Hour 1 - On April 17, 2026, Charlie James opened with the Strait of Hormuz breakthrough before shifting to critiques of moderate Republicans and the local impacts of illegal immigration.

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00:00 And welcome to the program on your TGIF Friday afternoon, a Dow right now at 49,451, mainly because we have had a major breakthrough in the negotiations as far as the Strait of Hormuz is concerned. You know what? I mean, it would be weird. Now follow me on this because I know it's going to sound strange. OK, it's going to sound a little weird. 00:30 But it's almost as if, almost as if. 00:37 President Trump knows what he's doing. I know it's I know it's crazy Who'd have who'd have ever even thought that that could be within the realm of possibility I'm with you guys. I'm like what what are you talking about Charlie? That's crazy. I mean I thought about my own self When I said that's crazy Charlie It's like the orange man Laranja knows what he's doing 01:08 Well, now we got the ports open and let's just give you this. This is from Fox News a little earlier today. Here we go. And Trump is proving that in spades right now. Yeah. A reporter, Katie Sullivan, over at Bloomberg spoke to the president yesterday over, sorry, I should say today over the phone with the president. He said Iran has agreed to an unlimited suspension of its nuclear program and that the U.S. is not going to release any frozen Iranian funds. uh Larry Kudlow also making the point that this has to not be what about what Iran says. 01:37 This has to be about how they act the actions on the part of Iran and the freedom of maritime navigation. So now Iran, and this is from the Iranian foreign minister, putting out a message this morning saying, Hey, Hormuz is open. Hormuz is open. If you are passing through the Strait of Hormuz, be on your way. Oil now down to about $86 a barrel. 02:05 It dropped initially about 12 % just today. Now that is very good news. How soon will we see anything like that affecting the gas pumps? We do not know. So here's here's Ducey over there at Fox News. It is not because the United States is ready to unfreeze $20 billion in Iranian money in exchange for them forking over. 02:34 leftover uranium, is what's laid out in an Axios report about the U.S. offer, because the president says, the USA will get all nuclear dust created by our great B-2 bombers. No money will exchange hands in any way, shape or form. And he was just talking about this in Battleground, Nevada. I will say the war in Iran is going along swimmingly. We can do whatever we want. 03:02 And it should be it should be ending pretty soon. It was perfect. Well, the president also said that they should have a signed deal signed agreement, maybe within 48 hours. Maybe so we will see. What happens with that, but. 03:21 but over in england here starmer there uh... prime minister over there he made a major announcement today thank you very much uh... and i know that we just had a very productive meeting bringing together forty nine countries around a very simple message and proposition that the world needs the straight up on these 03:41 fully open. Well, that's just absolutely phenomenal. Thank you so much, Emmanuel. We've decided we're going to open the Strait of Hormuz when it's already open. You just showed up to the dance a little too late, Keir Starmer. Just a little bit too late. I don't even, this guy has not lifted a finger to help us. Not one. 04:11 little finger. Zip. And now he wants, what, he wants to ride in like he's some white knight in shining armor? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No. You go pound sand. 04:29 President Trump four hours ago over on Truth Social, Iran has agreed to never close the Strait of Hormuz again. It will no longer be used as a weapon against the world. Then m he also said, hold on, he said, and I thought this was really good. He's thanking a lot of people, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan. Now that the Strait of Hormuz situation is over, received, listen to this, listen to this. 04:58 So they announced that the state of Hormuz is now open. President Trump says, now that the Hormuz Strait situation is over, I receiv ...

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