Iran live updates: Trump says Iran shot down chopper, US 'must' respond

President Donald Trump appeared to confirm that a U.S. Army ‌helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz, which was reported by The New York Times late on Monday.

Trump claimed that the pilots were not injured and that a report on the incident will be released on Tuesday.

"The pilots are fine," the president said. "Nobody injured. We are going to issue a report tomorrow, but the pilots are fine," Trump added, when asked about an update on the crash during a gaggle on the tarmac in New York following Game 3 of the NBA finals.

-ABC News' Isabella Murray

In a call with the Israeli prime minister, President Donald Trump told ABC News that he told Benjamin Netanyahu to "use his judgment" but warned not to hurt his effort to get a peace deal with Iran.

"I don't want to do anything that's going to hurt the deal, but I said, 'You have to use your own judgment.' Just go out and use your own judgment, but I don't want the deal to be hurt," Trump told ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl in a telephone interview on Monday.

The president insisted that negotiations with Iran are actively going on and that "we're trying to finish it up." Trump said he wouldn't say it's "complicated," saying, "It's actually pretty simple. It's the one with the power wins. We have all the power."

He said that some of his "best friends" want him to start bombing again, but that "they don't understand." A resumption of wide-scale U.S. military attacks, he said, would be costly and result in the Strait of Hormuz being closed for months longer.

In a post on social media this morning, Trump said peace talks toward a deal are proceeding "subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way." Asked what he meant by that, Trump told ABC News, "If people are stupid, we'll end up in something where we have to wipe out an entire infrastructure of a nation, and I don't think that's a good thing, because somebody's going to have to rebuild it."

He suggested that if the U.S. destroyed Iran’s infrastructure, the U.S. would likely end up helping to pay to rebuild it.

"Somebody's going to have to build all that infrastructure, new bridges, new this, new that, new power plants. You know, they're talking about a trillion dollars, probably more. And you know that's why we'll probably get involved in rebuilding, right, helping them rebuild," he said.

Asked if that would be like a Marshall Plan for Iran, Trump responded, "Yeah," then quickly added, "But we'll get half their oil."

President Donald Trump told Axios that after Iran and Israel traded strikes Sunday night for the first time since the U.S. and Iran agreed to a ceasefire in April, he warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he might be “on [his] own very soon” if war resumed.

"I said, 'Bibi, you better be careful, or you will be on your own very soon,'" Trump said in a phone interview on Monday.

Axios reported that Trump called Netanyahu on Sunday evening and asked him not to retaliate against Iran after they launched attacks at Israel.

Trump claimed in the interview with Axios that Israel "gave us very late notice" about Sunday's strikes.

"They were already on their way. But eventually I had [the Israeli strike] limited," Trump said.

Trump also told Axios he received calls from five different countries in the region asking him to press Netanyahu to stop.

"These countries were very concerned. They love the deal that we have been negotiating," Trump said.

Trump also claimed his administration received messages from the Iranians on Monday morning stating a willingness to stop shooting if Israel did the same.

"They called us and said that they are not doing any more attacks and asked us to tell Israel not to do any more attacks," Trump said.

-ABC News’ Isabella Murray

Iranian state TV IRIB reported that Iran's airspace is reopening to "normal conditions.”