Trump: Let me set the record straight because I’ve been watching the Wall Street Journal’s fake news and all these stories like, ‘Oh, I want to make a deal.’ They are begging to make a deal, not me. They’re begging to make a deal. I don’t know if we’ll be able to do that. I don’t know if we’re willing to do that.

WATCH: Steve Witkoff addresses the Cabinet about past and present talks with Iran amid Operation Epic Fury:

“I can report to you today that we have, along with your foreign policy team, presented a 15-point action list that forms the framework for a peace deal. This has been circulated through the Pakistani government acting as the mediator,” Witkoff told President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.

“Throughout our meetings with the Iranians, we heard the following from them: ‘the Iranians have the inalienable right to enrich.’ Then we heard they possessed enough 60% enriched material, 460 kilograms, to make 11 atomic bombs,” Witkoff said during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, referring to earlier diplomatic efforts.

“These are incontrovertible signs, among among many other signs,” he added, “that their regime had not given the negotiating team authority to make a deal required by you.”

Trump: All of the sudden the war starts, and they start shooting at Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Oman. Everybody was shocked, including us.

Trump on the Iranian regime: They’re sick people. They’re really sick. They’re, they’re really sinister, sick people.

Trump: NATO has done absolutely nothing … we don’t need them.

Trump: The Iranian regime is now admitting to itself that they have been decisively defeated. They’re saying to people, ‘This is a disaster.’ They know it. That’s why they’re talking to us. They wouldn’t talk otherwise. They can’t make a comeback. They now have a chance to make a deal.

Trump: If they make the right deal, then the strait will open, Hormuz Strait will open up. And even now we don’t know if there are any mines.

Trump on energy prices: It’s not over, so maybe it’ll go up a little bit more. It’s all gonna come back down to where it was and probably lower. And my predictions have been right. Trump was right about everything. They have a new hat.

VP JD Vance: You talk about people who walk into a crowded supermarket and have a vest on. And they blow up the vest and a couple of people get killed and that’s a terrible tragedy. What happens when what’s on the vest can kill many many tens of thousands of people…

Marco Rubio on Iran: Unlike them, we’re hitting military targets.

WATCH: Sec. Of War Pete Hegseth provides an update to the Cabinet on the Operation Epic Fury:

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