Emily Compagno

The leader of Al Qaeda today, right now, is alive and living in Tehran.

Now, I don't think he was at any of those meetings where everybody went down.

But who were they protecting?

Who were they giving comfort to?

Al Qaeda.

So there's that.

And I believe the other problem is that Iran, having taken a beating last summer, didn't take a lesson.

Right.

They said, well, I guess we'll just keep going.

And Witkoff last night on Hannity says they came into the meeting last week and said, we don't care what you do.

We have enough material right now for 11 nuclear weapons.

or nuclear bombs.

So Iran is basically saying, now that they have the fact that their leadership is decimated, they just want to burn it all down.

They're like, if we're going down, all of you are going down with us, and that's why you see them attacking everyone else.

But they are definitely backed into a corner.

They...

I think the Iranians are hoping that Trump and Netanyahu will back down and that they can have some sort of way to survive.

What I gather from what the president and the secretary of state and secretary of war have said is that that's not going to happen.

Jesse, you've been covering this alongside Dana since that first Saturday.

What are your thoughts on how this has been unfolding?