Ben Rhodes

Yeah, I guess them putting it out, maybe they felt like it was going to get out, like Trump was going to put it out.

So I think they were probably just trying to get ahead of it.

Yeah, wouldn't necessarily want to be that asset.

Look, the couple of things about this are, first of all, it's clear they were planning this for months.

And look, we don't do this that much.

But I mean, we've been saying that there are probably Delta Force guys there.

We've been saying this regime change operation.

But to have the combination of an offensive cyber operation

overhead drone capacity, Delta Force guys on the ground, pre-positioned naval assets.

They've been planning to do this for months.

That's my takeaway from the details that have come out.

And it cost billions of dollars with a B. With a B. And this puts the lie to the idea that, well, we're going to do the boats.

No, this was always about this.

And it took them months to get everything in place, to get the intelligence work done, to get people into the country, and then to do this.

And then, yeah, like the kind of haphazard way that they like to do these victory laps, they're just so thirsty.

to look like tough guys.

What risk did Donald Trump take?

I mean, I remember this when the bin Laden operation took place.

Actually, we were pretty careful about what we put out.

We didn't even put out that it was Navy SEALs.