Jessica Tarlov

And that is a pervasive sentiment, certainly amongst a certain part of the MAGA base and definitely a big subsection of the left.

I...

It feels like the administration is getting more incoherent on this war as each day passes.

They have too many messengers and not a good enough message.

I think the tone deafness of President Trump saying he grades this war a 15 out of 10 when we already have six dead service members is really tough to bear.

And I'm not sure if you saw this exchange, but Pete Hegseth in the morning said that

The press is obsessed with the things that have gone wrong, like six dead American soldiers, just to make President Trump look bad.

And then Caroline Leavitt doubled down on it during the press briefing.

And I said yesterday on The Five, go back to the Afghanistan withdrawal under President Biden, which everybody agreed was a complete disaster.

It was front-page news, as it should have been, that 13 service members passed away and Pete Hegseth, amongst others, were out front banging that drum that the commander-in-chief needs to lead with empathy and understanding for the gravity of what's gone on here.

Yes, people sign up to potentially sacrifice their lives, but when it actually happens...

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?