H1, Segment 2 - Charlie James discusses political endorsements, Iran, and campaign texts.

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Charlie James: I usually treat people a lot better than they treat me. I usually give people more respect than they give me, and that's just—I mean, that's just a fact, I usually do. If I've got a problem with you, I guarantee you, you started it, okay? So, it amazed me how many people are always trying to get me to turn against Donald Trump. But I never try to get people to turn against their opponent or against their candidate. "Hey, I'm voting for Darlene Graham." Hey, that's—that's awesome. I would like to know why. Just give me every—give me a reason. What makes her the best choice? Or, "I'm voting for Mark Lynch." All right, why are you voting for Mark Lynch? I'm not going to sit there and just say, "Oh, well you're an idiot because of that," okay? Unless you're voting for somebody like Abdul El-Sayed, or AOC, or something like that—then, then, then you might get the idiot treatment. Because I really think you are. So, there's this—there's this one guy, and I see him all over the place. Every time I meet him, claims he's a Republican, goes to all these Republican events. Every time I meet him, he tries to turn me against Donald Trump. [laughs] I'm just like—I gave him about 45 seconds of my time today, and that's all I could stomach. So, anyway, he was asking me about Iran, and when he asked me about it, I gave him my answer, and then my answer was not good enough. So what a lot of people want to happen when they ask you a question: they want to hear their answer coming out of your mouth. Period. Nothing else. Listen, do I think things going in Iran are going perfectly? No, I do not. But I don't think you've ever found a perfect battle in the military. There's always something that you didn't account for, or some move that the enemy makes that you didn't expect. It's just the nature of war, okay? So now we got the Strait of Hormuz, and what we're hearing right now is that Iran's parliament is weighing this plan to ban ships like—from folks like the United States and Israel, and other quote-unquote "hostile countries," from going through the Strait of Hormuz. That is until Tehran is compensated for war damages. That's according to the Iranian state media. The plan would impose fees of up to 7% of cargo value on commercial vessels that pass through the strait. It would also fine ships 20% of cargo if they violate Iran's conditions. It would ban us from going through it. That's not going to fly with President Trump. That's not going to fly at all. And the—the further along we go in this, I mean, Trump said, "This is your last chance. Either come up with a deal, or things are going to get real loud and real bright and flashy," okay? Real loud, real hot, real bright. All of a sudden like, yeah, real quick. So the other day, gas was $3.89 a gallon. This is like on Monday, maybe. Then it went down to $3.69 yesterday. Today, it's down to $3.50, which is a positive sign. But we've only got 88 days until the midterms. I don't know if there's enough time to turn this economic ship around to actually do the Republicans any good on the economy. Now, thankfully, we've got a bunch of nut jobs running over on the Democrats' side that we can always say, "Listen, these are the guys that support these people. They're—they're radicals, they're socialists, they're communists." We'll see what happens. But I think the Democrats are playing a—a very, very dangerous game by allowing these people to even be part of their party. But then again, I think the Republicans are playing a very dangerous game by not passing the SAVE America Act. That needs to go. And it looks like they're going to be leaving Washington later on today. Doesn't matter what those 20 senators about to do, but I'm—I'm going to promise you this: I'm not going to forget Tim Scott. I'm not going to forget that you were—you were not willing to join those people in staying in Washington. Let's go to Neil in Greenville. Neil, welcome. Neil: Hey, good afternoon, Charlie. ...

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