All right, glad you were with us on this Friday. We have some breaking news as we begin this day.

It appears that the Iranians now very stupidly, they hope this is really dumb, have seized

a British flagged oil tanker in the streets of Hormuz, amid what is obviously growing tensions

in the region, which really are caused by the fact that the president and his sanctions

have been phenomenal. It's had a great impact, a negative impact. We now see and intelligence

people that I know that are really smart, that know the goings on inside of Iran. They've

all been suggesting that the younger population has been resisting, risking their own lives

on a regular basis to take down this regime. Problem when you get in a situation like

a Iran, you can't win revolutions with slingshots. It's never going to happen or Molotov cocktails.

That's never going to happen. And they have no compunctions about killing and imprisoning

anybody that they deem as any type of threat to this radical Islamic regime that they have.

But things have been growing. And of course, we had the one tanker that was hit. We had

the drone that was hit yesterday. We took out their drone because they had a drone flying

within a well, a thousand yards of one of our ships in the Straits of Hormuz. And

anyway, so the report that we now have is that apparently this British tanker was approached

by unidentified small crafts in a helicopter during transit through the Straits of Hormuz.

Now I just want to back up for a second here strategically, tactically. I mean, the Straits

of Hormuz has been always this very sensitive area where the free flow of oil at market prices,

a lot of the world's oil has to pass through those Straits. Very narrow Straits of Hormuz.

Anyway, the vessel was in international waters. The shipping company that owns the vessel

set in a statement. We're presently unable to contact the vessel, which is now heading north

towards Iran and Iran's revolutionary guard forces and a statement on their website say they

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