00:00The United States has offered a 15-point peace plan to end the war with Iran.
00:04According to The New York Times, Pakistan delivered the proposal to Iran on Tuesday.
00:08Sources told the outlet the plan addresses Iran's ballistic missile and nuclear programs.
00:12But that last one, the nukes, well, President Trump suggested it's already settled.
00:17Again, it starts with no nuclear weapons, and they've agreed to that.
00:21There won't be any nuclear weapons.
00:22They're not going to have, and they're not going to have enrichment, any of those things.
00:26According to Israel's Channel 12, President Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and
00:30son-in-law Jared Kushner are floating a month-long ceasefire with Tehran,
00:34during which the two sides could negotiate the rest of that 15-point plan.
00:38Now, these developments all came on the heels of reports that despite Iran swearing up and down
00:43that negotiations are not taking place, the current regime is willing to come to the table
00:48and has made its preference known for who should be sitting across it.
00:51They want Vice President J.D. Vance.
00:53Maybe because he has long been seen as a skeptic of foreign military entanglements.
00:59Now, the president was asked about that and said Vance is involved,
01:02along with Witkoff, Kushner, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
01:06Possible meeting locations for formal talks include Turkey and Pakistan, but nothing has been finalized.
01:11So who does the U.S. delegation want to meet with?
01:14Well, one of the few leaders left in Iran is their parliamentary speaker,
01:19Mohamed Bagheir Ghalibov.
01:20If negotiations do actually take place, but they go south, there's another plan.
01:25It's the 82nd Airborne.
01:27The Pentagon is expected to announce the deployment of a 3,000-member
01:31Brigade Rapid Response Combat Team to support the war.
01:35Do you remember Operation Arctic Frost?
01:38It was the Biden-era investigation led by Special Counsel Jack Smith
01:41that targeted hundreds of Republican individuals and groups after the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
01:47Well, a new trove of internal DOJ records is shedding more light on how it all went down,
01:53specifically that hundreds of pages of FBI Director Kash Patel's phone records, credit card statements,
01:59and bank records were subpoenaed as part of the investigation long before he took his post at the Bureau.
02:05Now, this all led to a Senate hearing on Tuesday in a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary,
02:10chaired by Chuck Grassley.
02:11The post's D.C. Bureau Chief Josh Christensen kept a close eye on the proceedings
02:15and gave me a summary of just what went down.
02:17The top of the hearing, Grassley noted that he had recently received emails and other documents
02:23showing that Smith's team had subpoenaed the records of Kash Patel when he was still a private citizen
02:30and years before he was nominated and later confirmed to lead the FBI.
02:34It also showed that Smith's team sought bank records from Patel
02:39in what had previously been reported by Reuters as something that had targeted Patel
02:46and the current White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles.
02:51These disclosures showed that Smith's investigation was far more expansive
02:56than was previously known to either lawmakers or members of the press.
03:00Many Republicans on a Senate Judiciary subcommittee drew attention to these disclosures
03:08as evidence that the Biden administration, particularly the Smith probe,
03:14had run afoul of constitutional protections for these lawmakers.
03:18Most notably, they drew attention to these being potential violations of the speech and debate clause
03:24by secretly subpoenaing these records from Patel, Wiles, and themselves.
03:31They made this argument because they were noting that the lawmakers had these phone records subpoenaed
03:39without their knowledge and were not, in fact, made aware of them
03:42until Grassley was presented with the information by whistleblowers.
03:47Each of the subpoenas had a nondisclosure order that was signed off by a federal judge
03:51keeping their contents hidden until they were unveiled and discussed during this hearing.
03:57The National Transportation Safety Board says the fatal crash of an Air Canada jet
04:02at New York's LaGuardia Airport earlier this week likely involved multiple failures.
04:07In a press conference Tuesday, the NTSB detailed the final three minutes before the crash.
04:11Everything seemed normal until just over a minute before the incident.
04:16An airport vehicle contacts the tower but is kind of stepped on by other radio traffic.
04:2123 seconds later, the tower asks which vehicle requested clearance to cross a runway.
04:2712 seconds later, Truck 1, the one involved in the crash, contacts the tower again.
04:32It gets cleared to cross.
04:34Now, this is 20 seconds before impact.
04:37The truck reads back the clearance they were just granted, and that's common practice.
04:41Now, we're 17 seconds before the collision.
04:448 seconds later, the tower tells Truck 1 to stop,
04:47just as a sound consistent with a plane landing is heard over the radio.
04:524 seconds later, the tower tells the truck to stop again.
04:554 seconds after that, the fatal crash occurs.
04:58Now, like I said, the NTSB believes it was likely a bunch of different things that went wrong kind of
05:03simultaneously.
05:05Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy shared at least one of the problems.
05:08The truck that crossed, that crossed the runway there, didn't have a transponder,
05:14which is what allows air traffic control to see its precise location on the airfield.
05:18When asked if the truck should have had one, Homendy said this.
05:22That's something we'll determine as part of our investigation.
05:24I will tell you that not having a recommendation, yeah, they should.
05:30Even though we don't have a recommendation, air traffic controllers should know what's in,
05:35you know, before them, whether it's on airport surface or in the airspace.
05:38They should have that information to ensure safety.
05:41Now, that's not an NTSB recommendation, so I want to be clear.
05:45But it could be.
05:46I've got news about a possible breakthrough in shutdown negotiations after this quick break.
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