Energy Expert (8:00)

So when you were on the show March 8, I asked you when gas prices would go under $3 a gallon for regular unleaded. You said, quote, in the worst case, this is a week's, this is not a month's thing. That was six weeks ago. So we're still within the week's realm. But we're two weeks away from the month's thing. When do you think it's realistic for Americans to expect that gas will go back to under $3 a gallon? I don't know. That could happen later this year. That might not happen till next year, but prices have likely peaked and they'll start going down. Certainly with a resolution of this conflict, you'll see prices go down. Prices across the board on energy prices will go down, but it might not be under under $3 a gallon until 2027. Under $3 a gallon is pretty tremendous in an inflation adjusted terms. We had that in the Trump administration, but we hadn't seen that in inflation adjusted term for quite a long time. We'll get back there for sure.

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Ron Filipkowski (10:38)

Now, Donald Trump had some of his sycophants on state regime media this morning. MAGA Republican Congressmember Buddy Carter along with Maria Bartiroma were just spewing Trump propaganda talking points that bear no reality to what's really happening on the ground. Play this clip.

Maria Bartiroma (10:55)

Yesterday the president told me that he is expecting the Iranians to sign this agreement tonight. And if they don't sign it, he said that the US Will blow up every single power plant and bridge and more in Iran. Your reaction in terms of where we stand?

Buddy Carter (11:10)

Well, certainly you would think the Iranians would have learned a lesson by now. And that is when this president says something, he means it and he has proven that to them. And yet they still don't understand. Which I think is an indication, first of all that they just don't get it. Secondly, of the deep hatred that they have for America. And this is something that he's trying to address right here and I applaud him for doing that. We've got to end this reign of terror that has existed for 47 years. And you know, high gas prices, nobody likes that. But except for Democrats and John Ossoff, they like it. I remind you of June of 2022 when price of gas was five and six dollars a gallon. But we will see gas prices come down again. You saw last week when we had a temporary opening of the Strait of Hormuz that prices came down. The price of oil for Gap for per barrel was lower than $80. They'll come down again as soon as we can get this resolved.

Maria Bartiroma (12:05)

So many things underway and going.

Ron Filipkowski (12:07)

Then you had Democratic Congress member Ro Khanna go on Maria Bartirom show and fortunately he was pushing back. It was good to see Ro Khanna on that show.

Maria Bartiroma (12:18)

Play this clip saying 1.7 billion he told Congress was frozen Iranian assets. Now there was a back channel to Tehran through Valerie Jarrett active for 2012-2024. This was after he left office. So, you know, it was almost like a shadow government. He also sent pellets of cash in a plane to Iran. Now why would you send money to Iran knowing that they are building a nuclear weapon and they are the leading sponsor of terrorism?

Ro Khanna (12:48)

Barack Obama was a great statesman who left America much safer. I wouldn't put Donald Trump in the same paragraph. The reality is when President Obama left Because of the great efforts of people like Valerie Jarrett. We had 97% of the enriched uranium out. The reality is we didn't have 13American service members dead. The reality is we never had gas go up from $2.30 to $4. The reality is we did not give China more role in the region. Let me finish, Maria. I'll let you finish. We didn't give, we didn't give China more role in the region. We did not give the IRGC a more hardline regime in there. You know why? Because Obama actually did his homework. He actually tried to engage in statesmanship. He had gotten, he got China, Russia, the entire European allies on board with getting Iran on a path to not having a nuclear weapon. All, all Trump did is listen to Netanyahu. That's, that's his entire fault. Foreign policy. And you know what? I resent the fact that Israel is going to tell the United States what to do. The American president should call the shots in this country.

Maria Bartiroma (13:52)

Well, the American president should call the shots in this country.

Ron Filipkowski (13:54)

But you, by the way, while we're on the topic of the media, just want to give a hat tip to Jude Legum, because he pointed out something that I was noticing as well. Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mentioned Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government. He looked at it from February 28 to April 19. The New York Times, 5 out of 58. The Washington Post, 1 of 43. Wall Street Journal, 0 of 40. Associated Press, 0 of 26. CNN Wire, 0 of 18. New York Post, 0 of 17. Chicago Tribune, 0 of 4. Louisiana Times, 0 of 4. In other words, and these articles that reference that Kushner is serving as like a chief negotiator and a diplomat in this area, even though he's not Senate confirmed and nobody wants him to be doing this, that he has all of these business entanglements to the tune of billions and billions of dollars. Glenn Greenwald says so. During Trump's second term, Jared Kushner became a billionaire. The net worth of Trump's three sons exponentially skyrocket as they're doing all of these deals with Middle east nations. And throughout the world, they're doing drone deals and crypto deals and all of these quid pro quos. And Don Jr. Has a club called the Executive Branch Club. I think you pay him $500,000 for great access to the Executive Branch club. Baron Trump is apparently worth $120 million. Much, if not most of this came from huge cash infusions. From Persian Gulf tyrannies. Glenn Wall, Glenn Greenwald says Hunter Biden, on the other hand, got $50,000 a month for Burisma to serve as a board member when he previously had a history after Yale Law School of being on multiple boards, including George W. Bush appointed him to be on boards. He was on Amtrak boards, and he was on boards for UN Food Aid boards, and he was a lawyer from Yale. And the reason he was on the Burisma board to begin with is because they wanted someone with pro American or pro Western allegiances on the board so it wouldn't be fully controlled by Russian interests. And he was paid $50,000 a month. Month. And that was viewed as the biggest scandal ever. Meanwhile, the Trumps are like, quite literally grifting billions in what, what are like direct quid pro quos. Marjorie Taylor Greene this morning mocking Donald Trump and his regime. She reposted this account, Della Dream. And she. And Marjorie Taylor Greene says, brilliant. Mocking Maga Maga. Talking to a normal person who voted for Trump. Here. Play this clip right here. Aren't you excited the Strait of Hormuz is open? Or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or. No, how could you not be excited? Or, or, or, or, or. Because that was open before the war

Buddy Carter (16:44)

that Trump started for Netanyahu and now

Ron Filipkowski (16:47)

a lot of people are dead and gas prices are really high. That's anti Semitic.

Buddy Carter (16:53)

You're an anti Semite.

Ron Filipkowski (16:55)

Or, or, or, or, or.

Ro Khanna (16:57)

What the fuck?

Ron Filipkowski (16:58)

And then you had Kevin Hassett, Donald Trump's national economic adviser, he went on and spewed a bunch of nonsense on CNBC this morning. Here's what he had to say. Play this clip right.

Kevin Hassett (17:09)

Well, I think that what's been happening more than anything else is that President Trump has been communicating with the American people on, like, what the current state of things is. And he's been talking about how negotiations are moving forward. Well, he, he truthed over the weekend that their talks are resuming. Now. There are a lot of people chattering in Iran that aren't necessarily in power who are trying to perhaps undermine their own colleagues. But the fact is that the President Trump's truths, you go back, look one after another, have given a very clear guide to the journalists of the country and American people about the progress that we're making. At the beginning, the president said in four to six weeks, we expect this could be resolved. And I think we're getting pretty close, close to that.

Ron Filipkowski (17:50)

And again, it's lie after lie after, like, oh, he's been so truthful he's what are you talking these people lie every moment of every day. And finally speaking of that, let's remember the post that Donald Trump made on March 6, 2026, a very long time ago. Remember when Donald Trump Posted the following March 6, 2026 There will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender. After that and the selection of a great and acceptable leaders, we and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better and stronger than ever before. Iran will have a great future. Make Iran great again. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Donald J. Trump and as our Editor in Chief Ron Philip Koski says, three of Trump's war objectives six weeks ago in addition to seizing uranium, unconditional surrender, selection of a new leader of Iran by US and allies US Helps build Iran Tell me what you think folks. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers and thanks for watching everybody want to stay plugged in?

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