00:00Straiti ha to be open, they're going to be open one way or the other, so they need to be
00:03open, what's happening there is unlawful, it's illegal, it's not sustainable for the world, it's unacceptable.
00:08I don't know of any country in the world that does it. The Russians are not in favor of the
00:14tolling system, the Chinese are not in favor of the tolling system.
00:17I mean, there's no country in the world that's in favor of the tolling system except for the regime in
00:21Iran, so that's not acceptable, that cannot happen.
00:24The straits need to be open, unimpeded, without tolls, and obviously that needs to happen immediately as soon as anything's
00:31agreed to.
00:32Well, look, I think our position is well stated. The president had a very important, I think, historic call just
00:37a couple days ago with a number of leaders from the region.
00:40I think there's strong alignment and agreement on what a preliminary draft should look like.
00:44I think, like anything with something like this, it's going to take a couple days to settle on, even down
00:51to the disagreements over a word.
00:55Sentence. So, we'll have to work through that. If there's going to be a deal, we're going to have to
00:58work through that.
00:59But this is, you know, it's either going to be a good deal or there isn't going to be one.
01:03Okay?
01:04Thanks very much.
01:05Thanks.
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