Travel pool note #15 // POTUS says “we may put back” a naval blockade on Iran

Press was escorted out at 4:31 p.m. Would flag naval blockade comments below. Again, please check all quotes against audio.

Trump says he doesn't have a deadline for a deal between Russia and Ukraine.

Trump, on a drone deal between Ukraine and the U.S.: "Well, we would buy their drones, and we make drones, we make great drones, but they have an ability to make a lot of them, which is great, Marco, amazing that in a war situation they make them, they make them in basements, they make them wherever the hell you have a little shelter, even if you don't have shelter, I think I suspect, right? ... I think we're going to make that deal."

Trump said he told the military to "don't hit the pipes but hit everything else" on Kharg Island.

Trump says the Iranians asked for a "time out" for the funeral proceedings -- "and they started shooting missiles."

"Pete loved this stuff from day one, but they said to us, please don't kill us during the funeral. I said I won't. We didn't. In fact, we made it safe for them, actually."

Hegseth, on what was struck last night: "Last night, as you said, lot of small craft that they were trying to harass shipping with, so that was a big part of what we targeted. Underground facilities where they were storing drones or missiles, coastal defense sites, radar sites, surveillance sites, anything used to harass shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. So, anything they thought they had rebuild their capability they were using was a target last night. And tonight, if we need to on your order, Mr. President, we will hit even more."

POTUS suggests he may reimpose a naval blockade on Iran: "We put down the blockade, we may put it back, the blockade, and it'll only be a blockade for Iran."

Megan Messerly

White House reporter

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