Evening Edition: Trump Heads To NATO Summit Angry Over Ceasefire Violations
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I'm Madison Allworth. I'm Juan Williams. I'm Liz Klayman. And this is the Fox News Rundown. Tuesday, June 24th, 2025. I'm Eben Brown. President Trump heads to the NATO summit, having brokered a quick deal between Iran and Israel to end their fighting after 12 days.

One deal that almost didn't hold, and nothing was going to stop President Trump from showcasing his peacemaking. But at the end of the day, they're not lobbing missiles into Israel right now. So they are following what President Trump has seemed to broker between them. This is the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition. ♪

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President Trump is in the Netherlands for the NATO summit, but before he departed early this morning, he had to spend a few minutes reinforcing the ceasefire he engineered Monday night between Israel and Iran. Despite that agreement, Iran kept firing missiles and Israel returned the favor by bombing Tehran.

The president was not pleased with either of them. And when the White House press corps asked him about it as he was walking to board the presidential helicopter, he dropped a bomb of his own across live TV. You know what we have? We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing. Do you understand that? Do you understand what he's talking about?

A bit more colorful than the president's usual vocabulary. When the president left for the NATO summit, he actually came out of the White House with a lot of anger. You could see it on his face. You could feel it in his voice. Ed Lawrence from the Fox Business Network is at the White House. He dropped a bomb of his own on this. He dropped an F-bomb when he was talking about the two world leaders because minutes after the ceasefire was supposed to go into effect...

President Trump says that both sides, Israel and Iran, both broke it. So then he had a very stern call. A White House official says that it was a very direct call between the president and Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, saying exceptionally firm and direct.

Those are the words that were used, exceptionally firm and direct. And now the ceasefire seems to be holding. So, yeah, the president, you know, very interesting morning for him as he was going to the NATO summit. It's been an interesting morning for those who have been following it because the Israelis have been, I think, a bit conciliatory, saying they're going to abide by the ceasefire. They're very grateful to the president, to the United States, to Secretary Hegseth.

for everything that they have helped with over the past couple of weeks. The rhetoric from the Iranians is a bit different. I'm kind of looking through the messages from the wires here. Iran's joint military command warns Israel to learn from its crushing blows, and warns the United States to learn from its crushing blows in the base in Qatar, which...

If anyone really knows what happened, nothing really happened when they fired that missile at Qatar. But it's interesting to see the rhetoric just continue. That's kind of their way, isn't it? Well, clearly that rhetoric is for the home audience. You know, they threatened the U.S. saying, oh, we're going to continue what we did at that base in Doha, Qatar, if you don't stop or...

behave, something to that effect. And this is the bluster that we've seen from Iran all along. But at the end of the day, they're not lobbying missiles into Israel right now. So they are following what President Trump has seemed to broker between them. And the president is even allowed to go so far as saying China is now allowed to buy oil from Iran. That is one, a lifeline to Iran. That's where their revenue comes from, is oil.

And two, that helps sort of maybe on the China side because China imports a ton, record amount actually for them, of oil from Iran. And that is a consumption that they need to keep going in order for China to expand. So that could also help in the U.S.-China dialogue when they talk about

trade talk there. So sort of an olive branch to both countries there. But again, helps Iran immensely to be able to sell their oil again without the threat of secondary sanctions, which was that threat was there of 100 percent secondary sanctions for anyone who buys Iranian oil. Now the president giving the green light for China to do that.

The president, I think, took a little bit of heat from people within his own party, saying that he was too deferential to Netanyahu in Israel, that he was perhaps engaging in a war on Israel's behalf. The president has always said that he would pursue American interests only and American interests would dictate peace.

The president has said there's an American interest in making sure Iran did not have nuclear weapons. That seems to be the end of it for this president, isn't it? It is. But I did hear Senator Lindsey Graham recently saying that the one sole nuclear energy nuclear engineer who's left in Iran did say that they're going to start to try and reignite their nuclear program, which is discouraging.

uh... you know if if true if they start to do that but yet this is something that uh... that this was the threat to the united states is is the nuclear program you know arraignan uh... the iranian authority having a nuclear bomb and for decades have chanted death to america death to israel uh... you know that is a regime that you know it seems world leaders know would use that bomb to the detriment of the entire globe whereas you have you know

Vladimir Putin, he makes those threats about having a nuclear weapon, but he hasn't used one. And he, it seems, understands the gravity of using one of those bombs. Whereas I think when you talk to many experts and I've talked to experts, the Iranian regime doesn't see the gravity of actually using one of those. And so the fear is greater that they would actually do it.

Let's talk about the president's trip to NATO. Speaking of wars, right, the president has been very determined, even going back to his first term, that the other members of NATO kind of begin to pony up for their own defense. The United States has been...

funding all of it. And the United States shouldn't be doing that, that there were supposed to be agreements as to who should be paying what. And it seems like the president is now getting them to pony up a bit more. This is a big achievement. Exactly. And, you know, no one is happier to see him than the secretary general of NATO, who is getting this extra money. The first time around, it was Hans Stoltenberg. And he was very appreciative of the fact that he the President Trump got almost all

NATO countries up to 2% of GDP for defense spending. And now it looks like there's a receptive message from the other world leaders that are involved in NATO that they will go to 5% of GDP. Again, that message being very positive. Now, the other message, there's two messages the president wants to bring. One, the first, the defense spending. The second one is he wants to make sure the supply chains for building weapons happens within NATO countries.

as opposed to relying on adversaries to get the weapons. Russia is a big exporter of minerals. That is some of those minerals needed in weapons. The president wants to make sure that if there is a conflict, that the NATO members will be able to build their own weapons without having to worry or rely on the adversary that might be on the other side of that conflict.

Ed Lawrence from Fox Business is at the White House. We're discussing President Trump's peacemaking with regard to the ceasefire reached between Iran and Israel and how it almost didn't hold up just as the president heads to the NATO summit in the Netherlands. On the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition, please like and subscribe. We'll have more straight ahead.

It might be concerning to some to hear that NATO might not be so self-sufficient. Is the strength of the alliance still pretty good here? Because I think they're all too often the people of the United States have just have this belief that we're impenetrable and we have all these friends. I think perhaps maybe the past few years have shown that's not always the case.

Yeah, not in this case. But it does seem that this is a strong alliance growing stronger. They added Finland. That was a big deal for NATO membership. And when Russia invaded Ukraine, that sort of solidified the NATO membership because the NATO countries rallied around each other, adding weapons and resources to the countries that are around Ukraine, obviously seeing that the Russian President Putin's eyes were

were not just on Ukraine, but maybe some of the other Eastern Bloc countries they had lost when the USSR went under. So it seems to me that the NATO membership is sort of more galvanized than ever. We'll have to see what happens after this meeting. But again, to have almost no pushback when the president says, well, all right, you're at 2%, now you need to go to 5% of GDP for 2020.

defense spending. You know, money has been very difficult for those some European countries to pony up. And it seems that that that's very receptive, that message again, showing that maybe this is in a galvanized group. And it was

directly because of the invasion of Ukraine. The president is also now dealing with a different slate of NATO leaders than he did the last time. There's new leadership and some of these key allies, aren't there? There are, yes. But you still have some receptive ones. The Italian prime minister, who I saw going into the NATO summit, she's been to the White House, or she's talked with the president on numerous occasions, I should say. She has

the president seems to like her. They seem to get along. So there's a number of world leaders the president gets along with. You're not hearing the same pushback from world leaders that you heard during the first Trump administration. I mean, what was the G7 or G20? I can't remember when Macron was talking with Trudeau and there was the off the open mic moment where they were sort of ribbing President Trump. You're not hearing that anymore. There's no snide comments from

that you're hearing out. There's no eye looks towards the president. I think they realize that when this president says something, he does it. It happened in his first term. They're seeing it now in the second term. And if this ceasefire holds between Iran and Israel, that is a message to world leaders that the American authority still serves true and can keep going in terms of a leader of the world.

You mentioned Justin Trudeau. He's no longer the prime minister of Canada. Emmanuel Macron, his tone is changed a bit, I think, in recent weeks. And Angela Merkel is not the chancellor of Germany. There's a new chancellor. There's been more people since then, I think. So they have a lot. They seem to be a bit more receptive to Donald Trump. I think everyone might remember that that photograph.

And I can't remember if it was from a NATO meeting or, as you said, one of the G20 groups where Donald Trump is at the desk and Angela Merkel is sort of hanging over him and everyone is sort of staring him down. It was an interesting photograph. I think that dynamic has flipped a bit.

It absolutely has flipped a bit. And I think he's changed a lot of minds with some of his policies or I should say changed a lot of minds with the results of his policies. And that's that's what this president's about results. It's not about talking about things and maybe it'll come true. You know, he wants results on this. And I think other world leaders see that when he wants results, he gets results and he finds a way to make it happen.

And it might be uncomfortable, you know, finds a way to make it happen that would be uncomfortable for those other world leaders. So they don't want to get in front of that. Basically, you get to stand aside from the moving train. All right, Ed Lawrence, Fox Business at the White House. Thank you so much for being with us on the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition. Thanks, Evan. Appreciate it.

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