00:00Our plan is to go to Switzerland. I don't know exactly when the way that we're setting up this technical
00:05negotiation is that obviously you're going to have the political leadership involved. Excuse me. We're going to have people on
00:11the ground actually driving the technical talks, the nuclear talks. How do you destroy this highly enriched uranium? All that
00:17stuff that you really just have to get into the nitty gritty on. So, you know, I plan to go
00:22to Switzerland exactly when, you know, we thought we think these technical negotiations are going to start sometime this weekend.
00:28That's still the plan, but that could change because it's not an easy country Iran to get out of. And
00:34so we're trying to figure out exactly when that's going to happen. I, I, I suspect this weekend, but I'm
00:39not sure.
00:40Well, I don't think our public messaging has been chaotic. I think dealing with a fractured Iranian system where communication
00:46isn't great is just sometimes something that we don't fully appreciate or we don't fully understand.
00:52What, what really happened here is that we did sign the MOU on Sunday. That locked into the terms of
00:59the deal. What the Iranians came to us and said is we'd like not to release the text until Friday
01:04in order. We don't, I don't really understand that.
01:06I wanted to get the text out immediately, but in order to be accommodating to them, we said, sure, okay,
01:10we'll wait until Friday. And then what happened over Monday, Tuesday, the president was in G7. Maybe foreign leaders were
01:16talking to the Iranians and encouraging them to do that. We were definitely saying to them, we understand your desire.
01:21Not to have the text out until Friday, but you know, we live in a democratic system. The American people
01:26want to see the text of this deal. We would certainly like to get it out as soon as possible.
01:30And so they came up with having their president sign it, our president sign it, and then just releasing the
01:36text as a signed document immediately.
01:38Yeah, well, I don't want to get into hypotheticals that could torpedo the deal because I think the president's expectation
01:43is that all of our friends, the Israelis, the Arabs in the region, we're going to work together and actually
01:49see this deal to completion.
01:50Now, I saw the Axios report, you know, that Netanyahu is fuming. That's not reflective of the conversations that I've
01:58had with him, but maybe he's saying something to somebody else that he's not saying to me.
02:01What I will say, and this does bother me, is that you've seen people within Bibi's cabinet who have come
02:08out and attacked the deal and in some ways very personally attacked the president of the United States.
02:13And I guess my message to them would be twofold. Number one, Donald J. Trump is the only head of
02:20state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time.
02:27And he happens to be the head of state of the world superpower. If I was in the cabinet of
02:32the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire
02:39world.
02:40And the second message I would give to some of those cabinet members, Bibi, to his credit, has not gone
02:45down this path.
02:46But to some of these cabinet members in Israel who are attacking the president of the United States, the other
02:50thing that I would say is that over the last three months,
02:53two thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for
03:02by American tax dollars.
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