As President Trump has said, and the facts clearly bear out, the United States of America holds all the cards.

There is no scenario here in which if they decide to join a ladder of escalation, they wind up getting the last say.

But our preference is for these straits to be opened, to the way they're supposed to be open, back to the way it was.

Anyone can use it. No mines in the water.

Nobody paying tolls. That's what we have to get back to, and that's the goal here.

All right. So what does success look like in this war? Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday

at the White House telling reporters the the administration's goal with the straight of

Hormuz is to get it back to the way it was before the war started. President Trump,

meanwhile, has paused Project Freedom, his plan to escort ships through the waterway. We're

going to bring you the latest on conflict as it moves closer to the 10-week mark. Very confusing.

Wait.

No, this is so confusing.

And Willie, I'm a simple man with simple tastes, but simple understandings of basic things.

But you had the Secretary of Defense yesterday saying they're going to escort ships through the

straight. Then you had Marco coming on, the Secretary of State, saying they're going to do the

same thing. And then the president last night on social media changed his mind. And now everybody's

saying the war is over when, of course, we haven't accomplished what we said we are going to account.

Well, the president originally said.

I don't know if he met it, but he originally said to the Iranian people, the hour of your freedom is at hand.

So he was going to liberate the Iranian people. He later

tonight saying that, but he said it. And said he was going to sink the Navy. He sunk the Navy.

So, Jack, that's one out of five. But the nuclear program was going to be taken care of.

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