00:00U.S. President Donald Trump says countries that rely on oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz should take the
00:07lead in reopening it.
00:08Another signal Washington may leave the disruption to the waterway unresolved.
00:13His comments come as Trump reiterates plans to end the war on Iran within two to three weeks, offering little
00:20clarity on how that would be achieved.
00:24The problem with the thing, the Strait, is they can have one terrorist there with a machine gun someplace and
00:30they'll say, oh, it's not totally clean.
00:32You know, so let them do it. Let France do it. They get a lot of oil from the Strait.
00:37Let the European countries do it. Let South Korea, who was not helpful to us, by the way, let South
00:43Korea, you know, we only have 45,000 soldiers in harm's way over there right next to a nuclear force.
00:48Let South Korea do it. Let Japan do it. They get 90% of their oil from the Strait. Let
00:54China do it. Let them all do it. What the hell are we doing it for?
00:59Some of U.S. allies, such as Japan, are looking at a 35-country effort led by London to restore
01:06freedom of navigation to the Strait that handled about a quarter of the world's seaborne oil trade before the conflict.
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