00:11Mr. Secretary, are you going to ask G7 to help with the Strait of Hormuz?
00:16Well, it's in their interest to help.
00:19Other countries get far more of their fuel from there than we do.
00:22But what kind of help are you going to ask?
00:24Winekeepers, naval help?
00:26Well, those specifics, I'll leave it to the Department of War as to exactly
00:29what, but it's in their interest.
00:31It's in their national interest.
00:32Do you think President Trump criticizing NATO this morning, that sentiment?
00:37I think he just made an observation, and the observation is that the United States
00:42is constantly being asked to help in a war, and we have, more than any other country in
00:45the world, on a war that's happening in another continent, in Ukraine.
00:51But when the U.S. had a need, he didn't get positive responses.
00:55So right now, he's just making the observation that, you know, I think there was a couple
00:58of leaders in Europe who said that this was not Europe's war.
01:02Well, Ukraine is not America's war, and yet we've contributed more to that fight than
01:05any other country in the world.
01:06So it'll be something to examine if the president will have to take into account down the road.
01:11What's your assessment of Russia's support for Iran now?
01:17Their assessment of it?
01:18Yeah, what's your assessment?
01:19I think Russia's primarily concentrating on the war they have going on right now.
01:24Beyond that, I don't have anything to add right now.
01:26So are you a little concerned about the reception that you might get when we arrive?
01:33The reception, I might get?
01:34Yeah, the reception.
01:35By who?
01:36Well, by all your fellow foreign ministers.
01:38I'm not concerned about it.
01:40I'm here on behalf of the United States of America.
01:42I look forward to meeting with them.
01:43I don't know what reception I would get from them.
01:46I think they should be happy that I'm going.
01:48Well, they might be happy, but they're not happy with what's going on.
01:52Well, again, I'm not there to make them happy.
01:54I get along with all of them on a personal level, and we work with those governments very carefully.
01:58But the people I'm interested in making happy are the people of the United States.
02:01That's who I work for.
02:02I don't work for France or Germany or Japan.
02:05These are all good people.
02:05We're going to have great meetings.
02:06Chemistry?
02:07I work for them.
02:08I work for the people of the United States.
02:10Mr. Secretary?
02:11What?
02:12Is the deadline for Iran to engage still tomorrow?
02:15The president addressed that at the cabinet meeting.
02:17Can the straits be reopened without the use of troops on the ground, boots on the ground,
02:22by part of the people?
02:22That's a tactical military question.
02:24I'm not going to, you know, speculate on what it would take.
02:26It can be open tomorrow if Iran stops threatening global shipping, which is an outrage and a violation
02:32of international law for all these countries that care about international law.
02:35They should be doing something about it.
02:39Well, it's not help for us.
02:41Like I said, very little of our energy comes through the Straits of Hormuz.
02:44It's the world that has a great interest in that.
02:46And so they should step up and deal with it.
02:48Mr. Secretary, who are you negotiating with on Iran side?
02:51Well, again, we're not going to get into those details.
02:53There are intermediary countries that are passing messages and progress has been made.
02:57Some concrete progress has been made, as you've seen, and has been documented already.
03:02There's a growing amount of energy that's been flowing through the Straits.
03:05Not as much as should be flowing, but some of it has picked up.
03:07So, again, there's been some progress in regard to the exchange of messages, but that's an ongoing
03:12and fluid process and not one we're going to negotiate or talk about in the media.
03:16Do you think this progress is enough for both sides to perhaps soon meet in person?
03:22We'll see.
03:22We'll see how it turns out.
03:24I don't want to prejudge it.
03:25I don't want to predict.
03:27As I said, we'll see what happens.
03:30Okay?
03:30Alright, guys.
03:31We'll see you.
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