heard about is the formation of a large international coalition to contain and reverse iranian activities in the region. that is coming after those attacks against saudi arabia and in many other spots in the region as well. sandra: you just heard an interview with the energy secretary rick perry a few moments ago in our studio. i know something caught you that you heard there when i asked him what we re about to hear from the president. well, it s the same point that you raised with him immediately. that was a unique moment where a member of cabinet would make that statement which is in addition to the international coalition that the u.s. will be building, there could be i quote kinetic responses. what was interesting about it, it may not be an american military response. who in the region? secretary perry was very clear. arabs are victimized by the iranians, israel is.
so i think the message will be strong, powerful that iran is going to have to pay a price and could pay a very dear price economically. look, the president stated that he is not interested in going to war with these people but there are plenty of folks in the region whose livelihoods and futures are at stake whether it s israel, saudi arabia, other of our allies in that region that have some options that could up to and include kinetic responses. sandra: first the response from the united states with iran and how far this administration is willing to go? when you said kinetic responses? i thought you were talking about the economy and sanctions. i was. that is where we would like to have this addressed where the iranians the iranian people are the ones being hurt here. this is not these leaders over there, they re not suffering the way the iranian
of course, the formation of a large coalition to isolate iran, i would say the iranians shouldn t be the ones to accept. the president may form that coalition and put the pressure. i don t think it will be a long meeting. putting additional pressure on the iranians. he said i am isolating you. on the other hand showing them the door where they could come from. let s see. sandra: what else struck you from what you just heard from the president? that when he was asked about venezuela, his answer was we re focusing on the issue but really what surprised me that one of the hottest points in the world regardless of our issue with iran is between countries who have nuclear power. he has just met over the past weeks with the prime minister of pakistan and he had this huge appearance with the prime minister of india just a few days ago in texas. so it looks like we do have a policy with regard to south
the market, these events will cause less and less disruption of the energy supply in the world. so we have a strategic petroleum reserve with almost 670 million barrels at hand. the saudis 188 million barrels of reserve that they have. and in the international energy agency membership out there we have somewhere 1.5 billion barrels of oil in reserve. so these events where the iranians think that we can go in and attack an oil facility in saudi and somehow or other that will cause great disruption, well, we ve seen that s not the case. it does it is cause for concern, no doubt about that. but this isn t 2007. this is 12 years later and these types of attacks are going to have less and less impact on the global market. sandra: very interesting ahead of the president s speech
against their interests in the future. so this is what the trump administration is trying to do to work in alliance between two blocks and alliances. the arab coalition and european union on the other hand. sandra: what about a meeting with rouhani? the president likes those meetings. he was successful with the north korean leader. but in this case it is not identical, not comparable. the iranians will have to accept some conditions before the president would meet their leader and it is not happening at this point in time. sandra: not happening at this point in time. it certainly could. do you think the united states and response from the president should be eventually to make it clear that he is willing to, as he has said in the past, meet with iranian leadership? as i said, these are all the options and he likes to keep all the options. one would be if the iranians say we accept those conditions there could be a meeting. a meeting by itself doesn t mean much if there are no a