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Agreement with Iran; Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) is Interviewed about the Iran Agreement; Missouri Skydiving Plane Tragedy; U.K. Announces Social Media Ban. Aired 9-9:30a ET
Aired June 15, 2026 - 09:00 ET
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SARA SIDNER, CNN ANCHOR: "Actors on Actors." This morning, Jamie Lee Curtis is sitting down with Mariska Hargitay.
Here is a look.
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JAMIE LEE CURTIS, ACTRESS: You explained to me that you were making a doc. You explained to me that you had come back to Los Angeles, that you had gone through the beginning of the storage unit stuff.
MARISKA HARGITAY, ACTRESS: I'm trying not to laugh because you just said Los Angeles instead of --
CURTIS: OK, we had this argument and I'm --
HARGITAY: She say Los Angeles.
CURTIS: OK, but what do you call it? Los Feliz.
HARGITAY: Yes, but we're not talking about Los Feliz.
CURTIS: You don't say Los Feliz. You say Los Feliz.
HARGITAY: You don't say Los Angeles, unless --
CURTIS: You say Los Angeles.
HARGITAY: You don't. And if I had like a jury here, everyone would vote for me.
Go ahead.
CURTIS: Hye, who says Los Feliz.
HARGITAY: This is so annoying. But from now on I'm going to say --
CURTIS: OK. Somebody -- you probably live there. You live there in Los Feliz?
HARGITAY: Do you say Los -- do you say Los Angeles? CURTIS: And so you say Los Angeles.
HARGITAY: Nobody says that.
CURTIS: OK. Well, anyway.
HARGITAY: You guys, please, God, let's move on. Please, God, let's move on.
CURTIS: We're going to move on. I think this is great.
HARGITAY: But I apologize.
CURTIS: You put your hand up --
HARGITAY: I was only dealing with the fact that when you said it, I go like this. You're saying (EXPLETIVE DELETED). And I'm like this.
CURTIS: I am about to say -- I know, it's OK, you can laugh.
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KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: This hour, President Trump is set to land in Europe for the G7 summit, touting a framework deal with Iran, just as Iran says the deal is different in their view than the U.S. has described it. We could soon hear from the president, from President Trump himself, on all of this.
And oil prices are falling this morning to three month lows after that deal was announced. So, if this sticks, when will the U.S. economy and global markets actually recover?
And he's the youngest fashion designer ever to show a collection at Paris Fashion Week. A documentary about his life just debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. The fourth-grade fashion prodigy is joining the show.
I'm Kate Bolduan, with John Berman and Sara Sidner. This is CNN NEWS CENTRAL.
SIDNER: All right, the breaking news this morning. We are standing by to potentially hear President Trump's first on camera remarks about the agreement to end the war with Iran. He's on his way to the G7 in France and is expected to stop over this hour in Geneva, where the signing is set for Friday.
But there are conflicting accounts about what happens after that. Iran says the framework will kick off a 60-day period of talks on its nuclear program, but only once the U.S. releases billions in frozen funds. A U.S. official is rejecting that and says Iran gets nothing until it delivers on its commitments. Vice President J.D. Vance told CNBC he hopes the U.S. will release the text of the deal this week, and that is what he says is in it.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) J.D. VANCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Because what this deal does fundamentally is two things. It immediately reopens the Straits of Hormuz. We're already seeing, in the past 24 hours, more traffic flow. You see oil prices coming down. But you also have the long term commitment that Iran will never develop or procure a nuclear weapon. Those are two very big wins for the American people.
I think the important thing to understand is that the agreement is fundamentally built around a two-step verification process. We say to the Iranians, you are welcome to have access to an unsanctioned economy, you're welcome to be reinvited into the world economy, but only if you honor the commitments that you make in this agreement.
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SIDNER: Of course, there are complicating factors. Iran insists the agreement ends the fighting in Lebanon, but Israel's defense minister says the IDF will not withdraw from southern Lebanon.
And just before the agreement was announced, Israel struck Beirut.
Let's go to our Alayna Treene, who is watching all this, live there in Geneva.
There are a lot of things to work out. There is this very tense conversation between President Trump and his comments about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and all this. What are you learning about where things stand right now?
ALAYNA TREENE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, we do have a new kind of breaking news update for you, Sara. We're just hearing, obviously, the vice president, J.D. Vance, making his rounds on some of the morning shows today.
You mentioned what he said to CNBC, but we're just getting word that he did an interview with "Good Morning America" as well where he said that they had already signed the deal digitally yesterday, talking about the U.S. and Iran signing this memorandum of understanding virtually yesterday. Of course, still waiting for that signing ceremony in Geneva on Friday.
But one of the points he was making in these comments was that he said, you know, we signed it yesterday and there's been no money released and that won't change. So really trying to get to the point about the disagreements and what we are hearing from both sides about unfrozen funds.
You mentioned this, but Iran is saying that in order to really start those highly technical negotiations, this memorandum of understanding has a provision in it that, once signed, it would trigger a 60-day negotiating period.
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I'm told that's really about the specifics for implementation. The specifics of enforcement. But Iran saying they will not be able to go into those highly technical nuclear talks until some of these funds are unfrozen. Vance arguing that, no, what we are saying is that they need to show that they are in compliance with the main points in this broader agreement in order to get any sort of financial compensation
Just to walk you through our understanding, my understanding from the conversations I've been having with officials throughout the Trump administration about what this does. The MOU, one, big focus, of course, on the dismantling of Iran's nuclear program. One of the most specific parts in there is about what would happen with the highly enriched uranium. The U.S., according to what they say, would be able to go in and destroy that highly enriched uranium on site.
The other provision, of course, would be what happens with the Strait of Hormuz. This is an interesting thing because you've heard the president, President Donald Trump, come out and argue that the Strait, once this is signed on Friday, would be reopened toll free and permanently. Hearing a very different thing from the Iranians on that front. Vance actually addressed this, this morning. He also was far less forthright than the president himself on this, Vance saying on the show this morning, suggesting that the reopening of the Strait would be part of those 60-day technical talks. He said, "our expectation is that the Strait is going to be opened in a toll free way for the long term, and that's the sort of thing that were going to figure out in these technical negotiations." So, I think that's a big admission there, hearing the vice president argue that what happens with the Strait, how it is reopened, whether or not it will actually be toll free, is still up for negotiation down the line.
And then, of course, I can't address any of this without what is happening right now between the United States and Israel. I think there's no question, I've been hearing this in my conversations, Sara, with sources that the president, President Donald Trump, is very frustrated with how the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is handling all of these negotiations, frustrated that Israel struck Beirut just moments before this MOU was agreed to. Obviously, key questions about Israel's continued, you know, refusing to pull out troops from southern Lebanon, how that could impact or threaten the agreement they have in hand now. All of that, I think, something we still need to be, you know, learning about how these conversations are going behind the scenes.
And just lastly, I am here in Geneva. I had many conversations with people at the White House last night. They are very much pleased that this agreement between the U.S. and Iran was able to be reached prior to him coming here for this summit. They really wanted the president to come here, being able to tout some sort of victory in this Iran War, particularly after all of the tense conversations the president had, and really him lashing out at many of the European leaders he's about to meet with face to face here for what he believed was their refusal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. So, all of that really playing out as the president is about to land here shortly, Sara.
SIDNER: Yes, important conversations, but a lot of details that we just don't know the answer to just yet. We will see what happens in the coming days.
Alayna Treene, thank you so much for your reporting there from Geneva for us.
John.
JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: All right, with us now is Congressman James Walkinshaw, a Democrat from Virginia.
And, Congressman, I just want to play again what we heard from the vice president just moments ago describing what is in the text of this deal. We haven't seen the text. We really don't know exactly what's in the deal. But these are the two main tenants he just described out loud to CNBC.
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J.D. VANCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Because what this deal does fundamentally is two things. It immediately reopens the Straits of Hormuz. We're already seeing, in the past 24 hours, more traffic flow. You see oil prices coming down. But you also have the long term commitment that Iran will never develop or procure a nuclear weapon. Those are two very big wins for the American people.
I think the important thing to understand is that the agreement is fundamentally built around a two-step verification process. We say to the Iranians, you are welcome to have access to an unsanctioned economy, you're welcome to be reinvested into the world economy, but only if you honor the commitments that you make in this agreement.
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BERMAN: So, the first part of that answer, he says that this deal, when you read the text you'll see, it opens the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran will agree not to have a nuclear weapon.
If that's what's achieved here, how will you feel about that deal?
REP. JAMES WALKINSHAW (D-VA): Well, with respect to the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Hormuz was wide open before this war was launched. So, I don't see that as an achievement. That's a return to the status quo. And frankly, we're worse off because Iran now knows that they can exercise that leverage over the Strait anytime they want to.
With respect to the nuclear program, the challenge has never been getting the Iranians to rhetorically say they don't want to develop or are not developing a nuclear weapon.
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The challenge has been getting the inspections regime and the enforcement to the point that we can be sure that they're not doing it underground, literally and proverbially. So, that will be the key, I think, in the text of the agreement. It doesn't sound like those details are going to be in this agreement. They're going to be negotiated over 60 days. We have an agreement to negotiate potentially more agreements. BERMAN: I was surprised that the vice president brought up Iran saying
-- agreeing to not pursue a nuclear weapon, because that is something they agreed to on the first page of the Iran nuclear deal under the Obama administration. That in and of itself did not seem like something that new.
When you get the text, if we get the text of this deal, which the vice president said was already signed digitally, which is a bit of new information, but when you get your hands on this text, what will be the first thing you look for?
WALKINSHAW: Well, I want to understand the provisions related to the Strait. I think that, obviously, is urgent. That is having an immediate, negative impact on hard working Americans who are paying a lot more at the pump because of that. I want to understand that. And then the detailed commitments with respect to the nuclear material and nuclear program I think are critical.
And look, before the war started, there were negotiations underway for a five-year, ten-year, 20-year pause in Iran's nuclear program. So, if that's all we're getting here after losing the lives of 13 service members and spending tens, maybe a 100 plus billion dollars, this will have been an absolute catastrophic, strategic failure.
BERMAN: What about the money that Iran might get access to. The United States -- the administration seems to be very careful in describing when Iran would get that exactly.
WALKINSHAW: Obviously, there's great irony in that Donald Trump and J.D. Vance campaigned against President Obama's deal with Iran to suspend their nuclear program and have robust enforcement of that suspension in exchange for sanctions relief. The idea that the Trump administration is offering that up again without a complete dismantling of the program, which doesn't sound like is on the table. We're not -- they don't seem to be discussing a complete dismantling, removal of all the nuclear material and nuclear program. It's ironic the Trump administration is negotiating for that very same thing.
BERMAN: Gas prices are coming down, right? They've been down 25 -- about 25 straight days. There are projections they could be, you know, $3.75 a gallon national average by July 4th. Directionally, this is a good thing for the American people, yes, to see the prices coming down like this?
WALKINSHAW: Absolutely. One hundred percent. I certainly hope that continues. We do need to acknowledge, though, before this war started, they were a lot lower than even they are today. They got a long way to go to get to the pre-Trump Iran War gas prices. But I certainly welcome gas prices coming down. I hope that continues.
BERMAN: Congressman, I understand you're a big soccer fan. Even a college soccer player. And now a soccer dad. Easy question. Do you feel that Friday night's game by the U.S. men's national team may not have been the biggest game they've ever had, but it was the best they have ever played at the World Cup. Yes or no? WALKINSHAW: That is unequivocally true with respect to the first half
and maybe overall. I think we saw a level of class, especially on the ball from the American players that we -- that we really have never seen. I'm confident they're going to continue that. I'm very excited about the game coming up on Friday and the U.S. coming out on top of their group and making a run deep into the tournament. I'm excited for that. I think they're going to do it.
BERMAN: I think you had the right answer there. The first half. The first half. It's good to distinguish between the first and second half.
WALKINSHAW: I know, right?
BERMAN: But the first half, the first half was -- I've never seen them play better. I've never seen them play better than that.
WALKINSHAW: Never. Yes, it was amazing. World class (INAUDIBLE).
BERMAN: All right. You got me even more excited.
Congressman James Walkinshaw, from Virginia, thanks so much for being with us this morning. Appreciate it.
Sara.
SIDNER: You forgot to ask him what he thinks about the Knicks winning.
BERMAN: Because --
SIDNER: What happened?
BERMAN: Because he's a soccer player.
SIDNER: I don't understand.
BERMAN: Because he's a soccer player.
SIDNER: Oh, is that it?
BERMAN: Yes.
SIDNER: I mean, he can do multiple sports, I understand. He sounds like a coach. So, if Congress doesn't work out, I mean, John -- John's like, I am so done. He's so over me.
All right, still ahead, we've got these just terrible pictures here. A plane crashing, killing 11 skydivers and the pilot. What witnesses saw just seconds before it went down, including family members who were here -- were there to sort of watch the whole spectacle of people jumping out of the plane together. We'll talk to you about what happened there.
Plus, an entire country banned social media for children under 16.
[09:15:00] There is a big question here. How are they going to enforce this? And will this spread to other nations?
Also, an extreme case of road rage. A man smashing out a window with just a punch in the middle of a freeway. How this all ended. Those stories and more, ahead.
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BOLDUAN: This morning, federal investigators are looking into what caused a fiery plane crash in Missouri. Now one of the deadliest skydiving incidents in decades. Everyone on board was killed. The pilot and 11 skydivers.
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The plane went down moments after takeoff, crashing in a field basically right near the runway.
CNN's Whitney Wild is tracking this one for us.
Whitney, what more are you learning about this today?
Well, Kate, this happened around 11:30 in the morning. It was crystal clear skies. The weather was absolutely perfect, which is raising so many more questions about how something like this could have happened.
The theory from law enforcement at the moment is that the pilot was trying to land the plane on the highway near that airport because the plane was losing power shortly after takeoff. But instead of landing successfully, the plane stalled out and then nose-dived right into the ground.
Police were looking to see if any of the skydivers were able to jump out before the plane crashed, but they did not find any survivors. Horrifyingly, there were families who were there who saw the plane take off and saw the plane crash.
Here's more from the sheriff there.
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SHERIFF CHAD ANDERSON, BATES COUNTY, MISSOURI: There were witnesses that were family members, yes.
Our hearts go out to them. There's nothing we really can say to make it better. We just pray for them and their loved ones and their friends and their family and hope that they can recover to some sense of normalcy if we can.
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WILD: There are a lot of questions this morning about how these aircraft are regulated. And our fantastic aviation team is reporting that these are regulated like private pilots. It is not the same regulation as large commercial aircraft. Those regulations are much more stringent. The NTSB is on the ground investigating.
But, Kate, compounding the grief for these families is how long it's going to take to get answers. That final report won't be ready for one to two years.
Kate.
BOLDUAN: Oh, my goodness. Just tragedy upon tragedy.
Whitney, thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
Sara.
SIDNER: All right, overnight, the United Kingdom launching a sweeping ban on social media for children under the age of 16 starting next year.
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KEIR STARMER, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: This is not something I do lightly. And I will not present it as cost free, as if social media has brought no benefits to young people, because clearly that is wrong. But government is always about choices. And it's clear to me that a full ban is the right choice.
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SIDNER: CNN's Nada Bashir is live for us from London.
This is an incredible move and quite a huge move by a government to say, hey, no more use for any child under the age of 16. What are you learning about this? And, obviously, there's a lot of questions about how to implement it.
NADA BASHIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, absolutely. Sara.
I mean this is being described by the government as a watershed moment. And it follows similar moves taken by the likes of Spain and Australia to try to enhance child protection online.
And this is really centered and focused on ensuring children are safe in their online activities and also to protect their mental health. And the ban is, of course, focused on social media platforms, including the likes of Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat. But it is also focused on online gaming platforms, on live streaming platforms, and anywhere where children under the age of 16 might be able to engage with strangers online without any parental controls.
Now, of course, there have been similar measures taken in the past, but this is perhaps the furthest we have seen the government go to date, particularly here in the United Kingdom. And this has come after months of consultations with parents, with students and with industry leaders. And we've heard from the government presenting this data, and they have said that they received responses from more than 100,000 parents, that more than 83 percent of those who responded said that the risks posed by social media platforms to children outweighed the benefits.
And we've been hearing similar messaging from people reacting to this decision today. Take a listen.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think kids need that kind of stuff right now. You know, especially at that young age. I didn't have social media until I was 16. I loved life before that. And I think like a lot of insecurities I had were from, you know, interacting with stuff online. So, I just don't think they need it right now.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I think it's a great idea. I feel like -- I mean I've got a two-year-old. So, I've just kind of think about the future. And I feel like that's probably a really good thing to kind of put that ban in place.
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BASHIR: Now, this has come with some controversy and some debate as well. We've been hearing from social media platforms and industry leaders, including from Meta, which has said that this could potentially isolate young people from communities that they have built. Similar sentiments have been shared by the parent company of Snapchat as well.
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But this, of course, comes after months of consultation and is being considered by other nations as well. And it won't be implemented immediately. We're expecting the bill to be put before parliament just before Christmas, and then implemented early spring next year.
Sara.
SIDNER: It was sort of fascinating to hear from that young man saying, I loved my life before I started getting on social media. But there are a lot of children that use it and enjoy it. We will see how this all plays out and how they implement it. I know you'll be following all the details.
Nada Bashir, great reporting from you this morning. Thank you so much.
John.
BERMAN: All right, you can see, oil prices dropping this morning, down really big as we await text of the agreement between the United States and Iran.
And then stock futures are up. You can see right there some pretty big gains with the markets opening in just a few minutes.
And up to four inches of rain in an hour, leaving roads and neighborhoods under water. Look at that. And more rain could be on the way today.
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