00:00Trump, let's move on to the Strait of Hormuz.
00:02You know, Trump remained defiant today after being rebuffed by NATO allies who refused to help secure shipping through the
00:08strait.
00:09Let's take a listen to what he had to say earlier.
00:13We don't need help. You know, we've we've that war is has been long prosecuted, as far as I'm concerned,
00:20almost from day one.
00:21We knocked out many of these things. I think NATO is making a very foolish mistake.
00:26And I've long said that, you know, I wonder whether or not NATO would ever be there for us.
00:32So this is a this was a great test because we don't need them, but they should have been there.
00:37Well, so, Ketivan, Trump seems to really have taken this personally.
00:41Yes, he in a way has acknowledged now, which is different from what we heard yesterday,
00:46where he was saying that they were going to announce a list of countries that were joining efforts in the
00:52Strait of Hormuz.
00:53Now he seems to have understood that at least the NATO allies, they're not willing to get into it.
00:58And he's very frustrated by those NATO allies.
01:01And you heard Donald Trump over and over again during that briefing, if you will, in the Oval Office,
01:08talk about how the U.S. doesn't need anyone, didn't need any help anyway,
01:14but at the same time frustrated that the help is not coming from those European allies.
01:19Going back to something that he's been saying for years now that the NATO allies,
01:25especially the Europeans, somehow owe it to the United States to come and help them when the U.S. needs
01:34them.
01:35He also talked about this idea that we were always wondering whether the NATO allies would be there for the
01:43United States
01:44when we would need them. First of all, NATO is a defensive alliance.
01:49The one time that Article 5 was invoked was to help the Americans when they came under attack after 9
01:56-11.
01:57It is not an alliance that is supposed to come and help the ones who are doing the attacking,
02:03the United States and the Israelis.
02:06And there's also the question of now you want allies that you didn't consult before entering a war
02:13to come and help you after the fact two weeks on from the first strikes on Iran.
02:20So a lot of frustration from Donald Trump.
02:23And he was at the end asked by several reporters whether there would be consequences
02:28about these NATO allies not joining to help in the Strait of Hormuz and whether or not he would pull
02:36the U.S. out of NATO.
02:37Donald Trump sort of sidestepped that question, even though he did say,
02:41if I wanted to, I could. I don't need Congress.
02:45That is not true as part of the National Defense Authorization Act passed under Joe Biden.
02:52At the end of his term, there is a new law that prevents U.S. presidents from unilaterally pulling out
02:59of the NATO allowance
03:00if they don't have either the support of two-thirds of the Senate or an act of Congress.
03:06And one of the main architects of putting that element into the NDAA was the current Secretary of State, Marco
03:15Rubio.
03:15Could we?
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