Dr. Janice Stein

The Iranians signaled that they had lost confidence in Steve Butkoff and Jared Kushner because they had been involved in two rounds of negotiation.

And both times, Trump went to war in the middle of the negotiation.

So they wanted somebody different.

For Trump, who better?

As a signal, then Vance, here he's sending the person who opposed the war, would be most anxious to make a deal.

And the Iranians signaled that they were happy to have Vance on the other side of the table.

So what can I say except that I was at a conference in London.

It's called the London Defense Conference.

Just came back on Saturday night.

And there at that conference, among many others, were some Trump officials.

So that's different right from...

From the normal.

So more than one, Peter.

That's good enough for me.

Yeah, but it's, you know what I mean.

It's far different from a journalist to, yeah, speculative.

Europeans, many, many Brits.

And our own chief of the defense staff, Jenny Carignan, with her team.

And there were, you know...

I think it's fair to say there was an overwhelming mood of, frankly, fury about the fact that the straights had been blockaded like this and that the Trump administration had not planned for this and not taken seriously.