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Vance postpones trip to Switzerland for U.S.-Iran negotiations as Israel strikes Lebanon · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: A memo of understanding signed by the US and Iran,
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  Speaker 1: set aside sixty days for a new round of talks.
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  Speaker 1: Well now, The White House says logistics were not predictable. Still,
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  Speaker 1: the Vice President defended the agreement yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Have a little bit of faith in the President of
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  Speaker 2: the United States. The idea that he is going to
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  Speaker 2: strike a deal that's been bad for the American people.
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  Speaker 1: It's preposterous.
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  Speaker 2: He is the person who has had the courage to
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  Speaker 2: fundamentally transform our relationship with Iran and with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of other countries over the last year and a half.
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  Speaker 1: The deal was also supposed to halt fighting in Lebanon,
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  Speaker 1: but Israel's military announced new strikes today. Lebanon state media
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  Speaker 1: says more than a dozen people were killed. Israel says
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  Speaker 1: it was targeting has Belah. Continued fighting there could unravel
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  Speaker 1: this newly signed MoU, and ships have begun to move
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  Speaker 1: through the Strait of Hormuz, although cautiously. At least ten
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  Speaker 1: commercial vessels passed through the waterway yesterday. Traffic picked up
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  Speaker 1: noticeably after Iran signed the MoU with the US. The
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  Speaker 1: document says Ron will allow safe passage with no charge
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  Speaker 1: for the next sixty days. Also, Senate lawmakers are threatening
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  Speaker 1: to block travel funds for Defense Secretary Pete Hext. We
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  Speaker 1: sell the withhold seventy five percent of Hext's budget unless
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  Speaker 1: the Pentagon submits several overdue reports, including details of the
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  Speaker 1: investigation into a deadly strike on an elementary school at
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  Speaker 1: the start of the war with Arian. CBS News Chief
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  Speaker 1: White House correspondent Nancy Cordus joins us from Zurich, Switzerland. Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: good morning. The Vice President was supposed to be where
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  Speaker 1: you are today.
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  Speaker 3: What happened, Errol.
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  Speaker 4: We were expecting to cover two days worth of nuclear
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  Speaker 4: talks here in Switzerland, but late last night Vice President
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  Speaker 4: Vance did not board his plane to come here, and
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  Speaker 4: neither did the Iranians. And the explanations for this delay
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  Speaker 4: have been vague.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to figure out exactly when that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Vice President Vance hinted yesterday that the talks might be off,
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  Speaker 4: chucking it up to logistics.
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  Speaker 2: It's not an easy country Iran to get out of.
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  Speaker 4: But the new reports out of the Middle East that
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  Speaker 4: Iran actually backed out over Israel's strikes on Lebanon could
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  Speaker 4: help explain why. Vance also lashed out at Israeli leaders.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the
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  Speaker 2: president of the United States needs to wake up and
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  Speaker 2: smell the reality of the situation that country is in.
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  Speaker 4: The relationship between this White House and its war partner
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  Speaker 4: Israel was once unshakable.
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  Speaker 3: Whether we like it or not.
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  Speaker 1: This has been one of the greatest wartime presidents.
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  Speaker 4: But the bonds have frayed in recent weeks as their
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  Speaker 4: war goals diverged.
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  Speaker 2: Israel's fighting Hazbla too long and too many people are
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  Speaker 2: being killed.
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  Speaker 4: Trump is also battling mounting domestic opposition to his deal
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  Speaker 4: because it frontloads financial rewards for Iran without securing many
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  Speaker 4: nuclear concessions.
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  Speaker 1: This is an.
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  Speaker 3: Abject embarrassment to him on the global scale.
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  Speaker 1: Eating the complishment in.
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  Speaker 2: This history demonstrates that giving billions of dollars to theocratic
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  Speaker 2: lunatics who want to murder us is an exceptionally bad idea.
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  Speaker 4: Trump insists it's a great deal and really probably is
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  Speaker 4: unconditional surrender his I think so. In a new interview
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  Speaker 4: with Axios, he was asked what the war taught him
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  Speaker 4: about the limits of his power.
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  Speaker 3: There are no limits, no no not.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't learned that lesson yet. I know there are
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  Speaker 4: but you know there are no limits. We defeated them
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  Speaker 4: totally militarily. The Swiss government this morning says that it
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  Speaker 4: remains ready to host these nuclear talks whenever they happen.
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  Speaker 4: The sixty day clock for negotiations is now running, though
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  Speaker 4: President Trump has said that he can extend it if necessary.
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  Speaker 2: Eryl R.
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  Speaker 1: Nancy quotas, enjoy your time there if you can, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: at least since you're there. We turned out a CBS
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  Speaker 1: News senior Feigm corresponding MTAs tie up in Tel Aviv.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, MT. So we're all figuring out a new
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  Speaker 1: set of facts this morning. Last night, President Trump said
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  Speaker 1: online he expects a complete ceasefire at all fronts, and
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  Speaker 1: that includes between Israel and Hesbellah in Lebanon. Why is
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  Speaker 1: that and why is it not being followed?
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  Speaker 3: That is the billion dollar question. Look, Eryl, it's been
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  Speaker 3: very clear from the very beginning that Iran had a
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  Speaker 3: redline when it came to negotiating with the US, and
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  Speaker 3: that is what we're seeing in Lebanon. Israel, of course,
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  Speaker 3: is occupying the huge section of southern Lebanon. They say
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  Speaker 3: they need to be there to really push back the
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  Speaker 3: threat of Hasbullah Iran saying that that has Bullah does
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  Speaker 3: not pose the threats and is only defending itself. Whatever
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  Speaker 3: the case. In the memorandum of understanding that the US
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  Speaker 3: and Iran sign that President Trump we saw signing in Versailles,
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  Speaker 3: in the very first point it was the cessation of
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  Speaker 3: all violence, and that included Lebanon, specifically Lebanon, and so
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  Speaker 3: the fact that the violence is continuing is only going
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  Speaker 3: to really test this agreement. The numbers of casualties just
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  Speaker 3: today alone is staggering for Israeli soldiers killed and at
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  Speaker 3: least eighteen killed in Lebanon errol As.
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  Speaker 1: Where does all this leave Prime Minister Netanya, whose relationship
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  Speaker 1: with President.
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  Speaker 3: Trump look, it's in a not so great place. We
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  Speaker 3: didn't just hear from the Vice President jd Vance, who
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  Speaker 3: used pretty unusually strong language. We've also been hearing it
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  Speaker 3: from the President himself. Now we've been speaking to an
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  Speaker 3: Israeli author and military analyst. His name is Jakob Katz.
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  Speaker 5: Here his thoughts, when you put all your eggs in
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  Speaker 5: one basket, as Nitagnie who did with Trump, you completely
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  Speaker 5: aligned himself with this president who is volatile and highly
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  Speaker 5: controversial in the United States as well as around the world.
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  Speaker 5: What that means is the moment you make a different
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  Speaker 5: move that could have immediate repercussions.
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  Speaker 3: Has Prime Minister Netanyahu painted himself in a corner to.
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  Speaker 5: Some extent, He has, and he's now trying to figure
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  Speaker 5: out how to get himself out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 5: N'tagne who came to the Israeli people and the Israeli
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  Speaker 5: electorate already in consecutive elections and said, I'm mister America.
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  Speaker 5: I know America.
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  Speaker 3: Can Prime Minister in Dettanyao who repair this relationship.
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  Speaker 5: I think it can, but it will take some work.
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  Speaker 5: On the one hand, he needs Trump and Trump also
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  Speaker 5: needs him. Trump doesn't want N'tagno to come out against
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  Speaker 5: the deal because Nitagna, who even on the Republican side,
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  Speaker 5: is still seen as the stamp of approval for the
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  Speaker 5: issue of Iran Natanio who needs Trump because of the
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  Speaker 5: elections that are coming on the horizon.
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  Speaker 3: That's Yaka Katz there talking about the relationship between President
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  Speaker 3: Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, and to give you a
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  Speaker 3: sense of just the tenor and the tone of what's
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  Speaker 3: happening here in Israel. Not only do we have Netting Yao,
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  Speaker 3: who's critics criticizing this deal, we also have his allies
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  Speaker 3: as well. The Prime Minister very clearly in a corner
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  Speaker 3: right now trying to look for a path forward, and
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  Speaker 3: he seems to be taking a pretty direct one by
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  Speaker 3: continuing those operations in Lebanon, which, as we've been saying,
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  Speaker 3: has really been testing this memorandum of understanding, which was
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  Speaker 3: only signed a few days ago.
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  Speaker 1: Eryl fast moving developments. Interesting insight there, MTRs. Thank you,