Hi there, everyone.

It's now 4 o'clock in New York.

It is day 32 of the war with Iran.

Here's where things stand.

Gas prices have topped the $4 a gallon mark.

That is the highest that gas has been in four years.

Donald Trump now, though, appears ready to call it quits. Ted for the exits, potentially leaving Iran in some ways in a stronger

position than before the war began. The Wall Street Journal is reporting this, quote, Trump told

AIDS he's willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran, even if the

Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed. Administration officials said likely extending Tehran's

firm grip on the waterway and leaving a complex operation to reopen it for a later date. In recent days,

Donald Trump and his aides assess that a mission to pry open the choke point

would push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks. Trump decided that the U.S.

should achieve its main goals of hobbling Iran's navy and its missile stocks and wind down

current hostilities while pressuring Tehran diplomatically to resume the free flow of trade.

To be clear, the Strait of Hormuz, through which one fifth of the world's oil supply passes,

is only closed and in need of a complex operation to reopen it because of the war Donald Trump started in Iran. Iran seizing the straight was an

entirely foreseeable consequence reporting from multiple outlets shows that intelligence had predicted

and warned that this would happen. And now Donald Trump is considering leaving the Iranian

regime in charge of this critical choke point when they did

not have control of this critical choke point before the war started. This is the plot twist, though.

Trump is not demanding that the same U.S. allies, who he denigrates and insults and didn't consult

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