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Trump: Text of Agreement to be Released "Sometime After Friday"; Now: Trump at G7 After Iran Framework Deal Announced; U.S. Will Make "Small Gestures" to Relieve Sanctions on Iran as Officials Downplay Prospect of "Side Deals"; FAA, NTSB Investigate Skydiving Plane Crash that Killed 12; Newsom Says He's Being Investigated by DOJ on Trump's Orders; Senior Anthropic Staff Visit D.C. Amid A.I. Dispute with WH. Aired 3-3:30p ET

Aired June 15, 2026 - 15:00   ET

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And a new hour of CNN NEWS CENTRAL starts right now.

BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN HOST: An agreement with Iran has been signed, but the details are still sealed. President Trump is touting the breakthrough at the G7 summit today. But when will we be able to read it? When will the details be made public?

Plus, access denied, Anthropic suspending customers from using its most advanced A.I. models. The company says it got a directive from the U.S. government about that over National Security concerns. We'll discuss.

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At the G7 summit in France, President Trump says the deal with Iran is all signed. He says the Strait of Hormuz will be fully open on Friday, though he's not yet ready to share the full details of the agreement.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mr. President, when will the text of the MoU be released? DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I think pretty soon, you

know, I would say. I mean, I want it to be released because it's a very powerful document. Probably pretty soon. I would say after -- sometime after Friday.

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SANCHEZ: As we wait for some time after Friday, there have been public contradictions between both sides. For example, today President Trump said the Strait of Hormuz will be permanently toll-free while Iran says that navigation through that all-important waterway will be charged. There will be fees for it.

Just minutes ago, Iran's president posted this new statement, quote, "What has been agreed upon is an important step toward stopping the war and beginning negotiations, and a final agreement has yet to take shape."

Iran wants the U.S. to unfreeze billions of dollars of funds before talks begin. The U.S. says it will not do that until conditions are met. Let's go live to Geneva with CNN's Alayna Treene where the President is attending the G7 summit.

Alayna, what more can you tell us?

ALAYNA TREENE, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Yes, President Donald Trump arrived here in Europe, Boris. Really, I was told, eager to tout this accomplishment between the United States and Iran, to have an agreement in hand and to be able to show the European leaders he's meeting face-to-face with over the next three days that his efforts were successful, that they were able to get an agreement. Of course, this is just the start of what would be continued negotiations. I'd remind you that this memorandum of understanding that was signed yesterday, the President said, the President himself signed it, the Vice President, J.D. Vance, as well as Iran's parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Ghalibaf, an Iranian hardliner. That was all signed digitally yesterday.

But that triggered, upon signing, a 60-day negotiating period for highly technical talks. And a lot of what we know is kind of the thorniest issues are still to be discussed during that time. Now, we have heard from U.S. officials that for what's exactly in this agreement is one, the dismantling of Iran's nuclear program. They specifically referenced that the United States will be allowed to go in to retrieve the highly enriched uranium in Iran's possession and to destroy it on site. But then also the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and ending the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports.

As you mentioned, we're hearing contradictory statements on that about whether it will actually be toll-free or if there are going to be some fees imposed. And I also think another huge thing that we are still looking for answers for is about monetary compensation for Iran.

Iran says that in order to begin the 60-day negotiating period on nuclear talks, they need to see some funds unfrozen. You hear the U.S. arguing they're not going to get any money until they comply with some of these demands.

So, until we really see that full text, it's -- I think a lot of people are going to have questions about the specifics of what's actually in this, Boris.

SANCHEZ: Alayna Treene live for us in Switzerland. Thank you so much. Brianna?

KEILAR: Here to discuss the agreement is former Defense Secretary under President Obama, Leon Panetta.

I wonder, sir, what you are thinking about -- what you're hearing about this agreement that, to be clear, we have not seen yet.

LEON PANETTA, FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, like everything else about this war, everything is very tenuous and very unpredictable. Until we see the actual terms of the agreement, it's pretty hard to speculate as to just exactly what's contained in that agreement.

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I mean, we do know that the Strait of Hormuz are open. We do know that there's an end of the blockade, the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports. And we know that there's a 60-day extension of the ceasefire. But there are a lot of issues at stake. Israel is not on board with this agreement. So, that raises questions about the ceasefire.

Every other issue has to be resolved in the -- the 60-day negotiation, and in particular the nuclear issue. And that raises a lot of questions about whether or not we can arrive at any agreement in that period of time.

And lastly, as we're hearing, Iran believes it has total control of the Straits of Hormuz. And what that means is that Iran has tremendous leverage and tremendous influence in the Middle East and will cut agreements with Arab countries with regards to the Straits. That -- that is a move that remains dangerous for the future because they'll use that as a club.

KEILAR: Yes. And the other thing is, I mean, even if the Strait is toll-free, as the President puts it, it's not going to be -- it wouldn't be possible for it to be fully open for a while, right? There are mines which are restricting transit. They need to be cleared. That's not an easy thing to do. Can you give us a sense of what it takes and how long it takes to fix that?

PANETTA: Yes. Once Iran has deployed a lot of mines into the Straits, and to clean up all of those mines is going to take time. Even if the United States were involved, it would take time to be able to bring in the mine sweepers, to be able to clear up the Straits. Then the issue becomes the traffic that goes through there is -- is the traffic accompanied, or will it be going through alone? And when does that begin?

Because the feeling right now is that it may take a while before we begin to restore the fuel flow through the Straits of Hormuz, which means we'll continue to be impacted in terms of our gas prices and our inflation.

KEILAR: You said Iran still has leverage because it can choose to control the Strait. How much leverage does the U.S. lose during this next phase of negotiation if they have pulled troops out of where they are right now?

PANETTA: Well, I -- I think it's going to be a combination. The fact that Iran now controls the Straits of Hormuz is a real concession by the United States, because that really does give them a weapon to use. And that -- that will mean that in the negotiations, if they don't like the way it's going, the Straits could be closed very soon.

In addition to that, the whole issue of making sure that as we proceed in determining what will be involved in the negotiations, that there will be the ability to really put everything on the table, particularly with regards to the nuclear agreement, which remains particularly sensitive. To be able -- I mean, it took three years for the Obama administration to work out their agreement.

You've got to look at enrichment levels. You've got to look at where that is stored. You've got to look at how to clean it up. Who's going to take possession of it? What kind of inspections are you going to have?

There's a whole series of issues that need to be worked through. And sanctions relief is going to be a big issue. Iran expects to get some money out of the deal. And somehow the United States, I assume, is going to allow them some sanctions relief in order to be able to move forward with a negotiation.

So, we've still got a long way to go here in terms of arriving at a -- an agreed upon end of the war.

KEILAR: Trump told the Wall Street Journal on Sunday about Iran's nuclear material. He said, we'll get the nuclear dust later on when we're ready to go in and do it. And he said, I'd say over the next month or two, there's no rush. And he described it as harmless. Is it harmless? How critical is it to get that material?

PANETTA: Well, as long as Iran is there and in possession of the enriched nuclear fuel, and it's almost a thousand pounds of enriched fuel, it is buried.

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You know, there's some of it that is that's going to be difficult to get possession of. But at the same time, we don't know whether or not there are other enrichment facilities. We don't know whether they've stored highly enriched fuel other places. I think it's very critical to make sure as soon as we can to try to get some kind of inspection regime involved to make sure that Iran is not burying some additional enriched fuel for the future. They cannot be trusted.

I mean, that -- that I think is something that we've all got to think long and hard about. That was the goal that the President had when he attacked Iran was to bring down the regime. And -- and the fact is that as long as you have a hardline regime in control of Iran, almost everything they do is not trustworthy.

KEILAR: Secretary Leon Panetta, thank you so much for being with us.

PANETTA: Good to be with you.

KEILAR: Still to come, oil prices are sliding a bit after that agreement was announced. So how long will it be before we see relief at the pump?

Plus, a tragedy just after takeoff. We'll look at the investigation into the crash that took the lives of 12 people on a skydiving flight.

And then later, what is the political future for Vice President J.D. Vance? His new book is fueling speculation about his plans for 2028 and leading to new questions about what President Trump thinks of a possible heir apparent. We have that and much more coming up on CNN NEWS CENTRAL.

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KEILAR: Happening now, federal investigators are sifting through the wreckage of one of the deadliest skydiving accidents in decades. A pilot and 11 passengers were killed when their plane crashed in Butler, Missouri yesterday. The aircraft going down just moments after takeoff about 300 yards from the runway.

SANCHEZ: Yes, officials say that weather conditions were actually clear when the single-engine turboprop went down nose first right next to a highway. Joining us now is Mary Schiavo, CNN Transportation Analyst and former Inspector General for the Department of Transportation.

Mary, thank you so much for being with us.

So, the plane had already been up twice for short flights earlier that morning. What does that -- plus the -- the path before it crashed -- tell you about what could have happened? Well, you know, the -- the plane had been up already that day. You wouldn't suspect fuel unless they had to refuel because the NTSB has been -- done many studies on skydiving aircraft accidents and there's usually three causes. A loss of thrust or power on takeoff, a stall, meaning you don't have enough, you know, aerodynamic forces. You don't have enough airflow over your wings or an overload.

And when you have an engine problem, they often look to fuel. But they -- if they'd been up several times already that day and hadn't refueled, that would rule that one out. So, there are many causes they look at and still can look at. But since it had performed already, you often suspect when it's first flight out of maintenance and it wasn't that in case here. So, the NTSB can probably, you know, look to other things. KEILAR: Mary, there were many eyewitnesses here, including,

tragically, the family of many who died. So, they will be able to report something to investigators. How can that help investigators understand what happened?

SCHIAVO: Well, it's very tragic and it's very sad what they had to witness. But they're very important witnesses and the NTSB will interview them, you know, when they're able. I mean, obviously, they won't force them right now. But they will also be looking at how the plane was loaded, who was on the plane, where, and that sort of thing.

Now, this plane is, you know, it's -- it's a fairly new plane. It's not an old plane. It says it can hold up to 17 people, depending upon which model of the plane. So, it doesn't appear that it was overloaded. But depending upon where you put people, it can put what's called out of weight and balance or out of center of gravity. And so, those witnesses will be able to tell how they were loaded, where they were put on, et cetera. And if jumpers are going tandem, the -- the aircraft's website says it can take up to 17.

So, where they were placed might be as important as the weight as well. And those witnesses will be able to, you know, see what happened before takeoff and perhaps, like, even a refueling.

KEILAR: Yes, that's so sad. Mary, thank you so much for your expertise on this. \

We do have some breaking news now. California Governor Gavin Newsom claiming that he's under investigation by the Department of Justice because he is considering running for president.

SANCHEZ: He says in recent days, federal agents have knocked on the doors of family, friends, and employees. Here's part of a video that Newsom posted online.

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GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM (D) CALIFORNIA: The White House has become a marketplace, a marketplace for sneakers and coins and watches, cologne, guitars, Bibles, and phones. Influence for sale, access for sale. And today, my family and I can personally confirm that justice is for sale. To Donald Trump, who I know is watching because he watches everything, I have a message for you. You can subpoena my records. You can investigate me.

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You can harass me. Put my name on every and any enemies list you have, but leave my wife and family out.

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SANCHEZ: CNN Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent Paula Reid joins us now. Paula, what are you hearing from sources about this?

PAULA REID, CNN CHIEF LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: So, Boris, after the governor made this announcement, we took a few minutes to call our sources, to figure out exactly what's going on here. So, I want to lay this out for our viewers, what we're learning. Let's start with this announcement by California Governor Gavin Newsom.

He says there in that video that the Department of Justice is investigating him. He claims that President Trump is targeting him as a political enemy.

Now, we know the President has been very clear that he wants his Justice Department to pursue his perceived political adversaries. So, an announcement like this seems to fit in that pattern. But in speaking with our sources, we are told by a source familiar that there is, quote, "not an investigation directly into Newsom." Now, that is attributable to a source familiar with the matter. We are told that there are several investigations into people associated with the California governor. These are being run out of a U.S. Attorney's Office in California, including one investigation into the Governor's -- Governor's wife for potential tax-related crimes.

Now, we are also -- we also know from public reporting, public happenings, that Newsom's former chief of staff pleaded guilty to three charges related to a scheme to steal campaign money from the former Secretary of Health and Human Services. That is a case that has been widely reported.

We are told, though, that the Justice Department, the political appointees here in the Justice Department in Washington, were not involved in the origins of this investigation. This was all, we are told, prompted by a whistleblower report in 2025.

Now, today, the governor's office said that federal agents have contacted people and organizations connected to both the governor and his wife. They allege that they have issued subpoenas for records and conducted interviews related to years of personal and professional activity.

Now, in recent weeks, Newsom's office said the federal probe expanded to focus on his family and professional network. So, here we have two different narratives. One coming from sources here in Washington, saying there is no investigation directly into Newsom. Then the governor releasing this video, insisting that he is being targeted by the President.

Now, based on our reporting, it does appear that there are investigations, that there would likely be interviews with people connected to him. But again, a source suggesting he is not directly the target of an investigation. But as we know, the Trump Justice Department has pursued many of President Trump's political adversaries. So, there is certainly a concern around the potential weaponization of the Justice Department. And we will continue to talk to our sources. We're not going to let the governor control the narrative or just rely on one or two sources here in Washington. We'll continue to figure out exactly what this investigation covers.

KEILAR: Yes, where does this go from here? Because we are, at this point, getting this story, and the narrative, I should say, from the Governor. Where does this go from here, Paula?

REID: Well, I think the next round of questions are likely to come from lawmakers. We know the Acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche, he's been nominated to be Attorney General. He's expected to meet with lawmakers on the Hill. It's likely he's going to face some questions about this from reporters on the Hill, from those lawmakers. That's one opportunity he will have to potentially go on the record about this.

The Justice Department -- again, this just broke a short time ago -- also would have the opportunity to go on the record and clarify or respond to this. At this point, the Justice Department has not released a statement. Neither has the FBI, all declining to comment, as they do when it comes to ongoing investigations. No one's saying there's no investigation anywhere near him. It seems that the difference in interpretation is whether this is directly into Newsom, as he has suggested, or, as our sources suggested, this is into people associated with the Governor. And this also connects to previous criminal cases, including his former chief of staff.

So, at this point, this is where our reporting stands. We have one narrative coming from the Governor's office. He's saying that he is under investigation. He's being targeted as, quote, "a political enemy." We do know that as a thing that happens at the Trump Justice Department. But our sources are telling us that he is not the target of this investigation.

The other thing I will say, after over a decade of covering politically related investigations, is that even if you start talking to someone, that doesn't mean that whatever they tell you may not eventually lead you to investigate someone else. So, the fact that they are talking to people in the governor's orbit, that is significant. And that is something we are going to continue to report. What are they being asked about? And also, when were they being asked?

Because our sources have suggested there hasn't been recent activity related to these cases, but the governor's office saying something completely different, saying that some of this has happened in recent -- recent times. So, we're trying to nail down the timeline and understand exactly what is going on here.

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SANCHEZ: We'll see where this leads. Paula Reid, thank you so much for covering that breaking news.

Still to come, Anthropic is clashing with the Trump administration after the company was forced to shut off access to its latest A.I. models. What's going to happen to this new powerful form of artificial intelligence?

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SANCHEZ: This just in. Sources tell CNN that senior staff from A.I. giant Anthropic are currently in Washington, D.C., hoping to resolve a dispute with the White House after the government forced the company to take its latest AI models offline.