1 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 1: And hello, welcome to the Big Podcast on this Friday. 2 00:00:26,839 --> 00:00:31,120 Today is the twentieth day of March, Year of Our Lord, 3 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:32,359 twenty twenty six. 4 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 2: My name is Tom Sullivan, and we continue with keeping 5 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,679 you up to date on what's going on with the 6 00:00:40,719 --> 00:00:46,320 war in the excursion, sorry in Iran. I know, I know, 7 00:00:47,399 --> 00:00:50,719 there's a lot to catch up there because the strait 8 00:00:50,719 --> 00:00:56,840 of horror moves is still the issue, and that is 9 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,240 causing prices of oil and gas and everything else to 10 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:07,120 go higher. And the President continues to lives as Donald 11 00:01:07,159 --> 00:01:11,560 Trump has always been in his head. He lives in 12 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:17,000 what he wants to see, not the necessarily the reality 13 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:22,040 of today, but what he's dreaming about. And he continually says, 14 00:01:22,239 --> 00:01:24,879 day in and day out that we are winning the war. 15 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:30,159 And I believe that we are, but it's they're still shooting, 16 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:36,040 and they're still dropping missiles and drones, and they've got 17 00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:39,319 the straight up our moves where you can't know nobody's 18 00:01:39,359 --> 00:01:43,000 going to go through there. So they still have leverage. 19 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:45,920 They still, as they say, have a vote. But here 20 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:50,879 it's the president today talking about where he thinks we are. 21 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,120 But I look at it not a criticism. It's just 22 00:01:54,239 --> 00:01:57,000 always the it's the way he has lived. That's why 23 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,040 he has been successful, is he always kind of lives 24 00:02:01,079 --> 00:02:03,319 the dream. And this is what he said today. 25 00:02:03,799 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 3: It's going to be over with pretty soon. We've obliterated 26 00:02:06,719 --> 00:02:10,759 the Navy. We've obliterated there just about everything there is 27 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,639 to obliterate, including leadership. The Navy's gone, Their air force 28 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,439 has gone, their anti aircraft equipment is gone. We're flying 29 00:02:18,479 --> 00:02:22,000 wherever we want, Pete, we have no nobody even shooting 30 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,599 at us. They have, I mean, and as you know, 31 00:02:27,039 --> 00:02:30,719 their leadership is gone. Their leaders are gone. They picked 32 00:02:30,759 --> 00:02:33,479 new leaders, they're gone. They picked new leaders, they're gone, 33 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:35,639 and now they're looking for new leaders again. 34 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 2: That's all true. The problem is is there's a lot 35 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:45,240 that they have prepared for a war, and they have 36 00:02:45,319 --> 00:02:49,000 put a lot of their armament underground. We can't see it. 37 00:02:49,439 --> 00:02:51,719 I mean, we've taken out everything that you can see, 38 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:58,719 but what about all the missiles, drones, ammunition, everything that 39 00:02:58,759 --> 00:03:02,319 they have stored underground. For example, the Pentagon announced today 40 00:03:02,719 --> 00:03:07,599 that they are going to be deploying three more warships 41 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:11,360 and twenty five hundred more marines. And there's still a 42 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,599 big question about why are the Marines going and this 43 00:03:15,759 --> 00:03:19,159 was asked a press conference I believe yesterday, and the 44 00:03:19,159 --> 00:03:21,240 President was right to answer. He says, I'm not going 45 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,919 to tell you. In other words, there's a reason now 46 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,599 a lot of people are speculating saying, well, they're going 47 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:32,039 to send them marines to go occupy this island, KRG Island, 48 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:37,840 which would shut off the ability of Iran to fuel 49 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,840 up the tankers that are coming in that they will 50 00:03:40,879 --> 00:03:44,879 allow to go through the strait up Wurmus. But no, 51 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,719 that's not we don't know what's going to happen. But 52 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:53,639 General Cain, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, gave this summary 53 00:03:53,719 --> 00:03:54,199 this morning. 54 00:03:54,319 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 4: They're to the east now and penetrating deeper into Iranian 55 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,879 airspace to hunt and kill one way at time, since 56 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,039 the A ten ward Hoog is now in the fight 57 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,719 across the southern flank and is hunting and killing fast 58 00:04:06,759 --> 00:04:10,199 attack watercraft in the Straits of Horror moves. In addition, 59 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,360 AH sixty four apaches have joined the fight on the 60 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,879 southern flank and they continue to work on the southern side, 61 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,879 and that includes some of our allies who are using 62 00:04:20,879 --> 00:04:23,759 apaches to handle one way attack trying right. 63 00:04:23,879 --> 00:04:26,959 Speaker 2: So yeah, that's actually pretty good news. I think they 64 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,680 have been trying to kill off the A ten ward 65 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:34,600 hog for I don't know. Every so many years the 66 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,680 government says that we want to stop making the war hoog, 67 00:04:38,199 --> 00:04:41,680 and thank good as it's continued to be funded. It's 68 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:46,360 a slower moving jet, but it is designed to provide 69 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:52,959 groundcover for troops and it is very, very lethal, very 70 00:04:55,199 --> 00:04:56,800 I don't know. It looks like it's one of those 71 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:02,160 planes that you can handle quickly, make burns, tight turns. 72 00:05:01,959 --> 00:05:04,639 It's a lethal war machine. So they're using that and 73 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,839 the Apache helicopter, so they're moving more and more equipment 74 00:05:08,879 --> 00:05:14,000 in there. I that wouldn't happen if the war was one. 75 00:05:14,319 --> 00:05:19,079 It's close to being one, but there it's not going 76 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:24,199 to be one until the other side stops. Bibi net 77 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,680 in Yahoo doesn't talk before the microphones very often during 78 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:29,000 all of this, but he did today. 79 00:05:30,079 --> 00:05:33,319 Speaker 5: Deaficult in Iran is trying to blackmail the world by 80 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:38,079 closing a key international maritime roots, the Straits of Homos. 81 00:05:39,079 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 2: It won't work. 82 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:42,959 Speaker 5: Israel is helping in its own way and intel and 83 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,360 other means. The American effort to open the Straits of 84 00:05:46,399 --> 00:05:51,319 Tijon of the Hormos runner, But I want to ask 85 00:05:51,399 --> 00:05:56,279 you to imagine how the Itola regime would be able 86 00:05:56,319 --> 00:05:59,839 to blackmail the entire world if they had ballistic miss 87 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:01,439 nuclear warheads. 88 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 2: And that is the point that Israel has never stopped 89 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,160 worrying about because a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead 90 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,319 was promised to land on them and wipe out Israel. 91 00:06:12,439 --> 00:06:18,240 So no surprise on that comment. General teen always want 92 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,360 to find out what his day's thoughts are. 93 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,759 Speaker 6: Yeah, well, it's very significant. You heard it from the 94 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,199 President yesterday, also from a chairman and the Secretary of 95 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:31,800 War and Admiral Cooper who's a Sentcom commander. They're all 96 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:35,199 on the same page. We are making we're on plan 97 00:06:35,319 --> 00:06:38,240 and making significant progress here and stripping away what our 98 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,319 mission is all the offensive capability that Iran has, and 99 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:47,319 we're well into that certainly. In dealing with that, we're 100 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,759 making certain that the straits of a mouse also is 101 00:06:51,759 --> 00:06:55,040 getting a focus here for all the obvious reasons, and 102 00:06:55,079 --> 00:06:58,319 that's why you see Apache helicopters being applied. The eight ten, 103 00:06:58,439 --> 00:07:01,519 for our audience to understand, is a close air support 104 00:07:01,639 --> 00:07:05,560 aircraft that's not like the normal fighter F sixteen, F fifteen, 105 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,040 F twenty two. It's really designed to support troops on 106 00:07:09,079 --> 00:07:11,720 the ground. It flies at a slower pace, it's got 107 00:07:11,759 --> 00:07:14,839 different kinds of munitions on it as well. 108 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:16,319 Speaker 2: So that is being employed. 109 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:21,639 Speaker 6: And what is happening here is that will take probably 110 00:07:21,879 --> 00:07:24,639 ten days a couple of weeks to make certain that 111 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,480 if we bring vessels through the straits of a moves, 112 00:07:27,519 --> 00:07:30,319 we minimize the risk significantly. We'd likely have to put 113 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:35,240 something on those ships also in terms of counter drone capability, 114 00:07:35,279 --> 00:07:39,759 and there are fairly sophisticated capabilities that we can put 115 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,839 on there as a defensive measure. And by the way, 116 00:07:42,839 --> 00:07:45,439 there was a misunderstanding with the Europeans. They thought they 117 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,000 we wanted them to do this immediately. I happen to 118 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,240 have a conversation with the Secretary General Mark Ruta. I said, no, 119 00:07:53,879 --> 00:07:56,040 we don't intend to send any of our ships down 120 00:07:56,079 --> 00:07:59,680 there until we minimize the risk. And I think that's 121 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,160 only opened up some discussion and said, listen, when we 122 00:08:02,199 --> 00:08:04,920 ask the Europeans to do something since post World War two, 123 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,000 even though sometimes they may not agree with us, even 124 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,040 so sometimes they're begrudgingly, what do they finally do they 125 00:08:11,079 --> 00:08:11,639 come along? 126 00:08:11,759 --> 00:08:12,639 Speaker 2: Why they do that? 127 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:17,199 Speaker 6: Because the United States is indispensable leader, and they cannot 128 00:08:17,439 --> 00:08:20,120 survive in NATO without the United States being a member 129 00:08:20,199 --> 00:08:22,199 of it. That's the facts on the ground, and that's 130 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,800 we'll get their cooperation here. The other thing that's really 131 00:08:25,839 --> 00:08:29,600 taken place, and you were reporting on it quite adequately here, 132 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,600 and that is taking down the organizations that support the regime. 133 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,519 This is Israel's mission, and you're stripping down leaders and 134 00:08:37,639 --> 00:08:41,440 doing that, but also soldiers on the ground that are 135 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,320 out there. The Bazi militia is being stripped away right 136 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,039 on the streets of Iran. They're being killed day in 137 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,639 and day out, day in and day out. What is 138 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:57,320 that producing throughout these security forces and the IRGC. That's 139 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:01,120 the glue that holds this regime together. What it's being 140 00:09:01,159 --> 00:09:05,759 defined as chaotic decision making and paranoia running through the 141 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:07,279 ranks of these organizations. 142 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:08,639 Speaker 2: That is good news. 143 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 6: Doesn't mean they're going to collapse tomorrow, but what it 144 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,919 does mean is they're not the same organization they used 145 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:17,519 to be, and the Israelis are going to continue to 146 00:09:17,639 --> 00:09:20,960 pound this organization and strip it away. This is what 147 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,399 keeps the regime in power, and weaken that to a 148 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:29,360 point where one people inside Iran that are close to 149 00:09:29,399 --> 00:09:31,960 this regime and maybe even a part of it want 150 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:33,919 to change the leadership and make a deal with the 151 00:09:34,039 --> 00:09:38,240 United States. That certainly is an option. Certainly, break it 152 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:42,120 so much that it's vulnerable to the protest movement itself. 153 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,039 That's a more remote option, but it's out there as well. 154 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,039 The facts are though, this regime is being stripped away 155 00:09:49,039 --> 00:09:52,559 from its weapons and also its organization has sustain itself. 156 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,440 And what we got to do is stick right with 157 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:57,720 what we're doing. I've said it before and I'll say 158 00:09:57,759 --> 00:10:01,159 it again. War is fundamentally a test of wills here 159 00:10:01,639 --> 00:10:03,879 and the will of the regime. They want to survive 160 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,440 and recover and rebuild, and we're going to break that 161 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:08,519 so they can't do it. 162 00:10:08,639 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 2: And that's fundamentally a will to do that. 163 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,200 Speaker 6: And all of our leadership is behind this and sticking 164 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:16,919 it to the end to make sure the objectives we 165 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,639 assigned ourselves Brian are actually achieved. 166 00:10:19,639 --> 00:10:24,519 Speaker 2: And so the military people are. They're not emotional about it, 167 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:28,320 they're not political about it. They are just looking at 168 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,480 this as a punch list and they're going through methodically 169 00:10:32,039 --> 00:10:34,720 to get all of the targets that they want. And 170 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:37,159 they've got to get into the underground, and we don't 171 00:10:37,159 --> 00:10:40,080 know what they're gonna do with the thousands of marines 172 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,039 that are on hand, and the A ten Ward Hogs 173 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,240 and the and the Apache helicopters. There, there's there's they've got. 174 00:10:47,279 --> 00:10:52,440 They've got more plans straight ahead. Mike Pompeu, former Secretary 175 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:54,840 of State. This is his this is where he is. 176 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,879 Speaker 7: Look, we've made an enormous amount of progress and an 177 00:10:57,879 --> 00:11:01,679 incredibly short amount of time to achieve President objectives, and 178 00:11:02,159 --> 00:11:04,279 we see the conflict than the straight. President Trump is 179 00:11:04,279 --> 00:11:06,639 now moving all the resources necessary to get the straight 180 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:07,159 back open. 181 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,159 Speaker 2: It's encouraging to see. I think we're going to have 182 00:11:09,159 --> 00:11:09,799 lots of partners. 183 00:11:10,039 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 7: You mentioned the European partners when they went after a 184 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,320 Cutter's gas field, right the largest natural gas field in 185 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,200 the world. I think it united the Arab world, the 186 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,159 Gulf world as well. They understand that the risk from 187 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,399 this set of crazies and Iran still remains, and so 188 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:27,200 there's an enormous amount of strategic and operational work left 189 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,200 to do. But I'm convinced more than ever the deterioration 190 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,879 of control inside of Iran, the ability of the Iranian 191 00:11:32,879 --> 00:11:35,879 people to one day get back their country will keep 192 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,799 every American safer. We'll get a permanent, permanent opening of 193 00:11:39,799 --> 00:11:42,559 the Strait, not the one that we've lived under for ten, fifteen, 194 00:11:42,639 --> 00:11:45,320 twenty years with iron pros and a threat. This will 195 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,039 be a more secure world with better energy pricing in 196 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,679 the decades ahead. Key war is difficult, but the reason 197 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,600 we build militaries, the reason we create capabilities, whether that's 198 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,360 the United States or Europe, is for exactly moments like this. 199 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,080 So the Europeans can't sit back and watch and let 200 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,120 someone else do the heavy lifting. They need to join 201 00:12:01,159 --> 00:12:03,919 this effort. Of course there's risk, and of course there'll 202 00:12:03,919 --> 00:12:06,559 be equipment that is damaged, and as we've seen sadly, 203 00:12:07,039 --> 00:12:10,559 they'll be soldiers or sailors that don't survive or get injured. 204 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,879 But the need to keep oil floid, to keep energy moving, 205 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:15,720 to keep the world safe, to make sure we have 206 00:12:15,759 --> 00:12:18,240 freedom of navigation in the seas, that's something that Europeans 207 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,600 should care about as well, and they should be prepared 208 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:22,399 to do the hard work to ensure that not just 209 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:24,519 for themselves but for all of us. And I hope 210 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:27,120 they'll join not when it's over, but when it really matters. 211 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,039 And when it really matters is today. 212 00:12:29,159 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 2: Well, we're getting some reports that the NATO allies are 213 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:36,639 now saying okay, okay, okay, we will we will go help. 214 00:12:37,399 --> 00:12:40,000 There's a lot of people that are interested in helping 215 00:12:40,039 --> 00:12:43,360 get the straight of Hord moves open. Obviously they need 216 00:12:43,399 --> 00:12:46,720 that for them, so they are starting to say that 217 00:12:46,759 --> 00:12:51,080 they will help. The details are still apparently being ironed 218 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:55,480 out in some way or another. If you have any 219 00:12:55,720 --> 00:13:02,000 second thoughts about Ran they had they kill a lot 220 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,799 of their own people, but one of their champion wrestlers, 221 00:13:05,799 --> 00:13:10,080 an Olympic athlete, was one of three young men that 222 00:13:10,159 --> 00:13:13,360 were I think he's nineteen or twenty years old that 223 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:18,799 were hung in the public today. They hang them because 224 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,279 of the fact that the young man and his friends 225 00:13:21,759 --> 00:13:25,720 were opposed to the current regime. Here's Brett Velosovich, former 226 00:13:25,759 --> 00:13:29,279 special ops guy, talking about how things work in Iran. 227 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 8: Well, look, this is proof that Iran isn't just a 228 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,279 hostile regime. It's a regime that murders its own children 229 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,320 in public to stay in power. And Americans should think 230 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,879 about that for a second and ask ourselves, as good people, 231 00:13:42,039 --> 00:13:44,519 should we ever tolerate it? We owe it to humanity 232 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,679 to do something about this evil today. It's right versus 233 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,399 wrong at its core, and you've got these Olympic athletes 234 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,120 speaking out, international outrage building, and yet somehow still there 235 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,600 are voices out there trying to soften what Iran is 236 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,720 or redirect blame. People want to spend time debating US 237 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,600 leadership while ignoring the character of the actual enemy. 238 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 2: That's backward. 239 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,159 Speaker 4: The reality is our troops and our allies are. 240 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 8: Facing a regime that tortures teenagers into confessions and then 241 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:14,279 executes them to send a message. You don't negotiate stability 242 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:16,399 with a regime like that, you remove its ability to 243 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,799 hurt innocent people ever again. And I just returned from 244 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:23,000 Ue this morning, where I witnessed the raw reality of 245 00:14:23,039 --> 00:14:26,799 Iranian aggression hitting tourism centers of our closest golf partners. 246 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,360 And the leaders that I met in Dubai, they're crystal clear. 247 00:14:29,399 --> 00:14:33,559 After absorbing hundreds of Iranian drone attacks, Iran's deporation a 248 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:38,720 desperate retaliation. It's not weakening us, it's forging an unbreakable alliance. 249 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:41,759 They told me straight up. These attacks are only strengthening 250 00:14:41,799 --> 00:14:45,360 golf resolve to stand shoulder to shoulder with America power, 251 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,200 and they're preparing for sustained conflict over there. They've got 252 00:14:48,399 --> 00:14:52,120 air defenses, active infrastructure being hardened, they're buying drone technology, 253 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,879 and there's a clear understanding. It only stops when Iran 254 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,480 is forced to stop, not asked, not negotiated with, but forced. 255 00:15:00,159 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 2: The definition of winning is when they stop. They'll be 256 00:15:04,039 --> 00:15:07,039 forced to stop, but when they stop is when you 257 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:13,200 will say, all right, we now have won. The military 258 00:15:13,399 --> 00:15:17,320 the Pentagon has talked about the fact that they need to 259 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:19,320 go to Congress. They got it. They have to ask 260 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:25,200 for two hundred billion dollars more because, as Pete Hegseth said, 261 00:15:25,279 --> 00:15:28,559 it takes a lot of money to kill bad guys. Well. 262 00:15:28,879 --> 00:15:34,639 John Kennedy, Good, Republican senator from Louisiana, responded this way. 263 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 9: I can assure you that we're not going to vote 264 00:15:38,639 --> 00:15:41,639 to give two hundred billion or two billion or two 265 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,000 hundred dollars until we have hearings on money. I support 266 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,440 the war and if they if they need more money, 267 00:15:47,519 --> 00:15:49,440 I'm going to vote to give it to them. But 268 00:15:49,559 --> 00:15:51,600 my mama didn't raise a food when if she did, 269 00:15:51,639 --> 00:15:53,480 it was one of my brothers. I'm not going to 270 00:15:53,559 --> 00:15:54,519 give them a blank check. 271 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 2: No, he's not a fool. He's not going to give 272 00:15:58,360 --> 00:15:59,799 them a blank check. So they're going to have to 273 00:15:59,799 --> 00:16:03,039 go explain what it is that they want the two 274 00:16:03,159 --> 00:16:08,320 hundred billion for. Doug Hay, longtime Republican strategist, said, yeah, 275 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,200 a lot of Republicans that are going to be asking 276 00:16:11,279 --> 00:16:12,039 questions about that. 277 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:14,639 Speaker 10: It is especially with those members of Congress who've only 278 00:16:14,639 --> 00:16:17,519 been there for two or three terms or one or 279 00:16:17,519 --> 00:16:20,080 two Senate terms. They were elected in the age of Trump, 280 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,519 and so the rhetoric that they've used and the policies 281 00:16:23,519 --> 00:16:26,519 they've espoused. They talk about forever wars, not funding those 282 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,320 kinds of things. They also talk about deficit reduction. All 283 00:16:29,399 --> 00:16:31,679 of this could fly in the face of what they've 284 00:16:31,679 --> 00:16:34,159 campaigned on and acted on. As a member of Congress 285 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,000 now for several terms. It's a real challenge for them 286 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,799 moving forward again because the case will have to be made. 287 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,879 It makes those it makes those hearings very interesting, but 288 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,360 it says to the administration, you've got a lot of 289 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:48,799 work to do to get from point A to point B, 290 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,960 even with your own members. Because Republican members they're not 291 00:16:52,039 --> 00:16:55,120 angry yet, but they really are getting apprehensive at the 292 00:16:55,159 --> 00:16:57,879 actions that we're seeing without the explanation, and also with 293 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:02,159 gas prices and other prices, skyrocket airfare prices are rocketing 294 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,319 up as well. We're seeing this place after place. Republicans 295 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:05,880 are nervous. 296 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,839 Speaker 2: So do they have the patients? Do they have the will? 297 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,920 As General Keane always says, it's a test of wills. 298 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,480 Do they have the will to stay with this and 299 00:17:14,519 --> 00:17:16,799 not give up? There are a number of members of 300 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:19,799 Congress that say, that's it. We need to pull our 301 00:17:19,799 --> 00:17:22,680 troops out right now and bring them home immediately. And 302 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:24,640 I'm thinking, oh, so they want to cut and run. 303 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:31,079 That's their solution. And what do you do then, Now 304 00:17:31,119 --> 00:17:34,119 that you've stuck a stick in the hornet's nest? Now, 305 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,200 what do you do about the hornets? What do you 306 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,799 do about Iran? If you just walk away and say, Okay, 307 00:17:40,119 --> 00:17:42,440 never mind, we're not going to we're not going to 308 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:47,000 pursue this anymore. We're too far into it to turn around. 309 00:17:47,079 --> 00:17:49,559 The question was will they get two hundred billion? Do 310 00:17:49,599 --> 00:17:53,680 they need two hundred billion? That's for your elected representative 311 00:17:53,720 --> 00:18:00,000 to try to figure out. As far as gas and oil, 312 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,559 we look here, the price is today average price for 313 00:18:04,599 --> 00:18:06,960 the cheap stuff across the country according to Triple A 314 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:14,000 three dollars and ninety one cents. The winner again is 315 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,839 or the loser, however you want to look at it 316 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:21,400 is California. The average there five dollars sixty five cents, 317 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:26,640 with some of their counties up by Yosemite six dollars 318 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:31,200 and fifty cents for a gallon of gasoline, that is 319 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:36,799 in California. As far as diesel, they're now at five 320 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:42,160 dollars sixteen cents the average for diesel across the country. 321 00:18:42,799 --> 00:18:45,079 Let me see what California, since they're so expensive on 322 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:50,920 regular gas. Yeah, diesel in California six dollars and sixty 323 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:59,319 six cents. That's what it is. So we're starting to 324 00:18:59,319 --> 00:19:02,400 get into the question about the economy. The JP Morgan 325 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:06,519 came out with a report today talking about the fact 326 00:19:06,519 --> 00:19:11,240 they're lowering their estimate of where the stock market will 327 00:19:11,279 --> 00:19:14,839 be the S and P five hundred because of they 328 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:22,440 think recession fears may sync in. So Kevin O'Leary, mister wonderful, 329 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,440 I was asked about the price of gas and oil 330 00:19:26,599 --> 00:19:29,759 going up in the chance of how all this impacts 331 00:19:29,799 --> 00:19:30,480 the economy. 332 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,880 Speaker 11: Yeah, I can tell you now. The market doesn't think 333 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:38,000 that's the case. In order for this to really impact 334 00:19:38,319 --> 00:19:41,640 the US economy and sustain a growth of inflation, I mean, 335 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,359 we had a pretty hot number, but for it to 336 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,160 really make a difference, you'd have to have oil above 337 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:50,319 ninety three dollars for more than three months, and that 338 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:53,640 would be major. We have political implications too, but the 339 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,039 market is not assuming it's going to take six months 340 00:19:57,079 --> 00:20:01,839 to clean up this hermuous problem. You know, everybody hates war, obviously, 341 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,880 but we're now if you look globally at what the 342 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:08,359 assumption is right now, still, the assumption is it's going 343 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,200 to get cleaned up in the next thirty days, and 344 00:20:11,279 --> 00:20:15,480 so everybody speculating. Nobody knows with certainty, and there's certainly 345 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,759 the Iranians have been more tenacious than many people thought. 346 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,400 I'm getting my read every day from my office in 347 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,640 Abu Dhabi a number of Today was a good day, 348 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,720 actually one of the days with very few drones. 349 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 4: So we'll see if tomorrow's like that. 350 00:20:30,559 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 11: And I see if I got three days in a 351 00:20:32,039 --> 00:20:35,640 row with very few drones above Abu Dhabi, that would 352 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,279 tell me they've run out of stuff to shoot. Well, 353 00:20:38,319 --> 00:20:41,240 I like history to be my guide, and it's very simple. 354 00:20:41,279 --> 00:20:44,200 If you keep oil above ninety three dollars for three months, 355 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,440 you have problems. Because one thing about this commodity, it's 356 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,359 the input to every sector of the comedy. 357 00:20:49,519 --> 00:20:50,519 Speaker 4: We have eleven sectors. 358 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 11: Every single sector requires a reasonably priced energy source. 359 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 2: And you know, we've talked a lot about. 360 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 11: Alternative energy and new ID is a nuclear power. But 361 00:21:01,519 --> 00:21:05,799 this shock has proven to the world that oil still matters. 362 00:21:05,839 --> 00:21:09,440 Not some a lot, it matters a lot. And I 363 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,799 expect policy around hydrocompasc to change dramatically everywhere in terms 364 00:21:13,839 --> 00:21:16,240 of securing a source of it at a price sort 365 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,359 of around the seventy dollars range. So you're going to 366 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,599 see that happen and a lot less money going into 367 00:21:21,599 --> 00:21:24,319 alternatives that may not be good or bad, depending where 368 00:21:24,319 --> 00:21:29,039 you sit. But clearly we didn't buy any insurance investing 369 00:21:29,079 --> 00:21:31,599 billions of dollars in wind and solar. It's been practically 370 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,680 useless in helping us in this point right now. And 371 00:21:34,759 --> 00:21:37,240 so I'm a pragmatic person. I'm just looking at it 372 00:21:37,279 --> 00:21:40,160 saying what matters is figuring out how to open up 373 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,519 that spigot. And I've told this counts. It said this 374 00:21:42,599 --> 00:21:45,799 countless times. There's a two mile wide at the thinnest 375 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,839 of the Hermuz. It's two miles wide. You got to guarantee, 376 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:52,240 you got to ensure that stays open. And I anticipate 377 00:21:52,319 --> 00:21:55,440 the Japanese and others, even the Chinese, are going to 378 00:21:55,519 --> 00:21:59,400 fund that insurance program going forward, and it could cost 379 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,599 billions of monell it's four or five billion, I don't know, 380 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:05,200 but that's a fraction of what it's worth. Because if 381 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,759 you hold that straight up for longer than three months, 382 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,599 everybody hurts, not just the US domestically, everybody, including our 383 00:22:12,599 --> 00:22:13,519 adversaries China. 384 00:22:13,799 --> 00:22:17,799 Speaker 2: I don't disagree with Kevin, but insurance isn't going to 385 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,839 put cruise on a ship that is in danger of 386 00:22:20,839 --> 00:22:23,759 being blown up. Now, they're going to have to. They're 387 00:22:23,799 --> 00:22:27,079 going to have to, like General Keane said, put some 388 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:32,960 anti missile defense systems on board these tankers as they're 389 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,920 going through the Strait of Hormuz. Something to be able 390 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:38,839 to deflect the missiles coming in on them so they 391 00:22:38,839 --> 00:22:41,920 don't get hit. Anything short of that I don't think 392 00:22:42,039 --> 00:22:45,759 is going to absolutely work. Nathan Sales, who is an 393 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:51,640 ambassador at large, he is also focus. Everybody is focused 394 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:53,839 on the Strait of Horror moves and the question, like 395 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,319 Kevin L. Leary said, he doesn't think it'll take a 396 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:57,799 month to get to solve that. 397 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,319 Speaker 12: We'll see the President is being his options open. And 398 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:03,039 the big picture here is we have to get the 399 00:23:03,039 --> 00:23:06,200 Straight of Hormoves open. We have to deny the regime 400 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,720 in Iran the ability to hold commercial shipping hostage. So 401 00:23:09,759 --> 00:23:11,559 then the question becomes how do you do it, And 402 00:23:11,599 --> 00:23:14,880 there's actually a lot of different options. One is via air, 403 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,039 you degrade using our air assets, you degrade the Iranian 404 00:23:18,039 --> 00:23:21,000 regime's ability to take shots at ships in the Strait 405 00:23:21,039 --> 00:23:23,839 of Hormuz. Another option is via land, you send in 406 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,200 the Marines or some other expeditionary force to take carg Island, 407 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,440 which is Iran's major export terminal. Ninety percent of their 408 00:23:30,519 --> 00:23:33,039 energy exports go through carg Island. Why does that matter 409 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,279 because now we've got a hostage and that's something that 410 00:23:35,319 --> 00:23:38,000 we can trade for the Iranians reopening the strait. But 411 00:23:38,079 --> 00:23:40,680 another option is a possible naval blockade, like we don't 412 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:44,440 actually need to take control of carg Island to deny 413 00:23:44,519 --> 00:23:47,240 the regime the usefulness that the island presents to them. 414 00:23:47,279 --> 00:23:50,359 You could impose something like a blockade or a quarantine 415 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,599 around it to prevent any ships from transporting Iranian oil. 416 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,279 So I think the President is putting the pieces in place, 417 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,599 but he hasn't made a decision yet on which of 418 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,480 these cars he's going to play try and reopen the straight. 419 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,839 Speaker 2: So we're wrapping up three weeks of this starting our 420 00:24:03,839 --> 00:24:09,440 fourth week this weekend. And yes, they're getting through all 421 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,680 of these one by one. And what the President decides 422 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,720 and what his advisors advise on what to do about 423 00:24:16,759 --> 00:24:20,400 the straight up our mouses, we still we don't know. 424 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,720 So let's move on to another problem that we're facing 425 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,279 in the country, and that is the fact that Department 426 00:24:29,279 --> 00:24:32,559 of Homeland Security has not been funded. The Democrat said, 427 00:24:32,559 --> 00:24:37,920 we're not going to fund tsa secret Service, coast Guard. 428 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,240 There's a handful of others in there that are part 429 00:24:41,279 --> 00:24:45,839 of our nations secure. Are the cybersecurity people. And if 430 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,039 there was ever a time where we should be worried 431 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:52,559 about some sort of attack on our homeland, this would 432 00:24:52,599 --> 00:25:00,079 be probably higher than average. Byron Donald talking about the 433 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,359 the fact that the funding has not happened for Department 434 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:05,480 of Homeland Security. 435 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,279 Speaker 13: No, because Chuck Schumer is a liar. Chuck Schumer is 436 00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:11,599 playing politics. I want the American people to understand something. 437 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,480 The long lines at these airports, that's because of Chuck 438 00:25:14,519 --> 00:25:18,279 Schumer and the radical Democrats, because they are trying to 439 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:23,160 use homeland security as a wedge issue against Donald Trump 440 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,799 for political power. That's exactly what this is. So his 441 00:25:26,799 --> 00:25:29,680 whole line of asti Republicans is a joke and a lie. 442 00:25:29,759 --> 00:25:33,160 It is not true. It's not real. The White House 443 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,119 has actually agreed to a couple of things body cameras 444 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,119 for ice agents, etc. But that's not good enough for 445 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,519 the Democrats. The Democrats want everything on their lists, but newsflash, 446 00:25:42,559 --> 00:25:45,559 they're not getting everything on their list. So the fact 447 00:25:45,599 --> 00:25:48,359 that Homeland security is now shut down, the fact that 448 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,160 our TSA agents aren't being paid, you're having longer security 449 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,519 lines at airports. Airports are now going to have to 450 00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:57,359 start closing down certain terminals because they don't have the 451 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,359 manpower to get people through security. Not to mention, border 452 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,039 agents are not being paid. That leaves the homeland unsecured. 453 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,680 That is because of the radical left and Chuck Schumer. 454 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,079 They were defunding the police a couple of years ago. 455 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,400 Now they're defunding the security of this nation because they 456 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,119 want to play power politics before the midterm elections. This 457 00:26:18,279 --> 00:26:21,119 is sick, and that's why they never deserve to have 458 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,519 power again in Washington, DC or anywhere else. 459 00:26:24,599 --> 00:26:27,519 Speaker 2: So he said the long lines. It was interesting today 460 00:26:27,559 --> 00:26:30,680 as I was getting ready to do the podcast, flipping 461 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:34,400 around various networks, and they all had a reporter with 462 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,680 the camera out at various airports around the country, and 463 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,839 there were some of them that had the countdown on 464 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,200 how long it would take to get through a line. 465 00:26:43,559 --> 00:26:46,200 So I was watching this for a while and they 466 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,720 had let me look here at my notes. This was 467 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:57,519 earlier this morning. JFK twenty three minutes. That seems normal, Denver, 468 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:02,440 same twenty three minutes, Newark, steam minutes, Salt Lake City 469 00:27:02,559 --> 00:27:07,920 fourteen minutes, Houston. They didn't say which Houston airport ten minutes. 470 00:27:08,319 --> 00:27:13,359 Same with Orlando, and same with Minneapolis. Then a couple 471 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,279 of hours later I looked up and it was an 472 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:20,880 hour and a half, almost two hours. It depends upon 473 00:27:21,559 --> 00:27:26,440 which airport and what time of the day, so it's 474 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,799 a roll of the dice if you're planning on traveling. 475 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,480 So then I thought, well, let's take a look at TSA, 476 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,599 they have a program where you can go online and 477 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,119 they will tell you how long the wait is at 478 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,440 whatever airport you want to check on. Well, the problem 479 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,480 with that is the people that maintain that system at 480 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:50,279 TSA are not at work, so that system is not working, 481 00:27:50,519 --> 00:27:54,440 or if it is working, unreliably working, So you can't 482 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,880 do that. So then you can what the suggestion that 483 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:03,160 I found was whichever airport you're flying out of, or 484 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,160 you're connecting, and we're not connecting because you don't need 485 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,400 to go to TSA where you're returning from leaving, departing, 486 00:28:10,559 --> 00:28:16,279 or arriving, check that particular airport's website. Most of them 487 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,319 have now a wait list, and again it's a guestimate 488 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,359 on their part, but there's a big difference between ten 489 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,599 minutes and an hour and a half. So it's another 490 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:32,319 part of the adventure of flying. My wife and we 491 00:28:32,319 --> 00:28:36,079 were talking about taking a little trip and we both 492 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:37,759 looked at said, I don't want to deal with the 493 00:28:37,799 --> 00:28:41,640 airports right now. I just don't want to. Here's some 494 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:47,079 of the travelers that are out there traveling and their reactions. 495 00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:49,559 These are all people at airports. 496 00:28:50,839 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 9: I had to pay a strange one hundred dollars to 497 00:28:53,559 --> 00:28:56,240 push me and give me through the TSA line. 498 00:28:56,519 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 2: Do better shop? Fix it even though you have three 499 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,079 hours before your flight. 500 00:29:01,119 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 5: Are you sure you're gonna make it? 501 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:03,319 Speaker 4: I think I am. 502 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,119 Speaker 14: I will see you two days ago I made it. 503 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 15: Ok Yeah, I asketimate it's about an hour and fifteen minutes. 504 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 2: From this point. Okay, yes, I think I'll make it. 505 00:29:14,319 --> 00:29:16,039 Speaker 5: Have you ever seen anything like this? Never? 506 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 2: Never? They should be paid. 507 00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 9: They need to be paid. 508 00:29:20,559 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 6: I feel bad for everyone except people in Washington, DC, 509 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,720 because they don't have to stand in line and they 510 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:28,839 don't have to deal with this. 511 00:29:29,039 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 2: I wonder if they have special treatment at Washington airports 512 00:29:32,519 --> 00:29:35,480 members of Congress so they don't have to stand in line. 513 00:29:35,599 --> 00:29:41,720 That first lady, she was a very large lady and 514 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:46,400 apparently had trouble standing in for any length of time. 515 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,400 So she got one of those wheelchairs that they have 516 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,400 at the airport, and she had to pay just some 517 00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:56,039 guy gave him one hundred dollars so he would push 518 00:29:56,039 --> 00:29:59,759 her along the long line that they were waiting in. 519 00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:01,839 But did you hear what she said at the end. 520 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,720 This is a lady in Atlanta, as she said, fix 521 00:30:05,799 --> 00:30:10,960 it Trump, So she's blaming Donald Trump. So it doesn't 522 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,720 matter if something goes wrong, people that don't like Trump 523 00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:17,960 are going to blame Trump. Trumps's on the opposite side 524 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:22,119 of this. He wants it open. He wants DHS funded yesterday. 525 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,480 So I thought it was interesting that she was thinking 526 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:30,200 just the opposite. Here's Sean Duffy, the head of Transportation. 527 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 16: This is going to look like child's play. What's happening 528 00:30:32,799 --> 00:30:35,400 right now. You're going to see small airports, I believe, 529 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,039 shut down. You're going to see extensive lines and air 530 00:30:39,079 --> 00:30:42,319 travel is going to almost come to grid Holt stop. 531 00:30:42,519 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 2: I don't know what the measurement is for a quote 532 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,480 small airport, but this isn't the first time. Now the 533 00:30:47,519 --> 00:30:50,440 last couple of days they're talking about small airports may 534 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,440 need to shut down because they don't have the backup. 535 00:30:52,799 --> 00:30:57,160 There's about ten percent of TSA officers that are not 536 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:02,279 showing up. So I mean it is it's down to 537 00:31:02,319 --> 00:31:06,279 the It depends upon what time of day, it depends 538 00:31:06,359 --> 00:31:09,400 upon when your flight leaves, It depends upon what airport 539 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:13,960 you're in and what airport you're traveling back on. George 540 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,839 Borak is the head of the TSA union. 541 00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:20,279 Speaker 14: Hey, this is that as this continues, is going to 542 00:31:20,319 --> 00:31:23,000 get worse. When you look at what we had in 543 00:31:23,039 --> 00:31:25,960 a fall to fifty days that we had off a shutdown, 544 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,680 we have people that left, we have people that retired, 545 00:31:29,039 --> 00:31:32,720 we have people acting director. Yes, they said we had 546 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,960 four hundred sumhad agents that have so far has signaled 547 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:37,720 that they're leaving. 548 00:31:38,119 --> 00:31:41,240 Speaker 2: You know that number is going to grow exponentiously. They're 549 00:31:41,279 --> 00:31:43,759 all warning and it doesn't matter whether you're the Department 550 00:31:43,799 --> 00:31:47,240 of Transportation secretary or the union guy at TSA. They're 551 00:31:47,279 --> 00:31:50,480 all saying it is going to get worse. I believe 552 00:31:50,519 --> 00:31:54,079 that all right. Meantime, in Congress, there are still arguing 553 00:31:54,279 --> 00:31:58,839 about the Save Act. This is the act that has 554 00:31:59,759 --> 00:32:03,039 a number of elements to it. They're they're what they're 555 00:32:03,079 --> 00:32:08,319 focusing on is that you need to show photo I 556 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:14,039 D when you vote. And the polling on that has 557 00:32:14,039 --> 00:32:17,960 been very very strong. Doesn't matter Democrat, Republican, everybody is 558 00:32:18,119 --> 00:32:23,079 of the same ilk. They're saying by large, large numbers 559 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,680 that people are in favor Democrats, Republicans, and independents huge 560 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,400 favor of photo ID when you vote. So the list 561 00:32:32,559 --> 00:32:36,119 is essentially this, as far as Save America Act, you 562 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,559 have to photo ID when voting. That's what people are for, 563 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:46,559 but group of citizenship to register to vote, and that 564 00:32:46,759 --> 00:32:52,119 is where they're saying, your real ID driver's license won't work. 565 00:32:52,759 --> 00:32:56,079 That you have to bring us birth certificate and if 566 00:32:56,079 --> 00:32:58,440 you're like me, you don't know where yours is. But 567 00:32:58,519 --> 00:33:02,960 you can apply to the government agency wherever you were 568 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:05,799 born and they can send you a certified copy, but 569 00:33:05,839 --> 00:33:11,039 it costs money. And passports, but half the country doesn't 570 00:33:11,039 --> 00:33:16,240 have a passport. It will severely limit mail in ballots, 571 00:33:17,279 --> 00:33:22,319 it will ban nothing to do with voting, ban trans 572 00:33:22,519 --> 00:33:28,200 women in women's sports, and it will ban gender affirming 573 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:34,359 surgery for minors. So they're throwing other stuff in here. 574 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,079 It would seem to me more simple to just say, 575 00:33:38,119 --> 00:33:41,359 do you want to require photo ID when you're voting. 576 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,839 That's essentially where John Fetterman is. 577 00:33:44,519 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 15: It's a shame that they didn't make it more about 578 00:33:47,359 --> 00:33:50,720 just ID to vote. They turned it into other things. 579 00:33:50,759 --> 00:33:53,640 That they turned it into kind of a Christmas tree 580 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:56,279 and they're hanging all these things on it. But now 581 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,200 that's that's where we are. Two things must be true. 582 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,880 It's not rages the show idea to vote, but voting 583 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,400 by mail is an honorable, safe and secure way that 584 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,440 Republicans across our nation have been doing it. 585 00:34:09,559 --> 00:34:12,280 Speaker 2: As the president's been very much against mail in voting. 586 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,880 I don't like it either. I think it's a recipe 587 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,440 for fraud. But at the same time, fact so you 588 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:24,920 apply through your DMV that that you want to vote, 589 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,079 but they never really there's nobody checking to see whether 590 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:32,239 you're a citizen or not. Up in Alaska. Lisa Rakowski, 591 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,039 the Republican senator, she doesn't like it. 592 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 17: These are people who are eligible to vote, they're citizens 593 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:43,199 of our country. But if they're looking at a situation 594 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,760 where I'm going to have to spend one thousand dollars 595 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,679 to get me to where I can present my documentation 596 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:55,119 to vote, They're not going to do it. 597 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:55,519 Speaker 2: Well. 598 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:59,960 Speaker 17: Disenfranchisement may not be the intent of the Save America 599 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,840 Okay Act, and I don't think that it is. I 600 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,920 think that that we will see. 601 00:35:03,679 --> 00:35:06,119 Speaker 2: That the Republicans may have a better chance of getting 602 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,599 the Save America Act passed if they take some of 603 00:35:08,639 --> 00:35:11,840 the onerous parts of it away. But right now they're 604 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:17,760 part of that law. The Stephen A. Smith, who is 605 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,599 getting more political every year, but the sports announcer always 606 00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:25,639 outspoken guy. I like him a lot. He was being 607 00:35:26,119 --> 00:35:31,960 interviewed by Kevin ky Leaves of Republican congressman from northern California. 608 00:35:32,559 --> 00:35:35,519 Listen to the back and forth on Stephen A. Smith 609 00:35:35,519 --> 00:35:37,760 and Kevin Kylie, what do you mean you don't have 610 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,400 voter ID in California. 611 00:35:39,519 --> 00:35:42,800 Speaker 18: Yeah, California does not have voter I D. You don't 612 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,679 need to present it to register, you don't need to 613 00:35:44,679 --> 00:35:46,559 present it to vote. As a matter of fact, the 614 00:35:47,039 --> 00:35:51,480 state past the law forbidding voter i D. So cities 615 00:35:51,559 --> 00:35:54,760 counties if they were bidding, they're not allowed to under 616 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:55,280 state law. 617 00:35:56,679 --> 00:35:58,400 Speaker 2: What right there? The state of California. 618 00:35:58,519 --> 00:35:59,880 Speaker 13: That's what the Republican is going to lean on. 619 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:02,559 Speaker 3: It an excuse to definitely push forth the say back 620 00:36:02,679 --> 00:36:03,760 right there, right there. 621 00:36:04,159 --> 00:36:05,119 Speaker 13: I can't believe it. 622 00:36:05,639 --> 00:36:09,199 Speaker 2: He's right. I mean, it's crazy that they do not 623 00:36:09,559 --> 00:36:12,559 require any photo ID at any time in the whole 624 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,119 registration or voting process, and that they have a law 625 00:36:16,159 --> 00:36:20,199 that says you cannot create photo you can't require it. 626 00:36:20,599 --> 00:36:22,920 So any of you counties in California, you think you 627 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,880 would like to forget it? So that yes, that is 628 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,320 what people look at and go, well, then how do 629 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:33,800 you know who's voting. You just don't. But Edward Isaac Dobert, 630 00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:38,199 who is a Washington reporter, thought it was interesting. His 631 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,119 observation is, and I think he leans left, but he 632 00:36:42,079 --> 00:36:44,880 is critical of the Democrats in this sound bite. 633 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,079 Speaker 19: But look on a political frame. One of the things 634 00:36:47,119 --> 00:36:48,880 that I think is surprising to a lot of people 635 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,920 is that the Democrats have not figured out how to 636 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,320 take a proactive approach to this issue. It is, as Alex, 637 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,719 you're saying something where you see huge majorities in support 638 00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,239 of photo ID, and Democratic response on this and on 639 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,679 so many things continues to just be no and not 640 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,960 a plan of their own, not figuring out some way 641 00:37:05,119 --> 00:37:07,880 to make the argument, even though having Lisa Murkowski make 642 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,440 that argument for them. She's a Republican senator, and you 643 00:37:10,559 --> 00:37:12,880 don't see Democrats saying here would be our plan to 644 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:13,440 take care of this. 645 00:37:13,679 --> 00:37:16,119 Speaker 2: I think he nailed it. The Democrats are just the 646 00:37:16,199 --> 00:37:19,440 party of no. Republicans come up with their various things, 647 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:24,880 and the Democrats say, no, Okay, what's your plan? Democrats? 648 00:37:25,599 --> 00:37:28,960 And this guy leans to the left, he's a Washington 649 00:37:29,039 --> 00:37:32,199 DC reporter and he's going they never come up with 650 00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:36,440 a plan. They just say no to the Republicans thought 651 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:41,000 it was interesting, all right, Wall Street, Yes, another day, 652 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:47,039 another bunch of red arrows. Dow Jones Industrials down four 653 00:37:47,079 --> 00:37:50,719 one hundred and forty three, the forty five thousand and 654 00:37:51,199 --> 00:37:55,320 five seventy seven, the S and P five hundred, down 655 00:37:55,599 --> 00:37:59,440 one hundred. That's a big drop for them. Nasdak also 656 00:37:59,519 --> 00:38:03,079 a huge drop, two percent drop down four hundred forty 657 00:38:03,159 --> 00:38:06,360 three on the Nasdaq. The price of gold continuing to 658 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:11,239 pull back sharply, down one hundred and thirteen dollars. Remember 659 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,519 it was well over five thousand. It's now at four 660 00:38:14,599 --> 00:38:18,440 thousand and four ninety two. And oil, this is West 661 00:38:18,519 --> 00:38:22,800 Texas Intermediate. It still keeps creeping higher and higher. And 662 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:26,639 by the way, let me again Brent. Brent crude is 663 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:33,480 mostly European. It's a it's a thicker, darker oil, harder 664 00:38:33,519 --> 00:38:38,719 to refine. It's one hundred and twelve dollars. The spread 665 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:42,480 is usually a couple dollars, but West Texas is mostly 666 00:38:42,639 --> 00:38:46,320 lighter crude, which is what we use mostly here in 667 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,360 the US. That's up to almost three dollars a day 668 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,400 to ninety just under ninety nine dollars, just under ninety 669 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:59,400 nine dollars again. Brent is one twelve West Texas at 670 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,960 ninety nine, just under ninety nine dollars for a barrel 671 00:39:03,599 --> 00:39:07,159 of oil. So that's it for today. Thank you for 672 00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:11,800 coming by, have yourself a wonderful weekend. Today's the first 673 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,159 day of spring. I hope you are having a nice 674 00:39:15,199 --> 00:39:17,079 first day of spring, and we'll see you back here 675 00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:18,400 on Monday.