CIA Targets Tucker + Trump's WARNING To NATO | PBD #760

**Patrick Bet-David** (11:00)
All right, hope you had a good weekend. We got a lot of stuff going on to talk about. I know one of them is some good news for some of you guys that were having a hard time with the cost of renunciating your citizenship of $2,400. I suggest that they make it free, but they're given a massive, massive 80% discount to those who hate America and want to go to a different country. Life-changing news to those that want to leave America. Big news. Give a shout out to Marco Rubio for giving a discount to you. I was hoping he would go full 100%.
I don't want to say the word. I was hoping he would go full 100%, but he didn't. He went 80%. It is what it is. Sometimes you got to kind of be thankful for any discount you get. So for those of you that have friends and family who always talk about how much they hate America, share that article with them. Life-changing from $2,350 to $450. We are a business podcast. We're all about saving money. This saves you $1,900 for some of you guys that want to leave this place. There's some stuff that's going on this weekend with NATO, President Trump comes out and warns NATO, presses China to help repeat straight of Hormuz, reopen straight of Hormuz. This is from Reuters. And by the way, he's almost saying he's not going to meet with Xi, end of the month. Tom and I were talking about this. If they don't participate and help out, which is kind of weird to do that. And who knows how much leverage, you know the president knows the rules of leverage. Who knows how much of the leverage he's using behind closed doors. But we'll talk about that. Of course, we're going to spend about an hour and a half today's podcast talking about Oscars. No, we're not. There was an Oscar last night. What's more important in Oscars is three people that won Oscar in our lives here. One of them is Sawyer Gargullo. It's your birthday today. That's Rob's son. Happy birthday to you. Oscar-winning for this group. Number two, Veronique Oshana. Happy birthday to you as well, Vinny's sister. And last but not least, Maral Kishishian-Beckian. Oscar-winner for us. Happy birthday.
Maral Kishishian-Beckian. Happy birthday to you.

**Adam Sosnick** (13:14)
Shout out to Tico as well.

**Patrick Bet-David** (13:15)
Yeah, that's right. We got something going on with Tucker. Tucker came out and dropped a video that got 24 million views saying the CIA is watching his text messages. He had, when he was talking to folks in Iran, it's a lot of different things. People are speculating what could happen. Could he get arrested? Could something happen to him? Laura Loomer is involved.
Then Candice and, not Candice, Megan and Mark Levin got into it. It got so, I don't want to talk about the macro and the micro, but it got so like, Rinny, did you see the comments about micro, not microeconomics, but micro dangleings? I mean, this stuff got personal very quickly. But we'll show that to the point that the president had to put out one of his long novels that he tweets out. He put one for Mark Levin. We'll talk about that. Reaction from the audience, because I know Adam is very close with Mark. So we'll talk about that. And then Ben Shapiro, Piers, Tucker, some conversations there as well. And then what else do I have here? Israel is saying they're putting boots on the ground in Lebanon. The war so far has cost $21 billion to all the people that are taxpayers. Wondering how much you have to pay up. That bill is coming here very soon. $21 billion thus far. And then aside from that, Iran might be, Iran war might be the least popular conflict in modern US history. This is Daily Caller. Trump says many countries will send warships to patrol Strait of Hormuz. Pentagon sending assault ship at least 2,500 Marines towards Iran as US works to reopen Strait of Hormuz while oil prices spike. I think it's at 95 Crude oil was, Tom, am I saying it correctly? On 95-ish this morning.

**Tom Ellsworth** (15:04)
94 Down three this morning.

**Patrick Bet-David** (15:06)
Okay, 94 That was up a point. Everything pre-market is around a half to a point. Yeah, so we'll see. We'll see how it opens up here in a minute. The JD Vance response to report he opposes Iran war behind closed doors. And what else we got here? It's not just oil. Here comes Hormuz inflation. US oil groups in line for $63 billion windfall from Gulf War disruption. Meta eyes massive. You ready? Meta doesn't want to lay off 100 people, not 1,000 people.