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This is an I Heart podcast.
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Guaranteed human.
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Ring the bell, boys and girls on Wall Street. There they are. Wall Street. All right, folks, Thursday, we got a lot to get to.4 o', clock, the markets are closed. Let's take a look at how things ended up. Dow Jones up 271points.s and P kind of flat. Nasdaq down about 100 or so. Relatively quiet day there. There was one market that was kind of ripping today, unfortunately, was oil. And the prices were going higher, up $2.50 a barrel. That's tough, that stuff. We want to see it lower. And that may have a lot to do with, you know, what's going on with Venezuela. Venezuela has the largest. It's either the largest or second largest, depending on who you talk to. Saudi Arabian oil reserves. Venezuela oil reserves oil number one and number two. We're about three or four. Russia gets in there as well. So there's a lot of oil under Venezuela and they don't produce any. So the question, it was starting to go down because they thought Trump was going to bring the American oil companies over there, produce some of that oil, get it out of the ground, more supply prices go down. That's why we saw prices retreating. Now there may be some issues with courts and whatnot, activist judges and so $2.50 higher in the oil markets. Gold up a little bit. Not a lot quite day in the gold market. And crypto down a touch. Still holding over about 91,000. Still holding over that. All important, I would say 88,000 is a very, very big level for. For bitcoin. All right, let's go out to our congressional correspondent, Benny Harmony, who's traveling with the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, for his Arsenal of Freedom tour.
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Yeah, we are here about to take off from JBA to head to California with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Now, this is the arsenal of free Freedom Tour. Secretary of War kicked this off about three weeks ago. And this is all about American manufacturing for the defense industrial base. Secretary of War is very specific when he says that he wants our defense to be the strongest that it is in the world. Now, we just saw that a few days ago with the strikes on Venezuela as well as the capture of Nicolas Maduro. So we will be wheels down, down in California here in a few hours where we will be visiting divergent technologies to talk about the AI and the technology that goes behind our war fighters and those great machines that they fly and drive and all of that. So we will be reporting more from California, but for now we are awaiting Secretary of War Hegseth right here at JBA to board.
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Well, thank you, Benny. Harmony. All right. This morning I sat alongside, well, I attended an event alongside Senator RON JOHNSON, the U.S. department of Health and Human Services and the USDA, by the way, Make America Healthy Again conference. It was kind of a celebration of what they've done, that this new food pyramid, dietary guidelines, were discussed. Always happy to have the senator from the great state of Wisconsin, Ron Johnson, with us. Senator, just going to get through a couple of these things. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Yesterday announced new dietary guidelines for Americans which focus on whole foods, proteins, healthy fats and so on and so forth. Senator, I really want to get into this stuff. I went from that event over to the briefing room, to the White House to the briefing room. And to my surprise, J.D. vance was there and he was very lit up. I haven't seen him that poignant, that directed, that focused maybe, maybe since the election. You know, one of the things that they talked about, sure, they talked about the ICE agent and the death, but the he was really lit about this War Powers Act. Tell us what this is all about and why it really is a nonstarter. I mean, JD Vance was really ticked off, especially at the media, for pushing a narrative that doesn't seem to be anywhere near what is really going on. Senator, take us through that, will you?
