Ben Rhodes

I guess we don't care if the United States just goes around bombing countries with impunity and Israel goes around much more than the United States, even bombing countries with impunity.

So, look, why not stand up to Trump on this one?

What is the purpose of...

And he doesn't even have to be full-throated in opposition, but that statement tilted towards support, as did Albanese.

So I don't know.

I was a little disappointed in that because it's like everything else.

Like if Trump feels like he can do these things and the democratic world is going to kind of fall into line or at least kind of be pretty passive about it, it just lowers the bar on him doing it.

And that's the thing is he could be doing this again and again.

In Iran, he could kind of keep bombing again and again.

We could do this in Cuba.

Greenland could come back in the picture.

Panama, like all these other places.

And so you have to be thinking ahead to creating some guardrails around what Trump is doing.

Well, so if the Supreme Leader is dead, I would definitely, how is that announced?

Who announces it?

Is there a succession plan?

I mean, I think we'll get a pretty quick understanding of the kind of political strategy and dynamic inside the Iranian leadership.

So I think that's an important thing to watch.

Do Iranians heed Trump's call to kind of rise up and start to create like a civil conflict, essentially, so that there are clashes in the streets, just like there are clashes in the

No, yeah, Netanyahu in particular, let me speak directly to the Iranian people.