Dan Pfeiffer

I mean, this is one of those things where, in a normal world, with a normal Congress, a normal Republican Congress, there would be pushback to this unauthorized war.

No, you're not going to get it from John Thune and Mike Johnson.

But there would be more people, like the people who actually work on the committees that authorize these things, would have something to say about it.

And there would be demands for evidence.

This is like, in this realm of foreign policy and use of military force, it's like one of the rare places where bipartisanship still kind of sort of exists periodically.

But then publicly, I don't know that anyone, most people don't know this is happening.

And up until the moment we send ground troops there, like we do know over the last 24 years here that the American people have a very high tolerance for military strikes that don't involve US boots on the ground.

That would be a logical conclusion of where we are right now.

I don't I don't know.

I think a lot.

I think some of the day to day coverage is probably going to be affected.

There's, you know, the Pentagon briefs every day.

There will not be someone there to real journalists to ask those questions.

In a typical world, even after these military strikes, a military officer in charge would do a briefing, and then you would have journalists who would ask questions.

That doesn't happen now, but even the daily or quasi-daily Pentagon briefings will not happen or have real journalists, which I think is a loss.

The big stories, the ones that reveal what's actually happening behind the scenes, the thing that Pentagon doesn't want you to know, the things that Pete Hicks is trying to stop, that journalism will continue.

Because that is not found by just hanging out in the Pentagon.

That's found by developing sources, working with sources, finding whistleblowers, getting documents.

And I think that will continue.

The bigger problem here, or the more concerning thing, is less the actual impact on day-to-day coverage of this Pentagon in the short term.