Dave Lawler

I'm Dave Lawler.

I'm the national security editor at Axios.

So hard to say how he did inside the room.

I think the fact that he put his hand up for this assignment is interesting.

We reported that Vance personally told Trump that he wanted to be involved in the Iran diplomacy.

He was one of the more skeptical voices inside the administration about this war to begin with.

And the Iranians actually made clear that they preferred to deal with him than Steve Woodcoff and Jared Kushner, who led the two previous rounds of negotiations, which ended

in Iran being bombed, right?

So not a great track record from the Iranian perspective on dealing with those guys.

We didn't get a deal from Vance.

He certainly was brief in his public statements after the talk.

I think it was a three-minute press conference.

We'll see if the Iranians accept it.

Thank you.

So we don't have a lot of color in terms of what he was like inside the room.

The Iranians have suggested they felt like they were making headway in the talks until the US moved the goalposts.

That's their characterization.

Vance also said that he spoke to Trump.

a half dozen times, at least over the course of those 21 hours.

They also spoke to Secretary Rubio, Secretary Besant.