00:00The U.S. military launched what it called self-defense strikes on southern Iran Monday
00:04to, quote, protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces. U.S. Central Command says the
00:09targets included Iranian missile sites that had themselves targeted American warplanes and boats
00:14that it said were laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes came just hours after Iranian
00:18negotiators landed in Qatar for more talks to end the war. Talks President Trump said were, quote,
00:24proceeding nicely. If the negotiation process continues to proceed nicely after these strikes,
00:30the biggest issue remains the same, Iran's nuclear program. The Post's Michael Zenni walked me through
00:35what we know about that part of the latest proposal. The administration has said that the deal is 95%
00:43negotiated, but as with most things in life, the last 5% appear to be the hardest. And the big
00:50thing
00:50that that 5% includes is Iran's nuclear ambition and the fate of that highly enriched uranium,
01:01which President Trump has been very, very clear on must leave Iran one way or the other. And he has
01:10actually been at pains to point out that the deal that he is negotiating that he and his team are
01:21working out will not be a repeat of the JCPOA, which President Obama negotiated with the Brits and the
01:30French and the Chinese and the Europeans. Famously, President Trump said it was one of the worst deals
01:35ever negotiated. It allowed Iran way too much wiggle room on enriching uranium. It also allowed them to
01:43develop their rocketry. And he pulled out of it in his first term. He has mentioned multiple times in
01:51the last several days how bad this deal was. And that is his way, I think, of signaling that he
01:57understands what's at stake here. Now, one of the things that we've been able to ascertain,
02:04and our chief White House correspondent, Steve Nelson has been hard at work on this Memorial Day,
02:10when I'm speaking to you, getting reporting that basically one option that's being floated is that
02:17a third nation, possibly the Chinese or the Pakistanis who are helping us sort of be an
02:25intermediary, could themselves take the highly enriched uranium out of Iran. It's currently buried
02:33under rubble at the bombed out locations of Iran's nuclear site. That would do two things. One,
02:41it would allow the Iranian hardliners to say, we are not handing the uranium over to the Americans.
02:51And it would allow Trump to say their nuclear, Iran's nuclear ambitions are dead.
02:56In addition to the nuclear piece of any deal, there's also the opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
03:02Oil prices dropped 5 percent after President Trump said talks with Iran were progressing,
03:06in his word, nicely. But traders aren't popping the champagne just yet, noting nothing's been
03:11finalized. And then on Monday, President Trump added another wrinkle, making demands of other
03:16Mideast nations. The president says that he told the leaders of six Muslim nations, Saudi Arabia,
03:22Qatar, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey, and Jordan, that it should be mandatory that they normalize relations
03:28with Israel by signing on to the UN-negotiated Abraham Accords. He suggested that it would be
03:33the appropriate way to thank the United States for negotiating peace with Iran and keeping them
03:39from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon. Now, it doesn't seem that this Truth Social post is a deal-breaker,
03:44though, at least not yet. The state of Indiana says that nearly 300 illegal migrants with commercial
03:50driver's licenses were stopped and prosecuted in the Hoosier State in just the past three months.
03:55According to a top aide of Governor Mike Braun, the 283 undocumented drivers were nabbed at truck
04:00weigh stations in the state. That's an average of three per day. Now, the aide didn't specify what laws
04:05had been broken to prompt these arrests in the first place. States like California and New York,
04:10where many of the drivers were licensed, do issue commercial driver's licenses regardless of
04:15citizenship status. While federal regulation requires commercial driver's license holders to be
04:20authorized to work in the U.S., a valid license that's issued by a state that doesn't require
04:25citizenship may not prohibit these illegal migrants from operating a vehicle. It's a little confusing.
04:31Now, for what it's worth, New York announced it did stop doing this back in February after the
04:35Trump administration tightened the rules. Moving forward in Indiana, it's unclear whether the
04:40undocumented drivers are being prosecuted on any state or federal charges or whether or not they've
04:45been handed over to immigration and customs enforcement. At least some of these cases are bound
04:50to be challenged in court. Like I said, the laws are confusing and can be contradictory. But
04:54Indiana's Republican governor says that he remains committed to traffic safety of all stripes,
04:59including a crackdown on illegal migrant drivers. Where is 37-year-old Angel Whitaker? The mom of three
05:07hasn't been seen since mid-April, and cops believe she was murdered by her boyfriend, who they allege
05:12lured her to her death by promising her a new job. Investigators in West Virginia say Donald Pennington
05:18allegedly convinced Whitaker to uproot her life in another state and move 100 miles away for a new
05:23job at an O'Reilly Auto Parts in Bluefield, West Virginia. Now, these two had been in a romantic
05:28relationship since 2018, and when she agreed to move, they started living together. But just a few
05:33months later, her family lost all contact with her, and on May 4th, her sister reported her missing.
05:38Whitaker's family immediately became suspicious of Pennington, telling investigators that the relationship
05:43had soured and Angel had to move into a hotel. The last time anyone saw Angel Whitaker, she'd
05:48allegedly showed up to work intoxicated and was driven home by Pennington, but she was never seen
05:53again. And this is far from the only reason that Pennington is law enforcement's prime suspect. An
05:59ex-girlfriend told investigators that Pennington basically admitted to choking Angel to death and
06:05then allegedly took a photo of Whitaker's dead body with her own phone. The witness claims that she even
06:10went with Pennington to a Lowe's to buy bags of concrete, which he then used to allegedly bury
06:15the body 18 miles away in the town of Bastion, Virginia. Now, cadaver dogs couldn't find the
06:21body at that location, but everything else was enough for police to arrest Pennington and charge
06:25him with murder. For more on these stories and everything else you could possibly want to know,
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