22 JUN 26 SITREP

• Vice President J.D. Vance traveled to Switzerland to lead direct talks with the Iranian delegation, with Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Pakistan participating in the mediation process as part of ongoing efforts to convert a 60-day ceasefire into a permanent peace agreement.
• The most significant breakthrough announced from the Switzerland talks was the agreement to allow International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear inspectors to return to Iran, though the full composition of the inspection team, including whether Arab delegates or U.S. officials would participate, remained unconfirmed.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio was expected to travel separately to Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait to shore up support among Arab allies and assess regional stability in the aftermath of the U.S.-Iran conflict.
• In addition to these updates, a new Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) poll showed that 69% of Americans said the conflict with Iran was not worth the cost, and 57% said the conflict created more problems than it solved, even as President Trump, returning from Camp David in Maryland, maintained public focus on regional stability.

• Judge Graf ruled that recorded testimony from Lance Twiggs, who confessed to police about Tyler Robinson's role in murdering Charlie Kirk, is admissible at the preliminary hearing scheduled to begin two weeks from today, defeating Robinson's defense team's attempt to block it.
• Robinson's defense had argued Eighth Amendment concerns to suppress the recorded testimony of Twiggs, but the judge rejected the motion outright, ruling that guilt, innocence, and punishment are not at issue at the preliminary hearing stage and that the constitutional concerns raised by the defense do not apply.
• Robinson's legal team also attempted to subpoena Twiggs to appear for live testimony and separately argued that the prosecutor's public discussion of ballistics evidence, specifically that the bullet that killed Kirk fragmented inside his body and shredded his organs, had prejudiced a potential jury, even though Robinson's own defense team had unsealed that ballistics report in a prior filing.
• The death penalty also remains on the table for Tyler Robinson, which is the primary reason the timeline is longer than non-capital cases such as those involving Carmelo Anthony or Henry Novak, with the preliminary hearing representing only the first stage before a full trial in which all evidence against Robinson will be presented.

• Students for Life representatives held a protest outside the Republican National Committee headquarters near Capitol Hill today, calling on the GOP to defund Planned Parenthood before July 4th, the date on which the organization would again become eligible for Medicaid dollars under the terms of the Big Beautiful Bill, which defunded Planned Parenthood for only one year.
• A YouGov poll showed 95% of Republican voters wanted limits on abortion, followed one day later by a Gallup poll showing 92% of Republican voters wanted limits on abortion, and Students for Life internal polling conducted with YouGov and SurveyUSA found 7 in 10 registered youth voters supported limits on abortion, with nearly 9 out of 10 young people rejecting abortion up until the moment of birth.
• The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), dismantled by the Trump administration, was found to have $9.7 million worth of contraceptives stranded in a Belgian warehouse, with $8 million worth rendered unusable after being removed from climate controlled storage during a failed destruction attempt, while the U.S. government continued paying approximately $24,000 per month in storage costs, totaling over $360,000 since January 2025.
• Kristi Hamrick, Vice President of Policy and Media for Students for Life, identified the Food and Drug Administration alongside USAID as institutional vectors through which chemical abortion pills were deregulated under the Clinton, Obama, and Biden administrations, and noted that Planned Parenthood had shifted approximately 80% of its operations toward sex-altering protocols while also launching Botox services in California, as the organization faced a July 4th deadline determining whether U.S. taxpayer dollars would once again fund its operations.