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Speaker 1: Any moment, we expect the Secretary of State Mark or
Speaker 1: Rubio is going to be I guess giving a briefing.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's going to be right where Caroline
Speaker 1: Levitt usually gives her briefing. Congratulations to her, by the way,
Speaker 1: she recently had her second baby, by the way, one
Speaker 1: of the nicest people you'd ever want to meet. Later
Speaker 1: in this program today, JB. Pritzker, Now there's been three
Speaker 1: assassination attempts against Donald Trump, three and JB. Pritzker is
Speaker 1: claiming Trump set the tone for political violence. What he's
Speaker 1: responsible for three assassination attempts and Nazi fascist, racist Gestapo
Speaker 1: and all the rhetoric of the radical left, the legacy
Speaker 1: media mob has not contributed to this dehumanizing, violent atmosphere.
Speaker 1: We now find find ourselves living in assassination culture. We
Speaker 1: now find ourselves living in. Is he going to blame
Speaker 1: you know, Charlie Kirk next for being assassinated because Charlie
Speaker 1: Kirk has a different point of view and would have,
Speaker 1: you know, civil conversations with kids on college campuses. It's unbelievable. Now,
Speaker 1: we also have a tape of JB. Pritzker, moron that
Speaker 1: he is who wants to be president like Aaven Newsom
Speaker 1: in one tape. You know, we just put a montage
Speaker 1: together of him calling Trump a Nazi, comparing him to
Speaker 1: a Nazi six times. And meanwhile, you know, he's setting
Speaker 1: the tone and it's a terrible thing, and it's it's
Speaker 1: terrible and it shouldn't be this way. Well, maybe he
Speaker 1: should stop saying is a Nazi.
Speaker 2: I think the environment. Look, our leaders set the tone
Speaker 2: in this country. And I think that the President of
Speaker 2: the United States has set a tone where political violence
Speaker 2: is okay. He's advocated it himself before. It's a terrible thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's experience, That's what I'm saying. He's experienced.
Speaker 1: He's set the tone. That's a terrible thing. Let's listen
Speaker 1: to the governor's set the tone. Count. You know, every
Speaker 1: time he says makes a comparison to a Nazi.
Speaker 2: Just you know, Count, I studied the Holocaust. I'd helped
Speaker 2: to build a Holocaust Museum. This is what happened in
Speaker 2: the early days of the Nazi regime in Germany. Everything
Speaker 2: that he has done has been tearing down constitutional democracy.
Speaker 2: And that's what happened in Nazi Germany. It doesn't take
Speaker 2: very long to tear apart a constitutional republic. Indeed, the
Speaker 2: Nazis did it in fifty three days, and our democracy
Speaker 2: is almost as fragile, and we're seeing it right now.
Speaker 2: The dangers that we saw in in you know, Nazi Germany,
Speaker 2: especially in the earliest days of Nazi Germany, are the
Speaker 2: dangers that we need to react to now. People have
Speaker 2: criticized me for talking about the Nazi regime. It's the
Speaker 2: one I know most about because.
Speaker 1: I helped to Later it's Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi Nazi.
Speaker 1: The tone is a terrible thing. Uh, you're setting the tone,
Speaker 1: you idiot, And and as is pretty much every every
Speaker 1: elected democrat. Unbelievable. So on my podcast, and we'll play
Speaker 1: this later in the program, you know, back to back.
Speaker 1: I've had now Daan Bongino and I've had Cash Battel.
Speaker 1: We just dropped Cash Battel this morning. Later I will
Speaker 1: play for you, and Dan Bongino said something that was amazing.
Speaker 1: I think this is the most amazing untold story, uh,
Speaker 1: that there are good people in the FBI that purposefully
Speaker 1: hid the evidence in those quote burn bags that they found,
Speaker 1: you know, the burn bags. Cash Battel told me on
Speaker 1: the podcast. The burn bags were in a safer room
Speaker 1: that nobody even knew existed, which means that somebody left
Speaker 1: it there on purpose, is what Bongino had told me,
Speaker 1: And that they put it there on purpose so that
Speaker 1: eventually we would find it, because that's all the evidence
Speaker 1: against all the corruption in the MPI. Why do you
Speaker 1: hear this tape? If you haven't watched the video podcast,
Speaker 1: you need to check it out. You can get it
Speaker 1: on YouTube and wherever you get your video podcast. But
Speaker 1: the two of them together, but I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: Cash just spells it out. They weren't supposed to find
Speaker 1: it in the sense that it was put in a
Speaker 1: place purposely hidden because all the people before him didn't
Speaker 1: want it to be seen. They put it in a
Speaker 1: burn bag, which is classified information that is designed to
Speaker 1: be burned so nobody ever gets a hold of it.
Speaker 1: But they purposely saved it. And I know you're very
Speaker 1: interested in this story. It looks like Eric mister fangfang
Speaker 1: swall well apparently was a bigger degenerate than we knew,
Speaker 1: apparently sending nude photos and videos of him pleasuring himself
Speaker 1: through Snapchat and regularly slid into the dms of random women,
Speaker 1: you know, all while he was married, and the lurid
Speaker 1: details and apparently I wonder it just disgusting. Anyway, Marco
Speaker 1: Rubio is taking to the podium. Let's listen in it
Speaker 1: dropped off people in this country.
Speaker 3: Hello, thank you guys for having me today. I'll be
Speaker 3: filling in for Caroline today obviously, so I'll have a
Speaker 3: brief remarks here and then we'll get to your questions.
Speaker 3: As you know, over the weekend, the President announced this
Speaker 3: Project Freedom, and the goal of it is to frankly,
Speaker 3: if you want to talk about it, it's to rescue
Speaker 3: like almost twenty three thousand civilians from eighty seven different
Speaker 3: countries that are trapped inside of the of the golf
Speaker 3: and left for dead in the Persian Gulf by this
Speaker 3: Iranian regime. You know, for more than two months now,
Speaker 3: these innocent sailors and commercial crew members have been stranded
Speaker 3: out at sea because Iran is conducting something that's not
Speaker 3: just criminal. It's criminal, for sure, but it's desperate and destructive.
Speaker 3: This blockade of the straits of hormones. Nations from around
Speaker 3: the world, the overwhelming majority of whom are not even
Speaker 3: engaged in any military hostilities, are now at risk not
Speaker 3: just of losing their cargo, but the lives of their
Speaker 3: own citizens because of this blockade. These ships. You know,
Speaker 3: you don't leave a ship out there for this long.
Speaker 3: You start running out of food, you start running out
Speaker 3: of potable water, essential supplies, And they're at the mercy
Speaker 3: of this piracy and what it is, it's piracy. And
Speaker 3: not only that, but some of them have seen, you know,
Speaker 3: been open fire on and rained down senseless attacks on
Speaker 3: several civilian ships already, so frankly, the way to put it,
Speaker 3: these are innocent bystanders. These are countries that and ships
Speaker 3: and so forth that have nothing to do with any
Speaker 3: of this, and nonetheless are being caught in the middle
Speaker 3: of it and being held hostage merely because Iran could
Speaker 3: do that, just because of just as the regime rutally
Speaker 3: slaughtered tens of thousands of their own citizens for the
Speaker 3: crime of peaceful protests because they're unhappy with the quality
Speaker 3: of life or the lack of quality of life in
Speaker 3: Iran today. And so they're sitting ducks, they're isolated, they're starving,
Speaker 3: they're vulnerable, and at least ten sailors have already died
Speaker 3: as a result of the civilian sailors. So already many
Speaker 3: nations privately and some publicly have asked the United States
Speaker 3: to help free their ships and to restore freedom of
Speaker 3: navigation in the Straits of Hormus and this critical artery
Speaker 3: of global trade. And so President Trump, as he always does,
Speaker 3: stepped up and answer the calls for their help, and
Speaker 3: he's directed the United States military to guide these stranded
Speaker 3: ships to safety, to provide a protective bubble into which
Speaker 3: they can operate and move product and get themselves out
Speaker 3: of there and out of the harm's way. And this
Speaker 3: is the first step towards reopening the strait and bringing
Speaker 3: this regime's last ditch act of economic arson, bringing that
Speaker 3: to a close. Only we're doing it not only because
Speaker 3: we were asked, but because we're the only ones who can.
Speaker 3: Only we have the power to sort of take the
Speaker 3: steps that we've taken now under this president, under President Trump,
Speaker 3: the United States, we'll help our friends, We're going to
Speaker 3: stand up to rogue regimes like the one in Tehran,
Speaker 3: and we're going to be unashamed to use our power
Speaker 3: and our abilities to project military power in the service
Speaker 3: of our national interests above all else. Now, what's really
Speaker 3: important for you to report it, for everyone to understand,
Speaker 3: is this is not an offensive operation. This is a
Speaker 3: defensive operation. And what that means is very simple. There's
Speaker 3: no shooting unless we're shot at first. Okay, we're not
Speaker 3: attacking them, we're not. But if they are attacking us,
Speaker 3: so they're attacking a ship, you need to respond to that.
Speaker 3: You're not going to let some fast boat come up
Speaker 3: on a ship and shoot it up. We're going to
Speaker 3: respond to it. And we've been successful at I don't
Speaker 3: know what the exact number is, but I know a
Speaker 3: number of those fast boats have now been targeted and
Speaker 3: we'll continue to be If they oppose a threat to
Speaker 3: our forces, we'll shoot down drones, we'll shoot down missiles.
Speaker 3: But it's defensive in nature. This is defensive. So if
Speaker 3: you hear stories about attacks and launching of firing back
Speaker 3: and forth, it's not back and forth. We are only
Speaker 3: responding if attacked first. This is a defensive operation, and
Speaker 3: that's what's occurring here. Just about the importance of the
Speaker 3: straits for a moment. This is approximately a quarter of
Speaker 3: the world's oil trade, along with significant volumes of fuel
Speaker 3: and fertilizer that operate through the Straits of Horrormus. The
Speaker 3: Iranian regime cannot be allowed to dictate who uses this
Speaker 3: vital waterway. I don't think this is also being reported enough.
Speaker 3: Maybe you are reporting. I don't read everyone. I don't
Speaker 3: know many damn outlets here. I don't know who you
Speaker 3: all are, but I mean, I know who some of
Speaker 3: you are, but I don't know all of you are.
Speaker 3: But I will say this about it. This is an
Speaker 3: international waterway. Okay, this is an international waterway, and international
Speaker 3: law is very clear. And I love it because everybody
Speaker 3: always talks about international law. In this international law on
Speaker 3: this is very clear international waterways. No country can control them.
Speaker 3: There is no international law that allows you to say,
Speaker 3: I'm going to put minds in an international body of
Speaker 3: water and I'm going to blow up ships that don't
Speaker 3: listen to us and try to go through. That's what
Speaker 3: Iran is doing. This is a criminal act, and someone
Speaker 3: needs to do something about it something needs to be done.
Speaker 3: It's completely illegal, completely illegitimate, and completely unacceptable. And that's
Speaker 3: why the United the State's militaries guiding stranded commercial ships
Speaker 3: safely through the strait and is working to restore freedom
Speaker 3: of navigation and putting an end to these efforts to
Speaker 3: glow to hold the global economy hostage. So far, as
Speaker 3: a proof of concept and as a proof of function,
Speaker 3: two US flag merchant ships have successfully transferred the Strait
Speaker 3: of Hormues in the first stages of this project, and
Speaker 3: they're now safely on their way. The US military is
Speaker 3: deploying the necessary assets to extend this defensive umbrella over
Speaker 3: commercial shipping. But there should be no mistake, and as
Speaker 3: I said this already, this is a defensive operation. I
Speaker 3: want to reiterate that point. This is important to understand.
Speaker 3: If no shots are fired at the ships and no
Speaker 3: shots are fired at us, we're not firing shots. But
Speaker 3: if we're fired on, we will respond, and we will
Speaker 3: respond with lethal efficiency. The assets supporting this project, by
Speaker 3: the way, include guided missile destroyers, over one hundred land
Speaker 3: and sea based aircraft, multi domain unmanned platforms, and fifteen
Speaker 3: thousand of the finest military service members on the planet.
Speaker 3: These forces have already destroyed. As I told you, ear
Speaker 3: I thought it was six, it's seven Iranian fastboats that
Speaker 3: fail to heed our warnings. And by fast boats we're
Speaker 3: talking about, you know, some of these things look like
Speaker 3: Boston whaler's okay, so these are not like navy ships,
Speaker 3: but nonetheless they come fast that these boats try to
Speaker 3: swarm them, try to harm them. We're not going to
Speaker 3: let that happen. So seven of them now sit at
Speaker 3: the bottom of the sea, along with, by the way,
Speaker 3: the rest of Iran's navy. That's where you can find
Speaker 3: their navy today, and we're going to continue to systematically
Speaker 3: clear this passageway through the straits to restore freedom of navigation. Now,
Speaker 3: while this project steadily progresses, Operation Epic Fury Economic Fury,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, continues to impose maximum pressure on the Iranian
Speaker 3: regime and what remains of their already frail economy. Today,
Speaker 3: inflation in Iran is seventy percent and their currency is
Speaker 3: in total and complete freefall. The US sanctions enforcement is
Speaker 3: stepping up. It's moving in lockstep with the naval blockade
Speaker 3: to degrade Iran's cape capacity to generate, to move and
Speaker 3: repatriate revenue. It directly targets the regime's primary revenue lifeline.
Speaker 3: The blockade alone is costing Iran as much as five
Speaker 3: hundred million dollars a day in lost revenue. Ninety percent
Speaker 3: of total Iranian trade has been halted, causing permanent damage
Speaker 3: to Iran's oil infrastructure as well as are forced to
Speaker 3: shut in again. All of this is in response to
Speaker 3: their piracy. It cannot be that you have these straits
Speaker 3: and they blow up any ship that moves and the
Speaker 3: only ships they get to go through where there is
Speaker 3: You can't have a situation in which the straits are
Speaker 3: close to everyone else but they benefit from the piracy.
Speaker 3: That can't happen. That's why the blockade is in place,
Speaker 3: and that's why these sanctions are crippling them. Any foreign
Speaker 3: financial by the way, Treasury is now identifying and cutting
Speaker 3: off every dollar of revenue that's flowing to this regime.
Speaker 3: And so look, any foreign financial institution or commercial actor
Speaker 3: that enables Iran sanctions evasion is going to face secondary
Speaker 3: sanctions exposure and a loss of access to the US
Speaker 3: financial system. As President Trump is said, and the facts
Speaker 3: clearly bear out, the United States of America holds all
Speaker 3: the cards. There is no scenario here in which if
Speaker 3: they decide to join the ladder of escalation, they wind
Speaker 3: up getting the last say. But our preference is for
Speaker 3: these straits to be opened to the way they're supposed
Speaker 3: to be open, back to the way it was. Anyone
Speaker 3: can use it, no minds in the water, nobody paying tolls.
Speaker 3: That's what we have to get back to a next
Speaker 3: to goal here. Every day the conflict continues, however, our
Speaker 3: leverage on Iran will continue to increase and their position
Speaker 3: will continue to weaken, especially as the blockade really begins
Speaker 3: to bide in conjunction with the sanctions. So look, the
Speaker 3: times come for Iran to make a sensible choice. And
Speaker 3: it's not easy for them to do that, obviously, because
Speaker 3: they have a fracture in their own leadership system. And
Speaker 3: apart from that, I mean, the top people in that
Speaker 3: government are to say the least, you know, they're insane
Speaker 3: in the brain, and so we need to address that.
Speaker 3: And it's difficult because it's hard to get past that
Speaker 3: in their system. But it's important for them to make
Speaker 3: a sensible choice and the one that's right for their people.
Speaker 3: The president, our president has proven time and again that
Speaker 3: his preference is peace, but Iran must accept the reality
Speaker 3: of this situation and come to the negotiation table and
Speaker 3: accept terms that are good for them but ultimately good
Speaker 3: for the world. The diplomatic path, if there's a real
Speaker 3: diplomatic path, I'm not knowing what's going to be one,
Speaker 3: But if there's a real diplomatic path, and we continue
Speaker 3: to explore it, Steve and Jarreed are working on that
Speaker 3: very hard. If there is one there, it could be
Speaker 3: one that leads them to reconstruction, to prosperity and to stability,
Speaker 3: and to not marry.
Speaker 1: We continue the Secretary of State Mark or Rubio giving
Speaker 1: a briefing on operation Well Economic Epic Fury, if you will,
Speaker 1: and that is opening the Straight and escorting ships in
Speaker 1: and out of the Straight or Hormones will go back
Speaker 1: to the press conference for stations along the Sean Hannity
Speaker 1: Show network. We're going to continue our coverage the world.
Speaker 3: The alternative is growing isolation, economic collapse, and ultimately total defeat.
Speaker 3: I know what the right choice is for Iran. I
Speaker 3: hope that the people over there making decisions will make
Speaker 3: the right one. The last point I would make, and
Speaker 3: it really is important for them to understand this is
Speaker 3: they really shouldn't test the will of the United States,
Speaker 3: at least not under President Donald Trump. He has proven
Speaker 3: time and again that he will back up what he says,
Speaker 3: and if they test them ultimately, they will lose. The
Speaker 3: hard way, the easy way, the long way, the short way,
Speaker 3: they will lose and without it's time for your questions.
Speaker 3: So I wanted to start with you first.
Speaker 4: I have the parent Humming Independent Journalist Secretary A. Rubio.
Speaker 4: Have you seen any recent indications that Aron is willing
Speaker 4: to give up this nuclear weapons program that is credible,
Speaker 4: verifiable and that would lead to an immediate de escalation.
Speaker 3: Well, look, this is a long standing problem for them, right,
Speaker 3: I mean they have wanted they have always said they
Speaker 3: don't want a nuclear weapon. That's because they've always said that.
Speaker 3: They just don't mean it. And why do you say, well,
Speaker 3: how do you know they don't mean it, Well, we
Speaker 3: don't mean it because they do all They're doing all
Speaker 3: the things and historically have tried to do all the
Speaker 3: things that you do if you want a nuclear weapons program.
Speaker 3: For example, they innovate and try to innovate long range
Speaker 3: livery missiles that now in some cases, are capable of
Speaker 3: reaching much of Europe. They build these large underground centrifuges
Speaker 3: for enrichment activity. There are many there are countries in
Speaker 3: the world that are involved in the enrichment business, but
Speaker 3: these guys do it in mountains and in caves and
Speaker 3: in hiding. They've always had secret components of their nuclear
Speaker 3: program undisclosed to the world, and we know for a
Speaker 3: fact that they retain highly enriched uranium at sixty percent
Speaker 3: that they that they did so, and that has no
Speaker 3: civilian use, none, zero, whatsoever. So they have an opportunity
Speaker 3: here to agree to something that will make it clear
Speaker 3: that they're not interested in the One thing is to
Speaker 3: say we don't want a nuclear weapon, and other thing
Speaker 3: is to do the things that prove you don't want
Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon. By the way, if what Iran wants
Speaker 3: is a civilian nuclear program for power plants and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, there are a lot of countries in the
Speaker 3: world that have that, and they don't enrich they import
Speaker 3: the enriched material. You know, they could have that if
Speaker 3: that's what they wanted, But they're not acting like that's
Speaker 3: what they wanted. They're acting like they want a military,
Speaker 3: you know, nuclear program. That's unacceptable. So that's the process
Speaker 3: we're engaged in now to create. That's the object of
Speaker 3: this diplomacy is to come up with some level of
Speaker 3: understanding about what are the topics that they've agreed to
Speaker 3: negotiate on. We don't have to have the actual agreement
Speaker 3: written out of one day. This is highly complex and
Speaker 3: highly technical, but we have to have a diplomatic solution
Speaker 3: that is very clear about the topics that they are
Speaker 3: willing to negotiate on and the extent and the concessions
Speaker 3: are willing to make at the front end in order
Speaker 3: to make those talks worthwhile. That's what Stephen Jarrett and
Speaker 3: the whole team is working on, and I hope to
Speaker 3: have good news on it. That's the outcome we would prefer.
Speaker 3: That's the outcome we would have preferred a year ago.
Speaker 3: That's the outcome I think most of us would have
Speaker 3: preferred a long time ago. But that's not the option
Speaker 3: they've given us given their activity. All right, can I
Speaker 3: there's no way I can figure out who to call on.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna like press right in the metal right there?
Speaker 3: You right there? Yet? Yeah, in the back robe. Let's
Speaker 3: takes president. I'll go to you next, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Thank you, secretary, going right, Welcome to the White House.
Speaker 3: Sir, Yeah to you, Yes, sir, thank you. I have
Speaker 3: two questions. Are two separate issues that they get two
Speaker 3: questions for these two questions. There's a lot of people
Speaker 3: in here. All right, well you answer it. You can
Speaker 3: ask me two questions. I'll give you one answer and
Speaker 3: I'll pick the one I like better. Thank you, miss
Speaker 3: your secretary. The first has to do with the blockade.
Speaker 5: There are lawmakers from both parties who claim the blockade
Speaker 5: is an active war.
Speaker 3: What do you say to that? And my second question
Speaker 3: has to do with the fuel embargo of Cuba.
Speaker 6: How long, mister secretary, will that lasts?
Speaker 3: Okay, two things? All right, good, I'll answer both your
Speaker 3: questions because I like the second one through the first
Speaker 3: one on the blockade, and so why do we have
Speaker 3: a blockade. We have a blockade because they are shut
Speaker 3: down the straits. So I don't know which members of
Speaker 3: Congress you're talking to, but here's what I would ask them.
Speaker 3: I would ask everybody here, very simple. These guys have
Speaker 3: shut down the straits of Hormuds. This is what Iron
Speaker 3: is saying. We will shut down the straits no one
Speaker 3: can go through. No country in the world can go
Speaker 3: through unless we allow you to go through, and you
Speaker 3: have to pay us. But our ships can go through,
Speaker 3: meeting the Iranian ships as much as they want. That's crazy.
Speaker 3: Who would agree to that? So how are we going
Speaker 3: to have a situation where they get to close the
Speaker 3: straits to everybody and the only people who are allowed
Speaker 3: to go through there are one hundred percent without paying anything,
Speaker 3: are the Iranians. If you do that, they'll keep the
Speaker 3: straits closed forever. They're trying to make this some new normal, Okay,
Speaker 3: under no circumstance is can we ever allow them to
Speaker 3: normalize the fact that they get to blow up commercial
Speaker 3: ships and put mines in the water. So the response
Speaker 3: to that is, we're going to blockade your ships. If
Speaker 3: everyone's ships are not getting out, your ships are not
Speaker 3: getting out either. That's not an active war. That's a
Speaker 3: defensive measure. It's a counter to what they have decided
Speaker 3: to do. You know what is an active war? Putting
Speaker 3: mines in the water. Why don't the members of Congress,
Speaker 3: whoever it is, is complaining about it. They should be
Speaker 3: all over that these guys put mines in the water,
Speaker 3: That alone. You. Mining in the water is illegal period,
Speaker 3: under any circumstances, and they've done it. This is crazy stuff,
Speaker 3: but this is what they've done on Cuba. Oil blockade
Speaker 3: on Cuba. There's no oil blockade on Cuba, per se.
Speaker 3: Here's what's happening with Cuba. Okay. Cuba used to get
Speaker 3: free oil from Venezuela. Used to give them a bunch
Speaker 3: of free oil. They would take like sixty percent of
Speaker 3: that oil and resell it for cash. It wouldn't even
Speaker 3: go to benefit the people. So the only blockade that's
Speaker 3: happened is the Cubans have decided, I mean, the Venezuelans
Speaker 3: have decided, we're not giving you free oil anymore. And
Speaker 3: you can only imagine nowadays the way oil prices aren't.
Speaker 3: No one's giving away free oil, much less to a
Speaker 3: failed regime. So the problem with Cuba is worse. Okay.
Speaker 3: Their economic model doesn't work, doesn't work, and the people
Speaker 3: who are in charge can't fix it. And the reason
Speaker 3: that I can't fix it is not just because they're communists.
Speaker 3: That's bad enough, but they're incompetent communists. The only thing
Speaker 3: worse than a communist is an incompetent one and that's
Speaker 3: what so incompetent communist run that country. They don't know
Speaker 3: how to fix it, they really don't. And we have
Speaker 3: ninety miles from our shores a failed state that also
Speaker 3: happens to be friendly territory for some of our adversaries.
Speaker 3: So it's an unacceptable status quo and we'll be addressing it,
Speaker 3: but not today.
Speaker 7: Okay, Secretary Riverace, you are going to the Vatican to
Speaker 7: me with the Pope.
Speaker 8: Is this an attempt to smooth things over with the
Speaker 8: Pope given the rhetoric between President Trump and Uglia?
Speaker 3: No, I mean it's a trip we had planned from before,
Speaker 3: and obviously we had some stuff that happened, and no, look,
Speaker 3: there's a lot to talk about with the Vatican. I'll
Speaker 3: give you one example. The Pope just returned from a
Speaker 3: trip to Africa, where the church is growing very vibrantly,
Speaker 3: and we have shared concerns about religious freedom, religious right.
Speaker 1: We have Secretary of State Mark or Rubio holding a
Speaker 1: press conference. He's kind of joked he was filling in
Speaker 1: for Caroline Levitt for stations along the Sean Hannity Show
Speaker 1: radio network. We are going to continue our coverage so
Speaker 1: the break. I know some of you may have to
Speaker 1: break away. We will continue on the other side as well,
Speaker 1: and we have a lot more coming up in today's program.
Speaker 3: I'd love to talk to them about that. The topic
Speaker 3: of Cuba. You know, we gave Cuba six million dollars
Speaker 3: of humanitarian aid, but obviously they won't let us distribute it.
Speaker 3: We distributed it through the church. We'd like to do more.
Speaker 3: We're willing to give more humanitarian aid to Cuba, by
Speaker 3: the way, distributed through the church, but the Cuban regime
Speaker 3: has to allow us to do it. They won't allow
Speaker 3: us to give their own people more humanitarian aid, and
Speaker 3: we're willing to do it through the church. So there's
Speaker 3: a lot to talk about.
Speaker 9: And the President recently said that the Pope is endangering
Speaker 9: a lot of Catholics as a result of his rhetoric
Speaker 9: around the Iran war.
Speaker 3: Is that ESSENTI I don't think that's an accurate description
Speaker 3: of what he said. I think what the President basically
Speaker 3: said is that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon because
Speaker 3: they would use it against places that have a lot
Speaker 3: of Catholics and Christians and others for that matter. It
Speaker 3: goes back to the central point. I think there without
Speaker 3: trying to speak for him, but I think I can
Speaker 3: characterize it this way. He doesn't understand why anybody, leave
Speaker 3: aside the Pope, the President and I for that matter,
Speaker 3: I think most people I cannot understand why anyone would
Speaker 3: think that it's a good idea for Roan to ever
Speaker 3: have a nuclear weapon. Look what they're doing with the
Speaker 3: Straits right now. They're holding the whole world hostage. They
Speaker 3: have these sailors, you know, on commercial ships that are
Speaker 3: going to starve to death out there. They don't care.
Speaker 3: They don't care that this is melting down the economies
Speaker 3: around the world, even of their own allies. This is
Speaker 3: what they're doing with the Straits. What do you think
Speaker 3: they would do if they had a nuclear weapon. They
Speaker 3: would hold the world hostage with that nuclear weapon. That's
Speaker 3: what they would do. They would do exactly to the
Speaker 3: world with a nuclear weapon what they're doing now with
Speaker 3: the Straits. And I think the President's point is how
Speaker 3: anyone cannot see that as an unacceptable outcome and an
Speaker 3: unacceptable risk is beyond him. It's puzzling, and someone has
Speaker 3: to do something about it. The difference between this president
Speaker 3: and like the six presidents that preceded them where that
Speaker 3: he's the only one that's actually been willing to do
Speaker 3: something about it. Everyone says Ron can't have a nuclear weapon,
Speaker 3: but you've got to do something about it at some point,
Speaker 3: and he's been willing to address that threat. And that's
Speaker 3: what he promised he would do when he got elected.
Speaker 3: By the way, is addressed threats like this. I wish apologize.
Speaker 3: Can you put name tags on? Thank you so much?
Speaker 6: Mister story are you with I'm with Rudel Media Network?
Speaker 3: Okay, mister secretary.
Speaker 6: The President has said multiple times that Whippins square provided
Speaker 6: to the Curtish.
Speaker 3: Group is to pass on the Iranian people.
Speaker 6: However, Kritican polical parties on the regional government says that
Speaker 6: I have not received such a weapons even since claim
Speaker 6: these weapons remain in the US space in the region.
Speaker 6: Can you clarify who those whippions were given to and
Speaker 6: whether you intend to retrieve them or sion want to
Speaker 6: pass to the Iranian people.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, ultimate what the President is expressing, and I
Speaker 3: think has repeatedly, is he wished the Iranian people had
Speaker 3: You know, look, he's heartbroken by these images. You think
Speaker 3: about it, you're an Iranian, Okay, you're unhappy that your
Speaker 3: economy doesn't work for you. You don't have freedom, you don't
Speaker 3: have an opportunity to express yourself. You know, you've got
Speaker 3: friends that have been shot in the head because they're
Speaker 3: out protesting, and he it's heartbreaking to him to see
Speaker 3: that these people are abused in this way and have
Speaker 3: no measures to take against their own government as a
Speaker 3: result of it. By the way, this goes back. If
Speaker 3: you guys remember the protests in two thousand and nine
Speaker 3: where they slaughtered people in the street. This is a
Speaker 3: vicious regime, guys. Okay, these are people that hang people
Speaker 3: from cranes in the town square so everyone can see.
Speaker 3: They continue these executions of people and have done continue
Speaker 3: to do so for over a decade and a half now.
Speaker 3: And so I think what the President is expressing is
Speaker 3: the desire that he wishes the Iranian people had an
Speaker 3: ability to fight back against some of these things that
Speaker 3: are happening to them. And I would view that as
Speaker 3: distinct and separate from the specifics of this operation that
Speaker 3: was ongoing before it concluded, and certainly different from the
Speaker 3: operation that's going on now right the Secretary, I'm behind you,
Speaker 3: not Columbia right there. Yes, ma'am, mister, thank you so much.
Speaker 7: In it ceased fire, are less fire? It And the
Speaker 7: second question, you think it would be a to achieve
Speaker 7: an agreement between Lebanon and Israel and without risking a
Speaker 7: civil war?
Speaker 3: And Lebanon, what are you doing? What are you doing? No?
Speaker 3: I got it, I got the desert question. So look,
Speaker 3: here's the challenge with Lebanon. Okay, there's no problem between
Speaker 3: the Lebanese government and the Israeli government. Israel doesn't claim
Speaker 3: any land in Lebanon belongs to them, and by and large,
Speaker 3: I think a peace deal between Lebanon and Israel is
Speaker 3: imminently achievable and should be the problem with Israel and
Speaker 3: Lebanon is not Israel or Lebanon. It's Hesbela. Hesbela operates
Speaker 3: from inside of Lebanese territory. They terrorize and attack Israelis,
Speaker 3: but they also are inflicting tremendous damage on the Lebanese people.
Speaker 3: The reason why Lebanon gets attacked by Israel is because
Speaker 3: of Hesbela, because Hesbela is hiding in some house launching
Speaker 3: rockets against Israelis and then they get hit. So what
Speaker 3: you're seeing now is Israeli responses to either attacks or
Speaker 3: perceive threats. And this is going to be This is
Speaker 3: not new, This has been going on for a very
Speaker 3: long time. What is our hope. Our hope is to
Speaker 3: engage the Lebanese and Israeli governments under our mediation at
Speaker 3: the table to achieve this, and that is having Lebanese
Speaker 3: armed forces in a Lebanese government not just with the willingness,
Speaker 3: but with the capability to begin to challenge Hesbela and
Speaker 3: disarm them because the Lebanese people are also victims of Hesbela.
Speaker 3: And by the way, on the topic of Hesbela and Lebanon,
Speaker 3: who is behind Hesbela? Why do they exist? They're an
Speaker 3: agent of Iran. If you go through that Middle East
Speaker 3: and you identify every problem hamas Hesbela to some extent
Speaker 3: to who's these obviously and others behind every one of
Speaker 3: these groups is Tehran. So apart from the nuclear weapons,
Speaker 3: apart from all these other things, these guys are behind
Speaker 3: all the bad actors. Hesbela is a wing. It's an
Speaker 3: extension of Iranian desire to destabilize the region. So we're
Speaker 3: very committed to this process. It's not going to be easy.
Speaker 3: You're asking me a complex question. You know, this has
Speaker 3: been going for a very long time. It's not going
Speaker 3: to be easy. We're going to do everything we can
Speaker 3: to make sure that both sides continue to talk so
Speaker 3: that progress can be made on some sort of permanent
Speaker 3: ceasefire that isn't constantly spoiled by Hesbela and by Hesbala violence.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 3: Thanks, I'm just going I'm winning it guys.
Speaker 10: Okay, yes, you mentioned the two US shifts that safely
Speaker 10: the ass straight offour moves. Are other shifts being told
Speaker 10: is safer to get back to regular levels or are
Speaker 10: we still going to see limits in place well overseeable future.
Speaker 3: For obvious reasons, I'm not going to broadcast who we're
Speaker 3: talking to or who we're telling them to move. I mean,
Speaker 3: we want these operations to be safe, and I think
Speaker 3: as it unfolds and ships get through, we'll make those
Speaker 3: announcements after the fact, just for operational security purposes. But
Speaker 3: the goal here is pretty simple. Establish a zone of
Speaker 3: transit that is protected by a bubble the United States
Speaker 3: both naval and air assets, and then allow ships who
Speaker 3: want to move to move through there and get to
Speaker 3: market to begin to increase confidence in the ability to
Speaker 3: do so. That doesn't happen in twelve hours. It takes
Speaker 3: time to set up that bubble and gain that confidence.
Speaker 3: But that's the goal. We have been in touch. We've
Speaker 3: been in touch, I don't know, with a bunch of
Speaker 3: different liners about moving and we're hoping to continue to
Speaker 3: improve the security situation and we'll start to see some
Speaker 3: of that movement and we'll announce it as it happens
Speaker 3: after the fact. We're not going to be like broadcasting
Speaker 3: hey tomorrow at twelve ship X is going to be
Speaker 3: coming for obvious reasons because that degrades the security. But
Speaker 3: we feel confident we're going to be able to achieve that. Look,
Speaker 3: it's not going to solve the whole Straits problem. It's
Speaker 3: going to solve a lot of it. But it's important
Speaker 3: to challenge what Iran is doing. Now. Guys, again, I
Speaker 3: wonder if you take anything away today. I can't tell
Speaker 3: you what to write, but we Iran cannot be allowed
Speaker 3: to normalize this control of the streets. It's completely unlawful, illegal, Uh,
Speaker 3: it's it's outrageous and every country in the world should
Speaker 3: be joining us and condemning it and doing something about it.
Speaker 3: But the United States has stepped up and is trying to.
Speaker 5: Do something.
Speaker 10: Regardingretary.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, we'll see if we get the Columbia, you
Speaker 3: guys have an election.
Speaker 5: Talk to Michael Ross with Daily Mail. I was curious
Speaker 5: about your meeting with Southcomb earlier. There was a picture
Speaker 5: a map of Cuba behind you. What did you discuss
Speaker 5: with Southcomb? Southcomb about Cuba? And do you have any updates.
Speaker 5: I'm here to tell you what I discussed the South
Speaker 5: but it had to do someone with Cuba.
Speaker 3: I was, well, I mean, Cuba's in Southcombe. You know,
Speaker 3: it's the closest part. And so the second point I
Speaker 3: was there, our ambassadors were in from the whole Western hemisphere.
Speaker 3: I was addressing them and meeting the general who just
Speaker 3: took command of South Com and there happened to be
Speaker 3: a map of Cuba, and I said, it'd be good.
Speaker 3: We took a picture in front of that map, because
Speaker 3: it's like the closest thing in south comp to the
Speaker 3: United States. So there it is. We have maps of
Speaker 3: other countries. But but but but they didn't have that
Speaker 3: map in the red right there in the red in
Speaker 3: the red.
Speaker 7: Okay, can I ask you in Spanish or can I.
Speaker 3: You can answer Spanish, I have to translate for them.
Speaker 7: Would you have well, I'll say you in English and
Speaker 7: if you can answer in both languages. Today I take
Speaker 7: the web page of the State Department, and there's still
Speaker 7: a twenty five million dollar bounty on a Secretary of
Speaker 7: Interior for drug trafficking and narco terrorism. I was wondering
Speaker 7: if that has been put on hold or if you're
Speaker 7: negotiating with President Desiz to turn him over a se
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 3: Have any updates for you on the website. Is what
Speaker 3: it is, and that's where it stands. That policy hasn't changed.
Speaker 3: But guys, I mean, let's be mature here a little bit.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to tell you about what we're talking
Speaker 3: about with the leader of these countries that love to
Speaker 3: that tells me on the STEM and Cambie I to
Speaker 3: the demos of it, the politics the United States on
Speaker 3: that the policy United States on that topic hasn't changed.
Speaker 3: When it does, you know, obviously it will inform you.
Speaker 3: But I don't have any news for you on that today.
Speaker 3: Right there in the green I'll get to you. So
Speaker 3: you guys, all the TV people, Yeah, go ahead, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: I'm learning. They gave me a little map. I don't
Speaker 3: know where I put it. Of the people here, some
Speaker 3: of you had like red X's I'm kidding, no, you
Speaker 3: get out, go ahead.
Speaker 7: Thank you, mister secretary.
Speaker 3: Be a rich crace of gas in the country right
Speaker 3: now is four dollars and fifty cents.
Speaker 9: Do you have a thought on how long Americans are
Speaker 9: supposed to kind of accept this?
Speaker 7: Do you think it will affect Republicans' majorities in the midterms?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't. I'm not going to expeculate on the
Speaker 3: politics of it. You can tell me. I mean, look,
Speaker 3: it's obviously being driven by global events. That that was
Speaker 3: true during the Russia of Ukraine war as well, where
Speaker 3: you saw that come up. It's one of Look, we
Speaker 3: don't benefit from the Straits as much as other countries.
Speaker 3: I don't know you've seen what the gas prices are
Speaker 3: like in other parts of the world that are really
Speaker 3: suffering big time. So we're very fortunate that the United States,
Speaker 3: I believe right now is like the world's largest net
Speaker 3: exporter of oil and natural gas as a result, not
Speaker 3: because of this war, but because we have this capacity.
Speaker 3: So we've been insulated to some degree. We're obviously still
Speaker 3: vulnerable to some extent to global prices and so, but
Speaker 3: in the end, I mean, we're more insulated than other countries,
Speaker 3: even though that's not welcome news to Americans that are
Speaker 3: paying more at the pump, no doubt about it, and
Speaker 3: it certainly is one of the circumstances of it. There
Speaker 3: are people that were predicting we would be much higher
Speaker 3: at this point, but we're not taking that for granted.
Speaker 3: Suffice it to say that this is think about it
Speaker 3: this way. Everyone needs to think about it this way.
Speaker 3: If Iran had a nuclear weapon and they decided to
Speaker 3: close the straits and make our gas prices like nine
Speaker 3: dollars a gallon or eight dollars a gallon, we wouldn't
Speaker 3: be able to do anything about it because they have
Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon, and a nuclear armed Iran could do
Speaker 3: whatever they hell they want with the straits and there's
Speaker 3: nothing anyone would be able to do about it. And
Speaker 3: that's one of the many reasons, apart from like the
Speaker 3: massive loss of life and the nuclear strike, why Iron
Speaker 3: can never have a nuclear weapon. I mean, so this
Speaker 3: is an example. If they had a nuclear weapon, they
Speaker 3: closed the straits and they would tell her, well, what
Speaker 3: are you going to do about it? We have a
Speaker 3: nuclear weapon, we can attack you with it. That's the
Speaker 3: world none of us want to lead behind. It won't
Speaker 3: happen under this president's watch, but some future president and
Speaker 3: future you know, and the future Americans will have to
Speaker 3: deal with this. So just one more example why these
Speaker 3: guys can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapons.
Speaker 3: Right there, you both are wearing black. She's closer. No,
Speaker 3: you don't have black, ye blue on it. I'm colored black,
Speaker 3: but I know blue and black right there, Yes, ma'am, No, No,
Speaker 3: you the first one I called on. Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 3: This is chaos. Guys, go ahead.
Speaker 7: And you've long been a leading voice on human rights
Speaker 7: in China, so including.
Speaker 9: Religious persecution and forced organ harvesting. So President Trump prepares
Speaker 9: to meet She's in pay next week.
Speaker 8: Do you expect human rights concerns to be on the table.
Speaker 3: Well, we always raise those issues, and they remain through
Speaker 3: and I think we've proven in some cases it's most
Speaker 3: effective to raise them in the appropriate setting. But we
Speaker 3: always raise those issues are important to us, among with others,
Speaker 3: of course, but those issues remain prominent in our view
Speaker 3: and in our conversation about these things, and it will
Speaker 3: continue to raise them in the appropriate forms. All Right,
Speaker 3: these guys are gonna get mad. Go ahead, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 9: Sigment can be associated press. You mentioned earlier that some
Speaker 9: countries are privately in public indicated their willingness to help
Speaker 9: with Project Freedom. Can you say how many have reached
Speaker 9: out to the US with the offers of help and
Speaker 9: what kind of capability?
Speaker 3: Well, and I mean thank you for your question. That's
Speaker 3: a good question. I mean multiple countries have said we
Speaker 3: got to do something about it and fix it.
Speaker 9: Like dozens or single visions or more than I hunt
Speaker 9: or I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't put a number on it. I would just
Speaker 3: tell you that here's what I would say about it.
Speaker 3: The capabilities is the issue. Okay. A lot of countries
Speaker 3: are loved to do something about it. They don't have
Speaker 3: a navy, right or they can't get there in time,
Speaker 3: or they can't others, you know, or less you know
Speaker 3: that some unfortunately do have a navy, are saying, oh,
Speaker 3: we'll be involved, but we'll be involved after it's over. Well,
Speaker 3: after it's over. It's kind of like, you know, that
Speaker 3: makes sense, So you know, we'd like to have it now.
Speaker 3: There may be some utility in a post you know,
Speaker 3: closure mission. I'm not downplaying that, but I think that's
Speaker 3: been the challenge. But there are other ways they can help,
Speaker 3: unique ways that they can help. And I don't want
Speaker 3: to get into who these countries are for obvious reasons,
Speaker 3: you know, because they are prepared to help us in
Speaker 3: certain ways, but maybe don't want that publicly disclosed for
Speaker 3: no other reason than impact of foreign policy. It could
Speaker 3: have some domestic gramifications, but ultimately I don't want to
Speaker 3: mislead you. The primary responsibility for this Project Freedom is
Speaker 3: on the United States because we're the only country that
Speaker 3: can project power in that part of the world the
Speaker 3: way we're doing now, we're the only ones that can
Speaker 3: do it, and we're going to do it as a
Speaker 3: favor to the world. Understand this, This is a favor
Speaker 3: to the world because it's their ships that are stranded,
Speaker 3: it's their fuel supplies that are stranded. By the way,
Speaker 3: it's their humanitarian there's humanitarian aid destined for different countries
Speaker 3: in the world that's stranded in the Persian Gulf right now.
Speaker 3: It's the fertilizer that they need for their food and
Speaker 3: crops that's stranded in the person. Not our fertilizer, their fertilizer.
Speaker 3: So we want to be helpful, and that's why the
Speaker 3: President stepped forward, because we're the only ones that can. Frankly,
Speaker 3: we're the only ones that can.
Speaker 11: Any time de Secretary on the rising oil and gas prices,
Speaker 11: the President has said that this is a small price
Speaker 11: to pay.
Speaker 10: For getting rid of a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 11: But ten weeks in, are we any closer to getting
Speaker 11: rid of Aron's nuclear materia?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: But look, here's the way to think about Iran. And
Speaker 3: this is what I described at the very beginning of
Speaker 3: this what was Iran's plan. You have to understand what
Speaker 3: their plan was. Their plan was they were going to
Speaker 3: build this conventional shield where they would have so many
Speaker 3: thousands of missiles and drones and rockets that they couldn't
Speaker 3: be attacked. And behind that conventional shield that they were
Speaker 3: trying to build, they would then break out and do
Speaker 3: whatever they wanted with a nuclear program. They no longer
Speaker 3: have that conventional shield. Okay, we told you guys from
Speaker 3: the very beginning, and we're very consistent in this messaging.
Speaker 3: The operation that has concluded was going to destroy their navy.
Speaker 3: They have no navy left. They don't not a navy.
Speaker 3: They have small boats in Boston whalers, but they don't
Speaker 3: have a navy left. They don't have an air force.
Speaker 3: I challenge you, when is the last time you read
Speaker 3: or heard about an Iranian jet flying anywhere. They don't
Speaker 3: have an air force. Missile launching capability has been substantially degraded,
Speaker 3: and their industrial base, their defense industrial base has been severely,
Speaker 3: severely damaged. So their ability to build a shield behind
Speaker 3: which they could hide their nuclear program was wiped out.
Speaker 3: That's a very substantial achievement, and that was the purpose
Speaker 3: of this operation from day one.
Speaker 9: The nuclear material in order for this war to end.
Speaker 3: Well, that's one of the topics that needs to be discussed.
Speaker 3: I don't know about I think you're linking the operation
Speaker 3: is over epic fury. As a president notified Congress, we're
Speaker 3: done with that stage of it. Okay, We're now onto
Speaker 3: this project of freedom. As far as the negotiation is concerned,
Speaker 3: I think the President's been clear that part of the
Speaker 3: negotiation process has to be not just the enrichment, but
Speaker 3: what happens to this material that's buried deep somewhere that
Speaker 3: they have still had access to if they ever wanted
Speaker 3: to dig it out. That has to be addressed, and
Speaker 3: that's being addressed in the negotiation. I'm not going to
Speaker 3: go further on what progress has been made on that
Speaker 3: topic because I don't want to endanger the negotiations, but
Speaker 3: suffice it to say that the President and this entire
Speaker 3: team is aware of the centrality of that question and
Speaker 3: that will have to be addressed one way or the other. Yes,
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you. I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: I have another two part question for you.
Speaker 3: Okay, First, are.
Speaker 8: You taking part in those negotiations that use just detailed there?
Speaker 8: And then secondly, presidential has made it clear that the
Speaker 8: US doesn't rely on the straight up hoor movies, So
Speaker 8: why should Americans even care about Project Freedom and these
Speaker 8: ship shipping tankers going through Well?
Speaker 3: I think on the second point is the one I
Speaker 3: want to address first, and that is why should Americans
Speaker 3: care and why it matters to us? Because ultimately these
Speaker 3: things have an impact on the global economy, which ultimately
Speaker 3: has an impact in our economy in the long term.
Speaker 3: That's number one. Number two, because if we live in
Speaker 3: a world where a rogue state like this Iranian regime
Speaker 3: is allowed to claim as a new normal control over
Speaker 3: international shipping lane. It will not be long before you
Speaker 3: see that happen in multiple shipping lanes around the world.
Speaker 3: I can identify for you six or seven, six or
Speaker 3: seven vital shipping lanes around the world that some countries
Speaker 3: can decide. Guess what if Iron was able to do it,
Speaker 3: we're going to do it too. We're we're not going
Speaker 3: to start charging tolls and it'll get closer and closer
Speaker 3: to us. That's unacceptable. We cannot live in a world.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of time and energy been invested in
Speaker 3: behind the idea that international waters are free for the
Speaker 3: free flow of goods. The stuff we make in this
Speaker 3: country and export has to go through international shipping lanes.
Speaker 3: And for us to live in a world where a
Speaker 3: country can decide now we own the international shipping lane
Speaker 3: and you have to pay us if you want to
Speaker 3: use it, that is a normal that we will never
Speaker 3: be able to accept. And that's what the Iranians are
Speaker 3: trying to get us to do. So we're doing two
Speaker 3: things about it, and we haven't talked about the second
Speaker 3: one enough. The second thing we're doing is we're going
Speaker 3: to the UN. Everybody loves the UN. Right, we're trying
Speaker 3: to go to the UN and we're saying, okay, countries
Speaker 3: of the world condemn this, say that it is wrong
Speaker 3: for you to put minds there. It is wrong for
Speaker 3: you to shoot at commercial vessels. Guys. That's what we're
Speaker 3: talking about here. These guys are bombing commercial vessels. They're
Speaker 3: not bombing naval vessels. They're bombing commercial tankers. It's just outrageous.
Speaker 3: That needs to stop and it needs to end. And
Speaker 3: if he doesn't, then the world should be diplomatically and
Speaker 3: economically isolating Iran as well. But if we live in
Speaker 3: a world where global shipping lanes can be taken over
Speaker 3: by countries that don't have a direct impact on Americans
Speaker 3: in the short and the long term, and we can't
Speaker 3: let it start by Iran doing it, and we're the
Speaker 3: only ones that can do anything about it, righty.
Speaker 10: Mister Secretary. Does the President intend.
Speaker 7: To press Beije on its Taiwan policy when he visits
Speaker 7: China next week?
Speaker 3: I'm sure Taiwan will be a topic or conversation. It
Speaker 3: always is. As you know, we understand the Chinese understand
Speaker 3: our position on that topic. We understand theirs, and I
Speaker 3: think both parties without you know, getting ahead of myself
Speaker 3: with what will happen in the talks, but I think
Speaker 3: both countries understand that it is neither one of our
Speaker 3: interests to see anything destabilize happen in that part of
Speaker 3: the world. We don't need any destabilizing events to occur
Speaker 3: with regards to Taiwan or anywhere in the Indo Pacific,
Speaker 3: and I think that's to the mutual benefit of both
Speaker 3: the United States and the Chinese.
Speaker 11: Carara Kashtano from Lindzel TV, thank you for taking my questions.
Speaker 3: How does the State's Department what happened? Whey? Is everydy giggling?
Speaker 3: What happened to go? Oh? I'm sorry? Are they mean me? No?
Speaker 3: They're not means oh? Okay, I don't think they are.
Speaker 9: I hope not.
Speaker 11: But I'm here LTV and nights to ask you a
Speaker 11: question today, sir. How does the State Department interpret the
Speaker 11: president's retonal remarks when he said, quote the Iranian people
Speaker 11: need to have guns and I think they are getting
Speaker 11: some guns end quote.
Speaker 4: What did he mean?
Speaker 11: And do those comments relate to any ongoing or potential
Speaker 11: US actions like supplying those weapons?
Speaker 3: Well, I think it goes back to the question I
Speaker 3: was asked a moment ago. I think the President thinks
Speaker 3: it's heartbreaking that the Iranian people are abused by this
Speaker 3: regime the way they are. In the end, I mean,
Speaker 3: this regime is not guys. I know I've said this.
Speaker 3: I think I said this in my hearing before the
Speaker 3: Senate when I got confirmed. I don't know of any
Speaker 3: country in the world where there's a bigger difference between
Speaker 3: the people and the people who run the country. Okay,
Speaker 3: this country is run by radical Shia clerics, and that's
Speaker 3: not what Iran and the Iranian people are now. They
Speaker 3: may be Shia, but they're not radicals, and they're not clerics,
Speaker 3: and they just want a normal life and a regular
Speaker 3: life and in many ways a very cosmopolitan country with
Speaker 3: a with an incredible history, incredible history and incredible legacy
Speaker 3: and the like. So there's this huge divide between the
Speaker 3: people of Iran, whom we sympathize with, and who the
Speaker 3: president sympathized with because they're the ones suffering. Look, the
Speaker 3: world is a victim of Iran. Okay, the world is
Speaker 3: a victim of Iran because they're terrorists because of what
Speaker 3: they're doing now in the streets. But the people of
Speaker 3: Iran are daily victims of the regime, and the president
Speaker 3: has deep sympathy for what they're going through, and I
Speaker 3: think he's just expressing that sympathy and that frustration that
Speaker 3: they don't have the ability to do more to get
Speaker 3: rid of this regime that has crushed this country and
Speaker 3: isolated it from the world, which is a country that
Speaker 3: shouldn't be isolated from workers. It's people are phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: I wish I had like a dice go ahead. Yeah no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: right there, because I'm going to Italy. Way I thought
Speaker 3: I'm not going to Okay, he's Italian. I know him.
Speaker 3: He used to cover Capitol Hill. You're Italian, right for years?
Speaker 3: For many years?
Speaker 12: Okay, two short questions for you, damn questions first as
Speaker 12: you first, as you head to the Vatican in Italy,
Speaker 12: how do you view the Pope's global role and it
Speaker 12: current your political shift and what.
Speaker 3: Are your objective?
Speaker 1: And it's kind of going around at this point. I'm
Speaker 1: a pretty amazing press conference with the Secretary of State
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio. For those people that have been just spreading
Speaker 1: lies and misinformation, and propaganda about what the purpose of
Speaker 1: America's involvement with Iran is and the necessity for it,
Speaker 1: and what the President's motivation has been. At that point,
Speaker 1: you can't argue with dumb and stupid because Uranian regime,
Speaker 1: and he explained this in great detail, if they ever
Speaker 1: had a nuclear weapon, forget about the straight of Horn moves,
Speaker 1: they would be able to hold any water international waterway
Speaker 1: they wanted hostage because that nuclear weapon or those nuclear
Speaker 1: weapons would hold the world hostage. And this is what
Speaker 1: Steve Whitkoff was saying when they were twelve away from
Speaker 1: being able to enrich the sixty percent enriched uranium to
Speaker 1: weapons grade ninety percent. And that is why every single
Speaker 1: source I've ever had said to me over and over again,
Speaker 1: the president had no choice but to act. Can I
Speaker 1: convince people that want to believe conspiracy theories? Israel made
Speaker 1: him do it, BB made him do it, Fox News
Speaker 1: made him do it. No, I can't convince them. But
Speaker 1: if you understand common sense, this is this is the necessity.
Speaker 1: All right, everybody, we will be right back if le's
Speaker 1: call eight hundred nine four one Sean. By the way,
Speaker 1: there's more than that. We actually have Jim Jordan coming
Speaker 1: up in mere moments. I did hear the music, you know, yes,
Speaker 1: for the record, By the way, Marco Ruby has been
Speaker 1: phenomenal in this entire press conference. It was, you know,
Speaker 1: explaining if you had any doubt what was at stake
Speaker 1: with Iran. I think he spelled it out as clearly
Speaker 1: as anybody has. All Right, we'll continue