English transcript

As President Trump has said, and the facts clearly bear out, the United States of America

holds all the cards.

There is no scenario here in which if they decide to join a ladder of escalation they

wind up getting the last say.

But our preference is for these straits to be opened to the way they're supposed to be

opened, back to the way it was.

Anyone can use it, no mines in the water, nobody paying tolls.

That's what we have to get back to and that's the goal here.