Topic - Oil Prices and Trump; Trump and Iran and Foreign Policy

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00:00 Alright, Alright, let's go to the phones. We'll talk to Bill in Rock Hill. How you doing Bill? Hey, I'm doing fine Charlie. economics tells us that the more you have of something the cheaper it should be. And Trump has not given a straight answer or cannot give a straight answer on why these oil prices are the way they are. And you seem to can't give a straight answer on it either. Wait, then give me Bill's answer. You tell me what the problem is Bill. 00:30 think the problem is that corporate america's using the arm this war is an excuse to jack up prices that's what i think uh... and trumps let happen uh... so so so you're saying that trump is going to put the midterms in danger by allowing oil prices to be uh... gas prices to be high he already is this already in danger called i mean i'm struggling i'm struggling day-to-day okay okay 00:59 And Trump says, oh, it's just a small price to pay. Well, he's a billionaire. He don't care. Oh, wait a minute. Well, let me ask you something about this, Bill. How are you feeling, what, two years ago under Joe Biden when gas was higher than it is now? Well, 01:16 from a Democrat, okay? But as a Republican- But you see, wait, wait, wait, because you had Joe Biden campaigning on doing away with the petroleum industry. Now you've got a blockade in the Gulf of, in the Strait of Hormuz by, of all, Iran, now us. So when this thing opens up, gas prices are gonna go down. mean, does that not register with you? It's not yet because it was supposed to go down. 01:46 It was supposed to be over in five weeks. Now we're talking about sending ground troops in to recover the uranium that they had. you know, how long is this thing going to go? I think it's probably going to go on the rest of the year. You think so? As long as does, We'll see. gas prices are going to be high. All right, we'll see. But I remember, I remember everybody saying that. Everybody's saying that not long ago. Oh, Donald Trump, whatever. 02:15 Whatever. We are ending a 47-year war. 02:22 And what we're trying to do is, and what I believe, Donald, what Donald Trump is trying to do is, because what's always the big thing that Israel comes to us with? Oh, you got to protect us from Iran. You got to protect us from Iran. Okay, we'll protect you from Iran. What Donald Trump is trying to do, and then we send all of this money over to Israel. I mean, every year, billions and millions of dollars over to Israel. So if you take that off the table, 02:53 If you get Iran to a position where they're no longer a threat that requires our intervention, that's going to be, that would be very good for foreign policy, would it not? It absolutely would. They've already shown 03:12 that they've got long-range ballistic missiles. They've already said that they had enough fuel for 11 nuclear missiles. 03:25 what President Trump is doing. And I love it. think that I never saw the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz coming. I really didn't. When he pulled that move, I was like, wow. 03:39 That's pretty amazing. And we're only three days into this thing. Right? Started, yeah, little over three days now. 03:48 Iran's losing $300 million a day. 03:55 It'll open up soon, but when that happens, want everybody to call in when gas prices go down. And by the way, I told you earlier that Scott Bisson is telling these oil companies, listen, I want to see those prices at the pump go down just as quickly as they rose. None of this pussyfooting around. You reduce those prices when that oil starts flowing. 04:20 That's what they're calling for. That doesn't sound to me like a guy that wants to drag this thing out. Let's go to Neil in Greenville. Neil, what do you think? Hey, Charlie. Once again, thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it. I'll be real quick with this. Every time this conversation starts, the panic ends come out. And you were quick to point out the gas prices under Biden, but also under Obama. Yes. than what they ar ...

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