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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Trump Cites 'Productive' Talks with Iran

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Today's show begins as President Trump finishes answering questions on the tarmac in West Palm Beach before flying to Memphis. He gave a pretty optimistic assessment of where things stand with Iran right now. Earlier in the day, he said that the US has had "very good and productive conversations with Iran regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East." Our coverage begins with White House correspondent Kevin Liptak.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All right, so the president of the United States

0:36.1

spending quite a bit of time there on the tarmac in West Palm Beach, getting ready to fly off to Memphis, Tennessee.

0:41.8

The President answering reporters' questions, giving a pretty optimistic assessment of where things stand with Iran right now.

0:48.2

Earlier in the day, he said that the United States has had, and I'm quoting him now, very good and productive conversations with Iran

0:55.1

regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East. And he also

1:00.9

just suggested that Iran seems to be agreeing to abandon any nuclear ambitions. Pretty optimistic

1:07.6

assessment right there. I want to go to Kevin Liptack, our White House correspondent.

1:11.4

What jumped out of you, Kevin?

1:13.2

Yeah, and the president is providing some more details about that post from earlier today,

1:17.9

both about who is participating in these discussions and also what exactly he hopes to get out of them.

1:24.4

He says that his envoys, Steve Wickoff and Jared Kushner, are the

1:28.6

ones who are dealing with Iran. He said that they were talking late into the evening last night.

1:34.5

He says, you expect them to have a phone call today before, in his words, very, very soon,

1:40.2

meeting in person. He was less specific about who exactly they're talking to on the Iranian side.

1:46.6

He said it was a very respected leader.

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