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Thanks. It's Friday, October 13th, 2023, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution

broadcast examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

I'm Bill Whalen.

I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow, and I will be your moderator today,

and I am joined right now literally in the company of greatness,

as defined to my immediate right by the historian Neil Ferguson,

to his right, the economist John Cochran,

and to his right, I guess you were the far right person on this panel.

That would be Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster,

their Hoover

Institution senior fellows, all. Gentlemen, let's begin with Israel and HR, I want to point

the crowd to a tweet that you put out the other day. And it reads, now is the time for Israel to crush

Hamas and for all who care about humanity to go after Hamas's sponsors in Iran in their proxies

across the region.

For which HR, I say wow and how do you do it?

Okay, well, thanks. It's great to be with everybody. Great to be with all of you here

and to be with my good fellows in person. You know, last Friday when these heinous attacks, these murderous attacks, these brutal,

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