Dan Bongino

So when you go in as deputy director, you're the inheritor of a crappy reputation established by abuses of power.

The same is true with the military establishment in our country.

people went through afghanistan and iraq they saw the betrayals they saw the power vacuums the terrorism that arose from it the loss of blood and treasure and so our instincts are now attuned to say i'm kind of against that reflexively i err on the side of i don't want to be involved at all so if you ask the average american voter trump voter before this if we should go into iran right now chances are they'd probably have said no but here's the difference

They trust the president.

The president made this decision on a rational basis.

He decided that the nuclear threat was meaningful, that Iran was building a conventional weapons arsenal to basically create a security blanket to prevent anybody from stopping them from redeveloping their nuclear threat that he bombed last year.

And he said, now's the time.

This is our window of opportunity.

We have to strike.

Let's resolve this problem once and for all.

So what I'm actually seeing in the surveys, and I think what you're seeing, Dan, is there's just a lot of trust right now.

Basically, people who don't want to be in any sort of long-lasting quagmire, which is the word the administration keeps using to describe what they're trying to avoid,

and that they trust the president a great deal.

This is what we should expect from American politicians.

They should be able to, at their best, if they're actually working for you, we give you the grace of trusting you to fulfill these missions.

And I know the White House is cognizant of this,

This is the reason why even today, Dan, as we're speaking, they're making a lot of statements to basically signal that they're done.

This is it.

They've met their primary goals.

Now it's just a matter of working out some of the details with Iran.