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President Trump is lashing out again against leaders in Iran
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as the two sides give mixed messages about the state
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of negotiations. On True Social yesterday, the President called out
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Iranian officials, calling them quote unbelievably duplicitous. After Tehran contradicted
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his claim, Negotiations were resuming later yesterday in the Oval Office,
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the President warnant of what he says is the last
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chance for Iran to sign a deal.
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Many countries, called many, the leaders of many up friendly
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with a lot of them, almost all of them one
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way or the other, and they all wanted to give
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this a last chance. Is the last chance. This is
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not something that it doesn't happen. This is the last
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chance for them to sign a good document.
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Where are the Iran talks and where you were required?
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If I right there tomorrow, I mean they're going to
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go quickly one way or the other.
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And some very complex.
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We're talking about the straight the opening of the strait,
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having it open literally by tomorrow, completely open. And that's
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phase one. And phase two is we then will talk
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about the nuclear capacity, the nuclear of what you know,
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as we've been mentioned, basically, it's I think most of
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the d nuclearization of around has to happen, has to happen,
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and that'll be the second phase.
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Would will Ron be willing to refer to fully free
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navigation has to be. I'm not gonna let them charge.
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Anybody's gonna charge, will charge.
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We're the one that has total We have total control.
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You know, we have a thing called the blockade with
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his navy, and that navy is they call it a
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wall of steel, the United States Wall of Steel. And no, no,
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there's not going to be charging. We're not talking about
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charging at all. They won't be charging.
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So those comments were yesterday. You heard the President say
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tomorrow the strait will be open. That would put it
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open today. But the New York Times is reporting Iran
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and Oman are in on an agreement to reopen shipping
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traffic in the Strait of Hormuz that could cement Iran's
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control of the waterway that was open, of course, before
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the war began. Iranian and American officials say under the agreement,
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vessels heading into the Persian Gulf will transit a channel
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controlled by Iran, while ships leaving the Gulf will travel
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on a channel near Oman. Iranian officials ad while there
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will be no tolls, charged. The agreement includes a service
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fee to cover the environmental impact of the shipping, security
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for the cargo ships and containers and the tankers and
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staffing revenues Iranian officials.
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Say would be divided equally.
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Between Iran and Oman. Jeff before we get to the
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Senator on all this, just put together all the comments
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we just heard. How many times have we heard this
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is Iran's last chance? How many times have we heard
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the deal will be struck in a day or two.
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It's not really that complex. The strait will be open.
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We're dominating the straight has been five months of this
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essentially constantly.
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I mean, it's his refrain when he's asked about it.
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And it's been a study of contradictions from the very
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beginning of this war, both in what he wanted to
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achieve with it and how he was going to get
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out of it, and that manifested itself even more over
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the last couple of weeks when we thought at first
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that it was going to end because they'd gotten this
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MoU and they had a cease fire. But Iron does
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not play by the same rules, and President Trump kind
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of makes up his own rules as he goes along
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to and you've seen that both in his rhetoric and
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in his actions with regard to this war.
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I mean, Senator, as you listen to the President yesterday,
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I think a lot of people going about their lives,
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especially during the summer, tuning in
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and tuning out a
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little bit. Just hear it, and they go, are we
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doing this still? Is this still the state of play?
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So just from the inside, from everything you know about
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our intelligence, about our military about this war, what is
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the state of play right now?
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Look, the state of play, tragically is that President Trump
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has failed to achieve any of the major goals he
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set out five months ago for this expensive, costly war
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of choice.
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And what Delawarians tell me is.
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That gas and groceries, healthcare and housing all have gone up.
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And five months in, we've paid too big a cost
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for this war. I tell you, back in February, the
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Strait of Hormuz was open and there was no one
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charging any fees and there was no threat of control
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by Iran. And what President Trump said, we would accomplish
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a regime change.
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Remember help is on the way.
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Iatol a two point zero angrier, more in control with
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a more extreme Iyer GC that we were going to
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wipe out their support for proxies. Well, the Hutis are
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currently holding hostage the others straight the entrance to the
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Red Sea, that we were going to end their ability
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to strike our allies in the region. They're still launching
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ballistic missiles and drones, and that the American people would
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end up safer because there'd be a permanent end to
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any nuclear enrichment or any potential path to a bomb.
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Those negotiations have gone nowhere, So frankly, I'm concerned that there's.
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No good plan for how to get out of this.
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Those of us who've.
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Been parents know that when you're trying to set some condition,
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you can't go by the account of one. You got
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to go to your room and then go five four, three,
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two and a half, two and a quarter, one and
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three quarters.
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Now that's what he's doing. No one believes him anymore.
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He makes these statements, and you know, with one hand
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he's saying that the oil and gas companies are making
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too much money, when those are the exact people he
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said during his campaign, give me a billion dollars and
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I'll give you the world. And he's saying we have
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total control over the straight of horror moves. When there's
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nothing moving through the straight of horn moves. It is
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weakening us as a nation. He's abandoned our core allies,
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and he's put us on the back foot globally on
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all the other issues facing our country.
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Senator, First, thanks for the parenting tips and take some
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notes how to talk to my kids language night a
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couple of day. First, of all, the tolls, I mean,
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golf States are going to be furious. They made it
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very clear. This was the straight up moves, was all
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open and free before the end of February. Now they're
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gonna be paying some sort of fee hold, whatever you
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want to call it. I have a hard time imagining
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some of those around neighbor states are gonna like the
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idea of paying Iran, that they're gonna use that money
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to help them rebuild what has been destroyed. But also
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I can't help but go back to President Trump's true
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social posts, another wild one any where he calls Iran
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unbelievably du plus to this what like we all that's
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what they do, like, that's what Iran has been all along,
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and it just to me it seems another moment and
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this is my real question for you is this war
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will end at some point, we think, But does the
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United States project so much weaker to the rest of
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the world than we did before, especially if we end
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up cutting and running from the region and leaving Iran
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in control of one of the most vital waterways on
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the globe.
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Yes, and look, we're in a very dangerous moment in
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the world. Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine continues, helped
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by Iran and China and
North Korea, and China continues
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to further incircle Taiwan to project naval power further and
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further into the Western Pacific. All of these four countries
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that are determined adversaries of the United States are sharing material, troops, technology.
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They are coming closer together in their determination to undo
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our place in the world. And President Trump has distanced
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us from our most important and trusted allies. Recent polls
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show that folks in Canada and Mexico have a.
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Higher view of China than the United States.
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So whether it's our relationship with our NATO allies in Europe,
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it's our relationship in North America with Canada and Mexico,
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or in the Western Pacific with long close and trusted
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treaty allies like Japan, Korea, Australia, the Philippines, his tariff regime,
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his throwing taxes at every single country in a willy
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nilly way just to try and get out from under
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the Supreme Courts control, and the way his own personal
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corruption has set us back in terms of our reputaeation
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globally has weakened us. He started you started this section
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with him saying, Oh, the people who are making too
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much are Exon Mobile and Chevron. The person who's making
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too much is President Trump and his having made billions
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in a crypto deal and running this government as a
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corrupt family enterprise weakens our moral authority globally in a
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profound and lasting way.
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You know, Senator, this war supposed to last four to
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six weeks at the beginning. Obviously we're in month six
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and in a state of global stalemate. But at some
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point it's going to end. How is it going to end?
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We've watched President Trump operate now in a second term,
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first and second term. What do you think is going
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to bring this to a close.
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What will happen?
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I think it will end badly.
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I think it will end with him accepting a deal
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that is worse than the deal that Barack Obama had,
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that had inspectors on the ground, that had real clarity
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about what was and wasn't going on on the ground.
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I think he will simply concede and accept that having
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Iran stop firing drones and missiles at our bases and
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our allies, and having them have control of the straight
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over moves the ability to charge fees is acceptable when
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facing midterm elections where his numbers are going through the floor.
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And frankly, that's a bad deal and that puts US
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on a weak foot in the region and globally. But
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we are in a very tenuous position militarily in terms
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of our ability to continue intercepting Iranian drones and missiles.
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They have more of them than we had been.
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Told they had even as a few weeks ago, and sadly,
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our regional allies feel like they can't absorb any more
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hits to their facilities, their oil and gas facilities, and
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their civilian facilities from Iran. So I think this ends
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badly for US assass