Dan Pfeiffer

He told us like two weeks before the war that he had so obliterated their nuclear capacity that we would have to bomb the dust, right?

The leftover dust.

But if you, there was a, there was a way, like if you want to take the country to war, you have to do, you have to have a reason to do it.

You have to do an immense planning process for what happens after the first bombs drop, which they did not do here.

They absolutely did not do.

They seem flummoxed by everything that's happening.

But you also have to go to the country and go to the world and build a case for it.

And they did not even try.

That may have failed.

It probably would have failed under all scenarios.

Yeah.

But they didn't try.

And one of the reasons why I think they didn't try –

is the people around Trump who wanted to do this knew that if you talked about it, everyone would say, don't do this.

And so they really tried to make the biggest, most dangerous, most consequential decision a president makes on the cheap.

Yes.

Ever.

There was no polling at the outset of the Vietnam War, but I suspect this would be even more popular than that.

And you'll never know if you've got it all.

The whole thing is a disaster.