00:00President Trump hosted a marathon cabinet meeting Wednesday, which included over an hour of Q&A
00:05from reporters. As you might guess, there were a lot of questions about Iran. And just hours after
00:10that meeting, Reuters reported fresh U.S. strikes targeting a military site that threatened American
00:15troops and commercial shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. The outlet, citing a U.S.
00:20official, also reported that drones launched from Iran were intercepted by American forces.
00:25Now, the Strait was also a big topic of conversation during that cabinet meeting,
00:29with the president threatening the country of Oman if it sides with Iran in any negotiation to
00:34reopen it. Nobody's going to control its international waters and Oman will behave just
00:40like everybody else. So we'll have to blow them up. They understand that they'll be fine.
00:44The Post's White House reporter Emily Gooden was in the cabinet room for the proceedings,
00:48and she filled me in on the Oman issues and some of the other highlights from the meeting.
00:52We had to start off with a little bragging news. This candidate in the Texas Senate primary
00:57won the primary election, so he noted that, and noted he's had a successful primary season.
01:05But the big main news out of this meeting was on Iran and the war there. The president again
01:12doubled down, made clear that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, which seems to be one of the
01:17sticking points in the peace talks. Now, the president didn't give a timeline on when he expects
01:24peace talks to be ended, but he did say they're ongoing.
01:31Additionally, an interesting thing that came up in the meeting was the president
01:35made a bit of a threat toward Oman, which has been a big U.S. ally in the region.
01:40And this came about because there was a proposal floated that Oman and Iran
01:45kind of split the oversight of the Strait of Hormuz, which is that critical waterway
01:50where all the oil and supply supply flow through. The president obviously is not in favor of that.
01:57He was very clear that he wants the waterway to be free and international, and he indicated the U.S.
02:02would oversee that. So that was some movement there on those.
02:07Finally, I got to ask the president a question, and I asked him something that all New Yorkers are
02:12wondering. Is he coming to one of the Knicks games next week? And he indicated that yes, he is. The
02:17president is a huge Knicks fan, and as we know, it's been decades since they won a championship game.
02:23So he said that the owner invited him, he very much wants to go, and he's very much rooting for
02:28the hometown team.
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