Jessica Tarlov

I'm just going to give you a series of quotes of high-ranking Republican officials and the things that they're saying.

And you can see how they don't match what they said 24 hours ago.

It's a completely schizophrenic administration when it comes to this war.

And I'm worried that it's just going to

like the final nail in the coffin of the global world order.

So Poland doesn't want to help us.

Spain and Italy in the last 24 hours have come out and said, like, you can't land here on route to that.

The UK doesn't want to information share with us in the way that we typically could rely on.

And we're saying we're going to peace out before the Strait is reopened.

What will be the main achievement of any of this?

Well, on top of it, you know, part of the calculus of the Trump administration has always been that we're going to recenter our ally nexus to the Middle East, right, and create these great partnerships with the Gulf states.

And the Gulf states are saying, you have to keep going.

Like, you can't poke the bear and then leave us here, essentially, at this point.

And so you have this push and pull from the signals that he's getting from Americans at home.

I mean, his approval rating was generous yesterday when I said it was at 40%.

There are now a number of polls that have him in the mid-30s, even low-30s, right?

You have gas hitting over $4 a gallon today.

What's diesel up to?

Like $5.50 a gallon.

So that decimates, you know, trucking industries, housing, construction, et cetera.