{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/press-releases/2026/06/16/icymi-hagerty-joins-americas-newsroom-on-fox-news-to-discuss-the-proposed-peace-deal-with-iran/", "ICYMI\u2014Hagerty Joins\u00a0America\u2019s Newsroom\u00a0on Fox News to Discuss the Proposed Peace Deal with Iran", "2026-06-16", "2026", "2026-06", "Republican", "Senate", "TN", "Bill Hagerty", "H000601", "www.hagerty.senate.gov", "hagerty", "https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington\u2014Today, United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Appropriations, and Banking Committees, joined America\u2019s Newsroom on Fox News to discuss the president\u2019s interim memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran.\n\n*Click the photo above or here to watch*\n\nPartial Transcript\n\nHagerty on the U.S.-Iran MOU: I spoke with the White House last night. We are moving in the right direction. I think the president has articulated this clearly. We will all know the text\u2014we\u2019ll all know the content\u2014on Friday. I think there\u2019s been a massive amount of misreporting. It has been amazing to me how breathlessly many members of the U.S. media are willing to run with Iranian talking points and fake news to put it out there\u2026 The discussion I had with folks at the White House last night\u2014certainly, we\u2019re moving in the right direction. I just make a very clear differentiation here that seems to be missed very often by the media. This [MOU] isn\u2019t at all like the JCPOA. President Obama actually paid for the Iranians\u2019 terrorism\u2014he funded it. President Trump has put the Iranian nuclear program at the bottom of a mountain. He has put their navy at the bottom of the sea. He has terminated their ability to maintain control of their airspace. It is a fundamentally different situation that we see ourselves in\u2026 [Iran] will have to take very specific steps to release any financial aid. So, when President Trump says he thinks the Iranians will move in the right direction, every incentive is in place for them to do that. And if they don\u2019t, they are going to find their economy devastated even further, and the consequences will be even greater\u2026 I feel very positive about where we are going, and my hat is off to President Trump because instead of funding terrorism\u2014the way Iran was funded by Obama\u2014he is actually stopping terrorism in the Middle East.\n\nHagerty on the price of oil and Democrats\u2019 disapproval of military action in Iran: The notion that [military action] did not need to happen is absolutely false. If you look at the pace with which Iran was building up its ballistic missile capability and its drone capability, they were going to be at the point where they could eventually overwhelm the rest of the world [with a shield of immunity] and then they would have all day long to pursue their nuclear program. President Trump saw this\u2014the math was clear, and it was time to act. We absolutely needed to act because, otherwise, Iran would have been in a position to hold the rest of the world hostage\u2026We\u2019ve already seen what they\u2019ve done here in the past months. This absolutely needed to be done. The world will be a safer place once this [MOU] is in position.", 1, "2026-06-17T06:49:24Z", "2026-06-17T06:50:53Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/press-releases/2026/06/16/icymi-hagerty-joins-americas-newsroom-on-fox-news-to-discuss-the-proposed-peace-deal-with-iran/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7997278589755297, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}