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Speaker 1: And hello, how are you on this Tuesday, the ninth

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day of June, year of all over, twenty twenty six.

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My name is Tom Sullivan. We are well. We've got

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a lot of the reactions to the NBA game last

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night where the President went, we've got ice is saying

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they're going to start doing some work in New York City.

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So the New York officials, the governor, the mayor, everybody's

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having a cow We've got the big primary is going today,

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and Maine is the one that's getting all the attention,

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but Nevada and North Theoda, uh, South Carolina. I believe

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we're all having this four of them today. So they're

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going through the process of picking their their candidates. But

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the war, you know, it's it's gotten to the point

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where the President keeps talking about the fact that and

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he always got a couple of days, a couple of days.

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He always puts a timeline on it, put the clock

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on it. Ah, Yeah, we're gonna hear it. In a

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couple of days, we're gonna have We're gonna have. This

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gonna be great. They're gonna give us everything. Today he said,

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we're going to that total victory. It'll be announced in

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two weeks and then he also said some other dates

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about various things. So that's before the word came out

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that a US helicopter was shot down by one of

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the Iranian drones over the Strait of Horror Moves. The

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helicopter went down into the water next to Oman, so

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they didn't get very far, but they got over by

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that point and the rescue, there was a lot of questions.

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They weren't telling us what it was that all we

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knew was a helicopter went down. Yeah, it was shot

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down by the Iranians. That has changed everything. Even the

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President came out today and made it very clear that

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this was going to have to be responded to. And

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this is the guy that will not do any sort

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of military response. But the President said that the US

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must respond after the US Apache helicopter was shot down

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by the Iranians. So now the question is what is

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he going to do? First and foremost, the two pilots.

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It's only a two man helicopter, the gunner and the pilot,

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and they both were rescued. And that's a story in

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itself because how they were rescued was by I'm not

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sure if it was an underwater drone. But it was

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in the water. No, it was not involving any crew

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on this boat that we sent out, and the two

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pilots hopped on to this drone boat that we have

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and that drone boat brought them back to safety. So

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they're fine. They were sent for medical checks, but they

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are fine. But the President said the US will respond.

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The pilots are safe and uninjured, but that the US,

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he wrote, must of necessity respond to this attack. So

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the Iranian Foreign minister said, foreign forces in proximity to

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our territory are at constant risk of account on account

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of their own human air plane accidents and potentially being

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caught in a crossfire. Now this they shot this down,

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and Mark Theeson was asked about that going, well, maybe

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they were maybe they were accidentally, you know, maybe they

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didn't mean to shoot them down. Mark Theeson shot that down.

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Speaker 2: Or accidentally fire on US bases in Iraq or accidentally,

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I mean they could wait in deniring it to be

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taking target practice at US. For weeks, We've just been

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stopping the attacks. This is the this is the first

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one that's gotten through. This is not just a single

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you know, incident in a sea of tranquility. This is

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an incident in a sea of escalating attacks, not to

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mention them working with HESBLA to attack Israel. The Iranians

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are telling us where they stand. When someone tells you

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where you where they stand, take their words seriously. And

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here's the thing President Trump when he calls it. When

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he started the ceasefire, he was about ten to fourteen

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days away from finishing his target list that that he

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had given to General Admiral Cooper. The tiget list has

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expanded a little now because the Iranians took a bunch

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of the ballistic missiles that they had buried and dug

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them out so that they could use them again. Finish

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the target list, Go out and finish finish Operation Epic Fury,

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which was stopped at about at about the twenty yard line.

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Take it into the into the finish line. And now,

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since you've achieved your objectives, then once they've been disarmed

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of all that capability, open up the straight by force,

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and then over time hand that off to an Iranian

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to an international coalition, and then arm and train the

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Iranian people to take down this regime.

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Speaker 1: I'm right there with mark it. Take down the regime.

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You're going to have to you can't trust them. But

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for some reason, the president, even though they shot down

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this helicopter and the President said we're going to have

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to respond, he refuses to throw out the possibility of

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a peaceful cease fire. Back to Mark, incredibly patient.

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Speaker 2: He's also been trying to do the same thing with

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Vladimir Putin and Ukraine and it hasn't come to anything.

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The problem is, as great a deal maker as Donald

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willing to make a deal with you. And in Russia

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he doesn't seem to have that, though maybe that's changing.

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And in Iran it's very clear that he doesn't have

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a negotiating partner because there's no Delsi Rodriguez is president.

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and you know, when you're talking about moderates versus it's

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like saying that we killed Hitler and now we've got

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the really bad Nazis, or now we've got the moderate Nazis.

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There are no moderate Nazis, and they're no moderate Iranian

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radical Islamic radicals, and so you have to finish them

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militarily and quite frankly, what what's dangerous for the Republican

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Party going into the midterms is having this muddled situation

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going into the midterms. It has to end decisively in

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some way, either a deal that's really good or it

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has to be ended militarily, and it's got to be happen.

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Speaker 1: Six. Yeah, And I know a lot of you are

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convinced that I'm just a warhawk. I'm not. I don't

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I don't want war. I don't like war. But if

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you're going to start a war, you better do it

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and do it right, finish the job. And he's not

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willing to do that. Marine General Arnold Punero weighs in, well, Iran.

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Speaker 3: Has committed a mortal sin here and they're going to

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pay the price. The President had been showing remarkable restraint

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the last couple of days. Is Iran was attacking Kuwait,

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as they were attacking Israel, as they were stirring the

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pot with the Huties and Hasballah, and now the President

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basically correctly. First of all, thanks to our great rescue

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capability in the new technology, our pilots are safe. But

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the President, i think, would have our military and they'll

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be ready to go they're ready now go after military targets,

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which would include command and control, the military leadership, their

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legitimate combatants, other high value military targets. So I fully

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expect the military already knows they have what we call

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in Iran a target rich environment. The president has been

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very remarkable in trying to keep the peace negotiations on track.

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This is a huge, as I said, immortal send by

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Iran in that regard.

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Speaker 1: Oh, he was asked, is there anything that cannot be

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on the table or is everything everything on the table?

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And this is the general's response.

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Speaker 3: Should be on the table. It should always be on

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the table. We never signal to our adversaries you know

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what we're going to do or not do. But my

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point would be, and God bless and thank god our

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pilots are safe. But again it's a mortal sin. They

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tried to kill our pilots. Just like you said, we

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have tremendous economic pressure on a Ran right now because

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of the way that we are, you know, doing the

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blockade as well as they're not letting oil flow through

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the straits our moves, so that economic pressure is there.

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I would think the appropriate situation would be a legitimate

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military target but certainly much more damaging than just going

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after one helicopter.

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Speaker 1: So the general went on to talk about the fact

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that there are areas that you want to be careful of.

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One of them would be you don't want to take

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out oil production that would drive the price of oil

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worldwide higher.

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Speaker 3: Well, I would say that's another reason you probably would

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not want to go after the oil infrastructure and the

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energy infrastructure. If we did that, obviously you'd see those

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prices to start to spike in a big way. And

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you know, even though I think this is a huge

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setback because of Iran on the negotiating track, I think

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the President will do what's appropriate in terms of the

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military response, teach them a lesson, for sure, and try

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to get the negotiation back on track. We certainly want

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to see that the oil infrastructure and the energy start

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to flow, because that's important, not just to the world economy,

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and you know everyone's concerned about that. But on the

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other hand, we can't let them, and I know the

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President is not going to let them get away with this.

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Speaker 1: Well, all these generals say the same thing. I trust

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the President won't let them get away with it. I

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don't know. I don't understand Donald Trump's thinking. He had them,

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he had the military going to beat the band. They

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got about seventy percent of their of their mission completed

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when he stopped them cold in their tracks. Why does

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he not want to finish the job? I do not

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understand that. Robert Greenway, who is a national security guy

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over at Heritage, had this to say.

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Speaker 4: Look, I think the problem is twofold, but the solution

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is either going to come from diplomatic means, which obviously

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the president, vice president and the team would prefer heading

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into the midterm election with shipping prices up one hundred

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nine percent per containers in fuel of fifty percent. The

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reality is I think it's going to require yet more

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application in military force.

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Speaker 5: There are two problems.

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Speaker 4: There isn't really a negotiating partner on the Iranian side

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that is willing or able ten Iranian violations since the

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cease fire on the sixteenth. There have been fifty five

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hundred rockets fired by his Bulla since the cease fire

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on the eighth, and under those conditions, I don't think

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they'd honor the terms, however agreed upon. And in the end,

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I think it's going to be the elimination of the

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capability that's required. Well, I think General Keane's comments are

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exactly right. I think they are playing for time. The

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mid term they think applies unique pressure against the president.

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I think their calculations are wrong because their economy is

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essentially dead. We're just waiting for the funeral to be announced,

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and that of course puts pressure on what's left of

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the political leadership, and the RGC are fragmented, and I

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don't think they're in charge entirely of the running insistent.

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So I do think that the president's right to achieve

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a diplomatic breakthrough. I don't know that it'll be a breakthrough,

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but it might allow for a slight alleviation of the

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pressures and the economic difficulties. But ultimately, I think there's

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probably only one answer. We're headed to to eliminate the

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irunning threat once and for all.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so there's another advisor that is saying eliminate the threat.

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I mean, in other words, eliminate the regime. There isn't

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any other answer to this. What we hear from the

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President is he's close, He's got a deal, will only

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be a couple of days. I've got a couple of

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things to play for you here. One of them is

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he says we're going to have total victory that will

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announce in two weeks. Another stop with the media, he

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talked about it'll be two or three days. He's thirty

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seven times. If somebody's been counting this, he said, we're

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only a couple of days away. Thirty seven times over

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seventy eight days. Nobody's believing him anymore. I don't know

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how he thinks, but it's weird to me. Michael Weiss

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from The Insider Jen.

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Speaker 6: I mean, this is what he does, right, How do

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you declare, say you're going to declare total victory if

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you're still in the process of negotiation. They're giving us everything. Really,

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what are they giving you? Are they going to leave

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the strait of hormous? Are they going to release their

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control over it?

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Speaker 4: Which is the common sense tells you that's just not realistic.

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Speaker 6: Look, I think there's another component to this. I mean,

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your correspondent just amply laid out all of the kind

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of military dynamics. We're in a state of flux. It's

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not quite war, but it's not quite peace either. We're

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going to see these incidents so long as there's a

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naval blockade and the United States is interdicting tanker flow

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and so on. But there's an information campaign being waged

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here and I think the Iranians know that and they're

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playing it very well. What happened over the weekend, they

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launched a rock at a missile at Israel, the first

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time since this one hundred day ceasefire has been imposed.

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They did this because of the bombardment campaign Hasrael's been

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waging in Lebanon or so.

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Speaker 1: They say.

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Speaker 6: They did this with two things in mind. Number one,

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we still have missiles to fire at Israel. Number two,

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we want to see Donald Trump's reaction to this, and

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what was the reaction.

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Speaker 1: He journalists called him up on the phone.

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Speaker 6: You can apparently call the President of United States on

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his cell phone very easily, and he said, I've told

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the Israelis don't retaliate. The Iranians got their shot off, like,

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let's just put it to bed right In a way,

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he was protecting, yes, condemning Netsan Yahu, who wanted to

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go all in a massive retaliation, hitting energy, infrastructure and

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so on. What happened is natiaw It's spent an hour

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on the phone with Trump saying I have to retaliate.

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Israel cannot abide by an attack by a terrorist regime

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without a retaliation. So Trump said, fine, do what you

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have to do, but keep it limited. Right, So the

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Iranians are reading this as daylight between the United States

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and Israel. I was talking to some Israel Israeli security

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analysts and former intelligence officials, one of whom said, this

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is a quote total strategic disaster for US because we

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went to war with the United States thinking this was

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a grand opportunity to cut the head off the snake, right,

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getting rid of the Iranian regime. That was going to

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be the end of the October seventh Wars that Israel's

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been waging for the last several years. We saw in

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Donald Trump the most pro Israel president we've ever had.

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But now it's like a pair of golden handcuffs are

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on our hands. Right, we cannot act in a sovereign,

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autonomous manner because the United States is dictating the terms

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of what we can do. For the first time in

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the past, Israel, we just do something the US would say, please,

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don't do it, they do it and say sorry, we

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have our own affairs in this neck of the woods

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and We're just going to carry on with our business

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and you can't tell us what to do as a

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sovereign country. Now, Donald Trump says, I call the shots.

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I'm daddy, Netaya, who must listen to me. This is

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not where bb Netanya who wants to be right now?

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Speaker 1: So now the question is is the United States and

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Israel are we going to break apart? Because we were

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supposed to go in as partners and now Trump is

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telling net and yah who what to do? And net

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and Yah who is not going to stand for that?

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Speaker 6: I don't see a breaking point. I mean, the Israelis

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see the United States, and quite rightly as their strongest,

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most important ally. They can't afford or to decouple the

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way that certain European countries might flirt with that idea.

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Now that the US has basically declared war on NATO

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and the European Union in various manners. But I do

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think that they're beginning to realize that they were a

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little too hubristic, a little high on their own supply.

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I mean they had massive operational victories, I mean decimating Hisbola,

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killing the Secretary General Hassan Maasrala. They think that they

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have strategically defeated Hamas and Gaza in spite of the

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horrific toll in that area. And for them, as I said,

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getting rid of the Iranian regime was I mean, the

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coupdi grap If they could do this, in their minds,

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there would be equilibrium in the region. Now, there have

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been positive aspects for Israel in this war. Number one,

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their relationship with the UAE has grown incredibly close. I mean,

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I've been talking to Arab governments and some of the

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advisors to those governments who say, rather like the Israelis

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are now saying about the United States, they feel like

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they were sold a bill of goods by Washington. They

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thought Donald Trump went to war, he should protect them,

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He should have protected us, He should have imposed these

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sort of anti drone measures, this integrated defense. As your

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correspondent said, it's Kuwait, Saudi, you know, the Arab Gulf

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states that get pounded first when Iran wants to retaliate.

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So they're quite upset. But relationship with Israel and the

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UAE has grown quite strong because the Israelis to provide

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an iron dome intelligence sharing. So I think the new

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reality of the region has yet to be written, But

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there's some interesting dynamics that play here.

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Speaker 1: I think his comments were salient. The relationships of the

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countries in the Middle East are changing all because of this. Well,

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we should have gone in and finished all of this

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what would have been done by the end of April,

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but instead of being dragged out, and Donald Trump is

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happily going along with dragging it out. Meantime, oil and gas,

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we have not solved that problem, have we. The straight

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of horror moves is still closed. Michael Summer is the

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head of the American Petroleum Institute, and he's saying for now, oh,

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we are lucky that the prices aren't much higher, but

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stand by because they could break very quickly before the

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Speaker 7: Well, first of all, we're in month three of a

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shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz. That means about twenty

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percent of the world's flow of oil has been essentially

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shut down for over three months. The reason we haven't

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seen a significant increase in gasoline prices is because of

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American production here in the United States. It is because

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that we produce more than thirteen million barrels of oil

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every single day that the United States has been relatively

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insulated from the shock that we've seen elsewhere throughout the world.

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Speaker 1: One of the big concerns now is about inventory drawdowns

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that the oil companies are drawing down their inventories and

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the Strategic Petroleum Reserve not only here, but other countries

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being drawn down as well to very low levels. So well,

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back to Michael Summers about the draw downs, what's going

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to happen with that?

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Speaker 7: Very inventory draws are significant. We're seeing significant inventory draws,

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particularly in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but you're also seeing

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draws in commercial inventories as well throughout the world. This

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should be very concerning to every American consumer because as

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those inventories go down and production isn't increased, you're going

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to start seeing a significant impact at the pump. That's

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going to happen over time. But again it's because of

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American production that we haven't seen those same price surges

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that you've seen in other parts of the world. We're

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raising alarm bells right now. We're at about a three

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hundred and fifty million barrels left in the Strategic Patroleum Reserve.

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You have to have about twenty percent of that left

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for it to be operational. For our system to operate.

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So we're getting to levels where we're starting to be concerned.

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I will say, though, you're starting to see production increase,

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not just in the United States, but in other places

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as well. We're seeing some green shoots in the in

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the oil patch. Rig counts have been going up consistently

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week on week. You're seeing more production, potential production in

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a last in the Permian Basin and in other parts

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of the United States as well as a consequence of

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higher prices. But consumers should be very concerned that as

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inventories continue to draw down. I'll give you a great

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example of this. We've seen already seen a draw of

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gasoline inventories of thirty eight million barrels. That is almost

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the entire amount of the inventory that we use in

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the summer driving season. So we're starting to get very concerned.

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The only thing that we can do in the short

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term to fix this problem is to get the straight

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open as quickly as possible.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so we are getting draw downs and you're raising

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alarm bells. Why have the prices stayed fairly tame.

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Speaker 7: Are still very concerned about what those inventories are. But

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there are a couple of key reasons why you haven't

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seen the shock that I think anybody would have anticipated

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if you'd shut down the Strait of Hormuz for three months.

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of all, China has cut their oil imports by fifty

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percent since the beginning of this crisis. They have tremendous

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strategic petroleum reserves themselves. One actually knows what that number is,

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but they think it's over a billion barrels of strategic

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petroleum reserve in China. So China has essentially left significant

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amounts of oil on the market that they previously had

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been importing. That's one key reason. So you don't truly

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know how much oil is out there right now. So

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you've also seen a significant demand repression going on in

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Southeast Asia in particular, so they're putting in rationing in place.

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energy use is going down also. So it's really an

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issue of we didn't know how much inventory was out there,

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China not importing as much as they previously had, and

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rationing going on throughout the rest of the world. You're

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not seeing it here in the United States. Again, that's

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a reflection of increased American production.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but pross your fingers that they solve whatever

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it is they need to solve before the petroleum miss

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who says, we're going to see much much a shock

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in higher prices, so be prepared. Meantime's go up to

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Maine where they have the primary. There's four primaries today,

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but the big one that is everybody's paying attention to

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is this Graham Platner guy. And it's interesting to watch

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because there's a question about character and morality and in

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the same paragraph with politics, and sadly those don't go together.

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They used to years ago, but now morality and politics.

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Why people laugh about that, But it's being brought up

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because Graham Plattner is a guy who has had lots

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of morality problems. But here is Rocanna, and then Bernie

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Sanders and then finally aoc Here you have a case

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of someone who had a dark chapter in his life

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was in coxsic. Relationships, and the main voters are saying, look,

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let's give him some grace.

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Speaker 5: What I do know is.

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Speaker 7: That there are people in the United States Senate right

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now who are not saints.

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Speaker 5: Should he be the nominee?

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Speaker 2: I think we are all very committed in making sure

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that there's a Democratic majority in the Senate.

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Speaker 1: So there's some truth isms in all of that. Roe

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Connor was right about, you know, maybe people want to

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give the guy a second chance. It's been more than

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two And then Bernie, he's so right. He says there

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are people in the US Senate that are not saints,

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no kidding, and AOC is just being realistic saying we

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just want to make sure the Democrats control the United

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States Senate. So it's coming down to morality versus politics.

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Josh Gotheimer from New Jersey Democrat, though he still doesn't

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like Graham Plattner.

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Speaker 5: No, what I would suggest is that grand Platner get

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off if he wins to the which I assume he

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will because there's no one actively campaigning against him, that

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he get off the ballot and let another Democrats step

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in at the main Democratic Party puts somebody else in.

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I mean, if this were in Jersey and you had

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a candidate who abused women obviously has a Nazi tattoo

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that now it's clear that he knew was a Nazi tattoo,

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not to mention many of his other lies and his

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comments and extremist comments pro hamas a terrorist organization and

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other things of that nature. He should get off the ballot,

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and Jersey would throw him off the ballot or bury

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him under the meatal lands. I mean, I don't understand

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how somebody like this is going to represent our party,

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and I think the best actually will be for him

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to leave and get somebody else who's qualified onto the ballot.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of funny. I know he

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wasn't trying to be funny, but that was a very

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mob type of thing. We either throw him off the

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battle or bury him under the meadowlands. You know, that's

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where they think Jimmy hoff is buried. But that's another

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whole statement. So there's a political commentator on MS now

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he very much Democrat. His name is Solon Kana Kannan

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Young's and he brings up the whole question about wait

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a minute, you can't all of a sudden be moral

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and then all of a sudden not care about it.

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Just here he is.

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Speaker 8: It's such a great question. I mean, this race in

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Maine has almost become sort of a litmus test for

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whether this kind of personal baggage, these kinds of controversies

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and arguments about sort of the moral authority.

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Speaker 1: Still carry weight with voters.

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Speaker 8: Now, as my colleagues have done reporting to get the

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reactions to voters reactions to these stories and reports about

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Grand Platner, some voters would argue that actually there is

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still a case for moral authority here and that's and

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then they point to the morality of trying to beat

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Donald Trump, right and sort of what they would describe

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as the threat that Trump's poses to their way of living.

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That being said, the Democratic Party has has a challenge here.

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You look at a race like that, the one tell

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Rico is running in Texas right now, and that is

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a campaign that very much is based on that sort

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of moral authority that we're talking about here. And then

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on this in Maine, you essentially have elected officials saying

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that Grant Platner has moved on and hoping that voters

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move on too. That could be even more difficult when

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you look at a general election rather than the primary,

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a general election where Platner is going to need some

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independent voters.

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Speaker 1: And he brought up Texas about Tallarico. Taller Rico is

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a seminarian and he is very very much a religious man,

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and he's running against Ken Paxson, who is anything but

478
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has all kinds of morality problems in his past. So

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what's going to happen there is the Democrats are going

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to be talking about is the thing and character counts.

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But then you go to Maine and say, well, I

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guess it doesn't really count that much. We're willing to

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forgive him. So it's not just on the Democrats. I mean,

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I go back to well, Bill Clinton was a classic example.

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But people will forgive somebody because of their moral errors

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if it helps their political messaging. They've done it time

487
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and time and time again. Some of the others today. Oh,

488
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there was an interesting piece written in the Washington Post

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yesterday by Platner's campaign manager, and she said, once she

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found out about who he really was, and she has

491
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the same exact disagreement, she resigned from the campaign, same

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as Ram Emmanuel told us yesterday. It wasn't about all

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the barious sexting and everything else. It was about he

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lies about everything, He has no faccent, he has no integrity,

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and she says, I can't work for this guy. In

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South Carolina, Lindsey Graham has some competition with a guy

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who's a Republican going against Lindsey Graham. I think Lindsay's

498
00:27:17,319 --> 00:27:22,839
way ahead in the polls. Nancy Mace, congresswoman from South Carolina,

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she is not running for reelection, she's running for governor.

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But there are five other Republicans running for governor in

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South Carolina too, so Nancy Mace has her political work

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cut out for her. And since she's not running for

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reelection in the House, her open seat in the primary

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in South Carolina has seventeen candidates are running for the

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open seat in South Carolina. So we'll have all the

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results tomorrow, I know. And they bring up California for

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a minute, because everybody's jumping up and down going about

508
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the fact that, oh, there must be a rigged election

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in California, and I maybe I'm not willing to say

510
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it's not possible, but I told you yes, they you know,

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Spencer Platt is now out, he's number three, and Karen

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Bass is going to go against a Democrats socialist in

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the general election in November. And people are going, oh,

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Spencer Platt, he couldn't have lost. It's impossible. I'm thinking

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there's only fifteen percent of registered voters that live in

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Los Angeles are Republican if I mean to me, it's

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I would have thought that he would have lost, and

518
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lost by quite a margin. He did better than a

519
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lot of people thought. I mean, if if he won,

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I would have said it was rigged because they don't

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vote for Republicans in Los Angeles. They just don't. But

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people are going, oh, he must it must have been much,

523
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,920
it's been cheating. I'm thinking no, if take a look

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at the statistics, and I know, when when your guy loses,

525
00:29:12,279 --> 00:29:18,039
people yell it's been rigged. But if your guy wins, somehow,

526
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it's not rigged. But I'm telling you again, I was

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watching this Spencer Platt race, and if he won or

528
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,759
came in at least two for the runoff, I would

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have thought, oh, somebody rigged that, because there's no way

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that a Republican would would have any sort of support

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in Los Angeles or in California as far as that goes.

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So I wish Steve Hilton he's still in the race.

533
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,720
I wish him all the luck in the world, but

534
00:29:46,799 --> 00:29:49,519
he's going to need it. In a state like California,

535
00:29:49,559 --> 00:29:53,920
they don't vote for Republicans. To want to talk about

536
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,400
the NBA game last night, Man, that was a lot

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of hype. So the New York Knicks VERSU since the

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00:30:00,359 --> 00:30:05,839
San Antonio Spurs are in the championship playoffs, and New

539
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:10,240
York went to San Antonio one game one, one game two.

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The game came back to New York for two nights

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last night and then tomorrow night, and last night san

542
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:21,839
Antonio won. Let's score one fifteen I think, yeah, one

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00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,359
fifteen to one to eleven. So it was a good

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00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:29,880
close game, and the President attended and it caused just

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I mean, presidents come to New York fairly often, and

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the New York PD has it down to where they

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00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,440
try to keep the traffic congestion that's already bad. They

548
00:30:42,519 --> 00:30:46,920
try to minimize the problems of the president's visit on traffic.

549
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But no, they shut down five blocks north, five blocks south,

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and blocks east and west of the of the Madison

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Square Garden. Jo. It was a nightmare. But anyway, the

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President gets in there, he goes into the owner's booth.

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I never really looked up to see that, but I

554
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:07,440
guess there's one there, and so he goes in there

555
00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:11,759
and the crowd boos, and then they start on the

556
00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:16,839
jumbo tron. They started the national anthem and it's playing along,

557
00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:20,000
and then they flash up a photo, a live shot

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of Trump in the owner's box, and the crowd was

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00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:30,759
so predictable that the crowd would boo him. Again, New

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00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:35,079
York is a Democrat town. It has been for a

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long long time. Yes, Rudy got elected, but that was

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because of a horrible mayor that they had before, General Dinkins. So,

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I mean, it's happened, but Donald Trump is not popular

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in New York City. And I knew that they would

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be booing him because, first of all, that's what sports

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audiences do. But anyway, they booed and the president after

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00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,720
after the game, he's out at the airport to get

568
00:32:03,759 --> 00:32:06,079
back on air Force. We want to go down to Washington.

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This is this is what he really said. It was

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certainly amazing.

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Speaker 5: It was.

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Speaker 1: It was I think mostly cheers.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 1: It was loud, and it was very enthusiastic. He said

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that mostly cheers. I don't know. Maybe he has a

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00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,279
hearing problem. I'm not sure, but in any case, no,

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it was. It wasn't even close to Jersey. It was

578
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:36,559
a long, loud booing of But again, is anybody surprised,

579
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and it's kind of what sports fans do around politicians anyway.

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But one guy, Stephen A. Smith, who kind of is

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dipping his toe into politics. He was ramping about the

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president going to the game last night.

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Speaker 9: You saw Willis Reed come out of the tunnel with

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seventy You saw Walt Clive Fraser and do what he

585
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,720
did in game seven it's seventy three. You saw Jemi

586
00:32:59,759 --> 00:33:02,640
West get set told he was twenty six and a

587
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,960
Knicks fan. But you're gonna sit up here and show

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up tonight at the expense of thousands upon thousands.

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Speaker 1: Of New York Nick fans.

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Speaker 9: Why why you know what, It's ridiculous and it's selfish

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and somebody needs to say so. I'm saying it. This

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ain't politics. It has nothing to do with politics. It

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was about New York Knicks, you know, I said, and

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the momentum that they're riding and anything that disrupts it.

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If it causes the New York Knicks to win, to

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00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,720
lose tonight, I'm blaming him. I'm blaming the President of

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the United States. I'm gonna stay on that. I'm gonna

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stay on that, and damn it, I hope the GOP

599
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,319
lose votes because of it. If we lose tonight. I'm

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gonna be against them all, all of them. I'm telling

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you that right now. You better not lose the night's game.

602
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:45,880
We better not lose the ninth game. You under say

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00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,240
what I'm saying. We bet I've been I've been fair

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00:33:48,319 --> 00:33:51,640
minded down the middle as an independent for the long time.

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Speaker 1: Well, they lost what fifteen to one to eleven, and

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so the next game is tomorrow night at the Garden.

607
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So we'll see if Donald Trump was a Jenks and

608
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,640
changed the pace of the Knicks or what if they

609
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:12,159
lose again? So stephen Ah who rants if a cloud

610
00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:16,360
goes by? Was all. I think he likes Trump, but

611
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,400
he just had a ramp because that's what he does.

612
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,960
All right, let's see what Wall Street did today. Well,

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it was mixed. It was a mixed market in the

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00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:29,719
now up eighty six points, very volatile lately, was very

615
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,079
volatle today it was mostly underwater, but worked out a

616
00:34:33,079 --> 00:34:35,559
little tiny rally at the end. So up eighty six

617
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,119
to fifty eight, seventy two s and P fell nineteen

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00:34:40,599 --> 00:34:46,639
the Nasdak. Oh my gosh, they're getting those AI and

619
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,679
textocs are getting hammered. They're the ones that were leading

620
00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:53,320
the charge, and now they're leading the drop down two

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hundred and fifty. That was a nasdack down two fifty.

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Price of gold fell eighty dollars to four thousand and

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two eighty three, and oil went down down almost three

624
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dollars to eighty eight dollars. We have seen an eight

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00:35:08,599 --> 00:35:11,480
on a closing price for a barrel of West Texas

626
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,400
for quite some time, so down almost three dollars to

627
00:35:15,519 --> 00:35:17,639
eighty eight dollars and some change for a barrel of

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West Texas. That's it for today. Thank you for coming by.

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We'll be back tomorrow. I hope to see you there