Episode 5531: Blocking The Red Sea; Lies From Minnesota Against Lindell

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How did the hosts introduce the escalating Iran–Middle East tensions and Houthi blockade warnings?

Unknown 0:00

Trump has warned or now warns Iran that Iran will pay many times over every time it kills an American soldier. We'll see what that means. Back to that new possible front for this war. Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have declared their own naval blockade now against Saudi Arabia in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, threatening another blow to oil markets and... international shipping across the globe? Look, it sounds like escalation. The Houthi is about to, they say, stop Saudi shipping. It's important route to the international market for its oil that it pipes all the way across the Arabian Peninsula to its port on the Red Sea, and then the ships pick it up in the port. and then take it out through past Yemen, through Bab al-Mandab, which is what the Houthis are citing that they will, their point of cutting off that shipping.

Unknown 0:57

They haven't started yet. Their leader is expected to give a big speech on Thursday. He says may give us some indication of whether or not the Houthis will follow through on this. Undoubtedly, if they do, you can expect Saudi to respond. So that would be a point of escalation right there. Israel also says that it's readying in case escalation. brings it into the conflict. The head of the IDF here saying they're ready at a moment's notice. Jordan, just a few miles from where we are now, intercepted three missiles just a few hours ago, Iranian missiles there. The Iranians say that they're attacking. U.S. Air Force facilities on the ground inside of Jordan. Kuwait today, again, sirens going off there. The Kuwaiti officials say for the fourth day there, their water and desalination plants have been hit again, degrading their services.

Unknown 1:51

The United States continuing its attacks pretty much along the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf to try to stop the Iranians putting their small attack boats out and getting the few, hitting the few commercial vessels that are trying to get out of the Strait of Hormuz. And by early morning today, the Iranians had again hit another tanker, setting it on fire. The crew abandoned ship. The Iranians claimed they hit another couple of tankers. In this sort of pre-escalation level of the conflict, if you will, the Iranians seem to have been able to come out each of the past few nights and hit a tanker trying to go in or out the Strait of Hormuz. Their point is, you're hitting us. We're proving our point. We control the Strait of Hormuz.

Unknown 2:38

That's the state of play. It's all about control of the Strait of Hormuz. Senator, I know we were all struck by Jay Clayton's confirmation hearing last week, and particularly by the degree to which you were personally kind of expressed bitter disappointment at his performance on a number of levels, including his refusal to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. This is somebody who you have known for a long time, as you said, and that earlier you had expressed some openness to said that he was the guy had the right temperament to be DNI. And you just announced a couple of days ago that you're they lost your vote. What do you foresee? You talk about that a little bit, how you came to that conclusion, but also what do you foresee now for the confirmation prospects of Jay Clayton going forward?

Unknown 3:23

Well, first of all, let's acknowledge that, you know, the worst is the fact that Bill Pulte is the acting DNI. And I think he was part of putting together that absolutely absurd speech the president put on last Thursday night where most legitimate networks didn't even cover it as news. So we want to get rid of Pulte. But I think Jay will be... confirmed by probably exclusively Republican votes. I know Jay. I like Jay. I was disappointed. My hope is that the Jay Clayton I know, if he ends up being DNI, will take that job and bring some grit back to it because I think we've still got a president that wants to interfere in our elections because this president knows if we have free and fair elections this year,

Unknown 4:11

He and his allies are going to get slapped down in record, I think, in a record way because his policies are so terribly unpopular.