Chuck Todd

And I say this, this is not meant to anything other than an easy descriptor for sort of the average viewer and listener here, which is he struck me as a Mitt Romney Republican, a businessman Republican, the Chamber of Commerce, whatever.

You know, and again, we can sit here and talk about all the all the problems going into this thing.

Right.

It was a mistake.

Everybody advised him it was most people around him advised him it was a mistake outside of John Bolton and the Gulf states and Israel.

And I say this, it's not meant to be disparaging.

It's not meant to be anything other than descriptive, like that this is a pro-business guy.

And this is a case where the president consistently listens to outside voices rather than his own military advisers and his own intelligence.

This is a small government guy.

And.

I just look at it, I don't want to put words in your mouth, that he kind of lost his political identity in getting caught up in Trump world.

He did it all the time in his first term, and he's doing it again in his second term.

And this is, he's not alone.

And that is an issue that does not get enough attention.

I watch a lot of Republicans who had a set of things that they had been advocating for and been principled about for decades.

He trusts the Israeli intelligence more than he trusts the U.S.

intelligence.

The Israelis said this was going to be easy.

Regime chamber is going to happen and the people were going to rise up.

And the CIA said that was bullshit.