David McCloskey

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And spoiler alert, the answer for what to do now about Iran's nuclear capabilities is not going to be a single bombing run.

And so we'd also talked last time about this very complicated and high stakes rescue mission to go and rescue a downed U.S.

airman in Iran that took place last week.

And we should say again, we're recording this second episode online.

April the 9th.

And that rescue was this complicated mission to bring a bunch of special mission unit operators from the SEAL teams and Delta Force into this airstrip, fly out in helicopters to go and bring this airman back and get him out.

That is going to be some of the context that we'll also bring to the story about what

an operation to go after some of Iran's key nuclear capabilities might look like.

But I think before we get there, Gordon, it makes sense to kind of start at the beginning of Trump 2.0, 2025, because as we said last time, we have this problem.

which is that the Iranians are continuing to enrich uranium.

And this is one of the major issues that confronts the second Trump administration as it's taking office.

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