Josh Dawsey

And Bibi Netanyahu was less interested in some sort of deal with the Iranians.

Netanyahu was more committed to destroying all the sites, getting all the materials, really making the Iranians hurt in a way that I think the president was more interested in.

You know, let's secure reopening the Strait.

Let's get them to say they won't have any more nuclear weapons.

And so what you're seeing really is Netanyahu sort of in the same kind of position he was at the beginning of the war, and President Trump is ready for a big change.

Netanyahu was not part of the conversations, and he did not understand that the United States was about to sign this deal.

The Israelis believed that they were more likely to do more strikes instead of the deal.

And initially, they don't even give a text of a memorandum of understanding.

They don't even know what it says.

Netanyahu was fiercely trying to get a meeting with President Trump, who's going overseas for the G7 and has all sorts of surrogates and allies reaching out to the president to express concern about the deal.

The president's pretty resolute.

You know, I want a deal.

Well, it upset the president because he was on the cusp of striking a deal with the Iranians.

And what he's afraid is going to happen is it's going to blow up the entire calculus, right?

And that the Iranians are going to be less likely to make a deal with these missiles flying, you know, back and forth, right?

So what you're seeing happen this day, he's trying to get these terms of a deal with the Iranians.

And then Yahoo is on a different page and, you know, is launching kinetic action.

And the president is apoplectic about it.

On Sunday, his birthday, I actually called him in the morning because I saw he had posted about the strikes in Lebanon and him not wanting the strikes in Lebanon.

And I said, if he's posting on this on Truth Social, you know, I'm going to call him and see if he wants to say anything.