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Netanyahu wants Israel “to draw down to zero the American financial support”

2026-05-10T19:00:22-0400 / https://www.cbsnews.com/news/netanyahu-us-israel-iran-60-minutes-transcript/

The ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was tested again today by suspected Iranian drone strikes in the Persian Gulf, another spurt of hostilities in a war that has now spread from the Gulf to Lebanon, further complicating White House efforts to close a deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and stabilize energy prices.

With so much at stake — and as the war stretches into its 11th week — our CBS News colleague Major Garrett spoke yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is Netanyahu’s first U.S. broadcast interview since the war began. He was careful with his words, but if you listen closely, you can find signs of where the war, and the region, may be headed.

Major Garrett: Is the war with Iran over? And if it isn’t, who will decide when it is?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I think it accomplished a great deal, but it’s not over, because there’s still nuclear material, enriched– uranium that has to be taken out of– Iran. There are still– enrichment sites that have to be dismantled. There are still proxies that– Iran supports. There are ballistic missiles that they still– want to produce. Now, we’ve degraded a lot of it. But all that is still there, and there’s work to be done.

Major Garrett: How do you envision the highly enriched uranium will be removed from Iran?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: You go in, and you take it out.

Major Garrett: With what? Special Forces from Israel, Special Forces from the United States?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Well, I’m not gonna talk about military means, but the pres– what President Trump has said to me, “I want to go in there.” and I think it can be done physically. That’s not the problem. If you have an agreement, and you go in, and you take it out, why not? That’s the best way.

Major Garrett: What if there isn’t an agreement? Can it be taken out by force?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Well, you’re gonna ask me these questions. I’m gonna dodge them. Because I’m not gonna talk about our military– possibilities, plans, or anything of the kind.

Major Garrett: And I’m just tryin’ to get at, “How long is it going to take to achieve that aim?”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I’m not gonna give a timetable to it, but I’m gonna say that’s a terrifically important mission.

Hours before we sat down with the prime minister, Israel targeted Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. This is the second front in the war with Iran – much more Israel’s than America’s.

Major Garrett: Is it possible, Mr. Prime Minister, that the war with Iran could end but the war with Hezbollah could continue? That these would be separate–

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: If we–

Major Garrett: –and divergent battlefields–

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Well, they should be. They should be. B– what Iran would like to do is to say, “No, you know, if we achieve a ceasefire here, we want a ceasefire there–“

Major Garrett: They do.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Yeah.

Major Garrett: Clearly.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: You know why? Because they want Hezbollah to stay there and continue to torture Lebanon, continue to hold its people hostage, and continue–

Major Garrett: Will you accept that?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: No. No, we’ve said–

Major Garrett: Even if President Trump asks you to?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Well, look, he understands what I’m saying. I mean, we are– we want to get rid of that danger to our communities, to our cities. They rocket our cities all the time. They rocket our communities. And of course he– would you want to live like that?

Major Garrett: So this could go on?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Yeah, but I–

Major Garrett: Even if Iran is solved?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I hope– I– no. If Iran– if this regime is indeed weakened or possibly toppled, I think it’s the end of Hezbollah, it’s the end of Hamas, it’s probably the end of the Houthis, because the whole scaffolding of the terrorist proxy network that Iran built collapses if the regime in Iran collapses.

Major Garrett: Do you believe it is possible to topple the Iranian regime?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I think that you can’t predict when that happen. Is it possible? Yes. Is it guaranteed? No.

But in the days before the war, according to a New York Times investigation, the prime minister presented a more optimistic case to the president.

Major Garrett: And the New York Times reports as follows. Quote, “In the Situation Room on February 11, Mr. Netanyahu made a hard sell, suggesting that Iran was ripe for regime change and expressing the belief that a joint U.S.-Israeli mission could finally bring an end to the Islamic Republic.” Is that correct?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: No. That’s actually incorrect, because–

Major Garrett: In what ways is it incorrect?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: It’s incorrect in the sense that I said, “Oh, well, it’s guaranteed we can do it,” and so on.

Major Garrett: In the confines of that conversation–

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Oh, yeah.

Major Garrett: –you noted the uncertainty?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Not only did I note it. We both agreed, you know, that there was both uncertainty and risk involved. And I remember that we– I said, and he said that the danger– there’s danger in action, in taking action. But there’s greater danger in not taking action.

Major Garrett: and continuing what the New York Times reported, quote, Mr. Netanyahu and his team outlined conditions they portrayed as pointing to certain victory, adding “the regime would be so weakened that it could not choke off the Strait of Hormuz.” Is that factually incorrect?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I don’t think we could quantify it exactly, but I think that– the– the problem of– the Hormuz Straits was– was understood as the fighting went on. I think that’s–

Major Garrett: It became understood?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: It became understood.

Major Garrett: Was it misread at the beginning?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I think– I’m not sure it was misread. But the– you know, there’s a– great risk for Iran to do it. And it took a while for them to understand how big that risk is, which they understand now. No, I– I don’t claim– perfect foresight, and nobody had perfect foresight. Neither did the Iranians.

Also not foreseen: the degree of Iranian military retribution against neighboring Gulf states and the damage it has caused. The prime minister told us we’d be surprised how many Arab states are interested in strengthening ties with Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I now see the possibility of the expansion and the deepening of the agreements we do have to alliances with Arab states of the kind that we never even dreamed of.

Major Garrett: There is concern rising among the Gulf monarchies that it will not allow and does not want Israel to exercise strategic dominance over the Middle East. So has any of this been jeopardized?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I’m hearing different things. I’m hearing the fact from Arab countries, which I won’t get into.

Major Garrett: All of them?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: No. But some of them, and I never heard that before. “Let’s strengthen our alliance with Israel,” because that in fact, deters Iran. Let’s strengthen our alliance with Israel because we can do amazing things with Israel.

Major Garrett: That was clearly the trajectory before this conflict.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: It’s more than you think now in ways that I cannot– I guess will become public, although, you know, I can’t give everything to 60 Minutes or to you in one shot. But I’m telling you that the degree of economic cooperation on energy, on AI, on quantum, the– the areas where Israel is so strong. And they see the possibility now of sharing– the fruits of these capabilities with them. And that’s happening right now.

Also happening now – or later this week – a summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Trump. China is the world’s largest importer of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz. We were curious about China’s military involvement with Iran.

Major Garrett: I’d like to ask you about what you know about China providing materially valuable military support to what remains of the Iranian regime. True?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: China gave certain amount of support and particular components of– missile manufacturing. But I can’t say– more than that.

Major Garrett: Does that disturb you?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Well, I didn’t like it.

Major Garrett: ‘Cause it’s apparently doing it right now.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Could be. Could be. I don’t want to speak for China. I don’t want to speak also–

Major Garrett: But you have eyes and ears on this–

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: –for President.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Yeah, well, you know– but I also have a closed mouth when necessary.

American military aid to Israel has enjoyed bipartisan consensus for decades. It is now $3.8 billion per year and subject to new political scrutiny because of shifting public attitudes about Israel and foreign aid in general.

Major Garrett: Do you believe it’s time for the state of Israel to reexamine and possibly reset its financial relationship to the United States? Meaning, what the United States provides to Israel on an annual basis.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Absolutely. And I’ve said this to President Trump. I’ve said it in– to our own people. Their jaws drop, but I said, “Look.”

Major Garrett: What do you mean? What are you saying?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have. Because we receive– we receive $3.8 billion a year. And I– I think that it’s time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining– military support.

Major Garrett: Can you give me a time table?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I said, let’s start now and do it over the next decade, over the next ten years, but I want to start now. I don’t want to wait for the next Congress. I want to start now.

Well-versed in American politics, the prime minister is keenly aware of declining support for Israel. According to a recent Pew survey, 60% of U.S. adults reported having an unfavorable view of Israel, up nearly 20 points in four years.

One of the big reasons: the war in Gaza, where according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, more than 70,000 people have been killed. That includes civilians as well as Hamas terrorists.

Netanyahu attributes the reputational harm to Israel almost entirely to social media which he calls the eighth front of the war.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: This, this is yours, right? (holds phone)

Major Garrett: Uh-huh.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: You’re not immune either. Because you can penetrate this machine. You can penetrate this– this little instrument. And you can say about Major Garrett anything you want. And I can paint you as a monster. And if I say it often enough, enough people will believe it.

Major Garrett: Do you believe Israel is at risk of losing this war on that social media front? And this is particularly, I believe, important in America for younger Americans, Republican and Democrat, scrolling through images. And they would use words like barbaric in Gaza and in Lebanon.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel has gone to unbelievable lengths to get innocent civilians out of harm’s way.

We text message millions of text messages to them– make millions of phone calls to them, pamphlets, leaflets, you name it, okay?

We have seen the deterioration of the support for Israel in the United States almost– I would say, it correlates almost 100% with the geometric rise of social media. And that by itself is not what caused it. And I– I don’t believe in, you know, in censoring them or anything.

But I’ll tell you what happened. We have several countries that basically manipulated social media. And they do it in a clever way. And that’s– that’s something that has hurt us badly.

Major Garrett: Is it your belief, Mr. Prime Minister, that nothing that Israel has done tactically or strategically has made no mistakes either in Gaza or the West Bank that have in their own way contributed to this negative impression of Israel, whether it’s on social media or someplace else?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: No, of course not. Look, it’s war. And in war, armies sometimes miss and civilians die. And these are mistakes, these are not deliberate things that happen. Israel is besieged on the media front, on the propaganda front, and we’ve not done well on the propaganda war

The International Criminal Court, which neither Israel nor the U.S. recognize, has accused the prime minister of war crimes for Israel’s conduct in Gaza, where he says he has not yet achieved one of his most important goals – disarming Hamas.

Major Garrett: Now what?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Somebody has to disarm them. Somebody has to then– demilitarize Gaza. I would say, disarm, demilitarize, deradicalize, because you don’t want these fanatics there.

Major Garrett: Is that Israel’s obligation? Or is that the international community’s obligation through the Board of Peace in some sort of–

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Major, Major, find me the countries who would do it. You know, if it comes down to us, then we’ll (NOISE) have to do it, but we’ll choose the time and the circumstances in which to do it because, you know, we’ve got a few other things. But we are not going to let Hamas– ever threaten Israel again. It’ll have to be done. Could be done the hard way, could be done the easy way. I always prefer the easy way, because unlike my– caricature image, having been to war, having seen the– the tragedy of war, having experienced it in my own family– you don’t readily dispatch people, young men and sometimes young women into the battlefield.

Major Garrett: You know, though, Mr. Prime Minister, there is an impression about you that is a hunger that people perceive in you for conflict.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: That’s funny, you know, because for years, I was considered, right, before the October 7th, I was considered perhaps the most restrained prime minister in Israel’s history. I was conceived as being, you know, politically tough but militarily very restrained. Obviously, it changed on October 7th, because they were gonna annihilate us. I didn’t think it was just an attack by Hamas. I saw it as it was, an attack by the Iran axis to try to annihilate us through a noose of death. And I said in the second day of the war, I said, “We’re going to change the Middle East.” We’re going to change this condition where they’re ganging up on us thinking they’re going to wipe out the one and only Jewish state, wipe out 3,500 years of Jewish history. It’s not gonna happen, not on my watch. And I said to the Israeli citizens, “Not on your watch.”

Produced by Arden Farhi, Andy Court, Marc Lieberman and Erin Lyall. Field producer, Michal Ben-Gal. Associate producers, Jane Greeley, Meghan Lisson, Cassidy McDonald and Georgia Rosenberg. Edited by Peter M. Berman and Warren Lustig. Assistant editor, Aisha Crespo.

Trump says US helped secure release of 5 prisoners in Belarus deal, thanks Lukashenko

2026-05-10 17:19 EDT / Fox News

Andrzej Poczobut, a Sakharov Prize-winning journalist arrested in 2021, was among those freed in the deal

By Greg Wehner Fox News

Published May 10, 2026 5:19pm EDT

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that five prisoners from Poland and Moldova were released from detention in Belarus and Russia following diplomatic efforts involving the U.S., marking a rare breakthrough in negotiations with the two countries.

The release includes Polish journalist and activist Andrzej Poczobut, whose case has drawn international attention and concern from European leaders, and signals a potential opening for limited cooperation between Washington and Minsk, even as tensions with Russia remain high and broader disputes persist.

“We just secured the release of three Polish and two Moldovan prisoners from Belarusian and Russian detention,” Trump said on Truth Social. “Thanks to my Special Presidential Envoy, John Coale, we were able to push hard to make this release happen.

“My friend, President Karol Nawrocki of Poland, met with me last September and asked me to help secure Andrzej Poczobut from Belarusian prison,” he continued. “Today, Poczobut is free due to our efforts. The United States delivers for our Allies and Friends.

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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet during a past engagement, while President Donald Trump is shown separately, as recent prisoner negotiations signal shifting dynamics between Washington, Minsk and Moscow.(Vladimir Smirnov/AFP; Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

“Thank you to President Aleksandr Lukashenko for his cooperation and friendship. So nice!” Trump added.

Poczobut, a correspondent for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and a prominent member of Belarus’ Polish minority, had been serving an eight-year sentence in a case widely criticized as politically motivated.

He was arrested in 2021 after reporting on pro-democracy protests in Belarus, drawing international condemnation. Poczobut was later awarded the Sakharov Prize, the European Union’s top human rights honor.

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Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski addresses a joint press conference in Warsaw on Sept. 29, 2025, following a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Weimar Triangle and Ukraine.(Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski described Poczobut as both a symbol of the fight for freedom in Belarus and an example of Poland’s commitment to securing the return of its citizens.

The exchange was part of a broader series of prisoner releases negotiated with U.S. involvement, reflecting a recent thaw in relations between Washington and Minsk under Trump.

A spokesperson for Poland’s Foreign Ministry said the deal involved a multi-country arrangement, with three individuals transferred from Belarus to Poland in exchange for three sent in the opposite direction, alongside others released through separate agreements.

AMERICAN AMONG 3 DETAINEES RELEASED FROM BELARUS

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko listens during a meeting with foreign correspondents in Minsk, Belarus, on July 6, 2023.(Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

Those freed included Grzegorz Gawel, a Roman Catholic friar from the Carmelite order in Krakow, as well as a Belarusian national who had worked with Polish intelligence services, according to Polish officials, who did not publicly identify the individual.

Earlier this year, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko authorized the release of 250 political prisoners under an agreement with Washington that led to a partial easing of U.S. sanctions.

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Belarus, a longtime ally of Russia, has remained largely isolated from the West for years. Lukashenko, who has been in power for more than three decades, has faced repeated sanctions over human rights abuses and for allowing Russian forces to use Belarusian territory during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital.

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伊媒称美国提案“过分” 伊朗不会取悦美国

2026年5月11日 07:36 / 联合早报

德黑兰有一幅巨型的特朗普漫画图，漫画配文：“所以我们为伊朗女性争取自由”（左上），“不用视频，你说什么我照做”（右下）。 （法新社）

伊朗一知情人士说，伊朗不会为了取悦美国而制定计划，只会为了维护伊朗人民的权益而制定计划。伊朗媒体称接受美国提案的过分要求，等于向美国总统特朗普“屈服”。

伊朗塔斯尼姆通讯社星期一（5月11日）引述这名知情人士说，当特朗普不满意时，“通常反而更好”。特朗普不愿面对现实，这是他屡次败给伊朗的原因。

特朗普10日在社交媒体上发文说，他刚看了伊朗“那些所谓代表”对美国和平方案的最新回应，特朗普说：“我不满意——完全不可接受。”

路透社引述伊朗国家媒体报道，伊朗通过巴基斯坦调解方正式提交给美国的最新方案，强调美国必须赔偿伊朗的战争损失，以及伊朗对霍尔木兹海峡的主权。

伊朗国家媒体指，伊朗接受特朗普的过分要求意味着向他投降。

伊朗政府运营的英语新闻电视台Press TV也称，伊朗接受美国提案等于向特朗普屈服，并指伊朗已拒绝了美国的提案。

伊朗媒体10日早前报道，伊朗向巴基斯坦调解方正式提交了对美国旨在结束战争的最新方案的回应。

伊朗塔斯尼姆通讯社同日报道，知情人士说，伊朗在最新回应中，要求美国财政部外国资产控制办公室在30天内撤销与伊朗石油销售相关的制裁。

另据《华尔街日报》早前报道，伊朗提议将部分高浓缩铀库存转移给第三国，但拒绝拆除核设施。伊朗半官方通讯社塔斯尼姆通讯社指《华尔街日报》的报道“不属实”。

美媒：一艘美国商船在波斯湾遭伊朗无人机袭击

2026年5月11日 07:42 / 联合早报

美国媒体称，一艘美国商船星期天（5月10日）在波斯湾遭到伊朗两架无人机袭击。

新华社引述福克斯新闻数码网报道，消息人士说，遇袭美国商船被其中一架无人机击中，船上有23名船员，暂无人员受伤报告。

报道说，遭遇袭击时，这艘船没有装载货物，停泊在卡塔尔多哈港附近。

英国海上贸易行动办公室10日称，根据收到的报告，一艘货船在卡塔尔首都多哈附近海域行驶时，被一枚不明飞行物击中起火。

伊朗媒体报道，在卡塔尔附近海域被击中的货船悬挂美国国旗。

Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of violating U.S.-brokered ceasefire

May 10, 2026 1:44 PM EDT / CBS/AP

Russia and Ukraine swapped accusations of breaking a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Sunday, with both sides claiming to have suffered casualties in drone and artillery strikes over the past 24 hours.

President Trump had announced Friday that Russia and Ukraine would swap 1,000 prisoners as part of a three-day ceasefire, coinciding with the observation of Victory Day in Russia over the weekend.

On Sunday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia was neither observing the truce nor “even particularly trying to,” adding there had been no calm in front line areas despite a lull in large-scale attacks and pledged that Ukraine would retaliate to any aggression shown by Moscow.

“Yesterday and today, Ukraine refrained from long-range retaliatory actions in response to the absence of large-scale Russian attacks,” Zelenskyy said in evening statement, stressing Ukraine’s increasing ability to hit targets far inside Russia.

“We will continue to respond in the same mirrorlike manner, and if the Russians decide to return to full-scale warfare, our response will be immediate and significant.”

Ivan Fedorov, head of Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, said one person had been killed and three others had been injured by Russian artillery and drone attacks in the last 24 hours. Another 16 people were also wounded in attacks across other regions of Ukraine, local officials said.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense, meanwhile, accused Kyiv of committing more than 1,000 ceasefire violations, state media reported, citing a daily briefing. The ministry said Ukrainian forces had attacked civilian targets in several Russian regions and carried out strikes against Russian military positions on the front line.

Russia’s military had “responded in kind” to the ceasefire violations, the ministry said.

Two people were injured by Ukrainian shelling in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Kherson region, the area’s Moscow-installed leader Vladimir Saldo said.

Mr. Trump had said Friday that the break in fighting could be the “beginning of the end” of the war. Both Russia and Ukraine had previously announced ceasefires on different days, so the timeline of the latest three-day pause was somewhat unclear. But Mr. Trump had said the temporary ceasefire would suspend fighting from Saturday through Monday, terms to which Ukraine and Russia both appeared to agree.

Zelenskyy, who had said Russian authorities “fear drones may buzz over Red Square” during the May 9 parade in Moscow, followed up on Mr. Trump’s statement by mockingly declaring Red Square temporarily off-limits for Ukrainian strikes to allow the Russian parade to go ahead. The Kremlin shrugged off the comment as a “silly joke.”

Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on Sunday he expects U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — who have both taken a leading role in negotiations to end the war — to visit Moscow “soon enough.”

However, he stressed that Moscow would not move from its demand that Kyiv’s troops withdraw from Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. “Until (Ukraine) takes that step, we can hold several more rounds, dozens of rounds (of negotiations), but we’ll be stuck in the same place,” Ushakov was cited by the state news agency Tass as saying.

Previous ceasefires, most recently at Orthodox Easter, have failed to produce any tangible results amid deep mistrust between Moscow and Kyiv more than four years after Russia launched its invasion of its neighbor. U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the war have also largely stalled.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-announces-russia-ukraine-3-day-ceasefire/

International operation disrupts “cocaine highway” across the Atlantic Ocean

May 10, 2026 / 1:06 PM EDT / CBS News

A weekslong operation to thwart drug trafficking routes from Latin America to Europe has successfully disrupted what authorities called “a major cocaine highway” in the Atlantic Ocean.

Over 12 tons of cocaine and about 9.5 metric tons of hashish were seized over the course of the operation, which lasted from April 13 to April 26, said Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency. Eight vessels were intercepted and 54 people were arrested overall.

The mission involved international law enforcement bureaus and was coordinated by Europol. The agency said it aimed to specifically target drug trafficking networks moving cocaine from parts of Latin America to Europe through “complex at-sea transfers,” conceived to evade detection by avoiding major ports.

In order to locate the boats carrying out these covert transfers at sea, law enforcement agents were deployed to various sites across the Atlantic, focusing on an area between Spain’s Canary Islands and Portugal’s Azores.

They were tasked with detecting, tracking and intercepting vessels suspected of drug trafficking during the two-week operation, according to Europol. After the agency warned earlier this year that trafficking networks were changing how they moved cocaine across the Atlantic, it said the results of its latest mission essentially reinforced what it already beleived to be true.

“The recent operation demonstrates the patterns Europol had identified earlier this year: criminal networks are increasingly moving cocaine offshore to reduce exposure to law enforcement at major ports,” the agency said, adding that shipments across the Atlantic “are now moved in multiple stages.”

Called “fragmented maritime routes,” the piecemeal drug transfers that authorities say traffickers are using more often essentially “fragment” the risks to all those involved, said Europol.

According to the agency, the intelligence gathered during the recent operation helped authorities gain a better understanding of how the evolving networks work — particularly in the section of ocean between the Canary islands and the Azores known to them as the “cocaine highway” because of the frequent trafficking activity there.

“Criminal networks are becoming increasingly flexible, and internationally connected. But our response is evolving fast too,” said Jean-Philippe Lecouffe, Europol’s deputy executive director of operations, in a statement. “Over a two-week operational period, law enforcement dealt a significant blow to what is known as the cocaine highway.”

Lecouffe said Europol will use the new intelligence “to build on the intelligence gathered to help identify and dismantle the criminal networks behind these trans-Atlantic operations.”

Body of soldier who went missing in Morocco during training exercise recovered, U.S. Army says

May 10, 2026 / 3:15 PM EDT / CBS News

By Emily Mae Czachor

The body of an American soldier who went missing while in Morocco for an annual training exercise has been recovered, the U.S. Army announced on Sunday.

First Lieutenant Lamont Key Jr. was one of two U.S. service members who disappeared just over a week ago in waters off Morocco’s southern coast, near the Cap Draa Training Area, the Army said in a news release.

Army officials said search operations for the second serviceman, who has not been identified, will continue. Search efforts so far have involved more than 1,000 U.S. and Moroccan military and civil personnel, according to the Army.

Both service members were taking part in African Lion, an annual training exercise, although defense officials previously told CBS News that the incident was not believed to be related to the event. A preliminary report said the two were part of a group of service members who went on a hike to watch the sunset when a soldier known to not be able to swim fell into the water. Defense officials said the second missing soldier jumped in to attempt a rescue, but was hit by a wave. Other soldiers attempted to rescue the two, but were unsuccessful.

1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key, Jr. U.S. Army Europe and Africa

Key’s body was recovered by a Moroccan military search team at about 8:55 a.m. Saturday morning local time, the U.S. Army said. He was found along the shoreline, about a mile from where both soldiers vanished into the ocean on May 2, according to the army. It’s not clear if Key was the soldier who fell or the one who reportedly jumped in.

Army officials said ongoing search efforts will focus on the location where Key’s remains were recovered, while still monitoring a broader perimeter.

Key, 27, was from Richmond, Virginia, according to the Army. He served as an air defense artillery officer with the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command.

Key “embodied the highest standards of service as a selfless, inspirational leader whose unwavering dedication to his Soldiers and their development leaves an enduring legacy within our ranks,” said Lt. Col. Chris Couch, commander of 5-4 ADAR, in the statement.

The Cap Draa Training Area in Morocco. CBS News

He is survived by his parents, his sister and his brother-in-law, according to the Army. His next-of-kin were notified prior to the announcement. His remains were transported to an area morgue, and plans are underway to repatriate them from Morocco to the U.S.

Brigadier Gen. Curtis King, commanding general of the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, said in a statement that Key’s colleagues were “grieving” and would “continue to support one another” as well as the soldier’s family, “as we honor his life and service.”

Key joined his battalion in 2025 and had become a platoon leader by the time he died, the Army said. He was described as caring, selfless and inspirational by leadership in his artillery regiment, and had earned various awards for his service, including the Army Achievement Medal and Army Service Ribbon.

Before joining the military in 2023, Key received a Bachelor of Science in marketing from Methodist University in North Carolina, where he also completed minors in international business, entrepreneurship and business administration, the Army said.

Chris Livesay contributed to this report.

Transcript: Save the Children President and CEO Janti Soeripto on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” May 10, 2026

2026-05-10T12:18:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with former Save the Children President and CEO Janti Soeripto that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on May 10, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to Janti Soeripto, she is the president and CEO of Save the Children U.S., which works to provide humanitarian aid and health resources to children worldwide. Good to have you here on this Mother’s Day.

JANTI SOERIPTO: Thank you, Margaret and Happy Mother’s Day.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You’re just back from Sudan, which is one of the hardest places in the world to be a parent, certainly to be a mother. Pope Leo called it an inhumane tragedy. The UN says 34 million people need urgent assistance. I know the US is trying to work on a humanitarian ceasefire, but tell me what you saw there on the ground.

JANTI SOERIPTO: Well Margaret, it is truly the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, millions of people in need, and probably also the one that gets the least attention relative to the need. It literally took me four days to actually get from here to see the first school that we are supporting there. So, the level of logistical and operational impediments to actually get support to children and mothers where they are is unbelievably difficult. You have to cross multiple lines of various militant groups. It is truly, truly the last mile and- and the scale of the need is- is really astonishing. I see a lot of emergency situations across the world, I see a lot of fragile states, but this was really right up there.

MARGARET BRENNAN: I know the U.S. has said this is essentially a proxy fight now, but when you look at the humanitarian need, some of the statistics that were flooring to me here was the degree of sexual violence.

JANTI SOERIPTO: Yeah.

MARGARET BRENNAN: It is systematically used as a tactic of war, according to the UN. 13 million people, mostly women and girls, require support, according to the UN, related to that kind of violence. That’s four times higher than before the conflict. Doctors Without Borders said the war is being ‘fought on the backs and bodies of women and girls,’ but they fault aid groups for not doing enough. Do you think aid groups are?

JANTI SOERIPTO: We’re doing what we can, but I would certainly agree that it is not enough. We simply do not have the resources. And I would agree. What I- what I heard there, and that is just a tiny tip of the iceberg, was completely, you know, unbelievable. Our colleagues there, we have about 150 colleagues in Darfur, which is the area where I was, all of those have lost their home. They are displaced themselves. They have lost their homes. Most of them came from El Fasher, where a lot of the violence occurred last October. I spoke to a colleague of mine who had to walk with her 16-year-old daughter. The daughter was threatened. She fought. I mean, I saw the scars on her face. She fought to- to help her daughter, to keep her daughter alive and safe, and then she did get out and was essentially rescued by- by somebody. So this one had a somewhat happy ending, but so, so many don’t have that, and you see it in the eyes of the women that I spoke to. You know, they walked for days without sleep, just trying to keep themselves and their families alive. Most of the households in the north of Darfur, where I was, where there are 700,000 displaced people in one stretch of desert, the vast majority of those households are women-led households. The men are either- have either been killed or have disappeared or-or have joined the fighting groups. So these women are literally doing everything they can to keep their families and themselves alive.

MARGARET BRENNAN: There’s a lot of humanitarian aid that’s stuck in that strait of Hormuz right now because of the war in Iran. How significant is the impact on the ability to give goods to those who need it?

JANTI SOERIPTO: Yeah, it is truly what we say. You know, this is another element of the example of the cost of war, right? There is a human cost. And then there’s the financial costs, which also lead to human costs. We have currently about a half million stocks still stuck in Dubai that we can’t get out, medicine, drugs. Costs of transport have gone up, as you hear everywhere. So, you know, the Plumpy’nut treatment for malnutrition for young infants and children who are minors is now, what is it? 12 to 15% more expensive than it was before- before the war. So- and it takes longer to get there, because we have to find alternative routes in order- you know- versus the direct route we had. So, yes, it makes it harder, and our supply chain teams have already- who have to be incredibly creative and adaptive all the time because the logistics in the country are also incredibly difficult to get authorization, to- I mean, the tarmac road ended an hour after- from the border in western Darfur. So from then on in, it is essentially a very, very rocky road. So to get stuff there, even physically, is- it takes days and sometimes weeks.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about the Middle East. The White House says there is ‘tremendous progress’ on implementing President Trump’s 20-point peace plan in Gaza. I know you and a number of other organizations said, six months into the Gaza ceasefire, the plan is failing. Those are two incredibly different accounts of what’s happening on the ground. What is happening on the ground?

JANTI SOERIPTO: So we’ve taken the 20-point plan and- and we literally looked at, okay, so what are we seeing on the ground? So we took the data, our own staff accounts of what they were witnessing, publicly available data from the UN and others, to say, okay, so is there less violence? Is there access, unfettered access, for supplies and for staff? And- and we scored them accordingly. We’ve published a methodology, and we stand by those, by those facts as we see them. There is still- we- we have 200 staff in Gaza who do heroic work every day.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.

JANTI SOERIPTO: It is incredibly difficult for us to get supplies in. We cannot get staff in and rotate it so, no that- that plan, as it stands, is- is not working.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Janti Soeripto, thank you for the work you are doing. We’ll be right back.

Transcript: Rep. Ted Lieu on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” May 10, 2026

2026-05-10T12:31:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Rep. Ted Lieu, Democrat of California, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on May 10, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to California Congressman Ted Lieu. He is the vice chair of the Democratic Caucus and a member of the foreign affairs committee. He joins us this morning from Los Angeles. Good morning to you.

REP. TED LIEU (D-CA): Good morning, Margaret.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So you are in Democratic leadership. You just heard us lay out what’s going on with redistricting. How concerned are you that Republicans now hold the advantage given the recent court decisions.

REP. LIEU: Thank you, Margaret, for that question. Let me just first say Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers across America.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Thank you.

REP. LIEU: Regarding your question, I would disagree that Republicans may have a nice- nine seat advantage, because that’s based on data from last term, and the Trump coalition has completely collapsed because of skyrocketing gas prices, surging inflation. And if you look at the polling data and the results we’ve had in special elections this year as well as last year, we think the Republicans may have an advantage of anywhere between three to five additional seats. That is not enough for them to stop a democratic blue wave coming this November. And the best thing to do when a court does something outlandish, like the Virginia Supreme Court is to get back up and fight and make sure we win in the midterms.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But that Virginia push by Democrats, you spent more than $60 million on that redistricting effort. Wouldn’t those funds have been better spent on those front line candidates and arguing on the issues?

REP. LIEU: So what the Virginia Supreme Court did was not only wrong, it was disgraceful. They basically said, hey, Virginia, spend all this taxpayers’ money holding an election, do all this stuff and, oh, by the way, just kidding, that election didn’t count. The court could have stopped this by not having the election in the first place. They suckered the people of Virginia. It was a complete disgrace. Now, most of the money that Democrats spend in the race is called (c)(4) money, so that’s not direct, hard money that we’re going to need for races in the midterms. But it was taxpayers money that was wasted because of the disgraceful–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –You think it was worth–, you think it was worth the financial cost. I mean, are Democrats going to somehow continue to fight this in court?

REP. LIEU: We’re going to look at all available options. We’re definitely going to try to keep fighting this battle. And I just want to note the best way again, if someone shoves you down, is to get right back up and fight back. And that’s what we’re going to do. And of these four seats in Virginia, we believe we’re going to win two of them in the midterms, and that’s what we’re doing. We’re fighting back.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, so you still believe that Democrats can retake the House? What is your main message?

REP. LIEU: We will take the House–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –On what message?

REP. LIEU: The American people voted in Donald Trump because they wanted lower costs and he lied to them. We have surging inflation, skyroti- skyrocketing gas prices. The Trump tariffs have raised costs across many products across America. People are drowning in debt and in bills, and Democrats are going to reduce health care costs, lower costs across the board, reduce your energy costs. That’s the message we’re–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –How are you going to do that? Democrats shut down the government to have an argument over health care, and they didn’t get any policy concessions, and premiums went up. You lost that fight.

REP. LIEU: Well, actually, we passed through the house an extension of ACA tax credits for three years. We urged the Senate to pass that legislation as well, Democrats, when we get control, we’re going to reverse the massive Medicaid cuts, the Medicare cuts and the cuts to ACA that Trump and Republicans put in last year.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about your position on the foreign affairs committee. Secretary Rubio said Taiwan will likely be discussed during President Trump’s visit to China this week to meet with Xi Jinping. This is a hugely consequential summit. On Friday, Taiwan’s Parliament approved $25 billion in funds to buy more American weapons. Are you largely supportive at this point of the Trump administration’s willingness to strengthen Taiwan’s defense?

REP. LIEU: Both Democratic and Republican administrations have had the exact same policy, which is to preserve the current status quo, and we’re trying to keep China from doing anything stupid in the Indo-Pacific, including a military conflict. And I just want to emphasize that the Iran war has shown that we need a brand new strategy in the Indo-Pacific, because in any prolonged conflict with China or Russia, the U.S. will run out of defensive munitions. We already started running out of defensive munitions in a war that lasted less than 60 days, and even against a second rate military like Iran, they struck multiple U.S. bases. So in any overseas conflict, our overseas bases will be obliterated by Russia and China. We need a new defense strategy, and I call on the Pentagon to deliver that to Congress.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, President Trump has made these record large promises of arms sales to Taiwan. Are you saying that America actually can’t deliver on them because the stockpiles are so depleted and the industrial base can’t deliver?

REP. LIEU: That’s absolutely correct. We don’t have enough defensive munitions in any prolonged conflict with Russia and China that will sustain what we need to do. We could even do this in Iran of a war of less than 60 days. We started to run low on defensive munitions, and part of the problem is some of these missiles, for example, take a long time to make. We basically make 96 of some of these defensive missiles a year. That’s just not enough.

MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about AI The Times report– The New York Times reported that President Trump is considering an executive order that would implement some government oversight over new AI models. I know you have legislation on audio gap.

REP. LIEU: I just want to first say, as a recovering computer science major, I think it is horrible for the AI industry to run wild, we need to have reasonable guardrails.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Yep, okay–

REP. LIEU: Can you hear me?

MARGARET BRENNAN: Sorry, I think we’re having- yeah, I think we’re both having audio issues there, Congressman. But I’m going to go to commercial break here. Thank you.

Transcript: Scott Gottlieb on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” May 10, 2026

2026-05-10T12:44:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who is on the boards of Pfizer and UnitedHealthCare, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on May 10, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to Face The Nation. Passengers from the Hantavirus stricken cruise ship arrived this morning in Spain’s Canary Islands, where they were ferried onto land by small launch boats, then checked for symptoms before being flown on evacuation flights. Close to 150 people on-board the ship, and among them, 17 of them Americans. They’re going to be flown to a quarantine unit in Nebraska. No one so far is showing symptoms. For more now we turn to former FDA commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb. He also serves on the boards of Pfizer and United Healthcare. Welcome back, doctor.

DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: Thank you.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So there have been three deaths linked to the outbreak. Here in the US, there are six states monitoring potential exposure, all either linked to the ship itself or flights of people who have been on the ship, and then those 17 Americans. Do you agree with the CDC and the World Health Organization that the risk to public health is low?

DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: Yeah, I do agree with that. We have to concede that there’s still things we don’t know about this virus. We haven’t had to grapple with many outbreaks in the past. There’s been two large outbreaks in Argentina, but based on that experience, what we know is that typically for transmission, you have to have close contact. We also know that people typically aren’t contagious unless they’re showing signs of the infection itself, in what we call the prodromal phase, where they start to have an onset of symptoms. And the progression from that onset of symptoms to severe disease, and in these cases, death, is typically just days. This is a very aggressive virus, and so based on what we know, the transmission risk is low. Now, that said, when you look back at the past experience, there are these outlier cases where there appears to have been transmission among people who weren’t perceived to be in close contact. And so there are these cases that we need to look at closely from the past experience and just be wary that, perhaps there’s things we don’t know fully about this virus. I will say that we are nearing the end of the transmission window for the people who are being repatriated here in the US. And so, it looks to me like the last death on that cruise ship was May 2. That patient had an onset of symptoms on April 28. If you believe that the incubation period is about two to six weeks, they’ll be at the peak of that incubation cycle, some point this week. So I think we’re about two weeks away from knowing whether or not there will be additional cases that come from that initial outbreak on the cruise ship.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So a key moment here, I mean, the WHO said it’s very clear this is not COVID all over again, but as you know, it has ignited some of the very same skeptics who during the pandemic, really questioned our government institutions and the response. The WHO has said, there is no research that ivermectin is an effective treatment for the virus, but I’m wondering what you make of these calls for alternative treatments and resistance of government health advice?

DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: Look, I think we’re going to be relitigating the consequences of COVID for a long time. And I think a lot of people who are in public health positions right now believe that their tenure and their appointment to these positions is a referendum on COVID, in some respects. And so that echoes through their public comments. This is not COVID. It’s not going to spread like a pandemic virus like COVID did, like a Coronavirus did. It spreads far less efficiently. There aren’t any treatments, successful treatments for this virus. Ivermectin certainly isn’t an effective treatment. Just by virtue of its mechanism, it doesn’t work against this virus. It prevents viral replication in the nucleus, not the cytoplasm. If this virus replicates, it’s just not going to work. So I would encourage people not to use that. I know that there’s been some things on social media suggesting that people should stockpile ivermectin. We don’t have an effective treatment for Hantavirus, and that- that’s what makes this very menacing.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well indeed, and we’re going to continue to track that. You served in the first Trump administration as his FDA commissioner in the first term. The person in that job now has been a guest on this program, Dr. Marty Makary. He was a vocal critic of COVID response during Trump and Biden. There’s a lot of reporting right now that his current position- that he’s at risk of losing his job. Given how important the FDA is, they regulate- I saw one-fifth of consumer spending in this country- how damaging would it be to lose its leader? And is there someone who could step in quickly?

DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: No one obvious to me, and there’s been some reporting about different candidates that could work on an interim basis there. Marty’s a friend, you know, I think that that’s a very difficult job. It, as you said, regulates about 20% of the U.S. economy, products that are very important to people’s lives, medical products, food, food safety. And so there- there’s a lot of debate and consternation about decisions that get made at FDA. And so it’s been a controversial position for whoever has held that job, including me. You know, I got criticized for decisions that I made in that position as well. I think the continued upheaval at FDA has been detrimental to the agency, not just the speculation about Marty’s fate, but also the departures that we’ve seen from the agency. The agency’s lost thousands of medical reviewers, some voluntary through- the through the DOGE cuts, or some forced through the DOGE cuts, involuntary means, some voluntary. There’s been a lot of voluntary departures from the agency. If you look at the oncology division, they had a starting strength of about 100 medical reviewers at the beginning of this administration. They’re down to about 50. The hematological group that reviews drugs for leukemia and lymphoma had 21 medical reviewers, and it’s down to six. They lost an entire breast cancer review team. So there’s been a lot of departures from the agency. You’ve seen political appointees take over what are typically career leadership positions, running the medical product centers, the drug center and the biologics center. So, I think cumulatively, that’s taken a toll on the agency, and this continued speculation that we saw on Friday, I think is just going to be another step downward.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Those are stunning numbers to hear you rattle off there. I want to ask you about some of current leadership there. Secretary Kennedy was speaking about the use of antidepressants in this country. Almost 17% of Americans use them. He says they’re overprescribed, and he compared his experience of heroin withdrawal to a family member’s experience getting off antidepressants known as SSRIs. Take a listen.

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HHS SECRETARY ROBERT F KENNEDY: I watched a family member get off of them after a couple of years on them, and she was suicidal. Literally every day. She woke up every morning and said, I don’t want to live. And she said, “The only reason I’m staying alive is for you guys, for the family.”

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MARGARET BRENNAN: He later said that he was not telling people to stop if they’re taking that medication. But what do you make of his description of anti-depressants as risky?

DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: Look, these are prescribed in a primary care setting. And like any drug that’s prescribed in that setting, I’m sure there’s some marginal prescribing, you know, isolated marginal prescribing. But for most Americans who take these drugs, they’re very important, and in some cases, life-saving. And I would encourage everyone who is thinking about potentially stopping these medications based on the secretary’s comments, to consult their doctor. There is a period of time that patients need to be weaned off these drugs. They can be successfully weaned off these drugs if they want to be and there’s alternatives that could be effective for their mental health. But nobody should just stop these drugs outright without being under the consultation of a medical provider. I worry that the secretary’s comments is going to discourage legitimate use of these drugs in the same way that his comments around Tylenol discouraged use of Tylenol in the setting of pregnancy, where it could be very important for certain pregnant women who need pain relief and fever relief in that setting. And we saw a lot of women move away from those drugs, use of those drugs, even appropriate use of those drugs, based on the Secretary’s comments about that. I worry about the same thing here. It’s clear that the Secretary wants to put downward pressure on the prescribing. He tried to implement regulatory steps to do that as well. And so it is concerning.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, Dr. Gottlieb, we’re going to have to leave it there. I want to have you back to talk about vaping one of these days, but I’m going to have to leave it there due to time constraints. Thank you so much for your analysis. We’ll be back in a moment.