Mary Margaret Olohan

So my fellow reporters and I, you know, we were all chomping at the bit trying to get a question.

We were really hoping that we did.

Not everyone did, obviously, but he did a great job of calling on people all over the room, back, front, didn't pay too much attention to the front row, which I personally love because it means that he's given all the reporters a chance to

And he did, you know, he mixed in some levity with some more serious responses to questions.

And he really didn't get mad at anyone, which I found interesting because I've seen him be a little more aggressive with reporters in the past.

So I think he came in prepared to be congenial, to give answers to all the questions and to do Caroline's job.

So we talked a lot about the Strait of Hormuz, which obviously is one of the biggest issues in the news right now.

He talked about how Iran has been planting mines in the Strait of Hormuz and how that's a direct attack on any of the people who are using it.

He talked about how Iran has really made themselves the bad guy in this situation.

And so places like China, he said he hopes that China is encouraging Iran to understand their situation on the global stage and realize that no one really likes them right now.

He talked about

whether or not there is an end to the ceasefire.

He said that there is not right now.

And he kind of echoed what Pete Hegseth told myself and other reporters that the ceasefire is ongoing and that it's up to the president ultimately to decide what will cause that ceasefire to end.

He also talked about going to Rome.

One of the reporters asked him a question about this.

This is something that I covered for The Daily Wire this week for our website.

He's heading to Rome to make peace with the Pope after a lot of different confrontation between the president, between Pope Leo, between J.D.

Vance, a lot of

angst going on all over the world between the head of the Catholic Church and the president and the vice president.