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以色列空袭黎巴嫩南部卡纳里特村造成四名妇女死亡，6月21日村民为四名遇难者举行葬礼。 （路透社）

以色列媒体称，以色列正在考虑从黎巴嫩南部“小规模撤军”。

新华社引述以色列第12频道电视台网站星期天（6月21日）晚报道称，以色列政治高层和安全系统在过去24小时举行了一系列磋商，以色列与美国也在“各个层级”进行沟通。

报道引述知情高级官员的话说，以方目前尚未收到任何美方要求以军撤出黎巴嫩南部的请求，但以方正在研究从一些位于“黄线”以外、目前由以军控制的区域实施“小规模撤离”。

报道还提及，随着美国不断施压，以军从黎巴嫩南部撤军的可能性正在上升，但以色列方面强调，继续留在“黄线”以内是以方“底线”。

第12频道电视台此前报道，黎巴嫩南部“黄线”指沿以黎临时边界向黎巴嫩一侧延伸约10公里、由以军控制的带状“防御区域”，也是以方所称的“安全缓冲区”。

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黎巴嫩成首要议题 万斯称美伊谈判取得进展
以黎停火后又互攻 伊朗再封霍尔木兹海峡

以色列媒体20日报道，以总理和国防部长指示以军在黎巴嫩停火，但以军未撤出其在黎南部控制的地区。

以总理内坦亚胡重申“只要有必要”，以军会一直驻留在黎南部。据以色列国防军21日发表的声明，以军总参谋长扎米尔当天在黎巴嫩南部与以军指挥官会面时称，以军在黎巴嫩的军事行动仍在继续。

美伊代表团21日在瑞士卢塞恩湖畔比尔根山举行谈判之际，美国总统特朗普又在社媒平台贴文，要伊朗立即停止黎巴嫩代理人（意指真主党）的行动。他恫言：“如果它们不停手，我们将再次狠狠打击伊朗。就像上周那样，而且会更猛烈！”

伊朗谈判代表团在特朗普再次发出威胁言论后，突然暂停与美方的谈判，担任伊朗首席谈判代表的伊朗议会议长卡利巴夫警告说：“他们最好说话当心点，我们的武装力量已经准备好以另一种方式回应他们。”

针对这一事件，黎巴嫩“广场”电视台报道，伊朗的回应很明确，除非特朗普就他的威胁言论道歉，并且以色列军队撤出黎巴嫩南部，否则伊朗代表团不会重返谈判桌。

Serena Williams returns to singles tennis at Wimbledon after accepting wild card invitation

June 21, 2026 3:52 PM EDT / AP

Serena Williams will play singles at Wimbledon after accepting a wild card invitation, the All England Club announced Sunday.

The move comes after the 44-year-old Williams recently returned to competition in doubles after nearly four years away from professional tennis.

And it means that Williams will play both singles and doubles at Wimbledon after already accepting a wild card for the doubles competition with older sister Venus.

Serena’s last singles match was a loss to Ajla Tomljanovic in the third round of the 2022 U.S. Open. At the time, she said she didn’t want to use the word “retiring” and instead declared that she was “evolving” away from tennis.

Serena has won 23 Grand Slam titles in singles, including seven at Wimbledon. She’s also won 14 Grand Slams in doubles, all with Venus, and six of them at Wimbledon.

Wimbledon starts June 29.

Serena won a doubles match with partner Victoria Mboko at Queen’s Club last week but then the pair had to withdraw after Mboko injured her knee in a singles match.

In another doubles match at the Berlin Open on Tuesday, Serena and partner Karolina Muchova were beaten by Giuliana Olmos and Erin Routliffe.

Pilot reports passenger bit a fellow flyer on plane approaching Philadelphia: “He’s trying to fight everybody”

2026-06-21T12:09:00-0400 / CBS News

By Emily Mae Czachor News Editor

Updated on: June 21, 2026 / 2:47 PM EDT / CBS News

An unruly passenger apparently bit a fellow flyer on an American Airlines flight as it approached Philadelphia on Sunday, according to the pilot of the plane.

The passenger also seemed to become generally combative, with the pilot reporting that the individual on board was “trying to fight everybody” in air traffic control audio reviewed by CBS News.

“I don’t know … if he’s hallucinating or whatever, but he just bit a passenger and he’s trying to fight everybody,” the pilot is heard telling a controller in that audio recording, adding, “What a day, huh.”

The pilot also requested that an emergency medical crew and law enforcement meet the plane upon its arrival at Philadelphia International Airport, “just as a precaution.”

American Airlines said the passenger was experiencing a medical emergency, and that a medical professional on board “assisted the customer” before the flight landed. Medical personnel met the passenger, American Airlines said. The airline did not say if police were present when the plane landed.

The flight, which left Charlotte, North Carolina, earlier in the morning, landed just before 10 a.m. ET, according to the tracking site FlightAware.

The brief exchange between the pilot and controller ended with both of them laughing. When the controller wished the pilot a happy Father’s Day, he replied: “I’ll be sure to tell my daughters about this one.”

There have been a handful of incidents involving rowdy airline passengers in the last few weeks, including one in which a former professional MMA fighter took it upon himself to restrain a flyer who allegedly attempted to open an exit door on their Frontier Airlines plane mid-flight. The flight, originally headed to Chicago O’Hare Airport from San Juan, Puerto Rico, was diverted to Miami, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement, citing a “passenger disturbance.”

Only a few weeks earlier, the crew of a United Airlines flight from New Jersey’s Newark Airport made an emergency landing in Washington, D.C., after a passenger allegedly tried opening a door while the plane was flying at 36,000 feet. The plane, bound for Guatemala City, landed safely in the capital, United told CBS News at the time.

In a separate instance, another United flight from Chicago to Minneapolis-St. Paul was diverted to Madison, Wisconsin, after a 75-year-old man suffered what authorities and the airline described as a “mental health crisis” that created a “security concern” on board. The FBI told CBS News that federal officers had opened an investigation.

Transcript: GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” June 21, 2026

2026-06-21T12:01:26-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on June 21, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who joins us from Seneca. Good morning to you, Senator.

SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM

Good morning. Good morning.

MARGARET BRENNAN

There’s a lot that still hasn’t been figured out here in this deal, but you wrote nine days ago the idea of a US plan with partners to create a fund of at least $300 billion- this is point six in the memorandum- is “tone deaf,” and it’s “akin to a Marshall Plan for Germany with the Nazis still in charge.” Why did you change your position–

SEN. GRAHAM

It would be–

MARGARET BRENNAN

–and now you support it?

SEN. GRAHAM

Because before, I thought the money was coming from the West. If the West funds Iran, I think that would be a Marshall Plan with a Nazi still in charge for Germany. If the plan envisions–

MARGARET BRENNAN

You’re okay if it doesn’t come from the U.S.?

SEN. GRAHAM

–the Sunni Arabs- yeah, if the Sunni Arabs do it. Can you imagine if Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates invest $300 billion in Iran? That would tell me that Iran has changed. To all the experts out there, do you think Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates are going to invest in Iran, with a theocracy bent on destroying Sunni Islam? So, think- think it through. If the money comes from the Sunni Arab world, I hope it happens. It would mean that the Sunni Arabs believe that Iran has changed to the point they want to be a business partner. I pray that happens. I doubt if it will.

MARGARET BRENNAN

You doubt if it will. Well, I want to ask you about some of the criticism of the agreement from your fellow Republican colleagues. Take a listen.

[START SOUND ON TAPE]

SENATOR TED CRUZ

If we give billions of dollars to Iran, that money will be used to murder Americans, and so I don’t believe we should do that.

SENATOR JOHN CORNYN

They’ll use the money that is being released to rebuild their- their ballistic missile arsenal and begin to enrich again, and that’s going to be a continuing danger.

SENATOR TOM COTTON

That money, Brooke, we know is not going to go to build new hospitals or daycares, it’s going to go to replenish their drone stockpiles, their missiles to support terrorists like Hezbollah and Hamas.

SENATOR BILL CASSIDY

We have 13 Americans dead. We spent anywhere from $25 to $100 billion in munitions and it turns out we’ve lost the credible threat of attacking them again. So, there’s a lot of stuff in there that’s bad.

[END SOUND ON TAPE]

MARGARET BRENNAN

All of those Republicans are seriously doubting the president here, Senator Graham. Do you agree with their concerns?

SEN. GRAHAM

No, I don’t. We’re not giving any money to Iran that can change the course of history to try diplomacy. Is the MOU problematic? Yeah. I’d rather try diplomacy than take it off the table. The money Iran gets is not going to change the future of Iran. It’s not enough to reconstruct the country. If you don’t have a diplomatic path through the MOU, then you have to go to war or some other form of coercion. Let’s try this. Let’s try a diplomatic solution. I think it’s going to fail. What happens next? I spent four-and-a-half hours with President Trump, Friday. Here’s what I think will happen next. If this deal fails, President Trump is going to take the Strait of Hormuz over by force. The United States will control the Strait of Hormuz. We’ll charge a fee for all those who go through- through to pay for the operation, and we’re going to expand the Abraham Accords in calendar year 2026. We’re going to get Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords, and- which is the biggest change in 5,000 years in the Mideast. And if Iran contests control of the Strait of Hormuz by the United States, we will obliterate them. So, to all the people listening, if this diplomatic effort fails, President Trump is going to take the Strait of Hormuz.

MARGARET BRENNAN

Yeah.

SEN. GRAHAM

We’re going to run it. We’re going to try to get Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords to end the Arab-Israeli conflict in 2026, and if Iran continues to attack Israel and Lebanon, the new policy will be, we’ll hit Iran. So, to the Iranians, if you’re listening, when you use Hezbollah to attack Israel, I think the new policy will be, we will attack Iran.

MARGARET BRENNAN

You have just laid out how you could turn what you think is a flawed document into an opportunity, but you’re also suggesting there that you can get Benjamin Netanyahu, or whoever is the next Prime Minister of Israel, to recognize the Palestinian state, which is the price of normalization with Saudi Arabia. How could you do that on the brink of an election?

SEN. GRAHAM

Well, for about two years, Margaret, in case you missed this, I went to Riyadh and Jerusalem, working on normalization with President Biden.

MARGARET BRENNAN

Yes.

SEN. GRAHAM

We were going to announce a framework to have Saudi join the Abraham Accords, and- at the end of October in 2023. Iran attacked on October 7. That created a real problem. The Arab world is very upset about Gaza, and everybody in Israel is very upset about October 7, but we’re going to pick up where we left off. And Donald Trump is going to empower me and others to jump-start what we- an effort to get Saudi to join Israel. There will be accommodations made by Saudi and Israel. To Saudi and Israel, you have no better friend than Donald Trump. To Bibi, Donald Trump stood by you when other people wouldn’t. I’m not asking you to do anything to jeopardize the future of Israel’s security, but I am asking you to be open to expanding the Abraham Accords and finding a solution to Palestinians that are good for Israel, and quite frankly, good for the world. To the- to Saudi Arabia, now is the time to open negotiations yet again–

MARGARET BRENNAN

Yeah.

SEN. GRAHAM

–for you to expand the Abraham Accords, for you to join. I think this is going to happen in 2026–

MARGARET BRENNAN

Wow.

SEN. GRAHAM

–and it can’t happen until Iran’s in a box. If we get a deal, if we get a deal, Iran will be in a box. If we don’t get a deal–

MARGARET BRENNAN

Yeah.

SEN. GRAHAM

–Iran will be in a box. To Lebanon, to the people in Lebanon, help is on the way. Hezbollah has been terrorizing your country for–

MARGARET BRENNAN

Yes.

SEN. GRAHAM

–a long time. That’s about to end.

MARGARET BRENNAN

Senator, I have other questions I need to get to based on your responsibilities in the Judiciary- in the Judiciary Committee. President Trump appeared to sabotage his own nominee, Jay Clayton, who was going to be the nominee with a confirmation hearing last week to run the Director of National Intelligence. He told him not to show up at his hearing, so that left Bill Pulte, this controversial head of the Federal Housing Agency, who has no prior intelligence background or security clearance, in charge. Are you comfortable with giving Pulte the keys to the 18 agencies?

SEN. GRAHAM

I think what we had in place should happen. I think Clayton should be the new DNI. President Trump was told that Democrats were not going to support FISA reauthorization, and he got mad and pulled out of the agreement. They will. Mark Warner told me that there are enough votes to get FISA reauthorized, and I would urge President Trump to let Clayton testify. And if we nominate Clayton and get him affirmed as the new DNI, we don’t want FISA to go dark. There’s too many threats to our country for 702 to go down. Anybody who owns the shutting down of 702 under FISA will own a future attack against the United States. We’re playing with fire here.

MARGARET BRENNAN

Did you- you said you spent time with President Trump this past week? Did he say to you that he will do what you just laid out?

SEN. GRAHAM

I’ll- I’ll let- I’ll let him speak for himself. But I told him that any Democrat that shuts down FISA at a time of great peril for the United States is making a huge mistake. The same would be true of the Trump administration. We need FISA up and running. So, here’s what I hope will happen: that Clayton will appear before the committee, we’ll get him confirmed, and we’ll get FISA reauthorized, as the original plan was. I think the Democratic votes are there. We’re playing with fire here, no matter what side does it.

MARGARET BRENNAN

Yeah.

SEN. GRAHAM

America needs FISA up and running.

MARGARET BRENNAN

Well, this- you’re talking about the surveillance tool that allows for foreigners of concern abroad to be–

SEN. GRAHAM

Yeah.

MARGARET BRENNAN

–monitored there.

SEN. GRAHAM

Yeah. Yes.

MARGARET BRENNAN

Bill- Bill Pulte–

SEN. GRAHAM

Yeah.

MARGARET BRENNAN

–went after the president’s perceived political enemies and is accused of using private mortgage data and weaponizing it. Mark Warner told us on this program last week, because he’s so ignorant, he could do damage. He’s on the job right now. Is he a risk?

SEN. GRAHAM

I’m fine right now, but I won’t be fine much longer if we don’t get FISA up and running, and I think Clayton’s the perfect pick.

MARGARET BRENNAN

Okay.

SEN. GRAHAM

Clayton has got the confidence of both sides.

MARGARET BRENNAN

Yeah.

SEN. GRAHAM

Let’s get him in a job that really matters. And I thought it was an outstanding–

MARGARET BRENNAN

Okay.

SEN. GRAHAM

–choice by President Trump and let’s get this–

MARGARET BRENNAN

Okay.

SEN. GRAHAM

–back on track. We can’t, you know–

MARGARET BRENNAN

Yeah.

SEN. GRAHAM

–we gotta, we gotta–

MARGARET BRENNAN

Yeah, I gotta–

SEN. GRAHAM

–realize that their people want to blow us all up and kill us and they’re coming if–

MARGARET BRENNAN

I gotta wrap this.

SEN. GRAHAM

–we don’t stop them.

MARGARET BRENNAN

Okay.

SEN. GRAHAM

And if we don’t get Iran in a box, we’re in trouble. So, let’s do it.

MARGARET BRENNAN

Senator–

SEN. GRAHAM

Let’s stop talking and get it done.

MARGARET BRENNAN

Senator Graham, thank you very much. Got to go to a break. We’ll be right back.

Transcript: Democratic Rep. Jason Crow on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” June 21, 2026

2026-06-21T12:27:17-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on June 21, 2026.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to Face the Nation. We go now to Colorado Democratic Congressman Jason Crow. Happy Father’s Day to you.

REPRESENTATIVE JASON CROW (D-CO): Thanks, Margaret.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Congressman, you’re on Armed Services and you’re on the Intelligence Committee, so I want to get to some of your responsibilities here, particularly on the Intel front. We were just speaking with Senator Graham about what’s happening at the top of the Office of National Intelligence and the lapse of the surveillance authority. Right now, Bill Pulte is the acting Director of National Intelligence. He is someone who has been accused of using mortgage information to go after the president’s political enemies. I know that’s under investigation currently by the GAO, but the fact that he’s in the role right now, what harm can be done, if any? And do Democrats have any power to stop that?

REP. CROW: Well, I’m obviously concerned that this is somebody who’s a political attack dog, and his single biggest qualification is that he’s loyal to Donald Trump and is willing to go after Donald Trump’s enemies. But my more immediate concern is the fact that this is a really important position. This sits atop our intelligence agencies. And by law Congress mandated this person have significant intelligence experience because they have to make sure that we’re keeping Americans safe, which is not what Bill Pulte is capable of doing. So, I’m just more worried day to day that Americans are at risk because we have someone who’s incompetent at the head of this agency.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But will Democrats actually still reauthorize FISA. You heard Senator Graham again link the two issues here and said that’s really the bigger risk, the lapse of this key surveillance authority. I know when this was up for a vote in front of the House, you were proud of having voted against reauthoriza- reauthorization of this surveillance tool. Do you think your party miscalculated here?

REP. CROW: Yeah, no, not at all. I mean, I’ve always voted for FISA before. I’m on the intelligence committee, I know how important it is, but I’m unwilling to trade Americans’ constitutional rights, privacy, and essential civil liberties for temporary extension to this program. I’m just unwilling to do it. Right, that’s what this administration is asking us to do. They say, give up your constitutional rights, give up Americans’ rights and privacy, and we’ll just make sure we keep you protected. I mean, that’s what autocracies say. I’m not going to do that. I’m willing to have a discussion about what checks we need to put in place. A short-term extension, I’m not going to give them a three-year runway on this program. What about this administration would give us confidence that they’re going to follow the law? Short term extensions, then we can talk.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But the chair of the Intelligence Committee, in terms of the Democratic leadership there, Jim Himes said he hadn’t seen violations. You’re saying that the Trump administration is doing that? I mean, you’re disagreeing with your own Democratic leadership.

REP. CROW: No, I’m not disagreeing with Jim. Jim and I talk frequently, and we’re aligned on this. There are- there are public reports, many public reports of potentially thousands of violations, and to be more specific, these public reports allege that the Trump administration is using a filtering tool, again this is all public, a filtering tool to bypass the checks and the warrant requirements that would normally be in place to prevent the violation of privacy rights and civil rights of Americans. Now we’ve gone to the Trump administration and said, tell us this is wrong, show us why this is wrong, and if we have confidence, then we can kind of move forward to figure out what we need to do. They have not responded to us at all. So, why would we sit here with no response, all of these allegations, numerous public reports of violations, and just vote blindly to extend this program? It would be absurd for us to do that–

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well–

REP. CROW: –and you know we have the trust of our constituents and Americans, and we’re not going to violate that trust.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, on the Senate side, where the fight currently is, Senator Warner said he thinks Trump wants the expiration of this surveillance tool to stay, because he could then blame Democrats if some sort of attack happened here. So, what do you make of that? And what will it take for you to reauthorize FISA? Because it does- I don’t hear a solution from what you just said.

REP. JASON CROW: Yeah, well, first of all, I agree with Senator Warner. I don’t think Donald Trump cares about Americans’ national security and safety. I think he has shown very clearly over the years his willingness to weaponize national defense, the military, the intelligence community, the Department of Justice against his enemies to score political points at the jeopardy of American citizens. I mean, hell, the guy tried to put me in prison back in February, simply because I told soldiers that they have to follow the law and obey the- obey their oaths, so that that is true. What we need to do is we need very specific guarantees from this administration. I want the facts: are they violating the law, are they skirting around the requirement? Number one, number two, additional safeguards. The last time we authorized this program, we put 55 additional safeguards in place. We’ve learned between now and then there are more safeguards that are necessary.

MARGARET BRENNAN: This all takes time.

REP. JASON CROW: And number three, a shorter term extension, a shorter term extension. No, it wouldn’t take that much time. In a matter of days, they could give us that information, we could figure that out, we could vote on something that we could get it done.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you, because there was other news this week on the Armed Services Committee. Secretary Hegseth announced the U.S. is going to conduct a six month review of U.S. force posture in Europe. He threatened to cut American dues to NATO if European nations don’t boost military spending. He said NATO reluctance to assist in the American strikes on Iran seem to be linked here to a potential reduction of U.S. forces in Europe. Have you received any information on what this means, where the troops would be pulled from? What does this look like?

REP. JASON CROW: Well, this administration is going to have a heck of a time in front of the bipartisan Armed Services Committee, which, in an overwhelming bipartisan manner, has said very clearly no troop withdrawals or changes from Europe unless they come to the committee and explain why that’s in our national security interests. Over and over, we’ve done that, and we just did that last month when we marked up the annual defense budget, so they haven’t come to us, they haven’t given us any, any of those details. I’m not presumptively against troop changes, but what I am against troop changes is when they’re not tied to our national security, you know? If they want to move troops around Europe, fine, let’s have that discussion, but pulling them out of Europe would actually be detrimental to Americans.

MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about Iran. The delegation that arrived in Switzerland was on board a plane that had painted on the side the word “Minab 168” that’s a reference to the bombing that killed 168 people, most of them school children. The U.S. military is still investigating, but what can you tell us about American culpability and that probe?

REP. JASON CROW: Yeah, unfortunately not very much. I’ve been pushing extremely hard, CENTCOM, Central Command Commander Admiral Cooper, and others for facts on this. This could be the large, single largest civilian casualty incident in U.S. military history*. We need facts. We need to make sure that we own up to it, that we take accountability, that we make it right. And you know, as the founder of the Protection of Civilians in Conflict Caucus, I actually have done work for years around protection of civilians and conflict, because my own time at war taught me the devastating effects, not just morally, but to our national security when we kill innocents. We need answers to this. And they’re clearly slow rolling us. Right, this administration has no problem putting, posting videos of strikes, posting videos of operations when they want us to see it, and then when they don’t want us to see it, they slow roll it. That’s clearly what’s happening here. So we’re going to push hard to get answers.

MARGARET BRENNAN: All right, we’ll be tracking it. Jason Crow, Congressman from Colorado. Thank you very much. We’ll be right back.

Editor’s Note: * Crow later said he meant to call the bombing of a school in Iran the largest civilian casualty incident in “modern” military history, not the largest in “U.S.” military history.

Mike Waltz says Iranian officials aren’t “good guys,” but Trump administration is “laser focused” on nuclear program

2026-06-21T13:05:46-0400 / CBS News

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz said the Trump administration is “laser focused” on addressing Iran’s nuclear program in an interview Sunday on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” as the U.S. and Iran hold thorny talks in Switzerland.

Earlier Sunday, Vice President JD Vance and other U.S. officials entered a conference room with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a rare direct meeting between high-level envoys from both countries. Ghalibaf, in particular, is described in some quarters as a hardliner: He helped oversee the creation of Iran’s missile program and allegedly bragged about cracking down on protesters.

“None of these senior members of this genocidal regime are good guys by any means,” Waltz said. “They certainly wouldn’t pass an FBI background check. No one expects that. But, at the end of the day, the administration, our administration, is taking a pragmatic approach.”

Waltz said Sunday the administration’s focus is on preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, in contrast with what he called a “policy drift” in prior U.S. goals with Iran. But he added that “we know the type of people that we’re dealing with,” citing Iran’s deadly crackdown on demonstrations earlier this year and its history of imprisoning American citizens.

In the past, the Trump administration has laid out a more sweeping set of war aims, with President Trump vowing to destroy Iran’s missile program and set the stage for Iranians to overthrow the regime. More recently, however, Mr. Trump has focused specifically on nuclear issues, saying it’s “OK” for Iran to have ballistic missiles and he isn’t vying for “regime change.”

On the U.S. side, Waltz confirmed that “technical experts” from the Department of Energy are involved in the negotiations, and will help address the “nitty gritty details” of the fate of Iran’s nuclear program, including its stockpile of highly enriched uranium.

The exact structure of a potential U.S.-Iran nuclear deal remains unclear. The two sides signed a memorandum of understanding last week that said they “agreed to resolve the disposition of stockpiled enriched material,” with downblending the material cited as the “minimum” outcome. But the document included few specifics, leaving a mountain of issues that will need to be addressed in technical talks over the next 60 days.

Mr. Trump has long said he does not want Iran to enrich uranium — a red line that Iran has frequently rejected. Iran insists its nuclear program is intended for peaceful purposes, and U.S. intelligence agencies found last year that Iran wasn’t actively developing weapons, though it has enriched uranium beyond the level required for most non-military uses.

Waltz told CBS News on Sunday the goal is “Iran not having a nuclear program,” appearing to stick with Mr. Trump’s red line. He said the Trump administration wants the program “permanently destroyed, as opposed to the past, where it was ongoing, and we were basically bribing them to not continue.”

Any deal between the U.S. and Iran, Waltz said, would be “all about verification,” with “no trust” in Iran needed. And in exchange for complying with a deal, Iran could receive “carrots” in the form of sanctions relief.

Some congressional Republicans have criticized the idea of lifting sanctions, warning it could free up cash for Iran to fund its conventional military or financially support regional proxies like Hezbollah. Waltz said Sunday any money that Iran is allowed to collect from oil sales will be “going to places that we can still monitor,” and isn’t going into a “slush fund.”

Rep. Jason Crow says he’s worried “Americans are at risk” with Bill Pulte as acting DNI

June 21, 2026 / 1:46 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — Democratic Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado said on Sunday he’s worried that “Americans are at risk” with Bill Pulte serving as the Trump administration’s intelligence chief.

“I’m just more worried day-to-day that Americans are at risk because we have someone who’s incompetent at the head of this agency,” Crow said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”

President Trump’s pick for acting director of national intelligence, who assumed the role on Friday, has sparked intense pushback in Congress. After Tulsi Gabbard announced in May that she would resign from the post, Mr. Trump said he would install Pulte, a housing finance official, as acting DNI. But Democrats, and some Republicans, questioned the selection due to his lack of national security experience.

The move ultimately prompted Democrats to oppose an extension of a warrantless overseas surveillance program earlier this month. And as Senate GOP leaders tried to bring an end to the impasse by moving to quickly confirm the president’s long-term pick for DNI — Jay Clayton — last week, the president abruptly called for the confirmation hearing to be canceled.

In addition to Pulte’s lack of national security experience, Democrats have railed against the pick for his role in investigations into Mr. Trump’s political foes. Crow, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, said he’s “obviously concerned that this is somebody who’s a political attack dog, and his single biggest qualification is that he’s loyal to Donald Trump and is willing to go after Donald Trump’s enemies.” But he said more immediately, he’s concerned about Americans’ safety.

“This is a really important position. This sits atop our intelligence agencies, and by law, Congress mandated that this person have significant intelligence experience because they have to make sure that we’re keeping Americans safe, which is not what Bill Pulte is capable of doing,” Crow said.

Since Pulte’s selection, Democrats have declined to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which grants intelligence agencies broad authority to spy on overseas targets, causing the legal provision to expire earlier this month. Talks on extending FISA Section 702 were already strained, with some members of both parties pushing for stricter guardrails and arguing the program can scoop up Americans’ communications without a warrant. Intelligence officials say the program is essential to national security.

Asked whether Democrats have miscalculated, Crow said “not at all.”

“I know how important it is, but I’m unwilling to trade Americans’ constitutional rights, privacy and essential civil liberties for temporary extension to this program,” Crow said. “That’s what this administration is asking us to do. They say, ‘give up your constitutional rights, give up Americans’ rights and privacy, and we’ll just make sure we keep you protected.’”

Crow added, “what about this administration would give us confidence that they’re going to follow the law?”

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who also appeared on “Face the Nation” on Sunday, said he thinks Senate Republicans’ plan to confirm Clayton as director of national intelligence, which was poised to end the impasse with Democrats on Section 702, “should happen.”

“I think Clayton should be the new DNI,” he said.

Graham, who said he spent more than four hours with the president on Friday, outlined that Mr. Trump “was told that Democrats were not going to support FISA reauthorization, and he got mad and pulled out of the agreement.”

“They will, Mark Warner told me that there are enough votes to get FISA reauthorized, and I would urge President Trump to let Clayton testify,” Graham said, referring to the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The South Carolina Republicans said he told the president “that any Democrat that shuts down FISA at a time of great peril for the United States is making a huge mistake — the same would be true of the Trump administration.”

“We’re playing with fire here, no matter what side does it,” Graham said. “America needs FISA up and running.”

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Trump’s Iran gamble divides GOP hawks and ‘America First’ conservatives over what victory looks like

June 21, 2026 12:27pm EDT / Fox News

Sen Bill Cassidy called the agreement the ‘worst foreign policy blunder in decades’ on social media

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President Donald Trump may have united Republicans behind military action against Iran, but his push to formalize peace is proving far more divisive.

As details of a memorandum of understanding emerge, GOP hawks are questioning whether the administration gave up too much, while Trump allies argue the president achieved a historic objective that crippled Iran’s military capabilities without dragging the U.S. into another prolonged war.

The disagreement is about more than Iran. It has exposed a growing divide inside the GOP over what Trump’s “America First” foreign policy should look like in practice — and what victory should mean once a military campaign ends.

At its core, the debate centers on competing visions of American power. One camp views military success as leverage to extract maximum concessions from adversaries and secure lasting strategic gains. The other sees it as a tool to neutralize threats and end conflicts before they become another Iraq or Afghanistan. Trump’s Iran agreement has forced those competing philosophies into a rare public collision.

That divide is already playing out among some of the party’s most prominent national security voices.

TOP SENATE REPUBLICAN RIPS INTO TRUMP’S IRAN DEAL, SAYS $300 BILLION MAKES OBAMA DEAL LOOK LIKE ‘A PITTANCE’

The administration’s memorandum of understanding with Tehran has exposed a divide among Republicans over what constitutes victory after the military campaign against Iran.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The deal’s fiercest Republican critics argue Trump is giving away leverage at the very moment Iran is most vulnerable. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., has blasted the agreement on X as the “worst foreign policy blunder in decades,” while Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., has warned it appears “out of step” with the goals of the military campaign.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has questioned the concessions offered to Tehran and former U.N. Ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has criticized proposals that could help rebuild Iran.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has gone even further, calling the agreement a potential “lifeline” for the regime and warning it “smacks of appeasement.”

VANCE SAYS ‘UNITED STATES WINS EITHER WAY’ AS HE DEFENDS TRUMP’S IRAN DEAL AGAINST GOP SKEPTICS

Vice President JD Vance has defended Trump’s Iran agreement as the culmination of a successful military campaign that brought Tehran to the negotiating table from a position of weakness.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump’s allies, however, argue critics are overlooking the sweeping military campaign that preceded the agreement.

Vice President JD Vance and other administration officials contend the president achieved his core objective after U.S. and allied forces struck key Iranian military and nuclear sites, eliminated senior commanders and inflicted significant damage on Tehran’s military infrastructure. Supporters say those operations crippled Iran’s ability to project power, restored deterrence and ultimately brought the regime to the negotiating table without requiring a large-scale deployment of American ground troops.

They argue victory is defined by achieving U.S. objectives and ending the conflict on favorable terms — not by risking another prolonged war in the Middle East.

The clash highlights a foreign policy debate that has been simmering inside the Republican Party for years.

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Supporters argue the agreement locks in military gains, while critics contend it gives Tehran too much after suffering major setbacks.(Fatemeh Bahrami/Getty Images)

While Republicans have largely rallied around Trump’s use of military force against Iran, the disagreement over what comes next reflects a deeper tension inside the party.

For traditional hawks, military victories create opportunities to reshape adversaries and secure lasting concessions. For many America First conservatives, the objective is narrower: neutralize threats, avoid nation-building and keep U.S. troops out of prolonged conflicts.

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As lawmakers and conservative leaders continue debating the memorandum of understanding’s merits, the fight may ultimately be less about the details of the Iran deal than about the future direction of Republican foreign policy — and what victory should mean in the Middle East.

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Iran’s unprecedented ‘whole-regime’ delegation at US deal talks signals one goal: expert

2026-06-21T15:16:23-04:00 / Fox News

Counterterrorism expert says Tehran bypassed a narrow diplomatic team to protect domestic leverage and red lines

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Published June 21, 2026 3:16pm EDT

US-Iran nuclear deal talks begin in Switzerland amid Mideast conflict

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The scope of the Iranian delegation at Switzerland’s first round of technical talks with the United States on Sunday underscored what an analyst described as Tehran’s red-line demand for “immediate cash flow” and significant financial concessions from the get-go.

The team’s arrival at Bürgenstock came within days of a breakthrough memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and after follow-up talks were called off, fueling uncertainty across the region.

“These are the most consequential negotiations America has entered in the Middle East in years. Iran knows that, and it is playing it very well,” counterterrorism expert Dr. Omar Mohammed told Fox News Digital.

“Tehran arrived as if this were the moment to collect,” Mohammed, director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, said.

TRUMP’S IRAN AGREEMENT RAISES A BASIC QUESTION: IS IT ACTUALLY A DEAL?

Tehran sent an unprecedented ‘whole-regime’ team to the U.S. deal talks, which signals one priority, a counterterrorism expert said.(URS FLUEELER/Pool via REUTERS)

Iranian state media also confirmed that Tehran had sent a whole-regime apparatus, led by chief negotiator Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Their team includes top security, legal and financial figures, including Abdolnaser Hemmati, governor of the Central Bank of Iran, leading the economic committee; Ali Bagheri Kani, deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council; Kazem Gharibabadi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister handling legal affairs; as well as senior state oil and energy officials.

Mohammed noted that Iran purposely bypassed a narrow, diplomatic-only team to protect its domestic leverage.

“Iran has not only sent diplomats; it has sent the foreign ministry, the security state, the central bank, legal affairs and oil,” he explained. “This is a whole-regime delegation built around implementation, money, leverage and red lines.”

Araghchi, Mohammed said, is the diplomatic face, while Bagheri Kani brings the Supreme National Security Council into the room, meaning the security establishment is overseeing the process and “protecting the regime’s red lines.”

The inclusion of Iran’s top financial and energy officials also sends the clearest signal of Tehran’s primary objective: immediate cash flow, “energy leverage” and control of maritime operations, the expert said.

TRUMP’S ‘ECONOMIC FURY’ SQUEEZES IRAN — BUT CAN TEHRAN OUTLAST THE PRESSURE?

Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news conference after meeting with representatives from Pakistan and Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 12, 2026. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff listen during the event.(Jacquelyn Martin/Pool/Getty Images)

“Hemmati’s presence on Sunday was one of the clearest signals. You do not send the central bank governor to a symbolic meeting. You send him when the question is money: frozen assets, sanctions relief, banking channels, usable currency and how quickly Iran can turn promises on paper into cash it can actually spend,” Mohammed said.

“The oil official is another major signal. If oil is in the room, Hormuz is in the room. For an American policymaker, that means maritime security and energy leverage.”

Gharibabadi’s presence, Mohammed said, pointed directly to a legal battlefield over verification and language, perhaps designed to ensure Iran can bypass future enforcement.

The U.S. delegation, which includes Vice President JD Vance, is anchored by U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff and former senior White House adviser Jared Kushner.

Vance had indicated that Washington was hopeful it could make progress on both the nuclear issue and the escalating Lebanon ceasefire crisis while in Switzerland.

On Sunday, he said Trump had asked to turn over “a new leaf” to transform the U.S. relationship with Iran and that the talks starting in Switzerland would allow both sides to work to resolve issues.

TRUMP ENVOY WITKOFF AND JARED KUSHNER IN GENEVA FOR CLOSELY WATCHED IRAN NEGOTIATIONS

In this picture obtained from Iran’s ISNA news agency, Mojtaba Khamenei (C), son of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, walks along a street in Tehran on May 31, 2019.(Hamid FOROUTAN / ISNA / AFP via Getty Images)

In contrast, according to Iran International, hardline lawmaker Mahmoud Nabavian read excerpts he described as top-secret letters from Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Iranian state TV.

He alleged the leader opposed nuclear talks, demanded compensation from Washington and insisted on Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz before the live program was cut.

Now, the differing composition of the two teams underscores the starkly different approaches both nations are bringing to the table, Mohammed said.

“Iran is not only negotiating substance, but negotiating the terms under which it can later avoid pressure,” Mohammed warned. “If the money comes first and the concessions come later, Tehran will not interpret that as compromise. It will interpret it as victory.”

“If Washington gives Iran cash, oil access and legal protection while Iran keeps Hormuz, proxies, missiles and nuclear options alive, then America has not bought peace. It has financed Iran’s next phase,” Mohammed suggested.

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“This delegation is not designed to end Iran’s leverage. It is designed to collect the benefits of the pause, preserve the regime’s pressure points and carry them into the next round.”

On Sunday, talks between Iran and the U.S. were paused but not ended, Reuters reported.

Emma Bussey is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked at The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, across desks including foreign, politics, news, sport and culture.