We have reached an agreement on a 90-day pause and substantially moved down the tariff levels.

Both sides on the reciprocal tariffs will move their tariffs down 115%.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson earlier this morning in Switzerland, announcing a major

breakthrough in trade negotiations with China. That's one of several stories we're going to be

following from overseas as President Trump gets ready to travel to the Middle East this week

with a focus on securing more trade deals. Meanwhile, U.S. officials just wrapped up a fourth round

of meetings with Iranian officials seeking to reach an agreement on Tehran's nuclear program. And Ukrainian President Zelensky

is challenging Russian President Putin to meet him personally in Turkey this week to discuss a peace

still. Plus, India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers on the brink on Friday are now accusing each other of

violating a ceasefire agreement that President Trump announced over the weekend.

Good morning, and a welcome to a morning, Joe.

A lot going on.

It's Monday, May the 12th.

With us, we have the co-host of our fourth hour, Jonathan Lemire.

He's a contributing writer of the Atlantic covering the White House and National Politics.

You have a special correspondent for BBC News and a host of the rest of politics,

Cathy Kaye. President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haas.

He's the author of the weekly newsletter, Home and Away, available in

Substack, and columnist and associate editor for The Washington Post, David Ignatius. Great to have

everybody with us. Katty, how was your mother's day? It was, it was great. I had 75% attendance

for my children, so three of the four kids were home. I know. Not bad, right? They cooked dinner. The boys cooked dinner in the garden. I felt very lucky to have my kids with me. You know it up at our stage in Life, Joe, where the kids are leaving home, three of them being back home for the weekend was as good a mother day as you

could ever have. So that was very nice. I got to say, Jonathan Muir will not understand that,

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