00:00No, the strait's going to be open to everybody.
00:03It's international waters.
00:05Nobody's going to control it.
00:06We're going to watch over it.
00:07We'll watch over it.
00:08But nobody's going to control it.
00:09That's part of the negotiation that we have.
00:12They would like to control it.
00:13Nobody's going to control it.
00:14It's international waters.
00:16And Oman will behave just like everybody else,
00:19and we'll have to blow them up.
00:20They understand that.
00:22They'll be fine.
00:23Well, you have to say, the United States
00:25has so much oil that we are an export of oil.
00:28So we have plenty of oil.
00:30We're very lucky.
00:31We're blessed with the greatest piece of land in the world
00:35from that standpoint.
00:36And we have more than anybody else.
00:38And now, when you add Venezuela to it,
00:40we have, I think, 64 percent of the world's oil.
00:44And we're getting along very well with Venezuela, by the way.
00:47It's being run really beautifully.
00:48The big companies are moving in.
00:50It's going to be amazing because it's also, like us,
00:53they're very blessed in that sense.
00:55But we have natural energy that no other country has.
00:59We have more than anybody else.
01:01So it's really a world problem,
01:04because most of the world doesn't have that.
01:06And we're making it available during the closing.
01:08I don't know if you've seen some of the satellite pictures.
01:12Boats, hundreds of boats lined up.
01:14It looks like I used to say the Long Island Expressway.
01:18They're lined up and they're coming to Texas, Louisiana.
01:21They're coming to Alaska to fill up their boat, a big boat.
01:25Some of them are really big, you know, two billion gallons.
01:28Even bigger than that now they make them.
01:30They make them up to four, Chris, I hear.
01:32Now they make them up to four.
01:33The four are now the big ones.
01:35Used to be the ones.
01:36Now it's four million barrels of, think of that,
01:39four million barrels of oil on one boat.
01:41But they're lined up and they're right now heading to Texas.
01:46And they've already filled up and they've gone back.
01:48In addition to that, you have a lot of boats,
01:50you have about 1,400, 1,500 boats in the straight wanting to get out.
01:54And at the right time, we'll release them.
01:56But the American people are seeing higher gas prices.
01:59Now it's come down a little bit, but it's still $4.45.
02:02Well, it'll come down a lot.
02:03It'll come down to where it was before we had it.
02:05When I was in Iowa, we had driving by and we saw gas stations,
02:11$1.90 a gallon, $1.85, $1.87 were the three that we saw.
02:17We had it down in some places below.
02:20Now, we can't help a California where they charge so much tax that,
02:23you know, you lower it and they charge tax.
02:25They've got to straighten the act down in California.
02:27But we had oil, we had gasoline down to a very low number.
02:31I think we'll be hitting that number shortly after that whole excursion ends.
02:38Does that give you more urgency?
02:39But regardless of anything, regardless of anything, as Marco said,
02:44better than anybody can say it, you can't let them have a nuclear weapon.
02:47They would use it instantly.
02:49They wouldn't think about it.
02:50They would use it instantly.
02:52I've gotten to know them.
02:53They would use it instantly.
02:54Does that give you more urgency, Mr. President?
02:56You've said that you're in no rush to make a deal.
02:58But with gas prices that are so high across the country,
03:01people are paying more for travel, does that give you more urgency to make a deal?
03:05Why doesn't it?
03:05Well, I'll tell you, the primary urgency I have, I said this,
03:08it wasn't covered properly.
03:09But the primary urgency is that we can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
03:14But at the same time, we have a tremendous amount of oil, gas, coal.
03:19We have tremendous amounts of energy.
03:21We're blessed with something very special.
03:24Those prices are going to come down.
03:25They're going to come down fast.
03:26I think that you'll see, actually, Todd, I think you're going to see lower prices
03:30that we had even before we did this.
03:32Now, I knew there'd be an increase.
03:34I said, we have a choice.
03:35We don't have to do anything.
03:37And then two years or one year or two months, because Iran would have had a — if we didn't
03:41hit that with the B-2 bombers, Iran would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks from
03:46that date because they were ready to go.
03:48And if they had a nuclear weapon, it would have been used already.
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