00:00Any diplomatic progress with Iran for drawing a diplomatic end to the war?
00:05I don't have any progress to report to you.
00:07I think you see so many things that are out there.
00:09You have a number of countries that continue to engage them with different ideas,
00:13but I wouldn't say we're at the verge of a breakthrough.
00:16The president would always prefer to solve this and every problem diplomatically.
00:20Sometimes that's not possible, unfortunately, but if there's a chance to do it, we'll explore it.
00:24Right now, it hasn't been very productive because the Iranian demands are simply not just unacceptable,
00:31but in some cases, racist and ridiculous and really not live-less.
00:34All right?
00:35Let me go through my call.
00:36Can I ask on Haiti for Haiti?
00:37On Haiti.
00:38Yeah, the Salvadorian deployments that have gone in there.
00:41The president said, you know, he kind of green-liped that, but is the U.S. providing any support?
00:46And you can say that...
00:47Well, I mean, the Salvadorians are just providing their own airless.
00:51So there's two things going on in Haiti.
00:53We have the Gang Suppression Force, which is the U.N. mission,
00:56and they have forces, I think about 100 soldiers that are a party back,
00:59and that's what we've been engaged in supporting.
01:01We don't have troops there, but we've been engaged.
01:03And then there's a separate mission, which they've taken on bilaterally in agreement with the Haitian officials
01:10to go after the gangs that kidnapped their forces that were there, their soldiers that were there.
01:16So that's a separate mission.
01:17He called the president and made him aware of what he was doing,
01:20and the president understood why he was doing it,
01:22but we're not necessarily, we're not actively involved in that.
01:25Does it potentially undermine the Gang Suppression Force that you have?
01:28No, as long...
01:29As Salvadorians there, you have the private security contractors,
01:32there's a lot of people on the ground working.
01:34No, as long as the chain of command is well-established, who's working for who.
01:38And I think they'll have to, and we've raised this point, not being a criticism, just as an observation.
01:43We have to make clear, we have to make sure that there's deconfliction going on.
01:48What you can't have is a gang suppression force running into Salvadorian soldiers and shooting at each other
01:53because they think the other side are gang members.
01:55So that's why you'll need a deconfliction mechanism.
01:58You'll need a lot of strong coordination because they're operating alongside one another.
02:01So we've pointed that out.
02:04But I don't think it necessarily has to be there.
02:08Okay?
02:08Don't give us the women.
02:13We're now into the system, period, before this, like this, again, as of itself.
02:19And what is your demand of your allies to build them at the door to direct that door?
02:24Or unless they can get them to change their mind and agree to reform, as they should.
02:28They should make very clear that they do not.
02:30You still have elements of the ICC who claim that they have jurisdiction over citizens that are not,
02:35of non-member states, and we're never going to accept that when it comes to Americans.
02:40It's as simple as that.
02:41We've been clear on that for a year and a half.
02:43We've made no progress trying to get them to make that clear in their reforms.
02:47They refuse to do so, so we're taking action.
02:49That's it.
02:49And that's what exactly you want to see is why they're going to go to your own audience.
02:54Yeah, I mean, at this point, you know, we've made clear to them where we stand on it
02:58and how we feel about it.
03:00And we've asked them if they don't want us to take these actions against the ICC,
03:03then they should convince the ICC to wake up and realize that they do not have jurisdiction
03:08over citizens of countries that are not members, especially leaders or service members of countries
03:14that are not members of the treaty.
03:16What's the point of the treaty?
03:17If they claim universal jurisdiction without limitation and outside the treaty,
03:21then they're way outside the bounds of the mandate that they may have from these other countries
03:25that are members of it.
03:26So it's very simple.
03:28If they want to avoid the actions we are going to take against the ICC,
03:31they should convince the ICC once and for all to do the things that are necessary
03:35to ensure that no American service member or leader ever has jurisdiction from the ICC
03:41placed on them, because that's illegitimate.
03:43It's an illegitimate action.
03:44And they refuse to acknowledge that.
03:45So we'll do what we need to do if they don't do it.
03:47So I think the problem would it be if they were supposed to be blocking to the EU
03:50so that blocks the enforcement of the second-day expansion?
03:55I'm not going to tell me.
03:56We have our way.
03:56We'll get to it.
03:57The ICC will not be in good shape if we have to get them.
03:59And we will if we have to.
04:01But look, they still have a chance.
04:03Maybe they'll wake up and realize that their dreams of being some universal court
04:07of jurisdiction over everyone, including countries that didn't sign up,
04:10maybe they'll abandon those ridiculous dreams.
04:14We'll see.
04:15We're on it.
04:15Okay.
04:16Thanks, Dan.
