๐จAfter receiving a briefing from a Senior TRUMP Administration Official on the status of the Iran negotiations (someone in the know & not just speculating), I can tell you the following:
-USA IS NOT GIVING IRANIANS MONEY FOR NOTHING. All speculation and propaganda to the contrary is false. Some hardline elements of Iranโs govt (IRGC) have pushed fake stories & propaganda to try to kill this negotiation.
-Iran deal is NOT done (95%, but still haggling over some language). No deal being signed today. May be a few more days before this is done.
-Iran will NOT get any money or sanctions relief up front.
-Iran must turn over nuclear stockpile to get anything. USA position is that failure to meet deal commitments means Iran gets nothing.
-Long term USA objective is preventing Iran from having nuclear weapon.
-Initial deal point is to re-establish free flow of commerce by reopening Strait of Hormuz.
Deal should have 2 phases:
Step 1 - Open Strait of Hormuz. Give world economy breathing room. Iran agrees to give up enriched uranium.
Step 2 - Get the nuclear material turned over. Only then can Iran get sanctions relief.
Bottom line: goal is to make a deal that lowers costs for Americans, calms world energy markets, and guarantees that Iranians cannot have a nuclear weapon over the long term. We arenโt there yet. Iran takes forever to get you a response on even small things. But we are close although it still could be a few days.
โIf we get what we are demanding, this is going to be a historic deal,โ SAO says.
SAO sounds prepared to do no deal at all if all Iran will do is a โbad deal.โ SAO admits deal could fall apart yet. But if a deal is reached, SAO expects very senior USA admin officials to take part in a signing ceremony of some sort.
Iran has agreed in principle to the framework but there are still a couple points USA isnโt satisfied with. 95% done. But literally changing words sometimes requires days in Iranโs system. Haggling over language. But USA feels like we have a commitment on nuclear stockpile and on opening Strait of Hormuz.
If IRAN doesnโt deliver on commitments, they get nothing.
โIranโs ability to project power is a lot more limited than it was two months ago,โ SAO says. โTheir industrial base for building ballistic missiles has been substantially destroyed.โ
Fox just posted my column on AOC's latest socialist mythology about the Framers and their alleged animus toward billionaires. https://t.co/wnmAfnwcIe Whatever else can be said of AOC, she is fast becoming the greatest fabulist since Aesop.
What is even more chilling than some of Justice Jacksonโs jurisprudence is the fact that she is often cited as the model for Democrats seeking to pack the Court with an instant majority if they retake power. This and other dissents show why Democrats are confident that packing the court will yield lasting power. https://t.co/FEYBGZq9f8
Justice Jackson recently said that โI have a wonderful opportunity to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues, and thatโs what I try to do.โ For some of her colleagues, that cathartic benefit is coming at too high a cost for the Court. https://t.co/SGtZMbHH0h
Spirit customers today may have a difficult time seeing how the blocking of a merger to save the airline was what Elizabeth Warren called "a Biden win for flyers!" Rather than "fewer flights and higher fares" cited by Warren at the time, they now have no flights and no jobs...
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries just called the Supreme Court "illegitimate." That follows Democratic politicians and pundits calling for the packing of the Supreme Court. Nothing says Happy 250th Anniversary like tearing down the core institutions of the Republic.
...Sen. Chuck Schumer, who has blocked their funding for over 70 days, immediately posted, "Iโm grateful for the quick response of law enforcement and am praying everyone remains safe." The only thing more impressive than their stout courage is Schumer's striking lack of shame.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐: "๐ ๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐"
Miranda Devine was close enough to Tucker Carlson that he asked her to write his biography. She was halfway through it when he left Fox. She was on his show constantly. She knows him.
And she does not recognize what he has become.
Her explanation is worth hearing โ because it is charitable, honest, and ultimately more damning than any partisan attack could be.
Tucker started in journalism working for Bill Kristol in the neoconservative world. He was young, charismatic, a gifted writer, great on air. And he believes Kristol used those gifts to prosecute the case for the Iraq War โ a war Tucker later concluded was a catastrophic mistake. He had a friend die there. He beats himself up about it constantly.
That guilt is real. That anti-war conviction that grew from it is genuine. And Devine is right that Tucker is not alone โ a whole generation of conservatives, Pete Hegseth among them, came out of the Iraq era deeply skeptical of military intervention and the people who sold it to them. I've said as much. The skepticism itself is not the problem.
๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐'๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ ๐ ๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ .
At Fox, Tucker had an exceptional team around him. Executive producer Justin Wells โ described as first among equals in Fox behind-the-scenes talent. A retinue of genuinely gifted people who took Tucker's immense natural ability and turned it into the number one cable news show in America. You do not achieve that without excellent editorial judgment surrounding you, challenging you, sharpening you.
When Tucker left Fox, he could not keep those people. And now, according to someone who knows him well and has no axe to grind, ๐ก๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐.
That word matters. Isolation is how talented people go wrong. It removes the friction that produces good judgment. It removes the trusted voices that say โ wait, think about this differently. It removes the editorial check that separates a genuinely great broadcaster from someone platforming whatever confirms his existing worldview.
The Tucker Carlson who was brilliant on Fox was Tucker Carlson plus a world-class team that made him better. The Tucker Carlson who says he is rooting for Iran to win, who praises communist dictators, who questions whether H-m-s is a terrorist organization, who bought a home in Qatar and whose content is distributed by the Muslim Brotherhood โ that Tucker Carlson is isolated, nursing a decades-old wound about Iraq, and apparently surrounded by people who tell him what he wants to hear rather than what he needs to hear.
Devine's account does not excuse what Tucker has become. It explains it. And the explanation is in some ways sadder than the simpler version โ because it suggests a genuinely talented man who once did great work has been undone not by malice but by isolation, guilt, and the absence of people willing to push back.
๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฒ. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ก๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ.
And there is only one person to blame for what comes out of Tucker's mouth, and that's Tucker himself.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi 2026: Condemning Trump's attack on Iran, declaring "The Constitution is clear: decisions that lead our nation into war must be authorized by Congress."
Pelosi 2011: Defending Obama's unilateral attack on Libya and confirming that he "did not need authorization."
Mayor Brandon Johnson held another chest-pounding press conference where he declared, โWe are putting ICE on notice inย our city.โย However, even a cursory examination reveals that, as before, there is less than meets the eye in Johnsonโs theatrics... https://t.co/4yZTpW7L34
If you know one thing about the fabric and personality of the foundation of America and Americans - itโs how independent we are. Both as a people, as a nation.
We think for ourselves, donโt take shit, we sure as hell wonโt be ruled or told what to do. There is no god damn collective, our forefathers rejected the very concept 250 years ago. We are rebels, resolute pioneers, constantly in search of the better.
I have no idea how badly this will go for the people in New York City but I assure you with every fiber of my being this wonโt work in the country as a whole. We are not Russia, Cuba, Venezuela and never will be. And I thank God for that.
I wish my New Yorker friends the best of luck because I truly believe you will all need it with this utterly bizarre communist experiment youโre about to endure.
What an embarrassment, @CNN. She interviews @nickshirleyy in person but not the day care center. And then she takes the word of the one day care center she contacts by phone - but does not visit - that they are legit? Seriously?
As billionaires flee California to avoid a new wealth tax, https://t.co/FvJsTyrT6F, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna mocked their departure with "I will miss them very much." Indeed, you will as you shrink your tax base rather than cut a bloated budget. Good luck with that...
White people lined up by the millions to put this ungrateful wench and her despicable husband in the White House for two terms, and yet she hates white people even more now than she did before. Important lesson here.