Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on the negotiations between Iran and the US, resignations

President Trump is suggesting talks with Iran could resume within the next two days. 

Despite the US blockading the Strait of Hormuz, a ceasefire between the sides remains in effect – but that's set to expire in a week. 

Donald Trump is hinting "something could be happening" shortly in Pakistan, where negotiations over the weekend broke down. 

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking US Vice President JD Vance says the ball is in Iran’s court, as the US has out a lot on the table.  

He says that instead of a permanent ban on nuclear enrichment by Iran, the US has instead proposed a 20 year suspension of all nuclear activity – Iran’s counter proposal would see nuclear activity halted for just five years.  

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Richard Arnold stateside, good morning, good what do you make
so we got some hope you have wat some more talk.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Possibly round two of the peace talks. Yes, they're talking
about doing something in Pakistan again in terms of these
discussions happening in maybe the next couple of days. Pakistan
willing to play host yet again, vance to the US
Vice President saying.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
I really think the ball is in the Iranian court
because we put a lot on the table.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well just how much they put on the table is
being revealed right now. Instead of calling for a permanent
ban on nuclear Richmond by Iran, the US has proposed
a twenty year suspension of all nuclear activity, so buying time,
Iran came back with a proposal that they could hold
nuclear activity for up to five years. What is interesting

(00:43):
is how this compares to the twenty fifteen Obama nuclear
packed which Trump withdrew from, calling it a quite horrible,
one sided deal that should never ever have been made.
Wendy Sherman, who worked on Obama deal along with Ernest Manes,
an actual nuclear physicist. Manese, who was brought into were
directly with the head of the Atomic Energy Agency in Iran,

(01:04):
wasn't dealt with by her president's son in law, who
has greatly enriched himself during the Trump terms along with
the transformer real estate friends the Witgoff and former diplomat
Wendy Firmans. His of the early agreement.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Was going to last for at least fifteen years, and
then there were many other restrictions that continued on past that.
But most importantly, the International Atomic Energy Agency had the
most extensive verification of monitoring mechanism in the world, people
on the ground, electronic monitoring, all kinds of bells and

(01:40):
whistles that hadn't existed before it.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Also, neur Own's uranium stock then was enriched to only
thirty percent, not the sixty percent it's reached now, which
has the ability to make a dirty bomb and is
right in the edge of allowing for modern nuclear weapons.
She believes of the current situation.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
We have a much more hardline government in Iran and
that I believe, led by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard core
will decide over time that it has to get a
nuclear weapon to be a deterrent against future attack.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
So did the Trump withdraw from the Obama deal, and
now the iron will bring benefit. As for the US
blockade of the Old Channel through the state of Homuth.
China's oil tanker called the Rich Starry, passed through the
strength today in what seemed to be a challenge to Trump.
That tanker has been sanctioned by the US for dealing
with a run, but it's sailed through without entering the

(02:30):
strictly block hated section. Trump has threatened to blow up
Iranian link vessels if they come anywhere close to the blockade,
but this time no international navy clash, while a lot
of tankers are being held at bay and the IMF,
the International Monetary Fund says any escalation of the Iron
Walker trigger a global recession. Israel and Lebanon have just
concluded their first direct talks in about forty years at

(02:52):
the White House. Adjoint statement on that is expected soon.
They're talking about maybe putting together some kind of future
discussion framework. Anyway, Vance, who hasn't had the best week
as joining his boss in advising the American born Pope
Leo to stay out of American politics when it comes
to all of this, Fans as the highest ranking Catholic
in the administration, says the Pope should stick to matters

(03:14):
of morality suggesting what that war and peace not a
moral issue anyway. It's all become somewhat strange, with Trump
saying I'm not a big fan of Poplo, then saying
he owes no apology to the Pope. No, I don't
because Pope Leo said things that are wrong. That's when
Trump posted that victure of himself as a christ like
figure with beams shooting from his hands and a halo

(03:36):
around his head, with Trump later saying, yeah, he wasn't
pretending to be Jesus Christ. He was pretending to be
a Red Cross doctor. Bizarre.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
And then we get to Swowool and Gonzales.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yep, we said big, big trouble was ahead for soour
well didn't take too long to play out, did it.
He has not only quit the government's race, but also
intends to leave the Congress amid one of the most
seemi sex scandals on Capitol Hill. For a little while,
it seems the forty five year old Polly thought he
was immune from any responsibility to the law. Do his
wife and three kids? Do his staffers, do his supporters?

(04:07):
So now he has fired himself before his colleagues could
expel him amid accusations as sexual assault and potentially alleged
right from at least four women, one of whom Alisa
Marco says, I.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Don't think those women in his office or on Capitol
Hill in general should be around him for one more day.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
About one hour after Democrats four Whill said he would quit,
Republic Attorney Gonzales also said he would retire.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
I made a mistake and I had a lapse in judgment.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Lapse in judgment. Married father of six and the fareweller
staffer who later died of suicide. Gonzales, writing in his
retirement statement, now quote, it has been my privilege to
serve the great people of Texas.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Okay, Mape seen a couple of days wash by the ways,
finally filed the paperwork Kevin, who's going to be potentially
the fit cheer replacing J.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Powell.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
The Senate Banking Committee's got the paperwork that yet to
schedule the meeting, but it should come fairy quickly. He's
married to Lauda as an estate Laura, and there were
some scuttle but around that anyway. Also a letter this morning,
fourteen hundred actors, directors, filmmakers are trying to prevent Paramount,
Warner Brothers Discovery from merging. I don't think they're going
to have any I mean just because you called Emma

(05:15):
Thompson or Ben Stiller or Havier Badem or rose Byrne.
I don't know how that affects a merger. But nevertheless,
they say there will be less competition, which of course
is true. But the counter to that is with more competition,
someone's going to go broke. So which one you want?

Speaker 2 (05:29):
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