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🚨President Trump says he and Xi did talk about Iran. He doesn’t expand.
Per pooler @fran_chambers : He was asked a follow up question about the Strait of Hormuz. A fellow pooler says the president replied, "I think we're going to do great.”
POTUS is currently still in the West Wing. He has yet to leave for Dallas, TX.
And Hegseth, Caine and Vance were all at the WH around 11am Et for an Intel brief.
NEW: On reports Iran's IRGC captured a U.S. autonomous undersea vehicle (AUV) today in the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. Navy Captain Tim Hawkins, U.S. Central Command Spokesperson tells NewsNation:
"An underwater drone operated by U.S. forces malfunctioned more than a day ago. It was surveying regional waters in support of ongoing operations. The defective drone was an older model that neither collected sensitive data nor carried any classified sonar or radar equipment. U.S. operations in area waters continue."
🚨A CIA official confirming to me that Dir. Ratcliffe traveled to Cuba today.
I'm told Ratcliffe traveled to Havana to "initiate substantive discussions on the essential steps the Cuban regime must do to build a productive relationship with the United States."
Per the official tells me, "He emphasized that the U.S. is extending a genuine opportunity for collaboration, and—as evidenced by Venezuela—President Trump must be taken seriously."
🇺🇸🇨🇳White House on reports that Trump and Xi are considering a deal to allow China to invest $1 trillion in the US to build factories on American soil- "baseless and false."
"While the Administration is always seeking more investment into America’s industrial resurgence, any notion that we would ever compromise our national security is baseless and false.” – WH Spokesman Kush Desai tells me @NewsNation