Steve Holland

The president is labeling this a major achievement and says the two weeks will give the two sides time to negotiate a longer term deal.

Now, privately, we are hearing that there are doubts among U.S.

officials as to whether the ceasefire will hold.

There is a belief that the Iranians are probably trying to buy time, and the U.S.

officials believe that the ceasefire is a trust-building exercise to see if the agreement will hold up.

For now, the White House is saying that there are discussions about holding talks.

The Pakistani side is expecting him in Islamabad on Friday.

We'll see if that actually happens.

Vice President J.D.

Vance, who's been injected into the negotiations in recent days,

has been in Hungary this week, and it's possible he could be dispatched to Pakistan to conduct these talks, or the president's two envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, could go.

But a lot of this is still up in the air.

He's come under criticism for not laying out the objectives for the United States and going to war in the first place when it started five weeks ago.

This seemed to be an effort to try to do that now.

A lot of these topics he talks about every day, all day, so it wasn't that new.

But he did seem to be trying to reassure Americans who were worried about gasoline prices, reassure them that this thing is going to come to an end at some point.

Trump did a breach of diplomatic protocol by releasing a text statement that he got from the French president Emmanuel Macron, in which Macron said, why don't you come to Paris after the Davos meeting and we'll have a G7 meeting and discuss various issues.

And Trump basically dismissed that plan and said he would

go his own way on this issue.

But NATO leaders are in an uproar about this.