Commander Reed Weissman, Pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen lead the Artemis II moon mission, while Vice President JD Vance negotiates with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz and uranium stockpile amidst President Trump's claims of military victory. Caller David praises the Orion capsule's Mach 33 re-entry as a triumph of cooperation, contrasting it with Democratic obstruction, whereas caller Lester alleges the conflict distracts from the Epstein file. Ultimately, the broadcast highlights tensions between diplomatic efforts, technological milestones, and domestic political distractions. [Automatically generated summary]
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Trump's Negotiation Update00:06:47
Distance from planet Earth.
Humans have really never seen anything quite like what you're doing in a manned spacecraft.
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And I also want to thank the entire amazing team at NASA.
Artemis II is setting the groundwork for future moon missions.
That's all the time we have for this episode.
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Coming up, it's the last day of the annual National Action Network Convention in New York City.
In a few minutes, we plan to have coverage of Al Sharpton and his conversation with Kentucky Democratic Governor Andy Bashar.
Until that gets underway, here's a portion from this morning's Washington Journal.
This morning in Islamabad, as a fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran seems to be taking hold, negotiators there seek to make progress on ending the six-week war.
Two points of contention is opening the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's uranium stockpile.
Yesterday leaving the U.S., Vice President JD Vance said the president had given clear guidelines when it comes to negotiations and issued a warning to Iran.
Take a listen.
Hey guys, good morning.
Thanks for coming.
Look, we're looking forward to the negotiation.
I think it's going to be positive.
We'll of course see.
As the President of the United States said, if the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith, we're certainly willing to extend the open hand.
If they're going to try to play us, then they're going to find that the negotiating team is not that receptive.
So we're going to try to have a positive negotiation.
The president has given us some pretty clear guidelines, and we're going to see.
So I hope you guys have a safe flight.
We'll certainly take some questions later on.
But for now, let's get on the plane and hit the road.
That was Vice President JD Vance leaving the U.S. yesterday at JBA.
We haven't yet seen him today, though we know that he's made it to his hotel at the beginning of those talks.
Just a little bit more on his role, though.
I turn to a New York Times article.
The headline here is Vance faces a high-profile test of his negotiating skills with Iran talks.
It starts with the fact that JD Vance privately warned President Trump of the cost of a full-scale U.S. war with Iran.
He is now leading the charge weeks later to negotiate an end to the biggest foreign policy crisis that the president has faced during his time in office.
The stakes here, the New York Times goes on to write, are enormous for Mr. Trump and for Mr. Vance, whose high-profile assignments from Trump have involved domestic politics most recently as the president's frauds are.
Before the war began, the Vice President was planning to be heavily focused on traveling the country ahead of the midterm elections, counteracting widespread concerns over the cost of living and affordability by attacking Democrats as out of touch and politically extreme.
The war has upended that message.
An Iranian blockade around the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil route, has sent energy prices soaring.
So that was the New York Times article previewing the vice president's role in Islamabad today.
Take a listen to President Trump last night when he was asked about negotiations.
What did you tell TV Vance before he left her?
Well, I wish him luck.
He's got a big thing.
I will find out what's going on.
They're militarily defeated.
And now we're going to open up the Gulf with or without them.
But that'll be open.
We're going to be, or the straight as they call it.
And I think it's going to go pretty quickly.
And if it doesn't, we'll be able to finish it off.
One way or the other, it's going well.
The Navy's gone.
The Air Force is gone.
All anti-aircraft is gone.
The leaders are gone.
The whole place is gone.
So we'll see how it turns out.
So it's JD, it's Steve and Jared.
They have a good team, and they meet tomorrow.
We'll see how it all works out.
You're not going to let them hold the straight, are you?
I mean, it's international.
No, we're not going to let that.
It's international order.
If they're doing that, nobody knows if they're doing that, but if they're doing that, we're not going to let that happen.
What would a good deal look like for you?
No nuclear weapon, number one.
You know, I think it's already been regime change, but we never had that as a criteria.
No nuclear weapon.
That's 99% of us.
Straight a horror moves as well.
Yeah, but that'll open up automatically.
Yeah, the answer is yes, but the straight will open up.
If we just left, the straight's going to, otherwise they make no money.
So the straight's going to open.
But what we have is no nuclear weapon, but we'll open the straight anyway.
Don't forget, we don't use the straight.
Other countries use the straight.
So we do have other countries coming up and they'll help out, but we don't use it.
It won't be easy.
It won't be.
I would say this: we will have that open fairly soon.
What's your backup plan?
What's your backup plan?
It's the just a few openings.
You don't need a backup plan.
We have, the military is defeated.
Their military is gone.
They have, you know, we've degraded just about everything.
They have very few missiles.
They have very little manufacturing capability.
We've hit them hard.
Our military is amazing, the job they've done.
Is this a one-and-done talk, or are you open to more talks after this?
I don't know.
I can't tell you.
I have to see what happens tomorrow.
They've been talking for 47 years with other presidents, and we're not doing much talking.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
That was President Trump talking to reporters when leaving from Joint Base Andrews yesterday before a quick trip to Charlottesville, Virginia.
And he obviously is back in D.C. this morning.
Before we go to your top news stories of the week, I want to invite more of our callers who join in on the conversation.
Here are your lines, Republicans.
Your line is 202-748-8001.
Democrats, your line, 202-748-8000.
Independents, your line, 202-748-8002.
Start calling in now with your top news story of the week.
Taking our first call here, David from Gloversville, New York, a Republican.
Good morning, David.
Yeah, good morning.
Artemis Mission Success00:04:20
I think the best story of the week is the Artemis Mission.
It kind of shows you that by working together, what we can accomplish.
And meanwhile, back on Earth, the other side of the aisle continues with Hillary's resist and obstruct strategy.
And that's not working out so good.
Each and every day, sabotaging the United States.
Now, I don't think we were the United States until after the Civil War, but they repeat these false statements to their minions.
I call them minions because they can or won't think for themselves.
They proved that when each and everyone couldn't say that their first priority was to those who elected them, unless you mean the illegals.
To me, they are equivalent to the Tories and the Benedict Arnolds of the Revolutionary War.
David, I want to play a thought from Artemis II since you mentioned it, but I just want to get in one quick question.
What was your favorite part of the mission?
Was it the fly around the moon?
Was it the splashdown?
Was it takeoff?
What did you like the most?
Well to tell you the truth, I was like in grade school and they had brought a TV in so we could watch the landing on the moon the first time.
And I mean it was great.
You know, it was just, you know, I think we were in third grade at the time or something like that.
And, you know, we watched the whole mission and, you know, each step along the way of the Apollo and Gemini's and the, I mean, and then to see that, you know, I love the shuttles, except that they were dangerous.
And this here seems they've actually gone back to almost the Apollos again, you know, the trapezoid or whatever it's called and the way it comes down with the parachutes and it's nice soft landing and the heat shields held up, but they're going to be better heat shields next time.
So yeah, everything they did was great.
All right, David, let me actually go now to NASA officials who spoke after that splash landing last night.
Take a listen here.
Yesterday, Flight Director Jeff Radigan said we had less than a degree of an angle to hit after a quarter of a million miles to the moon.
And their team hit it.
That is not luck.
That is a thousand people doing their jobs.
You all heard the crew's words during the mission.
They were incredibly inspirational.
They carried the torch from Apollo through station and around the far side of the moon.
Their words belong to them.
We'll get to hear from them as soon as they're back here.
But tonight belongs to the team that built the machine that they rode.
We talk a lot about what gets in our way.
The impediment to action is where we find the way to get to action.
What stands in the way becomes the way.
This program faced every obstacle an institution could face.
The team met each one with work, and tonight is the proof that that work needs to continue.
The path to the lunar surface is open, but the work ahead is greater than the work behind us.
It always will be.
53 years ago, humanity left the moon.
This time we returned to stay.
Let us finish what they started.
Let us focus on what was left undone.
Let us not go to plant flags and leave, but to stay.
With firmness in our purpose, with gratitude for the hands who built the machines, and with love for the ones we carry with us.
Welcome home, Integrity.
All right, that was NASA officials talking to reporters in a press conference after the splashdown.
I just want to read you a couple more cool details from this AP article.
The headline here is Artemis II record-breaking journey around the moon ends with dramatic splashdown.
It says the Orion capsule dubbed Integrity made the entire plunge on automatic pilot.
The lunar crews hit the atmosphere traveling Mach 33 or 33 times the speed of sound, a blistering blur not seen since the 1960s and 1970s Apollo.
The tension in mission control mounted as the capsule began, became engulfed in red hot plasma during peak heat and entered the planned communication blackout.
All eyes were on the capsule's life-protecting heat shield that had to withstand thousands of degrees during re-entry.
So that's just some of the details about the splashdown that happened last night for Artemis II.
Mach 33 Re-Entry Heat00:00:51
Lester from Alabama, a Democrat.
Good morning.
Good morning, Jasmine.
How are you?
I'm doing well.
How are you, Lester?
What's your top news story of the week?
The top news story of the week is when Melanie Trump came on TV Wednesday.
I don't know what was her role, but she often, her and Trump is always coming on national TV each and every day, especially Trump.
And every word come out of his mouth, lying to the American people.
We're not stupid.
We see exactly what he is trying to do.
This war that he started, that war was all a distraction to keep us off the Epstein file.