John Kerry

And he will try to find, I think, the best way to find the compromise that works for everybody.

We have to all understand now there will be some kind of compromise if there is to be a negotiated settlement.

And that compromise is going to have to recognize that Iran believes it lived by the agreement.

And so what we wound up with is a situation where they now believe you can't trust the United States because President Trump came along and just pulled out of the agreement.

And he pulled out of the agreement, Jen, without making a bona fide effort over a period of time to try to change the dynamics.

He didn't put ideas on the table.

He didn't bring the teams together.

If he had things that he really disagreed with, he had an ability to be able to try to change those.

And he always had time.

to be able to bomb if that's what he ultimately wanted to do or if that's ultimately what Prime Minister Netanyahu persuaded him to do.

The fact is that here you had an ability over a number of years because of the very stringent

components of the agreement that was put together.

So I think, you know, we're going to have to overcome a massive credibility gap.

And we're going to have to resolve the Straits of Hormuz because I don't see how President Trump or how anybody leaves those straits to be controlled by Iran, which they were not before we began this war.

Ships were passing freely through the international waters in that passage.

So here we are, worse off than we were before, and we're going to have to hope that those negotiations in Pakistan can really produce something.

I really do hope, because this is a very dangerous moment.

Well, I was part of any number of conversations with Prime Minister Netanyahu, conversations that took place in other countries.

Yes, he wanted us to strike.

He came to President Obama.