Chuck Todd
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The problem.
Right.
The president has already declared victory and he continues to try to declare victory.
So if we've already won, why do we have to keep doing all of these things?
And this is the position he's put himself in.
Right.
When you define victory early, then compromise later starts to look like retreat.
And right now the Iranians know it.
They see it.
It looks like retreat because it is retreat.
The president can't afford to do this.
But their vote counts just as much in a statewide race.
We didn't have we don't he can't politically does not have the political capital to get even his own party to give him time to put in ground troops to get control of the state.
And, you know, he's just you know, and then there's who he is.
Right.
He doesn't have the patience.
to do things methodically.
He's always looking for a shortcut.
It's defined his career.
And the thing is, is that he's had so much success with shortcuts that he forgets the failures with shortcuts that also, right?