Trump: US clearing out Strait of Hormuz, Oil ships headed to US

You're watching live now from Fox. Welcome back. I'm your host, Kristi Matino. We're continuing to follow the latest here out of Pakistan. As we do know, Vice President J.D. Vance is there right now. These talks currently underway here. These Iran peace talk negotiations. That's a live look there outside that hotel. Now, I also wanted to share this here with you. President Trump just shared this to Truth Social just moments ago, as he's announcing that the US is starting the process

of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz. If you are just tuning in here with us, we shared this before the break. I want to just reiterate what we have learned here from the president. He announced today, quote,

that we're now starting the process of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz as a favor to countries all around the world, including China, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany and many others. Incredibly, they don't have the courage or will to do this work themselves.

Very interestingly, however, empty oil carrying ships from many nations are all heading to the United States to load up with oil. This announcement comes as negotiations between the US andS. and Iran

are currently unfolding there in Pakistan, as I just shared with you. But President Trump went on to say the fake news media has lost total credibility, not that they had any to begin with, because of their massive Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS. They love saying that Iran is winning when, in fact, everyone knows that they are losing and losing big. The president goes on to say their navy is gone, their air force is gone,

their anti-aircraft apparatus is non-existent, radar is dead, their missile and drone factories have been largely obliterated along with the missiles and drones themselves and most importantly their long-time leaders are no longer with us. Praise be to Allah. The only thing they have going is the threat that a ship may bunk

into one of their sea mines, which, by the way, all 28 of their mind dropper boats are also lying at the bottom of the sea. Now President Trump said today as you just read in that

post that massive numbers of empty oil tank that are heading to the United States this coming a day after Fox News Digital reported that oil traffic through the Strait of Hormuz

remains. Effectively halted a back for log of roughly 3200 vessels, among them, 800 tankers and cargo ships built up west of the straight as of just yesterday, with ships

idling as operators wait for clarity on whether it is safe to pass. So we are just learning that here from President Trump. I did want to bring that post to you here from Truth Social. Once again we're still monitoring all of these talks here that are going on today in Pakistan and on your screen is just a graphic we have created here for you. As I've been saying, the Vice President is leading these talks but he's also joined by Steve Whitcoff, who is the special envoy to the Middle East,

as well as Jared Kushner, who is the special envoy for peace. We heard from President Trump just yesterday. Very briefly, he spoke to reporters about what he said to the vice president before he left for these talks. Let's listen in. What did you tell J.D. Vance before

he left, sir?

Well, I wish him luck. He's got a big thing. I will find out what's going on. They're militarily defeated. And now we're going to open up the Gulf with them, with or without them.

But that'll be open. We're going to be, or the straight, as they call it. And I think it's going to go pretty quickly. And if it doesn't, we'll be able to finish it off one way or the other. It's going well. The the Navy's gone. The Air Force is gone.

All anti-aircraft is gone. The leaders are gone. The whole place is gone. So we'll see how it turns out. So it's J.D. and Steve and Jared. You have a good team and they meet tomorrow. We'll see how it all works. You're not going to let them hold us straight, are you?

I mean, it's international.

No, we're not going to let that.

It's international water. If they're doing that, nobody knows if they're doing that. But if they're doing that, we're not going to let that happen.

What would a good deal look like for you?

No nuclear weapon, number one. You know, I think it's already been regime change. But we never had that as a as a criteria. No nuclear weapon. That's ninety nine percent of us. Yeah, but that'll open up automatically. Yeah. The answer is yes. But the Strait will open up if we just left the Strait.

It's going to otherwise they make no money. So the Strait is going to open. But what we have is no nuclear weapon, but we'll open the straight anyway. Don't forget, we don't use the straight. Other countries But what we have is no nuclear weapon, but we'll open the straight anyway. Don't forget, we don't use the straight. Other countries use the straight.