00:00:50.380But and and by the way, the state of Tennessee, where I am, has begun a new special session to see whether or not they can add another Republican seat to the Tennessee delegation in the wake of the Louisiana Calais case, which did away effectively with redistricting based on race.
00:01:15.660so that is underway uh just real did you see the alito slap down oh yeah slap down of the
00:01:22.740katanji brown jackson maybe we can delay this map 30 alito's like it's unconstitutional why
00:01:29.340would we delay it because we want to have the unconstitutional map for the election anyway
00:01:34.480um i i think it well i was thinking we'd have some fun with that at some point during the
00:01:39.620course of the program because it feels to me increasingly with every one of these filings
00:01:45.180that basically everybody's just fed up with Ketanji Brown-Jackson,
00:03:15.720I'm going to try to regain some analytic dignity here by pointing out that I violated one of my own precepts of the foundation of the Democrat Party these days that we learned during the Biden administration, Clay, which is that it's not a candidate.
00:04:17.420We've got record highs in the stock market, and I don't want to play into Democrat talking points and their obsession with the price of oil and gas.
00:04:26.880But I do think it's probably worthy of of analyzing right now.
00:04:32.460as we speak crude oil futures right around a hundred dollars um they are coming down uh about
00:04:39.200five percent today as this news has continued to come out uh pete hagseth says the ceasefire
00:04:47.360is not over um we expected some churn listen to cut one no the ceasefire is not over uh ultimately
00:04:56.540This is a separate, distinct project. And we expected there would be some some churn at the beginning, which which happened.
00:05:04.820And we said we would defend and defend aggressively. And we absolutely have.
00:05:08.000Iran knows that. And ultimately, the president's going to make a decision whether anything were to escalate into a violation of a ceasefire.
00:05:17.220Here's an idea, Buck. And I know the White House monitors this and they probably have discussed it somewhat.
00:05:22.580But I think there is an argument, and I will make it, and I believe it is actually a good argument.
00:05:29.240I think if President Trump went out and said the United States is going to ensure the fair transit of the ships in the Strait of Hormuz by actually giving insurance to all of the ship owners that are in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:05:52.800That means if your ship gets hit and it goes under, the United States will help to pay the $100 million value of your ship and cargo.
00:06:03.840And some of you are going to say, well, I don't like the United States taking on this obligation.
00:06:08.820I would suggest to you that the price of oil and gas would drop almost $20 overnight if the United States said that.
00:06:17.820And if the free flow of goods began again in the Strait of Hormuz, which means the cost of us making that insurance guarantee would actually be overwhelmingly paid for in the collapse of oil and gas prices, I think it would be a smart strategic move.
00:06:37.380It also then allies the United States on the side of commerce, and I think Buck automatically sort of labels Iran then as the terrorist actor, because if they are going to attack any of these ships, we have established we want free and fair passage of them.
00:06:57.020I would not include Iran in that guarantee right now until the peace agreement happens.
00:07:03.100But every non-Iranian flagged ship, we can make the determination on it.
00:07:07.500We would provide insurance to and free support for them to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
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00:34:01.460But the ship risk is why I think no one is going.
00:34:07.020So I think if we took the financial risk away, that you would go.
00:34:12.540And honestly, if Iran then hits a ship, right, if they attack a ship
00:34:17.280and they create an ecological disaster, that's not good.
00:34:21.700But also, even the environmentalist would then be on the side of Trump because Trump's going to be saving all the animals, and Iran has just polluted the entire Strait of Hormuz with oil and gas.
00:34:36.100So I think we are creating a situation where Iran is clearly the terror actor if we're saying we want commerce to occur.
00:34:45.720Now, my concern is still once the ships leave, they don't go back,
00:34:51.740and that then creates a larger issue because the whole point of the strait existing
00:35:00.880But that is kind of the whole issue, Clay, because if we get the ships to go once,
00:35:04.440that's almost like a rescue operation.
00:35:06.180The point is they need to be willing to come back.
00:35:08.220If they're not willing to come back, the strait's not open.
00:35:10.600But I think we buy ourselves a lot of time economically if that if those ships are able to come through oil and gas drops 20 bucks overnight and we then have a full month probably before most of those ships are completing their their transit and have to make a decision.
00:35:30.700OK, where do we go get oil and gas next? And my hope would be that we can start to produce more oil and gas in many parts of the country.
00:35:39.540I was reading about Venezuela right now.
00:41:26.160The money going into the island has to stop.
00:41:28.180And the problem that you have is many, many Cuban Americans that are here today say, well, I still have family there, and I still want to send resources there.
00:41:36.580And what the regime has done, and this is, you know, it's disgusting, but what the regime has done is they have now replied to the United States by saying, we are going to open up enterprise.
00:41:46.500We are going to open up free market in Cuba so that Cubans can open up a restaurant, a store, a supermarket, and actually have interstate commerce amongst Cubans.
00:42:01.980Because the way that the Cuban government works is in order for you to go ahead and open up, let's say, a restaurant, a certain percentage has to be paid into the government's pocket of profit before you can even actually open those doors or run those doors.
00:42:15.100So there is no free market. There is no capitalism. There is no competition. It is all owned by one umbrella patriarch entity that's owned by the Cuban government. And from there, these smaller enterprises are able to, quote unquote, open up their own businesses. But that's bull crap. None of them are actually able to have their own business. But it's a facade that the regime has put in place in order to appease the Americans.
00:42:38.300The problem that they have is that the Americans, led by Secretary Rubio, know the truth.
00:42:43.840And so what I expect Secretary Rubio and the president to do is to continue to squeeze the neck as tight as they can
00:42:50.260until the Cuban people themselves have finally realized we are done.
00:48:59.280Super sure we'll make sure that you get exactly what you need
00:49:04.460and that you're not trying to deal with too many different insurance agencies
00:49:09.680out there all trying to tell you something different.
00:49:12.460In fact, SuperShore will have a fine print fax tool that will actually tell you what does your insurance policy cover because so much legal jargon is confusing.
00:49:27.100You got so many different people when you run a small business in your ear that you're hoping to grow into a medium sized business telling you, do you have this?