Is Trump going to give up on the straight of Hormuz and the Supreme Court body slams?

Colorado's ban on conversion therapy. We'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors. I'm Rich Lowryan. I'm joined as always, at least some of the time. Or to be honest, for the first time ever, by the right, honorable, Charles C.W. Cook, the good neighbor Noah Rothman, and our old friend, Dan Foster. You are, of course, listening to a National

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So Dan Foster, welcome.

You're a former NR staffer who writes occasionally the back page column in the print edition of the magazine,

and you show up sometimes on the corner.

You're very smart and acute on almost everything as people will learn. But embarrassingly, I only come to you to pick your brain

about sports-related controversies. It hasn't gone unnoticed. If it's the Minnesota Vikings

have male cheerleaders, I'm calling you, but on major matters of public

import, it's just radio silence for me. Well, it's a comparative advantage, I guess. There you go.

All right, so, but we're going to get you on very important matters of public import, including

first off here, the straight of Hormuz. So we've had some shocking reports. Wall Street Journal says that Trump's

been talking to people privately. Well, maybe I could just leave this straight in Iranian hands.

Then he had this truth social posts. There have been all sorts of truth social posts, hawkish,

doveish in between. But this one is like, you know, straight's not really our problem. We have great

American oil. If the Europeans have a problem with the strait being controlled by the Iranians,

they can either buy or oil or they can go open it up themselves. Now Trump says a lot of things in

private. There's also, you know, a jaw-boning or leverage element, obviously, to a lot of things in private. There's also, you know, a jaw boning or leverage element,

obviously to a lot of things he says about on truth social, but what do you make of it?

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