Jessica Tarlov

no matter what.

And to have that kind of internal feuding with people in those levels of positions, you're not talking about like rando staffers having a disagreement, right?

You're talking about the two guys besides the president who need to be on the same page of that.

And there is nothing that is going to matter more to the American public than whether American men and women are going to die for this.

And it also feeds the flames of the argument over how much of the timing was based on Israel's schedule versus our schedule.

And I think you nailed it in pointing out the fact that there are tens of thousands of Americans or Westerners that are left sitting in hotels, apartments with no way to get out of there.

Private jet travel costs like $250,000 to get out.

And I saw that also people are taking their pets because they don't think that they're ever going to be able to go back.

Right.

This isn't a you can leave for two weeks and then you can come home.

The president himself had to tweet out information of where to call in the State Department because people were essentially getting a wrong number.

when they were calling in to get help.

So it feels absolutely disastrous on that level.

And that this is the group of people that rather than admit that something went badly or change course, will just dig in.

And it has such astronomical consequences, right?

To be the people, like the Roy Cohn analogy that you were using the other day when we were talking about this.

So I'm...

I'm pretty bummed about it, and the Democrats are facing a challenge.

There's going to be a request for another $50 billion in funding.

A few of the Democrats, including, like, Jack Reed, said that they're open to it.