From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow.

This is the Daily.

Today, an inside look at how President Trump is thinking about the war in Iran, the stalled negotiations to end it, and the political fallout

for his party as it heads into the midterm elections. I spoke with White House reporters

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swann. It's Friday, April 24th.

Maggie and Jonathan, welcome back.

Thank you, Michael.

It's good to be back.

It's really good to have you back.

And this is a really bigger than usual welcome back, because just to explain, you have both been on leave

for a few months, a joint leave you left together because you've been writing a book together

about President Trump's second term. And while we profoundly missed you as guests on the show,

when you were on this leave, we are now the

beneficiaries of all this reporting that you did for the book and the insights that you gleaned.

And what we want to talk to you about specifically is what you've uncovered in your reporting

about how the president has been making decisions in the second term, his mindset, his process on a variety of fronts,

but most specifically, most urgently around Iran. So let us start there. We're at a really

key moment when the original ceasefire has ended. New talks are being offered by the U.S.

but kind of rejected by Iran, how is the president approaching

these peace talks, which on the surface look very precarious?

Well, so we're recording this Thursday afternoon, and the reason I timestamp it is because

it's a very fluid situation. But as of now, as of this moment, the Trump team is still

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