Good evening from the newsroom, topping our CNN global war coverage.

Just one week out from the end of the ceasefire, there is fresh optimism tonight from

the president and vice president.

Fox's Maria Bartaromo says that President Trump told her for an interview airing tomorrow

that, quote, it's over, meaning the war. She didn't elaborate. We don't know if he did either. She's obviously trying to tease her interview, but the president has certainly said as much many times before. We've won. Let me say we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the bet. In the first hour it was over.

Oh, I think we've won. We've knocked out their Navy. We've knocked out everything.

You know, I don't like to say this. We've won this. This war has been won. We won. Okay. They are militarily defeated.

The president also spoke with the New York Post today about the peace talks which broke

down over the weekend telling the paper, quote, something could be happening over the next

two days.

He also indicated he was not pleased with the reports that the U.S. had asked for a 20-year

hiatus on enriching uranium.

Quoting him again, I've been saying that they can't have nuclear weapons, so I don't

like the 20 years, which is odd, funny

if it wasn't so serious because he's the president, those are his negotiators.

So why would he be surprised by the position they were taking, which is sort of weird?

He added about Iran, I don't want them to feel like they have a win.

Late today, Vice President Vance, who as CNN has learned, will be taking part in those

talks again, expressed optimism about the prospects for reaching a deal.

Look, honestly, after 49 years, there's a lot of, of course, mistrust between Iran and the United

States of America. You're not going to solve that problem overnight. But yeah, I think the people we're sitting across from wanted to make a deal, and I know the President of the United States of America, you're not going to solve that problem overnight. But yeah, I think the people we're sitting across from wanted to make a deal, and I know the President of the United States told us to go out there and negotiating good faith. That's what we did. That's what we're going to keep on doing. So you never know, though. Yeah. Right? I mean, I've sat across from the United States senators that I thought I agreed with,

and you know, you don't know with those people, right? I won't say who. You can guess.

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