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The Bret Baier Podcast

Exclusive: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz

The Bret Baier Podcast

FOX News Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.1739 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

As Iran continues to impede transit through the Strait of Hormuz, when does the time come for the United Nations to step up? U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, sat down with Bret to discuss the international community’s role in the conflict and how Iran will play into President Trump’s upcoming negotiations with China. This interview first aired on Wednesday, 05/06, on Special Report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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What is the purpose of the UN? The UN was supposed to be a place where you could

0:45.4

peacefully resolve global conflict. Right now you have a country who is unlawfully, criminally,

0:50.8

and illegally taking possession of an international waterway and blowing up commercial

0:55.3

vessels and putting mines in the water. All we're asking them to do is to condemn it. And if you're

1:00.0

telling me that the international community and hundreds of countries cannot rally behind that,

1:05.0

then I don't know what the utility of the UN system is.

1:07.9

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on asking the United Nations for some support in getting Iran to end blocking of the Strait of Ormuse. Let's get some thoughts tonight from the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Walts. Thanks for being here. Yeah. Sure, right. We're in the middle of this, what the president is looking at on this proposal, this one-pageer, this memorandum of understanding.

1:28.1

I talked to him today, and there was this sense of optimism, not, I'd say cautious optimism,

1:33.3

that they maybe get to a deal within a week.

1:36.2

However, at the same time, you have the United Nations, Iran, has introduced a new mechanism,

1:41.8

the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, to regulate maritime transit

1:45.5

through the Strategic Strait of Removes.

1:47.5

That's according to Iranian state media.

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