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I have been publicly calling
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For the administration to sell this war more fully.
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To give us a more comprehensive
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Explanation of why.
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Why do we strike?
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Why do we strike now against iran?
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Blake, you had been doing the same.
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You'd been noting the same.
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I got a bunch of calls from reporters yesterday asking,
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You know,
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Do i feel like the admin has done a sufficient job?
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Well guess what?
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You do not have to be necessarily in favor of
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What's going on in iran to admit that yesterday
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They added a lot more detail to the sales pitch.
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And i think that's good.
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They should be forced to explain, kinetic use of u.s.
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Military forces in the middle east.
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Absolutely.
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And explain the why we deserve that.
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Here we go.
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Let's start with steve whitcomb.
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Remember now, steve whitcomb was negotiating
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Alongside jared kushner as we were hoping
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For a diplomatic solution to this iranian issue.
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And steve wyckoff dropped an absolute
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Bombshell last night on sean hannity's show. 395.
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In that first meeting, the both the iranian negotiators
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Said to us directly with you, no, no, no shame
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That they controlled 460kg of 60%.
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And they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs.
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And that was the beginning of the end negotiating, stance.
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So that's that's they were they were proud of it.
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They were proud that they had evaded all sorts
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Of oversight protocols to get to a place
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Where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs.
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So 11 nuclear bombs
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Instantly, blake, your mind went to weapons
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Of mass destroyed. exactly. now, that's a strong claim.
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If it's true,
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That's a very strong point in favor of
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The administration's position,
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Which is they're
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Just clearly endlessly going to pursue
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This very dangerous thing.
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But we have been around this sort of thing before.
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We've seen this movie before, has
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And it will be desirable.
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It will be good
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If we can find
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A bunch of enriched uranium in the rubble
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Of these facilities eventually.
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Of course, we also don't want ground
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Troops to go looking for it. yup.
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So. well, and listen,
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I'll explain why i think this is different.
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And that is because this was direct witness.
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Eyewitnesses, wasn't relying on intelligence or,
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You know, some ideologue
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That's trying to find intelligence
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Where none exists in field.
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This is apparently steve
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Would cave and jared kushner sitting across the table
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From negotiators and they bragged about it.
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That's a little bit different now
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If that's proven to be false and that they were just lying
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To maybe strengthen their negotiating position,
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That's also telling.
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But it doesn't mean that he's lying, right.
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It doesn't mean that steve whitcomb is lying here.
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And it's an important data point.
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So i you know, listen, i've seen matt walsh's
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Arguments that, hey, if the fordo strikes
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Were so successful, why did we need to go in again?
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And i disagree with only that point.
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I agree with a lot of what, walsh was saying in that tweet.
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But here's the deal a dog backed in the corner
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Is more likely to bite.
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They realize that their their time was ticking, right?
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That,
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You know, president trump had this line saying
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This was the last, best chance to do this.
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Okay.
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So and that seems to
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Basically be in sync with what marco rubio then said.
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Right. so marco rubio comes to the podium.
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He says, i know i don't know why
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There's all this confusion about this.
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You know, i think we've made the case.
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Well, i didn't think they made the case,
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But i like that he was addressing it.
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So kudos to him.
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Let's start with reason number one for 20,
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The united states is conducting an operation to eliminate
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The threat of iran's short range ballistic missiles
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And the
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Threat posed by their navy, particularly to naval assets.
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That is what it is
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Focused on doing right now,
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And it's doing quite successfully.
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I'll leave it to the pentagon and the department of war
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To discuss the tactics behind that.
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And the progress is being made.
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That is the clear objective of this mission.
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The objective is to take out the ballistic missiles
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And the naval threat. okay.
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When we talk about
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The strait of hormuz, this all becomes very clear.
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About 20% of the
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Of the world's energy flows through the strait of hormuz.
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About 14 to 15%
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Of all trade goes through the strait of hormuz.
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So he continues, reason number two for 21,
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It was abundantly clear
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That if iran came under attack by anyone,
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The united states or israel
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Or anyone, they were going to respond
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And respond against the united states.
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The orders have been delegated down to the field commanders.
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It was automatic and in fact appeared to be true
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Because, in fact, the within an hour of the initial attack
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On the leadership compound, the missile forces in the south
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And in the north, for that matter,
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Had already been activated to launch.
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In fact, those are even pre-positioned.
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So he makes the point that we were going to get attacked
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No matter what happened, automatically, that that
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Had already been communicated down to the field commanders.
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Okay. he continues.
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Reason number three for 24, the assessment that was made
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That if we stood and waited for that attack to come first
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Before we get them, we would suffer much higher casualties.
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And so the president made the very wise decision.
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We knew that there was going to be an israeli action.
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We knew that that would precipitate
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An attack against american forces.
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And we knew that if we didn't preemptively
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Go after them
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Before they launched those attacks,
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We were to suffer higher casualties
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And perhaps even higher those killed.
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And then we would all be here answering questions
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About why we knew that and didn't.
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This was a, literally a four part answer that he gave.
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This is, reason number four.
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I guess you would say it's really three reasons
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He said three, but it's really fourth reason.
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And he talks about now this conventional weapons
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Shield that would make them immune
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From any threats in the future
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That have become too dangerous to attack them for 32.
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Does iran want that ballistic missile capability,
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What they are trying to do,
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And have been trying to do for a very long time is build
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A conventional weapons capability as a shield
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Where they can hide the country,
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Meaning there would come a point
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Where they have
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So many conventional misses, so many drums,
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And it can inflict so much damage
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That no one can do anything about their nuclear program.
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That is what they were trying to do,
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Is put themselves in a place of immunity,
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Where the damage they could inflict on
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The region would be so high that no one can do anything
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About their nuclear program or their nuclear ambitions.
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They are producing,
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By some estimates, over 100 of these missiles a month.
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Compare that to the 6 or 7 interceptors
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That can be built a month.
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They can build 100 of these a month,
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Not to mention the thousands of one way attack drones
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That they also have.
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They've been doing this for a very long time.
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And by the way, they've been doing it under sanction.
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So we've heard
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That they had a giant pile of
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Uranium and they were going to go for a bomb.
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We've heard all these ballistic missiles
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And we heard israel was going to attack anyway.
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So we felt we had to join or there would be more casualties.
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There's going to be a lot of discussion
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About that one for sure.
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We want to hear from all of you.
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Do you think the arguments have been strong or not?
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We want to hear from the base. yeah.
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About this freedom and charlie, kirk douglas us.
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We'll take a look at those.
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Yeah, we're going to read them on air
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Freedom at charlie kirk.com.
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Freedom at charlie kirk.com.
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Joining us now is
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Sean davis, ceo and co-founder of the federalist.
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Very smart man.
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Sean, welcome back to the show, my friend.
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You and i were, talking last night
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Because you had this, tweet.
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I thought it was very, very smartly worded.
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You and you quoted, kind of a famous quote that,
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You know, says there's always
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Two reasons that a man does something.
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One, the reason he states out loud, and then the real reason.
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And you were referring to, rubio's statement
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About why we went into war.
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And he made this comment.
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We already played it earlier.
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You said, he said that, you know, we knew
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Israel was going to strike.
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And so we knew that america was going to hit.
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When they did,
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They america was going to get hit when they did that.
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So we decided to preemptively attack.
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Did israel sort of, to use the parlance, dog,
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Walk us into this war or is there more to the story?
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Yeah.
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Well it's interesting,
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There seems to have been a bit of a walk back
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From what rubio said, from what johnson said after him.
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I think from what cotton said this morning,
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What we've read in some news reports,
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Trump in the oval office today said no, no, no.
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If anyone got anyone into this war, it was us getting
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Israel into the war.
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I wouldn't i don't know if i would personally say dog lock.
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I get why some people might.
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I think it is a complicated situation.
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We have intertwining interests with israel.
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They're an ally and they're a friend.
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We also, at times have some contradictory interests there.
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There may be things they want to do that
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Aren't great for us
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And vice versa, but i actually think it's great
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For it to be out there
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That, hey, we're not out there acting on our own.
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This was not all us,
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Nor is israel out there all acting on their own.
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They had interests. we had interest.
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We were working together to do this.
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It's been odd to me to see so many people recoil
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At that, at that reality being laid out like, oh,
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That didn't happen, or oh, you're not allowed to say that.
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Well, multiple people said that.
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I think we should have
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An open conversation about how we're doing things
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In the middle east and in whose interest they are.
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Yeah.
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Well, and by the way, you mentioned this clip.
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It just happened with the chancellor of germany.
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So let's go ahead and play it, for 37.
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And israel forced your hand to launch these strikes
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Against iran.
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Do you know what the united states is in this?
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No. i might have forced their hand.
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You see,
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We were having negotiations
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With these lunatics, and it was my opinion
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That they were going to attack first.
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They were going to attack if we didn't do it,
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They were going to attack first.
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I felt strongly about that.
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And we have great negotiators, great people, people
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That do this very successfully and have done it
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All their lives, very successful.
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And, based on the way
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The negotiation was going,
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I think they were going to attack first.
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And i didn't want that to happen.
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So if anything, i might have forced israel's hand.
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But israel was ready and we were ready.
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And we've we've had a very, very powerful impact.
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All right.
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So i'm going to throw it to blake now
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Because i just put you on the spot.
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Sean.
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Blake, what do you make of this?
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Is it just a complex situation where both both things
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Can sort of be true at the same time? well,
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I don't know.
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I think,
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Truthfully, what i lean towards with what the president said
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Is the president very much never wants to suggest
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He was influenced.
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He's always the driver of events.
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He's always the pilot of actions.
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And in a lot of ways he is.
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He's such a active force throughout everything.
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But at the same time, i do feel like,
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You know, rubio didn't say that for no reason.
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But it comes within layers here because it could be
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That the president got on board with a
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This some sort of war with iran months ago.
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I mean,
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We were obviously building up towards it for ages.
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And then there was disagreement on specific timing,
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Specific actions. and,
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You know, i don't
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I don't really
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Want a hard
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On a specific answer
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Because i suspect
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A lot of stuff will come out
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In the days and weeks, months, years to come.
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This will be dissected over and over again.
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And if you look at like the iraq war, when it happened,
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There was a lot of
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False stuff about the iraq war went to unfolded,
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And we only really came to understand it years later.
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Yeah.
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And i would say this just because something is in
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That something is good for israel, doesn't mean that's
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The reason why we did it.
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So america could make a decision that is,
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That our leaders determine
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Isn't our national security interest,
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And it might be good for israel,
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But that might not be the driving force.
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Right?
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So both
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Things could could, in theory, be true at the same time?
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I wanted to play this clip
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Really quick, sean, just because i you know,
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This is an offensive action taken by israel
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Where they were meeting, gathering,
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The religious leaders
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To pick a new ayatollah, a new supreme leader,
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And they apparently have not figured out zoom yet.
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So, 394, i'm told by a senior israeli official
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That the israelis just struck the supreme council gathering
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Where the iranians were meeting
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To choose a new supreme leader.
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This is a significant development and again, speaks
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To the israeli intelligence about this war.
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They just targeted the meeting in tehran,
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Where what's left of the leadership
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Was gathering to choose a new supreme leader.
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I mean, feel like they could have
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You know, we're usually against mail voting.
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I think i would have if i were iranian,
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I would have approved an absentee
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Postal voting, absentee, one that i mean,
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But this meeting should have been an email.
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Yeah, exactly.
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I mean, but it goes to show the the lengths
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At which mossad has infiltrated the iranian infrastructure
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Inside the country.
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They seem to know where these guys are at at all time.
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There's that famous clip.
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I don't know if you've seen it, sean,
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Where ahmadinejad is talking about they
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You know, they developed this, this task force to go after
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Mossad and root out mossad within the iranian ranks,
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Only to find out that
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The head of that task force was a mossad agent.
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So, i mean, oops.
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Yeah.
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I mean, you listen, you don't have to love this conflict.
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You don't have to be in support of it.
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But,
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You know, hat tip where it's due, credit where it's due at.
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The talents are on full display here.
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You have you just have to sort of acknowledge that much.
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The one thing i actually love about the
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The israelis in the brits is unlike us.
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They kind of never abandon actual human intelligence.
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We seem overly reliant on technology and surveillance,
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And they've just decided, you know, both the brits
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And the israelis know we're going to go in
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And have people as deep cover assets for decades.
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There's something we could learn from that.
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Yeah, i totally agree.
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You made another really good point here, though, sean.
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You talked about, when we built the iraqi embassy,
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Which has come under fire now, it was back in 2004, 2005.
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Spent all this money building up an embassy there.
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And now it's.
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And we've done this throughout the region,
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And now it's a sitting duck that we have to defend.
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What what's your thinking here?
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Why was that strategically a mistake?
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How should we position ourselves in the middle east.
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Yeah.
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So a lot of
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Our conversation about what's going on in
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Iran has been in the vacuum
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Of what's happening there right now, and obviously
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There's reasons for that.
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You can't go back in time
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And reverse things you've already done.
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But the question i ask is why?
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How were we so vulnerable to iranian attack over there?
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It's because we have bases in installations everywhere.
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And as i wrote in that tweet,
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When i worked for tom coburn in 2005,
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One of the first amendments he made me do as a staffer
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Was one defunding the iraqi embassy,
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A us embassy in iraq, which hadn't been built yet,
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Something like a billion, 3 billion and a half dollars.
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And he said, look, as soon as you do
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That, you are permanently
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In that country for 50 or 100 years.
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You're guaranteeing
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That you're going to be vulnerable,
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That you're going to have bases,
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That we're going to be surrounded
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By people who hate us.
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It's a similar issue in, libya,
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By the way, which i think is a good cautionary example.
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Yes. gadhafi disarmed in good faith, under bush.
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And then along in the next term comes
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Obama, and hillary decides to depose him.
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They have him thrown out and murdered.
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And then what happens a couple years later,
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We end up because of a secret cia outpost in there,
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Which was, helping to traffic arms.
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They claim it was to take them off the streets,
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But helping to traffic arms.
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And then we end up seeing our ambassador,
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Two navy seals and an intel expert from state
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Getting killed.
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It is a logical result when you are so far flung.
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You have so many people
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And installations and places surrounded by people
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That hate us, that you're going to be at risk.
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And maybe we should be taking a look going forward
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Rather than having to respond and go to war.
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Any time someone over there threatens us.
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Maybe we just
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Shouldn't be in a position in a lot of these places
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Where we're so easily threatened.
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Final question, sean.
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There's been much made about our munition stockpiles.
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Are you hearing anything president trump said we could.
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You know, we have basically unlimited.
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Is that what you're hearing?
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Or is there a certain type of missile that we're
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More concerned about?
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Well, yeah, it's
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This is actually one of the major reasons
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So many of us were opposed to what we were doing in ukraine.
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Just
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Giving all of our stockpiles to them, without thinking, hey,
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What's going to happen to us if we actually need those
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For our national interest, not just ukraine's?
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I think we're starting to see some of that now.
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I do worry about a lot of interceptor missiles,
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What i call defensive missiles.
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Thad's, that are used to to intercept and stop incoming
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Iranian missiles.
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I worried that our allies over there uae,
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Qatar, bahrain, the saudis, the israelis.
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I worry about us running low on those a lot more than i worry
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About us running low on offensive munitions.
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Yeah.
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And i actually asked, you know, how many of these missiles
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We can produce a month?
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I was like, we need to ramp it up.
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And apparently
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We've we've signed a contract with boeing recently
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To double the output.
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But our current
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Our current output for no,
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Our current output is like 60 a month.
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I mean that's max max max like 60, 70 a month.
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So and they're flying, you know, $20,000 drones at us
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That we're taking out with a $2 million missile.
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And, you know, the maths, the math, don't math.
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Sean davis, excellent analysis as always.
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Sean, i must follow on at the federalist as well as on x.
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You're always,
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Throwing a, wrench into the end of the gears.
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And i love it
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Because you you're contrary thinking
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Is, like, super, super important right now.
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Sean davis, excellent work.
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Thank you. we'll see you soon.
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Thank you. sir.
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Thank you. sir.
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I think that we are not
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Questioning trump's leadership here is instincts.
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But listen, anytime you go into a regime change situation,
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There are going
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To be unintended consequences
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And to act like there's not
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Going to be unintended consequences.
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I think it's foolish, but we have his back.
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And now that we we're going, we're praying for success.
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We're praying for the security and safety of our troops.
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I woke up this morning at 230 because my daughter woke me up,
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And i just literally started praying for our troops
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Because, you know,
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I was feeling anxiety about it, and i want them to be safe.
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You know, there's six dead servicemen, so,
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Listen, we're trying to be we're trying
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To honor the spirit of charlie, but obviously
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We don't know how he would have reacted.
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Anybody tells you, he would have, you know,
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He's not here right now. yeah.
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Kathleen says i strongly support president trump's
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Operation in iran.
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The icbms
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The iranian regime was working on were intended for the us.
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And president trump is good at multitasking
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And working hard to help the american people.
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He has already done a number of things
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To help the economy,
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And she also apparently sent an email about possibly moving
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To south dakota. i'm going to have to read that one.
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I'll get back to you on that one. kathleen.
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I am, of course, a big fan of that.
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So, several others.
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I think the most common one is we see
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A lot of a lot of support, a lot of
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We trust president trump, which is what we said
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Is generally what charlie's point of view would be,
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We think, which is
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He would have argued against this going up to it.
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But if the president heard him
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And the president would listen to him,
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If the president
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Listened to him and did it anyway,
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Charlie would give him the grace and trust to say
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He knows things i don't know.
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He has a good record on these.
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I think that i think that's a key
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Posture would be
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President trump has had a good record
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On not getting us embroiled in forever wars.
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Okay.
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Got to give him
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A little leash, little, little room to maneuver here.
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He's proven himself to be a very,
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Adept operator on the world stage.
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So here's what i want to get into now.
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There's a couple different storylines.
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There's the oil.
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How much china has relying on the oil,
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Maybe we'll get to that an hour or two if we have a segment.
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But let's just go
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Around the horn and get the european, reaction
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To the iranian strikes, because they are varied.
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And it's kind of surprising, honestly.
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I want to start with the honorary europeans of canada,
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Because that is the one i find the funniest.
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We've had a lot of friction with them all last year.
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Carney has definitely tried
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To turn himself into basically the foil.
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Yeah, a foil of trump,
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The avatar of being his critic like he's talking about.
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Oh, we've realigned
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Like we can't rely on these old alliances.
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He's shifting towards china.
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And then as soon as this broke out,
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He puts out a statement that's basically, we
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We support we support america's opposition.
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Let's start with another one.
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Then to german chancellor, who was just in the white house,
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The president trump for 38.
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We are, on the same page in terms
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Of getting this terrible regime in tehran.
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Away.
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And, who we will talk about the day after.
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What will happen then if they are out.
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Macron had some strong words for 39.
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Deterrent is both robust and efficient.
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Us all those who would be bold enough
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To strike at france.
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He must be aware of the unbearable cost
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That it would
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Take on them.
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So he's talking tough. macron, the french.
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They always like to talk tough.
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And then we suppose we'll see how it really plays out.
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But hey, broadly supportive
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Keir starmer is on the list for trump right now.
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Here it is. 444 mr..
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Mr. speaker, we all remember the mistakes of iraq
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And and we have learned those lessons.
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And any uk actions
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Must always have a lawful basis
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And a viable thought through what
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I say.
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Again, we were not involved in the initial strikes on iran
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And we will not join offensive action now.
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Keir starmer was not giving access
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To american base or a uk bases for american strikes.
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They have since, reversed that decision.
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But it was with a
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Lot of hemming and hawing and hand-wringing.
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And president trump is not too happy about it for 40.
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By the way, i'm not happy with the uk either.
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That island that you read about the least.
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Okay, you made it.
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For whatever reason, he made a lease of the island.
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Somebody came and took it away from him,
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And it's taken 3
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Or 4 days for us to work out where we could land.
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That would have been much
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More convenient landing
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There, as opposed to flying many extra hours.
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So we are very surprised this is not winston
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Churchill that we're dealing with.
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This so all of this is
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Very, very interesting to see the varied responses.
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I'm grateful, oddly enough, to the chancellor of germany
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For being very clear minded, very, very firm on this
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And actually also the, markowitz at ruta.
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The, of nato has been very, very supportive.
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So lots of good, alliances
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Forming, but, a few that are more suspect.
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We're going to keep our eyes on our alliances.
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Sean Davis: March 4, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

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