Anthony Scaramucci

You know, Richard, the economy, and you pointed this out this morning on the show, the economy in Iran is very, very fragile, was teetering on collapse, protests in January.

They're going to lose, I mean, I'm just going off of estimates in the public press, something like $1 billion to $2 billion a day.

They've got 1.1 billion barrels a day going to China.

Let's say this took place.

You can't get the oil out any other real way.

There's no real pipelines coming out of Iran heading to China to speak of.

So workshop for me what happens to the Iranian economy.

I feel like this is the potential kill shot without putting ground troops in.

Okay, and so the deal gets cut, Richard.

We're going to flip over to the negotiations now over the weekend.

As we both know, 21 hours of talks, negotiations stalled.

Vice President Vance and his diplomatic team left Islamabad without a deal.

But if you put this type of economic pressure on them and they want to keep the regime, as you're saying, do they keep the regime without executing on the nuclear weapons and enriching the uraniums?

Is that what you're saying?

Is that the red line for the Trump administration?

When the Iranian foreign minister says we were inches away from a memorandum of understanding, is that propaganda, Richard?

Is that him just saying that to appeal to some people in the West that are adversaries of the president or perhaps his allies in country?

Or do you think he really thinks that they were inches away?

And then the secondary question, though, is if you're the Iranians, why would you want to give up the nuclear when you've seen how much of a deterrent that's been for North Korea?

It seems like you've got two red lines where no one's going to move over the red line.