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00:14MARK Bcarbonio, COVID-19
00:15Hello, Steve.
00:18Oh, thank you very much.
00:22We have a very distinguished guest
00:24with us today.
00:26A lot of people think you'll be
00:28our new Press Secretary.
00:30and one thing about him he doesn't play games because i've known him a long time but i'll
00:35introduce him in a second i do want to read a statement that i had a excellent conversation
00:40with sheikh muhammad and you probably know who that is he's prime minister of qatar wherein
00:49much was discussed with respect to the islamic republic of iran most importantly qatar saudi
00:58arabia uae bahrain kuwait and others would prefer the status quo that we remain as is in other words
01:06a continuation of the greatest naval blockade in the history of our country probably in the history
01:14of the world nothing has gotten through at all and there's been months nothing has gotten through
01:20having a very devastating effect on as you know and you've seen having a very devastating
01:27effect on iran and also operation iron gate which was newly imposed and that's land so you have land
01:36and sea total lockdown i've agreed that iran cannot have and everybody's agreeing iran will never have
01:43a nuclear weapon and that's a non-negotiable point they understand that they accept that they don't
01:49admit that they accept it and they will tell you that they don't accept it but they accept it 100
01:56percent more than 100 percent and should there be any change with respect to developments in the
02:02middle east the united states of america is fully locked and loaded with the best equipment ever made
02:11and we don't think there's going to be any reason to use it however
02:19and iran militarily is effectively over
02:24we're just keeping it the status quo and we're doing that really at the behest of countries that
02:32are their neighbors but it's a failing country it's got 301 inflation it's got uh problems like you
02:41don't want to even think about
02:44yes we haven't lost a soldier in six months and nobody not not even an injury and yet we have
02:54uh the strait is closed down and more oil has come closed down to iran more oil has come out
03:01of the
03:01strait over the last week than at any point in the history of the harmos strait so we're doing very
03:08well but at this point we it won't be necessary taking the the military action doesn't seem to be a
03:15very necessary thing but we're locked and loaded ready to go for any reason that changes israel and
03:21the entire middle east are protected from iranian danger and threats and we're seeing momentum
03:26toward the end of this conflict i think it's going to be ending fairly soon
03:34so it's a nasty place but uh we think that it's in pretty good shape we'll see what happens i
03:42don't
03:42guarantee anything but if we do have to go back in we are locked and loaded and ready to go
