Why Did We Attack Iran and is Michael Bennet a South Park Character? [7:33-12:36]

Blake Olson News and comment. Thursday, 53 in clear in Denver, 52 in the spring, expecting highs in the low 80s today. Fire weather watch again. News sponsored by Pastor Camp, heating and air conditioning for a new home heating and cooling system. Contact your Linux dealer, Pastor Camp, heating and air conditioning at pastor camp.com conditions apply C dealer for details. Our top story, Japan's first female prime minister will visit the White House today. President Trump will meet with the prime minister as Trump calls on us allies, including Japan to help secure the straight of hormones. Iran has attacked attackers in the vital waterway. We're about one fifth once again of the world's oil passes through. This is day 20 of the war. Gas prices continue climbing. The national average for a gallon of regular jumped overnight to $3.88. $3.34 is the cheapest in the Denver metro area in our Vada. Senate Homeland Committee will vote today to confirm Mark Wayne Mullen as the head of DHS. The Republican Senator from Oklahoma testified before the committee on Wednesday and faced some pushback from Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Paul said he will not vote for Mullen because he had anger issues. California is recording the hottest winner day in the U.S. history of weather station in Coachella Valley on Wednesday recorded a temperature of 108 degrees. That ties a record set in Texas in 1902 for the hottest winter day ever. It'll be in the 90s tomorrow here on the front range. Problems at Excel Energy substation, a substation, are being blamed for the one-hour power outage that led to a ground stop at DIA on Wednesday. Excel says crews were working on a new transformer at an airport substation and they say it's back to normal this morning. Denver City Council President Amanda Sandivall says that she and Mayor Johnston could have a plan soon of how to handle the allegations surrounding Caesar Chavez. There's a park in the city named after the labor and civil rights leader in Sandivall says. It's been a gut wrenching time for her community. I just want to name the victims and say my heart goes out to everybody impacted by what has gone on. A New York Times investigation found Chavez sexually abused girls decades ago. Sandivall says that she is encouraging the Latino community in Denver to remember the movement of helping farm workers and unionized helping farm workers unionized, I should say, rather than thinking about the man who led the movement. Joe Kant, the longtime Trump ally who resigned because he couldn't support this war in good conscience, is now under FBI investigation. And Kant stepped down as the director of the National Counter Terrorism Center, of course, and was on Tucker last night. He used diplomacy, used our economic leverage. And again, this isn't something that I came up with. President Trump came up with this. President Trump enacted this and this is why 77 million people voted for him. It's probably not the only reason, but the No New Wars put America first. Don't let us bleed out in the Middle East. That's what people voted for. And that's that's what I think, you know, you can't pay for. And I think that's something he could get us back to. If he just takes a look and assesses how we got to where we are right now. March Madness tips off today. You have until 10 this morning to fill out your brackets last night. Jeff and Bill bracket. That's right. No, it doesn't. You haven't seen it. I will send it to you when you look at it and go. This is no, it's it's as good as anyone else's. In fact, here I'm looking at Jeff. I just agree. It's awful. Jeff did a great job on X here. So you just go to X, Jeff Hunt, backslash, whatever. It's not got a slash Jeff. Okay. See it on there. And here's what I'm going to do on this one. We got a, first of all, we get to put Troy's fight song underneath here. And let's see here. Okay. So I've always wanted to do this. I'm going to take the number one scene in the east all across.