1 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 1: And hello, welcome to the Big podcast on this on 2 00:00:28,359 --> 00:00:32,119 this Wednesday, the eighth day of July, Year of Our Lord, 3 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:36,880 twenty twenty six. My name is Tom Sullivan, and I've 4 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,240 got a busy, busy, busy list here today to go 5 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,600 over with you everything from Iran and what's going to 6 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:48,840 happen there, because it's confusing at the very minimum. There's 7 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:53,759 also a mystery about Air Force one and why isn't 8 00:00:53,759 --> 00:00:56,960 the President using the new plane on his way back? 9 00:00:58,079 --> 00:01:01,799 The latest update on Platner, et cetera, et cetera. So 10 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:09,599 let's Start's start with Iran because the President has made 11 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:16,560 it clear that he does he well. He says that 12 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:21,079 the ceasefire deal is over. I told you so. I mean, 13 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:23,280 let me reach here. I bet myself on the back. 14 00:01:23,519 --> 00:01:26,640 I knew this thing when lot last sixty days, it 15 00:01:26,719 --> 00:01:31,799 lasted three weeks. The ceasefire agreement lasted three weeks. So 16 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,879 that being said, the President also said that he would 17 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:44,760 let our negotiators Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner keep talking 18 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:46,560 if they want to. He says, I'm not sure I 19 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:50,480 want to make a deal with them. He's also today 20 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,040 and because he's been doing at the end of the 21 00:01:53,159 --> 00:01:58,079 NATO conference, they he came out to answer questions from 22 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,560 the press, and in doing so, uh he threatened about 23 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:09,680 carg Island again. He called them liars and scum, cheats, 24 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,719 sick people, waste a time. And then was asked the 25 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:19,960 question about so since we struck, since rom struck a 26 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,120 bunch of ships last night and we fired back a 27 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,840 bunch of missiles with them, that is, and to cease 28 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,280 fire is over, So I guess a new war is 29 00:02:30,319 --> 00:02:35,000 going to start. And that's where this gets confusing because 30 00:02:35,039 --> 00:02:40,199 the president keeps saying different things. This was all on 31 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,960 the same day before he left Turkey. Today. Let me 32 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,599 play some of this for you so you get a 33 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:51,439 feel for what's going on. We'll begin with some of 34 00:02:51,479 --> 00:02:57,240 his he's such a queen's guy. Sorry for all of 35 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,080 you guys from Queens, but you know it's true. They 36 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,680 have a reputation that they talk tough. It's the old 37 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,439 bar fight. Do you know what I'm better do to you? 38 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 2: Yeah? 39 00:03:08,879 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 1: Well you know what I'm going to do to you. 40 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,199 And most of the time none of that happens. And 41 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:19,240 so there's a lot of this tough talk rabato that 42 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,680 I think comes from Donald Trump's early childhood, and he 43 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,919 loves to do it. But it doesn't make any difference 44 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,879 with the Iranian leaders. They don't. It doesn't. I don't 45 00:03:30,879 --> 00:03:36,240 even think they blink. But here is Donald Trump saying 46 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,120 he doesn't like the Iranian regime. 47 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,919 Speaker 3: They'll never build a nuclear weapon under our deal. But 48 00:03:41,919 --> 00:03:43,439 I don't know if we're gonna have a deal. We 49 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,439 may just do it without a deal, because, you know what, 50 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:50,039 it's easier because these people they lie and they cheat, 51 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,560 and you have an agreement and they'll go outside. For instance, 52 00:03:53,599 --> 00:03:56,039 they agreed, well, we'll never have a nuclear weapon. They agreed, 53 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,319 then they go outside, have a news conference, or they 54 00:03:58,439 --> 00:04:02,400 leak that we never just guss the subject. Now, who 55 00:04:02,439 --> 00:04:04,840 would believe we never discussed the subject because for me, 56 00:04:05,479 --> 00:04:08,120 that's ninety nine point nine percent of what we're doing. 57 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:15,879 It's denuclearization of Iran. Okay, So when you ask our 58 00:04:15,879 --> 00:04:18,680 guys can continue. You know, Steve is great, and Jared 59 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,480 and all the guys, they know him very well. Yeah, 60 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:22,959 actually they're what kind of yourself? 61 00:04:22,959 --> 00:04:23,079 Speaker 1: Too? 62 00:04:24,079 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 3: I wonder which I picked two beauties? You know what, 63 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,800 we settled eight wars. I got a couple of beauties here. 64 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:34,079 But Steve's great and Jared's great. You know, they're the 65 00:04:34,199 --> 00:04:37,279 right guys, and we'll see what happens. But but I 66 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:43,000 will say this, Iran they misbehaved for forty seven years. 67 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,160 They've killed our soldiers, they've killed our people, and they've 68 00:04:46,199 --> 00:04:49,000 killed a lot of people all over the Middle East 69 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,639 and elsewhere. And the roadside bomb was there preferred. You know, 70 00:04:53,079 --> 00:04:58,199 the preferred weapon was by solomony, the roadside bomb where 71 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,319 it would explode on a truck. We actually built trucks 72 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,759 with flours steal this thick and then all they did 73 00:05:05,879 --> 00:05:11,040 was they made bigger bombs. No, we have young guys around, 74 00:05:11,319 --> 00:05:14,160 not walking around because they have no legs. But their 75 00:05:14,199 --> 00:05:16,480 legs were blown off, their arms were blown off, their 76 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,519 face was blown off, and they lived because of modern medicine. 77 00:05:20,439 --> 00:05:23,399 You can do anything. But they're living. They're living like 78 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:29,519 in hell. Their whole life changed because of Iran. And 79 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,800 that was ninety six percent of the people that use 80 00:05:32,879 --> 00:05:35,480 that night they were made. 81 00:05:34,079 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 4: And so. 82 00:05:37,639 --> 00:05:39,439 Speaker 3: We have a score to settle too. 83 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: So finally he says, you can't trust them, their cheats, 84 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:49,959 their liars. What else did he call them? Scum? Sick people? 85 00:05:51,079 --> 00:05:53,920 To wait the time doing business with them. So that's 86 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:58,600 that's what he says. And then he turned around and 87 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,560 the reporter said, all right, so what are you going 88 00:06:01,639 --> 00:06:05,480 to do? And instead he did something that I was 89 00:06:05,519 --> 00:06:09,519 taught a long time ago in the military. You never 90 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:14,959 ever ever telegraph to the enemy what you're going to 91 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,560 do and what you're not going to do. 92 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:23,199 Speaker 3: We're not attacking at the highest level. The highest level 93 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:27,279 of the bridges there which we can knock down. I 94 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:29,560 would say, in one day we knocked down every single 95 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,920 bridge in a rand is not a thing they can 96 00:06:31,959 --> 00:06:39,560 do the better. They're electric manufacturing facilities, electric plants where 97 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:44,279 they're making electricity in there. We will if we have 98 00:06:44,399 --> 00:06:46,399 to take them out. I don't want to do that, 99 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:49,519 but if we have to, we'll take them out. They 100 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,720 have desalinization plants, will take them out if we have to. 101 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:55,319 Hate to do that. That's probably the one I would 102 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:56,279 like not to do least. 103 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 1: But he lists off some things that, well, we should 104 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,240 do this, but I want to do that. We could 105 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,000 do that, but oh, I don't want to do that, 106 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,759 and we could do I really don't want to do that. 107 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,519 I don't know. Maybe it's maybe he's fooling me, Maybe 108 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,800 it's the art of the deal. But I'm listening to 109 00:07:16,879 --> 00:07:19,959 a guy who, not only through his words but also 110 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:25,199 through his actions, does not want to use any military 111 00:07:25,439 --> 00:07:31,240 force other than little individual strikes, which is not going 112 00:07:31,319 --> 00:07:32,879 to win a war, and it's just going to keep 113 00:07:32,959 --> 00:07:41,000 this thing going. Adam Kissinger, the former Republican congressman, had 114 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:41,879 this observation. 115 00:07:42,439 --> 00:07:44,839 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, at one point the President even said 116 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,519 I'm bored with it. I mean, and since the moment 117 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:53,040 these strikes were launched and the President quickly declared victory. 118 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,959 If you understand human behavior even five percent, you're going 119 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 to look at that and go he wants out. He 120 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,759 wanted a quick victory. He's not getting it. Iran has 121 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,800 a very high pain threshold, and so they think they 122 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,399 can outlast him, and he has to quit negotiating with 123 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,720 himself in public. They have to quit using the information 124 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,600 war here against Democrats and start using it against Iranians. 125 00:08:17,079 --> 00:08:20,040 And actually, as the Admiral will probably tell you, I'm 126 00:08:20,079 --> 00:08:24,399 sure the military is a piece of the whole aspect 127 00:08:24,439 --> 00:08:28,040 of how you compel an answer from Iran. You use diplomatic, information, 128 00:08:28,639 --> 00:08:33,000 military economic. The military side is good, the US military 129 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,480 is fantastic, but you've got to bring in the economic piece, 130 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:40,360 the diplomatic piece. It's perfect that he's in at the 131 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,679 NATO summit right now, start talking to other NATO members 132 00:08:43,759 --> 00:08:46,000 and try to bring them into this fight with us 133 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,440 instead of offending them all the time. And of course 134 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,360 the information piece. Buran's putting out great lego videos and 135 00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:55,240 we all chuckle at him. But that's where the information 136 00:08:55,399 --> 00:08:58,279 war is now. And unfortunately this White House, instead of 137 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:02,200 fighting back against Iran, has taken their efforts against democrats 138 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,320 and then they wonder why the country is divided. 139 00:09:04,759 --> 00:09:08,279 Speaker 1: So at the NATO news conference before the president left, 140 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,639 like I said, he talked to the yet open open 141 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,559 question and answer with the media, and one reporter asked 142 00:09:15,639 --> 00:09:19,159 him about when will the war start? 143 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 3: Present? How did your media, Tom chakouch Tu Kiev to present? 144 00:09:23,639 --> 00:09:27,039 It seems that the war with Iran may start again. 145 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:30,080 What do you expect from your European allies? No, I 146 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:31,799 don't think it's going to start again. I think it's 147 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,720 going to go very quickly. They hit a couple of ships, 148 00:09:36,399 --> 00:09:38,279 and so we hit that much harder. When they hit, 149 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,000 We hit ten times harder. You know, we hit much 150 00:09:40,039 --> 00:09:42,399 harder than they do. We have a lot better equipment 151 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:46,720 than they do. We may even somebody else before. Do 152 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:48,639 you think you'll hit him tonight? I said we might, Yeah, 153 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:50,960 we might. But when they hit, we hit. You know, 154 00:09:51,039 --> 00:09:53,759 it's what they're we use. We use their language, we 155 00:09:53,799 --> 00:09:56,480 speak their language. No, I don't think so. I think 156 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,360 anything that happens is going to be over very quickly 157 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,159 only and we'll only make it safe for including for oil. 158 00:10:03,639 --> 00:10:08,399 Oil is going to be very free, very easy, and 159 00:10:08,519 --> 00:10:12,679 it's going to happen very fast. We have the Harmon 160 00:10:12,759 --> 00:10:15,799 Street that boats have pulled out. I mean it is 161 00:10:15,879 --> 00:10:17,639 a gusher of oil right now. We have a lot 162 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:21,200 of oil. And no, anything this happens is going to 163 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,159 happen very fast. We're not we're not looking we're not 164 00:10:24,279 --> 00:10:27,919 looking for a long term Okay, go ahead. 165 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,159 Speaker 1: Well he may not be looking at it long term, 166 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,879 but he keeps making that same mistake because he says, okay, okay, 167 00:10:34,879 --> 00:10:37,440 now we got an agreement, and then Iran they're just 168 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:40,919 pulling his chain. They're having they're having a ball with 169 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:43,879 him because he says, oh yeah, it'll be very fast. 170 00:10:43,879 --> 00:10:46,960 He's been saying that ever since February twenty eighth. It'll 171 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:51,480 be over very quickly. I don't believe them. I don't 172 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,320 know why he says that. I don't believe his military 173 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,519 advisors are telling him that. I don't know what it 174 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:04,039 is about him that he thinks this way. Mark Theeson, 175 00:11:04,639 --> 00:11:09,399 former speechwriter for w This is what he had to say. 176 00:11:10,639 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 6: Well, I think that the deal didn't say anything about 177 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,679 them firing at ships going through the Amani waters. So 178 00:11:18,039 --> 00:11:21,279 you know, look, the reality is the President saw this 179 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,240 MoU as a way to get them to the table 180 00:11:23,279 --> 00:11:26,559 to launch. This was an agreement to negotiate an agreement, 181 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,679 and they're not taking the opportunity. And so I think, 182 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,279 and I've always believed that the best outcome for this 183 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:36,200 is no deal. The best outcome for this. We were 184 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,799 ten to fifteen days away from finishing all the military 185 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,240 targets we have, as you pointed out earlier, in the 186 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:45,600 last hour, they've taken their ballistic missiles out of storage 187 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,200 where they were being protected in caves. Now they're targets. 188 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 7: Let's take them all out. Let's finish the job. 189 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,679 Speaker 6: We've destroyed eighty five percent of their defense industrial base. 190 00:11:53,919 --> 00:11:56,240 Let's destroy one hundred percent of it. Let's set them 191 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:00,159 back to the Stone Age and militarily and then declare victory, 192 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:04,399 open the straight by force and reimpose the blockade and 193 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:08,279 declare victory, and then help the Iranian people overthrow the regime, 194 00:12:08,279 --> 00:12:11,279 because all the games that Donald Trump has made will 195 00:12:11,279 --> 00:12:14,840 only be permanent if the regime changes in Irun. 196 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: Mark Theeson is singing my song. I've been saying that 197 00:12:17,759 --> 00:12:20,759 all along, you have to take the regime and change it, 198 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,080 and he keeps saying, Oh, it's changed, No, it hasn't. 199 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,960 They're the same ideology group, different people, but of the 200 00:12:28,039 --> 00:12:34,279 same belief the IRGC. They're fanatics. They're not bending, they're 201 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,799 not bending to his threats. They're not bending. The only 202 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,600 thing they'll bend to is power. And I don't think 203 00:12:39,639 --> 00:12:43,399 we can bomb them into submission either. And this is 204 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,759 where I don't see Donald Trump doing what needs to 205 00:12:46,759 --> 00:12:52,120 be done, which is sadly but necessarily boots on the ground. 206 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:57,759 You send in troops and you arrest the regime leaders, 207 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:03,600 You arrest the are GC leaders, You take control of Tehran, 208 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,200 and you do it just like World War two and 209 00:13:07,279 --> 00:13:12,960 in Tokyo and also in Berlin. I mean, that's what 210 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,840 needs to be done. The guy knows a lot more 211 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,679 about that than I do is alec puts us he 212 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:20,960 who is with the Atlantic Council. 213 00:13:21,399 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 7: So by itself, I don't think it has influenced Iranian 214 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,080 behavior in the past. And that's the reason we saw 215 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,320 a larger number of strikes yesterday, and that's because the 216 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,000 Iranians had been hit back after they struck ships previously, 217 00:13:32,039 --> 00:13:34,440 and they continued to strike because we saw more strikes yesterday. 218 00:13:34,519 --> 00:13:37,120 So the President ordered strikes in about eighty targets as 219 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:39,919 you just mentioned there along the coast, really to degrade 220 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:43,559 Iran's capabilities to strike ships, and in response, Iran struck 221 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,879 eighty five targets, or at least they claimed obstruct There 222 00:13:45,879 --> 00:13:48,519 doesn't appear to have been any damage at our Alielski 223 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,519 Air Force Base in Kuwait and then the fifth feet 224 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:53,000 our naval headquarters in the area in Bahrain. If you 225 00:13:53,039 --> 00:13:55,480 look at the numbers, it's largely proportional. The signal from 226 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:58,000 the Iranians is it's proportional. We're not looking to escalate. 227 00:13:58,279 --> 00:14:01,559 But based on the president's comments, the small he's extremely frustrated. 228 00:14:01,759 --> 00:14:05,279 Speaker 1: He's frustrated because he's in a pickle. He either has 229 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,200 to use boots on the ground, which would be very unpopular, 230 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:13,039 and he's looking at the election date coming up in November, 231 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,399 so we're less than four months away for that, so 232 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,960 he doesn't know what to do at this particular time. Well, 233 00:14:21,039 --> 00:14:24,559 let's see if General Keith Kellogg has any ideas. 234 00:14:25,039 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 8: Yes, I mean it's clearly yes, And I think there's 235 00:14:28,159 --> 00:14:32,720 really this memorandum be fourteen points memorandum really kind of 236 00:14:33,039 --> 00:14:35,600 obfiscated the issue. You know, I'm a big believer in principles. 237 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:38,799 For one of those simplicity, I'll make it really simple 238 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,840 for you. Number one, we're going to send in the 239 00:14:41,879 --> 00:14:44,759 IEA to get the enriched uranium if we can get 240 00:14:44,799 --> 00:14:47,879 to it with American advisors, and oh, by the way, 241 00:14:47,919 --> 00:14:50,080 you don't get to get any restrictions. We're going to 242 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,679 go where we want to go. Number two, we're going 243 00:14:52,679 --> 00:14:54,759 to go open up the straight of home moves and 244 00:14:54,799 --> 00:14:57,360 we're going to do it militarily and if we need to, 245 00:14:57,759 --> 00:15:00,000 if they sink a tanker, we're taking to your ass 246 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,399 that's making in fungible, and then we're going to replace 247 00:15:02,399 --> 00:15:05,840 those assets that you lost. Number Three, we're telling Iranians 248 00:15:05,919 --> 00:15:08,320 knock it off with the neighbors. You don't attack Ua, 249 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:12,120 you don't take cutter. You don't just help a hamas 250 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,320 or hasible anybody else, and then they're not. The other 251 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:18,960 thing is, we're not negotiating his equals right now, we're 252 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:19,799 treat him his equals. 253 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:20,159 Speaker 1: They're not. 254 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 8: Rachie's a master negotiator. He's their foreign minister. He wrote 255 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:28,639 the book on negotiations. His parents were rug merchants. They understand. 256 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,039 Have you ever tried to buy a rug in the 257 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:34,320 Middle League? I actually have four. He basically say, we're 258 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,679 done with this, We're tired of it, We're not going 259 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:38,600 to do it anymore, and we're going to finish the 260 00:15:38,679 --> 00:15:39,720 job as we should do it. 261 00:15:39,879 --> 00:15:40,039 Speaker 4: Now. 262 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 8: The alternative is, what's he going to do when he 263 00:15:42,159 --> 00:15:42,519 does that. 264 00:15:42,559 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: Well, the general is still docuted about not replacing the regime. 265 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,159 Let's see what General Jack Keane says. He's all along 266 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:55,559 said that you can't trust these people. Finally, finally, President 267 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,440 Trump says you can't trust these people, but he doesn't 268 00:15:58,559 --> 00:16:00,960 act like it. He still wants to do business with them. 269 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:05,679 Speaker 2: Their general key, Well, clearly we got violations of the 270 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,320 ceasefire here now repeatedly in the United States. Is not 271 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:10,960 going to stand for that, you know, for our audience, 272 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:15,720 to understand when Iran looks at the Straits of the Moons, 273 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,559 they really see that as a strategic asset and controlling 274 00:16:19,639 --> 00:16:23,759 that is equivalent in their minds to having nuclear weapons. 275 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:28,919 And I'm not over exaggerating this. And the reality is 276 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:33,559 why is that because it gives them significant strategic influence 277 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:38,039 in the region, geopolitical blackmail in a sense, it gives 278 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:42,000 them leverage to bend the nations in the region to 279 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:46,240 their will if they're controlling the flow of oil out 280 00:16:46,279 --> 00:16:49,600 of the Gulf. That's the reality of it. Their strategic 281 00:16:49,639 --> 00:16:53,559 objectives from the outset have been WoT one, dominate and 282 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:58,039 control the Middle East, to control the distribution of oil 283 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:01,720 out of the Golf, destroy Israel, drive the United States out, 284 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:05,319 so right from the initial objectives for forty seven years, 285 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:10,160 the control of distribution of oil has always been a 286 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:15,319 strategic objective and that is why we're witnessing a modified 287 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:19,640 battle for the straits of a Mouse here. And they 288 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,160 are not going to give into this, in my judgment, 289 00:17:22,559 --> 00:17:26,039 and it will likely lead to return to major combat 290 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:29,359 operations because it means that much to them. And I 291 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,960 think the reason why the MoU had this ambiguity in 292 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,599 it that we all looked at it and said, why 293 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:38,200 that don't make any sense. Remember, the Straits would be 294 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:41,880 open immediately, we would release the blockade. But then in 295 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,839 the written description of it, in sixty days, o'ran and 296 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:50,319 Oman can begin discussions about administration and services with the Straits, 297 00:17:50,839 --> 00:17:53,599 and that's smacked of what that's smacked of giving them 298 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,720 some kind of control. It didn't make any sense. But 299 00:17:57,039 --> 00:18:00,279 I think the Iranians insisted on that kind of lineanguage 300 00:18:00,319 --> 00:18:02,359 in there, or there wasn't going to be a deal. 301 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,359 Don't know the facts of that, but I'm speculating here, 302 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:09,000 but it just shows you how important this is they met. 303 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:12,039 That was actually that ambiguity is in there, in a 304 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,880 sense gives them some leverage here to what they're doing, 305 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,799 except for firing on ships. Once they fired on ships, 306 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:23,920 that obviously broke the ceasefire and entered President Trump and 307 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:26,359 the action he's taken here. He is not going to 308 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,480 put up with this. And at the same time, we're 309 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,720 going to continue to move ships through the Straits, which 310 00:18:32,759 --> 00:18:36,440 we are doing right as we speak, and that is 311 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,680 a form of distribution of oil that's continuing. Likely to 312 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,880 be some slow down because of the hostilities to a 313 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:47,359 certain degree, but this is a strategic asset, and the Iranians, 314 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,440 I'm convinced, will dig in their heels over this. 315 00:18:49,599 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 7: Well. 316 00:18:49,759 --> 00:18:53,279 Speaker 1: The reason I played General Keane's comments so often on 317 00:18:53,279 --> 00:18:58,039 this podcast is because he has called it right. He 318 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,920 has predicted what was going to happen, and it happens. 319 00:19:01,799 --> 00:19:05,200 And I'm sorry to say this, but our president has 320 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:10,960 keep saying things that do not come to fruition. He's 321 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,960 wrong on almost every single prediction. The fact now we're 322 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,319 saying today, like I played for you already, oh yeah, 323 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,519 this will go fast, Yeah, there'll be yeah, this be overfore, 324 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,160 you know it very fast. So the President just keeps 325 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,119 saying things that are not turning out to be true, 326 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,799 and General Keane keeps saying things that are spot on. 327 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:33,599 Speaker 2: Well, I think he's still going to try to do that, 328 00:19:33,759 --> 00:19:37,640 and I mean clearly where we are obviously very frustrated, 329 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,279 you know, with the Iranians, and in my judgment, quite 330 00:19:41,319 --> 00:19:44,400 predictable who they are. I haven't believed for a minute 331 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,240 that even though we're dealing with different players here because 332 00:19:48,279 --> 00:19:51,759 we killed the other leaders, they very much represent the 333 00:19:51,839 --> 00:19:57,480 ideals of this regime and they're diabolical tyrannical, radical ideology, 334 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:00,680 and I think that's where they are. They have had 335 00:20:01,279 --> 00:20:04,400 the Straits of a Moose as a strategic objective for 336 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:09,359 forty seven years, and they've had four objectives. One dominated 337 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,920 control the Middle East, Two control the distribution of oil 338 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,599 out of the Persian Gulf, Three destroy Israel. Four drive 339 00:20:16,599 --> 00:20:19,359 the United States out of the region. They have been 340 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,960 in control somewhat of the Straits of a Moose since 341 00:20:23,039 --> 00:20:26,599 March the second, when they shut it down, so four months. 342 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:30,519 They have, in their minds, been in control, and they're 343 00:20:30,599 --> 00:20:33,400 not going to give this up without a fight. In 344 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,240 my view, economic pressure and diplomatic pressure will solely be 345 00:20:37,279 --> 00:20:39,920 applied here, and I think they're going to stick to 346 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,319 this and knock back down, and it will likely lead 347 00:20:43,519 --> 00:20:47,799 to an acceleration of military operations to bend them to 348 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,880 our will. I think that is the path we're on. 349 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:53,640 The President is going to continue to negotiate. He has 350 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:57,480 said that he's obviously frustrated. We heard the rich language 351 00:20:57,519 --> 00:21:01,240 to describe that frustration. And we'll see what happens here. 352 00:21:01,279 --> 00:21:04,359 Economic pressure back on We've slapped sanctions back on them. 353 00:21:04,759 --> 00:21:06,839 I don't think we necessarily should have taken them off 354 00:21:06,839 --> 00:21:09,799 at all until we have seen much more from what 355 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,039 in terms of a change in their behavior. We haven't 356 00:21:13,039 --> 00:21:17,359 seen much change in behavior here whatsoever. So that's the 357 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,680 path we're on. I think specifically what will happen is 358 00:21:21,839 --> 00:21:25,359 Admiral Cooper will continue to move ships down in the 359 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,119 southern route off the coast of Oman. We were up 360 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,880 to forty or fifty ships before the attack began. We'll 361 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,799 likely get back to there unless the Runnings interfere again. 362 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,160 If they interfere again, we're going to begin to escalate 363 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:42,119 and accelerate military operations, and it may likely lead to 364 00:21:42,279 --> 00:21:44,960 full major combat operations at some point. 365 00:21:45,079 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 1: So I I hear him use the phrase over and 366 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:53,640 over again about return to major combat operations. He's trumpeted 367 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:57,200 the bit. I know he's in general, but I mean, 368 00:21:58,039 --> 00:22:02,119 and I don't like war, but we've started one. And 369 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:06,079 the only way to stop this is to is to 370 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:11,240 crush the enemy, not the people, the regime, the IRGC. 371 00:22:11,519 --> 00:22:14,720 And until we do, this is just going to keep 372 00:22:14,839 --> 00:22:20,400 on going, just like the Ukraine War. Everybody's sitting back 373 00:22:20,519 --> 00:22:24,880 watching it, but nobody's doing anything about it. Meantime, the 374 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,400 President is on his way back as we record this 375 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:32,519 podcast from Turkey where the NATO conference was held, and 376 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,359 lo and behold, they pulled out the old Jackie Kennedy 377 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,400 designed blue and white seven forty seven, the one that 378 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,839 he just said, Oh, that's an old thing. It looks 379 00:22:42,839 --> 00:22:46,000 so embarrassing when we pull in and the other planes 380 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:51,240 are bigger. Well, guess what the new Katar donated airplane 381 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:57,079 is not. It brought him from DC to Turkey, but 382 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:01,119 it's not bringing him back. Here's the president asked about, 383 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,799 why aren't you flying the brand new one that you 384 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,720 love so much? What's going on with that? Why are 385 00:23:06,759 --> 00:23:09,319 you coming back on the old seven forty seven? 386 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:16,039 Speaker 7: Go ahead, go ahead, hey, Sean mccreasan air Times, but 387 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:17,759 why aren't you flying the new plane home? 388 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:20,759 Speaker 1: Why aren't you flying on the new air Force? 389 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,039 Speaker 3: It's flying to Europe to one of the big bases, 390 00:23:24,039 --> 00:23:25,839 two or three of the big bases, where we can 391 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,920 show it to the people and we'll be going home 392 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:35,680 by normal methods. But we have it going to Europe 393 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,720 to a couple of bases, actually one in particular, but 394 00:23:38,759 --> 00:23:40,559 it's going to go to a couple of basis stop 395 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,519 so the soldiers can see it. Because it's truly magnificent. Yeah, 396 00:23:44,559 --> 00:23:47,000 please go ahead, do you want to go? 397 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: That was his answer, that they're going to send the 398 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:54,920 brand new air Force air Force one. It won't be 399 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,720 air Force one unless he's in it. The new Katari 400 00:23:58,799 --> 00:24:07,599 gifted plane to Europe to show it off to the troops. Really, 401 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:14,119 do you believe that something. My stinkometer is going off 402 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,279 big time, and so is Leon Panetes. 403 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 9: You know, I've always been concerned about security issues with 404 00:24:22,799 --> 00:24:28,119 this kind of plane that's built by another country, regardless 405 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:32,240 of the fact that that country we may have good 406 00:24:32,279 --> 00:24:37,160 relations with that country. The fact is that from a 407 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:40,960 security point of view, you have got to be concerned 408 00:24:41,759 --> 00:24:43,640 that there are going to be efforts to try to 409 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:49,680 gather intelligence. And I'm sure they've reviewed the whole plane, 410 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:54,200 But as somebody involved with security, I would be very 411 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:59,839 concerned about making sure that the president's security is protected. 412 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,839 The only way to do that is by having that 413 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:09,279 plane made in the United States and carrying the equipment 414 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:13,000 that is provided by the United States, so that we 415 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:17,119 can assure that the president is not only secure but safe. 416 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,920 So I don't think there's any question that there are 417 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,440 security concerns here. 418 00:25:23,839 --> 00:25:25,599 Speaker 1: What they are, we don't know. 419 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,079 Speaker 9: But I'm sure that's involved. 420 00:25:28,279 --> 00:25:31,039 Speaker 1: Well, there was a previous question asked at the news 421 00:25:31,039 --> 00:25:35,079 conference after the NATO conference, and the President answered it 422 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,680 by saying that he is the number one target for assassination. 423 00:25:40,279 --> 00:25:43,480 And then Panetta says, hey, this thing smells like it's 424 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,759 a security problem. So the Air Force one, the blue 425 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,720 one's designed by Jackie Kennedy, is carrying the President back 426 00:25:50,759 --> 00:25:54,400 to Washington. We'll see what happens to the new super 427 00:25:54,480 --> 00:26:00,519 duper luxury Katari gift. I'm with Panetta, man, you know 428 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,920 you don't want a plane that has been in service 429 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,160 to the to another government for four years using being 430 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:11,559 the facility the president uses as he flies around the world. 431 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,440 The other item that we're keeping an eye on is 432 00:26:15,759 --> 00:26:21,400 this Platner story. Graham Plattner, Man, it has taken over. 433 00:26:22,319 --> 00:26:25,920 They are they don't have a countdown because they don't 434 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,559 know what time he's going to do it. But everybody 435 00:26:27,559 --> 00:26:31,039 and their brother is saying that Platner is going to 436 00:26:31,079 --> 00:26:35,160 step down from being the Democrat nominee for the US 437 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:40,200 Senate race out of Maine, and so far the only 438 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,119 thing we're hearing is Democrats are mad at him because 439 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,359 he's now saying to the Democrats. I want to have 440 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:52,920 a say in who you pick. And the Democrat Party 441 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,160 is trying to figure out how not to do a 442 00:26:55,279 --> 00:26:59,559 repeat of the Joe Biden Kamala Harris but Tod handoff. 443 00:27:00,279 --> 00:27:04,720 They want to have maybe some quick primaries of something 444 00:27:04,799 --> 00:27:09,559 in Maine for the people to choose. But Platner is saying, 445 00:27:09,599 --> 00:27:14,000 look it, I come from the far far far left. 446 00:27:14,519 --> 00:27:17,839 Therefore I demand that you pick a far far far 447 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,480 left person to replace me if I step down. So 448 00:27:21,519 --> 00:27:25,799 he hasn't said he will. He's reflecting right now, Here's 449 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:30,240 a Devin Murphy Anderson who is the head of the 450 00:27:30,279 --> 00:27:32,480 Democrat Party in the state of Maine. 451 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 4: Graham Plotner's team has repeatedly reached out to us in 452 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,079 an attempt to put their thumb on the scale of 453 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,279 what this process looks like. You have repeatedly reiterated, too, 454 00:27:42,319 --> 00:27:45,759 Grand Plotner's team that they have no role in determining 455 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,599 our next Democratic nominee for the US Senate, nor in 456 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,599 determining what this process looks like. 457 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, so he has no future. I mean, he's burned 458 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,119 his bridge, but it looks like he's still got the 459 00:27:58,519 --> 00:28:02,640 lighter out trying to burn even more so we'll see 460 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,720 what they come up with. But they have deadlines, and 461 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,519 let me go over some of this. Let's go back 462 00:28:09,599 --> 00:28:15,279 to August twenty fifth of last year, almost a year ago. 463 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,680 That's when Graham Platner threw his hat in the ring 464 00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:24,359 to become the nominee for the Democrats in the state 465 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:28,359 of Maine. So the campaign began August twenty fifth, twenty 466 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:34,960 twenty five. October sixteenth of last year, the Reddit posts 467 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:42,880 started showing up where he wrote posts slamming police, mocking 468 00:28:43,359 --> 00:28:48,359 rural Americans, and I mean, Maine is kind of all 469 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:53,160 one big rural area, isn't it. Then October twentieth, the 470 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,160 news came out about he has a Nazi tattoo on 471 00:28:56,279 --> 00:28:59,680 his chest, and at first he said, yeah, it was 472 00:28:59,759 --> 00:29:03,000 just a drunk marine and I got it like everybody else. 473 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,519 We didn't know what it meant. So the question then 474 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,440 was if he got it twenty years ago and he 475 00:29:09,599 --> 00:29:13,119 found out subsequent because he's told some of the women 476 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,000 that he's had relationships with about the fact that it 477 00:29:16,039 --> 00:29:19,200 was a Nazi tattoo, Why did he if he knew 478 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,200 it was a Nazi tattoo, why didn't he try to 479 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:26,240 get it taken off. Well, that was October twentieth. February 480 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:32,559 twenty sixth of this year, he deleted posts that he 481 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:38,440 wrote about political violence that it was necessary. Yeah, he 482 00:29:38,559 --> 00:29:42,799 was for political He's still for political violence. In May 483 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:50,079 he started mocking purple heart veterans. May thirtieth, he posted 484 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:57,359 sexually expressed explicit messages while he was married. June fourth, 485 00:29:58,599 --> 00:30:02,480 a next girlfriend described, I have some very unsettling behavior. 486 00:30:02,519 --> 00:30:06,559 That turned out to be Lindsey Fifield. She spoke to 487 00:30:07,799 --> 00:30:14,440 Jake Tapper today. It's the same as yesterday. It's he's dangerous. 488 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,640 He scared her, all of that sort of stuff. But 489 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:21,519 they dismissed her because of the fact that she is 490 00:30:21,839 --> 00:30:26,640 a Republican woman, and they said, well, you don't count 491 00:30:27,119 --> 00:30:33,200 June ninth. June ninth, so it's been a month tomorrow 492 00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:36,000 that he won the nomination in May by the people 493 00:30:36,519 --> 00:30:41,640 for the Senate nomination for Democrats. July six, just a 494 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,519 couple of days ago, Politico wrote about the new sexual 495 00:30:45,559 --> 00:30:51,119 assault allegations and now going forward, he has until next 496 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,759 Monday to drop out July thirteenth, or his name will 497 00:30:54,759 --> 00:30:59,000 be on the ballot, and the Democrat Party has until 498 00:30:59,079 --> 00:31:04,680 July twenty seventh to name a replacement. So they're in 499 00:31:04,799 --> 00:31:11,240 the same boat of scrambling after Joe Biden delayed and 500 00:31:11,279 --> 00:31:14,759 delayed and delayed and finally threw in the towel and 501 00:31:14,799 --> 00:31:17,519 then they scrambled and put Kamala Harrison and said, okay, 502 00:31:17,519 --> 00:31:21,519 now let's have a vote. So they're having the same exact, 503 00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:26,200 exact issues in May that the Democrats had in twenty 504 00:31:26,279 --> 00:31:31,200 twenty four. A little update about our New York City 505 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:35,359 building that is not standing up very well. This is 506 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:40,279 a thirty six thirty four story building. I believe it 507 00:31:40,319 --> 00:31:45,880 is thirty four story building and right down by Grand Central, 508 00:31:46,799 --> 00:31:50,519 in between Grand Central and the United Nations Building. It's 509 00:31:50,559 --> 00:31:55,880 in a very busy part of Manhattan. And they were 510 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,279 trying to convert this building twenty two story building they 511 00:31:59,319 --> 00:32:02,279 were going to add had eleven more floors that would 512 00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:04,480 make it to thirty three. I don't know they got 513 00:32:04,519 --> 00:32:07,079 thirty six out of the total thing. In any case, 514 00:32:07,279 --> 00:32:09,440 they wanted to add eleven more floors to the top 515 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,960 of the building and then convert it from an office 516 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:18,759 building to apartments. And somebody is going to get sued, 517 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:26,039 either the architect or the construction contractor because somebody had 518 00:32:26,079 --> 00:32:28,480 to do the calculations. Even the City of New York 519 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,920 had to do the calculations about it. If you've got 520 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,480 a twenty two story building and you want to add 521 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:39,240 eleven more stories to it, have the structure of the 522 00:32:39,279 --> 00:32:41,799 twenty two story building, will it be able to hold 523 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,640 eleven more stories on top of it without collapsing? And 524 00:32:45,799 --> 00:32:50,799 what we're finding is no, it won't. So they've got 525 00:32:50,799 --> 00:32:55,440 a collapse zone that's five blocks each direction from this building. 526 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,279 There's a lot of the buildings have been evacuated. I 527 00:32:58,279 --> 00:33:01,119 don't know what the people that I have businesses in 528 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,319 those buildings are doing, but they're shut down waiting to 529 00:33:04,359 --> 00:33:07,960 try to keep this building from collapsing. So that's what's 530 00:33:08,039 --> 00:33:14,680 going on in New York today. The tenure Treasury, it's 531 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:19,599 the highest level of interest rates in a month. So 532 00:33:19,759 --> 00:33:23,759 interest rates are going back up, and we'll talk about 533 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:29,039 all of that this Friday. Financial Friday. I'd like to 534 00:33:29,279 --> 00:33:31,160 remind you to give me a call if you have 535 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:39,279 questions about interest rates, treasury bonds, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, 536 00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:44,559 saving money for investments, saving money for retirement, utual funds, 537 00:33:44,799 --> 00:33:48,960 get whatever's on your mind about about making money, investing 538 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,720 money we do on Financial Friday. And the phone number 539 00:33:52,759 --> 00:33:55,519 to call and leave your message, leave your question, leave 540 00:33:55,559 --> 00:34:00,200 your observation is eight five five two nine five. I've 541 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,799 sixty six hundred eight nine five. I'm sorry eight. I 542 00:34:05,799 --> 00:34:08,960 don't even know the number eight five five two nine 543 00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:12,960 five sixty six hundred. If you can't remember it like me, 544 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,119 you can go to my website and there's the number 545 00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:20,679 at Tom Sullivan dot com. All right, I hope to 546 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:25,760 hear from you Wall Street today it was sell off 547 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:30,920 day once we started hearing saber rattling about war starting 548 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:36,079 back up again. Down went the market, the dow, well, 549 00:34:36,079 --> 00:34:38,320 not all of it. The Dow went down five hundred 550 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:42,679 and seventy six to fifty two thousand and three forty eight. 551 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:47,800 The SMP fell twenty one. The NASDAC actually was down, 552 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,960 but it came back to have a gain at the end, 553 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,800 up fifty two points. The price of gold fell seventy 554 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,639 three dollars down to four thoy eighty four. An oil 555 00:34:58,039 --> 00:35:02,960 big jump yesterday, another big jump today, four dollars today. 556 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:07,559 West Texas Intermediate now is seventy five dollars for one 557 00:35:07,559 --> 00:35:11,280 barrel of oil. That's it for today, Thank you for 558 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,960 coming by. We will be back again tomorrow and I 559 00:35:14,079 --> 00:35:18,159 hope we'll see you there