Marco Rubio

And the president has a number of options available to him if he so chooses to prevent that from happening.

Obviously, I'm not going to discuss what those options are, and we're not going to discuss military tactics.

The Department of War would be in charge of those things.

I'd refer you to them, but obviously they're not going to discuss it with you either.

But there is a way forward here to achieve our objectives.

We are going to achieve our objectives in a matter of weeks, not months.

Well, again, the Iranians are threatening that they're going to set up some permanent system in the Straits of Hormuz where they get to decide who goes through international waterways.

That will never be allowed to happen.

By the way, the rest of the world should take note of that.

They have more at stake there than we do.

We get very little of our energy in this country coming through the Straits of Hormuz.

The rest of the world gets a lot more.

That said, the president has several options at his disposal, and the Department of War is preparing optionality for the president for this and various other contingencies that might arise.

That's what always needs to happen in situations like this.

But what I want the American people and the people watching this broadcast to know is that fundamentally,

What this is about is the destruction of their Air Force, which has been largely achieved, the destruction of their Navy, which has been largely achieved, the destruction of their factories that they make all these weapons with, which we're well on our way to achieving, and a substantial reduction in the number of missile launchers that they have so that they cannot continue to threaten their neighbors in the future.

All of those objectives are being met ahead, on or ahead of schedule, and should be able to achieve in a matter of weeks.

Well...

Well, I think the first point the president makes is he prefers diplomacy.

As I said, those efforts are nascent.