Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, Iran attacks

multiple ships near the street of Hormuz, complicating efforts to end the war and reopen the crucial

shipping lane. On Capitol Hill, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defends his controversial changes, including to vaccine

recommendations.

And we report from Uganda on the spike in disease-related deaths after the Trump administration

slashed aid to countries around the world.

It is very painful to lose someone of a treatable disease.

Welcome to the news hour.

Iranian forces attacked and seized at least two ships in the contested

Strait of Hormuz today as a standoff over when or whether to return to negotiations continued.

The Trump administration said it did not consider the attacks violations of a ceasefire

that President Trump extended last night at the urging of Pakistani mediators.

Our White House correspondent Liz Landers continues to follow this all and joins us now.

So, Liz, we have not heard from the president himself on Iran today, but the White House press

secretary did take some questions.

What did she say?

Caroline Levitt did an interview on Fox News and then also spoke to reporters outside of the

West Wing this afternoon.

She said that the president is satisfied with the blockade.

Here's more from those comments a few moments ago.

I'm not going to set a timetable for the president.

He has not done that and I won't.

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