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Asked about President Trump saying he’s a lifelong Knicks fan, NY governor Kathy Hochul says she’d like to hear Trump name the 1993 Knicks title team. Impossible to do. Jordan’s Bulls won the title in 1993 beating the Knicks in the eastern finals.

🚨After receiving a briefing from a Senior TRUMP Administration Official on the status of the Iran negotiations (someone in the know & not just speculating), I can tell you the following: -USA IS NOT GIVING IRANIANS MONEY FOR NOTHING. All speculation and propaganda to the contrary is false. Some hardline elements of Iran’s govt (IRGC) have pushed fake stories & propaganda to try to kill this negotiation. -Iran deal is NOT done (95%, but still haggling over some language). No deal being signed today. May be a few more days before this is done. -Iran will NOT get any money or sanctions relief up front. -Iran must turn over nuclear stockpile to get anything. USA position is that failure to meet deal commitments means Iran gets nothing. -Long term USA objective is preventing Iran from having nuclear weapon. -Initial deal point is to re-establish free flow of commerce by reopening Strait of Hormuz. Deal should have 2 phases: Step 1 - Open Strait of Hormuz. Give world economy breathing room. Iran agrees to give up enriched uranium. Step 2 - Get the nuclear material turned over. Only then can Iran get sanctions relief. Bottom line: goal is to make a deal that lowers costs for Americans, calms world energy markets, and guarantees that Iranians cannot have a nuclear weapon over the long term. We aren’t there yet. Iran takes forever to get you a response on even small things. But we are close although it still could be a few days. “If we get what we are demanding, this is going to be a historic deal,” SAO says. SAO sounds prepared to do no deal at all if all Iran will do is a “bad deal.” SAO admits deal could fall apart yet. But if a deal is reached, SAO expects very senior USA admin officials to take part in a signing ceremony of some sort. Iran has agreed in principle to the framework but there are still a couple points USA isn’t satisfied with. 95% done. But literally changing words sometimes requires days in Iran’s system. Haggling over language. But USA feels like we have a commitment on nuclear stockpile and on opening Strait of Hormuz. If IRAN doesn’t deliver on commitments, they get nothing. “Iran’s ability to project power is a lot more limited than it was two months ago,” SAO says. “Their industrial base for building ballistic missiles has been substantially destroyed.”

BREAKING: Iran's Ghalibaf fully rejects Pakistani Army Chief claims of a "final understanding" toward an agreement and a "60-day ceasefire extension," telling him directly "Iran will not compromise on the rights of the nation in any maximalist US agreement," with the US being "not an honest party." The entire Pakistani delegation and Army Chief have left Tehran without any agreement, as the IRGC says it is now ready for a "decisive confrontation" with the US this weekend. An informed source to Tasnim also denied today's Al Arabiya report claiming Iran proposed a 10-year enrichment suspension and wants to discuss nuclear, calling it "completely fabricated" and exposing the Pakistani-Arabic media channel as manipulation architecture once again.