Heather du Plessis-Allan

He sounded every bit the statesman who had thought deeply about the degrading state of international affairs and what New Zealand needed to do to weather the coming storm.

And I thought as I listened to him pitch how kick-ass Australia and New Zealand are going to be.

that he was actually doing a better job of selling Australia to the world than the Prime Minister of Australia was doing.

Luxon's a big ideas guy.

Selling his country and his region and getting on with people is his party trick.

Isn't that, though, a better strategy when you think about it than always fighting with your only ally?

Good morning, Heather.

Well, we're 100 days in now on all of this, and Trump is speaking in a little more detail about the peace effort in a lengthy interview with Christian Welker of NBC's Meet the Press.

He says that if a deal can be done, the U.S.

will work with Iran to destroy its enriched uranium.

Well, Trump says that with or without a deal, the US knows precisely what is going on at the nuclear sites that they bombed.

Well, Trump has claimed repeatedly that a deal is close and...

says he's pressing Iran to go further in declaring an end to their nuclear ambitions.

He says he wants a broader declaration from Iran.

So they do not only declare an end to nuclear development, but also an end to any thought of acquiring or purchasing nuclear materials.

He says the Iranian negotiators, whom he does not name, pushed back on that at first, but then did not.

And he says he has spoken...

about Moshtaba Khamenei, the son of the former Supreme Leader, and says negotiators have been dealing on the Iranian side with this new figure, apparently with some respect is the way he put it.

He describes the Iranian Supreme Leader, the new guy, in this fashion.

Well, Trump says he has not spoken with the younger Khamenei, but would be willing to do so.