00:00I didn't make a comment on it. I heard about it. I have a lot of respect for it.
00:06On Iran, it's very interesting. He feels strongly they can't have a nuclear weapon.
00:14They cannot have a nuclear weapon, and he wants them to open up the strait.
00:21We control the strait.
00:23Trump told the world about his deep, detailed Iran conversation with Xi Jinping.
00:28Then his own Secretary of State walked up to a microphone and said the opposite.
00:33So who's telling the truth?
00:35A reporter asks Rubio directly, what did Trump ask Xi for on Iran?
00:42Rubio's answer, he didn't ask him for anything.
00:45We're not asking for China's help. We don't need their help.
00:48Clean, definitive, no wiggle room.
00:51Now here's Trump. Same summit, same week.
00:54We talked about Iran. He feels strongly they can't have a nuclear weapon.
00:58He said that very strongly.
01:00He wants them to open up the strait. We're doing very well on all fronts.
01:05I didn't make a comment on it. I heard about it. I have a lot of respect for it.
01:09On Iran, it's very interesting. He feels strongly they can't have a nuclear weapon.
01:14He said that very strongly.
01:15They cannot have a nuclear weapon, and he wants them to open up the strait.
01:20But as he said, they closed it, and then you closed them with a smile.
01:25And it's true. We control the strait.
01:28And they've done no business, literally they've done no business in the last two and a half weeks,
01:34which is approximately $500 million a day.
01:38So we have, we do it very well on all fronts.
01:43That is a detailed account of a substantive Iran conversation.
01:48She's position on nukes.
01:49She's position on the strait.
01:51Outcomes, alignment.
01:53Trump even added,
01:55I'm not asking for any favors, because when you ask for favors, you have to do favors in return.
02:00So Trump talked about Iran at length.
02:03He just rebranded the conversation as not asking for anything.
02:07Rubio went further and said there was no ask and no need.
02:11Those are two very different statements.
02:13Here's where it gets interesting.
02:15Because technically, both men have an escape hatch.
02:18Trump's version,
02:19We talked.
02:20She volunteered his positions.
02:22I didn't request anything.
02:24Rubio's version,
02:25We don't need China's help.
02:27We're not outsourcing our Iran strategy to Beijing.
02:30The administration's argument is that raising Iran directly with Xi,
02:35getting his public alignment on no nukes and an open strait,
02:38isn't asking for help.
02:40It's just communicating red lines.
02:42But here's the problem with that framing.
02:45China is Iran's biggest oil buyer.
02:47China has the most economic leverage over Tehran of any country on earth.
02:52The strait disruption is hammering global energy markets.
02:55Oil is above $100 a barrel.
02:58And this is the pattern worth watching.
03:01Trump needs this Iran situation resolved.
03:04China has leverage he doesn't, and he knows it.
03:07But admitting that,
03:08admitting America needs Beijing's help,
03:10blows up the entire America First brand.
03:13It hands critics the headline,
03:15Trump goes to China hat in hand.
03:18This isn't necessarily Rubio outing his boss.
03:21It's two men doing their jobs.
03:23Trump projecting strength to the public.
03:26Rubio projecting strength to the diplomatic world.
03:28But somewhere between,
03:30we talked extensively about Iran,
03:32and Xi said this and that,
03:34and he didn't ask for anything,
03:35we don't need their help,
03:37the truth is sitting quietly in a room in Beijing.
03:40And nobody's letting it out.
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