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We have some important developments this afternoon

from Iran to Donald Trump's conversations with reporters

to the fact that the president of the United States

is actively negotiating a possible $10 billion settlement

with the federal government, billions of dollars

that would go directly into his own pockets.

This afternoon, Donald Trump over the past eight hours

had been posting numerous statements about Iran.

Every single time he posted statements about Iran,

something else came out that was seemingly contradictory.

At the same time, we're learning that the Strait of War moves

despite previously claiming that it was open for business

may not actually be open at all.

The ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel

isn't really ceasefire as Israel continues strikes today

in Lebanon from a, quote, defensive posture.

And Trump is on the verge of making a large windfall

of money from the federal government.

Your taxpayer dollar is going directly into his pocket.

I have the latest this Friday evening

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because right now, something that I've noticed

and I've seen throughout the day today

and I've started seeing more and more regularly.

Every reporter in Washington, DC,

has the president's phone number.

Shoot if I wanted it, I could get the president's phone number.

It's been offered to me multiple times.

That's not how reporting in my opinion

should work these days because what happened today

and what we've seen over the past many weeks

is that Donald Trump spends the day calling reporters

and telling them XYZ, a whole host of things

that he wants to see happen.

So today, he spoke to reporters from Axios, from CBS

and elsewhere and told them all these things

about the straight of our moves ceasefire negotiations, et cetera.

Every time he would say something an hour later,

we'd learn that what he says may not actually be fully accurate.

And while that was on full display today

with the straight of our moves and elsewhere.

And so for me, I just want to wait

until all the facts come out and give you all the facts

and give you the full picture.

That's why independence is important.

So make sure to subscribe if you can

to support my work this evening.

Before we get to you run though,

I want to talk about this filing that popped up today.

It's in the filing in the case

between Donald Trump and the IRS.

If you recall several months ago,

Donald Trump sued the IRS

in the Treasury Department seeking $10 billion from them,

$10 billion, your tax payer dollars.

Why?

Well, he wants money in payment

and damages for allegedly releasing his tax information,

his returns to the New York Times illegally.

That's essentially what happened.

Well, Trump wouldn't release it himself.

His returns are leaked.

And now he's suing the IRS and the Treasury Department.

Mind you about 40,000 other people also had their returns

leaked unlawfully.

And so theoretically, they too can sue

for billions of dollars.

That's what the President Trump is saying.

But in this litigation,

there is a filing today that popped up

where the parties ask for an extension of time

to essentially resolve certain matters.

They want a 90-day extension.

Well, why?

Because if you look at under Section A,

there is the second sentence under Section A, quote,

the parties are engaging in discussions

and need time to work through how to ensure

those discussions can take place productively

to avoid protected litigation.

I've written that statement as a lawyer dozens of times.

What that means is that they're negotiating a settlement.

A settlement whereby the President of the United States

will likely get a billion dollar plus windfall

from the federal government.

That is your money that would go directly into his pockets.

Obviously, we don't know what the full amount is.

We don't know what the details are yet.

But they are actively working towards that solution.

And well, it comes as many say,

this is corruption at its finest.

Because what you're seeing is the President

is suing himself essentially.

He controls the IRS.

He controls the Treasury Department.

He controls the Justice Department

that would be presumably defending

the federal government against himself.

And so he's negotiating with Todd Blanche,

who's his former criminal defense attorney

now acting attorney general.

And they're working on a deal

to try to get him billions of dollars in a windfall.

At the same time,

we're learning more about the cease-fire negotiations

with Iran or rather lack thereof.

And I want to walk you through some claims

that were made today.

First, the claim was made that the Strait of War Moose

is open for business.

Trump claimed this, the Iranians claimed this.

But it looks as though that may not be fully accurate.

Because if you look at over the past hour to two hours,

a number of ships tried to pass the Strait of War Moose.

And you see those green and red dots.

But now they're all turning around.

They're all turning around

because there seems to be a bit of a disconnect,

potentially between the Iranian foreign ministry,

the government and the military, the IRGC,

who may not want the reopening of the Strait of War Moose.

But irregardless of all of that,

Iran is saying this evening,

the opening and closing of the Strait of War Moose

does not happen in cyberspace.

Only Iran is the one who determines this.

That's from the far as news agency,

a spokesperson for the foreign ministry told them

in a telegram message.

And so despite Trump claims that we're open for business,

we actually aren't.

We aren't.

And what we're learning that the ceasefire and Lebanon

may also not have been an actual ceasefire.

A U.S. official told Barack Revead

who seems to be a spokesperson in a lot of ways

for the Israelis and the United States.

They all go to him

because he just releases what they say

as though it's the law when reality, it's not.

President ceasefire agreement between Lebanon

and Israel clearly states that Israel

will not carry out any offensive military operations

against Lebanese targets.

But quote, preserves its rights to self-defense

against planned imminent war ongoing attacks.

That's not a ceasefire, right?

I'll just point it out and Barack Revead

should have pointed it out.

It's not a ceasefire because Israel after this statement

already launched a drone strike on Lebanon, right?

Israel has used quote the term self-defense

for many years now to commit atrocities in Gaza, right?

Attacks that weren't in self-defense.

So this statement just gives Israel the ability

to continue strikes in Lebanon.

It's not a full ceasefire we've seen it today already.

We're also learning that Donald Trump is prepared

to give Iran a $20 billion windfall.

Top priority for the Trump administration is ensuring

Iran can't access the stockpile.

About 2,000 kilograms of enriched uranium

beridens underground nuclear facilities.

Iranians, meanwhile, need money.

And so they're actively negotiating

for the United States may release a $20 billion

in sanctioned money to the Iranians.

Now, if that's an issue to you,

well, it was an issue to Donald Trump too

over the last decade.

It was an issue to him when President Obama sent Iran

$1.7 billion.

What the president is proposing now,

potentially behind the scenes,

is a windfall of over $20 billion.

And while things are moving fast,

we don't know what will happen next.

But I do want to end this off tonight

by really emphasizing that reporters

shouldn't take what the president says as though it is law.

There needs to be some new ones in reporting

just because the president calls you

and says that we're going to have a ceasefire tomorrow

doesn't mean that that's actually what's going to happen

and reporting it as such, in my opinion, is irresponsible.

And that's why I'm independent.

That's why you'll never catch me

on the phone chatting with the president every week

even though I could if I wanted to.

That's why I rely on you for support

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Donald Trump is having a rally tonight in Arizona.

We'll see what he has to say.

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