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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was killed this past week along with Iran's Foreign Minister in a helicopter crash. What will the impact be on relations with America and the west? How will this impact Iran's support for terror factions fighting Israel? Perhaps most importantly, how is Raisi's death perceived by the Iranian people? Tim Constantine sits down with Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director of the National Council of Resistance in Iran. The group is essentially the government in exile while Supreme Leader Khamenei rules over Iran. Mr. Jafarzadeh gives his candid view of the impacts of President Raisi's unexpected death.

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Former President Donald Trump arrives at Manhattan criminal court as jurors are expected to begin deliberations in his criminal hush money trial in New York, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (Charly Triballeau/Pool Photo via AP)

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A poll released as a New York jury began deliberating in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial shows a majority of Americans say the verdict won’t change their vote in November.

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More than a dozen major energy companies want the Supreme Court to review a decision out of Hawaii saying they can be sued by local governments for their contribution to damage done by global climate change.

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pauses after swearing in Mark Esper as Secretary of Defense during a ceremony with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, July 23, 2019. Nine days after The New York Times reported about the political symbolism of an upside-down American flag that flew at U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's home, The Washington Post acknowledged May 25, 2024, that it had the same story more than three years ago and decided not to publish it. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to The Associated Press about her visit to Ukraine a year ago and her time as the Democratic leader in the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Republican N.H. Gov. Chris Sununu speaks at the annual Hillsborough County NH GOP Lincoln-Reagan Dinner, June 3, 2021, in Manchester, N.H. Mr. Sununu said Thursday he will veto a GOP-backed redistricting plan that would tilt the state's 1st Congressional District toward Republicans while solidifying the Democrats' advantage in the 2nd District, shortly after legislators passed the bill. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Transgender track star fuels push in New Hampshire to ban biological boys in girls’ sports

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In this July 22, 2019 file photo, a sign advertises state route 375 as the Extraterrestrial Highway, in Crystal Springs, Nev., on the way to Nevada Test and Training Range near Area 51. A second rural Nevada county prepared Thursday for a &quot;Storm Area 51&quot; event that began as an internet joke but has drawn millions of social media fans. Organizers of the event hope people will gather and try to make their way into the once top-secret U.S. Air Force test area known in popular lore as a site for government studies of outer space aliens. An emergency declaration for Nye County took effect a day after county disaster preparation and sheriff officials told county lawmakers they're unsure how many — or where — people might show up for events Sept. 20-22. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

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Smoke billows after an explosion in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Roger Wicker, R-Miss., meets with reporters during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 11, 2024. The top Republican on a Senate committee that oversees the U.S. military is making an argument for aggressively increasing defense spending over negotiated spending caps. Sen. Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, is releasing a plan for a “generational investment” that seeks to deter coordinated threats from U.S. adversaries like Russia, Iran and China. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

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In this photo released by the Taiwan Coast Guard, a Chinese navy vessel identified as the Chinese Missile Frigate FFG 548 is seen near the Pengjia Islet north of Taiwan on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Taiwan scrambled jets and put missile, naval and land units on alert Thursday over Chinese military exercises being conducted around the self-governing island democracy where a new president took office this week. (Taiwan Coast Guard via AP)

U.S. Pacific commander says China’s military exercises are practice for future Taiwan invasion

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This photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, shows trash from a balloon presumably sent by North Korea, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 29, 2024. In another sign of tensions between the war-divided rivals, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea also has been flying large numbers of balloons carrying trash toward the South since Tuesday night, in an apparent retaliation against South Korean activists for flying anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets across the border. (South Korea Presidential Office via AP)

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pauses after swearing in Mark Esper as Secretary of Defense during a ceremony with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, July 23, 2019. Nine days after The New York Times reported about the political symbolism of an upside-down American flag that flew at U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's home, The Washington Post acknowledged May 25, 2024, that it had the same story more than three years ago and decided not to publish it. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to The Associated Press about her visit to Ukraine a year ago and her time as the Democratic leader in the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, speaks at a press conference across the street from the Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 13, 2024, in New York. Trump was accompanied to court Monday by some of his top congressional surrogates, including U.S. Sens. Vance and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

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Republican N.H. Gov. Chris Sununu speaks at the annual Hillsborough County NH GOP Lincoln-Reagan Dinner, June 3, 2021, in Manchester, N.H. Mr. Sununu said Thursday he will veto a GOP-backed redistricting plan that would tilt the state's 1st Congressional District toward Republicans while solidifying the Democrats' advantage in the 2nd District, shortly after legislators passed the bill. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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A supporter of Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin displays a flag showing Presidents Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan and Abe Lincoln at a campaign rally in Leesburg, Va., Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

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Former President Donald Trump, with his attorney Todd Blanche at his side, speaks to the media as the jury deliberates in this trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, in New York. (Curtis Means /Pool Photo via AP)

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Associate Justice Samuel Alito joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, Oct. 7, 2022, at the Supreme Court building in Washington. An upside-down American flag, a symbol associated with former President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud, was displayed outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, The New York Times reported May 16. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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This undated photo released by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Jamie Mills, who was convicted of bludgeoning an elderly couple to death 20 years ago to steal prescription drugs and $140 from their home. Alabama is set to execute Mills on Thursday evening, May 30, 2024. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP, File)

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