Elissa Slotkin: “Nothing is getting through the Persian Gulf.”

“Those are the things I'd be focusing on. But unfortunately, what is just a cloud over the entire negotiation is the war in Iraq and the fact that Nothing is getting through the Persian Gulf. That affects our prices of gas in a major way back home in the United States, but it also deeply affects the Chinese.” (06:32–06:36)

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