President Trump said, quote, hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others will send ships to the area, unquote.

Is he hoping that those countries are going to send ships or have they committed to sending ships?

And how soon will those naval escorts be ready?

Well, I'll leave those, you know, those conversations to him.

The conversations are ongoing.

I think there's an important point that's getting, you know, kind of to him, the conversations are ongoing. I think there's an

important point that's getting, you know, kind of missed in the conversation, and that 80% of the

oil coming out of the Gulf heads to Asia. President Trump is calling upon the world, saying the

entire world is affected. Iran can't hold your economy's hostage. And we certainly welcome, encourage, and even demand their participation to help their own economies.

It's fascinating.

That was obviously the Ambassador to the United Nations.

You know, Ed Luce had an interview, had a interview with Donald Trump over the weekend.

And Donald Trump's even talking about possibly canceling his meeting with President Xi.

If President Xi doesn't also help the U.S. with their efforts to get the straights open up.

Because, you know, the world, you have the

world who actually benefits from this. But this is what, again, one of the reasons why Donald Trump

ran was elected is here we are finding ourselves in a position where we're being policemen

to the world again, something that, of course, so many people, especially on the right,

have complained about for years and the left that the United States shouldn't be

policemen in the world.

So right now, how much of a disproportionate burden is the military going to be taking

if other countries aren't helping to keep the straits open?

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