Trump Veers from Iran Invasion Threat to “Great” Deal Within Hours
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
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🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Out front next, breaking news. Trump claims he has a deal. Did anyone tell Iran? Plus, Trump fails to get an |
| 0:09.4 | unqualified DNI pick in the seat. But who is his new choice tonight? And the UFC extravaganza. |
| 0:16.9 | Our storm clouds, literally already gathering? Let's go out front. |
| 0:23.6 | And good evening. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm Aaron Burnett on this Thursday. |
| 0:26.3 | And out front tonight, the breaking news, Trump claims there's a deal. |
| 0:30.2 | Iran says not so fast. |
| 0:32.6 | President Trump in the span of about seven hours careening today from threatening Iran with a land invasion to saying |
| 0:40.1 | it's all resolved. |
| 0:43.1 | We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran. |
| 0:49.0 | And we're going to be subject to finalization of documents. |
| 0:53.0 | We should get done over the next few days probably have a signing |
| 0:57.5 | maybe in Europe and it's a great thing I won't be able to be there but JD will be there |
| 1:06.1 | vice president and some of the people Steve Whitcuff did a great job, Jared. |
| 1:14.3 | Wanted to play that out so you could hear all three names, |
| 1:17.4 | Vance Whitkoff and Jared. |
| 1:19.2 | Remember back in April, Trump claimed |
| 1:21.1 | that that very same trio, Vance, Wittkoff, and Kushner, |
| 1:23.5 | were on their way back to Islamabad for peace talks? |
| 1:25.8 | He told the New York Post, in fact, this is the quote, they're heading over now. They'll be there tonight. They were not on their way |
| 1:33.0 | that night. And they have not been there since. But this is the 39th time, at least, that Trump |
| 1:38.3 | has said a deal is close. They're begging to make a deal. I think they want to make a deal very badly. |
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