Ian Bremmer

If you look at MAGA Republicans...

The polling shows their overwhelming support for what Trump is doing.

There's not this consistent across the board.

Congress, the House, the Senate, people running for president, you know, they're just like rooting for failure.

So I don't know if that would have the effect in this environment, in this highly polarized, highly political environment.

I don't know, Jess, if it would have the effect that we want it to.

But it's still we should do it anyways.

The president should be doing it anyways, because.

strategically, we need to just be explained to the American public constantly what we're doing, first of all.

Second of all, Ian said that the thing, you know, I laid out what is working and he laid out what isn't working.

I do want to add, the reaction of the Gulf states to me is really, really interesting.

I have been following for some time

relationships, warming, cooling, maybe warming again, then cooling again between Israel and the Gulf states.

What we are seeing today, I have never seen before, where the chief of staff of the IDF is on the phone multiple times a day with his counterparts in Arab countries across the region, where Israel is fully integrated into CENTCOM with all these Arab states, where the Arab states, as you said, MBS and the Emiratis, and I think the Bahrainis, are

as pushing for as an aggressive response to how Iran has fought this war as Israel has.

And so that'll be very interesting to see when this war ends.

But I think from Israel's perspective in the region, Israel is not feeling so alone.

You know, after October 7th, they were feeling alone.

Last couple of years, because of the war on Gaza, they were feeling alone.

It made life complicated politically for these Arab states.