Josh Dawsey

And he didn't answer.

And then three or four hours later, he called me back.

And he said, oh, we have this deal with the Iranians, you know, X, Y, Z. And the president often speaks in sort of, you know, hyperbole.

And sometimes you have to figure out what's actually going on and what's actually true.

And I wanted to ask him about, you know, Netanyahu.

But he instead, you know, was basically breaking the news to me that we actually have this deal.

And so we talked about it for a little bit.

I reported that to my colleagues.

You know, I just took off the phone with President Trump.

He says there's this deal with the Iranians.

And then we proceeded with a story that afternoon sort of about the terms of the deal.

Yeah, I did.

I said, I asked him, you know, if he was frustrated with the Lebanon strikes.

And he said, my relationship with Netanyahu has been very good.

But, you know, he gets carried away sometimes and it works to a disadvantage.

The reason you sort of could never have peace in the Middle East, according to the president that afternoon, was, you know, this side fires missiles and the other side has to fire back.

I mean, you just have, you know, missiles, missiles, and we got to stop it.

Right.

And that's something that he had told many several times over the course of the war when he was frustrated.

Stop blowing up these buildings in Lebanon.