Energy markets buffeted and Kathy Hokel wants erstwhile New Yorkers to move back.

We'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors.

I'm Rich Lauer.

I'm joined, as always, by the right, Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, Andrew, Andrew Studderford.

Meanwhile, the notorious MBD Michael Brandon Doherty is unable to join us because of a last minute power outage. I miss him already.

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podcast. If you don't like what you hear here, please forget. I said anything. So, Andrew,

this is going to be one of those episodes where people could mistake this for a British

podcast where the random American happens to be appearing. So we'll have a lot of

British accents on this one, majority British accents. But we have more events in the Iran

war, Strait of Hermews is still effectively closed, some shipping getting through. And we've had these big exchanges involving energy

infrastructure, Israel hitting a natural gas facility that Iran relies heavily on. Also, I guess

it's partially run with Qatar or partially in Qatar.

I don't quite get the Qatari connection, but they weren't happy about it.

And then Iran hit back and we've had yet more turmoil in the energy markets.

It seems as though, at least for the time being, that the price of Brent crude at least is not going to

continue to skyrocket. It's been holding this week, 103, 106. That's still way up from what it was

prior to the war, but it hasn't continued to skyrocket. Because of our indications, you know,

we're going to release from strategic reserves and maybe unsanctioned Iranian oil that's already

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