hour the state department is callin earlier reports of a new prisoner exchange agreemen between iran and the unite states a cruel ally. the report today on irania state tv attributes the foreig minister with making tha statement about the prisoner swap deal. again, the u.s. is rejecting that statement let s hurry to embassies megan fitzgerald who standing by i london let s get to what this is al about. what do you know, megan? alex, you are absolutel right. what we know is that the iranian foreign minister mad these remarks on iranian state tv saying that iran in the u.s. have made this deal to exchang prisoners that the iranian sid is all set and ready to go they re waiting on the u.s side to sort things out. the ministry saying that he hopeful that this would happen soon of course, there was no detail provided there was no evidence suggeste of what this is all about. as you said, the united states government, the stat department saying that this is a cruel ally we are he
prosecutor signal a possible indictment soon in the ongoing probe into his busines affairs. inviting him to testify before a grand jury next week the former president hoping hi legal perils don t hurt hi chances politically. after new polling shows a stil strong but slipping hold o iowa republicans back to you. thank you so much, al raphael. let s bring in peter baker msnbc political analyst chie white house correspondent fo the new york times also lisa rubin, our msnbc legal analysts who we very muc appreciate both of you in fact peter, we have mike pence who calling out trump reac anywhere east sixth. why now, what is his ankle doesn t matter why now, look at th calendar he s focused on his ow possible run for the presidenc at this point. watching all of the energy, th alternative part of the part going to run desantis. mike pence is basically trying to carve out a lane fo himself. it s a hard lane for him t find the trump people, always fro people, people who are ver