TOMORROW on The @MegynKellyShow: Vice President @JDVance, author of "Communion" LIVE on The Megyn Kelly Channel @SIRIUSXM 111 at NoonET, and all platforms after. Subscribe: youtube.com/c/MegynKelly?sub… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… open.spotify.com/show/0awxEJ…

JD Vance Addresses Navigation Fees in the Strait of Hormuz! "We are not going to allow a system where ships are charged for transiting the Strait of Hormuz." NBC News anchor asked J.D. Vance about reports of potential navigation fees through the Strait of Hormuz, inquiring: “But these fees for navigation, are those going to exist or is this something that the Iranians are inventing?” Vance responded: “You know, this is one of these things that the Iranians have talked about that we haven’t discussed. Again, we expect access through the Strait of Hormuz to be toll-free. There was at one point a conversation where somebody said, ‘Well, what if a ship breaks down and is it appropriate to charge a service fee if you have to tow a ship?’ That’s a totally different conversation and that may be what the Iranians are talking about. But again, we’ve been quite clear with them that we are not going to allow a system where ships are charged for transiting the Strait of Hormuz. We haven’t seen any push back to that. And again, I’d ask you to judge by the actions and not by the words. It may have been, you know, a random person who was trying to overemphasize the benefits of this agreement to the Iranians. What we’re already seeing is a massive increase in toll-free traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. That’s going to continue in the weeks to come.”

🔥 NEW: Fox’s Ben Domenech: “This President has been the best foreign policy president of my lifetime. I think he has been incredibly bold, used American power to restore our sovereignty, and protect our interests and look out for the American people.” “I think it was a gutsy call for him to go into Iran when he did. He didn’t have to do it but he did and he thought it was the right time. I still think that was the right decision.” “This deal and everything we know about it to the degree it is being spun by this administration: everything about this deal seems bad to me. It all seems like a setback. It doesn’t meet any of the measures the president put out there of his goals for this conflict,” adds @bdomenech to @BretBaier. “At some point the Republican party needs to decide which kind of foreign policy it’s going to have. An American first policy.. or are we going to backslide into being some kind of ‘hillbilly Obama’ kind of GOP? That’s not something that is acceptable to me and it shouldn’t be acceptable to Republicans or any conservative who is interested in the success of America.”

Obama’s Iran theory: diplomacy, inspections, sanctions relief, reintegration. Vance’s Iran theory: performance, verification, sanctions relief, reintegration. Same premise: the Iranian regime is a normalization problem — a regime that can be pulled into legitimate state behavior if the incentives are right. But the regime doesn’t want legitimacy on our terms. It wants the benefits of legitimacy while keeping the leverage of terrorism, proxies, missiles, and nuclear pressure. The conservative answer is the reverse: break the leverage, then impose the terms. That is what “we win, they lose” means.

President Trump says “the story that the US is paying Iran $300 million dollars is Fake News, put out by the Dumocrats.”

Vice President Vance says Iran will not receive a single U.S. taxpayer dollar, arguing any future economic benefits depend on abandoning its nuclear ambitions: First of all, they never get a dime of American taxpayer money—ever. Full stop. Not even close. What we have said is that there is a lot of economic benefit in the United States relieving sanctions and welcoming them back into the world economy. There is a lot of prosperity that can come from that. It’s not American money, but there are economic opportunities that can follow. What the president has said to them is this: we want you to be a successful country. But for you to be successful, you have to give up this threat. You have to give up the desire to obtain a nuclear weapon. And if you do that, the United States is willing to have a much better relationship.”

Copy of the document to be signed by the United States and Iran 1. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States, together with their allies in the current war, declare upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, and undertake that from now on they will not launch any hostile action against each other, and will refrain from the threat or use of force against each other. The final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article and the remaining Articles. 2. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs. 3. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to negotiate and reach a final agreement within a maximum period of 60 days, extendable by mutual consent. 4. Immediately upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, the United States Lift the naval blockade and prevent any interference or obstruction against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and restore traffic within a maximum of 30 days to its full capacity; the traffic of ships shall be proportional to the pre-war volume of traffic on the part of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States also undertakes to withdraw its forces from the surrounding areas within 30 days after the final agreement. 5. Upon signing this Memorandum of Understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately take steps to ensure that the movement of merchant ships from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of ​​Oman and vice versa is resumed within 30 days to the pre-war volume, taking into account the need for the removal of technical obstacles and the neutralization of mines by Iran. 6. The United States undertakes, together with its regional partners, to create a comprehensive plan agreed upon by both parties for the rehabilitation and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran, While ensuring financing of at least $300 billion. The implementation mechanism of this plan, as part of the final agreement, will be formulated within 60 days. 7. The United States commits to ending, on a schedule to be agreed upon as part of the final agreement, all types of sanctions currently facing the Islamic Republic of Iran, including resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and all unilateral U.S. sanctions, both primary and secondary. 8. The Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates that it will never produce nuclear weapons. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States have agreed that the fate of enriched material and the fate of all other mutually agreed nuclear-related issues, including Iran’s nuclear needs, will be adequately addressed in a final agreement; the final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article. 9. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States agree that, pending a final agreement, they will maintain the status quo: Iran will maintain the status quo on its nuclear program, and the United States will not impose new sanctions on Iran or strengthen its forces in the region. 10. The United States undertakes that immediately after the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, and until the date of the lifting of sanctions, the United States Treasury Department will issue waivers for exports of Iranian crude oil, petrochemical products and their derivatives, and all related services, including banking, insurance, transportation, and the like. 11. The United States undertakes that, in light of the progress of negotiations towards a final agreement, frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran will be released and made fully available. These funds, whether held in the master account or transferred, will be used for any final beneficiary payment determined by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran

🚨 JUST IN: Iran did NOT GET what they wanted in President Trump's strong Iran deal — the US is NOT leaving the region, and Iran is getting $0 in unfrozen assets unless they comply The Strait of Hormuz is set to OPEN fully on FRIDAY 👏🏻 "They wanted US forces to leave the Middle East and abandon all bases. That's not going to happen...even if there is a drawdown of the military, there will still be thousands of forces prepared." "There is this economic leverage, they won't get sanctions relief they want and need if the US doesn't get everything they want." @TreyYingst

"If the Iranians are behaving like a normal country and if they make their country investable, then the Gulf Arab states may decide to invest in that country...Not a single dime of that money comes from the United States." — VP Vance🇺🇸

Vance tells @jaketapper the memorandum of understanding is only "about a page and a half" The VP calls it "a very general document" adding that "on a number of issues we are going to have to figure this stuff out during the technical negotiation phase"

🇺🇸🇮🇷☢️The source said the MOU says the U.S. and Iran commit to "resolve the disposition of stockpiled enriched material" and "discuss the issue of future enrichment and other mutually agreed matters related to Iran's nuclear needs based on a satisfactory framework being agreed upon in the final deal״ 🇺🇸🇮🇷☢️The text says Iran will maintain the status quo of its nuclear program so long as negotiations continue. For its part, the U.S. won't impose new sanctions or deploy additional forces to the region 🇺🇸🇮🇷☢️If a final nuclear deal is reached, the U.S. will remove the forces it mobilized for the war within 30 days and terminate all sanctions against Iran under an agreed-upon schedule, according to the source's description of the text