Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on Donald Trump pulling back from striking Iran, ongoing negotiations

Donald Trump's warning further attacks on Iran are still possible, despite backing down this week.  

The US President called off the strikes after requests from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.  

He says officials are still locked in negotiations with Iran, and he claims Democrats are trying to stop him.  

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking this is the sixth time Trump has been on the verge of initiating military strikes and has pulled back. 

He says it comes amid word Iran’s Foreign Minister met with Pakistan’s Interior Minister and they claim there’s diplomatic progress. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International correspondence with ends and eye insurance, peace of mind
for New Zealand business.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
We're not going on, Richard.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
There is good warning, Mike. We got blanche in the indefensible,
we got the wall that's not on. We got voting
under one in six states.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hit me.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Let's start with Iran. Wherever we heard this before. Trump
says he has postponed what he had describes as a
quite very major attack on Iran. He says, we were.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Going to be striking very It would have been happening
right now.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, it's all done. The boats, the ships are all loaded.
They're loaded to the brim, and we're all sets to start.
Should say all that noise and background nothing to do
with the military. It is work on the glittering Golden ballroom.
Just one of Trump's vanity projects that are taking how
much of his time. This is the sixth time Trump
has been on the verge of initiating military strikes and

(00:47):
has pulled back comes amid word that runs. Foreign Minister
Harras Aerauchi has met with pakas stands Interior Minister, and
it claims there is diplomatic progress. We'll see on that
cut up the southeast and the UAE all who have
been lobbing for a military delay with their economy's court
very much in the middle of all of this. Meantime,
the US Defense Secretary Pete Heess, in the throes of

(01:09):
the war which has been at a stale maateman with
such harsh effects on world fuel and fertilizer supplies, the
self described Secretary of War is off on the campaign trail.
The situations you were just talking about, voters going to
the polls right now in six states Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
with much of the focus on Kentucky, where there is

(01:32):
that fifty five million dollar New Zealand primary race which
has been underway, and where HEIGSS has slammed the current
Republican Thomas Massey. It is Massy, of course, who has
called for the release of all the Epstein files as
to who was associated with a pedophile. Trump is backlashing
at Massey today.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Thomas mass is a terrible congressman.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
He's been a terrible congressman.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
From day one.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Dealing with him is just a horrible I don't think
he's a Republican. I think he's actually I think he's
actually a Democrat. Trump is taken to coolling the Democrats Democrats,
while some lives are calling Republicans Rightepublicans over the Epstein scandal.
So this is the nature of things right now. While
Higgs says, defends his boss as ever.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
When Conservatives are fighting the most radical left in American history,
too often, Massy's instinct is to throw elbows at fellow
Republicans instead of the people who are destroying our country
or want to destroy our country. And there's one man
standing in their way, and it's President Trump.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Well over in Capitol Hill, Trump's former criminal lawyerner Acting
ag Todd Blanche refused to rule out slash money payments
for some of the January six rioters from that one
point seven billion dollar fund the Justice Department created and
which used to be overseen by Trump. Says Democratic Senator
Paddy Murray.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
This is corruption that has never been more blatant or
more right spent. What is happening is you write the check,
Trump and his corney's cash it. American taxpayers, who are
already being worked with high prices, are going to flip.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
The bill, M'd say. The Republican Senate leader John thun
Now has joined the Dems in opposing this fund, saying
he is quote not a big fan of the idea,
does not see any legitimate purpose for it. What's the
update on San Diego? Well scattered in abandoned kids lunchboxes
you can see at the sight of this later's shooting
at the San Diego Moss where three men were killed

(03:25):
by two teenagers. Police got to the scene what four
minutes after being called when the shooting started. They were
already searching for the two shooters, Cane Clark, aged seventeen,
and Caleb Basquez, eighteen. The mother of the younger teen
had called police offter she found a suicide note and
found that her firearms and her car were missing. The
police chief says the note was filled with hateful hderick.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Those writings are are free dawning.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
While the security guard of the mosk, a father of eight,
was shot dead. He was known as brother Iman, and
his friend Sam says he put himself in the line
of fire deliberately. The no that he knew he was
sacrificing his life for the.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Kids, because if he didn't take that bullet, they would
easily walk upstairs. And then there's just innocent eight and
younger and women, and you know, people that couldn't defend themselves.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
So Mike, even police are saying his actions were heroic.
In a couple of days, Richard Donold. For more from
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