And joining me now is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant. Secretary Bessant, welcome back to Meet the Press. >> Christine, good morning. >> Good morning.Good to have you back. I want to start with the latest of what we're hearing from President Trump. Let me read you what he posted overnight.He says if Iran doesn't fully open without threat the straight of Hormuz within 48 hours from this exact point in time the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various power plants starting with the bigg ...

RT Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter)NEW: “The U.S. is funding a war against itself,” Danny Citrinowicz, a senior researcher on Iran at the Institute for National Security Studies.U.S. eases Iranian oil sanctions in scramble to contain energy prices.Story: https://t.co/rpIOyJO5vo ...

RT Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen)Iran has made it clear that there is no going back to the way things were—crippling sanctions and constant threats from US military bases in the Gulf states. Given that political agreements are seen as meaningless and diplomacy as deceptive, Iran has decided that the US must be expelled from the region. The Gulf states cannot survive without access to the Strait of Hormuz; their access may therefore be conditioned on paying taxes as reparations and selling their oil in other c ...

RT Trita Parsi (@tparsi)Iran has worked for years to get sanctions relief through diplomacy. It has failed.3 weeks of war, the US has offered sanctions relief to Iran without Tehran even asking for it... ...

The US removes sanctions on Iranian oil that has been sitting on tankers as the Trump administration looks for any leverage to keep oil prices in check. https://t.co/UTUdmmYEqU https://t.co/SCWAghtTZT ...

The US removes sanctions on Iranian oil that has been sitting on tankers as the Trump administration looks for any leverage to keep oil prices in check. https://t.co/HeSqsCvLV1 https://t.co/4D3YzdZkpv ...

WAR WITH CLEARLY DEFINED OBJECTIVES, IT APPEARS TO BE THE EXACT OPPOSITE. THERE ARE NO CLEARLY DEFINED OBJECTIVES, AND A $200 BILLION REQUEST PLUS THOUSANDS MORE TROOPS TO THE REGION DOES NOT SCREAM LIMITED WAR. IN FACT, WHEN HE WAS ASKED ABOUT WHEN THIS WAR MIGHT END, WELL, HERE'S WHAT HE said.How close would you say we are towards achieving the president's objectives and what is the end game of the operation without divulging any sensitive battle plans. Well, we wouldn't want to set a definitive time fram ...

The Zionist cult currently in charge in the U.S. has, with their quixotic tilting at Middle East windmills, threatened vital oil, fertilizer, and chemical feedstock supplies vital to East Asian economies.Result: East Asian countries have finally started giving long-pathological U.S. foreign interference -- policies bad for normal Americans and most of the rest of the world alike -- such as sanctions against Russia, the finger.Richard (@ricwe123):Japan is now openly buying Russian oil with the yuan.The Trump ...

Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Kelly O'Donnell in Washington where the Trump administration is racing to calm growing anxiety over soaring energy prices as the war with Iran intensifies after Israel and Iran exchange strikes on critical energy infrastructure in the region. These were the stunning images out of Iran after Israel launched an attack on South Pars, one of the world's largest natural gas fields, which is shared by both Iran and Qatar.You can see the large fires burning as plumes of black smo ...

The Treasury Department added Cuba to a list of countries restricted from taking delivery of Russian oil after a tanker of the fuel appeared to be headed to the island, which is under a US naval blockade https://t.co/foNToFwAcQ ...