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From a perspective of truth, liberty, and justice every weekday, this is Monica Perez. And I'm Brad Binkley. It seems like the same story as the top story day after day. As you said,

Binkley, it's a theme not that the big story is something that can

emerge and dissipate in one day but the Saudi Arabia story continues to be the top story round the clock and I and the

more I see it the more I think that Brian was right right out of the gate that it's

about Saudi Arabia's IPO of Aramco and today's of the Wall Street Journal was how Saudi Arabia, despite this disruption in supply, was

actually going to buy oil from other people, which is not usually how it works, in

order to keep their customers satisfied and deliveries going out on time.

They also talked about on the news, Fox News, headline news, that Saudi Arabia was giving

media tours of the hit facilities,

which happened to be the greatest most state-of-the-art oil production facilities in the world.

This is all in the lead up to Aramco.

Not to mention, Iran said something to the effect that I think they said if you strike us, we will retaliate with all out war.

Then the headline was, quote, all out war. Then the headline was quote all out war will call cause oil prices to

soar and the idea of course is wouldn't you like to own some stock and accompany some

exposure to soaring oil prices?

Well, we happen to have some oil wells to sell you.

A Ramco is going public.

So that's how I see it, but there are real things that are happening around that.

First of all, I think it's important to understand that Saudi Arabia is not a legitimate ally of ours.

They cannot actually help defend our land. We sell them, our castoffs

when it comes to defense, and 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9-11 were Saudi. So if our justification for being in the

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