Charles C.W. Cooke

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1,251 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 29 Jul

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The Megyn Kelly Show · America Begins War With Iran - What it Means for MAGA and More, with Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rich Lowry, Charles Cooke, and Sohrab Ahmari | Ep. 1263 · 2 Mar 2026 podcast

And that's going to quite rightly be a focal point for the media.

So I think if that's it, and we spend another week and

get a whole bunch of other things done, maybe people will be happy with it.

But if it's four tomorrow as well, and then four on Friday and four on Saturday, I do think at that point, the administration is going to have to re-evaluate.

And to finish, I would note that

Trump is not doing, in my view, the proactive work that he needs to do to persuade people who aren't sure whether they approve of this or not.

And I say that as someone who is one of those people.

I just don't think it's good enough.

I don't think you can have a press conference in the early hours of the morning on a day where people who are unprepared for it wake up to learn that we are, in his words...

at war and then have him disappear.

And the next thing we hear is that four people are dead.

He can win this if he does it really well.

But it's not just going to happen, because that vacuum is going to be filled by Democrats and critics who are going to hammer him and hammer him and hammer him.

And if Trump's this great communicator, we're always told that he is, then he should remember that and convey his position here.

Because if he doesn't, I think he's going to be underwater on it, even if it's the right thing to do.

Well, the boots on the ground line, as you say, can mean anything.

it's possible they'll need to send in small groups of elite forces to do discrete things, as they did in Venezuela.

If we had 200,000 people headed to Iran, we would notice, I think.

And he's quite happy, Hegseth, to rule that one out.

So I think Trump is partly intimating that he has been told that a limited use of special forces might be necessary.

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