Hannah Rosen

His State of the Union this week was just a repeat of what he said before.

— Earlier this week, there were reports that General Dan Kaine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had raised concerns to the president about the scale and risks of the operation in Iran.

Today, we talked to staff writer Tom Nichols about what military leadership might be thinking right now.

But first — — Ready?

— I'm ready.

— Staff writer Nancy Youssef, who's been tracking the military buildup in the region.

Nancy, welcome to the show.

Great to be with you.

What conversations have already happened?

Like, what do we know is up for negotiation?

What do we expect at the talks?

Okay, so help me read between the lines here because you have experience following negotiations like this.

Is this typical or is this massively wide gulf in which nobody's even agreeing on what they're talking about?

So how do you interpret that?

Like they've given themselves, it sounds like from what you're saying, less time than they need and there are a huge number of issues.

What does that translate into for you?

I see.

So it hasn't been clear, OK, if they do this, then we pull back.

We don't know what the this is in that scenario.

OK.