WEBVTT - Rubio Draws The Line 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.560 Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:04.880 down our toll free telephone number if you want to 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.040 be a part of the program as eight hundred and 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.200 ninety four to one, Sean if you want to join us. 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:12.600 Any moment, we expect the Secretary of State Mark or 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.440 Rubio is going to be I guess giving a briefing. 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:18.560 It looks like it's going to be right where Caroline 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.279 Levitt usually gives her briefing. Congratulations to her, by the way, 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:26.680 she recently had her second baby, by the way, one 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.880 of the nicest people you'd ever want to meet. Later 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:34.960 in this program today, JB. Pritzker, Now there's been three 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:39.559 assassination attempts against Donald Trump, three and JB. Pritzker is 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:44.600 claiming Trump set the tone for political violence. What he's 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:50.600 responsible for three assassination attempts and Nazi fascist, racist Gestapo 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.800 and all the rhetoric of the radical left, the legacy 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:59.480 media mob has not contributed to this dehumanizing, violent atmosphere. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.560 We now find find ourselves living in assassination culture. We 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.800 now find ourselves living in. Is he going to blame 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:11.199 you know, Charlie Kirk next for being assassinated because Charlie 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.440 Kirk has a different point of view and would have, 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:19.040 you know, civil conversations with kids on college campuses. It's unbelievable. Now, 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.560 we also have a tape of JB. Pritzker, moron that 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:26.040 he is who wants to be president like Aaven Newsom 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.880 in one tape. You know, we just put a montage 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.760 together of him calling Trump a Nazi, comparing him to 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.840 a Nazi six times. And meanwhile, you know, he's setting 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.760 the tone and it's a terrible thing, and it's it's 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.000 terrible and it shouldn't be this way. Well, maybe he 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:44.680 should stop saying is a Nazi. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.880 I think the environment. Look, our leaders set the tone 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.880 in this country. And I think that the President of 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.880 the United States has set a tone where political violence 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:59.240 is okay. He's advocated it himself before. It's a terrible thing. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.640 I mean, he's experience, That's what I'm saying. He's experienced. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.960 He's set the tone. That's a terrible thing. Let's listen 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:09.519 to the governor's set the tone. Count. You know, every 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.640 time he says makes a comparison to a Nazi. 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.799 Just you know, Count, I studied the Holocaust. I'd helped 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.160 to build a Holocaust Museum. This is what happened in 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:24.240 the early days of the Nazi regime in Germany. Everything 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:28.720 that he has done has been tearing down constitutional democracy. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.320 And that's what happened in Nazi Germany. It doesn't take 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.160 very long to tear apart a constitutional republic. Indeed, the 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:41.160 Nazis did it in fifty three days, and our democracy 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.519 is almost as fragile, and we're seeing it right now. 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:50.600 The dangers that we saw in in you know, Nazi Germany, 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:55.480 especially in the earliest days of Nazi Germany, are the 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.760 dangers that we need to react to now. People have 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:03.680 criticized me for talking about the Nazi regime. It's the 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.559 one I know most about because. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:10.240 I helped to Later it's Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi Nazi. 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.360 The tone is a terrible thing. Uh, you're setting the tone, 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:18.480 you idiot, And and as is pretty much every every 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:25.040 elected democrat. Unbelievable. So on my podcast, and we'll play 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.959 this later in the program, you know, back to back. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.640 I've had now Daan Bongino and I've had Cash Battel. 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.240 We just dropped Cash Battel this morning. Later I will 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:38.120 play for you, and Dan Bongino said something that was amazing. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:43.040 I think this is the most amazing untold story, uh, 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:48.520 that there are good people in the FBI that purposefully 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:53.320 hid the evidence in those quote burn bags that they found, 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.520 you know, the burn bags. Cash Battel told me on 0:03:55.560 --> 0:04:00.360 the podcast. The burn bags were in a safer room 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:05.240 that nobody even knew existed, which means that somebody left 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.800 it there on purpose, is what Bongino had told me, 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.480 And that they put it there on purpose so that 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.880 eventually we would find it, because that's all the evidence 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.159 against all the corruption in the MPI. Why do you 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.160 hear this tape? If you haven't watched the video podcast, 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:23.680 you need to check it out. You can get it 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.039 on YouTube and wherever you get your video podcast. But 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.160 the two of them together, but I mean, I mean, 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.119 Cash just spells it out. They weren't supposed to find 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.440 it in the sense that it was put in a 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:40.400 place purposely hidden because all the people before him didn't 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.279 want it to be seen. They put it in a 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.800 burn bag, which is classified information that is designed to 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:47.800 be burned so nobody ever gets a hold of it. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.640 But they purposely saved it. And I know you're very 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:58.120 interested in this story. It looks like Eric mister fangfang 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:03.200 swall well apparently was a bigger degenerate than we knew, 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:09.080 apparently sending nude photos and videos of him pleasuring himself 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:15.520 through Snapchat and regularly slid into the dms of random women, 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.960 you know, all while he was married, and the lurid 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:23.880 details and apparently I wonder it just disgusting. Anyway, Marco 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:25.960 Rubio is taking to the podium. Let's listen in it 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:27.880 dropped off people in this country. 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:33.320 Hello, thank you guys for having me today. I'll be 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:37.839 filling in for Caroline today obviously, so I'll have a 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:39.840 brief remarks here and then we'll get to your questions. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.680 As you know, over the weekend, the President announced this 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.880 Project Freedom, and the goal of it is to frankly, 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:48.600 if you want to talk about it, it's to rescue 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.680 like almost twenty three thousand civilians from eighty seven different 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.760 countries that are trapped inside of the of the golf 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:58.600 and left for dead in the Persian Gulf by this 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.400 Iranian regime. You know, for more than two months now, 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.520 these innocent sailors and commercial crew members have been stranded 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.479 out at sea because Iran is conducting something that's not 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.680 just criminal. It's criminal, for sure, but it's desperate and destructive. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.880 This blockade of the straits of hormones. Nations from around 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.000 the world, the overwhelming majority of whom are not even 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.800 engaged in any military hostilities, are now at risk not 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.000 just of losing their cargo, but the lives of their 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.800 own citizens because of this blockade. These ships. You know, 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.320 you don't leave a ship out there for this long. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.360 You start running out of food, you start running out 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.520 of potable water, essential supplies, And they're at the mercy 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.560 of this piracy and what it is, it's piracy. And 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.680 not only that, but some of them have seen, you know, 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.160 been open fire on and rained down senseless attacks on 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.080 several civilian ships already, so frankly, the way to put it, 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.679 these are innocent bystanders. These are countries that and ships 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:52.320 and so forth that have nothing to do with any 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.080 of this, and nonetheless are being caught in the middle 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.160 of it and being held hostage merely because Iran could 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.359 do that, just because of just as the regime rutally 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.120 slaughtered tens of thousands of their own citizens for the 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.200 crime of peaceful protests because they're unhappy with the quality 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:08.800 of life or the lack of quality of life in 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.320 Iran today. And so they're sitting ducks, they're isolated, they're starving, 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.920 they're vulnerable, and at least ten sailors have already died 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.440 as a result of the civilian sailors. So already many 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.119 nations privately and some publicly have asked the United States 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.520 to help free their ships and to restore freedom of 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.239 navigation in the Straits of Hormus and this critical artery 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.400 of global trade. And so President Trump, as he always does, 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.360 stepped up and answer the calls for their help, and 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.200 he's directed the United States military to guide these stranded 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:39.000 ships to safety, to provide a protective bubble into which 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.480 they can operate and move product and get themselves out 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.360 of there and out of the harm's way. And this 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.880 is the first step towards reopening the strait and bringing 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:51.400 this regime's last ditch act of economic arson, bringing that 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.600 to a close. Only we're doing it not only because 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.320 we were asked, but because we're the only ones who can. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.080 Only we have the power to sort of take the 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.480 steps that we've taken now under this president, under President Trump, 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.360 the United States, we'll help our friends, We're going to 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.080 stand up to rogue regimes like the one in Tehran, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.640 and we're going to be unashamed to use our power 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.560 and our abilities to project military power in the service 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.000 of our national interests above all else. Now, what's really 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.960 important for you to report it, for everyone to understand, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.360 is this is not an offensive operation. This is a 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.880 defensive operation. And what that means is very simple. There's 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.760 no shooting unless we're shot at first. Okay, we're not 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.200 attacking them, we're not. But if they are attacking us, 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.560 so they're attacking a ship, you need to respond to that. 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.000 You're not going to let some fast boat come up 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.040 on a ship and shoot it up. We're going to 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.880 respond to it. And we've been successful at I don't 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.280 know what the exact number is, but I know a 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.760 number of those fast boats have now been targeted and 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.520 we'll continue to be If they oppose a threat to 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.960 our forces, we'll shoot down drones, we'll shoot down missiles. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.280 But it's defensive in nature. This is defensive. So if 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.360 you hear stories about attacks and launching of firing back 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.600 and forth, it's not back and forth. We are only 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.839 responding if attacked first. This is a defensive operation, and 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.959 that's what's occurring here. Just about the importance of the 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.079 straits for a moment. This is approximately a quarter of 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.280 the world's oil trade, along with significant volumes of fuel 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.480 and fertilizer that operate through the Straits of Horrormus. The 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:15.120 Iranian regime cannot be allowed to dictate who uses this 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.440 vital waterway. I don't think this is also being reported enough. 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.440 Maybe you are reporting. I don't read everyone. I don't 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.040 know many damn outlets here. I don't know who you 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:23.960 all are, but I mean, I know who some of 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.319 you are, but I don't know all of you are. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.920 But I will say this about it. This is an 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:33.160 international waterway. Okay, this is an international waterway, and international 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:34.760 law is very clear. And I love it because everybody 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.200 always talks about international law. In this international law on 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.920 this is very clear international waterways. No country can control them. 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.679 There is no international law that allows you to say, 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.760 I'm going to put minds in an international body of 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.720 water and I'm going to blow up ships that don't 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.760 listen to us and try to go through. That's what 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.199 Iran is doing. This is a criminal act, and someone 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.240 needs to do something about it something needs to be done. 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:59.439 It's completely illegal, completely illegitimate, and completely unacceptable. And that's 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.800 why the United the State's militaries guiding stranded commercial ships 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.640 safely through the strait and is working to restore freedom 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.680 of navigation and putting an end to these efforts to 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.319 glow to hold the global economy hostage. So far, as 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.880 a proof of concept and as a proof of function, 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.320 two US flag merchant ships have successfully transferred the Strait 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.000 of Hormues in the first stages of this project, and 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.040 they're now safely on their way. The US military is 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.800 deploying the necessary assets to extend this defensive umbrella over 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:30.440 commercial shipping. But there should be no mistake, and as 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.560 I said this already, this is a defensive operation. I 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.280 want to reiterate that point. This is important to understand. 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.640 If no shots are fired at the ships and no 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:40.240 shots are fired at us, we're not firing shots. But 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.240 if we're fired on, we will respond, and we will 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.280 respond with lethal efficiency. The assets supporting this project, by 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.440 the way, include guided missile destroyers, over one hundred land 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.880 and sea based aircraft, multi domain unmanned platforms, and fifteen 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.720 thousand of the finest military service members on the planet. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.240 These forces have already destroyed. As I told you, ear 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.720 I thought it was six, it's seven Iranian fastboats that 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.920 fail to heed our warnings. And by fast boats we're 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:07.400 talking about, you know, some of these things look like 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.200 Boston whaler's okay, so these are not like navy ships, 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.640 but nonetheless they come fast that these boats try to 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.199 swarm them, try to harm them. We're not going to 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.440 let that happen. So seven of them now sit at 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.480 the bottom of the sea, along with, by the way, 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:20.400 the rest of Iran's navy. That's where you can find 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.280 their navy today, and we're going to continue to systematically 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:27.959 clear this passageway through the straits to restore freedom of navigation. Now, 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.720 while this project steadily progresses, Operation Epic Fury Economic Fury, 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.680 I'm sorry, continues to impose maximum pressure on the Iranian 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:40.800 regime and what remains of their already frail economy. Today, 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.920 inflation in Iran is seventy percent and their currency is 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:48.199 in total and complete freefall. The US sanctions enforcement is 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.120 stepping up. It's moving in lockstep with the naval blockade 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:54.960 to degrade Iran's cape capacity to generate, to move and 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:59.920 repatriate revenue. It directly targets the regime's primary revenue lifeline. 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.400 The blockade alone is costing Iran as much as five 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:08.360 hundred million dollars a day in lost revenue. Ninety percent 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.600 of total Iranian trade has been halted, causing permanent damage 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.560 to Iran's oil infrastructure as well as are forced to 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.360 shut in again. All of this is in response to 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.520 their piracy. It cannot be that you have these straits 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.560 and they blow up any ship that moves and the 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.079 only ships they get to go through where there is 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:25.920 You can't have a situation in which the straits are 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.600 close to everyone else but they benefit from the piracy. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.160 That can't happen. That's why the blockade is in place, 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.240 and that's why these sanctions are crippling them. Any foreign 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.120 financial by the way, Treasury is now identifying and cutting 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.440 off every dollar of revenue that's flowing to this regime. 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.800 And so look, any foreign financial institution or commercial actor 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.520 that enables Iran sanctions evasion is going to face secondary 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.720 sanctions exposure and a loss of access to the US 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.720 financial system. As President Trump is said, and the facts 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.120 clearly bear out, the United States of America holds all 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.640 the cards. There is no scenario here in which if 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.200 they decide to join the ladder of escalation, they wind 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.280 up getting the last say. But our preference is for 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.679 these straits to be opened to the way they're supposed 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.040 to be open, back to the way it was. Anyone 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.480 can use it, no minds in the water, nobody paying tolls. 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.120 That's what we have to get back to a next 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.840 to goal here. Every day the conflict continues, however, our 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.800 leverage on Iran will continue to increase and their position 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.200 will continue to weaken, especially as the blockade really begins 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.880 to bide in conjunction with the sanctions. So look, the 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.400 times come for Iran to make a sensible choice. And 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.560 it's not easy for them to do that, obviously, because 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.880 they have a fracture in their own leadership system. And 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.400 apart from that, I mean, the top people in that 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:42.640 government are to say the least, you know, they're insane 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.079 in the brain, and so we need to address that. 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.360 And it's difficult because it's hard to get past that 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.480 in their system. But it's important for them to make 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.560 a sensible choice and the one that's right for their people. 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.360 The president, our president has proven time and again that 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.920 his preference is peace, but Iran must accept the reality 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.080 of this situation and come to the negotiation table and 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.360 accept terms that are good for them but ultimately good 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.320 for the world. The diplomatic path, if there's a real 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.679 diplomatic path, I'm not knowing what's going to be one, 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.600 But if there's a real diplomatic path, and we continue 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.000 to explore it, Steve and Jarreed are working on that 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.160 very hard. If there is one there, it could be 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.439 one that leads them to reconstruction, to prosperity and to stability, 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:18.480 and to not marry. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.280 We continue the Secretary of State Mark or Rubio giving 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:29.200 a briefing on operation Well Economic Epic Fury, if you will, 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.680 and that is opening the Straight and escorting ships in 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.000 and out of the Straight or Hormones will go back 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.560 to the press conference for stations along the Sean Hannity 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.680 Show network. We're going to continue our coverage the world. 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:45.600 The alternative is growing isolation, economic collapse, and ultimately total defeat. 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.280 I know what the right choice is for Iran. I 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.360 hope that the people over there making decisions will make 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.360 the right one. The last point I would make, and 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.320 it really is important for them to understand this is 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.040 they really shouldn't test the will of the United States, 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.720 at least not under President Donald Trump. He has proven 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.160 time and again that he will back up what he says, 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.080 and if they test them ultimately, they will lose. The 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.440 hard way, the easy way, the long way, the short way, 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:11.200 they will lose and without it's time for your questions. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.160 So I wanted to start with you first. 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.600 I have the parent Humming Independent Journalist Secretary A. Rubio. 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.000 Have you seen any recent indications that Aron is willing 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.240 to give up this nuclear weapons program that is credible, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.840 verifiable and that would lead to an immediate de escalation. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:32.120 Well, look, this is a long standing problem for them, right, 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.200 I mean they have wanted they have always said they 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.400 don't want a nuclear weapon. That's because they've always said that. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.040 They just don't mean it. And why do you say, well, 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:39.440 how do you know they don't mean it, Well, we 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.120 don't mean it because they do all They're doing all 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.080 the things and historically have tried to do all the 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.680 things that you do if you want a nuclear weapons program. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.520 For example, they innovate and try to innovate long range 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.560 livery missiles that now in some cases, are capable of 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:56.560 reaching much of Europe. They build these large underground centrifuges 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.680 for enrichment activity. There are many there are countries in 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:01.600 the world that are involved in the enrichment business, but 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.000 these guys do it in mountains and in caves and 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.600 in hiding. They've always had secret components of their nuclear 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.920 program undisclosed to the world, and we know for a 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.320 fact that they retain highly enriched uranium at sixty percent 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.680 that they that they did so, and that has no 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.440 civilian use, none, zero, whatsoever. So they have an opportunity 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.760 here to agree to something that will make it clear 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.960 that they're not interested in the One thing is to 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:25.840 say we don't want a nuclear weapon, and other thing 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:27.280 is to do the things that prove you don't want 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.920 a nuclear weapon. By the way, if what Iran wants 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.760 is a civilian nuclear program for power plants and stuff 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.600 like that, there are a lot of countries in the 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:38.400 world that have that, and they don't enrich they import 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.720 the enriched material. You know, they could have that if 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.600 that's what they wanted, But they're not acting like that's 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.680 what they wanted. They're acting like they want a military, 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:49.040 you know, nuclear program. That's unacceptable. So that's the process 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.360 we're engaged in now to create. That's the object of 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.640 this diplomacy is to come up with some level of 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.360 understanding about what are the topics that they've agreed to 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.480 negotiate on. We don't have to have the actual agreement 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.400 written out of one day. This is highly complex and 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.280 highly technical, but we have to have a diplomatic solution 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.359 that is very clear about the topics that they are 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.080 willing to negotiate on and the extent and the concessions 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:11.640 are willing to make at the front end in order 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.280 to make those talks worthwhile. That's what Stephen Jarrett and 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.159 the whole team is working on, and I hope to 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.399 have good news on it. That's the outcome we would prefer. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.840 That's the outcome we would have preferred a year ago. 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:22.800 That's the outcome I think most of us would have 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.359 preferred a long time ago. But that's not the option 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.760 they've given us given their activity. All right, can I 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:29.679 there's no way I can figure out who to call on. 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.520 I'm just gonna like press right in the metal right there? 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.680 You right there? Yet? Yeah, in the back robe. Let's 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.840 takes president. I'll go to you next, go ahead. 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:42.000 Thank you, secretary, going right, Welcome to the White House. 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.840 Sir, Yeah to you, Yes, sir, thank you. I have 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:49.160 two questions. Are two separate issues that they get two 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.359 questions for these two questions. There's a lot of people 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.560 in here. All right, well you answer it. You can 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.359 ask me two questions. I'll give you one answer and 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.480 I'll pick the one I like better. Thank you, miss 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.040 your secretary. The first has to do with the blockade. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.840 There are lawmakers from both parties who claim the blockade 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:07.560 is an active war. 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.040 What do you say to that? And my second question 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:14.119 has to do with the fuel embargo of Cuba. 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.160 How long, mister secretary, will that lasts? 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.280 Okay, two things? All right, good, I'll answer both your 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.600 questions because I like the second one through the first 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:22.320 one on the blockade, and so why do we have 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.400 a blockade. We have a blockade because they are shut 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:26.600 down the straits. So I don't know which members of 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.600 Congress you're talking to, but here's what I would ask them. 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.439 I would ask everybody here, very simple. These guys have 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:33.399 shut down the straits of Hormuds. This is what Iron 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.800 is saying. We will shut down the straits no one 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:37.639 can go through. No country in the world can go 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:39.520 through unless we allow you to go through, and you 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.160 have to pay us. But our ships can go through, 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.720 meeting the Iranian ships as much as they want. That's crazy. 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:46.520 Who would agree to that? So how are we going 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:48.240 to have a situation where they get to close the 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.639 straits to everybody and the only people who are allowed 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:52.760 to go through there are one hundred percent without paying anything, 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.159 are the Iranians. If you do that, they'll keep the 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.800 straits closed forever. They're trying to make this some new normal, Okay, 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.199 under no circumstance is can we ever allow them to 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.560 normalize the fact that they get to blow up commercial 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:06.520 ships and put mines in the water. So the response 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.640 to that is, we're going to blockade your ships. If 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.800 everyone's ships are not getting out, your ships are not 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.960 getting out either. That's not an active war. That's a 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.560 defensive measure. It's a counter to what they have decided 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:17.600 to do. You know what is an active war? Putting 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.480 mines in the water. Why don't the members of Congress, 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:22.440 whoever it is, is complaining about it. They should be 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:24.840 all over that these guys put mines in the water, 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.919 That alone. You. Mining in the water is illegal period, 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:31.320 under any circumstances, and they've done it. This is crazy stuff, 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.680 but this is what they've done on Cuba. Oil blockade 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.600 on Cuba. There's no oil blockade on Cuba, per se. 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:39.719 Here's what's happening with Cuba. Okay. Cuba used to get 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.160 free oil from Venezuela. Used to give them a bunch 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.480 of free oil. They would take like sixty percent of 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.760 that oil and resell it for cash. It wouldn't even 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.160 go to benefit the people. So the only blockade that's 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.680 happened is the Cubans have decided, I mean, the Venezuelans 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.040 have decided, we're not giving you free oil anymore. And 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.720 you can only imagine nowadays the way oil prices aren't. 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:58.919 No one's giving away free oil, much less to a 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:02.359