Astead Herndon

Is there any moment that could prove that to you?

You warned France 24 that Trump could, quote, be ready to stop the war at almost any moment.

That sounds like him fighting an off-ramp, declaring success.

Do we know what that would look like?

I had heard some questions that maybe the U.S.

was going to focus its next offensive campaign on securing the Strait of Hormuz to try to seize it independently.

I mean, is that a possibility?

I wanted to ask about Joe Kent, Trump's own national counterterrorism director, who recently resigned, saying that Iran posed, quote, no imminent threat to our nation.

I know that you have argued that a strike did not require an imminent threat and you have argued for that for a while.

But I wanted to ask you about his assessment.

Is he wrong that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the country, as some administration officials have suggested?

I did want to end on a kind of question about the public.

At least 60 percent of American people oppose this war.

And the Trump administration, as you said, has really made no effort to kind of curry public favor, explain to the public why this is happening.

Did not obviously make that case to Congress.

You've criticized that failure yourself.

But one question I have is like, is that not enough for that for this war to kind of be unjustified in itself?

How much does public opinion matter?

play a role when you're in those discussions about what to do militarily as you've been?

I want to end on this question.