00:00The most recent round of peace talks between the U.S. and Iran so far seems to be a real
00:04boon for
00:05the Islamic Republic, which has critics on both sides of the political aisle scratching their
00:08heads. The Post's Washington reporter, Caitlin Dornbos, filled me in on what's going on.
00:13So Iran can sell its oil to whoever it really wants to now. They have a sanctions waiver until
00:20August 21st, and our reporting indicates that they could make somewhere along the lines of $10
00:26billion in just that two-month period that we're talking about, 60 days during which those sanctions
00:33are waived and the U.S. and Iran are talking about nuclear negotiations and trying to figure out how
00:39to really put an end to all of this mess. So great payday for Iran, strange payday for us. What
00:48do we
00:48actually get out of this deal? Obviously, we have the commitment by Iran to start talking about
00:55the nuclear negotiations. Hopefully, we will see some movement on that front. We also have
01:04some sort of a ceasefire mechanism going on with the Lebanon war. And Marco Rubio, the Secretary of
01:12State and National Security Advisor, he will be meeting today through Thursday with Lebanon and
01:17Israeli officials on how to carry out that ceasefire, how to keep things calm there as tensions continue
01:24to kind of flare in the region. But for now, we're seeing a relative calm, at least in the wake
01:30of
01:31these talks that happened in Switzerland between the U.S. and Iran. Earlier on Monday, Vice President
01:35J.D. Vance briefed reporters on another key development in the talks before leaving to head
01:40home. The Iranians have agreed to invite IAEA inspectors back into their country. That is a major
01:46milestone for the American people and the first step in permanently denuclearizing or permanently
01:53ending a nuclear weapons program in Iran. And that's exactly what we wanted to do. That's exactly
01:59what we asked to happen. But here's the thing. This key agreement kind of changes depending on who
02:04you're listening to. Despite the vice president saying inspectors would be let back in the country,
02:08some reports suggest inspectors have been there since last year's 12-day war between Iran and Israel,
02:14but they have not been allowed to inspect three nuclear facilities bombed by the U.S. on June 21st
02:20of last year. There's believed to have been about 1,000 pounds of enriched uranium buried in that
02:25attack, and Iran has refused to access those sites. Adding to all the confusion of this, a spokesperson
02:31for the country's foreign ministry says that wouldn't change under the new agreement. With vice
02:36president back in the U.S., the technical talks will continue for the rest of this week with President
02:40Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff leading the
02:45American delegation. There's a disturbing new twist in the mystery surrounding the disappearance of
02:51Today Show host Savannah Guthrie's mom, Nancy. One of the ransom notes sent after the 84-year-old
02:56vanished from her Arizona home reportedly included an apology for her death. Investigators still have
03:02no concrete evidence on whether or not Nancy is alive or dead. This February 6th message was sent from
03:07the same IP address as an earlier ransom demand that investigators believed may have come from the
03:13real abductor. That earlier note had demanded $4 million in Bitcoin and claimed Guthrie was, quote,
03:18safe but scared. Now, that message included details about the night she disappeared, helping convince
03:23investigators that it wasn't just a hoax. But days later, the tone changed dramatically. The follow-up
03:29message allegedly apologized for Guthrie's accidental death and appeared to offer the return of her body in
03:36exchange for the money. Now, for me as a reporter, the word accidental really stands out there. Now,
03:41to see whether or not this was legit, investigators reportedly tried a tactic known as tickling the
03:46wire that's sending a small payment to the Bitcoin account linked to the ransom demand in the hopes of
03:51tracking the suspect. The money was never touched. It's been nearly five months since Nancy's February
03:571st vanishing, and of course, no arrests have been made. The Supreme Court has sided with the daughter
04:02of a man shot and killed by a former Los Angeles police officer turned influencer. In a unanimous
04:08decision, the high court cleared the way for a civil rights lawsuit against former LAPD officer
04:12Tony McBride to move forward. So they didn't rule on the facts of the case per se, just that it
04:17can go
04:17forward towards trial. The case stems from a 2020 police shooting in South Los Angeles. Body camera
04:22footage showed Daniel Hernandez approaching the officers while holding a box cutter and ignoring commands to
04:27drop the weapon. McBride let off six shots over the course of about six seconds, but the final two
04:33were fired after Hernandez had fallen to the ground, and that right there is what this case is
04:37all about. The legal fight has centered on whether those last shots were justified and whether McBride
04:42should be shielded from liability under the doctrine of qualified immunity. Lower courts had reached
04:47different conclusions, with a federal appeals court ultimately reviving the case brought by Hernandez's
04:52daughter. Now, the Supreme Court has declined to step in on the former officer's behalf, allowing the lawsuit
04:57to proceed. McBride became well-known online for her shooting videos and gun-centric social media
05:02presence, building a large following while serving as an LAPD officer. The case is expected to return
05:07to federal court, where a jury could eventually decide whether the force used in the shooting
05:11violated Hernandez's constitutional rights. For more on these stories and everything else you could
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