Brian Kennedy

Well, thank you, Natalie.

Great to be with you on this Friday afternoon.

Look, I take the president at his word that we've achieved many of our objectives, that the ceasefire is something that we hopefully can negotiate around and come to some kind of conclusion on this.

I take the president seriously when he says

they can't have nuclear weapons.

Now, a lot of people don't believe they have nuclear weapons, that they didn't want nuclear weapons.

They say they wanted nuclear weapons, and the president believed them.

He has believed them for many, many years.

And so if he believes that we have reduced their ability to build nuclear weapons, then it's time for us to leave.

Whether or not the strait can be opened soon to our satisfaction is something here that's going to need to be negotiated.

And I believe that given the team we have over there, hopefully we're going to be able to achieve that.

But we don't know what the ceasefire will hold.

We don't really know whether the people who are that we're negotiating with actually have the authority to be negotiating.

We certainly hope they do.

But this is a country in Iran that's at war with us.

And so there will be parts, as I think the war room has done a brilliant job of articulating, there'll be people over there who will still continue to fight the war.

And they may not agree with whatever terms are come up with here tomorrow.

And so we're going to have to see.

But one hopes that the war ends.

No one wants this war.