00:00Operation Epic Fury is concluded we achieved the objectives of that operation I'm not going to you know we're not
00:07cheering for an additional situation to occur we would prefer the path of peace what the president would prefer is
00:13a deal he would prefer to sit down work out a memorandum of understanding for future negotiations that touches on
00:18all the key topics that have to be addressed a full opening of the strait so the world can get
00:22back to normal that he and he preferred that be negotiated through the route that Steve and Jared have been
00:26working and that all of us have been supporting that's the route he prefers
00:29that is so far not the route that Iran has chosen and so the result has been that the United
00:33States has to do something about the fact that we're the only nation on earth that can do anything to
00:37open up a lane within the straits of Hormuz to get product and to rescue these people that are trapped
00:42in there and that's what we're undergoing now what that may lead to in the future is speculative I'm not
00:46going to speculate about what it would take or what it would do but look the message to Iran these
00:51guys are facing they are facing real catastrophic destruction to their economy generational destruction to their economy generational destruction to
00:58their economy generational destruction to their economy generational destruction
00:59destruction to the wealth of their country imposed on themselves by the by the actions that they're taking they should
01:03check themselves before they wreck themselves in the direction that they're going
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