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I'm here with Ray McGovern, former CIA Intel Analyst.

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When you saw the attack on Iran from Israel, were you surprised or you've been anticipating this?

I was surprised.

More important, I think President Trump was surprised.

They don't buy this conspiratorial thing where he was, he would say that this, on day one

that, oh, we're really close to a deal here around the negotiations just to deceive

the Iranians into a false sense of security.

I think he was mousetrapped. We always thought that think he was mousetrapped.

We always thought that Trump would be mousetrapped and his predecessors as well

by a very clever guy named Bibi Netanyahu.

He's the one that was driving this.

And just to tell you why I think this, here's the scenario, Thursday night.

Okay, Thursday night last week, his advisors asked the president, come down to watch TV with us in a situation room.

What's going on?

The Israelis are taking apart.

Oh, my God, they're free reign. We have ways to

debilitate those famed air defenses. Look what's happening. Oh, my God. Well, Trump went to sleep,

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