Ben Rhodes

president had gone out and declared there's a ceasefire.

And I'm staking my whole presidency on it.

And oh, by the way, I won the Nobel Peace Prize for it.

And then there's like a day, like you described, where there are 45 airstrikes.

People would have been like, there's no ceasefire.

There's this thing with Trump where it's like we all are adjusting to the fiction that he's presenting.

And it's time.

We're one year in.

My plea today is it's time to stop that.

I'm a...

Tucker is a fascinating figure to me.

I do wonder, does it tell you where that like kind of log cabin is?

I mean, it's kind of weird, rustic background.

I think you, you summed it up well.

Um, uh,

One interesting thing is that the same dynamic happened in Iraq, right?

Same thing.

You have Kurds in the north of Iraq who always opposed Saddam Hussein, were always good friends with the United States, kind of did everything we asked them from the Gulf War all the way through the invasion of Iraq.

and wanted their own state.

And, you know, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, they weren't going to get their own state because the Turks were going to invade them and actually did invade northern Iraq a couple of times.