Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show Midday Update for Thursday,

March 19th. Happy Thursday, folks. Weekends almost here. President Trump in the Oval Office today,

talking to the media as he does every single day, holding a bilateral meeting with the Japanese

Prime Minister, and he was asked a slew of questions as he usually is, and he answered

truthfully as he usually does.

President Trump was asked by a reporter if he intends to potentially put U.S. troops

or more troops in the region to go fight the Iran war.

Troops on the ground.

Take a listen to what President Trump had to say.

Do you intend to lift sanctions on Iranian oil and do you intend to potentially put U.S. troops or more troops in the region?

No, I'm not putting troops anywhere.

If I were, I certainly wouldn't tell you, but I'm not putting troops, and we will do whatever is necessary to keep the price as well.

I actually thought when I did this, look, the Dow just hit 50,000 a couple of weeks ago.

They said that couldn't happen for four years.

It wouldn't happen in my term.

It's such an outrageous thing because I said it would happen.

I didn't know it was going to happen that fast, but it just hit 50,000, and we did that in one year,

not four. S&P had just hit 7,000. They said that was even more impossible than the Dow hitting 50,

and we did that in one year. So it's all done. Everything was going great. The economy is great.

Oil prices were very low. Gasoline was dropping to,

I mean, we had $1.99, $1.85. We had great everything. And I saw what was happening in Iran,

and I said, I hate to make this excursion, but we're going to have to do it. And I actually

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