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Laura Coates Live

Trump Caves on His Demand of Iran’s “Unconditional Surrender”

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

President Trump signed a copy of the US-Iran agreement tonight at the Palace of Versailles in France. “It’s signed,” Trump told reporters. The document was also signed by President Masoud Pezeshkian, according to photos published by Iranian state media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight, Trump's Iran agreement is in, and so is the scathing verdict forum conservatives who are calling it a U.S. surrender have for us.

0:13.9

Plus, J.D. Vance in the spotlight and facing backlash over the agreement as critics mourn that will be the one getting blamed.

0:21.4

And the strategy behind Luigi Mangione's defense, it has finally been revealed.

0:27.5

I'll bring it to you tonight on Laricoats Live.

0:35.8

Well, my opening statement tonight, President Trump caved.

0:40.1

Call it big talk.

0:41.4

Call it compromise.

0:43.2

But can you call it a success?

0:45.2

Are we better off than we were the day before the war started?

0:49.6

Let's talk about the agreement.

0:51.3

The one whose potential he hyped for weeks, I forget weeks, the framework he's been calling

0:56.5

for ever since he did the 2015 nuclear deal, while we're finally seeing it.

1:02.4

And it's nowhere near what he demanded.

1:05.5

And his demands were by as far as you could go.

1:08.8

Walk with me for a trip down memory lane to a week after he dropped the first bombs on Iran.

1:14.6

Remember the president said, quote,

1:16.6

there will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender.

1:21.6

And he was declaring the United States would force

1:24.6

Iran's leaders into submission. They should wave the white, the flag of the white flag of surrender.

1:33.3

In hockey they say, uncle, right?

1:38.3

When are they going to, when are they going to cry uncle?

1:41.3

Well, today, there is an agreement. There's also no unconditional surrender,

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