1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: Richard Arnold's outside morning, Good morning, make I got you 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: in excess of six bucks and so kel for the guests. 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:11,240 Speaker 2: Well, you know, there's no set price in California. The 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 2: various outlets set their own charges, and there are taxes 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 2: and things involved. So you find a range of these 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 2: things that can go up a lot higher. And so 7 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 2: I don't know, take me a while with the calculator 8 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 2: to do the currency conversion and change the US gallons 9 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 2: through leaders by three point seven to eight or whatever 10 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 2: it is to the US gallon. But yeah, it's getting 11 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 2: pretty pricey as the bottom line here, and people are 12 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 2: feeling it. 13 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: Exactly where are we at for the war? 14 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 2: Well, the question is where the Trump's going to prepare 15 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 2: to cut and run. The Murdock owned Wall Street Journal 16 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 2: says several Trump aids say that Trump privately is suggesting 17 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,560 Speaker 2: he's willing to end the war in Iran, even if 18 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 2: the key oil pipeline for much of the world through 19 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: the state of Hormo's remains largely shut down. British report 20 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 2: it it Loose is the latest to speak privately with Trump. 21 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 2: He called him and yeah, sometimes Trump just picks up 22 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 2: the var and talks away and is saying that in 23 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 2: that chat, Trump kept returning to the idea of simply 24 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 2: taking Iranian oil, as the US did with Venezuelan oil 25 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 2: after seizing Maduro, says Loose, he was talking about taking 26 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 2: Iran Goyle. 27 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: How easy it would be to seize car Guira. 28 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:22,400 Speaker 2: He says, Trump kept returning to this idea of seizing 29 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,559 Speaker 2: the Iranian oil, even as the scenario in Iran after 30 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 2: its leadership decapitation is quite different from what happened in Venezuela. 31 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 2: And Venezuela, of course, Delsea Rodriguez took over with the 32 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 2: remaining regime and life goes on in Iran. The country 33 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 2: still is in the sway of the Revolutionary Guard, which 34 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 2: has shown itself to be increasingly enraged. Iranian forces have 35 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 2: responded to the US and Iszueli attacks a bit more 36 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 2: effectively than the Trump team had initially thought, hitting a 37 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 2: fully loaded oil tanker of Dubai in its latest drive. 38 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 2: Trump claims the negotiations have been underway with some Iranian leaders, 39 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 2: but Loose asked the obvious question, who are you talking to? 40 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 2: Since Iran said there are actually no negotiations, the answer 41 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 2: appears to be they're talking directly with no one says loose. 42 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 2: It turned out it's really all indirect. It's Pakistan as 43 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 2: a messenger. Trump also has laid out another furious social 44 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 2: media post. You've been talking about some of this. He's 45 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 2: telling uslos or sometime allies to just take the strait 46 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 2: of hormos. Trump's saying, quote, build up some delayed courage, 47 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 2: go to the strait and just take it. You'll have 48 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 2: to start learning how to fight for yourself. The USA 49 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 2: won't be there to help you anymore, just like you 50 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 2: weren't there for us. The hard part has done, says Trump, 51 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 2: who adds a quote, go get your own oil. Hegseth, 52 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 2: the US Defense Secretary has echoed some of this at 53 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,519 Speaker 2: his briefing today. This is an international waterway that we 54 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 2: use less than most, in fact, dramatically less than most. 55 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 2: So the world ough't pay attention to be prepared to 56 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 2: stand up. President Trump's been willing to do the heavy 57 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 2: lifting on behalf of the free world. Stand up. He says. 58 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,799 Speaker 2: It appears that the Trump seems thought that your own 59 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 2: campaign could be done within a short period of time. Instead, 60 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 2: where now past the one month market, energy prices are 61 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 2: soaring around the world petrol prices here, as we've been saying, 62 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 2: have gone up to a four year high a mid 63 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 2: warnings they're going to go significantly higher from here on. 64 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 2: The Gulf States urging Trump to press on with the 65 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 2: US military operation now that the war is engaged. They 66 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 2: say it must be fully dealt with or the Gulf 67 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 2: States will be living in the region where Iran now 68 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 2: controls the oil flow. There will soon be ripple effects 69 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 2: in many other areas, including spiraling food costs and airline 70 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:33,239 Speaker 2: costs and other transport costs affecting many many things. Trump 71 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 2: is threatening to destroy Iran's water and energy infrastructure if 72 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 2: a deal to end the war and reopen the oil 73 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 2: route is not done soon. Trump's White House pr Carolyn 74 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 2: Levitt ignored a question about where the targeting civilian sites 75 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 2: would amount to a war crime. She simply dodged that 76 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 2: if the Trump team ends this war, leaving the Revolutionary 77 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 2: Guard in power and with a run controlling the oil 78 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 2: in a more direct way, that couldly run in some 79 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 2: respects in a stronger political position than before the war, 80 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 2: despite it to military losses. At the same time, a 81 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 2: ground war obviously would be risky and turn this unpopular 82 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 2: war into a huge liability for Trump, whose favorability numbers 83 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 2: have hit their lowest points so far, just thirty three 84 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 2: percent support. 85 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: Latest opinion seems positive with Artemis. 86 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 2: It does, of course, you never know until they get 87 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 2: the final countdown. But no human has walked on the 88 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 2: Moon in fifty four years. Pollo commander Jeens Cernan was 89 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:27,679 Speaker 2: there in seventy two, and now the clock is ticking 90 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 2: for this planned launch of the Atomous two mission, taking 91 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 2: four astronauts, three Americans and a Canadian on a test 92 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 2: flight to loop around the Moon. This will be the 93 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 2: longest distance for a crude space flight in history. They 94 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,039 Speaker 2: will get I guess the close up of the dark 95 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 2: side of the Moon, then head back to planet Earth, 96 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 2: says Commander Read Weisman, for four of us. 97 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: We are ready to go. 98 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 2: The team is ready to go, and the vehicle is 99 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: ready to go. To power this flight, NASA's built one 100 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 2: of the biggest rockets ever ninety eight minutes tall, so 101 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 2: we're talking about the height of a thirty story building. 102 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 2: There are four engines at the base and a couple 103 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 2: of booster rockets. Then right at the top is the 104 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 2: relatively small Orion space capsule. I saw a version of 105 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 2: this capsule when I was at Cape Canaveral. It's about 106 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 2: the size of a camper van with seats that are 107 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 2: collapsible once they get into space, but four people tight 108 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 2: quarters here. Victor Glover is the pilot. He is a 109 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 2: former Navy test pilot and says, I think personally and professionally, 110 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,919 Speaker 2: it is going to satisfy all of this risk chasing 111 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 2: that I've been doing for twenty seven years. Okay, it 112 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 2: comes as NASA hopes to land astronauts on the Moon 113 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 2: again by twenty twenty eight, had a time of much 114 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 2: geopolitical descent, Glover saying that also was true of the 115 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 2: Apollo flights, spurred by the space race with Moscow. But 116 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 2: this time the US is back on board, as China 117 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 2: and Russia both are gearing up to establish a nuclear 118 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 2: powered village on the Moon within ten years. 119 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: Well, the twenty eight hours I've got, so we're talking 120 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: ten eleven o'clock tomorrow morning, our time. Richard Donland Stateside. 121 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,479 Speaker 2: For more from the mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 122 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 2: news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow 123 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.