00:00With just hours left in the original agreement and no peace talks on the books,
00:04President Trump extended the U.S.-Iran ceasefire. His Tuesday afternoon Truth Social post read in
00:09part, quote, we have been asked to hold our attack on the country of Iran until such time
00:14as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal. And he added that
00:18the U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would remain in effect. So now what? It continues
00:24to be a challenge to sort through what's fact and what's posturing or gamesmanship when it comes
00:30to this conflict and the negotiations to end it. But here's something we do know. President Trump
00:35urged Iran to release eight women that the regime is allegedly set to execute as a gesture of good
00:42will toward a peace deal. The mere threat of the executions prompted calls for any future deal to
00:47include humanitarian guarantees. I asked The Post's reporter Georgia Worrell about it.
00:52This tells you absolutely everything you need to know about the current barbarian nature of this
01:00Islamic regime. It's planning to execute these eight women by publicly hanging them, all because
01:07they participated in a series of nationwide protests against the government back in January. I spoke to
01:15an expert who told me exactly what Trump needs to do in this moment when it comes to negotiations
01:21with Iran. And it really starts with demanding those basic rights for Iranian citizens, basic human
01:29rights. Kian Tajbach, who's a Middle Eastern geopolitical scholar, as well as an international relations
01:38professor at NYU, said that restoring some of these things that have been stripped from Iranian citizens,
01:47including their access to Internet, their freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are essential demands
01:55that President Trump must make in any deal negotiations, as well as cracking down on these executions
02:05and keeping political prisoners. This is essential for Iranian citizens' faith in President Trump and the U.S.,
02:16as well as that of Americans.
02:18Connecticut Senator and potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate Chris Murphy is getting
02:23slammed for what critics call a shameful ex-post. In it, he appeared to applaud a disputed report that
02:30dozens of Iranian shadow vessels were able to bypass the U.S. naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.
02:35Senator Murphy reposted a link to a Lloyd's List report claiming 26 vessels got past the U.S.
02:41blockade, and he added to it just one word, quote, awesome. After getting a lot of blowback for the
02:47post, Murphy claimed that he was just being sarcastic. A follow-up reads, quote, okay, Twitter,
02:53I can't believe I need to clarify this, but obviously Trump's bungled mismanagement of this war
02:58is not awesome. As I have said a million times here, it's a disaster, and he should end the war
03:04immediately. My tweet was something called sarcasm. Murphy's a staunch critic of the war, as you can
03:09tell, and has trashed it and the president publicly over the past several weeks. As for that Lloyd's
03:15List report, the Pentagon's chief spokesperson, Sean Parnell, denied the accuracy of it, posting on
03:20X himself. Quote, first of all, this is false. Second, a Dem senator cheering on the number one state
03:26sponsor of terror is shameful. Fed chair hopeful Kevin Warsh got absolutely grilled on Capitol Hill
03:33Tuesday, like a burger at a summer barbecue. The back and forth everyone was expecting, of course,
03:39concerns the independence of the Federal Reserve from the three branches of government, particularly
03:43from the executive branch. Ranking member Elizabeth Warren put it this way in her opening statement.
03:48Trump's economic failures are causing him political problems, and he wants the Fed to use
03:55monetary policies to artificially juice the economy in the short term, and this is his last chance
04:02to do that before the November elections. When he was questioned about it, specifically
04:07about whether President Trump asked him to cut interest rates or instructed him to follow
04:12the president's directions, Warsh said this. He didn't ask for it. He didn't demand it. He
04:17didn't require it. And nor would I have ever done so. Elsewhere in the hearing, Warsh refused
04:21to condemn the government's probes into the man who would be his predecessor, Jerome Powell
04:25or Fed Governor Lisa Cook. North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis reaffirmed his plan to block the
04:30nomination if those probes are not dropped. It's unclear when the committee will vote,
04:35but the clock is ticking. Jerome Powell's term is up on May 15th, and the Senate has yet another
04:40week off between now and then, because why wouldn't they? Now, Powell, for his part, has said that he would
04:46stay on past May 15th if his replacement isn't confirmed. President Trump said he's going to fire
04:51him if that happens. For more on these stories and everything else you could possibly want to know,
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