The biggest story in the world today remains the increasing volatility in the Middle East and the ramping up of more attacks on Iran.

You've got U.S. and Israel on one side, Iran on the other, but all the other nations are coming in.

We're going to talk about gas prices.

We're going to talk about why this war is really happening in the first place and what we can do it about it,

as well as three or four other

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So the big story continues to be the war in Iran, and some people are now really questioning,

why are we in this war in the first place?

Do we really know everything?

At the end of the day, it is above my pay grade. I didn't get invited into the situation room. We have some very inside

people who are questioning this and some even resigning, saying that the war is not justified

for the reasons that we're being told. But again, I don't have that kind of

insider information. What I do know is that more nations are being drawn into it. The price of

oil is going up. $200 billion are being requested by the Secretary of War to continue the effort

in Iran. And when oil prices go up, gas prices are increasing, that means household goods increase.

That means that food increases, transportation costs increase. So what happens globally ultimately

lands locally. So even though this may seem like it's out there, we're seeing it right here.

And when you go to the gas station, when you go to the grocery store, we're seeing it right here. And when you go to the gas station,

when you go to the grocery store, you're seeing it and feeling it personally. But as I was

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