Mark Montgomery

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397 appearances 8 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 29 Aug

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The President's Daily Brief · The PDB Situation Report | August 29th, 2026: Iran’s Plan to Push the U.S. Navy Out of Hormuz & China Upgrades Russia’s Shaheds · 29 Aug 2026 podcast

You know, you've got to make sure that on these important issues, you're able to show him the trade space, under make sure he understands the risk, show him uh opportunities to mitigate, and then let the president make the decision.

so I think the blockade will continue.

I think the president realized he made a mistake when he relaxed it for two or three weeks.

You know, twelve Iranian large vessels went through, headed to China to teapot refineries.

I don't think we're going to relax it again.

He's not going to relax it until he has a deal on nuclear weapons.

Now, whether the movement through the Southern transit scheme stops because of attacks, whether we're doing full-scale combat operations.

That could still that could happen.

I could envision that happening.

There's a small chance before the midterms, but much more likely some period after the midterms when the pressure becomes too hard on the Iranians and they have to do something.

Um, but the blockade should not stop.

It is absolutely squeezed and we know it bothers them.

Um we they uh once in a while acknowledge it bothers them, they're economists and their bankers and their and their uh financial people.

So we know it bothers them.

We need to keep it up.

It is America's greatest tool.

It's how we close the Strait of Hormos, our navy.

So uh we're just for background and context, I ran a federal commission on cybersecurity, the last big one we had.

And uh and after I left that and came to FTD, the first paper I wrote was called Water, the Weakest Lake in Our Critical Infrastructure, based on its cybersecurity.

So I will tell you our water our water system Did they did they turn that I think they turned that into a feature film, didn't they?

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