Ben Rhodes

So Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, you guys have probably seen him on TV, sort of a goofball Southern guy who looks like Mrs. Doubtfire.

He has a book out where he described Lindsey Graham the following way.

If you want to stump Lindsey, just ask him to name a country he wouldn't bomb, Mr. Kennedy writes, adding later that the South Carolina senator is also unpredictable.

Invite him to dinner.

And you don't know if he'll sit down for an intelligent conversation or get drunk and vomit in the fish tank.

But that's why I like him.

Okay.

It's going on.

Yeah, what's going on in the Republican caucus.

Two quick things.

The Wall Street Journal says that Iran is now hunting down Starlink users, so they're trying to shut down these videos that are going out, but also their internet.

the Iranian regime like shutting down the internet is just crippling their own economy.

So it's destroying the country from within.

The journal also reported that Saudi Arabia, Oman and Qatar are lobbying Trump against strikes on Iran.

They're worried about it disrupting tanker flow through the Strait of Hormuz where one fifth of the world's oil shipments go.

And then obviously like what they're worried about what comes next, whether it's IRGC or chaos.

And if you're MBS, Mohammed bin Salman,

or some other corrupt monarch in the Middle East.

You really don't want people to start hitting the streets, protesting, calling for change, because that's going to hit you next.

play a clip that's going to trigger you first yes i i just i'm very excited to trigger you this so just real quick for the people to know who we're talking about so reza palavi is the 65 year old son of iran's exiled shah um he is from the you know the safety of the dc suburbs been calling for the u.s to intervene militarily and then encouraging the protesters this is him talking with uh cbs's nora o'donnell about the protests and what he wants to see happen