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Now, this week, because of the Olympics, we didn't get meet the depressed.

So we're going to go right to Senator Mark Warner on Fox News.

Now, if you're a warhawk in Washington, these days are kind of a letdown because there was a lot of hope after Trump threatened to stand with the protesters of Iran, quote, unquote, that he was going to bomb.

But he hasn't done that yet.

In fact, there have been talks going on between his top officials, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Steve Wyckoff, and Iranian officials.

And Trump even said recently that there's been some progress made. And if you're someone in the bipartisan foreign policy establishment who wants regime change, all this is a threat.

And so here is Senator Mark Warner on the threat of regime change in Iran.

Policy first and start with Iran.

We've had these talks.

They're going to continue.

We're told this week.

Here's what the president said about making a deal. And they want to make a deal, Iran as they should want to make a deal. They know the consequences. If they don't, they don't make a deal, the consequences are very steep. What do you think the consequences should be? They seem to be very good at evading the sanctions packages we've had so far.

Well, I think the president's got to keep all the options on the table.

But I would point out that a few weeks back when the Iranian people were out in the street en masse,

and the president said, hey, don't worry, we're going to come help you.

He couldn't because, or chose not to, because we didn't

have that our full fleet there because the aircraft carrier that would normally be in the Mediterranean

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