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WELKER: Should Americans be bracing for the price of oil to go over $200 a barrel?

CHRIS WRIGHT: So Iran calls us the 'great Satan.' I don't think we are the great Satan. In fact, clearly, we're not.

WELKER: So that's a no?

WRIGHT: It's a, uh, I would pay no attention to what… pic.twitter.com/HPSnciiygx

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 15, 2026

WELKER: Should Americans be bracing for the price of oil to go over $200 a barrel?

CHRIS WRIGHT: So Iran calls us the 'great Satan.' I don't think we are the great Satan. In fact, clearly, we're not.

by WELKER: So that's a no?

WRIGHT: It's a, uh, I would pay no attention to what Iran says, but ...

WELKER: When can Americans expect to see the price of gas come down?

ENERGY SECRETARY CHRIS WRIGHT: After the conflict is over you'll start to see prices come back down. Americans will feel it for a few more weeks pic.twitter.com/FONiRFk7f6

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 15, 2026

But the price of eggs is still good, right?

TAPPER: Is Trump hoping that other countries will send naval escorts to the Strait of Hormuz, or have they committed to it?

WALTZ: We welcome, encourage, and even demand their participation to help their own economies pic.twitter.com/KN8Z2o1CmK

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 15, 2026

After all, it’s not like we caused this!

TAPPER: Do you see an equivalence between the US helping Ukraine defend itself and Russia helping Iran target US service members?

WALTZ: We've known that Russia and Iran have this strategic partnership for some time now

TAPPER: But surely Russia helping Iran target our service… pic.twitter.com/RtK5I3T733

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 15, 2026

TAPPER: Do you see an equivalence between the US helping Ukraine defend itself and Russia helping Iran target US service members?

WALTZ: We've known that Russia and Iran have this strategic partnership for some time now

TAPPER: But surely Russia helping Iran target our service members is upsetting and action needs to be taken

WALTZ: I'm not going to get into leaked assessments. But if they are doing it, it certainly hasn't been effective

Russia hasn’t broken that many of our eggs.

Buttigieg: "The president's political operation was raising money off images at a dignified transfer. Any politician who does that has no business leading American troops into war. If the president is willing to raise campaign funds over the bodies of America's war dead, he is… pic.twitter.com/OXmLsBYLFe

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 15, 2026

The better response.

UN Ambassador Mike Waltz: "This has been a dominant victory the likes of which we haven't seen in modern American military history" pic.twitter.com/UfYQDHE7Sy

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 15, 2026

Is that why the Strait is shut down, except to Chinese ships?

Leavitt: "The fact that the terrorists are holding the global oil industry hostage by threatening to shut down the Strait of Hormuz just underscores the need for President Trump to launch this operation in the first place" pic.twitter.com/qeXuJOJe1o

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 15, 2026

Waltz should have just gone with that.