Good evening, topping our global war coverage from the newsroom.

We have breaking news tonight.

New reporting that President Trump is weighing options, none of them ideal, for dramatically

escalating the war against Iran should his latest push for diplomacy fail.

Sources tell CNN that those options would likely involve ground forces, but with no guarantee

of ending the conflict.

It comes with the president extending the deadline he'd previously given Iran, now saying he'll

give them 10 more days before striking their power plants.

His previous deadline expires tomorrow.

This extension came just 11 minutes after markets finished their worst day since the fighting began.

Quoting now from his social media post, which landed at 4.11 p.m. As per Iranian government request,

please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of energy plant destruction

by 10 days to Monday, April 6, 2026 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.

Talks are ongoing and despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the fake news media and

others, they are going very well. About an hour later, the president phoned into Fox with much more

to say. Well, the Iranians asked me to do that, and I was not happy with them because I made a statement

that we're having productive negotiations.

I don't know that they get there.

Maybe they do.

Maybe they won.

And look, in a certain sense, we've already won because we've knocked out their Navy.

We've knocked out their Air Force, completely knocked out their Air Force, just about completely

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