00:00Two questions, Mr. Secretary.
00:01Iran is pursuing a nuclear agreement with the U.S. that it says would deliver economic benefits for both sides.
00:09Is that acceptable for the U.S., even if it doesn't cover Tehran's ballistic missile program?
00:16Recently, a U.S. immigration judge has ruled that there were no grounds to deport Tufts University student who wrote
00:23an op-ed on Gaza.
00:24A second judge said using deportation as a threat violated the First Amendment rights of people like her, because those
00:32rights apply to foreigners.
00:34What is your response to that?
00:35And, Mr. Prime Minister, I just wanted to follow up on the China angle.
00:40Secretary just spoke about balancing relationships.
00:43You've been pushing a lot for more Chinese investments in Hungary.
00:47How will you make sure that that does not create a problem in your relationship with Washington?
00:52Yeah, on the two questions you asked, first of all, on the particular case of the student, look, my job
00:57at the State Department is if I identify someone who I believe is present, someone who's not, who's a visitor,
01:03a guest to the United States,
01:05and we identify that their presence in our country poses a threat to our foreign policy, to our national security,
01:12we're going to take that person's visa away.
01:14We're going to take their visa away.
01:15That's what we're going to do.
01:17We've done that in a lot of cases over the last year.
01:19We've done it.
01:20The fact is that, you know, visas are not a right.
01:22I've said this repeatedly.
01:23I don't know why it's so hard for some to comprehend it, so let me repeat it again.
01:27A visa, no one's entitled to a visa.
01:29There is no constitutional right to a visa.
01:32A visa is a permission to enter our country as a visitor.
01:36If you enter our country as a visitor, and as a visitor in our country, be it a student, a
01:41tourist, a journalist, whatever you want to be, and you undertake activities that are against the national interest and national
01:47security of the United States, we will take away your visa.
01:50In fact, if we knew you were going to do it, we probably wouldn't have given you your visa.
01:53That's what we do.
01:54The decision to remove someone from our country after we take away our visa, you know, that belongs to other
01:59agencies of our government.
02:00As far as judges are concerned, you know, judges, you know, that's a different branch of government.
02:05They're not going to tell us how to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.
02:08If they have an issue with the process by which someone was removed, then obviously that's an issue for other
02:13agencies in our government that are involved in enforcing that.
02:15All I can opine to you on is taking away someone's visas, and no judge is going to tell the
02:22executive branch how to conduct foreign policy because that's not up to judges.
02:25That's up to the executive branch.
02:27On your first question about Iran, look, doing a deal with Iran is not easy.
02:32I said it yesterday.
02:33I'll repeat it again today.
02:34I mean, we have to understand that Iran ultimately is governed, and its decisions are governed by Shia clerics, radical
02:40Shia clerics, okay?
02:42These people make policy decisions on the basis of pure theology.
02:46That's how they make their decisions.
02:48So it's hard to do a deal with Iran.
02:50We've always said it's hard, but we're going to try.
02:52That's what the president is trying.
02:53I'm not going to prejudge those talks.
02:55I'm certainly not going to negotiate with Iran here in front of the press and on the stage.
02:59Our negotiators are on their way there now.
03:01They'll have meetings.
03:02We'll see what happens.
03:03We're hopeful there's a deal.
03:04The president always prefers peaceful outcomes and negotiated outcomes to things.
03:08He's a president that's shown his willingness to talk to anyone and meet with anyone.
03:12And I think if there's an opportunity here to diplomatically reach an agreement that addresses the things we're concerned about,
03:20we will be very open and welcoming to that.
03:23But I don't want to overstate it either.
03:24It's going to be hard.
03:25I mean, we're dealing, you know, it's been very difficult for anyone to do real deals with Iran because we're
03:30dealing with radical Shia clerics who are making theological decisions, not geopolitical ones.
03:35But let's see what happens.
03:37I hope it works out.
03:38We all hope it works out.
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