Al Gore

the midterm elections.

And you know the term bow wave.

I think there's already a bow wave from the elections coming in seven months.

And we've seen all these special elections, and they've really affirmed the growing consensus in both parties that if something dramatic doesn't change, we're going to see a dramatic change in November.

I'm too old to remember Laurel and Hardy, and you surely are, but

There was a famous sequence where one of them would say to the other, well, this is a fine pickle you've got us in.

And I think that the country is saying to Donald Trump, well, this is a Mel of a Hess you've got us in.

I mean, we've got to find a way out of this as a country.

And I don't want to see it just as an opportunity to point out the devastating mistakes that Trump is making.

He is.

It's really tragic.

We've got to find a way out.

But, you know, with him as president, it is very difficult.

Well, that's an interesting view.

First of all, on David's piece, I really like David a lot.

And I guess I'm glad I didn't read that particular article, if it's as you summarized.

Well, anyway, I like him very much.

But for 47 years, including the years when I was on the National Security Council as vice president in the West Wing,

including the years that I served on the Intelligence Committee when I was in the Congress, I became familiar, as everyone who deals with geopolitical strategy for the US does, with the problem of the Strait of Hormuz.

Since the Ayatollah Khomeini took over Iran and took hostages from the American embassy,