Pratique du Shadowing: 'FOOT ON THEIR NECK': Donalds issues CHILLING warning on Iran - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec YouTube
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Joining us now, Florida Congressman Byron Donald,
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Joining us now, Florida Congressman Byron Donald,
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who's running in the Republican primary,
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also for governor this August.
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Congressman, great to have you back with us.
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Let's pick up where we left off with the senator there.
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He says America is in worse shape.
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Our economy is in worse shape because of what's happened in Iran.
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Your response?
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My response is that, once again,
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Chris Van Hollen is wrong.
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And there's actually several things that he did not fail to mention.
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He failed to mention the fact that
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when Donald Trump left his left the presidency the first time after in after the 45th term,
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Iran's economy was flat on its back.
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America was actually in a very good economic place, even considering COVID-19.
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And then the Biden administration came in.
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The Iranians were able to open up again.
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Their economy was rising again,
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all under the watch of Joe Biden and the Democrats.
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So the Iranians were actually ramping back up to do more enrichment under the Biden administration.
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Now Donald Trump has come back to put the Iranian economy flat on its back again.
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But if you're going to talk about America's economy,
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the only pressure has come from the Iranians closing the Strait of Hormuz because oil prices across the globe have risen.
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That's been the major issue.
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Now that there appears to be a deal in place,
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we'll see what happens with the straits.
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But I would anticipate that those oil prices will be tumbling down and gas prices with it here in the United States.
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And Congressman, we're waiting to find out exactly what would be in this deal as we think it is coming together.
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But I want to play something from General Jack Keene that he said over the weekend,
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his worries about making a deal with Iran.
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Here's a bit of what he had to say.
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If we make this deal,
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it's going to empower Iran.
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By that, I mean, listen,
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they are bruised and weakened to be sure,
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but they will remain intact as a result of it.
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They're going to conclude that they were able to back down the world's number one economic and military superpower.
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That's going to embolden them in terms of their control over their own population and also our allies in the region.
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No secret that General Keene's been very supportive of this administration.
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So what do you make of his concerns?
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His concerns are ones that some have.
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But at the end of the day,
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the president of the United States,
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he's the commander in chief,
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and he's going to make the decision that's in the best interest of the United States,
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our allies and our people.
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And I trust the president to make those decisions.
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I think it's important for the American people to understand that where General Keene is coming from,
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you have an Iranian regime that is emboldened.
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They are emboldened and they are the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
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And so we as a country have to constantly,
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in my view, keep our foot on their neck with this country,
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because if we ignore them and they break out on us,
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it's going to be a major problem for the West.
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OK, so the House left without a vote on this War Powers Resolution.
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The Senate had passed its own version a few days ago.
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I want to get your reaction to what some of your Democratic colleagues said when that vote did not happen.
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And they said this, Adam Smith,
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it tells me that we now have the support to pass the War Powers Resolution,
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and they're trying to scramble to figure out some way to avoid that reality.
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Jim McGovern made it a little bit more of a blunt statement.
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He said, you guys don't have the guts or the blanks to vote on this.
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Your response to them?
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I think they're both very wrong and inaccurate.
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That vote got pulled, excuse me,
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because there are actually probably,
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I think, about 10 members who had graduation duties.
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And so the leadership decided to postpone that vote.
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They've brought this resolution on the floor several times.
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It's failed every single time on the floor of the House.
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So, again, they're wrong.
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But you've got to say something if you think you have the upper hand.
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The truth is, is that when the Democrats have looked at this conflict or,
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frankly, with the Democrats when it comes to foreign policy,
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they have been wrong every single time.
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And every time they're wrong,
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it puts America at more risk.
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Do you think there'll be a vote when you guys get back?
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I believe so, yes.
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Okay, so the Senate also left without voting on reconciliation,
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which you guys obviously need them to do their job so you can do your job.
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And in part that was
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because a number of Republican senators say they were blindsided by this new DOJ anti-weaponization fund that was announced.
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They left town and clearly there are some tensions there.
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Here's how Punchbowl put it on Thursday.
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With less than 24 weeks until Election Day,
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President Donald Trump seems almost maniacally focused on doing and saying things
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that could harm Republicans' chances of keeping their House and Senate majorities in November.
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They say the president appears to have all but given up any pretense that he's concerned about the increasingly fragile Republican majorities.
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They talk about security funds for the ballroom,
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this new DOJ fund, pushing for this new arch near Arlington National Cemetery.
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What's your take on the relationship between the president and Capitol Hill right now?
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I think the relationship is fine.
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I think the Senate, instead of worrying about some of those items,
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they need to go past the Save America Act,
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because that's the thing that every American wants to see get done,
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and the United States Senate has failed to do so.
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Those senators need to do that job and get it done.
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Secondarily, if you're now going to bring up issues around this fund or around the ballroom,
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and that's going to stop you from continuing from opening up the funding again for our ICE agents,
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for our Border Patrol agents,
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for our customs agents, then you've misplaced your priorities.
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Look, you can be upset about one thing.
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That's typical on Capitol Hill.
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But you still have to get the job done.
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The United States Senate needs to get back to work,
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pass that funding out so we can pass it in the House.
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We were more than prepared and ready to do so and then senators,
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for whatever reason, they got distracted.
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Doesn't make any sense to me.
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They're supposed to be the more senior body.
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They're supposed to be the more deliberative body.
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So just get back and get this stuff done.
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By the way, we're only in this position,
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Shannon, because Democrats almost 100 days ago decided to shut down the Department of Homeland Security,
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and they got nothing for it.
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So in my view, the Senate needs to finish that funding,
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get it to the House.
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We'll pass it, get it to the president's desk.
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Yeah, a lot to get done here.
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On that issue of the DOJ fund,
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which we know from inside that meeting,
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Senator Cruz and others have talked about it,
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that it got really heated when they were discussing this fund with Attorney General Blanche.
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But by the way, he said,
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and you've said, there needs to be redress for people who feel like they were unfairly targeted by investigations, by prosecutions.
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The acting AG said this could be even Hunter Biden.
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I mean, it's not limited to people or parties.
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But here's what our colleague Andy McCarthy writes about this over at National Review.
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He calls it a slush fund,
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an abuse of political power,
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not legally wrong, but politically,
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he says, the risably labeled anti-weaponization slush fund that the president wants is a profound abuse of political power.
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So is the DOJ's conferral of tax immunity on Trump in his private capacity.
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These are not legal problems.
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They're executive challenges that the Constitution empowers Congress alone to address.
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Do you think Congress should have a say in this particular fund and how it's meted out?
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I think Congress should have a say in what the outcomes are with this fund.
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But this was a negotiation where the IRS,
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by the way, did victimize Donald Trump.
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And so instead of taking the settlement,
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they opened up this fund for other people who have been persecuted politically by our government.
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And so this is not something that's new.
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Under the Obama administration, there were many settlements with outside groups.
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They created a fund.
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And then what ended up happening,
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you have nonprofits and NGOs who are coming in and making claims on these funds for hundreds of millions of dollars.
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People who had no claims at all were making claims on these types of funds.
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So this is something that has happened before.
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This is not new.
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It happened under the Obama administration after the IRS had been sued multiple times and they settled with groups.
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This has occurred before.
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The acting attorney general is telling everybody it is not partisan.
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Anybody who's been victimized by our government for political purposes,
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they can actually apply to the fund.
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And so the dollars are there because IRS lost this case
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and they settled it because they did victimize the commander in chief.
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And instead of taking the money,
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he said, put it into a fund for other people.
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and now everybody's losing their minds.
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I don't understand that.
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Well, we're waiting on more details about that deal,
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too, along with the Iran deal.
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Congressman, thank you very much for your time.
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We'll see you out on the campaign trail.
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Thank you.
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See you soon.
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