From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrow-F. This is the Daily.

It was a chaotic weekend of news out of Washington. There was a shooting at an event where President Trump and top cabinet officials were gathered, which were following and we'll update on later in the show.

And also, Trump abruptly and dramatically called off the latest round of peace talks with Iran

at the very last minute, leaving the fate of the ceasefire in limbo.

One of the main reasons Trump gave was that he doesn't think Iran is sending credible

negotiators to the table and says he has no idea who's actually in charge of the country.

Today, my colleague Farnas Fasiki takes us inside the world of Iran's leaders and explains

what her reporting reveals about what they really want.

It's Monday, April 27th.

Farnas, it's wonderful to have you back on the show.

Thank you for having me, Natalie.

So what do we know about

what just happened, where we saw Trump suddenly back away from face-to-face negotiations with Iran?

It almost seemed like over the weekend he kind of turned the team of American negotiators around

as they were basically on their way to the airport. We started this weekend thinking that Iranians and Americans were going to meet in Islamabad

for a second round of negotiations.

Iran's foreign minister went to Islamabad and the U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff and

President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, were scheduled to also fly to Pakistan on Saturday, and everyone anticipated another round of talks.

And then we started getting mixed messages.

The Iranian said, oh, well, we're not meeting directly with the Americans and the foreign minister left Pakistan.

And President Trump abruptly announced on social media that he

was canceling the talks and not sending his envoys to meet with the Iranians. And now we're in a

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