.
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Most cops that i know, the vast
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Majority will leave you alone once you do and let go stuff.
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And then
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If you do illegal stop, they're gonna enforce the law.
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That all seems to me to be a matter of common sense.
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I think mark wayne will bring some common sense back.
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I think mark wayne trusts tom homan,
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Who i think has done an admirable job.
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I think he will be firm.
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I think he will be fair.
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And i think,
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He will be confirmed by the united states senate.
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I think the president, has chosen him.
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Well, he's tough as a player, not,
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And,
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I hope he gets confirmed quickly.
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Senator, one last question for you.
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And i know you got a run here.
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There is some rumors of what, if any, sort of deals
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Could be made with these blue jurisdictions, the sanctuary
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Cities and sanctuary states to get them to cooperate.
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Some people have mentioned that we might have to offer up
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A pathway for daca, recipients or something.
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Right.
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The these are things that are going to grate
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Against the base, the people in this audience.
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Do you feel like
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Some sort of deal needs to be made in that way,
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Or is that what they're going to demand?
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How can we get the democrats to even fund dhs?
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There's a lot of questions here, but
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Is there anything that you'd be willing?
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I know you're
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Not the secretary, but is there anything
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That you'd be willing to offer up in exchange
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For getting them to cooperate with ice detainers?
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I don't i don't think there's anything we can offer up.
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I wouldn't support offering them up anything.
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Most of these people believe in open borders.
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They believe,
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They they are also the ones who told us to defund the police.
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We've seen that vampire movie.
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We know how it turns out.
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They also that now they want to defund ice.
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That's what this is all about.
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You can't reason with people like that.
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If if i were king for a day, i'm not.
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Don't aspire to be.
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I would
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Use every legal mechanism i could to withhold their money
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Because what they're doing, refusing to
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To enforce federal law, not changing it, they are just
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They think they're smarter and more virtuous
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Than the american people and can and can pick and choose
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Among which of our laws they think are just or unjust.
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I would withhold their money.
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Many of these people,
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Many of these people think america was wicked
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When it was founded, and then more wicked today.
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I don't know, not all of them, but many of them do that.
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They're they're they're they're they're king of the hill.
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Top of the list.
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Crazy.
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I'm sorry, but that's the way it is.
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And i don't think anything we offer them,
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We'll get them to change their minds.
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Not. it's not all my my, my, my democratic friends.
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But there's some of them.
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Others are just scared.
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Gosh. the karen
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Wing of the democratic party wants to defund ice.
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And the karen wing of the democratic party has told,
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All the elected officials who happen to be democrats,
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That if they don't do their best to defund ice, they,
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The karen
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Wing, will they will punish them the rest
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Of their natural lives.
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And they're scared.
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God bless you for your questioning,
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Your honest questioning.
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I think you did the nation a tremendous service.
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And thank you for articulating the vision.
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I think that you have that the president shares, in iran.
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I think it's the right one.
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So god bless. you guys are good, man.
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I listen to you all the time. thank you.
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Thank you sir. god bless you.
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