Let's turn now to our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, who spoke with President Trump on the phone earlier today.

So, Liz, what did the president say about Iran in your phone call?

I called him around 845 this morning right after that Pentagon briefing had ended.

And I wanted to ask him about what Nick's report included, about these strikes that were still happening from the Israeli military on Lebanon that was ongoing this morning.

I asked the president if he had seen that there were still military strikes happening.

He said, yes, they, Lebanon were not included in the deal. And I said, why not? And if Lebanon should

have been included as part of this ceasefire deal. And he said, because of Hezbollah, they were

not included in the deal.

That'll get taken care of too.

It's all right.

I went on to ask him if he was okay with the Israeli military continuing to bomb Lebanon.

He reiterated, it's part of the deal.

Everyone knows that.

And he said that that's a separate skirmish.

Jeff, I tried to get him to answer another question about the post that he posted yesterday

on Truth Social about wiping out Iranian civilization.

But he hung up before I was able to get an answer.

The White House press secretary, Caroline Levitt, was also asked about the different

understandings of Lebanon during her White House press briefing this afternoon,

the understandings over how Lebanon would be included in this deal or not. What did she say?

Iran seems to think that stopping the Israeli attacks on Lebanon was part of the ceasefire deal.

The president, though, and both and also Israel have made it clear that that was not the case from their point of view.

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