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Thank you, and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkuff. I'm joined by Riley Fessler, and I'm in a Stein today.
“Like every day we're going to take a look at a few of the big headlines”
try to find a little bit of meaning in them. Riley, kick us off. After Israel struck Iran's South Pahr's gas field Iran retaliated by attacking Qatar's Ross Lofon LNG facility, causing extensive damage and a surge in global energy prices.
President Trump responded by threatening to quote massively blow up and quote the remainder of the Iranian gas field if the US ally is targeted again. While Trump expressed a desire to avoid further destruction that Qatar has condemned the brazen Iranian strikes
and expelled Iran's diplomats from the country. Yeah, this sort of follows the pattern of everything here. If you recall, 20 seconds ago, when Riley described this, he said, "After Israel struck Iran's gas fields, Iran struck Qatar's gas fields."
So this whole process was triggered by Israel. There is some sense that perhaps the Israelis have reached here and that the President, the US President was not terribly happy with that. Either, oil this morning or as of the time that we're recording this, was up to around $14 a barrel.
That's bad. There are also stories this morning that economists say, "Oh, we're not worried about a global recession until it gets $230 a barrel." That's not too far away. That's one or two more mistakes like this away.
Of course, it has to stay there for a while for other recession fears to get graver and graver. Who knows? It does appear that in addition to all the other problems with this war, the fact that it wasn't necessary,
the fact that it was ill-planned, misconceived, the fact that the outcomes of this war have not turned out to be the outcomes that they sought. But we're predictable, the coordination between the United States and the countries that are the Israelis and other countries with whom we have a good relationship seems to be spotty.
That's the kind of thing that leads to errors, that's kind of thing that leads to escalation. So we're not in a place this morning where despite the president's repeated assertions that this war would soon be over that it feels like that's the case. We'll see anything can happen.
But you know, you get the feeling that got a big roulette wheel in the White House and they'd just spin it to figure out what they're doing today. So we'll stay on top of it, minute. Mark Wayne Mullin, Donald Trump's nominee for Homeland Security Secretary, told Senators he would take a different approach from outgoing chief Christine Nome,
including requiring judicial warrants for home entries and reducing controversial policies.
While he has expected to be confirmed, Mullin faces bipartisan scrutiny over ...
leadership style and unanswered questions about his claimed quote special missions,
“drawing sharp criticism from lawmakers like Rand Paul.”
His nomination comes as the Department of Homeland Security faces a little public trust and ongoing shutdown when pressure shift course on immigration enforcement. Look, Mullin is going to get confirmed. He shouldn't get confirmed. He has no experience in this area. His only qualification is that he seems to be loyal to the president and Stephen Miller apparently
thinks he'll do enough of what Stephen Miller wants done. Of course, Trump nominees tend to lie
on the stand so we don't really know what his comments yesterday will mean with respect to how he performs going forward. It was a weird hearing. As predicted here, he got very testy. The conversation with Rand Paul was particularly heated and also super duper strange, because apparently Rand Paul was upset with how Mark Wayne Mullin defued the time that Rand Paul was attacked by somebody and what he said about it. It got into Rand Paul saying,
I don't know. There was some conversation about like dueling and whether dueling was legal
and Mark Wayne Mullin said dueling is between consenting adults is always okay and Rand Paul's
like dueling has been illegal in America for 148. It was weird. But unfortunately Rand Paul's opposition is not going to stop this. Rand Paul's the chairman of the committee and he has already agreed that he's going to let it go through to a vote and the vote that he will not provide is going to be provided by the dyno Democrat in name only. John Federman, who has already said he would support Mullin. Mullin has, as we said, no credentials here. He also raised a lot of
“questions because he said, but that he in a few years ago he went out secret missions that were”
classified. He has said, you know, if that the secret missions that he went on involved, you know, special forces tied training. This is all clearly a lie. He refused to talk about it when they said we'll go into a closed session. He said he's going to refuse to talk about it there. Dude is weird as hell, right? You know, we're weird as hell. Former mixed martial arts combatant. I don't know. Will he be a little better than Christy Known? Hard to imagine how he could
be worse. He did say that, you know, he wouldn't send border patrol or ice people near pulling areas during elections unless there were a specific threat. It doesn't really, doesn't really make
“me feel super confident about what he does or where this is all going. But I think you can bet on”
Mark Wayne Mullen being the next Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security. Starting April 2, the US State Department will add 12 more nations, including Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua, to a program requiring citizens to post refundable bonds of up to $15,000 for US visas. This expansion brings the total to 50 countries subject to the requirement. A strategy designed to slash a visa overstay rates and discourage illegal migration. Applicants must pay
between $5,000 and $15,000 at a consular offers, officers, discretion, with the funds returned only if the visitor it hears strictly to their visa terms. According to the State Department, the program has been highly successful so far, posting a 97% compliance rate among those who have posted at the bond. Yeah, I, you know, what we don't know with that data point is what the rate was before there was a bond. And of course, the bond has two purposes. One is to ensure compliance with
the visa terms. But the other is to keep poor people from being able to even come to this country. $15,000 a lot of money. And it means that a lot of people who might have come here to visit
Family or might have come here to look at a school or might have come here fo...
just won't be able to come here. And of course, the countries that the United States has targeted
for its more stringent policies tend to be developing countries. And indeed, you know, one thing that has been noted is that 90% of the countries in Africa now find it almost impossible to get into the United States. And why is that? Do they pose a special threat? Of course not. This is just institutionalized racism. This is, you know, white supremacist, ethnonationalist policies in action. And it's ugly. By the way, it's not the way other countries
“do it. If you want to go to China for a couple of weeks, hop on a plane. Don't need a visa.”
Want to go and get cheaper healthcare in China. And in some other countries in Southeast Asia, the hop on a plane don't need a visa. We are the country with the tough authoritarian tactics other countries are far more including China. The FBI is investigating former national counterterrorism, center director Joe Kent, over alleged leaks of classified information. Approved that began before his resignation amid disagreements with the Trump administration's
war with Iran. Kent has publicly criticized the war claiming Iran posed no immediate threat and alleging the decision was influenced by Israel. Assertions the White House has strongly rejected.
“His departure and the investigation added prior controversies surrounding Kent,”
deepening tensions within the administration over national security policy. Yeah, this is this guy's bad guy, you know, conspiracy theorist, racist guy was not
really qualified for this job. And thus should never have had it in the first place. And it's
pity since some of the things that he is saying, you know, our accurate. We shouldn't be in this war. And Israel did push us into this war. Now the reason he is saying it, and he's emphasized this now in an interview with Tucker Carlson. You know, it has to do also with his anti-Semitic views and his generally negative views towards Israel. And that clouds, you know, the ability of
“people to see what was really wrong at the start of this. I do think we should remember that it”
was Marco Rubio, who went searching for a reason for the United States saying there was an imminent threat said, well, we knew the Israelis were going to attack Iran and therefore we would be a target of the response from the Iranians and they're by saying that it was because of the Israeli set this started. And there have been a lot of other reports about, you know, who was ahead of who in all of this. So or who was ahead of whom, as my mother, the editor would tell me to say. But the punchline here
is that this guy is not a credible guy, not a good guy. Sometimes says the truth. But the administration is going to use all the tools and it's toolbox to kind of shut him down. And so, you know, I think the general rule here is he's not the guy to quote, but there are plenty of other sources to go to if your objective is to find fault with this crazy war or seek to understand better its origins. Japanese Prime Minister Senay Takayuchi is heading to the White House for a high stakes meeting with
President Trump as he pushes allies to help break Iran's a blockade of the street of Hormuz. Although Japan relies heavily on the Middle East for oil, Takayuchi faces the difficult task of bouncing at Trump's demands for military cooperation with age Japanese public that overwhelmingly oppose involvement in the conflict. Takayuchi has already indicated that Japan will not send the naval vessels to escort ships. Though experts suggest she may offer alternative support like
mind sweeping to preserve the critical security alliance. The summit also carries weight for
regional stability as Tokyo fears the US focus on Iran is diverting military resources away from countering Chinese and North Korean aggression in the Indo Pacific. Yeah, you know, it's hard to be supportive of Donald Trump these days because he's in a pickle and he needs people to step up and support his bad policies and, you know, of all the countries in the world that would have
Been seen as most reluctant to step into that kind of role.
They have established a pretty good relationship at the outset, but, you know, she has to deal with
“the reality of politics in our palm country and as well as the questionable thinking behind”
Trump's war and the degree of risk to which any Japanese vessels involved in helping out the United States would be put. So, gunna gunna, gunna be a tough meeting and sends a broader message. You know, with friends like Donald Trump who needs enemies.
“Oh, well, I don't know. Does that leave you energized for the day, guys?”
No, not particularly. Unfortunately. Well, yeah, me too. Anti-energized. Is the anti-energized, but we will find a way folks. We've got words matter with normal or instinct coming up later today. Currently, that seems to be the most popular podcast
we do although it changes from week to week, but it's always popular. So, go and listen to that
or better yet, watch it on YouTube, become a subscriber on YouTube. And we've got more goodness coming for you. If you didn't see our conversation yesterday on the Iran War with David Sanger of the New York Times, Ed Luce of the Financial Times and Rosa Brooks of
“Georgetown University Law Center, you should go and watch it. This is, of course,”
our original gang and you know, had a conversation earlier this week with Donald Trump. And it's kind of interesting to listen to him talk about how that came to be.
Basically, he called up Donald Trump and Donald Trump answered the phone.
And then Trump said, well, you can call me back again in the future. So, we'll see how that goes. But it did break news about Trump postponing his trip to China. And there was a lot of, you know, agreement among the four of us as to where this war is likely to go. And what is likely to be achieved, not much, and what risks are likely to be raised many, many. So, if you haven't listened to that yet, I'd encourage you to do so.
For now, thank you very much. Thank you, Riley. Thank you, Mina. Bye-bye.
