Hour 1 - Trump freed $6B to Iran. Hezbollah hit Israel with 50 rockets, drawing IDF strikes. DC flirts with a Socialist mayor as NYC socializes programs.

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00:00 Good morning, Lee. Howdy there, Tara. Okay, so Iran has already suspended U.S. talks, canceled its Switzerland trip. They were supposed to meet up with JD Vance. Iran cited Israeli strikes on Lebanon as a breach of the agreement. And so Vice President JD Vance has canceled his planned trip to Switzerland for talks with Iran. 00:26 uh He cited unresolved logistics and uncertainties running the next round of negotiations Iran is clear. No, we're not doing it because you won't restrain Israel That's where we are this morning as We wake up. Meanwhile Financial Times reporting Trump administration has already agreed to uh Give Iran six billion dollars the first tranche The 00:55 wording of it is that it's for food and medicine and stuff for the people. And that, and we don't have the details of it because they haven't released them, that America will make sure they only buy American products with it. We'll see how that goes. um But Iran is demanding, saying six billion, is it enough? They want 18 billion, um unfrezen. So again, we'll see. 01:22 How this works, this is the same wording that Obama and Biden used. Oh, it's gonna be for food, it's gonna be for whatever, and then they transfer the money. Let's see if Trump does it differently. Let's see if he says, no, we're not giving you the money, we're gonna give you pallets of baby formula. Let's see what goes in, and there's no details on that yet, but we have agreed to release the first six billion. Iran is saying, no, we want 18 now, um which to me looks like, at least if you put all these stories together, 01:51 What it looks like is Iran is saying, now we're not going to show up to talks. We just want the money. Pay us some more. Give us some more. Give it to us in a form we want or we're not showing up for talks. And it's to Iran's benefit to run down the 60 days with the talks. And that's what they're already, I mean, they stood JD Vance up. They are experts at running out the clock. They learn from Obama and from Biden. so, 02:18 What they're trying to do right now is get Trump to restrain Israel and I think they are they're holding out for more money They want the the front the funds unfrozen. Yeah, they won't they want to pressure Trump to protect Hezbollah From from Israel from the IDF and then get more money out of them. So yeah Meanwhile just for the record since the ceasefire Iran has hit Israel uh via its proxy and has blood 3,500 times 02:47 inside of its borders and Vance and Trump have said, stop firing back. Don't fire back. Vance accused Israel, it turns out, incorrectly, of just randomly firing into apartment complexes. That was not true, was completely debunked by our media, as well as international media and Hezbollah. A random act of journalism. Yeah, I know, even Hezbollah admitted after Vance said it, I don't know, maybe Tucker Carlson emailed it to him or something, he should get better sources. 03:18 Yeah, that even Hezbollah admitted, no, the three people killed were not random civilians. Those were Hezbollah fighters. They hit a Hezbollah headquarters. Good for them. Too bad it was only three. So that's a service to mankind. So JD Vance did not tell the truth when, or maybe he was incredibly misinformed and needs better sources. I don't know who's briefing him when he lashed Israel and said, stop, you know, stop bombing in retaliation when Hezbollah bombs you, stop. 03:46 hitting these apartment complexes and killing random civilians. Again, Hezbollah admits those were their fighters. um And so this is kind of where we are this morning, okay? Now this, let me add another dimension to this, Overnight. So JD Vance trashing Israel. Trump's been trashing Israel in recent days. Don't fire back, let around, hit you all they want, know, that kind of thing. Don't mess up our negotiations. 04:14 is what they've been saying in the international media. But Trump just did an interview with the Israeli media. It's calle ...

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