Emily Maitlis

Trump hasn't got anything more than just this oft repeated phrase, we're not going to make a nuclear weapon.

And so just back to the money.

Right.

So all these states start sending

Money, because they're calling it reconstruction.

But we're not hearing the IRGC say, oh, yeah, that's going to schools and hospitals.

There's nothing that stops the money going in, frankly, to the IRGC being spent on drones, on missiles, on more armament with which to then presumably hit whichever targets they fall out of favour with.

Yeah.

And the people who are really furious with Trump's turnabout, his capitulation, as you called it, is Israel, because they have been locked out the negotiations on this memorandum of understanding.

They weren't given an opportunity to review the text and the harshest words.

in the last three weeks, I think, have been between Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

In other words, the people that he went into it to try and help, which I think we understand now, this was Trump sort of, you know, doing a solid for Netanyahu, who said we need to be able to clear out Hezbollah from Lebanon.

Now Trump's so angry about what Israel's been doing in Lebanon that

They've locked them out the whole process.

So they've kind of made an enemy of the person that, you know, was in Trump's pocket to start with.

To be fair, he called out Netanyahu and what he was doing in Lebanon in a way that few other leaders around the world have dared do.

I think we should just play that clip maybe.

where he talks about why he's bombing entire apartment blocks just to find one person.

He's spelling out what I think loads of people around the world think about Israeli actions in Lebanon, quite frankly.

But what this does mean is