Good morning and welcome to way too early. The show that knows you can't always get what you want,

unless it's a new Stones album that you're after. We're going to talk about the legendary band's brand new

announcement. I'm Ali Vitale on this Wednesday, May 6th, but we are going to start first with the news.

In an abrupt reversal yesterday, President Trump says the United States is now pausing its effort to guide stranded vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. The president made that announcement yesterday. President Trump says the United States is now pausing its effort to guide stranded

vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. The president made that announcement yesterday on social media,

just one day after the operation dubbed Project Freedom began. While it was briefly in place,

only two merchant ships were known to have passed through the U.S. guarded route, and the move sparked

in exchange of fire between the U.S. and route, and the move sparked an exchange of fire between

the U.S. and Iran. Trump wrote that the effort would be paused for a short period of time.

He cited requests from Pakistan and other countries, as well as what he called great progress

toward some kind of an agreement with Iran. The president, however, added that the U.S.

blockade of Iranian ports will remain in place.

So far, Iran's president has dismissed U.S. pressure for concessions in negotiations,

saying no one can make us surrender.

Now, despite the continued blockade and the UAE saying it fielded another day of Iranian drone

and missile strikes, the White House is insisting the offensive is over.

Speaking to reporters in the briefing room just hours before Trump announced the pause of

Project Freedom, Secretary of State Marco Rubio touted the effort as the next defensive

phase of this conflict.

The operation is over. Epic Fury is the president notified Congress. We're done with that stage of it.

Okay, we're now on to this project of freedom. The U.S. military is deploying the necessary

assets to extend this defensive umbrella over commercial shipping. But there should be no mistake.

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