00:00Trump said, Oman will behave just like everybody else,
00:04for we will have to blow them up.
00:06Are you guys back there in the West Wing making plans for a new war with Oman?
00:11Again, I think the president wanted to punctuate freedom of navigation in the strait.
00:17I had a call with the Omani ambassador this morning,
00:20and he assured me that there were no plans for tolling the strait.
00:25As he said, our countries have had 200 years of good relations.
00:28He wants to have another 200 more.
00:30And I told him that this was a non-starter,
00:34and he did not want to risk either the Omani individuals
00:38or Omani financial institutions getting sanctioned.
