From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Monday, April 13th.

Here's what we're covering.

The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement.

And I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America.

After almost a full day of closed-door negotiations this weekend in Pakistan,

Vice President J.D. Vance emerged to announce that efforts to reach a peace deal with Iran had failed.

He blamed Iran, saying they'd rejected the U.S. demand that they'd not try to develop a nuclear weapon.

We just could not get to a situation where the Iranians were willing to accept our terms.

I think that we were quite flexible.

Earlier, even as the talks were ongoing.

Look, regardless, we win.

Regardless what happens, we win.

President Trump had insisted it didn't matter if there was a deal or not.

And by the time, Vance was announcing that the negotiations had collapsed,

Trump was at a UFC fight in Miami,

watching the bloody cage matches alongside a bunch of his family members,

Joe Rogan, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

That was Saturday night. On Sunday, Trump announced that the U.S. Navy will start blockading the

Strait of Hormuz. It's the latest head-spinning development for the crucial waterway.

Iran largely cut off the strait as leverage when the war started, though it was supposed to reopen

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