Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett Sunday on exactly when gas prices were expected to come down “like a rocket ship in reverse,” as President Donald Trump claimed at a recent rally.

“The president knows in places where there are high prices, that can cause a problem for a president,” Doocy said. “But he is now starting to argue, with the midterms approaching, that he thinks the high prices are worth it because he thinks the Iran war is worth it.”

Doocy then rolled tape on Trump saying the Iran war is an “inexpensive price to pay for what we’ve done.”

“Remember that,” Trump told the North Carolina crowd to sparse applause. “Even if, frankly, even if it was a lot more, but that’s going to come tumbling down. That’s going to be like a rocket ship in reverse,” Trump said.

“Prices down like a rocket ship in reverse!” exclaimed Doocy. “When?”

“Well, one of the things you’ve seen, first of all, is that how, I guess, out of control the Iranians and now the Houthis are,” Hassett said. “And, again, this whole thing started because the Iranians told us, like, ‘We don’t have to talk to you anymore because we’re two weeks from having a nuclear weapon.’ And you see that they’re shooting ships like crazy in the strait. The president had to act. And if you think about what would have happened if he hadn’t acted, it would be really, really bad for the global economy and for human civilization.”

Hassett continued:

While we’ve done that, what we’ve done with our incredible Navy is we’ve been bringing oil through the straits. It’s up to a billionaire barrels of oil have come through the straits with naval escorts to keep the price as low as it can possibly be, given the disruption. So President Trump will decide when enough is enough, but I can say that the U.S. Government has done everything we can to make the price effect way smaller than people expected. And so, people, when this started, they were saying we’re going to have $150, $200 oil, and we haven’t had that because President Trump organized everybody to get friendly oil out of the straits. Meanwhile, Iran isn’t getting any oil out of the straits, and they’re running out of money, they’re having hyper-inflation, and their economy’s totally on the ropes.

Watch the clip above via The Sunday Briefing on Fox News.

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