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Today in the group chat, both the US and Iran say there's an agreement to open the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. Why not open it right away?

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A diplomatic breakthrough. The US and Iran say they have reached a deal to end the war and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It will take effect on Friday. We're gonna talk about why they're waiting.

Sometimes these cease fires take a little bit of time to take root. People are very good over there at fighting each other. I'm not gonna say that everybody's gonna sing Kumbaya tomorrow. It's gonna take a little bit of time to learn the ways of peace, but I do think we took a major, major step.

Good morning everybody. I'm Audi Cornish. We're gonna begin with the commitment from the US and Iran to end the months-long conflict, but already there's a bit of a snag. Tehran saying that sixty days of nuclear negotiations will begin once the US meets three commitments. They want the US to end the naval blockade, end military operations against Iran, and release billions of dollars in frozen Iranian funds.

This memorandum of understanding was reached despite our complete distrust of our enemies. We have no trust in the enemy. Our trust lies in our military strength, our diplomatic capabilities, and the support and unity of our own people. That is why the implementation of this memorandum of understanding is extremely important. We have specific plans in place to monitor the implementation of US commitments under this memorandum.

But a U.S. official is saying that no funds will be released before Iran implements its commitments. So could this derail things?

The Iranians are incredibly difficult negotiators couple uh uh coupled with the fact uh that they're having a very hard time getting guidance uh from their supreme leader and they're not always on the same page within their team between the civilians and military. So uh you know The the team has had their hands full dealing with them, uh, but the president has every intent to get this done.

Um he sort of nodded to something I think that maybe people don't fully appreciate, which is that Iran's regime is pretty much in place, even as as though a tier of leadership was killed in these um strikes. So answer the question that he's raising here of like negotiation, the money, what are the complications?

The complications here is that Iran is very skilled at negotiating, and this regime in particular is more hard hardlined than the previous regime. I mean, they are willing to incur the costs and the military strikes that the US and Israel have conducted.

Military questions. One, when we say the strait is opening, um, i does that mean that they're gonna Iran just backs down, the US backs down, are there mines in the strait? Like are there still dangers there?

I think both sides could say today that the strait is open and that they're clearing the mines from the strait. But the only ones that are going to determine if the strait is open are the shipping companies. Are they willing to allow their ships to start going through the strait and potentially incurring costs if, let's say, a drone is launched from Iran or there's crossfire between the two sides. So even though Donald Trump is saying on Friday this trade is open, it is still

We won't know until ships pass.

Exactly.

Last thing militarily, Israel. Israel, we're gonna talk about in this program across the political spectrum, unhappy with this deal. And in part because of military reasons. They say it doesn't address their issues around proxies that Iran backs like Hezbollah It doesn't even talk about ballistic missiles. That's not even in the conversation around the memorim of understanding at least so far. This is kind of the same criticism that the Obama deal had.

I I mean, y you might not have agreed with the JCPOA, but that was something th under the Obama administration, but that was something that took almost two years to negotiate. Now with Israel, what's interesting about this agreement that this administration has negotiated, Israel is not party to the agreement. And they have said, I mean, I think as early as this morning, that they might continue to conduct operations in Lebanon. So between now and Friday.

Israel has seized a amount of land that's like around the size of New York City and says it's going to continue its c its battle against Hezbollah.

I think it's going to be very difficult if Israel s continues to conduct military operations for th for Iran to agree to terms with the United States when it's going to say to the United States This is also an aggressor in this war that also struck our country. You need to pull them back. And that's why you saw the president sort of react in some of these um interviews that he was giving on Sunday.

Okay, Sabrina, thank you so much for giving us some of the update there. Coming up on CNN this morning, President Trump, as Sabrina just said, has been calling out Benjamin Netanyahu. So we're gonna talk about why Trump would be saying that Netanyahu has quote no effing judgment after the Israeli PM hit Lebanon right after the announcement of an agreement with Iran.

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It was important for President Trump to have a deal with Iran before traveling to Europe for a summit with G7 leaders. That's what sources are telling CNN. The timing is also crucial because it came on Trump's eightieth birthday. and his White House UFC fight to celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. So we're bringing in the group chat to talk more. Sarah Fisher, CNN senior media analyst and senior media reporter at Axios.

My primary message to the American people is thank you because of your patience. I think that we've solved the problem that has plagued this country again for for well before I was even born. But this is just a great thing for the American people. I know that they've suffered from high gas prices. The president has certainly been very concerned about that fact. But what we're gonna be able to do is drive down the cost of energy, not just now but for the long term.

Francesca, this seems like the specifically this kind of sentence is the message they had hoped to deliver on this day of so many things when the president wanted good news.

Well, and there's still a long way to go until we see a final deal. They want that to come in the next sixty days, but the experts Critics, even supporters of the administration who have come out, you know, in the last twenty-four hours are saying that the devil is essentially in the details. I mean, Iran may have agreed to give the United States the enriched uranium or downblend it.

And yet, Vance comes out and is like, thanks for being patient. It's been a tough couple of weeks. Let's wrap it up. They can feel the hands going like this. Given all the question marks Francesca just raised. What's the danger of telling everyone this?

Well look, I think that there is a political reality that they are reacting to, which is the pain that voters are feeling every single day when they go fill up their cars and are looking at high gas prices.

People are looking right now as you're speaking at the journey that gas prices will have to take from that peak. And it's a long climb. The thing is also once you say something like that, you kind of start a clock. Like, oh, okay, things are gonna get better when? And when you're looking at disapproval ratings um that have moved significantly when you're looking at um questions of specifically how have you handled the economy, for example, and seeing independence.

You have a five-month time clock until the med midterms, so that's the horizon that they're working with. And I think most experts will argue that.

Okay.

The supply chain issues are interesting because there's a lag time between obviously when ships can get there and not.

Can you speak it into existence? Like if you just say it's g it's getting better, will it get better?

You cannot, but so let's say after the 60 days the strait does open, then you have three months, and that should be enough time actually for us to start seeing an impact on oil. And we did see overnight that some of the crude oil prices have gone down on the index. But if there is any delay at that, there's not a lot of wicked.

Trump has been so bummed uh about the way Europe has kind of stayed out of this whole thing. He's gonna be meeting with G seven leaders when they uh made their various announcements today. I could read them all, but they basically all say they welcome the agreement.

I mean they welcome their help with demining efforts that would help get the Strait of Hormuz fully reopened. But I did want to just touch on one other thing that you were saying about the vice president for a minute because He was called by Lindsey Graham the architect of this agreement. And that was really

Must have been surprised.

Well that was but it was a very interesting comment because he was really put Lindsey Graham, close ally of the administration, really putting this at the vice president's feet at this point. And so it's not just the comments that he's making publicly, the vice president, it's these other comments for coming from allies of the Trump administration uh putting this, if it doesn't work out, at the vice president's fee.

But can I translate your statement? Lindsey Graham, the Hawk, who's been cheering this on the whole time, is trying to put the actual deal at the feet of J. D. Vance, who's not been cheering this on the whole time, so that if it goes sideways, everyone can say somehow Vance was Mm.

Well I'm saying that th that Lindsey Graham is by in calling him the architect of this negotiation, this deal that's coming forward, and the vice president was very, very involved, uh is putting the onus on him if this doesn't work out. I'm not

Yes. So if it goes bad everyone can be

And he's saying that and that time will tell. I'm saying that politically it becomes a risk for the vice president at that point when you have allies of the administration saying he was the architect.

Yeah.

Okay, we're gonna talk more about this as we learn more about this memorandum this week. And then after the break on CNN this morning, did you know that the UK is the latest country to ban kids under the age of 16 from all social media? We're gonna find out whether these

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The head of the UFC, Dana White, says he won't be doing the White House fight night again, despite it being what he called an overwhelming success. In the meantime, good morning.

For the people who said there shouldn't be a cage fight at the White House, what do you say?

They might be right, but since it's here

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Okay, UFC fight on the White House lawn. Whether you agreed with it or not, it happened. It was real. Weather slightly delayed the start as President Trump took his seat ringside alongside UFC CEO. Dana White, officially the event was held on Flag Day, which just also happened to be Donald Trump's 80th birthday. And at one point the crowd sang happy birthday.

Good to see you, Audie. How's everything?

So as a fight was it good? Like as the card, the tournament. I know the polymarket, Cal Shi prediction markets did very well, uh, with all of these different bouts, but what was it like just as a fan?

Yeah, just as a fan, you know, working in the combat sports space and and s overseeing productions, from a production element standpoint, it really was uh immersive, expansive. I mean, we could talk about you couldn't watch it unless you had

And to your point, Dana White pretty much is like, I'm not gonna do this again just because of the sheer expense, but I wanna get to something which is who was, you know, in the octagon and who was not. You had UFC middleweight champion Sean Strickland. He was off the card and he's the reigning Champ, right? Middleweight champ. Um and Strickland thinks he knows why. Uh he basically has turned down He's been this outspoken

I mean, remember there's an element of how UFC is also in partnership with the WWE, right? There's a performative element with some of that for Strickland doing that. And there's also guys who fought on the card. I don't know if you saw the video audio of the

Does this win over some of the young men that Trump is losing and some of his approval ratings?

Audi, you and I talked about this last week when I was in studio with you. Trump has always used the combat sports space as this outlet and vehicle to talk to voters, whether it be his stuff that he did in the boxing space years ago. this relationship with Dana White, obviously with the Ellison family, with Paramount. He has always been in a combat sports space because he he thinks it makes him seem relatable, that he loves these sports.

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After the Israelis stuck struck Beirut, we were very worried and we saw a lot of evidence that the Iranians were gonna launch a large number of missiles at the Israelis. With our our communication with them over the course of getting to this to this signed peace. they they assured us that they were not going to respond to the Israelis and they were going to sign this agreement and get to peace.

CNN's Orin Lieberman is live in Jerusalem. And Orin, um you've got uh is Iranian officials saying quote, Lebanon is our lifeblood. Any violation of the Islamic Republic's red lines will not be tolerated. And then you've got Israel and the political reaction there, which uh correct me if I'm wrong, seems kind of like universally poor.

Absolutely, we haven't heard from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and we'll come back to that in a second. But we have heard from some of Indies government ministers, even as we don't know the full extent of this deal. One minister said uh quote the deal is bad for Israel and the entire free world, while another one said it does not ensure our security. So you see that reaction.

Okay, that's Orin Leverman with the word from Jerusalem. I want to turn to this other aspect of this tentative agreement. We're just at the start of the process. But former President Barack Obama says that when he negotiated a deal with Iran more than a decade ago, he did it without military intervention. Now we know that Trump withdrew the U.S. from that agreement in his first term, this was in 2018.

It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place. Um and had worked for um for a long stretch of time uh before we the United States pulled out of it.

Group chat is back. Um there's a lot of differences. We can go down the rabbit hole on that deal and how it dealt with inspections and verification. Why do you think Obama is speaking up now? We don't usually see him comment on policy in real time.

Well, one, I think he has broader communication goals around things that he's doing with his foundation and his library, so that's part of the media tour. But then two, I think he wants to remind the American people that what they did in twenty fifteen

The broad agreement.

just the nuclear piece. Both have sunset provisions, meaning that Iran could revisit this in like ten or fifteen years. Um and both of them are essentially trying to get Iran to concede on the Iranium side, but He wants people to know, like, all of this for what?

Right. And by this we mean strikes. We were just talking about Israel, it's pushed into Lebanon. These uh strikes were launched with uh Israel at the start. The way that Pete Hegsef is trying to distinguish the difference in this. is he's saying, look, the Obama deal relied on going through international inspectors and putting up with Iran's nonsense with cameras and hiding things on inspection day. But he says the Trump deal will be different. And here is how he explains that.

It's performance based. No money released to Iran until they perform. Uh there's no uh trust and verify. There's a there's no trust here and we're gonna verify everything. Nuclear material will be destroyed and removed, the nuclear program will be dismantled. the straits will be open, no tolling. Uh this is this is not a the JCPOA was a path to a bomb. Uh what this deal will be will be a wall to a bomb.

I don't think the Trump administration would disagree with Obama on the point that they did bomb Iran and they're still threatening Iran with bombs. I mean, he went on to say that uh if they don't comply with this, that they're gonna have to deal with the Department of War. Uh there are of course skepticism today whether or not the US would actually continue a w or restart rather a bombing campaign.

Our threats are enough. Our threat of military action is enough. We don't need to set up all the guardrails and things that went through diplomacy because Iran is like sufficiently scared.

Well, they're also saying though that we would be willing to restart that and there is skepticism right now as to whether as we get closer to the midterms. that they would actually restart a bombing campaign as we were talking about in the earlier segment uh with the high gas prices and the president's approval rating and and and the like. I mean that is the threat has to be legitimate in order for it to work.

Well and I think too that there's just a difference in reality of what uh the Iranian people and the Iranian government feel like they're able to do in this moment versus what they thought they could do in twenty fifteen. They are sort of in some ways newly empowered in their ability to realize that they really can, you know, choke off

learned what their leverage is. Okay, you guys stick with me. I wanna turn very briefly. The UK announces a sweeping social social media ban. for children under the age of sixteen. And this is gonna apply to both social media sites as well as gaming and live streaming. And the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, made this announcement earlier this morning.

But government is always about choices. And it's clear to me that a full ban is the right choice.

So from London, CNN's Nada Bashir. Nada, walk us through how this ban is going to work and what the reaction is this morning.

Well look Audie this is being described by the government as a watershed moment and it won't come into effect instantaneously but this Uh latest regulation is expected to come before Parliament before the end of the year and is expected to be implemented fully uh early 2027. And of course This wasn't a immediate snap decision by the government. There have been months of consultations with parents, with

If it's how kids are socializing, then are we going to have problems with like isolation and loneliness? So there needs to potentially be alternatives for younger children, social media that's safer for teenagers rather than just point blank wiping it out.

I didn't have social media until I was sixteen. Um, I loved life before that. And I think like a lot of insecurities I had were from You know, interacting with stuff online.

Good thing. Too much time spent on screens is not good for anyone, never mind. Someone's brain's still developing.

And already it's not just social media, the government is looking at restrictions on live streaming platforms, on platforms that allow young people to speak to strangers uh online. And they are also looking at potential measures. for curfews to prevent doom scrolling at night for under eighteen year olds as well. Woody?

That's not a bashier in London. About that social media band, thank you. And I want to turn next to

President Trump now aboard Air Force One en route to Geneva, Switzerland for a G seven summit in France. News of a deal to end fighting with Iran has been a welcome development for European leaders. But Israeli lawmakers are furious. Netanyahu's far-right national security minister tweeted out: adding, Israel is not subordinate to the United States. And then the leader of Israel's left-wing party seems to agree, saying the deal was quote

Absolutely. And the question I think all it comes down to is this a deal versus a diplomatic agreement? A diplomatic agreement would have the allies buy in, it would have the lawmakers participate. The deal is purely transactional, trading concessions. The Iranians had, after their bombing, had closed down the Strait of Hammuz. And only for the Trump administration to say they've now put sanctions on the closing of the strait, well, it was already closed.

Right. This is an extension of the ceasefire. We we should be clear, full text is not released. But the claim is that they would be lifting the naval blockade, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and ensure that the strait remains toll free. And then as you said, nuclear talks would begin after any kind of formal signing. The thing I noticed is uh the president was saying something about um policing and the US's ability to police this area.

Oh, it's troops on the ground, no doubt about it. And we've also heard conflicting messages of they've been the United States has been taking millions of barrels of oil. People would like to have further clarification of that. Um Curiously missing in this negotiation or this discussion is Mr. Jared Kushner, um, our super volunteer. This is not being led by Secretary Rubio. This is not being led by the Secretary of Defense who misled the president.

Um, you had Lyntigram calling J D Vance the architect of this deal. He's the one name I didn't hear you say just now. Do you think he's the architect of this deal?

I don't know what JD Vance really does. He does slapstick and just as an attack person, but he's not been in a very constructive role. Uh I know Uh Mr Witkoff and Mr Jared Kushner had been going to Islamabad. I think mister um the secret the vice president had gone over there. But it should be going to the corresponding channels of the diplomats, which would be in the Secretary of Defense, uh in in the Secretary of State.

Okay, that's Congressman Jackson. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

All right, I want to talk now about what's in our group chats because it's the start of the week. We've got the president on the way to Europe. We've just come off like multiple sporting events. Um talk about Sarah what's in your group chat?

I have been loving watching the World Cup tourists come into the US and post on social media all the things that they think are wondrous about our country. So like watching them experience big goal. for the first time or a Taco Bell for the first time. Who among us has not? There was a viral clip of somebody experiencing a New Jersey deli, which is a Jersey girl. I really appreciate it. But it also makes you think about how special it is that we are hosting the World Cup here.

You can't build one of those on the lawn that doesn't not enough.

Really reps. Big bowl penny.

Okay, I'm actually with you as someone who's from Kansas City. This has been a very exciting time, you know, for the World Cup to come to Kansas City as well. So I'm with you on that one.

Okay.

With

But it was no, but it no, it wasn't it wasn't that actually. No, okay. So me and my friends are really loving this ice cream truck that is going around Sarasota in the water in Florida. Yes, okay, so it's a boat. Yes, it is a boat. But it's an ice cream truck on a boat. I love

Why has someone not thought of this before?

I know.

I I honestly, who doesn't love an ice cream?

Yeah, the Potomac.

You know, why that's true, maybe we could get it down the Potomac.

Right now I know why people haven't done this before. How did kids get to it? The whole thing.

The boats, they come to boats. They come to boats that are already in the water. So uh you're right.

Yeah. Where am I gonna get a boat?

That's the most expensive idea.

Thanks very much.

No, I like the idea. Like maybe my kid being like ice cream and the boat just like going past and me being like, I don't know, sorry.

I know that's my reaction. It's like, I used to love ice cream truckets as a child, but now as a parent, you're like, oh no, cover their hair so.

Okay, do you have a sports one or not?

I have a sports.

Do it.

joining you in the World Cup joy. I mean like as as as somebody who is not a huge soccer fan but who really commits every two years when the World Cup comes around. Um it's so much fun and watching the American men win four to one a couple days ago over Paraguay. That was just really exciting and it took me back'cause I really remember

Yeah, she even from skills.

It was terrible, but it was fun because you could imagine yourself in those places and spaces and dream about being on those big stages. So it's really fun to get to watch a new generation of of young people, my boys included, getting to get into these games.

I forget it doesn't have that sort of generational impact, any kind of big sports moment, whether it's the Olympics or something like this. Because I remember that 1999.

And also you're Caroline and stuff talking about sports. You guys just won the Stanley Cup. Congratulations.

True.

know about hockey or you gonna call this like stick sport or something?

I I I'm gonna I'm gonna admit that I knew that they won last in two thousand and six, which is a b you know, it's it's it's a notable thing that they done but no, I I can't say I know much about that.

I mean start with heated rivalry, I did. Um, okay you guys, thank you for being with us today. We've got a lot of news kicking off the week, especially with this memorandum between the US and Iran. What are the details? We've got the headlines for you next. I'm Audi Cornish.

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