00:00Well, the Straits of Hormuz, those are international waters, right?
00:02So anything Iran does to impede commercial traffic is illegal.
00:06For all these countries that love to talk about international law,
00:08it is a violation of international maritime law
00:11to impede the free flow of travel in international waters.
00:14So that's number one.
00:15Number two, it's illegal to bomb and hit and attack commercial shipping and sink them.
00:20I mean, that's what the Nazis did during World War II in the Atlantic.
00:23And that's what they're doing now to ships from countries they don't like
00:27or flagged by countries they don't like.
00:28These are terroristic acts that they're undertaking.
00:31And so the United States gets very little energy through the Straits of Hormuz.
00:35Our allies ship out a lot of oil through there, meaning our Gulf allies.
00:38And certainly countries in Asia and Europe depend on it.
00:41We depend very little on the Straits.
00:43So if, in fact, Iran decides to set up a toll,
00:46if, in fact, Iran decides that they're going to illegally control the Straits of Hormuz
00:50or decide they're going to try to do that,
00:51look, I imagine that'll be the president's call on whether he wants to help.
00:54But this is a problem for the world.
00:56It's countries around the world should be stepping up and dealing with that
00:59and saying that's intolerable.
01:01And that's what we've encouraged them to do.
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