Sources: Tentative Iran Deal Would Reopen Strait, Open Nuclear Talks
Laura Coates Live
CNN
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, progress? A tentative agreement with Iran is all waiting for President Trump's sign-off, |
| 0:08.0 | apparently, but will the deal match his promises? Plus, new report, new corruption allegations. |
| 0:15.0 | Democrat sees on claims that the White House tried to intervene to get a deal for a company linked to Don Jr. |
| 0:22.6 | And James Tallerico raising big money against Ken Paxson, but can he actually turn Texas |
| 0:28.5 | blue? The man who came close, better or work, joins me tonight on Laura Coates Live. |
| 0:40.8 | Well, my opening statement tonight, President Trump's now got to show what better actually |
| 0:47.5 | means because he's long promised to deal with Iran that is stronger than the one he got |
| 0:52.6 | rid of. |
| 0:53.5 | And now with a tentative agreement on the table, |
| 0:56.0 | that promise is no longer just rhetoric. |
| 0:59.0 | We're learning the United States and Iran have reached what's being called |
| 1:03.0 | a memorandum of understanding. |
| 1:05.0 | Secretary of Treasury says it all comes down to the president. |
| 1:18.3 | Everything depends on what the president wants to do, and President Trump is not going to make a bad deal for the American people. But the president hasn't publicly weighed in, and we're told he |
| 1:25.5 | hasn't yet signed off. |
| 1:29.4 | So what's the holdup? |
| 1:35.3 | Well, the vice president gave some hints and also made clear the whole thing is still very much an open question. |
| 1:38.5 | Well, I think it's hard to say exactly when or if the president is going to sign the |
| 1:42.3 | MOU. |
| 1:42.9 | We're going back and forth on a couple of language points. |
| 1:45.2 | There are a couple of issues on the nuclear stuff, the highly rich stockpile, and also |
| 1:51.2 | the question of rich. |
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