James Lankford: “Obviously, the president's trying to get the straight of…”

“We're trying to see if this was an initial agreement, that we're going to finish out everything that they're still finishing some things out to get that done. That's a pretty typical diplomatic process. Obviously, the president's trying to get the straight of Hormuz open as quickly as possible. If he's going to do something preliminary now, and then the rest of the sales later in the week and then the rest of the details after that, it at least gets energy prices down across the world.” (01:47–01:52)

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