Trump issues ULTIMATUM to Iran

[0:00] Vice President Vance and U.S. negotiators are in Switzerland for the first round of nuclear talks [0:05] with Iran. This as Hezbollah and the Israeli Defense Forces exchanged fire in Lebanon this [0:09] weekend. Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yenxt is live in Tel Aviv with the latest. [0:14] Trey. Yeah, hey, Peter, good morning. High-level diplomatic talks are taking place today in [0:20] Switzerland aimed at solidifying the memorandum of understanding and entering into the next phase [0:26] of negotiations. This comes as Iran's IRGC says they have closed the Strait of Hormuz. [0:32] I spoke earlier with President Trump for more than 20 minutes and he responded to that threat [0:36] from the Iranians saying that he spoke with Iranian officials overnight and told them you close it [0:42] and you won't have a country. He went on to say if they don't make a deal, we'll collect tolls. [0:46] We may take over the strait if we have to. The president says the U.S. could become the guardian [0:51] angel of the strait and the Middle East and take 20 percent of the oil. The strait, along with Iran's [0:56] nuclear program, remained the focus for talks in Switzerland. Iran's president, Masoud Pazeshkian, [1:01] spoke today from Tehran, laying out a new red line for the regime in this next round of discussions. [1:08] We will not give up our right to enrichment and they, too, will be forced to accept it. [1:14] You all know what the so-called president of the United States was saying. He had made a complete [1:20] 100-degree turn. He was saying that Iran must surrender unconditionally. Iran has no right to [1:27] do this. It has no right to do that. President Trump responded directly to Iran's president, [1:34] Masoud Pazeshkian, saying he better watch his mouth, he better shape up or we'll take over the [1:39] rest of the country. The president also spoke about Lebanon, where five Israeli soldiers were killed by [1:43] Hezbollah in the course of 48 hours over the weekend. The Israelis responding with heavy [1:48] airstrikes across southern Lebanon. Now, President Trump posted a true social this morning, saying [1:52] Iran must immediately stop their highly paid proxies in Lebanon from causing trouble. If they [1:57] don't, we'll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder. Iran continues to try [2:03] and tie the situation in Lebanon to the broader memorandum of understanding with the United States [2:08] of America. Well, now, President Trump is doing the same. Peter? [2:11] Trey, thank you. For more, let's bring in Fox News contributor and host of The Hugh Hewitt Show. [2:16] Hugh Hewitt. Hugh, I got to ask you about this news overnight. Strait of Hormuz closed. Now what? [2:26] Well, I think what the president posted and Trey just referenced on True Social this morning, [2:30] they've got to pull back Hezbollah and they've got to open the Strait of Hormuz or we'll be back [2:34] to the bombing. Now, I'm not one who put any faith in this MOU anyway. Peter, I think it's a letter [2:40] of intent in real estate terms. Doesn't bind anyone. You might continue talking, but they're [2:44] not going to bring back Munich in 1938 from Switzerland. I don't think the vice president's [2:49] going to do that. I don't think special envoys Whitcoff or Kushner are going to do that. [2:52] I don't think the president will let them do that. So I actually believe we're in halftime [2:56] of the battle, the current battle. Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of Operation Midnight Hammer [3:02] when the president ordered the Fodor facility completely destroyed. And in that year, [3:08] we've seen Iran terribly shaken. They massacred 40,000 of their own people and they've been [3:13] pummeled for six weeks. I think they're going to want to strike a nicer tone with everyone if [3:19] they want to get out of this jam because their country's fallen apart. They may have closed the [3:23] strait again. That will not lead to anything productive for them, but probably a return to [3:27] bombing. Ditto Hezbollah in Lebanon. And Hugh, nobody knows that he's watching this, [3:34] but I was waiting in Switzerland for the vice president this week and he stood me up because [3:37] we figured at the time that this is just like a no-win situation for Vance, right? If the deal works, [3:43] conservatives are mad that he's the face of it. If it doesn't work, the president is mad. [3:47] But the VP's new angle in this new sound that we have, it sounds like he is arguing if this doesn't [3:55] work out. It's really Israel's fault. Listen to this. [3:57] It's going to be something that's going to happen to ensure that, you know, Israel and Lebanon [4:06] are both safe and secure. The big problem is that you have somebody will choose and then somebody [4:11] will respond and you kind of have a chicken and egg problem where you've just got to stop the [4:16] season long enough to get the food fired. So is that a fair point that really, if this all blows up, [4:23] it's the Israelis? No. And I didn't hear it that way. I heard the chicken and egg, which is not a [4:30] great analogy because Hezbollah is a terrorist occupying force in Lebanon. Israel had to go in [4:35] and defend Israel's territory. The president has blessed that. I think the vice president is, [4:40] I hope he's studying Ronald Reagan and Reykjavik in 1986 because sometime a disaster of a summit can [4:46] turn into a big geo-strategic political win. So if he walks away from Switzerland and said, [4:51] these are idiots, these are lunatics, we can't deal with them, I think that increases his stock [4:56] because that's the actual truth. We know that the IRGC and the mullahs are nuts and they're lunatics, [5:01] as the president has said, as Secretary Rubio has said. So I think it could blow up and to his [5:05] advantage, what isn't to his advantage is blaming our closest ally, most important ally in the world, [5:10] Israel, for any of this because it's not their fault. It's the Iranian terrorist proxy, [5:15] Hezbollah, that refuses to disengage. [5:17] And it seems like the heart of Republican and Democratic concerns with this deal is [5:23] giving Iran money that they can maybe then use for anything. I asked President Trump about that [5:30] on Wednesday in Evian. Listen to this. The United States is not going to directly pay [5:38] Iran, but the U.S. is going to let the Iranians start making billions of dollars selling oil, [5:46] accessing this reconciliation fund. Only if they're doing things right. [5:50] Only if, Peter, only if, we're not doing anything. We're not putting up money. [5:55] Can you explain, though, what the difference is between giving Iran U.S. dollars and unfreezing [6:02] U.S. dollars for it? [6:04] Well, the unfreezing is an easy one to answer. We have taken a lot of their money and we have [6:11] their money. We have taken their money. It's not our money. It's their money. [6:17] Hugh, what do you think of that answer? [6:20] Oh, it's an aluminum exchange, Peter, as was the one at the end when he said, [6:23] I'll blame J.D. if it goes off the rails when you ask him about that. [6:26] What he's saying is there's a way for Iran to get their assets unfrozen. [6:31] It would begin, for example, with the IAEA inspectors going into Pickax Mountain, [6:36] which is the fourth big nuclear facility. It would begin if they simply stopped shooting and [6:42] attacking the boats in the Strait of Hormuz like they did overnight. It would begin when they [6:47] withdrew Hezbollah to north of Latani and get out of the grill of Israel. I don't think he's going [6:53] to let anything get unfrozen until they've done all that. In the meantime, they can sell some oil [6:58] if they've opened up the strait. That's about $5 billion a month. That's barely lunch money for the [7:03] IRGC. So that's not giving them much. So I didn't take too much away from the MOU. I think [7:09] it's halftime in this battle. I don't think we know which way it's going to go, but I don't think [7:13] they're going to be getting rich off of the MOU, not in any way, shape or form. And something else [7:18] that J.D. Vance is saying is that the U.S. is going to be, we heard this today, the U.S. wants to have [7:23] new relations with the Iranians. He's making it sound like we could have a normal relationship with them [7:29] if they give up the nuke. Do you think that there's a big appetite for that in the United [7:33] States? A normal diplomatic relationship where he's visiting Tehran the same way that he would [7:39] go visit Riyadh or somewhere like that? Only if the regime change, Peter. There's nothing, [7:46] there's a huge appetite for getting back to where we were in 1978 with Iran. They were a close ally. [7:52] They were ally of Israel. There are 92 million wonderful Persian people, Iranian people with [7:56] extraordinary talents. We've got a great diaspora in the United States. We'd love to go back to [8:01] 1978 before Jimmy Carter screwed this all up and the Ayatollah Khomeini came back. But the IRGC, [8:06] the Haiti, these knuckleheads who are their political leadership, they have no power. No, [8:11] there's not much appetite for that. We would like for Iran to back away from their nuclear program [8:17] and maybe they change over time. But I'm not holding my breath to when I'm going to visit Tehran. [8:22] I don't think that's ever going to happen in my lifetime unless the people rise up in the next [8:27] year, which is possible, not likely, but it's possible. And I don't think we're going to have [8:31] the embassy reopen on Massachusetts Avenue, which is the old Iranian embassy for a long, long time. [8:37] Well, we'll see. Hugh Hewitt, happy Father's Day. Thank you. [8:42] And to you, Peter. [8:44] Thanks, Hugh. [8:44] Hey, everyone. I'm Emily Campagno. Catch me and my co-hosts Harris Faulkner and Kayleigh McEnany on [8:50] Outnumbered every weekday at 12 p.m. Eastern or set your DVR. 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