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Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

Qatar and the New York Times, a very interesting analysis by Barry Webb.

https://youtu.be/Hsr4UdhTsBU

For the entire transcript of this interview, please continue reading.

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Barry web it’s news Tuesday for July

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23rd 2019 and there’s one thing that’s

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for sure as an expert in the Middle East

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and Arabist and NSA translator for 25

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years

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I’m sure that you’re never short of

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things to talk about why don’t you let

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us know what you’ve got I think we’ll

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start today with the issue between Qatar

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and the New York Times The New York

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Times this morning reported that Qatar

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has been supporting terrorism in Somalia

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now the fact that of Qatar supporting

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terrorism in other countries is not news

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but what is news is the fact that the

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New York Times of all people reported it

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because they’re too poor they’ve been

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you know covering up ignoring any

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stories of talk Kotler turkey whatever

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while supporting terrorism so why are

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they doing it now why caught our it just

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so happens that a few days back Trump

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hosted the Emir of Qatar

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they’re very nice you know welcoming

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reception well you know lovey dovey

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romance and Trump then bragged about

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this very nice weapons deal he made of

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cotton so I think what the New York

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Times is up to in terms of Rome and why

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they reported this is – in future

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articles draw a link between Trump’s

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close relationship with Qatar and

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contour support of terrorism which means

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that that makes a great deal of sense

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that’s that seems to me the way these

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these media let’s wrong yeah or just

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most recently yes a year ago they were

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condemning Trump they’re not being close

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enough to cantar and for favoring saudi

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arabia over a rocket are in that little

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dispute so now it looks like they Swiss

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because of the collapse of

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the Russia hoax and with this epstein

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thing coming on I think the only thing

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that that the left can hang his hat on

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now is to try to is Trump’s arm sales

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and military relationships with

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countries like turkey Qatar and Nigeria

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and then link that to terrorism to make

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a connection between Trump and terrorism

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well speaking in Turkey is now official

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that the f-35s are off the table because

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of Turkey’s insistence on the s400

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system from Russia now that looks like

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they may be at least getting on the path

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to being kicked out of NATO what do we

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know about that

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well we hope so but my feeling knows

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what you know like Trump means well in

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contrast to his predecessor but just at

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least in the Middle East in terms of

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understanding history and stuff like

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that he’s bumbling and fumbling his way

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through he’s been trying to set to

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correct that s400 deal so he can sell

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get that 35 to Turkey for you know since

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day one which bothers me right off the

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pad because the Turkey’s record you know

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record for of supporting terrorism okay

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that 35 is now off the table what about

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other armaments you know they because

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we’ve always had been selling arms to

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Turkey we have a huge military base in

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Turkey and the Trump administration

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itself cooperates with Turkey in Syria

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and looks the other way as they beat up

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Kurds in Iraq as well as in Syria so you

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know I’m still bothered by that and as

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to whether that will lead to getting

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them out of NATO you know I I kind of

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think that the reason that from nixed

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the f-35 deal is not because of turkeys

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support of terrorism as much as it is

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the fact that Trump was personally

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peeved at the Turks for not listening to

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his vice and canceling this 400 deal and

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buying American I think that’s what

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that’s all about that’s definite

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at the center I mean every article I’ve

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looked at says that as soon as as soon

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as turkey started taking delivery of the

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Russian system that the Americans

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canceled the and the other thing too is

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you got it you got it I mean I can’t I

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can’t believe the turkey wouldn’t

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immediately take the first to a Joint

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Strike Fighters and send them to Russia

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and China for reverse engineering yes so

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yes it’s just it’s a really good idea

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that they yes sales stopped and Turkey

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turkey as you pointed out in a previous

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video we did has been officially

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designated as the new Caliphate by al

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kharid Ali if I got that about right

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yeah yeah occurred that way yeah they

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yeah the ideological leader the Muslim

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Brotherhood and of course order wine

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himself declared that and it’s been

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trying to act upon it

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oh well there you go so um so what else

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well I’ve got one more interesting

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tidbit on the New York Times Kotter

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story that the New York Times apparently

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they got this story quote-unquote from

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intercept an intercepted phone call

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between the Qatari ambassador in Somalia

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and a well-connected Qatari business man

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who is close to the mirror now the New

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York Times does not have the expertise

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and the physical material to intercept

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phone calls like that so this had to

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have been a leak coming from someone

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within the intelligence community one of

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these deep state operators trying to

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undermine Trump well you know what they

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say Washington’s a pot that leaks from

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the top yeah I think everybody kind of

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wants to know a little bit about Iran

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since that I mean there’s this constant

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escalation de-escalation with Iran and

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of course there’s the highly amusing

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rejection of the United States’s offer

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to protect UK ships and then immediately

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a UK ship was

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I heard a trade from the Gulf and now

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the UK has a new prime minister that the

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expectation is is going to be a bit more

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rational in defending British interests

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do we know anything about either this

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ship or any of these escalations yeah

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when we start with the new British Prime

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Minister Boris Johnson who many pundits

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have called the British Trump I mean

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he’s got funny hair honey blonde hair

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and he seems to be someone with a

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populist so let’s hope that now that

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actually suggested that the UK now takes

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a more sensible approach to foreign

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policy now as for the British ship from

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what I understand it is still compounded

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and the crew is still being held by the

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Iranians

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now why is Rainey ndu around doing this

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why are they escalating I think in a

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previous video we discussed that you

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know mosque attendance at least in the

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cities has dropped to something flee

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yeah my my screen has dropped like three

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percent and our ratings are naming their

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newborn children after ancient pagan

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Persian heroes rather than Islamic names

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so the you know the mullahs the ruling

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mullahs are worried about their popular

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support so I think the escalation there

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is because they feel desperate and

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they’re trying to use that to drum up

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popular sport support rather and another

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factor I think this playing in this is

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everybody in the planet knows that Trump

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doesn’t want a war prior to the 2020

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elections

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so you see Iran and you see Venezuela

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Russia and China everyone acting much

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more aggressive now knowing this that

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they can push as far you know much

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further than usual because of the

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political situation in the US and

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they’re going to do everything short of

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kill actually killing American troops

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okay so if I could just venture a guess

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here it looks to me like Iran has been

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trying to create a casus belli for other

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agencies in order that they can unify

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their own people behind the government

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by claiming that they have a just war

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you know what I mean

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or at the very least yeah they can claim

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that they have you know given the big

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superpower a black eye and gotten away

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with it well that that’s that’s one

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option the other option is that they

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give a superpower a black eye the

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superpower attacks them and then they

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rally all their people behind them in

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some major and they’re just because Eric

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as they said they said the drone that

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was shot down was over Iranian space

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when it really was international they’re

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saying that the UK boat was in Iranian

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waters when it was an international so

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it appears that they’re creating the

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local media hype to try to justify these

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actions yeah so they are the wrong per

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innocent victims no yeah I remember the

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takeover of the US Embassy I’m pretty

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good there thank you very much for this

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news Tuesday actually on a Tuesday Barry

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Webb see you shortly for the oddities

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and origins of this lab

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