Dave Davies

Right.

Among the Iranians, 10 points were their continued control of the Strait of Hormuz, lifting sanctions, reparations, withdrawal of all U.S.

troops from the region.

Does this suggest that Trump had put himself into a box by this extreme threat to end Iranian civilization and felt the only way out was to find something he could latch on to and say, let's talk?

Right, right.

I mean closing the Strait of Hormuz wasn't even on the table when all of this started.

It was a product of this war, right?

Yeah, it was open.

That's the problem.

Now it's closed.

Let's talk about where that's going next.

But I thought to set some context, we might listen to some comments by President Trump.

This was two weeks ago in an exchange with reporters, I believe in the Oval Office, in which he was saying that the U.S.

would soon wind down its military operations and the Strait of Hormuz wasn't really such a problem.

Let's listen.

And that was the president two weeks ago.

What does that tell you about his thinking?

The January protests in Iran.

Yes, yes.

Well, you and I are speaking Monday morning right about the time that the threatened naval blockade by the United States is to take effect.