Dan Pfeiffer

If Israel attacks Iran and then Iran attacks an American base, I do not think the American people are then going to sign up for a protracted war in the Middle East.

We talked about this in an actual private conversation that wasn't recorded.

But American people have gotten a lot more skeptical of foreign interventions.

And that question in the CBS poll, I think in people's minds,

is a military strike like Midnight Hammer, or whatever we called the other thing.

Not an actual protracted conflict that could cost American lives, could lead to attacks on the homeland or on Americans abroad, could likely lead to a giant spike in

oil prices, and just general chaos in the world.

And just remember, this is a president at 38% approval who is underwater on every single issue, including national security and foreign policy, who may launch the United States into a war he has not explained to a single person why it's happening.

And so I just think people do not want to go to war, and they really don't want Donald Trump to take them to war.

I mean, by the time you're listening to this, it is quite possible that the strike happened because the gating issue was they were going to get through these talks on Thursday.

We're recording this on Thursday.

The talks are over.

So at any point, something could happen.

I would not be surprised if it happened over the weekend or overnight.

We don't know.

I don't know.

I think it's hard for Republicans to vote to him in the president on a national security issue.

So we'll see.

You guys got to rant about this on Tuesday.

I would like to reclaim my time for a second.