Jen Psaki

This is a war and bad things happen in war.

And David, this is important because you're in Jerusalem where similar things are happening.

Donald Trump is taking a page out of Benjamin Netanyahu's book here in terms of exaggerating things that happen, military activities.

that occur.

It was very clear to all of us last June that the Israeli, joint Israeli-American attacks on Iran obliterated their nuclear capability.

And suddenly we're at war with them to deal with their nuclear capability.

Two days ago, Donald Trump said Americans will be fine with the high price of gas because we don't have the danger of someone, the words he used was throwing a nuclear weapon at us.

There was zero threat of Iran throwing any sort of nuclear weapon at the United States.

Colonel McGrath, I think Barbara makes a really good point that one may have degraded Iran's capabilities, anti-aircraft capabilities to some degree, and something can always get through and the Iranians might get lucky.

But it's hard to know, right?

We're in a weird situation where

We're not sure when the Pentagon tells us something, whether to believe it.

We're not sure when the president of the United States tells us something, whether to believe it.

We've got ourselves into a situation where we're waiting for confirmation from the Iranians, who we don't typically trust on this information anyway, to try and corroborate what the Americans are telling us.

From the point of view of the people who are asked to go out there and fight, the airmen and the sailors and the soldiers and the Marines who are out there,

What does this do to morale when it's just not clear what we're doing there and what the end goal is?

Barbara, what do you make of the idea that that Donald Trump on a daily basis either has told you that war is over?

It's going to end soon.

It's going to end within two weeks.

It's going to be real easy.