Jen Psaki

He says the strait will open on its own.

What do you think, because a lot of when you're prepping a president or a secretary of defense or state or speaking publicly from the government is thinking about how the people you'll be negotiating with are going to digest what you're saying.

How do you think what he is saying is being digested?

I mean, by the Pakistanis, by the Iranians, by others who were involved in this negotiating process?

Rob, you alluded to this and sort of the Iranians, what they're watching, what they know and what they see.

I mean, everybody, when they're preparing for a negotiation, knows what kind of the dossier of the country they're negotiating with is.

Right.

And they know that they've probably seen the economic data here at home, the impact of rising gas prices.

They know the midterm elections are coming up.

They know all these things.

How do you think all of that factors into their dynamics?

I know I've said a lot of what he says doesn't make sense.

I'm going to ask you about something he said just because it's interesting.

He said today that the Strait of Hormuz, if it isn't reopened, will be able to finish it off.

Now, we don't know what he means by that.

He's threatened military action before.

We don't know that that's what they're going to do.

But give us just a sense, as they sort of allude to, military action to retake the Strait as opposed to negotiations, which I think everybody thinks is the preference here.

What would what does that look like?

What would that require in terms of manpower, in terms of resources?