Mike Hosking

Welcome back.

Thank you.

Are we putting pen to paper or not?

Well, it's always a question, day by day, right, this deal or no deal game, any different this time.

Trump is urging Israel and Iran not to blow it, saying yet again an additional peace outline is close, very close, really, really, really close.

Trump says it could still happen today, some Iranian factions not so sure.

All this follows Israeli strikes on the Beirut suburbs in recent hours.

They struck an area where they say the Iranian-backed Hezbollah has operations.

Hezbollah launched several attacks on Israeli positions in southern Lebanon and the Israelis' ledge across the border.

Trump says that on this, quote, special day, his 80th birthday, the strikes on Beirut should not have happened, especially when he says that an initial peace deal is close.

He's suggesting that a digital signing was set for earlier today, but still is likely within hours.

On the political rounds this day, Trump's UN ambassador, Mike Waltz, says of a memorandum on peace.

Well, Pete Hegseth, the U.S.

Defense Secretary, says they are trying to hold together a number of difficult elements.

Yeah, logistics and still a lot of fuzzy details.

The plan is that once an agreement is signed, the U.S.

military could end its blockade of Iranian ports.

How long that would take, not clear.

Would Iran get tons of cash right off?

Not like Obama's 2015 deal, says Walsh.