Abby Phillip: ‘Reopening the Strait Just Gets Us Back to Where We Were 51 Days Ago’

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PHILLIP: "Yeah, but they didn't. So, getting us back to where we were on February 28th, that would be sort of like the minimum baseline consequence of this conflict."
COOPER: "Not true at all, Abby."
PHILLIP: "It would not be necessarily some kind of added bonus that would justify — "
RANTZ: "Well, they don't have any air force anymore. They don't have — "
COOPER: "Exactly where I was going to go."
PHILLIP: "I want to be totally clear, when we're talking about the Strait of Hormuz, I just want to be clear, that reopening the strait just gets us back to where we were 51 days ago. It doesn't actually do anything different."
COOPER: "51 days ago, the open strait, came with it a country with nuclear ambitions that was a terrorist state."
PHILLIP: "Sure, of course. And they're still a terrorist state and they still have their nuclear material in their country. So, that hasn't changed either."
COOPER: "That has been greatly attenuated."
PHILLIP: "All right, to be continued."