David French

It was destroying missile launchers.

It was destroying Iranian nuclear facilities.

It was destroying the Iranian defense industrial base.

But guess what, Tim?

All of that can be fixed.

All of it can be fixed with money, with money.

And what was Iran making a lot of during this war?

Money.

It was controlling the straight.

It had received special dispensation because the one check and balance on Donald Trump that you can count on is the Dow.

He wants that Dow 50,000.

You know, he wants all of that.

And so he was constantly trying to do whatever he could to keep the Dow from cratering, even if that meant easing up our sanctions on Iran, the very country we were fighting, to allow them to sell oil on the international market to keep the price of oil from exploding.

What are we doing here?

You know, I use this analogy often.

Tim, I feel like I'm unusually animated for the Bulwark podcast.

But as I said at Morning Joe, because this also very grieves me for the military.

Like what he's doing to the military right now is grievous.

And I said, there's an analogy, it's an ancient analogy, but it really became famous after World War I. After there's so much valor, indescribable courage for four years on the most brutal battlefield the world had ever seen.

And this was the analogy, lions led by donkeys.