John Solomon

Do you like your oil?

Make a deal.

You know you're going to have to sell oil to get back on your feet after I bomb the heck out of you.

So don't push this too far.

I have heard from administration officials that they're getting some reasonable conversations with Iran, not, you know.

It's Iran, so nothing's totally reasonable.

But there seems to be a little more humility, a little bit more pragmatism in what Iran wants to do.

And, you know, 16, 17 years ago, I negotiated directly with the Iranian mullahs because my reporter at the...

The Washington Times had been captured during the Green Revolution.

And it was amazing when we finally got down to talking Turkey how pragmatic they were.

Like, what are you going to say about us?

I'm going to say thank you for giving my reporter back.

Are you going to say critical things?

Of course I'm going to say critical things.

You took my damn reporter.

But it was a very pragmatic negotiation on the phone.

And I was the only guy to get my reporter out.

I think the Washington Post and Newsweek had, they're more pragmatic when you get down to making a deal like where they might be.

They seem more humble in the last couple of days.

Like I said, the president's statement today to the European leader and the open letter to America, it wasn't, hey, death to America was, we really don't want to have a fight with you anymore.