The president, our president, has proven time and again that his preference is peace.

But Iran must accept the reality of this situation and come to the negotiation table and accept terms

that are good for them but ultimately good for the world.

The diplomatic path, if there's a real diplomatic path, I'm not going to be one, but if there's a real diplomatic path and we continue to explore it,

Steve and Jared are working on that very hard.

If there is one there, it could be one that leads them to reconstruction, to prosperity,

and to stability, and to not posing a threat to the world. The alternative is growing

isolation, economic collapse, and ultimately total defeat. I know what the right choice is for

Iran. I hope that the people over there making decisions will make the right one.

That the noise, like the tumbleweed, is getting all over the place.

How does Europe and how do our allies in the Pacific, our allies in the Middle East,

deal with something that clearly the administration

itself cannot control. And that thing in the center is Iran, because at the end of the day,

they're still pushing events more than anything else. Well, I mean, the analogy I'd like to use

this is a game of chicken. You know, one side is closing the street of Hormuz and the U.S.

imposed a blockade. But for a game of chicken to work, you need, one side is closing the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. imposed a blockade,

but for game of chicken to work, you need the chicken to play by certain rules, even that game. And here we have one chicken, the American one, that is zigzagging all the time. We really don't know. I mean, to your point, at this point, I'm at a loss to know what President Trump's objective is. As you said, Simone, if it was to open the trade of hormones, it was open

before the war started.

The nuclear issue, there's no indication now that the Iranians are prepared to give,

what they weren't prepared to give before the war.

So he could keep hating them.

He could keep hurting our economy.

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