Tyler Pager

Yeah.

So we set out with this weekend thinking that there would be some significant development with the conflict with Iran.

And really, it could have gone either way, that there was serious progress toward an agreement or a resumption of military action.

Exactly.

So on Friday, I was part of the traveling pool of reporters with the president, and we had expected to travel to New York for a political event with Congressman Mike Lawler, and then continue on to Bedminster, New Jersey, where the president was expected to spend the weekend at his golf club, as he does many spring and summer weekends.

So early Friday morning, I drop off my suitcase at the White House and come back around noon,

And just before we leave, we're told the president will be returning to Washington directly and he will not be spending the weekend at his golf club in New Jersey.

Correct.

So he was doing neither of those two things.

He was coming back to the White House.

And they didn't explicitly give us a reason.

And at that moment, I asked a White House official, what should we expect for this weekend?

And the White House official told me 50-50.

50-50, we're restarting the war.

50-50, we have a nuclear deal, or at least progress toward that.

So on Saturday morning, the president posts on True Social about a call he had just had with a collection of leaders from the Arab world to discuss a peace deal that they are encouraging him to take.

And he strikes quite an optimistic tone about what...

Yeah.

And he doesn't give a lot of details.

All that he says is, in addition to many other elements of the agreement, the Strait of Hormuz will be opened.