00:00:28.940Over the weekend, President Trump suddenly issued an ultimatum on social media threatening Iran with a deadline that would have passed just about 30 minutes ago.
00:00:36.640Here's what he posted on Saturday at 7.44 p.m.
00:00:39.480Quote, if Iran doesn't fully open without threat the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours from this exact point in time,
00:00:47.500the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first.
00:00:53.860Iran's military responded on Sunday that if his threats regarding Iran's power plants are carried out,
00:00:58.700the Strait of Hormuz will be completely closed,
00:01:01.240and that all Israeli energy and communications infrastructure will be targeted,
00:01:04.920as well as, quote, similar companies in the region with U.S. shareholders.
00:01:09.380Then, this morning, the president posted this, quote,
00:01:12.520I am pleased to report that the United States of America and the country of Iran
00:01:16.180have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations
00:01:19.980regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East.
00:01:47.480Well, the Iraq war, as we learned some of it in real time and certainly since then, was based on a lie, on an exaggeration.
00:01:56.320But the Bush administration was very serious about it.
00:02:00.160They put together an enormous effort worldwide, brought together 40 countries in a global coalition,
00:02:07.140stayed on message, on a single message throughout.
00:02:10.460It was about WMD and about bringing democracy to the Middle East.
00:02:14.220And they did not vary from those messages.
00:02:17.480This war is there's so many things that are made up that seem on the fly by the seat of the president's pants that it's hard to get a sense of what the purpose is, what the end goal looks like.
00:02:34.240There's been no communication that's consistent that explains the theory of the case.
00:06:27.900Let me bring you into the White House thinking in this moment and how they are viewing this.
00:06:34.940To Hagar's point, they are not looking at opposition back transition right now.
00:06:40.160They are not looking to bring in an outsider.
00:06:42.340In fact, officials I spoke to told me Reza Pahlavi, the exiled prince, that some people are looking to as a potential leader.
00:06:48.460That is not on the table for somebody that the U.S. would back.
00:06:51.960Instead, they are looking right now at the Speaker of Parliament as a potential partner for the United States and possibly a leader that the United States could work with.
00:07:02.120Now, he is you talked about the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard.
00:07:08.460He is a power broker and he is not a moderate necessarily, again, to Hagar's point.
00:07:14.360But this is somebody that the United States believes might be someone on the inside that could potentially have a pragmatic streak and be willing to make a deal with the United States.
00:07:26.960Let's not understate the fact that the conventional Iranian military strength has been greatly weakened.
00:07:36.200Their planes have been blown up, their ships have been blown up.
00:07:40.720But conventional military strength has not been the core of the menace that Iran represents in the region and to the wider world.
00:07:50.180It's always been about unexpected asymmetric capabilities, those drones that do so much damage, sleeper cells all over the world.
00:08:01.460They're proxy militias, the Houthis, the Hezbollah and people like that.
00:08:05.680And these are only the ones we know about.
00:08:08.040This is a regime that for 50 years, every day, this regime, the people at the highest levels of this regime have been absolutely convinced that sooner or later, America is going to come for them.
00:08:19.600So they've been preparing for 50 years.
00:08:21.660They've always known that they were never going to be able to stand up against the greatest military in the world.
00:08:26.520And so they've been making plans precisely for that.
00:08:29.860So to say that we've blown up every one of their ships, those ships are not the real threat.
00:08:35.080Without any ships, they've still managed to block the Straits of Hormuz and essentially put a chokehold on the global economy.
00:08:41.940That's the nature of the regime we are dealing with.
00:08:51.940They know that if they lose this war, their biggest problem will not be American bombs from the air.
00:08:58.260Their biggest problem will be their own citizens will be hanging them from lampposts in Tehran.
00:09:04.140You know, they've done so much damage to their own country and their own people for so long that there's a lot of resentment built up there.
00:09:10.380They can't afford to show any weakness.
00:11:32.820A lot of people are trying to figure out how this war winds down, but the underlying military aspect of this continues on overnight.
00:11:44.280CENCOM going through, like I said, their methodical defanging, declawing program.
00:11:49.020Also, two Marine amphibious ready groups or Marine expeditionary units, one on the USS Tripoli coming for about 2,500 Marines coming from Japan, I think a couple of days away.
00:12:04.600also the uss boxer from san diego about 2200 marines that would give us about approximately
00:12:10.720i don't know 5 000 marine amphibious assault forces with complete uh helicopter and uh and
00:12:18.280the other the osprey aircraft that can be both uh helicopter and also conventional uh in addition to
00:12:26.860all the assets we have in there my understanding is a tremendous amount of support aircraft
00:12:32.58080 second airborne may be on alert so other as negotiations going on president trump is not
00:12:38.820giving up any of his military leverage in fact i would say that that leverage and the applicability
00:12:44.340the sharp end of the spear actually from a non-air uh aspect is coming to around the north
00:12:53.520arabian sea in the gulf of oman that would either take karg island and or you know some of the uh
00:13:00.740right around the Strait of Hormuz, where they've had this 5,000-pound bunker-busting bomb B-2
00:13:06.920runs, might even do an amphibious assault there to take and hold that and make sure those missiles
00:13:13.380and drones, et cetera, are taken care of. So an increasingly complex military operation continues
00:13:20.520on with more aspects coming. At the same time, various discussions. I mean, the president's been
00:13:25.840pretty clear his military objectives uh he's also said hey the Strait of Hormuz has got to be open
00:13:31.520I think it's becoming more and more evident every day that our quote-unquote allies particularly in
00:13:37.580Europe and NATO are just not up to the task it's more it's this is kind of more happy talk than
00:13:42.700they gave in Ukraine about what type of military and naval assets uh they would give to keep the
00:13:48.100Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf open for free navigation also don't forget the Gate of
00:13:53.100tears down at the red sea right off of yemen where the houthis uh essentially control or if
00:14:00.500they get involved which they have not they've held back would uh would be another aspect that
00:14:05.440you would have to keep that open to make sure you get to the to the suez canal increasingly complex
00:14:11.300geopolitically complex militarily president trump the ultimate deal maker thinking through his
00:14:17.540options keeping a lot of irons in the fire also i think he may be keeping the iranian
00:14:21.720the Iranian establishment of the IRGC on their back foot.
00:14:30.440Of course, the Iranians, I think they look at the Americans and say,
00:14:33.240hey, these guys are bringing in the Marines.
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00:26:48.520Erdogan is making moves to say he wants to be helpful somehow.
00:26:51.820Now, the entire region, it looks like, Kurt, says, hey, we've had enough of this already, and as bad as these guys are, somehow we'll figure this out.
00:27:00.980I mean, that is part of the pressure that's come to the White House.
00:27:03.840Also, remember, we're going to bowling on here, join Kurt in a moment.
00:27:07.620Even with the Iranians, and we've done some back-of-the-envelope math, everybody in that region is incentivized, at least to date, to get the price of oil and gas up.
00:27:17.940they're calling force majeure the qataris the iraqis force majeure on these contracts
00:27:22.900the iranians you know oil at 140 bucks is a lot better than president trump's full
00:27:29.440uh spectrum energy dominance for where it's got a four handle in front of it right that's not
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00:29:36.500room here's your host stephen k bann i'm gonna get back to kurt in a second about these negotiations
00:29:45.340um eric bowling two reports that just kind of popped the the the theoretical uh force majeure
00:29:53.380of the qataris i understand now i'm reading that they have actually invoked force majeure which
00:29:58.860means kind of act of war of act of god on uh on lng long-term contracts for lng supplies disrupting
00:30:06.280deliveries to italy belgium south korea and china also breaking news from the financial times of
00:30:14.220london that says 580 million dollars of oil trades happen moments before a minutes before president
00:30:22.400trump made his announcement on the talks yesterday let's take the first uh event first the iraqis
00:30:28.460have already called force majeure on some of their contracts here here's one of the issues is that
00:30:33.580Everybody over there, including the Iranians, the Saudis, the Kuwaitis, the Qataris, they're all incentivized to have these higher prices, call force majeure, negate the contracts they sold when President Trump was full on with full spectrum energy dominance, and reap a massive reward for this war that America is underwriting with our taxpayer money and our troops, sir.
00:31:03.580So, yeah, Steve, remember we talked about these force majeures that would likely be popping up because you don't want to make a commitment.
00:31:11.680You've made a commitment at $55 or $60 a barrel or the equivalent if it's LNG.
00:31:17.120And then the legal loophole that you can work your way through is force majeure, which is an act of God, act of nature or war.
00:31:25.380And so they figured out this is a good opportunity.
00:31:27.480you have some of the people that we don't maybe respect as much that they're doing business with
00:31:32.480they'll they'll declare force majeure and double the price that they're gonna they're gonna get
00:31:36.120for it no question about that i we talked qatar had already insinuated that he may do it now they
00:31:43.060looks like they have done it we knew the kuwaitis did it with refined products about a week ago but
00:31:48.100when they did that steve we were on air i think when it happened and i said look expect a lot more
00:31:52.860of this. And I think you will see a lot more of it because whether it, this doesn't look like it's
00:31:59.060ending anytime soon. So this all clear that we kind of felt was, or people were saying was
00:32:03.900happening yesterday. You know, you and I talked about it on Rav, my show into yours, it likely
00:32:09.060wasn't over yet. The Conoco CEO, Chevron CEO, I'm sorry, said, we got a lot more upside here and
00:32:16.640people aren't realizing how dangerous this is. You know, you can call this a war dividend for
00:32:23.060these Middle Eastern countries. All right. So, yes, Iran is going to get hit. They're going to
00:32:27.380get hit hard. They'll continue to get hit hard. But do the math. They produce 3 million barrels
00:32:32.160per day. They're probably going to push oil prices around $120 a barrel. Steve, it lasts 60 days
00:32:40.080only. I mean, this could last a lot longer, 60 days only. And we've handed Iran a war dividend
00:32:46.560of over $21 billion. So everyone looks at it, like count intuitively, you have to look at it
00:32:54.000because everyone looks at war in Iran, we're hitting them, we're degrading them, but we're
00:32:58.180also handing them a bank account to rebuild and rebuild the way they want. That's why I believe
00:33:03.340the deal a deal needs to be made needs to be made fairly quickly with a with tight parameters
00:33:08.220as far as the just hang hang hang on hang on hang on hang on slow down just quickly walk people
00:33:15.520through math on that with the uh now iran's got cash flow problems they can't get their stuff out
00:33:20.680people talking about sending the marines into to secure karg island which would cut them off from
00:33:24.900the world at least their ability to get it out uh get it and monetize it but just walk through the
00:33:30.120basic math of what they reserve one of the issues in the middle east particularly with president
00:33:34.960trump's full spectrum energy dominance is that they look at this as a wasting asset and you know
00:33:41.200they hate selling it when they're lifting costs i don't know around 20 it used to be five i think
00:33:45.620somebody said it's 20 bucks a barrel let's assume that that was me that was me it was five it was
00:33:50.360five dollars a barrel it was five dollars a barrel to lift it you know 30 40 years ago sand just pull
00:33:56.440it right out. It pushes $30 a barrel now, maybe even a little bit higher. So at 55, they're not
00:34:02.600making a massive, well, they're making good profit, they're not making a massive profit to fund their
00:34:07.980economy, because this really is petrodollars that fund most of those Middle Eastern countries'
00:34:12.760economies. At $120 a barrel, you're talking insane number. Here, I'll do the math for you.
00:34:17.380Three million barrels a day Iran produces right now. And that's down from seven or eight, which
00:34:22.120they have in the past, which means if they want to ramp it up, it could be a lot more.
00:34:25.600So just the 3 million barrels a day, which they were producing prior to the war, $120 a barrel, that's $360 million petrodollars per day.
00:34:36.220Give it 60 days, and you're talking $21.6 billion petrodollars right into the Iranian coffers.
00:34:47.640The Chevron CEO came out yesterday and said, hey, I can see it going to $170.
00:34:51.380bucks but he says i don't think this goes below a hundred dollars until 2027 what's the futures
00:34:58.020market telling us right now of what because the the oil and gas market is one that's got a lot
00:35:03.360of information out there clearly there's somebody had some information before president trump
00:35:08.040came out and made that statement i'm sure that's going to be investigated 580 million dollars of
00:35:12.720trades minutes before that quite frankly the kind of shock announcement that said hey we're looking
00:35:18.140to uh looking to talk to somebody because we've degraded their military so much it's time to uh
00:35:23.480time to move on uh what are the future markets telling us right now about what they think about
00:35:28.400the possibility of these negotiations because kurt said hey look this is not particularly easy
00:35:33.020they don't really trust us they're they're backed into a corner they're either a rabbit
00:35:37.620dog or rabbit rat or a uh or grizzly right they know that if uh if their people turn on them
00:35:44.840they're done so they're going to fight to the end it's not easy president trump's a master deal
00:35:49.600maker but it ain't easy when you really don't have anybody totally in charge to negotiate with
00:35:54.280so are the market is that incorporated into the markets right now it is in the way the futures
00:35:59.980market works in the oil is you can take delivery you can buy delivery going forward and i looked
00:36:05.680at it yesterday or i'll look again but it's it's within striking range of an 80 a barrel about
00:36:12.10010 months down the road. So into 2027, right at 2027, you're looking at $80 a barrel. If everything
00:36:19.380stayed the same right now, we're talking $92, $93 a barrel now, if it goes higher, those back
00:36:25.440months, those future delivery months will continue to raise with it. But right now, the futures
00:36:31.280aren't saying that's going to last, you know, six, eight, 10 months, and they've priced in a lower
00:36:37.580oil price going forward um so the the belief right now is this is a a now event and that trump could
00:36:46.360ramp up production ramp up ways to bring oil prices down and he can and he will when he's done
00:36:52.280but steve we've been saying this like i hate to say we've been saying but we have it depends how
00:36:57.340high it goes and how long it stays there how quickly he's very sophisticated yeah but yeah
00:37:03.920But these very sophisticated markets with tons of trading about people trying to hedge the future, not just speculators, they're telling us that they believe right now President Trump will not just get some military accomplishment, but will bring some sort of peace or get some sort of deal that will get back to normal, that it won't be 120, won't be 150, it'll be 80, which is obviously a lot higher than the 55, I think, that we had when Bibi went to Mar-a-Lago in December, right?
00:37:32.340But it's not the end of the world, correct?
00:37:47.500And when I say traders, I don't mean speculators everyone loves to hate.
00:37:50.980I'm talking about the people like the ConocoPhillips head trader that I spoke to who had similar assessment of the situation that the Chevron CEO who came out yesterday saying.
00:38:01.900So they're looking for higher prices going forward, which will pull up that 10-, 11-, 12-month oil price will pull it up higher as well.
00:38:11.000Again, that's why I keep saying it matters how high it goes and how long it stays there because people are smart enough to realize it takes time to ramp up production, to get deliveries flowing quickly, and to ramp up your own, let's call it counter high prices policy here in the United States.
00:38:30.020I'm sure Trump will throw everything, including the kitchen sink at it, but that takes time.
00:38:35.400Unfortunately, the worst fallout of all of this is Middle Eastern countries who frankly hate us, even though they pretend to be our allies.
00:38:44.000Their coffers, their war coffers, their anti-West coffers are getting filled the longer we play this game.
00:38:50.160And it really has become a game because you can get in, get out, make your deal and cut a strong deal going forward a lot quicker than we're doing it right now.
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