Welcome to closing bell. I'm Leslie Picker in for Scott Wapner.

Today, this make or break hour starts with two major developing stories driving the market this Monday.

First, AI giant Anthropic takes a major step toward an IPO, filing confidentially to go public in what is one of the most anticipated listings in years.

And in Washington, President Trump making some major headlines

in an interview with CNBC about the ongoing war in Iran. We've got full-team coverage on both of

these big stories. We begin in Washington where Amen Javar spoke with the president just a short time

ago, Amen. Yeah, Leslie, that's right.

I spoke to the president earlier today.

I was asking him about this spike in oil prices that we saw earlier today after those reports

that the Iranians had broken off negotiations with the U.S. over the war.

The president told me he doesn't care if the negotiations are off.

He said that they were dragging on. And he felt

ultimately that the United States was stalling for time. Now, I asked the president if he'd

spoken to Bibi Netanyahu about the Iranian demand that the United States or that Israel cease

its attacks in Lebanon. And what the president said was no, but I'm going to ask him what's going on with

Lebanon. Been fighting a long time. They've been fighting a long time. And then we saw this post on

social media from the president a short time later. He confirmed that after our call, he did

talk to Netanyahu. He says, I had a very productive call with Prime Minister Bebe Netanyahu

of Israel, and there will be no troops going to Beirut and any troops that are on their way have already been turned back.

Likewise, through highly placed representatives, I had a very good call with Hisbalah, and they agreed that all shooting will stop, that Israel will not attack them and they will not attack Israel.

So in that short space of time, Leslie, you had the president saying he hadn't talked to Netanyahu.

Then he did have that phone call.

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