Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What does Trump's reversal on Iran negotiations mean?
I didn't call. They called. They want to make a deal. We're doing a five day period. We'll see how that goes. And if it goes well, we're going to end up with settling this. Otherwise, we just keep bombing our little hearts.
You said there's many points of agreement with Iran right now. What can you give us?
Many, like 15 points. 15 points. Well, they're not going to have a nuclear weapon. That's number one. That's number one, two, and three. They will never have a nuclear weapon.
They've agreed to that. Who's going to be in control of that?
That'll be opened very soon, if this works.
How soon? And who's in control of it?
Will Iran still be able to control the flow of oil? Be jointly controlled.
By who?
Maybe me. Maybe me. Me and the Ayatollah, whoever the Ayatollah is, whoever the next Ayatollah.
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Chapter 3: How are sanctions impacting Iranian oil sales?
Is the president in the process of winding down this war or escalating the conflict?
Again, they're not mutually exclusive. Sometimes you have to escalate to deescalate, Kristen.
The sanctions were in place to prevent Iran from getting any of the money. They will have access to some of the money now.
Again, Kristen, you're missing the point. In essence, we are jujitsuing the Iranians. We're using their own oil against Iranians. Here's what I tell President Trump. Keep it up for a few more weeks. Take Karg Island. We did Iwo Jima. We can do this.
They're really sending their best. I guess we're funding both sides of this war now? $14 billion for the Iranians?
I don't totally understand how this brings in the art of jujitsu and who's doing jujitsu.
I don't even understand what the, is it that- Or even the type of speech that he was referring, he was jujitsu-ing them with their own oil.
I guess it's that the idea being that if you remove the sanctions, you lower the price of oil and therefore lower the amount of money Iran gets, but Iran was currently getting $0. So I think 14 billion is, as far, I'm not, I haven't done math. You know, Treasury Secretary. Right, but $14 billion is more than $0.
Right, and the pellets of cash that Obama gave Iran in the nuclear deal, that was, what, $1.5 billion altogether? And it was just their own assets unfrozen? Yeah, the pellets of cash was $400 million. It was part of the bigger settlement. Don't apologize. Yeah, it dated back to the 1970s. It was the Carter administration.
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