Trump says he called off attack on Iran

CBS News White House reporter, Olivia Rinaldi, joins us now with more on this. Olivia, we've all heard this before. The president says, let's talk. But he keeps the threat of military action close and available. Are we any closer to a real deal today? Well, we certainly have heard this before from the president where he has threatened to attack Iran, restart these military strikes if the deal does not come through. The notable thing yesterday, though, was that the president said he was planning to attack tomorrow. That being today. That caught everyone's attention because, of course, we had been waiting for what the next action that this administration could take, given the fact that over the weekend, the White House received the latest proposal from Iran, which the president just said, is really a nonstarter. So the question being, what can be done in the next two to three days, while the president says there are these serious negotiations gone that would potentially stave off any more of these military attacks inside of Iran. We know that there is still diplomacy happening. We know that there are Pakistani officials working behind the scenes, particularly in Tehran, to keep the negotiations on track. We have not heard what is in this latest proposal. Yesterday, the president did talk to the New York Post about it. He did say it's a negotiation. "I don't want to be stupid." That is a quote from the president when talking about having this negotiation in public. So really, we are in the dark just trying to figure out information from our sources, what is being traded back and forth between these two countries and if it is viable at all, all of this as we are watching the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, as it continues to be very tense there on the ground and this war is well into its 12th week.

And Olivia, we're also looking at some news from the DOJ, the Justice Department announcing this, nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund. This is as part of President Trump's settlement with the IRS. So what is this fund? Where will that money be used? Yeah, it's a great question. This fund we learned about it yesterday. It's for people who quote, "suffered weaponization and lawfare from the Biden administration." So this is really unprecedented. It came because the president had sued his own government. He had sued the IRS for revealing his tax returns from the contractor back in 2019. Yesterday, the president agreed to drop that lawsuit. The DOJ said that they would give the president a formal apology and create this commission. It has five members, and it is led by the attorney general, who used to be the president's former personal attorney, and it's to the tune of $1.776 billion. That will go to people who say that they experienced weaponization under the Biden administration. The concern, though, is that those funds would go to some of the January 6 rioters on the Capitol, who, of course, were prosecuted under the Biden administration. Our Nancy Cordes actually asked the president about this yesterday and what he makes of some of the funds going to those individuals. Take a listen to what he said here. Do you believe that people who committed violence against Capitol Hill police officers on January 6 should be eligible for compensation from this DOJ fund? And are you or your family members going to be seeking compensation from that? It will all be dependent on a committee. A committee is being set up, a very talented people, very highly respected people. I do believe there has to be compensation for people that were destroyed. You have families absolutely destroyed. Now, we should also note that the president does have the authority under this commission to get rid of some of the members on there as he sees fit. So very notable and something we'll have to be watching closely.

All right. Olivia Rinaldi in Washington. Thank you.