00:21We've been at it now for 21 hours, and we've had a number of substantive discussions with
00:29the Iranians. That's the good news. The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement,
00:34and I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America.
00:38So we go back to the United States having not come to an agreement. We've made very clear what
00:43our red lines are, what things we're willing to accommodate them on, and what things we're not
00:47willing to accommodate them on. And we've made that as clear as we possibly could, and they have
00:53chosen not to accept our terms. Well, I won't go into all the details because I don't want to
00:58negotiate it in public after we negotiated for 21 hours in private. But the simple fact is that
01:03we need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon, and they will not
01:09seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon. That is the core goal
01:14of the President of the United States, and that's what we've tried to achieve through these negotiations.
01:18Again, their nuclear programs, such as it is, the enrichment facilities that they had before,
01:26they've been destroyed. But the simple question is, do we see a fundamental commitment of will
01:31for the Iranians not to develop a nuclear weapon, not just now, not just two years from now,
01:37but for the long term? We haven't seen that yet. We hope that we will. We just could not get
01:42to a
01:42situation where the Iranians were willing to accept our terms. I think that we were quite flexible.
01:48We were quite accommodating. The President told us, you need to come here in good faith and make your
01:53best effort to get a deal. We did that. And unfortunately, we weren't able to make any
01:59headway. Obviously, we were talking to the President consistently. I don't know how many
02:04times we talked to him, a half dozen times, a dozen times over the past 21 hours. We obviously
02:08also talked to Admiral Cooper, to Pete, to Marco, to the entire national security team. We talked to
02:13Scott Besson a number of times. So look, we were constantly in communication with the team
02:17because we were negotiating in good faith. And we leave here and we leave here with a very simple
02:25proposal, a method of understanding that is our final and best offer. We'll see if the
02:31rate is accepted. Thank you.
02:33Mr. President, where does this industry come from? Are we going back to work, sir?
02:36I have on board.
02:39Ive at the front of the roof of middle school.
02:51So, here we have one way to go.
02:59You
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