00:01:51.260It's not just that they've invested in them, and so they've shielded themselves to a large extent from this oil shock.
00:01:57.200They also had huge stockpiles of oil, but they also made huge investments in renewables precisely because they wanted that energy resilience.
00:02:05.400They didn't want to be at the mercy of global oil markets.
00:02:09.020And they're making all of these technologies, and then they're going to sell them to the rest of the world.
00:02:13.260That's right. And as our allies embrace them, no matter who the president is in 2029, they're going to be a lot more dependent on China.
00:02:21.660This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:02:26.560Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:02:31.780I got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it.
00:02:37.920I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
00:11:35.140But now it's on the other side, 21 miles away, and the Iranians are going to have a hard time sending mosquito fast boats down there or drones without them being blown out of the water.0.93
00:11:46.560So the only outstanding issue is anti-ship cruise missiles, if there are any left, and they will be shooting into the blind because they don't have any surface-to-search radars to be able to guide those missiles.0.91
00:11:59.800So I think at this point, the Iranians are going to be broken on this issue.0.96
00:12:03.520So now we need to look for where are they going to break, where are they going to apply pressure in a different domain or a different area geographically?1.00
00:12:11.120Yeah, keep that map up, Denver. Thank you very much for bringing that up.
00:12:16.960Eric, talk to us about what was the response over the weekend for the oil markets and then after this announcement and now the implementation of the president's selecting this strategy from Admiral Cooper and the team at CENTCOM, sir.
00:12:34.580A lot, very quiet over the weekend, in fact, going into last night when the oil market started to trade again, 6 p.m. Eastern, almost unchanged on the day, which is unheard of given the amount of attention and, you know, in two directional possibilities going on right now.
00:12:50.620This morning we woke up, oil was 5% higher.
00:13:45.880The UAE is now out of OPEC, allegedly, we'll believe when we see it, but the rest of the members of OPEC pledged 188,000 barrels now a day, which is increasing in production, which seems like a lot until you do the math on it.
00:14:00.660That comes to about 167 seconds of global use of oil.
00:14:05.540So what they did is purely just house dressing, you know, just putting lipstick on the pig, so to speak.
00:22:13.380So talk to me, is this the game changer we've been looking for?
00:22:16.740Is President Trump wanting to force the action
00:22:18.940And Cooper giving him an alternative here to basically force the action by sending the Navy, the destroyers into the straight through the Strait of Hormuz, transiting into the Persian Gulf to tell these 800 to 2000 vessels, hey, just follow us.
00:22:34.900We'll get you out of here through this new southern, you know, closer to Oman transit zone.
00:22:40.500Sir, a couple of thoughts on that real quick.
00:23:06.380So you're approaching 2,500 vessels that aren't moving.
00:23:10.300I just looked between the last 24 hours from 5.3 to 5.4 today, seven have transited in and six have transited out, a total of 13 only.
00:23:21.640I will note, do not shoot the messenger here.
00:23:24.660I despise everything about Rupert Murdoch and everything he has to offer us as far as what he calls news.
00:23:30.960But they do point out that Besson and Trump are calling this escorts when in reality it's not an escort.
00:23:39.040It's a recommended route combined with insurance companies giving their, you know, check, red check, say go ahead and do it, and shipping companies agreeing.
00:23:48.000So it's a conglomerate of groups, none of them being the Navy destroyers, actually escorting vessels in and out.
00:23:54.500To do 100 vessels in and out or 130 vessels in and out would be impossible.
00:30:00.020Captain Finnell, first off, in response to Eric's point that we're not escorting, although Bess and the President are kind of applying that, we're not actually escorting ships.
00:30:08.920We're clearing a path to have multiple ships come out in that new lane that's been a navigation lane that's been created closer to Oman, correct?
00:30:20.880Yes, I think it's fair to say that what we've seen today is that we've had some number of U.S. Navy warships, destroyers, go into the Gulf.
00:30:31.920We have some number that are operating outside the Gulf along with an amphibious ready group and an aircraft carrier.
00:30:38.300We have 100 plus land-based and sea-based aircraft.
00:30:41.940We have unmanned vessels and we have cooperation with Oman.
00:30:45.800And we've demonstrated that there's a transit lane, not only with our warships, but with merchant flag, U.S. flag merchant ships.0.85
00:30:54.100So now all the conditions have demonstrated that the Iranians are impotent in their ability to interdict those kind of ships with the protection that we're providing over the sea, on the sea, and under the sea.0.96
00:31:07.820So right now, the onus will be on the international shipping community to say, why aren't you willing to leave?0.98
00:31:14.180You're willing to go through the Iranian toll booth and pay two to four million dollars a ship.
00:31:20.300Why don't you go for free through this lane that we've created?
00:31:23.560And so I think that's the pressure we'll be mounting then.
00:31:26.840And that's backed up by carrier air wings on these carriers.
00:31:30.620So we have we have air superior, air supremacy.
00:31:33.680And now we have major we have combatants are actually in the Persian Gulf himself to to show people where the lane is, correct?
00:31:42.160Correct. And we'll have A-10 warthogs up. We'll have airborne command and control aircraft,0.98
00:31:49.040intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to have a complete view of what's
00:31:53.300happening. So if anybody from Iran, one little mosquito boat or five mosquito boats decide to1.00
00:31:58.840leave Iranian waters, they're going to be, and we have the ROE now, there's been statements from1.00
00:32:04.080the administration that the ROE allows us to strike those kind of vessels. So the Iranians1.00
00:32:09.160are going to have to transit 20 plus miles across the Strait of Hormuz to get into range to launch0.97
00:32:15.400an RPG. They're not going to be able to do that without being blown up, just like we're seeing
00:32:20.380in the Southcom area in Venezuela and the Caribbean. They won't get across. Drones are0.99
00:32:26.900going to be neutralized now. We have new technologies there, lasers and things of that
00:32:31.500nature. And any kind of ballistic or anti-ship cruise missiles are not going to have any
00:32:36.700targeting data. So they're going to shoot into the blind if they try it. So I don't think the
00:32:40.680Iranians are going to have much success here. So it's really a matter of will by the international1.00
00:32:45.660shipping community, following the will that's been demonstrated by the United States Navy.
00:32:51.200Now, the United States Navy needs assistance in this. We can't do it forever, particularly as
00:32:55.460we just showed that this is all going to Europe and to Asia. Ben Harnwell in Rome, the Secretary
00:33:01.580States heading over to see Maloney and the Pope. Maloney specifically about NATO and very
00:33:08.220specifically Italy and the Italian Navy pitching in here. Your thoughts? Didn't she already tell
00:33:13.860us, no, we're not interested, sir? Well, I think what she's trying to do, it's not that Italy's
00:33:20.220saying, no, we're not interested. It's no, we're not interested in US leadership in this. We're
00:33:24.860going to do it. We'll do it. We'll try and guarantee freedom of travel in the Strait of
00:33:28.960But we're going to do it with our EU partners. We'll do this looking for a UN mandate. And that's really, I think, the snub, the rebuff to US leadership on this from America's bridge to Europe.
00:33:44.700With regards, however, to the visit, I think it's set to be the Pope on Thursday and Phony Maloney herself on Friday, even though the official State Department released said they're going to see Vatican leadership and then their equivalent representatives in the Italian government.
00:34:03.780almost universally the press isn't sort of spinning this with regards to iran or the gulf of
00:34:11.260hormuz but they're spinning this as effectively an apology tour marco rubio is going is coming to
00:34:18.680europe to italy to restore the relationship after the uh hold it hang on hang on full stop full
00:34:27.800stop you're saying an apology tour by the united states of america it's a groveling on one's knees
00:34:34.420apology tour steve yeah a groveling hang on hang on it's it's it's being presented by the european
00:34:40.040media as a groveling tour of the united states the pope into maloney into the eu and these dead
00:34:46.200beats have have done nothing to date when they had every opportunity to help us out on a straight
00:34:51.220in a in the persian gulf which 100 in the red sea that back that supplies their economy and doesn't
00:34:57.280only apply the united states with anything they have the gall to do that um perhaps i need to
00:35:03.620choose my words a little better steve it's a groveling humiliating prostrated groveling tour
00:35:10.320by little marco to to italy to rome that's how it's being presented um in the italian press
00:35:17.460for sure um and i have to say right it seems to me that the state department is willingly
00:35:25.540allowing itself to be played into that narrative and that's what's the most appalling thing about
00:35:31.140it okay let me explain what i mean by that okay go ahead well let me explain what i mean by that
00:35:40.620um i personally as are you as in anyone who's prepared to defend president trump and this
00:35:47.540administration publicly here in continental europe and by that i mean the the uk with
00:35:54.480everyone who does that is um used to a bit of tds it's low level it's always there that's fine
00:36:03.400i can quite easily cope with people criticizing me for supporting the president not no problem at all
00:36:10.120what really gets me however is where this administration allows itself to be played
00:36:17.320um and shows itself and i'm not saying this is the case i'm saying this is the perception
00:36:23.320it shows itself of not worthy of respect that is something i find far more difficult on personal
00:36:30.300interactions to defend um and i would if i were marco rubio if i were the state i would be i'd
00:36:36.760cancel i'd cancel the trip on the basis of these headlines and i'll say cancel you you you you want
00:36:43.100to repair this relationship you come here you come to me you come to see me um in dc that's how we'll
00:36:50.100That's how we'll repair this relationship, because this relationship will be repaired by you understanding what President Trump meant by his criticisms, by internalizing it and correcting your faulty behavior.
00:37:04.220That's how we repair this relationship.
00:37:06.080Coming here for a prostrated, humiliating, groveling apology tour, and as I repeat, that is literally how La Repubblica is playing this, almost to the word, is unacceptable.
00:40:08.680I said that they're likely going to reach out in a different domain.
00:40:12.200So I'm not unexpected, but my point is that the strait itself, they're going to have a tough time being able to interdict there.
00:40:20.200And I think that once we start demonstrating and ships start passing, this flow will change.
00:40:26.620And that will put Eric's assessments and the rest of the market, oil market, into a different light.
00:40:33.020We just have to get people to believe that it's an open and free lane.
00:40:38.860And I think by demonstrating these ships coming in and out, and we do this over some number of days, that that will change the dynamic.1.00
00:40:46.700But we have to watch out for the Iranians to reach out in a different way.0.97
00:40:50.360But every time they reach out, they're risking the ceasefire.0.94
00:40:53.600And when they do that, they're risking lights out in Tehran and something much worse.
00:40:58.940You would agree that you think you think that the United States and the president now retaken the initiative in this conflict?
00:41:06.180Oh, yeah, I think they've had the initiative all along.0.72
00:41:09.120I think they're just trying to be patient and to get Iran to come to their senses, which, you know, we have talked on this show many, many times that that's probably not going to happen.0.87
00:41:18.780So it's going to probably get darker before it gets lighter, but the gulf can stay open.0.85
00:41:25.000We'll have you back on and talk about the main thing.
00:41:27.600Where do people go to get your writing, sir?
00:41:31.800I write sometimes for American Greatness, and I have a piece coming out tomorrow in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings on the PLA Navy Year in Review.
00:47:57.900Sean Foyt led us in a few worship songs,
00:48:00.100as we were standing outside, just kind of looking at the flag and the Statue of Liberty and the New
00:48:05.160York skyline and just really worshiping God for what he has done through our country. And it was
00:48:11.660an incredible moment. And what's fun is that there's another event coming up in just over a
00:48:16.680month, and it's called Sea to Shining Sea. So this one was obviously on the New York Harbor,
00:48:20.620and the next one is in San Diego on the flight deck at the USS Midway. And we're sponsoring that
00:48:27.440event as well, because it's on D-Day and we're going to celebrate the men and women who fought
00:48:32.260for our country. And I think it's going to be an equally incredible experience. And so looking
00:48:37.540forward to that as well. And I was just chatting actually over text as I was waiting for my hit
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00:49:26.060I mean, I think that sometimes people just be reminded that we each can do something
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00:50:22.440I'm just taking a wild guess that Glenn Story took the NASCAR part and that Jenny Story was
00:50:27.540there for the others. I'm just throwing it out there. Yeah, you guessed it.
00:50:31.860I have no insider information. Yeah, no, I was getting pictures. Are you going to come to NASCAR
00:50:38.880when you land? And I'm like, I'm landing too late. Sorry, I need to go see my family. But
00:50:42.960I know they had a blast. Danielle Buck, thank you so much. Appreciate you and the entire team
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