Jen Psaki

I mean, this looks like a freaking disaster, right?

If you're China or Russia, you're like, well, I'm just going to sit back here and watch this craziness unfold.

So there's certainly that.

It also, I mean, you know, we both worked in a White House where there was a lot of memo writing, right?

And a lot of

red teaming, as we called it, which is a good process in government, though, where you're sitting in a meeting and we did that.

But there were people who were national security leaders who were doing that at a much more highly consequential level than us.

Right.

Mapping out what would the impact be of military action in Iran?

Well, it's entirely predictable.

Any national security expert will say that it would have impacted the Strait of Hormuz, that it could have led to

the conversation about troops on the ground, that it's really difficult to actually get any of this nuclear material out.

Point being, that process happens before you even are developing, right, the public talking points and in the process of making a decision.

And because that didn't happen and it seems like Trump, I don't know the facts here, woke up on like a Friday and was like, let's do this.

It looks...

disjointed and confusing and meanwhile people are like i don't know what the hell is happening but my gas is a dollar more a gallon right or it's 20 more to fill it up so yeah i i would give them a f minus on there yes it doesn't go low enough to do it i don't even it's like probably their worst messaging i think um of things they've done in this term but that's just my for

Yeah, that's true.

And I used to have a mug that said NACP, not a comms problem, because this is... You get a lot of mugs.

That is true.

And not to take any blame off of Stephen Chung here, who is delightful, but what are you working with here, right?