WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.919 This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:05.839 AM six forty, the Gary and Shannon Show on demand 3 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:07.320 on the iHeartRadio app. 4 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:13.960 We are seeing what appears to be an Iranian response 5 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:18.000 to the American attack over the weekend. Iran said that 6 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:22.320 it has attacked American forces stationed at Kater's Al Udaid airbase. 7 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:26.239 The announcement was made on Iranian state television as they 8 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:28.760 were playing I Guess the Iranian version of a John 9 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:33.079 Phillips Suza March. It says martial music was being played. 10 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:35.600 A caption on the screen says this quote was a 11 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:38.880 mighty and successful response by the armed forces of Iran 12 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:44.479 to America's aggression. Israel says that they were tracking missiles 13 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:48.200 coming out of Iran, that it's believed that ten of them, 14 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:53.880 ten missiles from Iran were fired at Cotter, maybe at 15 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:57.200 Ledaid airbase there, and that one may have been fired 16 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.759 into Iraq. There are a couple couple thousand, i should 17 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:04.799 say Americans that are in Iraq as well. Explosions have 18 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:10.120 been heard in Qatar. Shortly after the Qatari government closed 19 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:14.799 its airspace because of the threat of retaliation and American forces. 20 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:18.680 The US moved most of its unhangared aircraft out of 21 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:23.159 the base already even before the airspace was cleared yesterday. 22 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.799 So this was an obvious target. It was an obvious threat, 23 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:32.079 and they prepared as best as they could. President Trump, 24 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:35.959 by the way, will be meeting with his national security team, probably, 25 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:42.200 as we speaked, we may hear after this meeting more 26 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:46.239 details about the substantial damage to the nuclear facilities from 27 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:49.840 the strikes. We haven't heard any additional evidence in that 28 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:53.879 situation the International Atomic Energy Agency assessing the damage to 29 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:57.480 your point of where is all the enriched nuclear material? 30 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:01.359 Yeah, so despite the claims of a complete obliteration, we 31 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:04.439 just simply we can't know yet the extent of the 32 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:10.080 damage to these nuclear facilities. And it's unclear right now 33 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:14.000 where four hundred kilograms about eight hundred and eighty pounds 34 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:19.120 of uranium is sitting right now. There have been satellite 35 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:22.319 pictures that have been published that showed a couple dozen 36 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:27.879 large trucks outside one of the facilities that could arguably 37 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:33.439 be used to remove and move the enriched uranium, the 38 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:36.000 kind that we're talking about, by the way, the eight 39 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:39.400 hundred and eighty pounds they said is enriched to about 40 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:44.560 sixty percent. For nuclear energy purposes, you only need to 41 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:47.879 enrich it to three to five percent. Sixty percent is 42 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:50.639 still short of what would be required to get a 43 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:55.879 nuclear weapon, but eight hundred and eighty pounds is in 44 00:02:55.919 --> 00:02:59.759 finger quotes at least a metric pantload of these of 45 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:03.639 that enriched uranium. So the question is where does it exist. 46 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.080 The one positive thing that you can probably hang your 47 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:13.479 hat on is the incredible Israeli intelligence community that exists 48 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:18.560 not just in Israel, but clearly in Iran. One of 49 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:24.000 the reasons why is Israel's original bombing of Iran was 50 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:29.439 so successful was the amount of MASAD members and secret 51 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:33.120 agents that existed in Iran and were able to from 52 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:39.639 within that country disable almost all of Iran's anti air 53 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:41.360 defense missile systems. 54 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:45.120 So what remains, Experts say, the last tool that remains 55 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:50.120 standing and will most easily be resurrected Iran's ability to 56 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:55.120 carry out terror plots abroad. Tehran is already signaled that 57 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:58.199 it's prepared to use all available means to respond to 58 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:01.919 the US bombing, the Iran Foreign Minister saying on social 59 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:05.520 media yesterday, Iran reserves all options to defend its sovereignty 60 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:09.319 interest in people. The events this morning are outrageous and 61 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:15.080 will have everlasting consequences. So the FBI and its counterparts 62 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:18.920 in Europe and the Middle East already in motion to 63 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:22.759 put scrutiny on cells and networks they know about, put 64 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:26.160 out feelers for seals and networks they don't know about 65 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:30.399 cells with links to Iran. Several who spoke on the 66 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:36.839 condition of anonymity say that these operations have been rolling 67 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:42.720 and will pick up substantially since the weekend. The FBI, 68 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.680 as you can imagine, and as you would want to imagine, 69 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:48.839 has remained very tight lipped about any sort of enforcement 70 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:52.319 going after Iranian cells that exist here. But they do, 71 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:57.839 and that is what everyone should be really, all eyes for, 72 00:04:58.160 --> 00:04:59.079 all eyes out for. 73 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:04.360 You see the La County Sheriff's department social media posts 74 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:04.759 saw that. 75 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.519 There was an issue, but I did not click to 76 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:08.560 see what the post was. 77 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:12.959 So the original version of this LA Sheriff's Department statement 78 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:16.199 on Twitter said, quote, our hearts go out to the 79 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:19.839 victims and families impacted by the recent bombings in Iran. 80 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:26.319 What Within minutes, the department edited the statement to remove 81 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:30.639 any mention of Iranian victims and families before they ultimately 82 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:33.879 deleted the whole thing and then issued an apology, said 83 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:37.759 that that social media post was offensive and it was inappropriate, 84 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:40.959 and they apologize that it's not the view of Sheriff 85 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:43.480 Luna and it's not the view of the La County 86 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:47.439 Sheriff's Department. So again, it appears, according to Irani and 87 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:51.560 State TV, that they are attacking an American air base 88 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:54.639 in katterr. We know that there have been missiles fired 89 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.560 from Iran towards those bases. We don't know if they've 90 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:01.199 been impacted caught her and Iraq, but we'll keep an 91 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:02.720 eye on it see if we get some more information. 92 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:07.639 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on Demand from KFI 93 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:08.759 AM six forty. 94 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:13.920 Story we're following right now that is breaking. Iran has 95 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:18.519 launched missile attacks. Excuse me, take two. Iran has launched 96 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:22.480 missile attacks on US military basis in Cutter and Iraq. 97 00:06:22.560 --> 00:06:26.120 Of course, this is retaliation retaliation that we saw coming 98 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:29.720 from its bombing, from our bombing over three nuclear sites 99 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:34.319 over the weekend. This is in Cutter's capital or people 100 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:40.160 stopped looked up as missiles flew, interceptors fired. Iran announcing 101 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:44.120 on state television that it has attacked American forces, and 102 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:46.600 a caption on the screen called it a mighty and 103 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:52.199 successful response to America's aggression as that martial music played. Listen. 104 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:54.560 The truth again is going to be somewhere in the middle, 105 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:59.480 because while they say it was as successful, CNN is 106 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:03.319 reported that the missiles that were fired were all intercepted 107 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:07.600 by missile defense systems. Obviously, whether it's iron dome like 108 00:07:07.920 --> 00:07:10.959 systems that we have that would prevent those from coming down. 109 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:13.680 That no injuries or deaths are reported. 110 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:18.199 US embassy staff in Cotter and Bahrain are considered to 111 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:20.279 be in duck and cover mode as of right now. 112 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:24.800 This is actually not a surprise. The embassy and caught 113 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:31.360 her hours ago was telling people to shelter in place 114 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:33.480 wherever they were, if they were in the embassy or 115 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:38.439 in their residences. The competent Katari authorities announced the temporary 116 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:41.199 suspension of air traffic in the country's airspace in order 117 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.040 to ensure the safety of citizens, residents and visitors. And 118 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:46.959 it's important to point out again this was hours before 119 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:51.079 Iran launched any missiles towards them. There is something that 120 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:54.920 is clearly working in terms of the intelligence that we 121 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.720 have that obviously share with the Israelis, but that we 122 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:02.360 have about what's going going on in Iran. The embassy 123 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:05.120 said it made that recommendation of shelter in place out 124 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:09.000 of an abundance of caution, and as I mentioned that 125 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:12.639 al Udaid Air Base there in Kotter is home to 126 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:18.120 eight to ten thousand Americans. The UK has an embassy 127 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:21.720 in Kotter as well. They issued a similar warning after 128 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:25.040 the United States did so. This came after the State 129 00:08:25.079 --> 00:08:29.319 Department has been issuing warnings to American citizens throughout the world, 130 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:32.720 and its been doing so for more than twenty four hours. Basically, 131 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:35.799 there is a potential for demonstrations against US citizens and 132 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:40.120 interests abroad, and that the State Department advises any US 133 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:45.200 citizen anywhere in the world to exercise increased caution. As 134 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:46.200 a result of all of. 135 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:53.120 This, the bases around the United States, of course, have 136 00:08:54.039 --> 00:09:00.879 been a focus as well, concerned basically for because troops 137 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:03.679 everywhere talked about how Iran is at a week in 138 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:08.039 place and may turn to terrorism because of that, and 139 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:12.919 how the basis here would be a likely target for 140 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:14.720 that sort of bad acting. 141 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:16.919 You know, A lot has been said over the last 142 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:20.960 say week or so since Israel started targeting Iran and 143 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:25.240 before we got involved, that the Supreme leader in Iran 144 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:28.639 was now going to flip the switch on a bunch 145 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.320 of sleeper sales around the country, around the world, but 146 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:34.240 also specifically within the United States. And I don't know 147 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:39.559 how apocryphal those sleeper sales actually are. They make great 148 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:45.720 fiction stories, but are there actually waiting in the wings 149 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:51.080 groups of people who are sympathetic to the Iranian Supreme leaders, 150 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:53.679 who would be willing to now put their lives on 151 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:56.679 the line and blow themselves up or other people up 152 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:59.240 in order to further whatever they think they're doing. 153 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:02.360 My gut say, yes, there are the people. My gut 154 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:05.840 also says that they lack organizational skills to carry out 155 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:10.919 anything that would be a mass casualty event. I just 156 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:15.120 don't know how we would have sleeper cells that are 157 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:19.480 that well organized and that large and not ready to 158 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:24.519 go without having dismantled them systematically. I don't see the 159 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:29.639 FBI allowing sleeper cells to grow teeth. I just don't 160 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:35.960 I understand the FBI's ability to find them, suss them out, 161 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.799 realize they exist. But that's kind of where it ends 162 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:44.240 in terms of them communicating to arm themselves or to 163 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:45.879 orchestrate something. 164 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:51.200 I'm and as politicized as leadership at the FBI has 165 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:55.960 become over the last say ten years or so, the 166 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.639 men and women that are still doing the actual exactly 167 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.440 shoes on the ground, boots on the ground work of 168 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:05.000 the FBI are the ones who are worthy of our 169 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:08.600 praise because of the work that they do. So one 170 00:11:08.600 --> 00:11:11.759 of the biggest issues that has been talked about this 171 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:15.679 is before Iran started launching missiles at American basis in 172 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:19.440 the Middle East, was whether or not the Iranian leadership 173 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:23.840 was going to cut off oil shipments through the Strait 174 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:27.919 of horm Moves, tiny little piece of water that basically 175 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:31.440 twenty percent of the daily oil supply in the world 176 00:11:32.039 --> 00:11:34.279 goes through that little stretch. And if they were able 177 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:36.679 to close down the Straight of Horror Moves, what that 178 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:40.519 would do to economic markets around the world. Well, they're 179 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:42.200 not the only ones who have a card to play 180 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:44.639 when it comes to oil. President Trump has already said 181 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:49.799 something today about this, and that oil card is something 182 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:53.840 that could be next outside of the military response that 183 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:56.200 we see going on right now. So we'll talk about 184 00:11:56.440 --> 00:11:58.480 that and much more when we come back. 185 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:03.200 Gary and Shannon will continue. Iran saying the mischele barrage, 186 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:06.240 missile barrage on Cutter was the same number as bombs 187 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:11.480 used by US on nuclear sites. So that's okay? Are 188 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:13.240 they are they saving missiles? 189 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:13.519 Now? 190 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:20.399 What I think they're trying to go tit for tat like, oh, 191 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:23.440 we use the same amount of bond? What get out 192 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:23.759 of here? 193 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:30.000 Well again, no reports of any not even damage, but 194 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:35.440 damage or injuries at all from this Iranian missile attack 195 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:36.200 on American base. 196 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:40.000 They say that. Iran saying this that the missile missile 197 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:43.120 barrage on Cutter was the same number as bombs used 198 00:12:43.159 --> 00:12:46.080 by US on nuclear sites, as a signal for their 199 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:50.600 desire to de escalate. Of course they wanted deep. Of 200 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:53.600 course they want to de escalate. They have nothing. Their 201 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:55.519 pants are being handed to them left and they don't 202 00:12:55.559 --> 00:12:58.279 have pants. Their pants were blown off. Their pants are 203 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:00.120 not being handed to them, their pants were taken and 204 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.080 another's standing. They're naked in the breeze. 205 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:07.600 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 206 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:09.000 AM six forty. 207 00:13:10.440 --> 00:13:14.480 All ees on the Middle East. As air spaces continue 208 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:19.320 to Domino like shut down, United Arab Emirates has joined 209 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:23.159 Cutter and closing its air space. According to analysis of 210 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:27.840 flight paths and air traffic control audio, Bahrain, Gulf state 211 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:29.759 very close to Cutter. If you want to pull up 212 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:31.639 your map of the Middle East, we'll all do it together. 213 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:35.600 Air raids sirens have sounded there in Bahrain. That's where 214 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:39.799 the US Fifth Fleet is headquartered. So the country's interior 215 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:44.240 ministry there is our citizens and residents to remain calm 216 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:46.360 head of the nearest safe place as well. 217 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:49.360 Yeah, so we do know that Iran has launched some 218 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:52.720 missiles at bases in caught Her and apparently in Iraq, 219 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:55.399 and what it says is retaliation for the air strikes 220 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:59.039 on the nuclear facilities over the weekend. The explosions have 221 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:03.120 been heard over the capital of Doha, the Katari capital 222 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:06.279 of Doha, and then video from the area also shows 223 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:12.519 missiles being deployed, anti missile defense systems being deployed and 224 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:16.279 exploding several of the ordinances in the skies over caught Her. 225 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:19.159 The strike comes after caught Her, as you mentioned, had 226 00:14:19.159 --> 00:14:21.679 already shut its airspace because of the threat of what 227 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:25.559 we assumed was going to be retaliation targeted at al 228 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:29.240 Udaide airbase there and caught her somewhere between eighty five 229 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:33.240 and ten thousand Americans believed to be at the air 230 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:36.799 base or nearby. The White House has confirmed that this 231 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:39.240 is in fact going on and has been following this 232 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:43.039 situation very closely. Statement from the White House said, the 233 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:45.360 Department of Defense and White House are aware of and 234 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:49.039 closely monitoring potential threats to the Allodade Air Base. President 235 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:51.240 Trump and as we've said before, as meeting with the 236 00:14:51.320 --> 00:14:54.000 National Security team in the Situation room right now. 237 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:56.919 This is kind of Aron striking back without striking back. 238 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:00.240 It can save face a little bit with this retaliation. 239 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:04.039 But it did give Cutter a heads up. It's the 240 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:07.759 same way they gave, you know, when Iran gave Iraq 241 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:10.480 a heads up back in twenty twenty before firing ballistic 242 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:13.919 missiles onto a base in a Rock when they acted 243 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:16.960 its top general and so a way of striking back 244 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:22.039 but limiting casualties, which is nice. But there was a 245 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.759 heads up definitely, I mean it was an obvious target 246 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:25.600 as well. 247 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.320 Caught her officially has condemned the attack. The Prime Minister 248 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:34.919 of caught Her, Majed al Ansari, said on x that 249 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:37.960 the Iranian missiles are a flagrant violation of the sovereignty 250 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:40.480 of the State of kater its airspace, its international law 251 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:43.879 and the United Nations Charter. The Prime Minister said that 252 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:46.440 Catter reserves the right to respond directly in a manner 253 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:49.000 equivalent with the nature and scale of this brazen aggression, 254 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:53.679 in line with international law. We reassure that Qatar's air 255 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:57.480 defense has successfully thwarted the attack and intercepted the Iranian missiles. 256 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:01.440 So now Cattter is saying, now that Iran has launched 257 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:04.759 missiles at Kotter, can then launch missiles back at Iran. 258 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:08.519 All the while this is playing out, the nuclear strikes, 259 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:13.919 the Israeli campaign against Iran continues. They had several more 260 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:17.559 strikes just in the last several hours and have said 261 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:21.600 that they're now going after the military leadership. On top 262 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:25.200 of the military I should say below the military leadership 263 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:28.159 that they've already taken out in multiple air strikes over 264 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:31.159 the course of the last nine or ten days or so. 265 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:35.240 So the issue of whether or not the Iranian parliament 266 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.000 is going to vote to shut down the Strait of 267 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.879 Horn moves is something that a lot of people have 268 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:41.440 been watching. 269 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:43.720 I'm glad you bring this up because I would like 270 00:16:43.799 --> 00:16:47.039 to just point out that oil prices have taken a 271 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:52.159 dive right after the strikes on the air base. They 272 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:55.320 went from let's see, they were at seventy four a 273 00:16:55.360 --> 00:17:00.039 barrel went down to now at about sixty nine and 274 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:04.160 change a barrel, I mean, so a huge spike down. 275 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:10.920 Of course, Trump came out demanding that everybody, uh, drill, baby, drill. 276 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:12.960 I think were his words, and I want to put 277 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:14.839 them in all caps. I believe that's how they were 278 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:19.000 delivered in terms of calling for the US and other 279 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:22.319 oil producing countries to put their foot on the gas. 280 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:24.920 That the enemies are watching and so am I so 281 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:25.359 to speak. 282 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:27.680 Yeah, one of the things that we would have in 283 00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:30.000 the event that the Straight of Horror Moves is shut down, 284 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:33.680 twenty percent of the world's daily oil production comes through 285 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.839 that Straight of Horror Moves. Obviously, that could jack up 286 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:40.359 oil prices. Iran would benefit from that because they are 287 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:43.680 one of the major oil producers in the in the world, 288 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:45.559 although they have to sell it on the black market. 289 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:48.279 But anybody's price goes up, their price gets to go up. 290 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:53.119 So we in the United States would be able to 291 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:58.119 in the you know, at the president's behest start drilling 292 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:01.079 and fracking more, and that's sort of what he was expecting. 293 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:06.319 Back in seventy seven, before the Iranian Revolution began, the 294 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:09.880 US had net imports of about three billion barrels of 295 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:15.119 petroleum and refined products each year. That per capita number 296 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:20.880 has basically unchanged since since then, from nineteen seventy seven 297 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:22.880 to about two thousand and three. The US was also 298 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:26.400 a significant importer of natural gas in both of those years, 299 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:30.319 but today we have net exports of about two and 300 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:33.680 a half barrels per capita. Also the world's largest seller 301 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:36.920 of liquefied natural gas. And the technology is not new, 302 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:39.319 but the way that it's been improved over the last 303 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:42.880 decade and a half has been transformational, is one word 304 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:47.079 that I saw today. So the potential for this strait 305 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:52.119 of Hormuz issued to be global. Obviously, it could cause 306 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:55.599 immediate problems if they shut down the Straight of Fellows. 307 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:59.000 Yeah, the world's it all runs through there, right, the 308 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:03.319 world's oil supply. Now. As much as presidents get the 309 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:07.720 applause and get the shillacking when it comes to oil 310 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:11.759 prices rising and falling, they have very little of it influence. 311 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:15.480 Excuse me little influence on oil and gas prices generally. 312 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:19.640 I mean they can sway the oil companies and things 313 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:22.240 like that, but we don't have a state run oil company. 314 00:19:23.079 --> 00:19:26.119 It's up to the private companies to determine whether they 315 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:30.759 want to produce oil in the US. So there we are. 316 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:36.519 By the way, gas price has been outstanding, outstanding. Have 317 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:41.400 you noticed do you use gasoline? I filled up today 318 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:45.160 for like four thirty four to thirty five. How ridiculous 319 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.519 is it that at four thirty a day bargain? 320 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:52.079 I know, but if you were in Waco would be 321 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:53.599 like two dollars and twelve cents. 322 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:56.480 Well, I'm not in Waco, and look around. It's also 323 00:19:56.559 --> 00:20:01.920 beautiful here and not Waco. Ouch. Well, the truth is 324 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:05.240 the truth. Any you want the mountains, you want, the ocean, 325 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:09.559 you want, the beauty you want? Where does Michael Monks talk? 326 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:12.079 You want Carmel? Can't get that in Waco. 327 00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:14.240 Jeez? 328 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:17.279 All right again, we are watching what's going on in 329 00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:19.319 the Middle East. Will bring you updates as soon as 330 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:20.640 possible when anything happens. 331 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:25.359 You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI 332 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:26.480 AM six forty. 333 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:32.279 Kuwait and Iraq now have both closed their airspace in 334 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:36.559 light of the attacks this hour, joining Qatar, United Arab 335 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:42.599 Emirates in Bahrain in doing so. These are the debris 336 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:45.440 now from missiles or interceptors at a fallen and Cutter. 337 00:20:46.920 --> 00:20:51.039 To your point, the number, the specific number of missiles 338 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:54.599 that were supposedly used against the base in Cutter and 339 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:59.240 also a potential base in Iraq that Iran made reference 340 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:02.839 to the number of bombs that were dropped on those 341 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:08.799 three nuclear facilities, the fourteen mops that now we know, 342 00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:11.640 and you reference this also in that last segment that 343 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:15.960 Iran informed caught her about the missile strikes, but also 344 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:21.359 informed the Trump administration that the missiles were coming. 345 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:24.799 We're using the same number you did, so let's just 346 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:28.039 call it even. Is that the mentality. 347 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:30.599 They said that that Iran signaled its warning to the 348 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:34.319 United States via a couple of diplomatic channels, that it 349 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:37.799 had also informed Doha, the capital of kut Her, that 350 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:41.039 they were going to be launching these missiles. That lends 351 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:46.960 itself to that theory that maybe this is Iran saying, listen, 352 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:48.920 to be honest, we have to drop we have to 353 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:50.839 do some missiles because we still have some people, we 354 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:54.000 still got ninety million people that they got. They got 355 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:56.759 to believe that we're actually fighting back. But we're just listen. 356 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:58.960 We know that none of these missiles are actually going 357 00:21:59.000 --> 00:21:59.480 to get through. 358 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:02.119 But you call We'll call off the dogs. You call 359 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:04.200 off the dogs, Let's have no more dogs. Let's just 360 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:06.240 let the dust settle and then go back to the 361 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:07.359 negotiating table. 362 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:10.200 Well, and that and the response from the Katari government, 363 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:13.480 which I said was the Prime Minister had taken to Twitter, 364 00:22:13.519 --> 00:22:16.759 because that's where you know, that's where you play out 365 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:19.319 World War III, said that the Iranian strikes were a 366 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:21.759 flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the State of Qatar, 367 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:24.440 it's airspace, the international aw United Nation's charter. We have 368 00:22:24.839 --> 00:22:27.039 the right to respond directly in a manner equivalent with 369 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:29.400 a nature in the scale of this brazen agress. That's 370 00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:33.279 a statement that any one of those countries over there 371 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:36.759 would be able to put out because they have to 372 00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:38.799 at that point, they're not just going to shrug their 373 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:42.720 shoulders and go nice try. They have to prove or 374 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:46.680 they have to say something publicly for public consumption, not 375 00:22:46.839 --> 00:22:49.200 just for Iran, but for the people within their own 376 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:51.480 country that says, hey, don't worry about it. 377 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:52.000 We got it. 378 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:56.000 We will respond in kind somehow do they I don't know, 379 00:22:56.680 --> 00:22:59.359 do they actually respond, That's that's going to be the question. 380 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:05.480 But at this point, it is reported Reuters is reporting 381 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:09.880 that Iran did inform the Trump administration about the missile 382 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:13.839 strikes towards the al Udaide airbase in caught her hours 383 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:18.160 ahead of the actual missile launches. We do know, as 384 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:22.200 we mentioned a couple of times, that the security team 385 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:25.279 is right now in the situation room, the Joint Chiefs 386 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:28.960 Chair General Dan Kine and the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, 387 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:33.559 among many others in that situation room monitoring this retaliation 388 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:34.519 that came in from Iran. 389 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:38.559 Iran basically today showing they don't have the stomach to 390 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:42.400 escalate this. That's my takeaway at this point, that's a 391 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:42.920 good point. 392 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:48.359 Or the ability now or the ability right ability right 393 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:51.640 right right. We know that that Israel has degraded their 394 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:57.799 air defense capabilities that have completely blasted through hundreds of 395 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:00.799 their ballistic missiles. Now they do have a lot, but 396 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:03.079 if they don't have the ability to produce them on 397 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:05.319 a mass scale, they don't have the ability to launch 398 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:08.359 them now on a mass scale, maybe they only had 399 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:09.359 fourteen left. 400 00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:12.400 Yeah, this is this is the way for Ron to 401 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:16.039