Alex Ward

And it's interesting to hear him talk about the casualties because he's trying to avoid certain pushback because, of course, the MAGA movement that he leads, he has promised for many years he would not execute a regime change war.

And here we are.

So the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kaine, has advised Trump that it's unlikely that this could go on for weeks, as was sort of initially discussed.

It could probably go on for days, maybe a week or two.

In terms of munitions, in terms of weapons,

weapons the US has.

So the president's going to want to have to achieve his goals in a relatively short amount of time compared to what they were initially signaling.

Yeah, I broke my record for an early senator interview by several hours, about four in the morning.

Look, there's kind of three-ish factions here, I mean, to oversimplify, two of which are in the Republican Party.

So Democrats, you can imagine, are very upset, right?

There's no congressional authorization.

They feel that this is a misguided war, that the Trump administration exaggerated the intelligence that they had about what Iran was planning and its current capabilities.

They've been pushing for a war powers vote next week, which could take place, but say it even passes.

You know, what does it matter at this point?

The war has begun.

Then within the Republican Party, you've got the establishment types like Senator Graham, who is ecstatic that this has happened.

He's been pushing for this.

He was your early morning interview, was he not?

That's right.

He was my early morning interview.