Trump on 60 Minutes: Countries we protected will pay back "any and all" Iran war costs

President Trump said the countries the U.S. has protected during the Iran war will repay America for the cost of the campaign, in an interview with Ross Douthat that aired Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes."

Asked whether the U.S. military can keep escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz indefinitely, Trump said the presence is "not very expensive" and added: "At the end of this whole thing, those countries that we've protected are going to pay us back any and all costs that we've had for the war. We're gonna get all that money back. And I've told 'em, and they're gonna do it, 100%."

"Without us, they wouldn't exist. Without us, Israel wouldn't exist," Trump said, according to the CBS News transcript. He pointed to the B-2 strikes on Iran's three nuclear sites: "They were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon," he said. "We decapitated their nuclear arsenal. If I didn't do that, there would be no Israel right now."

Trump also cited a Wall Street Journal report that more oil is now moving through the Strait of Hormuz than at the start of the war.