Ginny Anderson

Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring.

Still, the Strait of Hormuz remains largely shut down.

Iran seems to hold the whip hand, the oil channel, which they never did before the war, and the economic impact, of course, being felt widely jeopardising the midterms here as well.

Clearly, this did not turn out as the Trump team initially had hoped when they thought the initial move

Airstrikes would force Iran to surrender, and they did not.

Behind the scenes, yeah, there is concern that any settlement or non-settlement leaves things worse than the deal put together in 2015, where they had a deal on suspending Iran's nuclear program with international verification, the Obama deal.

At the same time, billions in Iranian assets were unfrozen, and the U.S.

returned $1.7 billion in cash to settle an old military arms dispute.

Rubio was pressed about Trump plans to read the financial sanctions, and he says...

But again, there's no deal.

Israel says they're suspending peace talks because of Israeli strikes into southern Lebanon.

The latest Israeli strikes occurred just hours after that phone chat that you mentioned, where Trump pressured the Israeli leader to back down from threatening Beirut.

Not clear precisely how that conversation went, but Axios here says Trump told Netanyahu, quote, you're effing crazy.

You'd be in prison if it weren't for me.

I'm saving your ass.

Everybody hates you now.

Everybody hates Israel because of this, end quote.

So behind the scenes,

Extremely chaotic.

Oh, who knows?