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U.S.-Iran negotiations postponed as Netanyahu blasts Hezbollah over apparent attacks · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: This weekend's negotiations between the US and Iran on issues
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  Speaker 1: including Tehran's nuclear program have now been postponed. While security
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  Speaker 1: officials are in Switzerland preparing for these talks, Today, the
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  Speaker 1: Swiss Foreign Minister announced they are not preceding as scheduled,
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  Speaker 1: and the White House confirmed last night Vice President Jade
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  Speaker 1: Vance is no longer flying to Switzerland to kickstart these talks.
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  Speaker 1: During yesterday's White House briefing, the Vice President signaled the
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  Speaker 1: talks could be delayed.
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  Speaker 2: I planned to go to Switzerland exactly when we thought.
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  Speaker 2: We think these technical negotiations are going to start sometime
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. That's still the plan, but that could change
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  Speaker 2: because it's not an easy country I ran to get
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  Speaker 2: out of, and so we're trying to figure out exactly
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  Speaker 2: when that's going to happen. I suspect this weekend, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 1: However, while the US Iran deal calls for an immediate
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  Speaker 1: end to fighting on all fronts, Lebanese media is reporting
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  Speaker 1: that more than a dozen people were killed in a
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  Speaker 1: new round of Israeli air strikes. Israel's military Li sace
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  Speaker 1: I said today four soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon
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  Speaker 1: Israel's Prime minister released a statement a short time ago.
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  Speaker 1: We've got it for you here. He says he met
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  Speaker 1: with top Israeli officials this morning, writing in part quote,
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  Speaker 1: my instructions are clear. Israel will not tolerate attacks on
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  Speaker 1: our soldiers or our territory, and it will exact a
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  Speaker 1: very heavy price from Hezbalah for these attacks. End quote.
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  Speaker 1: CBS News Congressional Reportatory and small joins us now from
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  Speaker 1: our DC bureau with all of these developments emerging today, Torrian,
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  Speaker 1: so update. Our view was on the simple detail of
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  Speaker 1: why the negotiations are postponed.
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  Speaker 3: Well, aero from the White House, they're saying this is
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  Speaker 3: a logistics reason, which is why this has been postponed,
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  Speaker 3: something that the Vice President intended at there in that
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  Speaker 3: sound by saying that even though they had discussed this,
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  Speaker 3: this hadn't been finalized, and a White House spokesperson said
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  Speaker 3: that this is a bit of a complex situation, which
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  Speaker 3: is why it's taken a bit longer to hammer out
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  Speaker 3: those details there. I think the deeper issue, which is
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  Speaker 3: something you just hinted at, those ongoing hostilities in Lebanon,
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  Speaker 3: is complicating these peace talks. Iranian negotiators said that they
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  Speaker 3: won't guarantees that that conflict will cease during these conversations.
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  Speaker 3: But it's clear that Israel lead Israeli leader Nan Yahoo
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  Speaker 3: is not on the same page with the United States
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to this peace deal and is unwilling
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  Speaker 3: at this point to stop any conflict at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Now we know that senior Trump officials also be briefed
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  Speaker 1: House and Senate leaders about the Iran deal yesterday. So
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  Speaker 1: how the folks on Capitol Hill reacting to what they
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  Speaker 1: learned at this stage.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Democrats are quite united and their condemnation of this deal,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of them saying this paled in comparison to
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  Speaker 3: the JCPOA, the Obama era Iran nuclear deal deal, mostly
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  Speaker 3: because of the goals that were instituted. There had quite
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  Speaker 3: a bit of oversight in their mind, and they said
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  Speaker 3: this is a bit nebulous. I think the response that
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  Speaker 3: we heard from the administration is that this is a
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  Speaker 3: completely different situation. This is a much weaker ran compared
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  Speaker 3: to when Obama took office. What I found most instructive, though,
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  Speaker 3: was the range of emotions and responses we heard from Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: There were those who fell into two different camps skeptics
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  Speaker 3: and then wait and see. Take a listen to what
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  Speaker 3: a few of them we caught up with yesterday had
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  Speaker 3: to say.
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  Speaker 4: I do have concerns that certain aspects of this deal
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  Speaker 4: might be a step in the wrong direction.
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  Speaker 5: Everything I've heard about it causes me concern.
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  Speaker 4: I'm interested in learning more about it, but I think
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  Speaker 4: it's certainly a mixed bag at best. History demonstrates that
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  Speaker 4: giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to
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  Speaker 4: murder us is an exceptionally bad idea, and I think
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  Speaker 4: unfortunately the President is receiving some really bad advice on
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  Speaker 4: this deal.
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  Speaker 3: Cruz there the most notable critic, considering he is a
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  Speaker 3: staunch supporter of the president. In his justification for slamming
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  Speaker 3: this deal this week, he wanted to make clear that
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  Speaker 3: he's separating the military operation from these ongoing negotiations, saying
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  Speaker 3: that he was fully supportive of that. Just unclear about this.
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  Speaker 3: One major flashpoint that we're seeing by a partisan concern
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  Speaker 3: to is this three hundred billion dollar reconstruction fund. The
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  Speaker 3: White House got in front of this, including the Vice
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  Speaker 3: President saying that this won't be coming from US taxpayers.
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  Speaker 3: There would be Gulf nations funding this. However, lawmakers are
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  Speaker 3: still concerned about the optics of rewarding essentially Aaron for
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  Speaker 3: their decades long terror campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Earrol all right, Torrian Small in Washington, Torrian, thanks, as
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  Speaker 1: we told you just a few moments ago. Lebanese state
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  Speaker 1: media is reporting at least eighteen people have been killed
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  Speaker 1: in Israel's deadliest attacks since the US and iron signed
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  Speaker 1: their initial agreement. Who go Butchega with our partners at
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  Speaker 1: BBC News is following developments for US from Lebanon.
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  Speaker 6: State News agency has described the Israeli attacks across the
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  Speaker 6: Nambertia district as one of the most intense in this war,
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  Speaker 6: saying that multiple buildings have been hit and these Israeli
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  Speaker 6: attacks have continued this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 6: Israel says it was targeting people and infrastructure linked to Hesbola.
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  Speaker 6: It said these attacks were in response of violations by
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  Speaker 6: his Bola of a seas fire that had been announced
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  Speaker 6: here in the war in Lebanon, a ceasfire that has
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  Speaker 6: obviously failed to stop the conflict, with attacks continuing from
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  Speaker 6: both sides now this morning, there has been confirmation by
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  Speaker 6: the Israeli military that four servicemen were killed in Lebanon
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  Speaker 6: by attacks carried out by Hesbola, including a battalion commander.
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  Speaker 6: So I think what we're seeing here is the Israeli
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  Speaker 6: response to these attacks.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's dig into Hugobuchka's reporting now with at
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  Speaker 1: least a U. She's a senior fellow for Middle East
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  Speaker 1: Studies at CFO, that's a Council on Foreign Relations. Good morning, Alissa.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of what we're learning this morning?
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  Speaker 1: Could this all have been predicted? These divergent interests between
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  Speaker 1: Israel and the US?
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, Errol, And I think the fact that Lebanon
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  Speaker 7: was included in the MoU after strong Iranian pressure on
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  Speaker 7: the Trump administration signals that this was always going to
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  Speaker 7: be a flashpoint, right, And you needed to both constrain.
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  Speaker 8: Hezbolah from continuing to attack IDF soldiers in the southern
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  Speaker 8: part of Lebanon, and you had to constrain Israel from
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  Speaker 8: responding to those attacks. And so these kind of peppering
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  Speaker 8: of violations between the two sides were unlikely to stop
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  Speaker 8: just because the MoU was signed over the weekend, and
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  Speaker 8: we're seeing that play out now.
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  Speaker 1: We saw something remarkable at the White House Yesterday, Vice
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  Speaker 1: President JD. Vance defended the agreement with Iran and made
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  Speaker 1: a rare public rebuke of critics in Israel. Let's play
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  Speaker 1: that for all viewers.
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  Speaker 2: If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government,
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  Speaker 2: I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that
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  Speaker 2: I have anywhere left in the entire world. The problem
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  Speaker 2: for Israel is not Donald J. Trump, and anybody in
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  Speaker 2: Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the President of
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  Speaker 2: the United States needs to wake up and smell the
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  Speaker 2: reality of the situation that country is in.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of what the Vice President said
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  Speaker 1: there from the briefing room and when does this leave
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  Speaker 1: US Israeli relations?
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  Speaker 5: Well, he's saying the quiet part out loud that the
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  Speaker 5: Trump administration really can't be outflanked from the right on this,
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  Speaker 5: and so that puts a Prime minister in Atnyahu and
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  Speaker 5: his coalition government in a very uncomfortable position where there
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  Speaker 5: are parts of this MoU they are extremely difficult for
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  Speaker 5: them to swallow. I mean, kicking the can down the
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  Speaker 5: road on the nuclear program, no mention of Iran's ballistic
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  Speaker 5: missile or drone program, and of course this element of
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  Speaker 5: support for proxies that.
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  Speaker 9: Could just be benefited by a windfall in sanctions relief.
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  Speaker 7: But at the end of the day, I think what
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  Speaker 7: is true.
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  Speaker 9: Is that there is going to be an election in
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  Speaker 9: Israel in this fall, and the Prime Minister needs the
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  Speaker 9: relationship with the United States to continue to support him
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  Speaker 9: in that process. And so there's not a whole lot
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  Speaker 9: of room for this Israeli government despite their deep concerns
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  Speaker 9: about the MoU and what comes next.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fascinating to watch this unfold. A lease that you
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  Speaker 1: as thanks for being with us this Friday.