The US and Iran have begun talks on a permanent peace deal that seek to settle the issue of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and permanently reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. and Iranian negotiators began high-stakes talks in Switzerland on Sunday aimed at hammering out the details of a broader agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program, with Iranian officials entering the discussions insisting they will not give up the country’s ability to enrich uranium. The negotiations, led by Vice President JD Vance for the United States […]
Sen. Cory Booker criticized President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling them both ‘criminal” leaders.
"You close it, and you won't have a country. You won't even make it back to your f--king country."
President Donald Trump on Sunday issued a warning to Iran that it must stop its proxies from “causing trouble” in Lebanon or Tehran risks being “hit” by the United States. “Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “If they don’t, we’ll hit […]
U.S. and Iranian officials met in Switzerland Sunday ahead of negotiations to solidify the tentative peace deal between Washington and Tehran and bring about an end to the U.S. war against Iran, but according to one expert, President Donald Trump and his administration are ignoring a pressing issue that risks blowing up talks before they’ve even started.“I'd be surprised to be that optimistic,” said Richard Haas, former policy director at the State Department, during an appearance Sunday on MS NOW when asked about his thoughts on the likelihood of peace talks succeeding.The pressing issue, Haas warned, was Israel’s ongoing bombardment and occupation of Lebanon, which since March has killed nearly 4,000 Lebanese, wounded close to 12,000 and sparked a humanitarian crisis affecting more than one million people. In the first clause of the tentative peace deal agreed to by Washington and Tehran, a provision explicitly calls for Israel to end its military operations in Lebanon.“What happens if and when Iran demands that Israel vacate Lebanon altogether, that Israel not go back into Lebanon?” Haas said. “That is going to be something of a red line for Israel, and the question is what does the United States do? Do we put pressure on Israel, or do we tell Iran 'no way?' So there's no way you can solve the Lebanon issue once and for all, this has been an open problem for decades and it's going to continue to be one of the many things that's going to really bedevil these negotiations going on.”Trump has tried to pressure Israel to halt – or at least shrink – its military operations in Lebanon, but has been refuted by Israel each time.
NBC’s Garrett Haake, filling in for Kristen Welker as Moderator of Meet the Press, joins Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist to discuss the reaction from Americans and some of President Donald Trump’s allies to his handling of the Iran war. “Only about one-third of the country say they support how the President has handled the war so far. He needs the country to be with him on how to handle the peace, or else this could be a disaster for Republicans in the midterms,” Garrett says.
James Carville has a survival strategy for anyone still working inside Donald Trump's White House, and it boils down to two words: start leaking.On the latest episode of his Politics War Room podcast, the veteran Democratic strategist delivered a blunt appeal to administration staffers, urging them to protect their own reputations before the history of Trump's second term gets written. "Save Yourself! Save Yourself, now!" Carville declared, before adding his prescription: "Leak, leak, and more leaks."Carville framed the advice as a matter of self-preservation rather than loyalty, arguing that the insiders who cooperate with reporters tend to come out looking better in the long run. "When the history is written, the leakers always do better," he said. He was characteristically crude about the position those aides already find themselves in, telling them they are "already covered in" filth and that the only way to improve their standing is to "leak more."His comments came as he discussed "Regime Change," the forthcoming book from reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, set for release June 23. Early excerpts describe a White House riddled with leaks, infighting, and recurring crises. Carville summarized the portrait it paints in his own unsparing terms, calling the administration a collection of "stumbling, bumbling" fools and pointing to the volume of damaging disclosures already flowing out of Trump's orbit. "Look at the number of people that are leaking!" he said, claiming aides are so eager to protect themselves that they "leak everything about him."Carville reserved particular attention for the administration's younger officials, whom he prodded to join the exodus of information. "You got to get on the train," he said, describing his unexpected interest in advising what he dismissively called Trump's "little ambitious" staffers. His closing instruction left little to interpretation: "Everything that you know, every stupid thing that he says, every grotesque, horrible, nasty habit he's got, leak it."The strategist paired the leak campaign with a striking prediction about the president's future, asserting that Trump would be "gone by April of next year" and describing him in deeply unflattering physical terms, claiming the president "doesn't even know where he is" and "can't get out of a chair."Whether any West Wing aides take the advice is another matter, but Carville's larger point was that the leaking has already begun and is unlikely to stop. In his telling, the smartest people left in the building are the ones quietly deciding which secrets to hand over first.
Trump has appeared during the Iran war to lose patience with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who may now find himself "stuck."