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Fox News Hourly Update
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The president is back. I'm Tom Rigotti Fox News. President Trump has returned to the U.S. |
| 0:07.9 | following his high-stakes meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. The leaders talk trade, |
| 0:13.1 | Taiwan, and artificial intelligence. Trump comments on his relationship with Xi in an interview |
| 0:18.0 | with Fox's Brett Baer on special report. I have a very good relationship with President Xi and with China. And it sounds like something |
| 0:26.3 | that doesn't mean anything, but it's everything in dealmaking and problems we've solved. |
| 0:31.0 | The two of us have solved a lot of problems between that somebody else would have maybe |
| 0:35.6 | done very badly with. But Trump also explained that she agrees with that Iran else would have maybe done very badly with. |
| 0:37.6 | Trump also explained that she agrees that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon, |
| 0:42.8 | and the Strait of Ormuse needs to be reopened. |
| 0:45.7 | The standstill in the Strait of Ormuz continues after President Trump's return from China. |
| 0:50.1 | Fox has confirmed Iran's Karg Island, responsible for the majority of the country's oil, is at 85% capacity. |
| 0:57.6 | Fox Business Network's Ashley Webster is in Tel Aviv with more. |
| 1:00.6 | There's no doubt that Iran is running out of options other than cutting production, and that's something that Tehran does not want to do. |
| 1:08.4 | Oil is their economic lifeblood. At the same time, the U.S. Navy continuing |
| 1:12.7 | its blockade of any shipping coming in or out of Iranian ports, President Trump was asked by |
| 1:18.9 | reporters, is China committed to putting pressure on Iran to open up that very vital waterway? |
| 1:25.7 | Here's his response. |
| 1:26.9 | We don't need favors. In the meantime, the clashes in this waterway continue. |
| 1:31.6 | Reports say a vessel operating as a floating armory in the Gulf of Oman has been seized by |
| 1:37.0 | Iran. The ship is used, by the way, to store weapons for security firms who protect ships |
| 1:42.1 | at sea. This comes as an Indian flagged ship was sunk off the coast of Oman, |
| 1:48.0 | though the crew survived. |
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