00:00Peter, about Iran, what is the exit strategy?
00:04Well, I think there's a lot of them.
00:06There's a military exit where we just keep going just the way we are,
00:10and we can even make it a heavier dose,
00:13and it's knocking out everything they have.
00:15Or there's a smarter strategy, that's you make a deal,
00:19and they want to make a deal.
00:20I just don't think they're ready yet, but they do want to make a deal.
00:23Sometimes they don't want to say they want to make a deal.
00:26They want to be the tough guys, but they do want to make a deal.
00:29There's two ways.
00:30I mean, you can just keep doing exactly what we're doing
00:34and take them apart piece by piece.
00:36We can do it in a more rapid fashion, which we might do.
00:40Or we can negotiate with them, which we're also doing right now.
00:44I mean, as we speak, we're talking to them.
00:46And you said today that Russia and China are not helping.
00:51Earlier this week, the War Secretary, Hegseth,
00:54said that they are enabling.
00:56So what is the difference?
00:59Well, I don't know that they're enabling.
01:00I mean, I will tell you that President Xi said he will not partake,
01:04and President Putin said the same thing.
01:07I think, you know, I trust them.
01:10Do they, they've had a long-term relationship.
01:12There could be some things to do,
01:14but thus far, at least, it has not been made here.
01:17I don't think they'd want to have me disappointed.
01:20It's a big deal.
01:21But really, when you get right down to it, it's not very complex.
01:25They cannot have a nuclear weapon.
01:26You know, very, very simple, actually.
01:28But it's a, it's a big deal.
01:31They cannot have a nuclear weapon.
01:32If they have even a thought of a nuclear weapon,
01:35we would just continue to go at much higher levels.
01:38But we are talking right now, and we'll see what comes of it.
01:42I'm not, you know, despite what everyone says about the election,
01:45I'm not in a hurry.
01:47I'm not in a hurry.
01:48We have to do it right.
01:51Elections take care of themselves.
01:52When you, you know, when I went into Venezuela,
01:54everybody was against it.
01:55Oh, what are you doing going into Venezuela?
01:58And then two days later, they said, wow, that's fantastic.
02:02A lot of people are saying that with Iran already,
02:05because it would take them 25 years to rebuild already from what they have.
02:10And again, as you know, no Navy, no Air Force,
02:14no anti-aircraft, no radar, no nothing.
02:18And we, as you know, we just put up, reinstituted the,
02:23the, I guess you could, I call it the iron wall on the water.
02:27Nothing gets through, nothing.
02:29Blockade, nothing gets through.
02:31And they sort of have to make a deal.
02:34But we are talking to them.
02:36I think they're being serious.
02:37I think, I think they are being by far the most serious that we've seen.
02:41But that doesn't mean we get there.
02:42We'll see what happens.
02:43But I always prefer that alternative.
02:47Active.
02:47Perfect.
02:48Active.
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