00:00Well, I've spoken with the president about this as recently as an hour ago.
00:04Iran very much continues to talk to the United States of America
00:07and express that they want to make a deal with us
00:10because they are suffering devastating blows on behalf of our United States military.
00:16The reason, and this is important for the American people to understand,
00:19the reason for the recent strikes over the course of the last several days
00:22is because Iran violated the memorandum of understanding that we struck with them.
00:28Specifically, in the memorandum of understanding that they signed,
00:31they were not to fire on commercial vessels moving through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:35And unfortunately, they have made the tragic decision for them to do that.
00:40And President Trump is not going to sit by and allow these active acts of terrorism
00:45to take place in the strait without ensuring Iran pays consequences for that.
00:49And that's what we are witnessing right now.
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