Greg Myre

But no, several of the things he did, including going after the top leaders on day one, shows that this was the plan.

It wasn't just like they saw a target of opportunity here.

They were clearly going after them.

Interesting, the talk, and I haven't heard this from an official person, but the talk is, you know,

These strikes began on Saturday morning, not in the middle of the night.

But the thinking of Pat perhaps is that they would feel safer and be in their normal place during the morning, not sleeping somewhere tucked away safe.

So it seemed like even the whole –

Yeah, just to add, Saturday is the first day of the week, work week in Iran.

So it's kind of like Monday morning.

You've got this big crisis.

You would expect everybody to gather at 9 o'clock or so, just after 9 o'clock in Iran when these attacks began.

Yeah.

And again, I think this goes to the fact that Trump is seeing this as regime change, something big, historic here.

We didn't hear about this in the run-up to this or the bombing last summer.

It was always about the nuclear program, fairly well-focused or even just kind of vague in recent days.

But yeah, he picked up really the most traumatic moments in the U.S.-Iran relationship over the past half century.

The taking of the hostages, a 1983 bombing in Beirut where 241 US troops were killed, the hundreds of Americans killed mostly with roadside bombs in Iraq by militants linked to Iran.

So he's –

This is not just about the nuclear program or stopping something.

This is something big.