Jason Calacanis

Nice to see you.

It's just amazing to have you on here and to give us this time.

If things were to go extremely well and Iran went from a monarchy to a dictatorship and now in this third act here in the modern day to a democracy...

and you actually had a democracy with 93 million citizens in the Middle East, what impact would that have on the region?

We've seen the Gulf monarchies evolve human rights, but they're still monarchies.

You have one other, I guess, democracy in the region in Israel, but this could be extraordinary if it was a democracy.

What would that mean to the global chessboard?

Well, it's a good question.

This is, I think, before we move out of the MENA region, a topic that's coming up.

There's obviously no support for this war in America.

Most Americans put foreign affairs today at one or two percent of their concern.

Economy and many other issues are high on their list.

And he's been pretty clear, hey, we're not going to put boots on the ground.

And then there's this anti-Semitic underpinning that's happening in America that's become pretty acute.

And you had Rubio, who we mentioned earlier, say, hey, we did this because the Israelis were going in anyway, and we had no choice.

And then they walked that back.

Explain to the audience how we should look at that turn of events where there's a group of people in America, specifically people in the MAGA party, who believe Trump has betrayed them and that he's captured by the Israeli government in some way.

And he's doing their bidding.

I'm not saying that that's my perspective, but that is an undertone that we're seeing.

And that's something new in our lifetime, I think.