Fox's Martha MacCallum on potential Iran peace deal: “It doesn't feel like we're any closer than we were before”
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From the May 28, 2026, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier
BRET BAIER (CHIEF POLITICAL ANCHOR): A lot of talk, Martha, about this potential deal. The president talked to Lara Trump in an interview that will air this weekend about what the red lines are. Take a listen.
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LARA TRUMP (FOX HOST): Is there a line that they would cross for you to go on the offensive again militarily?
DONALD TRUMP: Well, a deal that wasn't going to be good for us is a line, ultimately. Because, you know, I'm playing it out and we're going to see and that's what I do. I negotiate, they negotiate. They're very good negotiators. The mistakes have been made in wars where you wipe out everybody and then you have a country that's, you know, for 40 years can never rebuild.
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So we've seen this back and forth. This seems further down the road than others have been.
MARTHA MACCALLUM (FOX NEWS ANCHOR): Yeah. I think it's very interesting what he said there. They're good negotiators. He always, as a dealmaker, is trying to sort of put a hand out on the one side of the equation to encourage them to make some kind of deal that he can live with, which would clearly mean opening that strait, not controlling it. On the other side of the equation, you've got Iran continuing to say basically exactly the same thing they've always said. That they have a sovereign right to enrich uranium and that they plan to control the strait. So, it doesn't feel like we're any closer than we were before.