Episode 5206: Iran Continues To Lay Mines In The Strait Of Hormuz; AI Exceeds Cognitive Versatility

In this new video where the Pentagon says our strikes on multiple Iranian naval vessels, including 16 mine layers near the strait of Hormuz. CNN is reporting that Iran has begun laying mines in the strait, that's according to two people familiar with U.S. intelligence reporting on the issue. The video released a few hours after President Trump posted on social media quote, if for any reason mines were placed and they are not removed forthwith, the military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before. The chokehold that Iran continues to have over the strait of Hormuz sent the average price of gas here in the U.S. to $3.54 a gallon that's up 56 cents from before the war. Now earlier today the Pentagon announced this would be the most intense day of strikes inside Iran, the reserved their words, that seemed to stand in contrast with President Trump's pronouncement last night that the war or as he called it, excursion would be over a quote very soon. Do you think the president is going to look for an off-rat or keep going? Well I think that he's achieved his objectives the way that he's laid him out and you just put it beautifully Jesse, I mean what is there really that's left to do that we haven't already done? I mean we have demonstrated to the world and anybody who's watching by the way that we have overwhelming military superiority and we know how to use it. We have totally destroyed forever their nuclear program, we have destroyed their ballistic missiles, we have destroyed their navy. I mean this has been a total success in whatever it's been 11 days and I thought the president's remarks last night that he could declare victory today and it would be a 100 percent victory. I think it's true, I think we ought to say to our heroes thank you for a job well done. This has been absolutely amazing, it's been astounding, it's been historic and now it's time to declare victory. Now president Trump thank God he was there, he's the right guy at the right time and when he heard they were that close to 10 weapons he acted and you know what when this is over we're going to obliterate their nuclear program and there's going to be a new dawn in the mid-East. President Trump you did the right thing God bless you and Steven Jared you literally saved the world from terrorism. Right some of those Armani and Minelanges ships in the straight of four moves so in the touch of what more are you learning about the apparent destruction of those ships? Yeah Anderson so U.S. Central Command along with the president and the secretary of defense they began saying earlier today that the U.S. has begun taking aggressive steps to try to sink these Armani and vessels that are believed to be mine layers in the straight of four moves and that reaction started coming out in response to reports including ours that Iran has in fact begun laying some mines in the street and we should note that according to our sources this is not extensive mine laying at this point a couple dozen in the last several days at most according to one of the sources but Iran still retains roughly 80 to 90 percent of those small boats and mine layers that it uses to lay these mines according to one of the sources and therefore it could feasibly continue to do so in like hundreds of mines in the coming days. Now President Trump has said that there are going to be serious military consequences for Iran writ large if they don't take steps to actually remove these mines but the U.S. military also said today that they have destroyed about 16 of these mine laying vessels. Of course these are very small vessels operated by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps they are very they can go undetected it is very difficult right now for ships to transit the straight of four moves including the U.S. military because not only of these mines but also because Iran is attacking ships that transit there with drones so it's a very fraught situation that of course is led to a ton of uncertainty in the global oil markets given that this is such a key passageway for global oil production. You worry about gas prices? Let me tell you what the world would be like if Iran had 10 nuclear weapons. It would be miserable. That hold us all hostage. Why wouldn't the U.S. want a civil war in Iran? Look for Israel it's very clear what they want is to destroy the Islamic Republic in every sense and you can watch their bombing campaign. They're going after the leadership leadership compounds of military headquarters but even police. You know they they want an Iranian state that can't function much in the way that what happened to Syria for 10 years, Syria, Mide and Civil War actually helped Israel one more enemy taken off the board one more adversary you don't have to worry about but the United States has huge interests in the Middle East for peace and stability and you know the coexistence it was certain extend among the Sunni and the Shia. The idea of an Iran that collapses into civil war with Shia militias running around with nuclear material. Nuclear material exactly dirty bombs that could be made you know it's bad for Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf allies of the United States who want free flow of oil you know. The United States' objectives are peace stability economic integration free flow of oil government. I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Right. I mean, I just asked because you described it as a hiccup, the gas prices and the change in the oil market that we're seeing. I mean, if they're lifting sanctions on Russia, clearly they're worried it could last longer than just a brief period, don't you think? I don't, Caitlin. I think you're really reaching here. I think just as quickly as we took those sanctions away, we can put them back on. So I think, again, it's one day at a time. You live in this little ivory tower here. I don't think that you're dealing with the real world that the President Trump has. We don't know when the war's going to be over. We don't know when the sanctions should go back on. But I think the President on a day-to-day basis is fine. How's the ivory tower? I'm asking you about gas prices that Americans are paying that are extremely high and having wild swings in part because of the war with Iran that the President started. Right. So, again, freedom is not free. Americans are going to have to make some sacrifices, but we're operating from a point of strength, isn't it great that compared when I was going up in the 70s, we were so dependent upon Middle East oil. But now we're the largest producer of oil in the world. That we're the second biggest export of oil in the world. So we're not going to be shut out economically from this. We at least have the oil here. Yes, it's a worldwide commodity. But this is one of the prices of war. Are we willing to stand here for 47 years and let Iran beat the heck out of Americans and kill thousands of Americans? Or are we willing to stand up and say enough of this? I mean, the White House is still not ruling out ground troops. It's hard to know how real that is and not. There was some talk about special forces trying to locate, take or neutralize nuclear material. That seems like it would be a long operation or a very intensive operation and involve larger ground troops just for perimeter security in the very least. So here's, building off what Brett just said. They are at the point now and I think that Americans, you know, it's like we're in this. Do we want this refrain to be like it was after the first Gulf War? You didn't finish the job. That's what they're worried. That's their nightmare in the administration. And not finishing the job is not necessarily good for Americans if this threat still remains. So the nuclear threat is the reason in my mind. We're all speculating here, right? We don't know. But that they would need to do ground forces and we have 400 kilograms plus of 60 percent enriched uranium, which could be turned into a rudimentary bomb just there, 60 percent. You don't even need 90 percent for that or a dirty bomb. But later down the road, you know, you have this latent threat of a nuclear power. And so I think that this is why they won't rule this out. So how do you see this ending, this war? I don't know, Sarah. I know this that President Trump is the wrong guy to go up against. That's what I know. First are battles of will and the ability to sustain pain. And what the Iranians are trying to do and now with, you know, a few minds in the straits is to prolong the pain, to increase the pain for now and also because they want to deter us if this war ends without it being real with them still in charge. They want to make it really so painful for us that we wouldn't dare to go back again. So we are in a battle of wills and the Iranians think they're in a better position to win. This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going to medieval on this people. Here's how I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people, the people have had a belly full of them. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big line? Mega media. I wish in my soul I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War is here's your host Stephen K. Ban. This Wednesday 11 March in the year of our Lord 2026 that phrase, we are in it now. We're in it now. And so if you're in it now, you've got to win it. However we got here, whatever, you know, Lindsey Graham can keep talking about the 10 nuclear weapons that were a week away. All these different wild excuses, but we're in it now. So we got to figure out how to win this p-tex. We're going to get to the cent calm put up a little while ago. I guess a briefing a video. We're going to watch Admiral Cooper in his entirety in the next block because I think it's very important to continue to focus on one level on General Cain and Admiral Cooper. Cooper the Sankham commander, Admiral General Cain, obviously the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the president's principal military advisor, uniform service military advisor about what's actually happening. Because we go back and forth, we know that p-tex has said this was going to be the most intense day. I think that's correct. But the Iranians still showed that they got some fight left on them. In fact, with this asymmetric warfare of these drones, my understanding from people in the region and from others of the Eric Prince caliber is that 25% of the drones got through this hit to UAE today. So between these little money ships of which we took out 11, and I think we've put the vast majority of the Iranian Navy, including their submarines to the bottom of the ocean. And we are taking care of making sure they can have, it's as difficult as possible to mine the streets of Hormuz. The Iranians are, I think, and I think their strategy first is to peel off the Arabs to make sure that, and this is why Lindsey Graham continues going TV after a couple of them in Julep's act like he's, act like he's commander in chief and talking about giving the Arabs promising Saudi Arabia an imperfectuity defense pack. We will do anything to protect the monarchy forever if they join this fight and to warn them about double dealing this behind the back. The reason is I think you're seeing from Kuwait to Qatar, to Bahrain, to UAE, even MBZ. Because I think Dubai was hit again. The Saudis think they're saying, hey, we didn't sign up for this. We don't know what this is about. And we don't want to attack back in a peel off of the Arabs would make things much more difficult, I think, particularly with the air rights and everything else when you get access. Also Netanyahu has put out a statement or a proclamation for the Iranian people, for the Persian people to rise up, for the Persian people to rise up, the now's the chance for their liberty that this entire Israeli-American attack was to give them their freedom. This is after fire bombing them on Saturday night, which is you see from at least what is available. And I think you talked to people in the region. It doesn't seem to be any general rise up, nothing compared to what happened a couple of weeks ago when Scott Besson broke the currency. In fact, the rallying looks like it's in back of the theocratic thug regime that has run this place forever. I do think in Senator Marshall, I appreciate him going into Caitlin Collins last night, but I think we have to have, I think we have to refine the pitch. I just think going back 47 years, particularly with somebody at the beginning is not working. It's not going to resonate with the American people. This was initiated for other reasons, and I think we got to be very blunt with the American people because this is going to be a tough one. You talk about off ramps. The off ramp right now has to come from taking down the degradation and destruction of the military capability for forced projection and for protection against their people, and that's a tall order. We're going to take a short break. We're going to have, we've got, we're absolutely packed today with many different things, so we're going to come back and I'm going to tee up. We're going to hear from Admiral Cooper of Central Command next in the world. A new year means new financial goals, like making sure your savings are secure and diversified. Will this be the year you finally listen to me and talk to someone from Birch Gold Group? Honestly, the great people. 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But had a press conference or had a briefing for the Israeli people. So there's no time on this. It kind of is what it is. I also, I strongly recommend this can't come from the Baltimore engine room. This phrase, freedom isn't free. I think when you do wars like this, I'm not so sure that's a phrase that resonates with people. I think we have to get very serious about this. We have a lot of young men and women in harm's way. We're pouring a ton of resources in a lot of this massive opportunity cost. We could do two-hour show today, packed, with some of the best people in the country, on topics other than this. And every day, as you know, we're taking an amazing amount of time. And that's because the nation, this is obviously a word war. So it's a huge focus. And this is one of the things we're focused on totally. We heard that we're not going to do any mass deportations. And they're happy talking the saybacked. House, the story in Plutko. House is moving on. The glad Trump came down. Talked to him at Darral. Had a great conference. They're going to their next thing. So there's so much going on politically, the Maricopa County. We're going to try to jam as much in today, Dr. Tucker with Make a Health Again. But obviously, the center of gravity of what we're doing is because we're at war and we have young men and women in harm's way. So and like I said, we're in it. I'm not happy that we're in it, but you're in it. So you got to figure out how you have victory because victory is what matters here. It would be catastrophic for us to not have victory in this. And I realize that may rub some people the wrong way, but that I think that's just a hard reality. What we have to deal with. Let's go. And this is why I think it's very important for us to listen to General Raisin Kane and Admiral Cooper, Admiral Cooper, the head of Sencom. Let's go ahead. We're going to play his, he put up a video of kind of a mini brief, I guess. Let's go ahead and watch it. I'm Admiral Brad Cooper here at United States Central Command, where I'm leading the forces executing Operation Epic Fury. First, I want you to know that we continue to keep the families of our fallen heroes and our wounded teammates and our thoughts and prayers. I'd also like to acknowledge and thank the families of the 50,000 American servicemen and women deployed in and around the Middle East. I am grateful for your selfless sacrifice and I know that Americans across the country hold you in their hearts. Let me start by offering my overall assessment of Operation Epic Fury. In short, US forces continue delivering devastating combat power against the Iranian regime. I've said this before, but it bears repeating. US combat power is building. Iranian combat power is declining. And we remain centered on very clear military objectives in eliminating a rawens ability to project power against Americans and against its neighbors. Every day, we're striking hard at our Indian ballistic missile in drones. To date, we have struck more than 5,500 targets inside Iran, including more than 60 ships using a variety of precision weapon systems. Just yesterday, we had strike waves nearly every hour from different locations and directions going into Iran. We also took out the last of four Soleimani class warships that's an entire class of Iranian ships now out of the fight. I'd characterize our strikes as being unpredictable, dynamic, and decisive. Since the first 24 hours of this campaign, Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks have dropped drastically. But it's worth pointing out that Iranian forces continue to deliberately target innocent civilians in Gulf countries while hiding behind their own people as they launch attacks from highly populated cities in Iran. Of course, forces executing Operation Epic Fury aren't just defending against Iranian threats. We are methodically dismantling them by hitting Iranian missiles and drones as we also strike their defense industrial base. Just last night, our bomber force hit a large ballistic missile manufacturing facility as an example. So it's not just about what's shooting at us today, it's also about eliminating the threat in the future. Now let me show you a few other results from the tremendous efforts by America's joint force. Here, you see in Iranian Jammar on-class warship, a large patrol ship, a drone smuggling vessel, and four other surface combatants docked at Chabahar Port in the Gulf of Belman, the day before we launched Operation Epic Fury. Here's the same pier four days later, all ships taken out of action. This by-and-dark-class surface ship was hit and rolled on its side. Here's another example. Here you see two Iranian surface combatants docked at an Iranian naval base near the Strait of Hormuz, just hours into the campaign. And here's what they look like three days later, engulfed in flames after we struck them with a precision weapon. For years, the Iranian regime has threatened commercial shipping and US forces in international waters. Our mission is to end their ability to project power and harass shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. From the air, we've achieved a concentration of air power with back-to-back ways of advance fighters creating constant pressure on the enemy every single day. Our dominance is not a solo effort, it's a testament to the strength of our ironclad alliances. We continue to coordinate closely and effectively with Israel in this very large operation, and we are also coordinating and serving side by side with all of our partners in the Middle East. We're on a path to eliminating Iran's ability to threaten Americans and our friends, and we are achieving this through a combination of lethality, precision, and rapid innovation. Let me highlight a few examples. At least the ones that aren't classified of how we are achieving lethal effects in entirely new ways. Our warfighters are leveraging a variety of advanced AI tools. These systems help us sift through vast amounts of data in seconds, so our leaders can cut through the noise and make smarter decisions faster than the enemy can react. Humans will always make final decisions on what to shoot and what not to shoot, and when to shoot, but advanced AI tools can turn processes that used to take hours and sometimes even days into seconds. I continue to be impressed with all the branches of the US military. The entire team is performing separately. Strike operations from our joint force continue, as I've said. I assess that we are clearly exercising air superiority over vast swaths of Iran. We have the most integrated air defense umbrella in the Middle East, and our defensive operations from the RME Navy Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force teams are performing magnificently. A note about the Space Force. Our space superiority has been a critical and able to this fight. Unseen by the world, the Space Force is doing two things. First, they are degrading Iranian capability, and second, they are helping to protect American forces, and they will have to leave it right there. All told, despite this incredible progress, it makes no mistake, we remain highly vigilant. And I just could not be prouder of our operation Epic Fury team, and I know the American people shared that same pride. To all our warriors out there, please keep up the great work, and Godspeed. Thanks so much. So that's Admiral Cooper. That's about as close as I think it was going to get to a normal short-coff type brief, but very solid. Admiral Cooper in general, of course, General Cain started yesterday by talking about really going through an evolution on the deck of an aircraft carrier with all the enlisted men and women that have to make that happen and the bravery of those folks to train 24-7 to make sure that this can happen. I think that's the valor. I will point out the buried lead there, and that was, I thought, a pretty solid brief, but the buried lead with the military objectives, one that's now missing is power projection on their own people. Just a couple of days ago, we were talking about unconditional surrender, and unconditional surrender was the inability to have power rejection or force protection against American forces. We did not have power projection against their neighbors, particularly Israel and the Gulf States, and couldn't have power projection internally against their own people. That now is not, and as these things get vetted, that is a pretty, I think, interesting deletion, or at least not a priority now, is power projection on the people. I don't know how, in Axios had this story that we're now the supplicant asking Israel, can you please not bomb anymore, all infrastructure in Tehran? So I'm going to lost to understand how we can take that, it's not a priority to take away the ability of the revolutionary guard, the military there, the police, all of it, to have power projection on their own people to suppress and kill like 30,000 they did, which is a consensus number a couple of weeks ago. At the same time Netanyahu calls, stands up and asks tells the people to rise up, it's time to rise up and overthrow your theocratic Islamic overlords who are some of the worst people in the world. I think we're all agreed on that. At the same time, this Axios piece, remember Axios, yes, is Axios the liberal site there is, but it's the White House that chooses to leak to Mark Caputo and robot, and the Israelis leaked to him, so that's why it's a people go to Axios, because outside of President Trump's true social, it is probably the most, you get the most heads up or the most scoops of reality, and now it's a situation where the Americans went back and asked them, that you don't ask them, they're not driving this and they're not a co-Ila, you order them, you're not going after the oil assets, the Iranian people, as even Lindsey Graham put out, maybe between drunken stupors that he tweeted out, hey, we need that later to convince the Iranian people that there's a future and they can sell oil and gas. It's also what's happened, the shift, it's obvious. The shifts in Saturday night, a people that were your allies and one of the central allies we really had were the Iranian people who hate the Islamic Republic and want to overthrow these demons. Now we've galvanized them, I shouldn't say we. The Netanyahu government, because of their out of control targeting of these people, have now galvanized them into a Persian nationalist, oh, we got to support the Itola because at least he's Persian, at least he's one of us. That takes away our greatest opportunity to overthrow these folks. You saw that when Scott Besson broke their currency. So I think we need a reset on the strategy and I think people need to come out. Is it not unconditional surrender? If you even look at off ramps, as Josh Hawley said to Jesse last night on Fox, if there's an off ramp, what are the military objectives to that? And that's kind of beyond the pay grade of our ever cooper in general Cain. But I think we need as much clear talking and focused from other folks as we're getting from our military commanders on the military objectives here, which once again, very methodical and very professional. The United States military is degrading slash destroying their military capabilities. Now they talked about artificial intelligence, a lot to go on there. Joe Allen is with his season studio. We've also got Eric Bowling, the IEA just announced 400 million barrels of kind of the European and Asian strategic portrayal in reserve. We're getting to all of it. And much, much more in order. Listen folks, I want to tell you about this particular pharmacy because they're actually doing things right now for the American people. They're the real deal, not another corporate chain. If you're tired of fighting a broken system or begging for prescriptions, you need all family pharmacy. 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So go there today and check it out. It's up on the screen. I'll repeat where you actually go as soon as I can read it. Joe Allen, I got Joe Allen bowling on the war. And then I got to keep Allen around for this huge news that's coming out on AI. Joe, first off on the war, you heard Admiral Cooper. Your response to that, sir? Well, as you heard, Cooper say, military tasks, attacks that would have been planned over the course of hours or weeks are being planned and executed in seconds. It may be a bit of an exaggeration, but the most important facet of the AI integration in the military, especially in this war, is the decision compression. So when any commander is looking for what is a valid target, how to prioritize the targets that have been identified as valid, they're going to be using systems like Claude, pairing them with Palantir, raking over surveillance data, and then using the decisions made by the AIs to then make top level human decisions. Is really important to remember about that, Steve, is that yes, to the extent we always have humans in the loop, and that is the Department of War policy and has been and hopefully will continue to be the decision to kill or not to kill begins in many cases with the AI making the decision in a human checking it. And if the decision compression is in fact down to seconds, it's very difficult for me to imagine how it is the human is going to be able to accurately assess what the AI has presented to him. Hang on, hang on, but didn't they do a thousand, I thought I read the Wall Street Journal brother that a thousand attacks like the first day were done by artificial intelligence, is that, are you saying that that's not quite correct? Yeah, that was Washington Post a week ago, published an article about the use of AI, especially Clawed in the initial attacks. And the way it was reported was that of a thousand attacks, we know that AI was leveraged in some of those attacks, whether or nobody really knows it's all behind the wall of classification. It's been interpreted as a thousand attacks were conducted by AI by some people, but there's no reason to believe that. But it is really important against Steve, I think that it's not being overstated how much the integration of AI into the military overall. I mean, remember, Clawed has been integrated since late 2024. And Clawed from Anthropic was the only system that was raking over classified documents that were by and large organized by Palantir. This is really, really important on many levels, especially in terms of identifying targets, accurately identifying targets. It's an open question as to how many. You're saying this has really improved that. Are you comfortable? I got to jump here as a breaking news on the president. Are you comfortable, Joe Allen? You just made a statement, Department of War policy is that humans have to be involved in the decision making here. I thought the whole Anthropic thing, because Anthropics said that had to happen in Department of War, saying we're not going to be handcuffed by that policy is is that our current policy right now in the Serenian War? He's the current policy. It's the current policy, but the way that's interpreted internally is really up to the Department of War. And so to the extent they can offload decision making two AIs, it doesn't have to be a critical position for the human to make a decision. In many cases with autonomous weaponry, it's quite possible to just have a human say go kill and it can go kill. Although again, the policy, the state of policy, is that won't happen. Joe, hang on a second because we got a bigger fight on AI. Breaking news. And I'm pretty proud of how we put this together because Axios has it up. The president I state just called wait for it Axios, directly on a phone call. Barak Reveed. Now Barak Reveed is the guys got direct pipeline to Netanyahu and the Mossad and an idea of high command. He's their guy. Mark Caputo has a direct access pipeline from the White House, but I want to quote the headline is Trump tells Axios there's quote, practically nothing left to target in Iran. President Trump told Axios in a brief phone interview Wednesday that the war with Iran will end soon because there's practice in this quote, practically nothing left to target. There's a little of this and a little of that said the president anytime I want to end it, it will end said the president during a brief five minute phone call. White matters. Trump is publicly signaling that the operations, the military objectives are by and large. He believes you can wrapping up. Now, this is why I said about the Israeli minister. They Axios cut right today. Israeli defense minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that the war will continue quote without any time limit for as long as necessary until we achieve all the objectives and decisively win the campaign and it goes on to talk about Sencom. They talk about the Sencom commander, Brad Cooper, et cetera, et cetera. So President Trump saying there's little to continue to target. It's kind of the Josh Hawley pitch from last night. He's saying it's little to target in that he can end this war at any time. So I think we ought to stand by for that. Eric Bowling and John would get right back to you on the bigger and more important fight about AI than even the military as big as that is. Eric, IEA just announced and there we have the strategic petroleum reserve here in the United States of America. There is another strategic petroleum reserve. I guess spread between Europe and Asia. I think we're part of it, but just I don't know if we're a member or whatever, but it's really their deal. They've announced they're going to release 400 million barrels wall street in the markets are kind of skipping around on that. You take a more jaundice for you, sir. Steve, great catch on the breaking news because I'll tell you what happened. I was watching the oil markets. I'm watching it right now. When Trump said I can end it anytime soon and he said, you know, there's nothing left to target. Oil dropped $7 a barrel immediately within a minute, right? And I'm watching and I'm like, this people are going to get caught and smoked again on this. It's now up that $7 back and another $3 higher right now because look, there's a lot of rhetoric going on both ways. Trump wants to calm people's nerves down. I mean, that's so he puts these these miscipes out markets react, but when you take a step back, the 400 million barrels, Steve, what is it? Five or six days supply of oil if everything were, you know, stopped. It's we talked about this over the last four days. It's not an accessibility to crude oil. There's plenty of crude oil sloshing around. It's a dislocation issue right now. And the other thing is Trump had said we're going to bomb you 20 times harder if you line the straits and he wanted to be involved in whoever the next ruler of Iran was. If he's going to walk back on all that, then then maybe this he just doesn't seem like the type to do that. This is to talk one way it goes up one way it goes down. Here's the bottom line. The only solution, the only smart solution. So we don't get into this predicament again. It's the one that we've been talking about you and I right here on the show for the last four days, which by the way, Susie Wiles now has confirmed she has. And so his Pete Texas is going to send it to the right people. It's the one Trump walks away. Unskied America is never going to be dependent on another drop of foreign oil ever again. And our oil companies are going to love it the most. They won't have to raise prices that were I guarantee Steve I guarantee $4 national average happens in America right now, even if peace breaks out tomorrow in the Middle East. I guarantee we will continue to go up for the next month to two months. Is that because the speculative nature or is it companies hedging? Why are we doomed? It's not doomed. I mean, this president Trump said it'll pass. But why are we walk people through the logic of the structure of this market that will eventually get us to $4 gas limit? So the don't blame these speculators. They're there are percentage of the price but not the biggest percentage of the price. The biggest percentage of prices exactly what you said. You have oil producers who hedge their production. So if they pull the barrel out of the ground at $40 to barrel, their risk is below 40. So they will short the futures market to make sure that anything below 40 they'll make on the futures even though they're losing with the physical oil. On the other side of the coin, refineries need to buy oil. So they're going to run oil through their refinery. They can't shut their refinery down if the price goes too high. So they risk they have risk on the upside. So they have the buy risk. So those two factions playing together are massive. I'll give you a good example when the World Trade Center was bombed, gotten down by terrorists. Lower Manhattan was devastated. The whole Lower Manhattan was gone. And I was there because our exchange of the World Trade Center housed the New York mercantile exchange where a trader for 15 years. No one in New York was allowed to go back in there besides the firemen. Well, they three, it happened on a Tuesday by Thursday or Friday, the US Navy was escorting us on a boat into the World Trade into the Lower Manhattan and to our trading flow, which was still standing if the whole area is because they needed to have that ability. Those hedgers, the buy and the sell hedgers in the international market, they were fearful of a $500,600,000 barrel of oil because speculators would take over. And so yes, the futures market provides massive stability to the oil market, even in times like this where the oil market is as volatile as it's ever been. But the volatility, we got a bounce, but the volatility said, even President Trump to release of this Axios piece, it dropped seven bucks immediately, then it caught it back. But just on the just on news or rumor or whatever, this thing's all over the map right now. All over the place. That's because the every these speculative traders are the ones who are they can be right for a minute, Steve, but they can't be right long-term. And unfortunately, for a lot of them, they probably got caught in that hole. It calls shorting the hole. They were caught in the hole down $7. It shot back 10 from that low in a matter of minutes. And it's right now, again, $10 higher than that low. Wow, Eric, where do people go for your new show? Social media, all of it. You're on fire now, sir, is talking to us about what traders look at and traders are driving a lot of this. So where do people go? I've been doing this a long time, Steve. This is I see dead people in oil markets and markets. At Eric Bowling on social media everywhere, Ax, all of them, Facebook, all the way at Eric Bowling. But the edge, that picture right there is the is the new show. And I love you, Steve, for putting it up on a very busy news day. I let you go, but the edge is on YouTube only. So subscribe, please Eric Bowling the edge. Thanks, Steve. I appreciate your time. No, the audience loves it. People signed up for it. So thank you so much for joining us, Eric, today, early. You want to head your wrist? How about home title lock? 90% of your net worth. And every dream you ever had is in that home. You've had Joe Allen tell you enough about artificial intelligence being used in the war. 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Why should you reach out and take hold of life and direct the future of life? And I think that the deepest argument to be made is because you are a child of God. You were made in the image of God, and these systems are a perversion of that image, and to hand power to those systems is a perversion and a dereliction of the duty and responsibility of human beings. You were made in the image of God and the Spirit of the Holy Spirit in you, and remember, as Jesus Christ told us, the only unforgivable sin is to blaspheme and mock the Holy Spirit. Unforgivable mortal sins. I can't help you, which shocked the apostles and the disciples. Joe Allen, you talk about where, and folks, we're going to be putting up information, my Getter account. This is where you get a Getter Grace Moe, Elizabeth, putting up information all day long about this war, because we're in it now. We're in it, and we got to figure out how to win it, and we figured out how to bring this thing to a close. But we're in it. We're going to put a tons of information so that you can help form your own judgment. That's what we need is the war and posse of form its own judgment, not to be dictated to by a bunch of people. Same way here, we're in it. And in fact, the reason Joe is starting humans first, and we're so proud of him, is that not only we in it, the hour is late. Joe Allen, I'm going to go back to humans first, Amy Krem is going to join us. What you guys are doing in Florida. But here's what's concerning me. This, the accelerationists are winning in why? Because we're accelerating at an accelerating rate. You have Elon Musk, who shut down his safety department. You have two of the other four, so there's four frontier labs, maybe throwing five, but let's say the four labs, three of them are signaling to people. We're going to be at artificial general intelligence by the fall. Sir, how late is the hour here that we're dealing with? One thing is for absolutely sure, Steve, and that is that all four of the frontier labs, plus meta, if you want to tag them on there, all of them want to create systems that have completely replicated every capability that the human being has. And then to replace every human being on earth, economically, maybe socially, that is the goal. They used to talk about this in much more just explicit terms, kind of perverse terms. But now, more and more, as people have started to pay attention, they couch it in terms of radical abundance or augmentation. If, Dimbrill throw up the two graphs that I sent, I think that this will give you some idea of not only what they want to see happen, but what's actually happening right now. The first one, if we can see the center for AI, safety, AGI definition, if not, then I guess the audience can imagine it. We'll let the audience imagine it. So there are two studies that have been published recently that I think the audience should know about. The first is the definition of AGI, artificial general intelligence by the center for AI safety. And what they found was that the increases in capabilities of just GPT alone in reading and writing and math and knowledge and reasoning and memory retrieval show dramatic improvement, dramatic improvement. And what that also shows is not just one simple line, right? It's not one capability such as language processing. You're talking about mathematics here. You're talking about general reasoning abilities. I think that it's really important to understand just because these systems are improving and basically kind of eating up the potential that human beings otherwise would have doesn't mean that they're going to succeed in creating a total human replacement. But what we know is that they want to, we know they have profound influence in corporate America. They have profound influence in the education system and in the hospitals. And they are at the moment deploying these systems all over all of these institutions and basically forcing people to use them. I'll give you a really good example someone gave me from a hospital, a hospital administration office. And in that administration office, there's a sign that says, think less GPT more. And the whole notion is that we don't need you to make decisions. We need the machine to make decisions. And this is going to keep increasing. The more these guys have power and leverage over every institution and society and the more they're buying off politicians through packs like leading the future, then the more we're going to see this cram down people's throats. And the more you're going to see actual replacement. So this is a completely different graphic that we're seeing here from the one I asked for it. Remember, but it does show hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Let's I want to get the graphics right. Let's get the graphics right. I'm a whole you're going to stick around. We got Amy Kramer that's working with you at humans first. We're going to get all of it get the graphics straight up. Solomon's going to join us. Updates. I think Caroline Ren's going to join us. Carl Rove and that team is trying to do a sneaky move. I know that Sharkshoe, the round kin packs and it's not going to work. Dr. Jeffrey Tucker on Make America Health again, polling the facts. Why we have Bobby Kennedy Cage. Why are we having the White House, local director say we can't talk about mass deportations. Let me think about this for everything that President Trump won on. We're just supposed to not talk about. I don't think that's going to work folks. Don't think that's going to work. Isaiah 216. Go set the watchman. That's Joe Allen. What's happening here in artificial intelligence. The most important thing out there is this inflection point with humanity, with homo sapiens and it's upon us and the hour is late. So go set the watchman. 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