Eric Swalwell

It was the two bombings.

And the real clincher was the threat of Soviet invasion.

of the iranians no we are not the like i said the iranians and i say this as a as an opponent of the government there the iranians have yeah we both right the exact course of course yes the the iranians have effectively uh been able to meet us at every turn this is a professional military

um you know you have to give you have to give a little bit of kudos here because everybody i think thought that the the military was going to be like the iraqi military was going to fold upon first contact but that has not been the case this is a very these guys are cool as cucumbers and uh they were ready and they were prepared for what we were going to throw at them they anticipated every move so far which is why you're seeing the president having these outbursts

you know, well, we're going to maybe annihilate the entire civilization.

That's not what an American president talks like.

He's talking like that because he's frustrated because the Iranians are not complying with how he thought things were going to play out.

And when it comes to the negotiations, the same thing.

The Iranians came in with their set of demands.

We had our set of demands.

And the problem the Iranians had is they said the Americans added the new demands, that these were never...

originally discussed and furthermore the Iranians made it clear the only way they were meeting with us was based upon their 10 points not ours and the Iranians were surprised that we even met with them because they were not offering to meet meet us and talk about you know enrichment they wanted to talk about their 10 points only we said okay it was never going to work it was this is what I was saying at the time there's no way there's no uh stasis in the in the argument

I think that indicates that I think the vice president was very genuine in trying to figure out a way to make it work.

But he was obviously being overruled by the president.

And we know that he was talking constantly with the Israeli prime minister, which, you know, on one hand, you say, well, we know that from the Israeli prime minister.

Well, I think it reveals the exposure that the entire Republican Party in particular has to this particular ally.

Again, they are partners with us in this war, so on some level there's going to have to be coordination between

between us and them just because of the nature of the conflict.

But the question is, why are we calling every day?

Why is it like how they're describing it?