00:02President Macron has just said in the last hour that he will never join a task force in the straight
00:08reform moves until hostility is finished.
00:10Who said that?
00:12President Macron of France. What's your reaction to that, sir?
00:15Well, he'll be out of office very soon, so we'll have to see. I don't know.
00:19President Macron, on Doombeg, you're building an extension to it at the moment, but there's been an objection put in
00:29and it's been held back at the moment due to small snails.
00:34Are you disappointed about that?
00:37I have not heard that.
00:43The course was built and it's been operated very successfully.
00:48Somebody's objecting, I mean, an environmental group is objecting to small snails at Doombeg.
00:53It doesn't sound like the biggest problem I've ever had.
00:58How close, how close the U.S. to announce a coalition of willing to secure the Strait of Hormuz?
01:03Which countries are joining and which countries have?
01:06Well, we've had great support from the Middle East.
01:10Qatar has been great.
01:12UAE has been absolutely, they've been great.
01:15Saudi Arabia has been terrific.
01:18Bahrain has been very good.
01:19The Middle Eastern countries have been very strong in their support.
01:23And of course, Israel has been our partner.
01:27Israel's been very, very strong along with us.
01:30It's been a very strong collaboration.
01:33I was against Iran long before I ever thought about Israel being against Iran.
01:39If you look back many years ago, I talked about Iran was a big threat to this country, to this
01:47world of ours.
01:49And it turned out to be I was right.
01:52In fact, I said you have to attack Karg, Karg Island.
01:57You have to attack them years ago when they were acting up.
02:00They've been acting up for 37, 47, I guess now 48 years.
02:06For 48 years, they've been bad players, vicious players.
02:10And you can't let them have a nuclear weapon.
02:13If they got a nuclear weapon, I would say they would have used it within 24 hours after having it.
02:17And they would have had it if we didn't bomb them out from a great raid with the B-2
02:22bombers eight months ago or so.
02:25You would have had a nuclear war in the Middle East and maybe beyond.
02:30I think it would have hit Europe.
02:32Maybe not Ireland, but it would have hit Europe.
02:34I think you would have been a nice piece of it.
02:36It all gets you.
02:37It's big enough that you would have been affected.
02:39They would have hit Europe eventually.
02:40It's a big part, and it is great.
02:41That's a big part.
02:41Thank you, Mr. President.
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