Seth Meyers likened Fox News anchors to victims of a card-counting con, expressing their growing frustration with Donald Trump’s actions concerning the conflict in Iran.
During his show, ‘Late Night,’ the host—who has frequently clashed with Trump—aired segments where Fox News personalities pondered over when a resolution to the war might finally be reached.
Despite Trump and Tehran declaring a provisional truce to end the four-month conflict last Friday, Meyers remarked, “Fox News is starting to get tired of all the nonsense.”
Meyers featured a clip of Kennedy, co-host of The Five, cautioning, “I don’t know how you claim that all of this is being held together. I know we’re not supposed to ask about timelines, but… November is coming.’
The impact of the war on the upcoming midterm elections remains a hotly debated topic among pundits across the political spectrum.
‘He keeps saying we’re very close, we’re days away, and I don’t know what that means. We’ve heard that for a very long time,’ Jesse Watters says in a clip.
The NBC host then quipped: ‘It’s like watching a tourist slowly realize that a game of three-card monte is rigged.’
Trump has agreed to let Iran retain its civilian nuclear program in a major concession as the two sides say they are closer than ever to reaching a peace deal, with Iran wanting it done in two parts.
Liberal NBC comedian Seth Meyers compared Fox News anchors to people getting duped by a card-counting scam as they ‘get fed up with’ Donald Trump over the war in Iran
The ‘Late Night’ host – who has feuded with Trump in the past – showed clips of the conservative-leaning network’s hosts wondering when a deal to end the war will come
A senior White House official said: ‘We’re not bothered at all by the idea of civilian power plants in Iran; what we’re bothered by is the type of infrastructure that would allow them to jump from civilian power generation to nuclear weapons development.’
The official pointed to how the United Arab Emirates has a civilian nuclear power program that could not be turned into a bomb-making operation.
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed the deal is in its final stages, while laying out what they want out of Washington.
That includes Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon and Tehran’s continued control over a reopened Strait of Hormuz and a ‘service fee’ for commercial ships.
Araghchi added that he wants a two-part pact to end the war. Part one would be a memorandum of understanding followed by a lasting peace deal built on the nuclear issue and the lifting of sanctions.
‘The nuclear issue has been left for the second round and a final agreement,’ he said on state television.
The revelation indicates that the Trump administration has given Iran the green light to hold onto its civilian nuclear power plants as long as those sites cannot be used to create a nuclear weapon.
What safeguards would be put in place to prevent Iran from scaling up its nuclear power plants to bomb-making facilities is unclear, but any steps taken by the Islamic Republic to make a nuclear weapon would derail any potential deal.
He played a clip of The Five co-host Kennedy warning: ‘ I don’t know how you claim that all of this is being held together. I know we’re not supposed to ask about timelines, but… November is coming’
‘He keeps saying we’re very close, we’re days away, and I don’t know what that means. We’ve heard that for a very long time,’ Meyers showed Jesse Watters saying
Trump has long stressed that any end to the war would be predicated on Iran giving up its nuclear capabilities, particularly its uranium enrichment labs that US intelligence claims can make weapons-grade fuel.
The MOU mandates that Iran’s current stockpile of nuclear material be destroyed on-site and then taken out of the country. Trump has said that only the US and China can dig up the deeply buried fissile material.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Friday that the ‘final text’ of a peace deal between the US and Iran ‘has been reached.’
‘Peace has never been this close as it is now,’ he added.
The official also said the deal would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the current US blockade targeting Iranian vessels.
The US is 80 to 85 percent certain that the deal would be signed, the official said, with reports indicating a ceremony planned for Sunday in Geneva.