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U.S.-Iran deal shaky as Witkoff heads to Switzerland for talks · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Ten has remain high in the Middle East. After the
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  Speaker 1: US and Iran signed a deal on Wednesday to pause
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  Speaker 1: hostilities between the two countries for sixty days to be
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  Speaker 1: in final negotiations. Has Bell in Israel continued trading fire
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  Speaker 1: in southern Lebanon before those two sides agreed to a
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  Speaker 1: renewed ceasefire on Friday. Tori and Small is at the
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  Speaker 1: White House with the latest.
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  Speaker 2: Tori, and good morning, Good morning, Adriana Knew this morning
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  Speaker 2: at SIOSIS reporting US Envoy Steve Witkomfas headed to Switzerland
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  Speaker 2: to start negotiations on a final agreement, hoping to get
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  Speaker 2: things back on track after Iran abruptly postponed a Friday
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  Speaker 2: meeting with Vice President Jamie Vance amid renewed fighting in Lebanon.
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  Speaker 3: This is a brand new hangar President Trump rolling out
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  Speaker 3: his new air force one Friday, with the.
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  Speaker 4: Extraordinary devotion of many of you here today, this plane
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  Speaker 4: was transformed into a flying White House at a level
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  Speaker 4: of luxury that nobody's ever seen before.
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  Speaker 3: A billing seven forty seven, outfitted in red, gold and
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  Speaker 3: blue give to the President from Cutter worth four hundred
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  Speaker 3: million dollars, overshadowing the reveal the turbulence surrounding his Iran deal.
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  Speaker 4: It's sixty days.
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  Speaker 1: I have to make a deal.
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  Speaker 4: Otherwise we will do things that won't make them happy.
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  Speaker 3: Vice President of Vance was set to fly to Switzerland
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  Speaker 3: Friday to lead the next round of negotiations, but those
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  Speaker 3: peace talks grounded.
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  Speaker 5: Israel has the right to defend itself, but fundamentally, the Israelis,
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  Speaker 5: just like everybody else, have to respect this peace process
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  Speaker 5: that is fundamentally good for them and good for the
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  Speaker 5: entire region.
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  Speaker 3: Israel and Hezbila trading deadly fire in Lebanon this week,
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  Speaker 3: straining the US Iran agreement, to which also calls for
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  Speaker 3: an end to hostilities in Lebanon. Tehran is now demanding
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  Speaker 3: guarantees the fighting in Lebanon stops before it returns to
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  Speaker 3: the negotiating table. Back home by partisan alarm on Capitol Hill,
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  Speaker 3: one of the flashpoints, a three hundred billion dollars Iran
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  Speaker 3: reconstruction fund is part of the agreement.
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  Speaker 5: If we give billions of dollars to Iran, that money
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  Speaker 5: will be used to murder Americans.
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  Speaker 3: And so I don't believe we should do that. And
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  Speaker 3: now he's going to allow your audience to get hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of billions of dollars, remove sanctions, sell their oil in
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  Speaker 3: the open market. We got nothing out of this, but
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  Speaker 3: President Trump pushing back, insisting on social media. Iron came
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  Speaker 3: to the table weaker, writing quote they are finished and bowing.
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  Speaker 3: Iran gets quote not ten cents.
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  Speaker 2: The State Department confirmed the next round of negotiations between
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  Speaker 2: Israel and Lebanon is scheduled to start here in Washington
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  Speaker 2: on Tuesday. And as for Trump's new Air Force One,
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  Speaker 2: it still needs to pass final exams before it can
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  Speaker 2: be used to transport to President.
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  Speaker 6: Kelly Torian, thank.
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  Speaker 7: You so much for more. We're joined by CBS News
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  Speaker 7: National security contributor Samantha Viinagrad. Good morning, Sam. Always great
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  Speaker 7: to have you when we are talking about these types
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  Speaker 7: of subjects. I want to start with this Memorandum of Understanding.
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  Speaker 7: President Trump signed that on Wednesday. In the last few days,
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  Speaker 7: so many things have changed about whether negotiations are happening
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  Speaker 7: or not. What is your read of the situation and
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  Speaker 7: the path towards potential piece.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Kelly, let's just start with what's changed since this
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  Speaker 6: document was signed. What's changed is that the United States
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  Speaker 6: has lifted its military blockade in the Strait of horm Moves,
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  Speaker 6: and the Iranian regime has pledged basically not to attack
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  Speaker 6: ships passing through the strait. Because of that, we started
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  Speaker 6: to see a slight uptick in commercial vessels going in
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  Speaker 6: and out of the Strait of horm Moves, which means
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  Speaker 6: that more commodities like oil could start to reach the
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  Speaker 6: market again. So that has certainly changed. In terms of
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  Speaker 6: the other goals that President Trump had outlined for this war,
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  Speaker 6: including regime change, getting rid of Iran's missiles and its
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  Speaker 6: nuclear program, none of that has really changed yet. Instead,
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  Speaker 6: they're supposed to be these working level or technical talks
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  Speaker 6: kicking off, but as you discussed earlier in the program,
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  Speaker 6: there have been problems with getting those started.
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  Speaker 1: And sam Israel, of course is not a party to
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  Speaker 1: this memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran. But
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  Speaker 1: fighting between Israel and Hasbola in Lebanon is one of
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  Speaker 1: the main sticking points for Iran. So how can the
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  Speaker 1: US and Iran negotiate peace without Israel involved?
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  Speaker 6: Well, to be clear, Israel is fighting a designated foreign
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  Speaker 6: terrorist organization his Bolah in Lebanon. Israel and his Bola
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  Speaker 6: have separately signed a ceasefire document a few years ago.
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  Speaker 6: That ceasefire was renewed a few days ago, but they
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  Speaker 6: continue to trade fire. President Trump has tried to put
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  Speaker 6: pressure on Prime Minister net and Yaho to stop responding
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  Speaker 6: to his Bulah attacks. However, Israel continues to be under
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  Speaker 6: fire from his Bulah, and within Israel itself there are
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  Speaker 6: domestic politics and many members of Prime Minister net and
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  Speaker 6: Yah whose government continue to pressure him to continue the fighting.
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  Speaker 6: So it's unclear whether Prime Minister net and Yahu and
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  Speaker 6: Israel will abide by the terms of this MoU that
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  Speaker 6: they never agreed to.
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  Speaker 7: Adriana and of course Hesbala is also a proxy for Iran,
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  Speaker 7: and so there's that complicating factor as well. We just
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  Speaker 7: heard Torian talk about this three hundred billion dollar reconstruction
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  Speaker 7: fund sort of incentivize both sides here. Do we know
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  Speaker 7: who would be on the hook to pay for that?
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  Speaker 6: We have heard that, according to the US Administration, neighboring countries,
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  Speaker 6: regional countries like cut out of the UAE, Saudi Arabian
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  Speaker 6: others would put money into this reconstruction fund that could
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  Speaker 6: be up to three hundred billion dollars. I'm not holding
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  Speaker 6: my breath, frankly, to see deposits into this fund at
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  Speaker 6: this time. What I'm more concerned about, Kelly, is the
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  Speaker 6: fact that right now, as we're speaking, Iran is authorized
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  Speaker 6: under the terms of this document to sell its oil
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  Speaker 6: on the open market. Those sales had before this MoU
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  Speaker 6: been sanctioned, Iran was prohibited from selling that oil. Now
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  Speaker 6: they're getting potentially tens of billions of dollars in a
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  Speaker 6: windfall of revenues from these oil sales. So they're being
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  Speaker 6: enriched for as long as this Memorandum of Understanding is
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  Speaker 6: in effect, and they may just seek to drag out
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  Speaker 6: negotiations so that they continue to make money, all right
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  Speaker 1: Sam Denagrad, thank you so much.