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the thing I don't really agree with because I understand this is just a study. All right, so I'll just do what you say. And they would follow up with the people who wrote an opinion that wasn't their real opinion. And a year later a lot of them had moved to the opinion that they wrote just because it sort of bought into it a little bit. The process of writing a fake opinion about something actuall…
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Here's what you should look for if you're trying to handicap what's gonna happen with Iran. Let me tell you what to look for. You want to look for the same tell that you might have seen with North Korea and with Russia. You want to see the president start to frame this as if you go down this path it's really, really bad, but we'll help you a lot if you go down this path. This path is sunshine and rainbows. This path is really, really bad. So if you start seeing the president making a case for the positive thing that Iran could be working toward, then you're probably seeing a potential breakthrough. That doesn't mean it'll happen, but you would have to at least—I would say that's the minimum.
I think Iran is too proud, too capable, too smart to simply bend to just pressure. I think they need a little bit of a—and there's something good on the other end as well. Because you look at what North Korea is doing. North Korea is going from a maybe dying in a fireball of fire and fury to if you check back in three years—if I could bet on the economy of one country, if you could place your money just betting how one country will do in their economy, I might put a little money on North Korea today. There's no way to do that. But conceptually the base that North Korea is at right now, if you check back in three years it's gonna be a lot higher assuming that they denuclearize. If they don't there won't be anything left economically. I'm not saying there'll be a war, but if you could bet I would bet on them being smart enough to take the enormous economic gain that is just theirs to be had.
Iran doesn't have that yet. Iran
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has we can push you around or we could push you around. That's sort of the proposition for Iran right now. They need to see a safety valve, an escape hatch, an off-ramp. They need to see a way to get to a good thing if they're going to give up anything. I think we've done it for today. Yeah, Chance the Rapper's weighing in. And you think Kanye's support of Trump is temporary? Well, you know, prob…
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