It's like a split screen. It's what he's saying, and it's what we continue to see out of the Middle East.

Meanwhile, gas prices are still up, oil's still up, fertilizer is still up, and the American people are still feeling it.

So I think they're trying to spike the ball here.

But the other side gets a vote, and it looks like the game's not over. with Iran with Iran versus what we heard maybe last night or earlier.

Paul Reikoff is sitting here listening with me, the host of the Independent Americans

podcast, who appears with us, just about every Wednesday. And the news today, I was just seeing

at the president's attitude, I don't really think he did, is this idea that we might be headed

towards some sort of peace in Iran, slowly but surely, like a one-page memorandum they're talking

about that would have a framework for peace. So what's your view of this? Like where do you think things actually stand right now reading between all these lines? Different every day. Well, yeah, sometimes multiple times. Yeah, I mean, it changes almost by the hour. I mean, they say they have a ceasefire, they say they're close to a deal,

but missiles are still flying on both sides here. And I think we blew up six speedboats with an Apache in the last few days. So it doesn't look like, it's like a split screen. It's what he's saying, and it's what we continue to see out of the Middle East. Meanwhile, gas prices are still up, oil is still up, fertilizer is still up, and the American people are still feeling it.

So I think they're trying to spike the ball here,

but the other side gets a vote, and it looks like the game's not over. Yeah, the markets that trade on a day-to-day basis like oil, which is down today, right? So you have, and the president even emphasized it, the stock market up today. So, you know, maybe you buy yourself some time. Here on the

Telestrator, we have this one-page memorandum what might be in it if it happens. So the reports,

we've confirmed them, it started with Axios, we've confirmed them, is that Iran would commit to a

moratorium on nuclear enrichment for a set amount of time. U.S. would then agree to gradually lift

sanctions. Both sides would lift restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz. You know, nothing on nuclear, though. So you say, well, how does that get us in any of a better position than we were, say, with the Obama deal and all the rest before the war? I don't think it does. I mean, I think it gives him some political relief. I think it'll give the markets some relief, but it looks like you're kicking the can down

the road.

So sometime in the future, they're going to give up their moratorium on the rich uranium again, and then we're going to have to do this all over again, which is what it feels like we've been doing for 20 years. And I think, you know, I think the president and the White House are hoping that folks forgot the goal.

The goal was supposed to be to remove the regime to get rid of the uranium, to keep the straight open, to destroy their military. And I don't think they've accomplished any of those four goals, which have been many moving targets. Now they're trying to explain it away. Said on day one, all of his goals, the only one you could say that maybe was accomplished or has been accomplished is eliminating their Navy, right? Yeah. Because he went through a whole list. The others, to your point, work in progress at best, right? And bad guys are still in charge, right? I think that's the problem here. You know, we can't normalize, you know, negotiations with people who just shot tens of thousands of their own people in the streets. So, you know, a couple weeks ago, they were our enemies and they killed 13 Americans. Now we're going to sit down and negotiate with them. It just seems inconsistent. And I think what most of the world wants to see, and especially the Iranian people that I talk to, is they want to see the regime out. So is he giving up on that goal entirely? And if he is, what's going to happen in the future? Because until the regime is removed. They're going to continue to be a bad actor that we can't trust, that will manipulate the straight of her moves, and has enriched uranium. So the important question is, where is the enriched uranium? Is it even secure? Are we going to go in and get it? Oh, we're going to leave it there? There's plans on the table to send boots on the ground that he's apparently considering in the past couple of weeks. What happened to that? That's a really important question because that's the threat that they named, and we have to know the status of that threat every day.

You think Iran, at the end of the day, ends up with not a military win, but a strategic win out of this?

How would you describe it? Like here, I'm looking at some of Iran's request. They supposedly put out a 14-point peace plan, withdraw all the U.S. forces,

release their frozen assets, lift the sanctions, reparations.

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