James Stout

Well, this is already something that's been discussed at length in the National Trust for Historical Preservation lawsuit against the construction, right?

Yes.

Yes.

And the judge has so far not agreed to that, right?

But the Trump administration has argued that the below-ground hospital room, security infrastructure, bomb shelter, etc., and the above-ground party-having room are all one big security problem.

It should be one secured zone.

Yeah.

So they're saying we can't do the security construction only.

We have to do all the construction because it's a contiguous whole.

So, like, that seems like it's relevant to this.

Yeah, we will keep checking in on these reconciliation bills as they move through Congress.

But first, we will go on this ad break and then discuss Iran and some of the Tuesday elections.

We are back.

Back in the Strait of Hormuz, a place where we spend a lot of time these last few weeks.

Yep.

So...

For a while there, Iranian news sources were claiming that they had hit or turned around US vessels.

This does not appear to be true.

CENTCOM certainly denied it, although some news networks did run with this, apparently based on what the Iranian government-aligned media were claiming.

It seems that two United States destroyers did transit the Strait and they did receive various types of incoming fire from small boats, from missiles and from drones.