Senator Mark Warner

We're the biggest producer of helium.

Middle East is the second.

And that helium is used in chips for all of our data centers.

And there is no reserve of helium.

So those have gone to record highs.

And then since this is a world crisis, we're sitting here at $4 a gallon of gas.

it's double that in asian countries because they get 80 of their oil from the strait and you have many asian countries that we buy a lot of stuff from shutting down their economy one day a week because they just can't afford to get people to work that will again mean prices up so when the international energy association says worst energy crisis in our lifetime much worse than

than the 1970s gas shock in America because it hit so many other domains.

That's what we're looking at.

And again, for the president to say he was kind of surprised by this, it indicates he just did not read the intelligence.

There is a reason why presidents as bad as Iran has been and been hesitant to start this kind of open-ended war with this country that has a lot of resources, we have to acknowledge, and can shut down a lot of other resources that come from the region.

You know, Scott, that's a great question.

And I'm not sure there is a consensus.

And one of the things that is making that consensus harder

is the House, I believe, Armed Services Committee had the Pentagon and DOD up to say, hey, what are these troops going to do?

And even though it was a classified briefing, they didn't tell them anything.

And the House Republican chair came out madder than hell, rightfully saying, hey, you guys are not even going to share what the five, six, 7,000 troops that are moving into the region are going to be asked to do.

You know, pretty outrageous.

And there is a, you know,

The challenge is I think the war needs to end because of the energy and costs and exponentially increasing economic shock it's going to have to the world's economy.