Martha McCallum

Vance, you know, the same thing empowered him to do exactly that.

But he's got these two things he's contending with.

What are you what's your take knowing him and working in the White House as you did on where he is right now on all this?

like?

Yeah, you know, it's interesting, Jessica, the points that Kayleigh makes about prior negotiations with the Obama administration and the Biden administration.

And I think back to the Biden six for six hostage deal.

And then we threw in six billion dollars on top of it for a sweetener of money that was released.

They want their money out of these negotiations.

foreign banks.

This is one of the biggest issues for them.

They say, I mean, I interviewed the president of Iran, Pesachian, about 10 months ago, and he said, well, you know, it's not our fault that we have a lousy economy, that we can't take care of our people because you guys are tying our hands with all of our money being held in all these banks.

So this is a huge, huge issue for them.

But as Kayleigh says, they are sitting at a very different table.

And Israel is putting the heat on in Lebanon in a huge way right now.

How do you see this playing out?

Well, the American diplomats for generations have gotten none of this effectively solved.

And these guys do have a good track record.

But, Greg, I want to bring you in here because I want to go back to where we started with the president's post today.

Basically, he said you're negotiating to stay alive.

So the president wishing J.D.