German Chancellor Merz:

If we take action to combat climate change, our measures must meet certain conditions.

First, if we act alone, it will achieve nothing. Climate change is a global phenomenon — it is happening all over the world, not just in Germany.

German Chancellor Merz:

We are a country of industrial companies — large, medium-sized, and small — and I want us to remain a country with strong industry.

I am not prepared to give up Germany as an industrial location just because we are pursuing an over-rotated environmental policy.

In the end, we may be climate-neutral — that may be so — but then we would no longer have a single industrial job left. That is not my answer.

German Chancellor Merz on social media:

When our children and grandchildren, at the age of twelve, spend an average of five and a half hours per day in front of a screen, I ask myself: when do they actually learn something in school? When do they develop social skills? When do they do sports? When do they make music?

What is happening there is simply too much, and we must find ways to get it under control.

WATCH: German Chancellor Merz does a very convincing Trump impression:

“What did you say? 60%? I don’t believe it!”

German Chancellor Merz:

The American government — and not only since Trump — has repeatedly told us: We are not prepared to guarantee your security in the long term while you do business around the world with cheap Russian gas and attractive Chinese intermediate products.

Trump on Anthropic:

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military.

The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY.

The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY.

The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright joins Fox News, looking a bit too relaxed.

Passenger: Children of Gaza are dying every day.

Biden: I know that. I know that…

NEW: The U.S. State Department has designated Iran as a state sponsor of wrongful detention, urging Tehran to release all unjustly detained Americans to have the label lifted.

Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi on Iran-US negotiatons:

The peace deal is within our reach.

We just need to allow diplomacy the space it needs.

A deal is in our hand, if we only allow the negotiators.

Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi on Iran-US negotiatons:

We have really advanced substantially, but there remain various details to be ironed out, and that is why we need a little bit more time to really try and accomplish the ultimate goal of having a comprehensive package of the deal.

Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi on Iran-US negotiations:

If the ultimate objective is to ensure forever that Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, I think we have cracked that problem.

Iran will never ever have nuclear material that will create a bomb.

Zero accumulation, zero stockpiling, and full verification. They would give it up.

This is something completely new.

A full and comprehensive verification by the IAEA.

Trump on Iran:

They should make a deal, but they don't want to quite go far enough. It's too bad.

Look, we've been playing with them for 47 years, and that's a long time. They've been blowing the legs off our people, blowing the face off our people, the arms.

They've been knocking out ships one by one. I mean, every month there's something else, so you can't put up with it too long.

We're not happy with the negotiation. They just don't want to say the key words, "we're not going to have a nuclear weapon." They have to say, "we're not going to have a nuclear weapon," and they just can't quite get there.

They want to enrich a little bit. You don't have to enrich when you have that much oil. So I'm not happy with the negotiation.

Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi on Iran-US negotiations:

If there is a deal, there will be full access.

I see no reason why there is no access to be given even to the United States itself.

Within 90 days, we can really address completely the question of the stockpiles.

Trump on Iran:

I say no enrichment — not 20%, 30%. They always want 20%, 30%. They want it for civil; I think it is uncivil.

I am not happy.

Reporter: How close are you to making a decision on strikes?

Trump: I'd rather not tell you. You'd have the greatest scoop in history.

Face the Nation: If Israel strikes first, will that end the diplomacy that you are trying to conduct here on the nuclear program?

Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi: Well, we saw what happened last year. We don't want a repetition of that.

I'm very concerned like you and like everyone else.

The whole world is concerned about this and I think the whole world really wants a negotiated deal out of this, and not to go the route of what we saw last year.

Trump on Iran:

We're negotiating right now, but they're not getting to the right answer. And we're not going to see people — we're not going to see what's happened for 47 years keep going. For 47 years, we've been doing this with them.

The Obama deal was the worst deal. Nobody ever saw a deal so stupid. Right now, if you did the Obama deal — if that held, if I didn't terminate it — Iran would have a nuclear weapon, and it would be a whole different ballgame.

That Obama deal was one of the worst, one of the dumbest deals I've ever seen. First of all, it was very short-term; it would long be over. You know that. It would be — but I terminated it. But if I didn't, it would be over by now anyway.

The Obama deal — what he did was one of the dumber deals. I've seen a lot of dumb deals; that would be one of the dumber deals.

Face the Nation: Will Iran negotiate about its ballistic missiles?

Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi: I believe Iran is open to discuss everything.

Everything.

The priority number one is to get this nuclear issue resolved in a proper deal that is clear.

I believe we have discussed and potentially agreed on the approach that all these other non-nuclear issues of concern can be discussed in the context of a regional dialogue between Iran and its neighbors.

Reporter: Are you concerned striking Iran might raise oil prices?

Trump: I’m not concerned. I’m concerned about people’s lives.

Senator Graham:

Beware of anything that comes from Oman.