Jessica Tarlov

they should be honored.

And you saw that from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, but you did not see that from our secretary of defense.

So I think we're in a really tough spot.

The money of it matters.

We're spending a billion dollars a day.

We have to spend $4 million for each of these missiles to knock out $20,000 Russian drones.

And I know that you're gonna wanna talk about this aspect of it.

The fact that we had to call in the Ukrainians to help us out,

When we've deprived them of the Tomahawk missiles that would have taken out the Russian drone factories that they're then supplying to the Iranians is—what's the right term for that?

It's like poetic justice in some way.

Is that right?

I don't know.

It is ironic, to say the least.

And I love that Zelensky, you know, their drop of a hat.

I will help you absolutely, even though we have ignored his requests, denied his requests, and continue to waffle on the conflict, the existential conflict that the Ukrainians are in.

I mean, the execution going poorly or that argument, apparently in actual targets that have been taken out, etc., it has gone well.

There isn't a level of effectiveness to this, which you would expect if it's the American military and the Israelis and all of our Gulf partners.

The problem is more, to your point, about the lack of preparation and then the what next and the follow through to that.

And there's been reporting that Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth are fighting internally about the boots on the ground element, where Rubio does not want that to be the case.

And Pete Hegseth is all for it, you know, just finish the job.