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until the midterms will take stock of where we're at.

And with great timing, gas prices are poised to hit $4.50 a gallon as soon as this week.

So no coincidence that Donald Trump will today use the U.S. Navy to try and prize open the straight-off Hormuz.

Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Monday, May 4th. May the 4th, Dashwood you and may the 4th be with you sort of person? It took everything in me not to immediately say, May the 4th be with you. You're one of those people. Okay, good. Well, fast forward six months, November the 4th is going to be a very big deal for all of us, of course.

Excellent transition. Thank you. Thank you. That's what they pay me for. November the 4th, America will be waking up to a new world. It will be the morning after the midterm elections. Political world may look very different indeed.

That means we are at the halfway mark between last November's off-year

elections and this coming November's midterm elections, if you can cast your mind back that far.

Oh my goodness. Time is a flat circle. That's a lot to take in. Seriously. Well, it also means that

the White House is used up half the time that it had following those pretty

bad off your election results to turn things around. Now, in those six months since then,

basically we've had three big storylines, right? We've had Venezuela and Maduro. We've had the

immigration thing in Minnesota, and now, of course, we've got the Iran War and Hormuz. How do you think the

White House would be a feeling if you'd said to them those would be the three things

would have spent the last six months talking about when they're trying to turn the elections around?

I think that most of the people inside and close to the administration on the outside would,

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