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4/6/2026, 5:41:47 AM
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President Trump will hold a news conference today as he continues to escalate his threats against Iran.
He's scheduled to speak at 100 p.m. Eastern.
And of course, we'll bring it to you live as soon as it begins.
The president is expected to discuss the two US airmen who were rescued after their fighter jet was shot down over a remote area in Iran.
Now, this happened Friday.
We can in fact show you some of the wreckage.
The jet's pilot was rescued that same day, but the second American airman wasn't rescued until yesterday morning.
Officials say US forces led an urgent and high-risk rescue effort to find the officers.
And the clock is ticking for Iran to open the straight of Hmuz according to the president.
In this explicit social media post, President Trump says tomorrow will be quote power plant day and bridge day.
That's if the waterway is not opened.
According to the Associated Press, mediators have sent the US and Tran a proposal, calling for a 45day ceasefire and the reopening of the strait.
We've got team coverage on all of this for you this Monday morning.
Remy and Oencio is standing by in a London bureau, but let's begin with CBS News White House reporter Aaron Novaro on the south lawn for us this morning.
Good morning, Aaron.
Um, we know that there are, I guess, uh, Easter egg roll preparations behind you, but talk to us about the top story, the president's ultimatum, and if a deal with Iran is really even likely before this deadline.
>> Yeah, good morning, Arrol.
This Easter event will be the first public appearance for President Trump since the rescue of those fighter jet pilots and since he set that new ultimatum and deadline for Iran to reopen the straight and make a deal with the United States.
He said on Truth Social over the weekend that the deadline is 8:00 p.m. Eastern time tomorrow for the straight to be reopened.
Now, this comes days after President Trump had seemed almost ambivalent about the strait, suggesting that the war with Iran could end without it reopening, calling on Asian and European countries to handle [snorts] it by themselves.
But he had a different tone over the Easter weekend where uh the deadline is getting closer as he says the US is in quote deep negotiations with Iran.
But in a sign that maybe those negotiations weren't going so well, he wrote quote open the exploive straight you crazy bastards or
you'll be living in hell.
That message in particular coming yesterday on Easter got a reaction from both political parties here in the United States.
Take a listen to Democratic Senator Tim Kaine.
This is all embarrassing and juvenile and it's people trying to act like they're puffed up and tough when what we really see from the administration in this war is the absence of a plan.
people see this president as having blundered into a war with no clear rationale.
And there's no amount of cursing or boasting or tough talk that will cover up for the fact that this president didn't have a rationale and he doesn't really have a plan.
Now, former Congresswoman and Republican Marjgerie Taylor Green, who has historically been an ally of President Trump, but has been critical of this war since it began, had a long reaction to it on X, criticizing the timing of it coming on Easter.
Uh, and writing that the strait is closed because the US and Israel started this war with the quote same nuclear lies they've been telling for decades.
And she also added, "Trump threatening to bomb power plants and
bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing."
That's in reference to the citizens of Iran uh that protested earlier this year that kind of spurred a lot of the interest and action from President Trump.
>> All right, Aaron Navaro at the White House.
Aaron, thank you.
CBS News foreign correspondent Remy Inosencio joins us from London with the latest on the rescue of that uh crew in Iran.
Remy, good morning.
This was uh very um difficult and dangerous for the US military to carry out.
What happened?
>> Absolutely.
And we expect to hear more from the president when he does hold that press conference in about 6 hours from now.
But that rescue Arrol happening something on the order of nearly 2 days since that F-15E fighter jet was down by Iran.
That was Friday morning. We'll remember. Uh word of the second rescue only came around dawn local time on Sunday.
That person, we understand, was the weapons systems officer who was found thanks to a GPS signal beacon.
He also had a handgun on him and was rescued from a mountain crevice someplace in the Iranian countryside.
Uh, now, General Frank McKenzie, who is the former head of US Sentcom, was on Face Nation with first reaction on how the Iranian government might be feeling right now.
Take a listen.
>> First of all, they were not able to to find uh the missing air crewman. second uh you know they put a a broad appeal to their people to turn him in reward asking for all kinds of leads that does not appear to have been successful and that would I think that's maybe a sign of disaection don't know but you can't uh you can't be happy with that if you're a senior leader in Tyrron this morning right and a reward out there uh earlier for $50,000 US for uh leading to
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