The U .S. and Iran held several hours of talks in Oman today, but not directly with each other. Iran says the talks were, quote, a good start with more negotiations expected, Representing the U .S.in today's discussions, President Trump's Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner along with CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper. Joining us, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass. He is also the author of the weekly Substack newsletter, Home and Away.So, Richard, in ...

and political reporter Jacob Soboroff, MSNOW national reporter Rosa Flores, and Politico White House reporter. TO TALK ABOUT THE IMMIGRATION POLICY BROADLY MY AWARD. JACOB, FIRST TO YOU, GIVE US THE STORY OF THIS FATHER AND DAUGHTER.ELVIS TIPAN ECHEVARIA IS A 25-year-old Katie from Ecuador, and he came here two years ago with his little girl Chloe. And on January 22nd they were driving around going to get some fruit and they got followed back to their house into this alley. It turns out we just happened to ...

The five-year-old boy in a bunny hat who was taken with his dad to Texas before a judge ordered them released. That's according to the New York Times, which spoke to the family's lawyer. But in a statement to MSNOW, DHS DENIED IT'S AN EXPEDITED REMOVAL, CALLING IT REGULAR REMOVAL PROCEEDINGS.BUT THEY ARE FAR FROM ALONE. IN AN MSNOW EXCLUSIVE, JACOB SOBOROFF REPORTS ON ANOTHER MINNESOTA FAMILY, A TWO-YEAR-OLD GIRL and her father, taken by ICE agents. Jacob was in Minneapolis when they were arrested and then ...

over a racist video President Trump shared on his social media PLATFORM LAST NIGHT, A WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL NOW TELLING MSNOW A STAFFER ERRONEOUSLY MADE THE POST BUT IT WAS 12 HOURS BEFORE IT WAS TAKEN DOWN. ALSO I WANT TO MAKE CLEAR THAT WE WOULD NOT THE PRESIDENT POSTED IT AND TO INFORM THIS IMPORTANT CONVERSATION. YOU CAN SEE THIS POST, IT DEPICTS FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, AND FORMER FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA AS APES IN A JUNGLE.IT'S AT THE END OF A VIDEO PROMOTING FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT VOTING MACHINES ...

BREAKING: A post shared on President Donald Trump's Truth Social page late last night, that included a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama has been taken down. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt initially called the backlash to this post, "Fake outrage." However, there has been reaction from multiple Republicans on Capitol Hill, including an ally of the president, Tim Scott, who called for him to delete this post. MS NOW's Akayla Gardner has the l ...

BRING IN MSNOW CONTRIBUTOR DAVID DROCKER, SENIOR WRITER AT THE DISPATCH AND AUTHOR OF IN TRUMP SHADOW. ANKUSH KADORI IS FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR AND SENIOR WRITER FOR POLITICO magazine. MSNOW senior legal reporter Lisa Rubin is with me here in the studio.Let me start with the messages I know you dug into from Brad Karp and David Ross that they sent to Epstein. What did you find. I think a lot of other outlets, Chris, have focused on Brad Karp sending Jeffrey e-mails about his son, for example, who was a fi ...

Joining us, MSNOW's Alex Tabbott from Tucson, Arizona Christopher O'Leary is former director of hostage recovery for the U .S. governor and MSNOW national security intelligence analyst. Chip Massey is a former FBI special agent and hostage negotiator.So, Alex, what do we know about what's happening today and where this search might be heading. Well, we're learning just how seriously the FBI has taken this purported ransom note. And that's because this ransom note, which, as you noted, was sent to TMZ, as we ...

AT ONE OF THE NATION'S MOST STORIED NEWSPAPERS. HUNDREDS OF DEMONSTRATORS GATHERED OUTSIDE THE WASHINGTON POST HEADQUARTERS YESTERDAY TO PROTEST THE DECISION TO CUT OVER 300 JOURNALISTS, roughly 30 percent of its entire staff. Every industry in the country right now is suffering, but I think there's a broader, bigger mission to journalism.It's not just, you you know, the elites or whatever. We are on the ground doing work to help Americans better understand what's happening and to hold power to account. And ...

Let's get right to MSNOW senior national security repter David Rode. Michael Weiss is with us, editor of the insider and foreign policy expert Hagar Shamali. She's also the former spokesperson for the U .S.mission to the U .N. So, David, the next step likely is for a special envoy and Jared Kushner to brief the president or his administration. Right.What do we know about what came of these talks at this point. We know very little. The announcement that the talks had finished actually came from the Iranian g ...

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