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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold, good morning, good money, Mike. So all we

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Speaker 1: got to do is secure the strad up for Moss

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Speaker 1: and we can go home. Is that what's happening?

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Speaker 2: Simple?

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Speaker 3: Right? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: This is oil. Prizes of spiked again after a dramatic

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Speaker 2: escalation in attacks on oil and gas facilities in the

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Speaker 2: last several hours. It started with the Israeli strike on

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Speaker 2: Iran's South Park gas field, then Iran responded with strikes

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Speaker 2: on Skulf Neighbors energy operations. Speaking from the Oval Office

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Speaker 2: a short time ago, Trump suggested he had nothing to

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Speaker 2: do with the Israeli action and says he spoke with

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Speaker 2: Israel's Nettanna who about it.

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Speaker 3: I told him, don't do that, and he won't do that.

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Speaker 3: We didn't discuss, you know, we do. We're independent. We

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Speaker 3: get along great. It's coordinated, but on occasion he'll do

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Speaker 3: something and if I don't like it, and so we're

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Speaker 3: not doing that anymore.

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Speaker 2: Axios is reporting that a source told them the US

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Speaker 2: knew of the attack, it was not part of it,

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Speaker 2: while a couple of unnamed Israeli officials told them the

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Speaker 2: attack on the natural gas the site was approved by

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Speaker 2: and coordinated with the Trump tea so different accounts. South

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Speaker 2: Path is the world's largest natural gas field offshore and

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Speaker 2: the Persian Gulf, shared between Iran and Cutter. It supplies

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Speaker 2: around seventy percent of Iran's natural gas and so it

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Speaker 2: is key to the Iranian economy. Most of their power

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Speaker 2: comes from natural gas, so that includes electricity heating. Iran

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Speaker 2: responded by striking Cutter's Liquor natural gas terminal, the world's

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Speaker 2: biggest such facility. That Iranian attack knocked out around twenty

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Speaker 2: percent of Cutter's export capacity. Its estimate of repairs will

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Speaker 2: take three to five years. As well, Iranian drone strikes

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Speaker 2: cause fires at two refineries in Kuwait and hit an

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Speaker 2: export terminal in Saudi Arabia. Trump says on social media

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Speaker 2: that Cutter knew nothing of the Israeli strike, and says

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Speaker 2: if attacks on Katari energy locations continue, the US wild

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Speaker 2: quote massively blow up the entirety of the South Pas

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Speaker 2: gas field at an amount of strength and power that

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Speaker 2: Iran has never seen or witness before end quote. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: the Trump team is said to be keeping options open

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Speaker 2: when it comes to poss US military reinforcements. Trump is

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Speaker 2: said to be considering the deployment of thousands of additional

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Speaker 2: US troops. He was just questioned about this.

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Speaker 1: You inten intentionally with US troops, were more troops than

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Speaker 1: the region.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm not putting troops anywhere. If I were, it

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Speaker 3: wouldn't tell you.

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Speaker 2: What's been canvassed is helping to secure the passage of

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Speaker 2: all tankers through the straight upor moves with air in

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Speaker 2: naval power, and also some troops on a round shoreline.

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Speaker 2: Also under discussion is the idea of sending US ground

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Speaker 2: forces to carg Island, which is the center for ninety

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Speaker 2: percent of Iran's oil exports. Clearly a risky thought there

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Speaker 2: being in range of missiles and drones. With all that,

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Speaker 2: Pentagon is seeking around two hundred billion US dollars in

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Speaker 2: additional funding for the war. Defense Secretary Hexas says.

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Speaker 3: Takes money to kill bad guys.

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Speaker 1: So we're going back to.

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Speaker 2: Congress and folks there to ensure that we're properly funded

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Speaker 2: for what's been done, for what we may have to

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Speaker 2: do in the future. Trump just said, quote it's a

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Speaker 2: small price to to make sure that we stay tippy

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Speaker 2: top two hundred billion. This is the FED has put

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Speaker 2: a freeze on reducing interest rates. Job creation here has

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Speaker 2: slowed to virtually zip. The US national debt has just

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Speaker 2: searched past thirty nine trillion, and JD Vance, who is

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Speaker 2: publicly backing a war that he once opposed and who

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Speaker 2: fears it could torpedo his own future presidential chance, It

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Speaker 2: says of the fuel price spikes.

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Speaker 1: This is a temporary blood and we know that we

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Speaker 1: have a problem.

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Speaker 3: We're doing everything that we can to address it.

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Speaker 2: Feeling the pressure, is he How are the airports insane?

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Speaker 2: That would be a fair description of the chaos here

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Speaker 2: right now. For more than a month, the federal government

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Speaker 2: has been partially and shut down in a political fight

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Speaker 2: over how ice immigration agents have been acting according to

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Speaker 2: the midst of the Airport Security Agents the TSA, and

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Speaker 2: that means airports are in turmoil as security workers haven't

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Speaker 2: been paid more than a month now. More than sixty

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Speaker 2: thousand of them have no money, so many are taking

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Speaker 2: sick out so they can drive ubers or do whatever

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Speaker 2: they can to pay the bills. Meant delays of hours

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Speaker 2: getting through security with the limited staffers still turning up

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Speaker 2: for no money, people have been waiting for hours, I

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Speaker 2: mean three four five hours to catch their flights, says

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Speaker 2: one bloke who missed his plane, but it was three hours.

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Speaker 3: And forty five minuts, so missed our flights. We're stuck

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Speaker 3: trying to figure out what are we going to do now,

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Speaker 3: trying to get another flights to our luggage is there,

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Speaker 3: but we're not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, almost four hours now they're talking about temporarily having

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Speaker 2: to shut down some airports because no staff. This is ridiculous,

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Speaker 2: as Dems and Republicans blame each other crazy. At one airport,

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Speaker 2: a food bank has just stepped in make to provide

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Speaker 2: free lunches to staffers, so maybe they can take the

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Speaker 2: leftovers home, you know, to feed the family.

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Speaker 1: Unreal. All right, see ya next week, mate. Richard Arnold

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Speaker 1: stateside as Andrew alluded to, Kevin Walsh hasn't been confirmed,

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Speaker 1: and until he's confirmed, pals staying on at the feed.

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Speaker 1: But he's also staying on, remember his chairman. But he's

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Speaker 1: also part of the committee and his appointment at the

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Speaker 1: committee doesn't ended twenty twenty eight, so he announced yesterday

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Speaker 1: he's not going anywhere, So he's stuck it right up,

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Speaker 1: Trump and good on them. You want to read the book,

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Speaker 1: don't you? When the book comes, it'll be a blockbuster

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Speaker 1: Carg Island. By the way, here's what I think is

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Speaker 1: going to happen. So the Marines arrived there about I'm

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Speaker 1: less than a week away. The Marines arrived, they do

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Speaker 1: what they need to do on the straight. They grab CARG.

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Speaker 1: That means Iran has no oil, which means they have

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Speaker 1: no power at all. They run power, they do cooking,

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Speaker 1: they do everything out of CARG. They've got CARG. They're

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Speaker 1: going to cube of the place and at that point

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Speaker 1: Iran will start negotiating. What do you reckon?

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