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Wright 'Dont have any reason to believe Iran will stop attacks on neighbors' · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Energy Secretary Chris Wright joins US Now, Secretary right, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for being here. We saw US forces struck Iran
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  Speaker 1: for the eighth night in a row last night. Is
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  Speaker 1: the President planning any further retaliation for the killing of
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  Speaker 1: those two US service members?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Look, the President's mission is essential for peace in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East and peace in the world, and that
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  Speaker 2: is to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons and to
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  Speaker 2: degrade their ability to terrorize their neighbors and the world
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  Speaker 2: and global commerce. So yes, this mission will go on
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  Speaker 2: until the mission is done.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm asking you where does he plan retaliation for
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  Speaker 1: the killing of those US service members.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tragic to lose American lives, but this is
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  Speaker 2: a mission that will save countless lives going forward. His
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  Speaker 2: focus is on degrading the Iranian ability to terrorize the world,
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  Speaker 2: to hold world commerce hostage as they are doing right now,
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  Speaker 2: and to prevent Iran from getting yucre weapons. That is unchanged.
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  Speaker 1: You were on the show back in March, and I
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  Speaker 1: want to play something of what you said about how
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  Speaker 1: long this war would last.
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  Speaker 2: I think that this conflict will certainly come to the
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  Speaker 2: end in the next few weeks. Could be sooner than that.
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  Speaker 1: So you said it would certainly come to an end
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  Speaker 1: within a few weeks. We are now nearly five months
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  Speaker 1: into this war. How does it end? When does it end? Well?
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  Speaker 2: The plan we needed four to six weeks for military actions.
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  Speaker 2: They went for five and a half weeks. We did
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  Speaker 2: a pause to try to get an agreement with the
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  Speaker 2: Iranian people to allow oil to flow without them attacking it.
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  Speaker 2: They've proven unwilling to do that, and we've pivoted. Now.
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  Speaker 2: What we're doing is assuring that oil and gas and
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  Speaker 2: other products can flow through the Strait of Horror moves
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  Speaker 2: with or without Iranian cooperation, and we've continued to degrade
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  Speaker 2: their offensive military capabilities. The President is always looking for
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  Speaker 2: the diplomatic off ramp. President Trump wants to end it
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  Speaker 2: with a peaceful agreement with Iran, but it takes two
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  Speaker 2: parties to do that. If they're if they're ready to
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  Speaker 2: do that, that's the way it'll end. If not, we
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  Speaker 2: will continue to show a sure flow of traffic through
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  Speaker 2: the strait without Iran's cooperation.
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  Speaker 1: But we're not seeing flow now right, I mean as
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  Speaker 1: in flow of traffics with the Strait of Vermuz effectively
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  Speaker 1: stopped over the past few days.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely not, absolutely not. I get the data on
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  Speaker 2: that every day. The seven day trailing average right now
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  Speaker 2: is just under seven million barrels a day flowing through
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  Speaker 2: the waterway, and just under seven million barrels a day
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  Speaker 2: additional flow through the bypass pipelines, So we're at a
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  Speaker 2: little under fourteen million barrels a day from the Arabian
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  Speaker 2: Golf region. That's two thirds of pre conflict traffic, dramatically
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  Speaker 2: up from where we were back in March when I
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  Speaker 2: was last on your show. I mean one hundred percent yet,
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  Speaker 2: but two thirds of flow right now.
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  Speaker 1: And that's over the past few days. When when's that average?
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  Speaker 1: When we saw the numbers from Thursday were simply eight
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  Speaker 1: eight ships going through the Straight of Hormos. That's far below.
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  Speaker 2: So almost all the public almost all the public data
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  Speaker 2: I've seen is incorrect. There's flow through two routes through
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  Speaker 2: the Straight of Hormones. There's up near the Iranian Islands
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  Speaker 2: that's flow complicit with Iran, but that's not nothing. And
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  Speaker 2: then there's flow through the southern route that's protected by
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  Speaker 2: American infrastructure, and we count the volume of oil that
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  Speaker 2: goes through the ship numbers are down more dramatically, but
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  Speaker 2: of course we're flowing larger tankers now to keep the
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  Speaker 2: world markets as well supplied as we can. Gasoline prices
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  Speaker 2: today are more than a dollar a gallon cheaper than
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  Speaker 2: they were four years ago under the Biden administration, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll do everything we can to drive them further down
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  Speaker 2: in the weeks and months ahead.
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  Speaker 1: And we've seen over the over the past week, the
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  Speaker 1: price of oil go up, the price of gas go up.
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  Speaker 1: The Iranian IRGC is now saying that if the US
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  Speaker 1: strikes continue, they will go to what they are calling
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  Speaker 1: full scale assault and annihilation and try to smash infrastructure,
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  Speaker 1: specifically energy infrastructure in the region. What are they capable
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  Speaker 1: of doing and what are the implications for the price
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  Speaker 1: of oil and the price of gas.
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  Speaker 2: Well, clearly, as we've seen, decades of focusing their entire
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  Speaker 2: economy on armament has made a very prickly Iran. They've
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  Speaker 2: continued to attack their neighbors shamelessly, civilian targets at least
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  Speaker 2: as much as military targets. We don't have any reason
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  Speaker 2: to believe they will stop that, but we are continuing
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  Speaker 2: to shrink their ability to execute those tax and we
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  Speaker 2: are doing this in coordination and in partnership with all
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  Speaker 2: their neighbor countries that they are assaulting.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, miss Stritcher, while I've got you here a different topic.
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  Speaker 1: The President made it clear this week that he views
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  Speaker 1: election security as a top domestic priority. Yet we saw
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  Speaker 1: his budget has cut CEASA, the cybersecurity agency, by seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. If he's so concerned about possible foreign
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  Speaker 1: interference in our elections, why does his budget cut the
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  Speaker 1: agency that would be charged with preventing that. Well, look,
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  Speaker 1: there's many cybersecurity agencies across the government. We meet regularly
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  Speaker 1: on that topic, and our efforts have done nothing but
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  Speaker 1: ramp up. Sure they've gotten more sophisticated and a different
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  Speaker 1: focus of them.
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  Speaker 2: But I wouldn't look at the inputs the money spent.
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  Speaker 2: I'd look at the outputs. The quality of United States
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  Speaker 2: cybersecurity that's never been higher than where it is right
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  Speaker 2: now under President.
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  Speaker 1: Trump, never been higher, And you're including election security in then.
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  Speaker 2: Across the board, we are looking at cybersecurity from threats
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  Speaker 2: from adversaries. I've not been involved in the election efforts,
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  Speaker 2: so I can't comment on them, but obviously, having trust
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  Speaker 2: in American systems of government and keeping our nation secure
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  Speaker 2: is top priority for the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 1: He and one last question before you go, really simple one.
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  Speaker 1: Did Joe Biden win the twenty twenty presidential election?
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  Speaker 2: He was president for four years, clearly, so he clearly.
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  Speaker 1: Won the election.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm that an election evaluator, but it sure seems to.
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  Speaker 1: Me like he did. Okay, secretary right, thank you very much,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you,