Why Trump Backed Down on Iran; Bill Gates Accuses Epstein of Possible Blackmail
Just hours after threatening to hit Iran “very hard,” President Donald Trump reversed course and announced he was calling off those strikes. In a post on Truth Social, the president wrote that negotiations had “been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved.” NBC News senior national security correspondent Courtney Kube analyzes the president’s surprising change of course and whether it truly signals an end to the war. Then: Billionaire Bill Gates is the latest powerful figure in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit to testify on Capitol Hill about his connections to the late…
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