Dave Smith

OK, fine.

But please don't do any more.

OK, fine.

But please don't do any more.

OK, fine.

But please come and negotiate.

It's very clear, Rob.

Donald Trump don't want it no more.

He just wants out.

He knows that the only thing that can happen from more escalation is more escalation.

Anyway, your thoughts on any of that stuff.

Feel free to jump in.

Okay, so I do have a slightly different read on it than you.

I agree with you that the Axios stuff is garbage.

I don't buy at all that there are these tensions between Trump and Netanyahu, or I don't buy at all that the phone call was real or that this is the moment Trump's about to turn on Israel or something like that.

I feel a little bit differently about the New York Times piece.

We'll get into that in a second.

But I will say that, look, I think part of what's going on here

is that, you know, like if you remember, it was Breitbart, Andrew Breitbart's, I believe it was his phrase that, where he said, politics is downstream from culture.

And I never liked that phrase particularly because I thought it was,