00:00On Iran.
00:05Thanks to Donald Trump's war with Iran, gas prices are now nearing $4 a gallon.
00:12Experts predict that this weekend, gasoline will cross the $4 threshold, the $4 a gallon threshold.
00:20In just the last month, gas prices have gone up by $1 a gallon.
00:26Brent crude is hovering around $108 a barrel, much higher than it's been.
00:31And Donald Trump has the gall to say the prices are not that bad.
00:35You hear that, America?
00:37Donald Trump is telling you $4 gas is not that bad.
00:40What bubble does he live in?
00:42How often does he fill up his car with gasoline?
00:46When Donald Trump says that the prices are not that bad, who's he kidding?
00:52He's speaking like a billionaire.
00:54America is being led into war by Mary Antoinette.
00:59And then Kevin Hassett, the top economic advisor to Trump, says Americans' pain is the least, quote,
01:06the least of our concern right now.
01:08Can you believe this?
01:10The highest economic advisor in the Trump administration says Americans' pain is the least of our concerns right now.
01:18If there's anything that shows how out of touch Donald Trump and his minions are out of touch, that's it,
01:26right there.
01:27Trump and his acolytes are unbelievable.
01:30They are so clueless.
01:32They're in a bubble.
01:34Meanwhile, the war with Iran is expanding.
01:38Iranian strikes on Qatar's energy structure have knocked out 17% of the country's LNG export capacity.
01:46Qatar Energy says two LNG trains could be sidelined for three to five years.
01:52A staggering blow to global energy markets.
01:56In other words, even if this war ended tomorrow, and there are no signs it's anywhere close to ending,
02:02the damage Donald Trump has unleashed will take a long, long time to fix.
02:07Meanwhile, the war in the Middle East is expanding, not shrinking.
02:11Donald Trump is sending additional warships and thousands of Marines to the region.
02:17He refuses to fully rule out both boots on the ground,
02:21a step that would mean more American casualties and even higher costs than he now projects.
02:26And this week, the administration was floating a funding request of more than $200 billion.
02:33$200 billion to finance this open-ended war.
02:39No way. That will never happen.
02:42It's a preposterous and dangerous risk.
02:45We should never accept giving Donald Trump a blank check to wage war in Iran in perpetuity.
02:52Even a fraction of the $200 billion is unacceptable for a war without a plan,
02:58without an endgame, without the support of the American people.
03:03And, of course, the money could be used for so much better,
03:06reducing Americans' costs on health care and on housing and on electricity and on daycare.
03:13So much could be done with that money instead of a war that Donald Trump has chosen to wage
03:20without even a vote in Congress.
03:24Meanwhile, Trump continues to vilify and bash our closest allies,
03:28even as he publicly asks for their help.
03:31Today, he called NATO a paper tiger
03:35and called our allies cowards.
03:37How does he expect to form a coalition which he says he needs
03:41if he's just going to spend his time calling them names, calling our allies names?
03:46The damage Donald Trump is doing to our alliances will last a long time and is sickening.
03:51He has spent years trashing our allies, insulting them, threatening NATO, undermining the very alliances
03:58that have kept us strong for generations.
04:01And now, suddenly, after Trump has dragged the United States into a war that is not going his way,
04:07he turns around and asks those same allies to jump in and help.
04:12What world does he live in?
04:14And when the allies don't immediately leap into this open-ended conflict
04:18in the way Donald Trump wants, what does he do?
04:21He calls them cowards.
04:24Donald Trump's leadership is pathetic.
04:27Pathetic.
04:28The war needs to come to an end now.
04:30The American people have had enough.
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