Domenico Montanaro

And I think that the way he's looking at things as somebody who's going to be 80 years old,

and is term limited, is what is his legacy?

And even though people don't look at foreign policy as a top concern immediately in their minds, presidents often view how they appear on the world stage to be a legacy burnishing thing.

So being able to go out there and

Change regimes that were dictatorial to be more democratic, let's say, or more pro-Western.

That's something that Trump, I think, has his eye on for his own legacy and how he's written into the history books.

I think that the views of Trump are – what is the word?

Phrase me?

Baked in?

I think that that's absolutely the case and I don't think that people see the threat in the way that Trump and the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, are trying to bill it to be.

What was the triggering event would still continue to be my question for the president and the administration that led them to this, you know, because you've been hearing for a long time that you don't want to have an Iran with a nuclear weapon.

But what was the event?

If there was some kind of cataclysmic event that triggered this, that, you know, started in a way that, you know, harmed Americans or looked like it could be a major harm to Americans.

Then I think you see more of a rally around the flag effect or rally around the president effect.

But this, a lot of people are wondering what was the reason?

And those reasons have been shifting.

Yeah, it does feel like in some respects, he's sort of feeling like it's a fait accompli, that he's going to lose the House, that Republicans are going to lose the House.

And he's setting up, as Tam is talking about, you know, this

reason for it happening, which is that, quote unquote, Democrats cheat rather than just what happens in every midterm election, as he has laid out in many midterm elections.

Yeah, it's even worse when a president's unpopular.