Tommy Vietor

All right.

Well, there are other things happening in the world, believe it or not, as Trump's interviewers over the weekend tried to remind the president.

Here's his answer to Fox News' Jackie Heinrich in a phone interview about why he called off Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner's trip to Pakistan for a new round of Iran talks and where things stand right now.

So in a separate interview with Fox, Marco Rubio echoed that last point, saying, quote, Unfortunately, the hardliners with an apocalyptic vision of the future have the ultimate power in that country, seeming to indicate that the new Ayatollah and his loyalists are stopping the more moderate bloc from offering any concessions on Iran's nuclear program.

The state of play right now, American officials say, is that Iran is offering to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for an end to our blockade of their ports.

and punting the issue of Iran's nuclear dust.

It was known as the more than 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium to a later date.

German Chancellor Frederick Merz said on Monday that Iran is, quote, humiliating the United States with how it's approached the negotiations.

Tough to disagree.

Tommy, where does this leave us?

Friedrich Merz.

I noticed in reading some of the pieces about this that the U.S.

or the Trump administration officials and Trump himself have not yet rejected this plan from Iran on like opening the Strait of Hormuz for and ending the blockade and then kicking the nuclear negotiations down the road.

And I was starting to wonder, like, I could see an outcome.

knowing Trump, where they make that deal.

He opens the strait and then says, and we got our eyes on the nuclear dust anyway, and we're gonna get that later.

And we got all the cards, and we're gonna negotiate real strongly later, and you know what?

We've destroyed the regime, regime change.

We've destroyed all their missiles, not true.

We've done all this stuff, and now they made a big deal because the blockade hurt them so much that they couldn't deal anymore, and now we control the strait, and the strait's open, and we won.