One day after launching strikes on Iran that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and embroiled the region in war, President Trump told me this morning that the country's new leadership wants to talk with him and that he plans to do so. 'They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them. They should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long,' Trump told me in a phone call from his Mar-a-Lago resort shortly before 9:30 a.m. Asked whether his conversation with the Iranians would happen today or tomorrow, Trump responded, 'I can't tell you that.' He noted that some of the Iranians involved in negotiations in recent weeks were no longer alive. 'Most of those people are gone. Some of the people we were dealing with are gone, because that was a big'that was a big hit,' he told me. 'They should have done it sooner, Michael. They could have made a deal. They should've done it sooner. They played too...
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