Mike Waltz says U.S. is "never going to take an approach of trust" with Iran

Face The Nation U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz says U.S. is "never going to take an approach of trust" with Iran .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-face-the-nation.jpg'); } By Kaia Hubbard Kaia Hubbard Politics Reporter Kaia Hubbard is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C. Read Full Bio Kaia Hubbard April 19, 2026 / 1:52 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Washington — U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz said Sunday that the U.S. is "never going to take an approach of trust" with Iran as U.S. officials are set to head to Islamabad for a second round of talks in the coming days."Any deal that comes out of this will have to absolutely be verifiable and be enforceable," Waltz said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."President Trump said earlier Sunday that U.S. representatives would travel to Pakistan for the talks with Iran. Asked whether the talks will be a presentation of terms or a prolonged negotiation, Waltz said he expects the talks will be a "continuation of the terms that the vice president offered a week ago."The first round of negotiations last weekend, led by Vice President JD Vance, failed to yield an agreement. Vance told reporters at the conclusion of the talks that the Iranians had "chosen not to accept our terms."Waltz argued that the U.S. is seeing the "highest level engagement in the history of the Iranian regime, with the Vice President leading," along with "historic cease fire talks going on between the Israelis and the Lebanese." "The Iranian economy is devastated, and they've never been — I can tell you, here at the United Nations — they've never been more diplomatically isolated," Waltz said. "So Iran does not have the cards and we are confident they will come to the table, and finally give up their obsession with having a nuclear weapon."Multiple sources told CBS News that Vance, along with Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and the president's son-in...