Welcome to the NewsHour. On this Memorial Day, Iranian and U.S. officials agree progress to end the war has been made, but how much remains uncertain. President Trump suggested this weekend that a deal was close, before saying that the U.S. is in no rush to reach an agreement. As negotiations resumed today in Doha with a visit by senior Iranian officials, Iran acknowledged

agreement on many points but said the signing of a deal was not imminent.

Nick Schiffran's been tracking the statements and updates and he joins us here now.

So Nick, let's start with the U.S.

The president was very positive over the weekend about the potential for a deal. What did he say

today? He was very much on the fence about the possibility of a deal today. This is what he wrote

on True Social this morning. It will only be a great deal for all or no deal at all. Back to the

battlefront and shooting, but bigger and stronger than ever before, and nobody wants that. But as you said on Saturday, he wrote that an agreement had largely been negotiated,

and that led to prominent public criticism from Israel and some Republican allies that want

to restart the war.

So what's in the deal?

Senior administration official brief reporters this weekend, a European and a regional

official confirmed that this is the

outline of the deal as it is right now. In the first phase, Iran would open the strait of Hormuz

and the U.S. would end its blockade. Number two, the war would end, including Lebanon. We'll talk

Omna more about that in a moment. And the third phase is in principle agreements. Iran limits its nuclear program,

and the U.S. lifts its sanctions. And if that third point sounds familiar, it is. That is the core

of the 2015 JCPUA nuclear deal, and it's also the core of this deal. So that brings us to the second

phase. Iran would freeze its uranium enrichment

for TBD years, likely somewhere between 10 and 20 years, but that is still under the negotiation.

Number two, Iran would export its nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium.

The senior administration official admitted there's a question about how precisely to do that,

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