Ben Rhodes

Got a couple of pitches for you.

Well, look, we've got a great show lined up today.

We're going to cover the news out of the Munich Security Conference, where I saw firsthand the kind of post-European freakout from the Greenland dustup.

We'll talk about, I really want to unpack with you Israel's escalation in the West Bank, the latest on negotiations with Iran, Trump's attempt to collapse the Cuban government via

Oil embargo, but really kind of starving the population there.

And then just briefly some succession news out of North Korea.

And I don't know, Eamon, if you saw a piece about the downfall of Twitter troll and leader of the Trump Kennedy Center, Rick Grinnell.

So hopefully we can get to that.

Chief construction officer is what he's going to be.

He was going to be Secretary of State and now he's running a construction project.

It just shows you what happens if you suck up to Trump.

It doesn't usually work out.

But let's start in Munich.

So I'm just going to give a little rundown here where the security conference took place over Valentine's Day, but no love lost between the U.S.

and Europe.

And there's really nothing more romantic, Eamon, I have to say, than being in a windowless series of rooms with a bunch of technocrats and government officials talking about the collapse of the rules-based order.

I will say that there were a couple of speeches that kind of shadowed everything.

One was J.D.

Vance's from last year, which people were still talking about, where he went there, defended kind of right-wing nationalism, told the Germans to accept the

far-right AFD, and then Trump's usually grotesque and long-winded scolding and self-adulating threats about Greenland to Davos, although he did say he wasn't going to invade it now.