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**Georgia Howe** (0:04)
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**John Bickley** (0:19)
Is the peace deal really dead, and where do things stand now with our NATO allies?

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**Georgia Howe** (1:21)
After yet more attacks from Iran, President Trump said yesterday he's washing his hands of the deal. Meanwhile, the president wrapped up the NATO summit with some big wins and some big drama.

**John Bickley** (1:32)
Joining us now from DC is our White House correspondent, Mary Margaret Olohan. Great to have you on.

**Mary Margaret Olohan** (1:37)
Great to be here.

**John Bickley** (1:39)
All right. So Trump really busy oversees a lot of major headlines coming out of it, including more strikes on Iran, tangle with Spain.
I want to get to all this first. The latest on Iran, we did initiate more strikes. What are we hearing from the president on that? And what should we expect?

**Mary Margaret Olohan** (1:59)
So President Trump called off the deal with Iran early on Wednesday from NATO. He was defending overnight strikes against Iran, and he accused Iran of violating our ceasefire by attacking commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. He said on Wednesday that he doesn't want to deal with Iran anymore, and he had some very choice words for them, calling the Iranian scum and sick people, and even saying at one point that they were cuckoo. And he says that they say they want peace, and then they'll make a deal with the Trump administration behind doors, and everything will look great, and the president and his administration will announce that things are going well, and they're getting towards a deal. And then, according to the president, and we've seen this play out several times, the Iranians will go do a press conference and say, no, we didn't make any deal, the Americans are lying. So President Trump says he's sick of this kind of behavior, he's done with it. He did say later on Wednesday that his negotiators are still engaged in negotiating with Iran, but he kind of essentially said he's washing his hands of it, he's very frustrated and the ceasefire is off for now.
What had happened was, for a little bit of context, that US Central Command had announced that we had struck more than 80 Iranian targets, including air defense systems, missile sites, and many Islamic revolutionary Guard Corps boats after Iran had attacked three commercial vessels in the strait.
Iran then responded by launching missiles at US military installations in Bahrain and Kuwait. Now, Trump also warned Iran that on Wednesday night, he had plans to strike them very, very hard, emphasizing repeatedly throughout Wednesday that he was very unhappy with Iran and they needed to be on their guard and prepared for more retaliation from the United States.

**John Bickley** (3:37)
All right. So a lot of kinetic activity going on. In fact, probably more going on as this airs early this morning. As far as NATO, has this changed the conversation inside NATO?
Has this re-engagement with Iran?

**Mary Margaret Olohan** (3:53)
Obviously, this had a lot of impact on conversations in Ankara, Turkey.
But there were so many topics at hand and so many conversations to be had. For example, when it came to the matter of Spain, President Trump is very, very angry and frustrated with Spain. He had some harsh words for them describing the country as a, quote, wasted cause and saying he doesn't want to do any more trade business with Spain because of how they rejected committing to a new NATO defense spending benchmark. He said that they're the only member of the NATO alliance to reject that proposal. He said, Spain is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore. They're a terrible partner in NATO. They don't participate. They don't pay. I don't want anything to do with Spain. In Trump's view, Spain benefits from this alliance without doing anything to contribute.