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00:00Let's cross over to Washington for the latest reaction from our correspondent who's at the White House.
00:06Fraser Jackson, we saw a social media post by the U.S. president earlier that was hailing the operation.
00:18Is the U.S. still putting distance between itself and the operation carried out by Israel, or was this done in lockstep?
00:30Well, the United States is saying that the Israelis informed the U.S. government of what they were doing and were kept updated and kept informed of what exactly was taking place.
00:41But they insist that the U.S. was not militarily involved in this.
00:46Now, of course, Iran is not really buying that and said that as Israel's main sponsor, that they will also reap the consequences of this action.
00:54And, of course, you could argue that it's nigh on impossible that there were no American-made munitions used in this attack overnight.
01:03But the U.S. government, for its part, insisting that it was not part of this and that this was a unilateral exercise held by the Israelis.
01:13But the U.S. government will be discussing this very shortly at 11 a.m. Eastern Time.
01:20Donald Trump will be in the Situation Room underneath the West Wing behind me, where he'll be talking to his National Security Council team,
01:28where they will be discussing this situation and likely the next steps forward.
01:31For now, the U.S. says that it is still looking for negotiations with Iran.
01:36They are still looking to get Iran back to the negotiating table to re-talk about this Iranian nuclear deal that the U.S. is trying to get over the line.
01:44Those talks are scheduled to be held in Muscat on Sunday.
01:48And there was talk that Steve Wyckoff, the special envoy who's been leading these negotiations for the U.S.,
01:53would be meeting the Iranian foreign minister.
01:56At the moment, Wyckoff is still planning on going to that meeting, but it remains to be seen whether the Iranians will show up on Sunday.
02:03Remains to be seen.
02:05And so for now, the meeting officially is still on.
02:11For now, officially, yes.
02:13We don't have any words that they will be dropping out of that.
02:16But the president, we will be likely talking to him at some point later on today.
02:20Currently, no official public event on his schedule, but that can change at a dime here at the White House.
02:26So we're hoping to be able to speak to the president at some point today.
02:29But that will be one of the questions that we've put to him as to whether the U.S. will still be sending a team there regardless and therefore leaving the ball in the Iranians' courts.
02:38But the U.S. wants Iran to get back to the negotiating table.
02:42Donald Trump has said that multiple times today on Truth Social.
02:45He said that he gave Iran a 60-day ultimatum to make a deal.
02:49They should have done it.
02:49He said, today is day 61.
02:52I told them what to do.
02:53They just couldn't get there.
02:54Now they have perhaps a second chance.
02:57So he's warning Iran to make a deal before a next wave of Israeli strikes would be, as he called it, even more brutal.
03:06So a kind of strong arming of the Iranians here by the Americans to get them back to the negotiating table.
03:14We'll wait and see whether that tactic works.