Ben Rhodes

But anyway.

No, I know.

I mean, I guess like so the story is not over yet.

But yes, I mean, clearly, I think.

Look, making that threat when you weren't ready to back it up, as we learned with Syria, can lead to bad consequences.

One kind of clue I thought, Ben, that I just want to run by you.

I saw a tweet from Lindsey Graham.

He's just been unhinged.

He refers to Trump as a Reagan plus, which sounds like how you want your steak prepared at an expensive place.

Graham calls for, quote, a massive wave of military cyber and psychological attacks is the meat and bones of help is on the way, which is what Trump truthed.

Then he says, destroy the infrastructure that allows the massacre and slaughter of the Iranian people.

and take the leaders responsible for take down the leaders responsible for the killing.

So again, like I have no idea how you translate that rhetoric into a strike package, but Trump has basically adopted the Lindsey Graham foreign policy.

So you have to wonder if, you know, Graham is in his ear whispering like we saw him last week on Air Force One.

I talked about this with Jason.

I mean, his house is in downtown Tehran, I think.

So you'd be bombing the biggest, you know, urban center of the country.

And if they lose power, they assume they're dead too.

Yeah.

I want to read you one quote, Ben.