Chuck Todd

Has that actually made courting Republicans on that issue harder because they think the issue is solved?

And certainly, loosely, the motivations are similar and they may rhyme.

he did not and does not you know again he didn't bother to study right you know the he doesn't listen to the experts who have studied the iranians for decades not just weeks months or even years he doesn't listen to those experts but here we are um

In some ways, this is why Iran is starting to look like our failed military expeditions.

Vietnam, Second Iraq War are the two biggest ones, and now this one.

Well, that's the Clinton that there isn't a Democrat that says that anymore, but it was his mantra was safe, safe, legal, safe and rare or something like that.

Because we succeeded militarily, right?

Sort of.

But we didn't get our strategic end goal.

And even with Iraq, we kind of ended up with, I guess, what we wanted.

There is no Iraq with a nuclear program, so that's good.

There's no Iraq with Saddam Hussein.

But boy, was the cost worth it, right?

And I think to this day, we're not even sure that the cost was worth it.

So bottom line is the good news is the talks are going to happen.

There's going to be another round of talks.

Both sides did not indicate that there was no room for more talks.

This was the first meeting was always inevitably going to be a feeling out meeting.

But I think the one thing that the that President Trump ought to take away is an understanding.

And I think, again, his move to try to blockade the straight is in some ways an acknowledgement of this, which is he didn't have enough leverage.