00:00What's the holdup right now? Is there something that needs to be done?
00:02It's just a response. I mean, when you get down to some of these things, you've got to hear back,
00:05and it takes the Iranian system a little while longer to get back.
00:10So, like, look, the president's not going to make a bad deal. He's just not.
00:14This issue, no one has done more, and no one has been more serious about the threat of nuclear Iran
00:20than President Trump has been.
00:21And so I'm very confident, and we should all be very confident, that we're not going to have a—
00:25we're either going to have a good agreement or we're going to have to deal with it another way.
00:27We'd prefer to have a good agreement.
00:29What about Lebanon? Is Lebanon going to be part of a deal?
00:32Well, Lebanon we're working on separately. With Lebanon, we are engaged now.
00:35We have a 45-day ceasefire. We've had weekly meetings now and ongoing daily engagements between the government of Lebanon
00:42and Israel.
00:43The problem is not Lebanon and Israel. The problem is Hezbollah.
00:46Just last night, Hezbollah put out a statement calling for the overthrow of the Lebanese government.
00:51And it just reminds you of who you are dealing with here.
00:53By the way, an Iranian proxy, 100% Iranian proxy.
00:56And as long as Lebanon exists with armaments—as long as an armed Lebanon—as long as an armed Hezbollah exists, it's
01:04going to be hard to achieve peace in Lebanon because they're victimizing the people of Lebanon.
01:09They're not just attacking Israel. They are victimizing the people of Lebanon, who are paying a tremendous price because of
01:15Hezbollah.
01:16And so that—but we're working that track with the Lebanese government and the Israeli government.
01:21And we've made some good progress there, an extended ceasefire, a path forward.
01:25We're going to continue to work on that.
01:27Hezbollah is a terrorist group. What can I tell you?
01:29But would it be to understand that Israel wouldn't strike Lebanon as part of the—
01:33Well, Israel always has a right to protect itself. Every country in the world does.
01:36And so if Hezbollah is going to launch missiles or launches missiles at them, Israel has every right to respond
01:41to that or to prevent that from happening.
01:43That's always been understood. It's being understood during the ceasefire.
01:46And it'll—and now in Lebanon, and it'll be understood beyond that.
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