Speaker 1: And hello, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast.
It's Friday today. It's a twenty twenty fourth day of April,
Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: My name is Tom Sullivan. We are well. I was
thinking about this, the fact that we're doing more and
more war and more warring.
Speaker 1: It's what's happening is every day things change, and today
we have some decent size changes that are going on,
not just the deadlines that keep moving around, but this
time we've got action going on. With the Iranians. There
is going to be a summit in Pakistan. Work came
out late morning early afternoon that iran was going to
be sending a delegation to Pakistan, and the first reporting
was that the Iranian delegation was going to talk to
the Pakistani people who are helping with the negotiations to
see what to do next, and basically to report to
Pakistan that the Iranians have their act together and they
know who's in charge and they can fulfill a deal
and all of that. So the word was on that
the Iranians were going to go to Pakistan. The Foreign
Minister is going to be the head of this of
this delegation its sounded like it was a one sided deal,
that Iran was going to go to Pakistan, they were
going to talk to Pakistan. And then and all of
a sudden, Caroline Levitt, the Press secretary for the President,
came out to the driveway and announce the following.
Speaker 3: As you know and I spoke about it earlier this week,
the President was flexible in granting an extension of the
ceasefire throughout this time, the President has decided to dispatch
Special Envoy Witcoff and Jared Kushner back to Islamabad. The
Iranians want to talk, they want to talk in person,
and so the President is, as I've said many many
times to all of you, always willing to give diplomacy
a chance. So Steve and Jared will be heading to
Pakistan tomorrow to hear the Iranians out. We hope progress
will be made, and we hope that positive developments will
come from this meeting. And we will see and the President,
the Vice President, the Secretary of State will be waiting
here in the United States for updates. And the Vice President,
I understand, is on standby and we'll be willing to
dispatch to Pakistan if we feel it's a necessary use
of his time.
Speaker 2: K Yeah, you heard that right that JD is not going.
Speaker 1: The Vice President is not going with Wikoff and Kushner,
and they're leaving tonight because they have to leave tonight
that they're going to have these meetings that are now
scheduled for tomorrow. JD is on standby Nick Robertson the
reporter is in Pakistan right now and this is what
he's seen on that side of the world.
Speaker 4: So this news is very fast paced and coming literally
come from a meeting with government officials here who I
don't think were even aware that Jerry Kushner and Steve Wikoff,
would you hear over the weekend? Now, what we'd heard
from Pakistani officials earlier was that they hoped that their
bilateral meeting with the Iranian foreign minister would lead to
more US Iranian face to face talks. But the impression
had been created by the Iranian Foreign minister because he
said he was going to come first here to Islamabad.
Everything we were understanding about that visit that was going
to happen in the coming hours was going to be short.
Within about four hours or so, he'd be leaving to
go on to Oman for talks there, and then onto
Moscow for talks there. So the narrative coming from the
Iranian Foreign Minister's side was this was just touch and
go talks where the Pakistan is here. But this is
now entering a whole different realm. As we've seen the
logistics to get a delegation from the East coast of
the United States to Islamabad, Pakistan is almost a twenty
four hour process to get them in place. Is it
conceivable that the Uranian Foreign Minister does his touch and
go here, moves off for his other meetings, then circles
back into Islamabad to have that face to face with
the President's Special Envoy and his son in law, Jared Kushpa.
Is that the frame that we should be looking at here.
What that Pakistan is already hoping to get out of this,
from what we understand, is really to re energize the talks,
the peace thoughts that really appeared to sort of stagnate
over the part days.
Speaker 1: Well, a couple of things from what Nick Robertson was
talking about. Number One, this came together, like you said,
very fast, So it's kind of this doesn't seem like
it's a very organized, well thought out plan to have
these talks. It was there were no talks, and we
were waiting, and we had a deadline. Then we did
not have a deadline. Then we extended the deadline, and
then all of a sudden, the Iranians say, hey, we're
going to Pakistan. And Nick Roberts said, the news is
moving fast. In other words, nobody knew it. He was
talking to Pakistani officials who had no idea that this
was going to happen. And so it started off just
with Iron going to Pakistan. And then all of a
sudden the White House said, okay, Jared and what coff
you guys get on the plane and get going.
Speaker 2: So they got I don't know if they're.
Speaker 1: On their way now, but they've got to leave sometime
this evening in order to have meetings tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The other item of note here is that the Iranian
Foreign Minister or the foreign minister, he's a rubber stamper.
He has no authority, so he might go and talk
and maybe it's just a way the Iranians do things.
They love to string things out, but he doesn't have
the power to agree to anything. So all right, long
plane trip for Witkoff and Jared Kushner. But we'll see
what happens over the weekend. So before that news broke,
Beth Sander, former National Security Advisor, was asked about her
thoughts on the status of this conflict with Iran.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, clearly, this is what the President said
as well yesterday. So he's repeating this idea that the
entire shebang now in terms of the war aim is
no nuclear weapons for Iran. And you know, the question
is given that the nuclear program was significantly, you know,
to obliterated. It's hard to completely remove a nuclear program
before this war, and in fact, hardly any strikes were
taken against the nuclear program during this war, and so
it kind of begs a question of what was actually accomplished.
What kind of dealer are we going to be able
to get on the nuclear issue?
Speaker 7: And I suspect the reporting that Nick has about Aragchi,
the Foreign minister coming to Pakistan is they need to
talk at a lower level about the basic US demand
that was put on the table on this is what
we want you to agree as the baseline on the
nuclear program. My view on that is that it was
too maximalists for them to say yes on and it
was part of the reason that they didn't show up.
So I think we're now going to be negotiating on
that issue.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So we have to negotiate on how
are we going to get the nuclear dust is much
more than us It's about one thousand pounds of uranium.
How are we going to get that out? And on
top of that, how are we going to get the
mines out of the Strait of Hormuz. So we've got
to open the Straight of Hormos and we have to
clear the nuclear enrich uranium. Those are the two big
issues at this point. But don't take your eye off
of what I've been griping about this whole time. You
cannot have that regime stay in power, not even close
to power. They are the ones that will rebuild as
fast as they can. They lie, they cheat, they steal,
they will the minute you're out of there with your
uranium dust and you got the mindes cleared, they're going
to go right back.
Speaker 2: To their old ways, you know it.
Speaker 1: So they still well, let's add it. You got to
get the enriched uranium out of there, clear the minds,
and open the Strait of Hormus and get rid of
the regime. I know the President said he wasn't doing
regime change, but I think he needs to. Admiral William mccraven,
former head of Seals Sealed Team six, he's really an
impeccable guy. He waited on what's going on with the war.
Speaker 8: Well, you know, as we're saying, the military hope is
not a strategy, right, So yeah, it would be great
to get the Iranians to the negotiating table. But I
still think there are going to be some red lines
that they're going to draw that they're going to be
problematic for the Trump administration. But certainly getting them to
the table is that's the first step.
Speaker 9: You got to do that.
Speaker 1: Okay, so now they're getting to the table, but is
it really anybody Again, go back to the question of
who's in charge and the people that are going to
the media and Pakistan are not in.
Speaker 8: Charge without boots on the ground. You looked at this before,
and I've been through the straight a number of times.
I mean, I don't think you have to put boots
on the ground, but it is risky if you're talking
about putting a military convoy as we did back in
the eighties, you are still going to be threatened by
Iranian drones, Iranian short range blistic missiles, the fast attack boats.
So if the Iranians continue to hold the straight hostage
with again, whether it's minds or fast tag boats, then
it becomes a very challenging problem. Somebody asked me the
other day if I was advising the president, what would
I advise them on? I would say, look, if you
want to get the Iranians to the negotiating table, you're
going to have to lift the blockade. The problem is,
from the president standpoint, the blockade is his leverage, but
from the Iranian standpoint, you know, the straits are their leverage.
So you say, look, well, part of the ceasefire, you
lift the blockade, but you open the straits and then
we'll begin the negotiations. And from the Iranian standpoint, you
know the blockade is a violation of international law and therefore,
and of course it's crushing them economically, of course, But
again from the president standpoint, you want to end up
at a better strategic position after all this is done.
Speaker 9: So the Trump administration wants the straits open.
Speaker 8: Right, and they want to figure out a way to
ensure that the Iranians reduce the enrichment of uranium. Those
are the two objectives he really needs to have at
this point in time. You have to bring them to
the negotiating table and if the FOREI minister comes and
they have good discussions, great, But you could lift the
blockade and they open the straight and that becomes part
of the initial negotiation and.
Speaker 9: The blockade it's a switch.
Speaker 8: So if all of a sudden they are not complying
with then you you flip the switch and the blockade
goes back on.
Speaker 1: And ask you what which is why I keep saying
you have to change the regime?
Speaker 8: Back to the admiral, Yeah, you know, certainly retaliation was
on their list, but we would have thought at our
air bases and alue deed and again UAE, we have
some air bases in UAE hitting you know, the high
rise apartments and the hotels in ua. That was that
was something I think probably surprised a lot of people.
But no retaliating against US or Israeli interest in the
Gulf absolutely on the table.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well but again what I would offer is I think
the Iranians have again you know, from a tactical standpoint,
they played this pretty well because by going after the
Kuwaitis and the Saudi's and the Qataris and the Emiords,
now they've been playing the whole region and they have
it a little bit at again held hostage. This means
the economy is going up. The global economy is rising.
As you'll know.
Speaker 9: This puts a lot of pressure on President Trump. So
it was a tactic.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure we thought about it in that much
detail in terms of the civilian targets that the Iranians.
Speaker 9: Would come at.
Speaker 8: But one thing I've said from the very beginning is
if the regime in Iran survives, they win.
Speaker 2: If they survive, they win. What does that mean?
Speaker 8: If they survive, they win. So look, at the end
of the day, the president hoped to change the regime
in Iran. That was always going to be challenging. It
doesn't mean it's impossible. It was always going to be challenging.
And if the regime survives and over time they continue
to rebuild, unless you can get them to the table
and they agree and you can have inspectors that they're
not going to continue to enrich the uranium to the
level that you can build.
Speaker 1: Obama, I mean, I want to believe that the Admiral
doesn't believe that they would stick to any agreement. They
may come to an agreement and they may promise this
and that and everything else, but I just they have
a long forty seven year history of lyne cheating and
renegging on any agreement. So as far as changing the regime,
that's on my list as well. I hope it is
on the presidents as well. So speaking of agreements, we
did have an agreement. President Obama came to an agreement
that was in twenty fifteen. The person that led that
negotiation was John Kerry, and he's still upset about the
fact that that agreement had been ripped up by the
Trump administration.
Speaker 2: Here's John Kerrey.
Speaker 10: At the time that the President and President Trump decided
to pull out of the agreement.
Speaker 2: The fact is that.
Speaker 10: The Israeli intelligence, Chinese, Rush, French, German, British EU all
agreed that the around nuclear agreement was working, that we
had at least a year during which time they could
not break out, possibly creating a weapon. What President Trump
now has to do is frankly, get them to again
agree to what they already agreed to, which should underscore
the absurdity of the situation that we're finding ourselves in.
Speaker 1: I have no use for John Kerry. He is, I
don't know, some sort of elitist snob who doesn't understand
the real world. Because that agreement, the Iranians were violating it. No,
not every he just absolutely lied through his teeth. Mike Lawler,
who is a congressman from New York, basically points that out.
Speaker 11: He's delusional. The fact is this is revisionist history on
the part of John Kerry. That deal was a disaster.
Iran would have a nuclear way and right now had
we stuck with that deal. And the fact is the
only thing that put pressure on Iran was the maximum
pressure campaign by President Trump in his first term.
Speaker 2: They were literally broke, and.
Speaker 11: It was Joe Biden who eased the sanctions, who allowed
the illicit oil trade with China to the tune of
hundreds of billions of dollars. That's what funded hamas has
bela the houthis, that's what funded the October seventh attacks,
That's what funded their ballistic missiles capabilities and their nuclear ambitions.
It's President Trump who has taken action by striking their
three nuclear facilities last summer and after forty seven years
eliminating the Ayatola, the Clerics, the leadership of the IRGC,
we have gone after their ballistic missiles, capability, their naval fleet.
What is outstanding here is negotiating with the remnants of
this regime if they can figure out who's in charge
over their financing of terror and the highly enriched uranium
which has CBS News reported last week they could produce
between nine to eleven bombs. So what did John Kerry
want us to do? Wait until they had the bomb,
that's what he wanted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's what would have happened. I believe I
may be wrong, but I believe that the JCP Away
Agreement that John Kerry negotiated would have let them have
a full nuclear bomb capability by ten years. Well ten
years was last year, twenty twenty five. It was signed
in twenty fifteen. That would have put in twenty twenty
five they would have been working on and we're working
on building a nuclear bomb. So they would now have
nuke bombs and they again have threatened America, threatened Israel.
They are the leading sponsor of terrorism in the world,
and you want them to have a nuclear bomb. That
was what was so ridiculous about that agreement, beyond all
the other delusional things. As Congressman Lawler said, So back
to what's going on today, Admiral Fozzi Miller is looking
at all of this and kind of sizing up where
we are in our eighth week of this war.
Speaker 12: We spent the week wandering if we're going to get
back to negotiations or not, if the ceasefire was the
right thing to have done. It wasn't really entirely clear
all week until today, we're really starting to see the
momentum shift. I think we're understanding better how fractured the
regime is. We're understanding much better what the impact of
the blockade is on the ability of the regime just
stay in power. So I think we are making progress.
We have an extraordinary amount of naval power, either already
there or coming into the area with a bush carrier
strike group coming in the Boxer amphibious writing. This group
with another twenty two hundred Marines is on its way
and almost there. So we have air power, we have seapower.
We're backed up as a joint operation, so we've got
special operations forces there, We've got air force SS there
all over the region, and so we've got quite a
force and the only option left for the Iranian military
is to block the regime or to lob missiles at
their neighbors.
Speaker 2: But don't forget what Admiral mccraven said.
Speaker 1: If they don't, if they don't get killed, if we
don't wipe out the regime, if they can stay in power,
they win. Forget about all the nuclear material, forget about
the strait. That's to them their measure of who wins.
And if they can stay in power, they win. And
they know that because they will once they're clear of
the Americans and they can get back to rebuilding their
nuclear ambitions. Back to Admiral Miller.
Speaker 12: It's interesting when you look at the regime. The pressure
of the blockade puts on the regime has a number
of different effects. That takes away their ability to do
ce trace. So that's about eight percent of their economy.
IERGC is every where. Even though we don't know who's
in charge in Iran, we know that the IRGC has
the guns, so they've got fifty one percent of the
vote right now. It's not clear that the new Supreme
Leader has the gravitas to be able to force the
IRGC into negotiations, and so.
Speaker 9: We're watching all that go.
Speaker 12: But we have pressure there in that we can start
combat all over again at a moment's notice, or we
can continue the blockade.
Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing how much military power, how much firepower,
we have parked all around Iran, and yet there's squirrely
and they're trying to just hang on and hope that
the Americans basically stop and not try to remove them.
They're fine with everything else, I think at this point.
But we'll see what happens with this weekend. I am
expecting next to nothing coming out of the Pakistan meetings.
I'll be shocked if there's anything of substance. Another form
National Security advisor now part of the Heritage Organization Victoria Coats,
and she was asked about our relationship with Western Europe
in NATO.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 13: I think this is a very necessary reality check for NATO,
and I think it's also critical that we look at
the partnership that's been demonstrated by the United States and Israel.
This is how an ally acts. An ally is right
there with us in the flight, putting their skin in
the game, taking the fight to the enemy, and we
could not ask for more than Israel has done. And
anyone who wants evidence of the just wonderful outcomes we've
had from the historic US investment in Israel's security needs
to look no further than Operation Emic Fury, and that
should also be a cautionary tale for the Europeans. This
is what we're looking from from you. We need you
to do more in the Mediterranean because we may be
called to the Pacific, and then we can also look
at an ally like Japan as they rebuild their military
and try to build that joint capability with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't forget about the Pacific, don't forget about China.
And I would love to know what they're doing in Beijing.
They're watching its closely. Obviously, back to Victoria Coats. So overnight,
the couple of top officials, supposedly top officials in Iran said,
don't worry about us. You're asking who's in charge. We're
all in charge. We're all on the same page, doesn't
matter moderate, hardline or whatever. Don't worry. We're all the same.
And a couple of these officials sent out basically the
same tweet at almost the same moment. Here's Victoria Coach
talking about it.
Speaker 13: That was a very interesting ex post from President Possesskin
because the Foreign Minister Araghji posted exactly the same tweet
within about a minute of each other, suggesting neither of
them are in control of their social media accounts, that
somebody else is doing this, And I would say the
Iranians themselves. I don't know who's leading the country. My
understanding is in the negotiations that did happen in Islamabad,
they couldn't even call back to Tehran to find out
where the position was of the senior leadership because nobody
wanted to use their cell phones. They thought the Israelis
were probably tracking the calls out of Islamabad, and that's
probably a valid fear. So it may take them a
little bit of time to organize themselves to be able
to get back to the table. But as we've been discussing,
that time is very much on the side of the Americans.
Speaker 1: So we wait for the conference over the weekend. Again,
don't hold your breath on that meantime. Today, well, let
me set this up. The President has been on Jaypowell,
the head of the Federal Reserve, to lower interest rates.
We all know that we all know his position on that.
Every president has bugged the Federal Reserve for lowering interest
rates thinking that that would help them politically. So this
isn't anything new, but President Trump brings to new levels
of basically doing everything he can. And so what they've
done now is they've opened up an investigation into J.
Speaker 2: Powell.
Speaker 1: And the one thing that reporters constantly get wrong is
that the Federal Reserve doesn't use touch spend one penny
of taxpayer money. All of their money and all of
the overspending on their building is all done by their
own money that they collect from the banks around the country.
They're this central bank, and yet one reporter after another
talks about the fact that they're using and wasting your
taxpayer dollars. It's not true. So today, well, they went
to a grand jury to indict J. Powell, and the
grand jury told him, naw, we're not going to indict him.
It's pretty hard to not get an indictment from a
grand jury. So then Judge Bosberg, the chief judge in
the Federal District of Washington, said, throughout the entire charges,
all the indictments that they wanted from Janine Piro's office,
the US Attorney's office in Washington, and said, there's there's
nothing here. This is just political vengeance, that's all it is.
And so today, after listening to the testimony of the
President's nominee Kevin Walsh a couple of days ago, and
he did really well before the Banking Committee, but everybody said, Okay,
we can't do anything because Tom tell Us, the Senator
from North Carolina, Tillis likes Kevin Walsh, but he says,
I'm not going to approve voting for him, and he
can block the whole thing until this bogus investigation and
charges against Jay Powell are dropped. Well, crickets from the
White House the last couple of days. And today we
find out that Janine Pirot, the US Attorney for DC, well,
it was reported that she dropped the charges, not exactly.
But let's start with Evan Perez, one of the lawyers
in the media out of Washington, and he has the latest.
Speaker 14: It means that the nomination of Kevin Warsh to replace
Kevin Jerome Powell can now go forward. As you know,
Tom Tillis, who is one of the senators who has
been raising concerns about this investigation. Has essentially said this
is not going to go forward if this investigation is
still ongoing because of the concerns that there was no
evidence to support this investigation. And this is not just
the Senate saying this, but also a judge who looked
at a subpoena that the Justice Department issued in this
investigation and tossed it and said there was no evidence.
I think we have some sound from Tillis, you describe it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is Tom Tillis from a couple of months
ago talking about the fact that he was not going
to let this thing go forward as long as there
was an investigation of Jay Powell.
Speaker 2: Here's Tom, Senator Tom tell Us.
Speaker 5: Let's get washed in there. Let's get Chair Powell comfortable
with actually exiting at some point, not to twenty twenty eight,
and do that by eliminating a bogus investigation. Let's start
at this whole drama.
Speaker 1: So it looked like that the federal government blank at
the White House, blank that Janine Piro blanked. Evan Perez
describes the what's really going on now?
Speaker 14: And look, there's been signs that this investigation really wasn't
about a real investigation. And more about the political pressure
that it could bring to Jerome Powell. We know that
because the FBI was not actually involved in any of
this investigation, the FBI was not doing this and timely.
You know from covering the Justice Department for many years
that if you're doing a criminal investigation, the FBI is
the one that does witness interviews. They are the ones
that do the fat gathering. And so the question here
has always been when would this happen? And so I
should read just a little bit of what the US
attorney Janine Piro said. She said she expects a report
from the Inspector General from the FED in short order
that she believes will wrap this up. She also said, however,
I will not hesitate to restart a criminal investigation should
the facts warrant. So, so she's essentially trying to find
an easy way, an off ramp for this nomination to
be able to go forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't want to say that we're dropping the charges.
But they're dropping the charges. But they're trying to say
that they're not dropping the charges. I mean, a judge
has turned them down, a grand jury has turned them down.
It was totally bogus, but Caroline Lovett. She is the
spin master and this is her spinning.
Speaker 3: As you saw Judge Janine Piro, or a former judge
Janine to me now put out a statement saying that
the case is not necessarily dropped. It's just being moved
over to the Inspector General, who has critical tools at
their disposal to continue to look into the financial mismanagement
at the FED. This has obviously been a priority for
the President if you drive by the FED building. The
President has a point. This is a project that's been
going on for a very long time. It's costing taxpayers
billions of dollars, and I think it's in the best
interest of the taxpayer to get to the bottom of it.
So the investigation still continues. It's just under a different authority,
and that's what you'll continue to see.
Speaker 1: Okay, she said the same thing that is wrong, and
she says it over and over again. There's no tax
dollars involved, not a penny, but it's a political vendetta.
Barrett Berger is a former federal prosecutor. She was asked
about all of this.
Speaker 15: I mean, it's surprising to see DOJ walk away from
an investigation that they had been very public about and
one in which the President had seemed to be encouraging. However,
given Judge Bosberg's decision last month essentially saying that prosecutors
couldn't get the grand jury subpoenas that they were asking
for because they hadn't presented any actual evidence that there
was a crime that had been committed, I guess the
writing may have been on the wall given the judge's
decision there. You know, it's interesting to hear Janine Piro
saying that she retains the right to bring charges in
the future if the Inspector General returns anything. You know,
I think that's probably not likely to happen here. I
think if they had had some sort of evidence that
there had been a crime committed, they probably would have
brought charges in the first place.
Speaker 1: So hopefully this truly does die, and Janine Perrot and
the President can save face on it, and j Palell
can rest easy that the bendette against him is now
over and we can get back to running the Fed
with because Jay Powell's term expires next month, and we
can get Kevin Warshon there, who I think will be
a breath of fresh air for the Federal Reserve. I'm
looking forward to it. So remember we told you that
the Congress failed to the Democrats are blocking the funding
for DHS, and that was covered by an emergency executive
order by the President, but that that executive there's no
more money, emergency money for that to happen again. And
yesterday we played for you a clip of Mark Wayne Mullen,
the new head of the DHS, saying he's got enough
money for the payroll at the end of this month
and then that's it. And could you imagine if they
don't have the money for payroll, then TSA agents, We're
going to be back to the long lines in the airport.
So today Chuck Schumer was standing before the set a
microphone and he said something that really irked Mark Wayne Mullen.
Speaker 16: Adding one hundred and forty billion dollars to an agency
that nobody to two two two groups, border Patrol and
Ice that nobody respects in this country.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 1: Nobody in this country respects the Border Patrol or Ice.
And I got news for sure. I think there's a
lot of people that do. In fact. In the polling,
Fox News out with a poll that shows that brether
thand Trump's getting beat up pretty badly on a lot
of things, but not on the border. The people love
the fact that Donald Trump has closed the border, and
that's because of the border patrol and the work that
ICE is doing. So Mark Wayne Bullen, he's all upset.
Speaker 17: It takes a lot to get me upset. But Chuck Schumer,
no one respects you. The definition of a lying scumbag politician,
that is you. You would be the definition if you
googled you right now. You didn't because you're for open
borders and you're for the criminals running a mock in
our cities. And for you to say that is so
disrespectful to the law enforcement that that is out there
protecting you. Because he has a detail with him. How
about he walks around these city streets without a detail.
I wonder how safe he would feel.
Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Wallen, he's a former champion, a mixed martial
arts champion. You don't want to get Mark Wayne Ullin
upset at you. But that's what's going on today. Let's
see what the markets are doing. So begin with the
gas average average price. Triple A gas prices today four
dollars and six cents. That's up three cents from yesterday,
and for you truckers, the diesel average across the country
five dollars forty seven cents. The West coast is getting
worse now. We instead of two states being above five dollars,
we've got four, the state of Washington five dollars forty
one cents average. Oregon that's new to the list. Five
oh one California. They're the granddaddy, of course, at five
eighty nine in Hawaii. I get Hawaii. They've got to
ship all of their oil and gas to them. They're
at five dollars and sixty five cents. The price of oil.
It was on the commodities markets. It kind of went
back and forth between ninety two up to ninety eight.
Pretty big swing. Finished today just under ninety five dollars
for a barrel of oil. Well straight to Dow down
seventy nine at forty nine thousand and two, thirty, SMP
up fifty six, Nasdaq up three hundred ninety eight. Intel,
good old Intel, hit a record that came out with
their earnings today and the stock is an all time
record high for Intel. The reason for it is is
because apparently this next wave of AI chips is going
to be needing Intel's chips. So Intel up twenty one
percent today to an all time record high, and that
pushed the they're part of the S and B, they're part.
Speaker 2: Of the Nasdaq, so that pushed both of those higher.
Speaker 1: The price of gold up seven dollars to four thousand
and seven point thirty one. Like I said, oil bouncing
around a little bit today, finishing just under ninety five
dollars for a barrel of oil. So that's it for today.
Thank you for coming by. We I hope you have
a wonderful weekend and we'll be back on Monday. I
hope to see you then.