Chris Wright: “He was well aware of the risk to energy flows that were coming out of the Persian Gulf region.”

There's different ways to look at it. He's always looking, 'How do I lower energy prices? How do I lower heating prices, electricity prices, gasoline prices, diesel prices?

If his decisions were political, he would have just kicked the can down the road and delivered a nuclear-armed Iran to the next president.

I think things are going reasonably well there but the flip side is, you have to look at every wrench you’ve got to bring a murderous conflict to an end.

He [Trump] has worked ceaselessly to try to end this war.