Jeffrey Sachs

And now you have this war with Iran, where Trump also said that Iran interfered in 2020 as well.

So he is looking for a way to not just mess with the elections, but declare a national emergency, move the election, I mean, really seize control.

of what's gonna happen here because I think he knows that he's electorally a dead man walking already.

So I do think that is part of the calculus that's going into this as well as you try to wrap your head around why any president would do something that is so profoundly stupid and unpopular.

No, I agree with you.

I mean, it's an incredible act of hubris to think that you could just... That's what I'm saying.

That you could just impose your will on the entirety of the American public at basically the barrel of a gun.

Even in actual dictatorships, the public still is going to have a say at some point.

You're still somewhat constrained by what people are going to tolerate.

And yeah, if you are causing a financial collapse...

People are struggling to afford like basic necessities.

You're threatening to take all the jobs away with AI and you're getting us into a disastrous war.

You know, I think you're going to be I think I think you're going to people are not going to just go along with you also rigging and stealing the elections.

I think they'll have something to say about that.

Let's go and put up E2 on the screen here.

So Trump is saying now he wants to talk to the Iranians after assassinating their supreme leader and bombing their country and starting this war.

He told The Atlantic, quote, they want to talk.

I've agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them.

On the contrary, though, it does not appear that the Iranians want to talk for understandable reasons, especially after we used diplomacy now multiple times in a row as a ruse in order to attack their country.

But what do you make of this outreach from President Trump and also the relative silence from the administration after launching this war?