From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

Over the weekend, we heard one message after another message about how a peace deal with Iran was coming.

The framework was in place, we were told, and we were on the verge of it.

And then suddenly, there was a new round of airstrikes and threats.

And so today, I talked to my colleagues, David Sanger and Tyler Pager, about what happened

and how to make sense of this dramatic reversal.

It's Wednesday, May 27th.

David, Tyler, welcome to The Daily.

Thanks, Rachel. Great to be here.

Thanks for having us.

It's very exciting to talk to both of you at the same time.

In the D.C. studio, You've been working furiously over a very

long holiday weekend that I think a lot of people went into with some sense that there might

be a deal to end the war with Iran. And then we all went off to our weekends, not you two, of course,

but we come back and on Tuesday, not only is there

no deal to end the war, but the United States, we learned, struck a bunch of targets in Iran

on Monday night. So I think a lot of people are confused about the state of play and want to

understand how did we go from a feeling that something might be imminent to where we are today, Tuesday afternoon?

Tyler, you were with the president all weekend. Why don't we start with you?

Yeah. So we set out with this weekend thinking that there would be some significant development with the conflict with Iran.

And really, it could have gone either way, that there was serious progress toward an agreement

or a resumption of military action.

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