General Discussion

...Nicolle on Deadline White House:

Those comments are particularly significant today in the wake of an attack by Israel on an Iranian gas field which led to scenes like this all across the Middle East. A wave of attacks on oil and gas installations in Qatar led to fears that the energy crisis will only deepen.

New York Times explains it like this. Quote, "While an end to the conflict would reopen the shipping routes through the straight of Hormuz, serious damage to oil infrastructure would be longerlasting.

That outcome is what economists fear most as they try and forecast the potential impact on the global economy. As crude rises, so does gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. And eventually those increases passed through to the prices of everyday goods.

The attacks by Iran have sent Donald Trump scrambling. In a true social post today, he announced that Israel will no longer target Iran's natural gas facilities and said that the Trump administration did not know about those strikes in advance. However, three Israeli officials tell the New York Times that Israel's strike on Iran's gas field was coordinated with the Trump administration.

And Trump himself seems to suggest that he knew about the strike in comments in the Oval Office today. Watch those.

Q. You talked to Prime Minister Netanyahu about attacking the oil and gas fields.

Trump:

"Yeah, I did. I did. I told him don't do that. And he's won't do that. We didn't discuss. You know, we do uh we're independent. We get along great. Uh it's coordinated, but on occasion he'll do something and if I don't like it and so we're not doing that anymore."