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Speaker 1: You know my position on this war. I am against

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Speaker 1: the bombing of Iran as an anti war conservative. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: I do not believe it's in our long term national

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Speaker 1: interest and it will just suck us into the region

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Speaker 1: and into the volatility and problems not just of Iran

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Speaker 1: but of the entire Middle East. However, this war now

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Speaker 1: also has a potential economic danger for President Trump. As

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Speaker 1: we can see, oil prices now have gone up ten percent.

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Speaker 1: Oil is now at eighty dollars a barrel, many now

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Speaker 1: analysts say will hit one hundred, maybe even one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty dollars a barrel extremely soon. Why because Iran's

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Speaker 1: oil production now is offline because of the bombing. But

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Speaker 1: more than that, the Strait of Hormuz has effectively now

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Speaker 1: been blocked twenty percent one fifth of the world's daily

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Speaker 1: oil petroleum supply. The trade in oil and petroleum, the

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Speaker 1: shipping of oil and petroleum goes through the Strait of

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Speaker 1: horr moves. This means oil prices are going to go

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Speaker 1: up as supply is being choked. It's the stock market

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Speaker 1: now is taking a beating. The Dow Jones has already

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Speaker 1: lost nearly nine hundred points and counting investors are very skittish.

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Speaker 1: They are nervous that this war can go on four five,

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Speaker 1: six weeks, maybe even US ground forces. So if this happens,

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Speaker 1: this will drive the price of oil and energy higher,

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Speaker 1: which will damage Trump's economy. And remember Trump campaigned on

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Speaker 1: low gas prices. In fact, he just achieved low gas prices.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I hope this war ends quick, a quick, decisive,

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Speaker 1: knockout blow, because the longer it goes, the more oil

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Speaker 1: is gonna go up, the more inflation is gonna go up,

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Speaker 1: the more it's gonna damage the economy. And the more

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Speaker 1: the economy is damaged, the weaker it gets, the more

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Speaker 1: it will hurt Trump in the midterms. Wars are usually

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Speaker 1: bad for presidents, and they're doubly bad for their domestic agendas.

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Speaker 1: President Trump better realize this and realize it quickly. Get

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Speaker 1: in and get out. But a long protracted war is

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Speaker 1: not just bad for our troops. It's not just bad

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Speaker 1: for support from the American people. It will be the

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Speaker 1: kiss of death to Trump's economy. And as the economy goes,

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Speaker 1: so goes Trump's presidency.