00:00I did. I wouldn't say angry. I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon.
00:12Mr. President, will you just not tear us on Israel?
00:26Mr. President, will you just not tear us on Israel?
00:36Axios reported that you had a phone call with Bibi Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel,
00:41in which you were angry with him. You said, are you effing crazy? What are you effing doing?
00:47I helped you stay out of jail. Is that true? Did you speak to him in those terms?
00:52I did. I wouldn't say angry. I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon.
01:01You know, at some point I said, Bibi, we've got to stop this. We've got to stop it.
01:07But I have a very good relationship. We've done well together. He always says we could never have done it,
01:14but everybody knows that we could have never done it without the United States.
01:18But I've worked very well together. I like Bibi a lot.
01:21And are your tactics where you say something and then change it and then do a peace deal and then
01:27break the ceasefire or whatever,
01:29is that all about trying to keep the Iranians off balance? Are you sort of messaging to them?
01:36No. Because people at home, sometimes I hear that they feel anxious and confused.
01:42That's good. That's good. If they're confused and the Iranians are confused.
01:45So we had various levels of people and the first set is gone, the second set is gone, part of
01:52the third set is gone,
01:53and the people we're dealing with, we know they're the people that are leading the country right now.
01:58Is it the gay Ayatollah?
02:00He's involved, absolutely.
02:02Really?
02:02Yeah, I think they have a lot of respect for him.
02:06So is he, he's compus mentis? He's not sick in hospital in a coma as we've been told?
02:11Well, I don't know. I haven't had the privilege of meeting him.
02:14Right.
02:15But I'm not hearing he's doing great. You're doing better.
02:18Right.
02:19That way he's not. If you believe the story is, you know, missing a lot of different parts.
02:24So who's making the decisions?
02:25Well, they say he is giving approval because that's the way it has been for a long, long time.
02:32His father and then him, I guess it's a succession.
02:36But we seem to be getting along quite well.
02:39Would you like to meet him or meet any of the Iranians in person?
02:42I've never thought of it, actually. It's a very good question. I'll think of it.
02:44Yeah, I'd like to meet him. I'd like to meet everybody. I'd like to meet him.
02:48We probably will meet at some point, depending on how it all works out.
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