Courtney Brown

That's going to cost me money.

Our nitrogen fertilizers have gone up because of the Iran war.

That's going to cost me money.

By God, you owe me money.

Him specifically negotiating with someone, is he on the phone with Ghalibaf?

No, I don't think he is.

Do I think that there are go-betweens and that there are conversations happening –

The headline was terrible.

It didn't give the reader an indication of what the goods were in it, which was that a lot of the bases, and it wasn't clear how many, had been seriously damaged in the war.

And in some cases, U.S.

personnel in the Gulf region were having to live off campus, off base, in hotels and the like.

And so I'm saying that by way of a preamble to kind of amend remarks I made last night on television, that militarily, from all the evidence we have, this New York Times story accepted.

I just urge people to understand that there's

two conversations that are happening.

There's a conversation you're having about the military success of it.

Fine, that that's happening.

Then there's the conversation about the political ramifications and that Donald Trump is losing for the reasons that we've just outlined.

And I think that's part of the disconnect in the way in which the White House is viewing this and in the way like we're more broadly having this conversation earlier today in the cabinet meeting, for instance, Besson

Treasury Secretary Scott Besant had made comments to the degree of how the enemy, how Iran had underestimated Americans' ability or desire to withstand short-term pain for long-term gain.

And it made me think that Besant might be overestimating Americans' desire for this.