Jameson Greer

The president asked me that this morning, and he's, I don't want to use the word frustrated.

It's almost because he understands he's got plenty of alternatives.

But it's curious.

He's curious as to why they haven't

I don't wanna use the word capitulated, but why they haven't capitulated.

Why under this sort of pressure with the amount of sea power, naval power that we have over there, why they haven't come to us and said, we profess that we don't want a weapon, so here's what we're prepared to do.

And yet it's hard to sort of get them to that place.

No, not at all.

And by the way, all of these options were presented to the president early on before he even started his second term.

The reality is the president wanted to move quickly.

He wanted to move flexibly.

And most importantly, he was trying to respond to an emergency of our huge trade deficit we were left with under Biden.

And so that's why he was using that.

So it was an appropriate tool, was a necessary tool.

Obviously, we disagree along with three esteemed justices of the Supreme Court on the result today.

So we don't regret it.

It helped us obtain tons of deals covering half of the world's population, opening up market access we haven't enjoyed for 30 years.

And we have these agreements.

And so we'll just use a different tool.

Again, the tools may change, but the policy stays the same.