Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kelly O'Donnell in Washington, and we begin with an abrupt change in course from President Trump tied to the war against Iran and a top administration official

resigning his post over the president's decision to go to war. After lashing out at NATO allies

for rejecting his demands to help the U.S. reopen the Strait of Hormuz, President Trump is

now saying the U.S. does not need any help and that it never needed any help.

Despite just yesterday saying that numerous countries were on the way to assist in the strait,

during a meeting with the Irish Tishuk, the prime minister today, President Trump doubling down on not meeting other countries while shiting NATO.

We don't need help.

You know, we've, that war has been long prosecuted as far as I'm concerned.

Almost from day one, we knocked out many of these things.

We're knocked out the Navy essentially in a couple of days.

I think NATO is making a very foolish mistake.

And I've long said that, you know,

I wonder whether or not NATO would ever be there for us. So this is a, this was a great test

because we don't need them, but they should have been there.

The president's comments come after his economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, said this morning that some oil tankers are

starting to move through the strait.

The bottom line is that the timeline that President Trump has stated over and over is that

it's a four to six week war and that we're ahead of schedule.

And so already you're seeing tankers are starting to

dribble through the straits. And I think it's a sign of how little Iran has left. Iran's strategy

appeared to be that they could hurt the U.S. economy, and then that would make President Trump slow down.

In fact, they're not hurting the U.S. economy very much at all. While gas prices are higher, the economy as a whole is sound.

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