Speaker 1: And here we are. Look at that. Welcome to the
Big Podcast. It's Friday, yep, it is today is the
tenth day of April, year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six.
My name is Tom Sullivan. And well we've got an
awful busy Friday. We've got the people from the Moon.
Well they're from Earth, but they went out by the moon.
They're going to be landing off the coast of San Diego. Well,
it depends where you are this afternoon or this evening.
It's at five seven pm Pacific time, eight oh seven
Eastern time. So that's going on. That's all positive stories,
the war and the big ceasefire. The Vice President and
his team are on their way as we speak to Islamabad.
We've got various opinions on it, but I'm very cynical
about this whole thing. Oil and gas prices, well, the
predictions are going to go higher if this thing, if
they don't work out a deal. There really isn't a
ceasefire deal. But we'll get into all of that. People
in this country used to feel very good about Israel.
Those numbers have changed dramatically, especially with young people and
Milania her surprise yesterday coming out and talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
A lot of reaction to that coming in. So let's
get started. Let's start with the positive. The Moon exploration.
We haven't done it a long time, so it is exciting.
They're going to be, like I said, eight oh I
think eight four eight oh seven Eastern times, so five
oh four, five oh seven Pacific time, off the coast
to San Diego, and the Navy is there and they're
ready to go, and they they're going to pick them
out of the water with some helicopters and bring them
over to a ship and then from there they bring
them into North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego,
and from there they put them on a jet and
fly them to Houston Space Center, the Johnson Space Center
in Houston. So they've got still a lot of travel
ahead of them when they land. Miles O'Brien, who is
a big aviation guy who's talking about what they're going through,
s we speak.
Speaker 2: Well, they're busy stowing everything that they had out for
this amazing mission around the Moon.
Speaker 3: Is kind of like wrapping up a camping trip.
Speaker 2: And in tight quarters, I might add four people in
basically the size of two minivans kind of always bumping
into each other no matter what they tried to do.
But all the cameras, all the gear, all the checklists,
all the things that were associated with the space flight
now need to be stowed. And then they have to
bring out their pressure suits and wiggle their way into
them to get ready for the re entry. So it's
a busy time for the crew and a lot of joy,
as they called it, moonjoy will not be replaced with
focus on the task at hand.
Speaker 1: We're so used to watching crews in the Space Shuttle
that had room to go around and do the various chores,
and this one, like you said, basically poor people into
small minivans. It did look a little tight. So I'm
sure they're anxious to get back and land. The director
of the space flight says, everything has to go right.
Speaker 4: It's thirteen minutes of things that have to go right,
is the way I think about it. You know, whole
checklist in my head that we you know, were going
through of all the things that have to happen. You know,
the forward bay cover has to come off, the drogs
have to come out, the she mainshoots have to deploy,
the reefing systems have to cut and we have to
get touchdown angle alignment correct and then hit the water correctly.
Speaker 1: It's actually pretty amazing that the director of this flight
said that thirteen minutes what could go wrong? If that's
all it is. From the time that they're out in space,
thirteen minutes later they're in the years to atmosphere and
parachutes are coming out. There's a lot and during that
time they have their heat shield and the heat shield
on Artemus one, this is Artemis two. Artemis one was
without any humans on board, and the heat shield on
the bottom of the space capsule actually had some flaws
and five thousand degrees some of the heat got into
and underneath some of the space shield, so they redid it,
and I think Miles O'Brian talks about it in this clip.
Speaker 3: What could go wrong with this? It's a scary time.
Speaker 2: There are so many things have to go right at
the right time, in the right sequence that it might
be best not to think too much about it. But yes,
from that moment when it first the capsule first enters
the atmosphere right around four hundred thousand feet of altitude
and begins to heat up, and goes to a scenario
where right past the peak, heating kind of skips off
the surface of the atmosphere, if you will, or the
edge of the atmosphere to bleed off a little bit
of speed, like skipping a stone. That is going to
be a very nail budding time. There'll be a period
of time from about seven fifty three Eastern time all
the way to the splash dount at eight oh two
or just before it, where the air molecules outside the
capsule will be so hot they will split apart, creating
what we call plasma, and this will make it impossible
to communicate with the cruise. So there's going to be
this long six minute moment where no one's going to
know what's going on out there, and I think all
of us will be holding our breath.
Speaker 1: They go from four hundred thousand feet down to about
thirty eight thousand feet in something like eight minutes. I mean,
you talk about dropping like a rock. And the other
part about this is, yeah, they do skip off of
the Earth's atmosphere a little bit to slow things down,
but if they don't have the right projectory, you will
skip off the Earth's atmosphere and keep going off into space,
and they have lost all of their fine tuning engines,
their little devices that can fine tune the direction of
the spaceship. That's all been ejected at this point. So
if they skip off and they're there at the wrong angle,
they skip off and just keep going right off into space.
That's always been a problem. Nobody's ever done it. But
you don't want this to be the first one. About
that heat shield on the bottom of the space capsule.
Back to Miles talking about it.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think you have to be a rocket
scientist to look at that and that hole there that
you're looking at right there to determine that's not the
way it should look. The heat shield is what we
call it's a blative. It's designed to burn away, but
in a very even way. This is how Apollo capsules
return from space. It's kind of unlike the Shuttle, which
had those fragile tiles designed to be reused. This is
kind of a one use heat shield, and you want
it to burn evenly. But as you can see in this,
some gases kind of got underneath it and inside it,
and so it burned unevenly, causing these hotspots. If you
will and so it did not perform to spec. They
changed the way they applied this so called avcoat material,
and they're slightly changed the flight pass. So let's you know,
the only way to test it, however, is about twelve
hours with people on board.
Speaker 3: So let's just hope they got it right.
Speaker 1: I hope they got it right. But I mean you
find out that, Okay, the crew that got the thing
wrong last time, they say they've changed it, oh boy.
And they've changed the flight path a little bit, oh boy.
So it is an ale bider when they come back in.
But it happens very very quickly. They're going to start
Nasty TV is going to start coverage around six thirty Eastern,
three thirty Pacific, and so about an hour and a
half beforehand. And there's a whole bunch of mumbo jumbo
during that period of time. But the real action takes
place in about the last twenty minutes or so of
them coming back into Earth's atmosphere and making sure everything
worked correctly. So godspeed for the astronauts coming back to
Earth tonight to the war. Let's go there. Cease fire, really,
everybody's protect there's a cease fire. I'm looking at going.
Israel still firing rockets, Iran is still firing rockets. Iran
still has the port of the Strate of Hormuz is
still not open. There's a couple of ships getting through,
but they're having to pay tolls and it's international waterway.
Brock Revide, who reports for Axios, has this latest.
Speaker 5: Well, I think that until now pretty partially and this
will be I think the big challenge in this round
of negotiations in Pakistan, because the ceasefire is I mean
to say that it's fragile is the understatement of the century.
And to say that there are still gaps between the
parties on you know, on the understandings of you know,
what was exactly agreed on and what is going to
be discussed. The gaps are pretty big and there's still
a lot of confusion. But but taking all that into consideration,
this is still and I think this is important because
this is still the most high level meeting between Iran
and the United States of America since the Islamic Revolution
in nineteen seventy nine. I'm not saying that we're on
a cusp of a peace deal, not at all, but
I'm just saying that this is a very important moment
in history. I don't know what's going to come out
of this meeting. Obviously, this is jd Vance's big moment.
He's going to the super Bowl tomorrow, and you know,
let's see how he does.
Speaker 1: It is JD Vance's big moment. It is odd that
you start off with your first meeting with the highest
level officials from both countries. Usually the lower level people
worked out all the details. They argue back and forth,
and then they bring in the top dogs to sign
off on things. But if they come out of that
deal tomorrow with an agreement, I will be shocked. I
mean major league shocked. If they do, I think it
will be because they're going to try and cram something
that they will call them agreement just so that they
have an excuse, an off ramp if you will to
get out of this war. Other than that, I mean,
I just stand by for more of what we had before.
And the question then will be will President Trump go
right back to war immediately if we don't have an
agreement or is he going to give it the two
weeks that he said he would give it, Because those
deadlines don't seem to mean too much to anybody, So.
Speaker 5: It seems to me that at least at the moment,
you know, at the moment, we're on day three of
the ceasefire. At the moment, both sides still want the ceasefire.
They don't want to resume the war. It doesn't mean that,
you know, twelve days from now, they might you know,
want to resume the war, or you know, they'll be
compelled to. But I think there's also the scenario that
cease fire will be extended because you cannot get a
real deal on almost anything in two weeks, especially not
with Iran. So I think that the issue is whether
in those two weeks the parties will be able to
a resolve the issue of her moves that I think
is crucial. If her moves is not open, the ships
are not moving, then there's not going to be a ceasefire.
It's pretty clear President Trump will not be able to
you know, allow this thing to continue, and we saw
his post. But if they managed to start get ships
moving in her moves, and if they can get and
you know, sort of an agreement on what's the first
item to agree on? Okay, not like all the comprehensive deal,
what's the first item to agree on? And if they
managed to move in that direction, then you know, maybe
those talks have a chance. I still I'm very skeptical.
I think also I'm not sure how good of an
idea it was to start the talks from the level
of the Vice president. Usually you need some preparation on
lower levels. I think one of the problems is that
there's a big, big trust issues between the Iranians and
President Trump's envoys, Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner. So I
think this is part of the It's not the only reason,
but it's part of the reason that the Vice president
needed to step in. But it will be I think
the crucial thing here is to see whether this is
just a ceremonial photo op or the parties managed to
at least get an agreement on an agenda of how
to move forward.
Speaker 1: I'm putting my money on a ceremonial photo op. I
don't think there will be an agreement coming out of this.
The only way that this will the cease fire will
continue is if they open up the strait of Hormers.
Short of that, the deals off, and I think they
will go back to kinetic military action. And speaking of
military how about General Jack Keane. You know, he told
us yesterday and the day before. He was very diplomatic,
but he is really unhappy about this cease fire. He says,
we were basically going down our punch list militarily. We
still had another two weeks to go. We were doing
we were getting everything checked off, and all of a sudden,
we have to stop. He's not happy about it, but
he knows that as the four star general, you have
to kind of swallow sometimes.
Speaker 6: Well, the president has information that none of us have,
so there's something that is telling him. This looks better
than any of the other negotiations that he's been involved in.
And tell me what the Iranians did with the Obama administration,
So that's got to be a fact. But no, I'm
not optimistic about it, because this is what the Iranians do.
I mean, they are masters at obfuscation and delaying negotiations.
What's on the table is everything that they value, everything
from the from the nuclear to the ballistic missiles, to
their drones to support for proxies. Everything they stand for
they would have to voluntarily give up. It's hard to
get your head around the fact that they would actually
do that. What they would likely do is make concessions
on a number of points that will incentivize us. Oh,
this is different. They're willing to make a deal here,
drag this thing out for a number of weeks. And
would why do they want to drag it out? Well,
because they don't want us to go back and reattack.
And the longer there is lower oil prices, the lower
there's less economic pain, the longer there's less political pressure.
It makes it that much tougher in their minds for
the administration to go back and finish the job militarily.
That I believe is is really their strategy. And they're
very clever at doing this. They're actually better at this
than they are at fighting. And the history speaks for itself.
And the other thing is, whatever the deal is, let's
say we actually get to something and they're signing papers.
Speaker 3: Can we really trust these guys go forward?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how much clearer General team
can make it. He doesn't believe anything the Iranians say
or sign or do. They've done that a million times
in the past, and they ignore any and all agreements
they've ever had with anybody. Back to the General, we got.
Speaker 6: To be prepared, and I know our forces can open
up that straight and protect the ships going through it.
People are handringing about a drone here and a missile there,
and it's not going to take anything to stop it.
They don't understand the plan all right, and the details
of the plan. The United States military can secure it.
Define space that's moving through the straits, put it absolute
air cap and and air bubble around all of that,
and make certain that anything that tries to penetrate it
is going to be defeated. My god, We've been protecting
our own ships against the running has been firing on
them for weeks. We can certainly do this. It's considered
to be more limited than that. Admittedly, they have a
whole shoreline fire from. But you think we're actually gonna
let anybody come close to that shoreline. We'll have a patchually,
helicopters up, surveillance up. We know how to do that.
It's not that big of a deal. So you're just
saying it's not challenging. I'm not saying it's not. There
isn't some risk associated with his risk associated with every
military operation. But it's quite it's quite doable.
Speaker 1: I must admit, I've been thinking, well, how do you
protect ships escorting ships and all that. What the General
explain makes sense to me. They will put a bubble
around ships going through. It's going to be very busy.
It's going to take a lot of personnel. It's going
to take a lot of money. But John m kean
is sloughing it off and going is no big deal.
Can do that. It's a piece of cake. So that's
the answer. If Iran doesn't want to open the straight,
then we have to open it. Michael Allen, former National
Security advisor, also weighs.
Speaker 7: In, well, the stakes have definitely gotten ire for Vice
President Vance. I'm certain that the President has given him
the charge to threaten the resumption of military force, and
less Iran agrees to the loose at the very least
the loose terms we had worked out earlier in the week.
We have to be clear with the irandiance that they
do not have a veto over who gets through the
Straits of Hormuz, and that it ought to be re
established as a free and open international waters passageway. Anything
short of that gives them control over energy and by extension,
sort of a veto, sort of a control over the
world economy.
Speaker 1: That's unacceptable.
Speaker 7: We've got to get it back on track. And I
can't think of anything that they'd be interested in unless
it's the renewed prospect of military force, which they should
want to avoid. So I really don't think they're going
to give it up at the negotiating table. They may
come out of this weekend with some language that we'll
try to finesse. Maybe we'll get the Chinese and others
to try and weigh in with the Iranians, but I
think we're honestly, I think we're going to have to
go back to a situation where the United States is
degrading Iran's coastal defenses near the Strait of Ormuz. We've
been busily degrading other things across the country the last
five weeks. But that will enable, we think the Sentcom
commander to say to the Commander in chief, we've now
reduced the threat enough to where we can do a
freedom of navigation operation, established that it's back open, and
hopefully hopefully be able to do an escort mission to
start bringing tankers through.
Speaker 1: So I've learned a long time ago it's business one
oh one never negotiate from a position of weakness, you
always want you negotiate, you negotiate from a position of strength.
The President put out on True Social earlier today, something
to the effect of, I'm just paraphrasing that Iran doesn't
realize that they don't have any cards to play. The
problem is Iran thinks it does. It thinks it's got
the card called straight of horror moves, and they're going
to try and play that. But again, to go back
to what General Keene said, why not just say fine,
you think that's your card, No, that's our card. We're
going to open this strate of horror moves, stand back
and don't interfere. I think we can do it. The
question is is that's what is that what's going to
come out of this weekend? And the other part of it,
politically is about a JD. E. Vance. They put him in.
The President has put him in a high stake situation.
And if it doesn't work and it fails, does he
get blame? And then does Mark or Rubio come settling
along looking all the much better? In any case, back
to Michael Allen.
Speaker 7: Let's see what happens this weekend. We've got a very
I'm sure we have a very effective message, and so
the Vance has got a lot of pressure on him.
Speaker 1: Here and finally let's find out what John Bolton has
to say. John Bolton, you know, is this conquer the
picnic as far as the Trump administration is concerned. He
was the National security advisor for Donald Trump in one
point oh, but then they had a fallout. But he
still has a lot of experience and he's extremely smart
guy about international affairs. Here's Bolden.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think this is going to turn out
to be a mistake the president. So obviously once away
out of this current situation that I think a Ron
senses weakness and it's it's going to push and push
until it sees how far it can get. And particularly
before they face to face talks in Islamabad scheduled for
this Saturday, They're going to see what they can get
by forcing Trump to make concessions without them having to
bargain for them.
Speaker 1: That's the risk for Jedi Vance if Iran gets the
upper hand and is able to get the United States
and jady Vans to agree to something, and the Trump
administration backs off and says, okay, whatever you want, Iran.
That's how Jada vance is going to look bad if
he fails.
Speaker 8: Well, I think that's what Taco means. Trump always chickens out.
They watch what he does, and he thinks he's bargaining,
and they think he's just blustering. So they wait for
him to bluster away and then see if they can
move him down into some other position without having to
give anything up. By the way, that clip from Franklin Roosevelt,
just so everybody understands it, historically was a prayer. It
begins Almighty Father and goes on from there.
Speaker 1: He is referring to comparing the president's threats against Iran
versus other US presidents in the time of war, and
Fdr on D Day started with a prayer to our
heavenly Father to watch over the troops. That was the
way that he approached it. But I mean, at this
point our military has been very, very successful. They still
have more work to do. But does Iran. They have
to look around and they can't possibly think that they're
able to fight back against the United States.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 8: I think on balance, the damage that we've done to
their capabilities is very significant. The potential to stray, to
take control of the straight of Hormuz has been around
for a long long time, and we for decades discounted
the possibility it would happen. Obviously, we're not going to
do that again in the future. But I think it's
really critical to understand that what Iran has been doing
here has been visible for a long time. They've been
fortifying islands in the Gulf and in the Strait right
in front of us, and we haven't done anything about it.
So I think we have to understand that as bad
as this seems now, it will be infinitely worse if
they get nuclear weapons. I don't think they're going to
negotiate giving up control of the Strait. I think the
way to do it is to take it from them,
and obviously the presidents that's about the farthest thing from
his mind at this point.
Speaker 1: Again, this is the danger is is that we want
to get out of this conflict so bad that we
just agree to anything and everything that the Iranians say,
and we okay, okay, okay, We'll sign that just to
get off this war path. And I hope that's not
the case, because there's a lot of pressure on President
Trump and the White House on JD event to end
this war and declare victory and stop the straight of
permeuse her move from being blockaded, get the world's economy
back in shape. I mean, it's six months until election day,
and the president's watching that calendar very closely. I just
hope he's not that eager to solve his political pressure
with signing any deal that the Iranians put on the table.
Speaker 8: Look, our military has known of this contingency for decades,
and I don't know what the latest plans say, but
I'm sure they've thought about it. Is my understanding, they
were doing many of the things one would need to do,
going after the manufacturing of mines, going after the manufacturing
of drones, going after the mind laying ships, going after
the fast boats. They may not be in a position
to do it yet, but I think they should be.
They should have continued to work on it. Obviously they're
not during a cease fire. Ceasefire gives a breathing room
for the Iranians. It doesn't help us.
Speaker 1: Bolton is a hawk. He wants to continue the war.
So does a General Jack Keane to continue the war.
But I have to maybe I should look in the mirror.
Maybe I'm a Hawk too, because I think that's the answer,
is to militarily take control of the Strait of Hormuz
and open that back up again and stop Iran in
their tracks. They're still going to I know they still
have a lot of missiles and they have a lot
of drones ready to go, but we have to be
willing to fight that back. We cannot afford to give
in to Iran at this point, all this work and
all this treasure that we have put in. It's time
to go ahead and just continue the military effort and
call it a victory. Meantime, oil and gas prices, well
prices surprise, the triple A average gas price went down
a penny since yesterday. It's now only four dollars and
fifteen cents for a gallon of gas. The average for
the cheap stuff nationwide it was for sixteen yesterday. Diesel, however,
continues to go higher. Sorry, truckers and farmers. Diesel average
across the country is now five dollars and sixty eight cents.
That is only thirteen cents away from the all time
highest ever price for a gallon of diesel fuel. As
far as oil price is by the barrel, seems to
have studied out recently right now, so I'm watching the
trading going on on the commodities markets. Oils down almost
two dollars to ninety just under ninety six dollars for
a barrel of oil, so it's staying in that range
as opposed to some of the predictions where it was
going to go to one thirty or one fifty. It's
at ninety ninety six dollars roughly for a barrel of oil.
Tom Closa is the manager of Oil and Energy for
Gulf Oil, Big oil guy. Let's see what he says.
Speaker 9: I think we're going to see, you know, the market
is going to be doing the cha cha as posted
to the tango with these big dips in increases. We're
seeing gas prices received ever so slightly today there's a
definite rocket and feather to it, and you may see,
you know, prices come off of it. It's actually very
typical this decade to peak in mid April. But it
all depends on the street. You know, if they don't
get straight open. You're trading crude oil for one hundred
and twenty five or one hundred and fifty dollars and gasoline, diesel,
jet fuel, will continue to be incredibly expensive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so another voice calling for you've got to open
the straight of horror moves. That's that's critical coming out
of the talks tomorrow. As far as the economy, we're
talking about oil and gas, but we also got some
stats out about the economy. The consumer Price Index inflation
at your pocket level and mind, inflation was the largest
increase since June of twenty twenty two. That was back
when the Biden inflation was taking off, up nine tenths
of a percent in the month of March. Year over
year inflation three point three percent. Now this is March,
so it's taking into account the gas price is going up.
The rest of it as the higher gas prices filter
through to other products and services, will show up in April, May, June, July.
But right now I'm surprised that it's only three point
three percent, but inflation definitely went higher. Anybody surprised about that.
So inflation for March was cripple what it was for February,
and it's the highest that we've seen in four years.
You've got to go back to the Joe Biden inflation
ramp up, and we're not anywhere near the nine percent.
Inflation three point three is higher than it should be,
but I understand gasoline led the way. Of all the
various product lines there, fuel was gasoline led the way
twenty one percent increase in the month of March. Consumer
sentiment hit a record low in the month of March.
Consumer Center. This is the University of Michigan version of it.
There's two major consumer sentiment indexes, one of them is
University of Michigan, and they said that the drop coincided
with the sharp spike in inflation expectations. The people that
responded to the survey said that they see prices continuing
to go up four point eight percent in the next year.
That way over where we are right now. The index
dropped over ten percent, so huge it usually barely moves.
So the consumer sentiment index fell out of the of
the of the numbers that they normally show down ten
point seven percent to the lowest that we've ever seen
on the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index. And from
a different survey, it's Frank Luntz, who's the big polster
out there, taking a sentiment on how people feel about Israel,
and it's not good. It's been coming down. The older
you are, the more pro Israel you are. More Republicans
are more favorable of Israel than Democrats. But even among Republicans,
the young, anybody that is under age fifty, I believe,
he says, Yeah, twenty four percent of the people fifty
and up have an unfavorable view of Israel. So that's
a bigger number than it used to be, but still
twenty four percent. For people eighteen to forty nine, fifty
seven percent have an unfavorable view of Israel. Here's Frank Lunch.
Speaker 3: Well, for most people, the economy's number one issues.
Speaker 10: And I want to apologize viewers for the sound of
my voice, but I thought this is too important to
pass up.
Speaker 3: The fact is I knew you'd fight through.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so I'm not giving up the portability, gas prices,
energy prices, food prices, housing, healthcare. All of these are
key issues, and they're all voter issues. Now, make the mistake.
This is still April. There's more than six months betwe
now an election day. But there is no issue that
will be more important to Republicans' efforts to keep the
House in the Senate than the economy in general and
affordability in particular. And this is not good news for
the president at this moment, and the fact that the
president doesn't have a united front of this moment among
people who backed him in twenty twenty four is of
obvious concern. But the critical nature for me has opposed
her are the independents. These are individuals whit will vote
in twenty twenty six, are not aligned by political party,
are not particularly ideological, and are not particularly political, and
their opinions matter most because they're the deciding vote and
the two dozen seats that determine who controls the Congress,
and right now, their hostility to the war, at least
at this moment, is going to be a problem for
the Republicans. But again, it's only the middle of April
and so much can change between now and then. It's
still a warning sign. They're relics clashing everywhere. But that
just tells me that the White House and Congress needs
to do a better job of explaining why, how and
what happens at the end.
Speaker 1: So people are not happy with the war, I understand that,
But again to that point about the younger people are
not happy with Israel.
Speaker 10: Here's frank, never happened in modern history or in at
least over the last twenty five years. Israel has always
been seen favorably by most Republicans. It's been seen unfavorably
by some Democrats, but the partisanship is less important right now,
and the age break is so significant. Younger voters have
turned against Israel and supportive of the Palestinians in numbers
that I've never seen since the New millennium. And for
these Radians, they have to be concerned that they're messaging
and their procedures and their policies and how they prosecuted
this war is causing the American people to turn against
them in numbers that they never imagined before. And let
me say this, foreign policy normally doesn't matter in off
your elections, but this year, in terms of where the
heat is, where voters are most patsionate the fact that
Israel has seen this decline in his public support. I
believe that Israel is going to be one of the
issues that's going to matter in this upcoming election, and
that the people over in Tel Aviv ought to be
paying attention to this because in the end, funding allies
support really does matter to the country and to the
people that country, and they better be paying attention to
it because this is significant and this is serious.
Speaker 1: Issue, really is Benjamin at Yahoo also is serious about
the attacks that have been on Israel ever since he
was a very young man. He doesn't he doesn't reread lightly.
He goes after the enemies with everything he has. And
that is where people are going. They don't like to
see that, and he's going, but I've got to I
got to make it. Re'll survive. And that's what that's
his whole standpoint, always has been. So that's where we
stand today. Let's take a look at this at the markets,
because it was a mixed market today. The Dow Jones
Industrials down two hundred and sixty nine to forty seven,
nine to sixteen, started lower and just kept drifting lower
throughout the session. S and B five hundred, not much
of a move, but it was also. It was higher
in the morning, fell in the afternoon, finished down seven points.
Nasdak did the opposite. It stayed above where we started
this morning, lost some of its game, but still finished
with an eighty point gain for the Nasdaq. Gold it
fell forty four dollars down to forty seven to seventy three,
and Oil two dollars right now, down two dollars tonight
just under ninety six dollars, ninety five dollars and some
change for a barrel of oil. So that's it today.
Thank you for coming by. We will be back on Monday,
and I hope to see you then