00:01A lot of things to talk about, but there's not much I can say to you about them.
00:06So, one of those little problems in life.
00:09We had some very good results today, as you probably heard, in Iran.
00:14Very strong results, militarily results.
00:17We're talking to countries about policing the Straits, because they are the ones.
00:23You know, we don't get very little, 1%, 2%.
00:27China, as an example, gets about 90% of its wealth from the Hormone Strait.
00:34And it's nice to have other countries police that with us.
00:38And we'll help, we'll work with them.
00:40Militarily, as far as I'm concerned, we've essentially defeated Iran.
00:45I guess they could have a little bit of fight back, but not much.
00:49Not much.
00:49We've taken out their air forces, you know.
00:51We've taken out their navy.
00:53We've taken out their air defense.
00:55There's no air defense whatsoever.
00:58We've taken out their leadership times two or three.
01:01It might be three.
01:01We'll find out soon.
01:04But militarily, it's been amazing.
01:07We attacked Karg Island.
01:10And we left just the one little area standing.
01:14And the standing part is where they have the pipes, all the oil pipes come in.
01:18And we can do that on five minutes' notice.
01:21We have it all locked and loaded and ready to go if we want to do it.
01:24But we chose not to do it.
01:25I chose not to do it yet.
01:27We'll see what happens.
01:29They want to negotiate.
01:30They want to negotiate badly.
01:31I don't think they're ready.
01:33They want to negotiate badly, as they should.
01:39But I don't think they're ready to do what they have to do.
01:43But I think they will be ready at some point.
01:46But we're doing very well with respect to that whole situation in Iran.
01:50And we are talking to other countries about working with us on the policing of the strait.
01:58And I think we get a good response.
02:00And if we do, that's great.
02:01And if we don't, that's great, too.
02:03But remember, like, as an example, in many cases, they're NATO countries.
02:08We're always there for NATO.
02:10We're helping them with Ukraine.
02:13As many, it's got an ocean in between us.
02:16It doesn't affect us, but we've helped them.
02:18And it'd be interesting to see what country wouldn't help us with a very small endeavor,
02:24which is just keeping the strait open.
02:26That, by comparison, is small.
02:29It's small because Iran has very little firepower left.
02:33Their missiles are down to a low number.
02:35You see, they're shooting very few of them.
02:38You know why?
02:39Because they don't have very many of them.
02:40And because we've decimated their manufacturing capability.
02:45Likewise, the drones are way down.
02:46So they're down to about 20% of what they had.
02:49Still have some.
02:50And they're pretty tough.
02:52But the drones are down.
02:54And we're hitting, we're starting hitting.
02:56As of yesterday, we're hitting places where they manufacture the drones.
03:00We think most of which we know where they are.
03:03So it's a very strong military operation, just as it was in Venezuela.
03:07We have the strongest military anywhere in the world by far, not even a contest.
03:12And I think people understand that.
03:15And we will finish the job.
03:19Mr. President.
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