Jim Himes

First of all, I don't spend a lot of time with Donald Trump, but I can only imagine what it's like to be in his war council, right?

Because my suspicion is that every hour or so, the rationale and the emotional temperature and the objectives change.

You just need to watch Donald Trump in a news conference to know that that is most likely true.

So my best guess is that...

The president realized that Iran was imminent danger notwithstanding, because that explanation, of course, is both wrong, a lie, and insane, considering that Iran, as vicious and as dangerous as they are, are

weaker today, relatively speaking, than they have been for a very long time because of the 12-day War of June and because of the bombing of their nuclear infrastructure.

My guess is that Donald Trump, probably listening to Prime Minister Netanyahu, who for 40 years

this has been his primary objective, decided that he could secure a role in history.

And my guess is that the Secretary of State, and I do emphasize that these are my guesses because I wasn't in the room, my guess is that the Secretary of State was doing a lot of backfilling and not particularly well.

Again, his explanation makes it sound as though we are reactive and passive bystanders rather than a superpower.

Yeah, I obviously got to be a little careful about talking about said reports if they exist, given my role on the Intelligence Committee.

But one way to think about this is, duh, the United States has been making no secret of its effort

halting though it may be to help the Ukrainians.

And you can imagine what Vladimir Putin thinks now that we have a substantial portion of our military capability exposed in the region.

So, I mean, I'll just, I'll leave it at that.

Thank you, Rachel.

American people, even if you're not sort of interested in the words of the Constitution, committing our young men and women, putting them at risk, getting them killed in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States Congress, the representatives of the people should have a role in that decision.

These guys, and this is why the American people need to see this video, these guys were...

We're barely alive, much less engaging in hostilities.

What you see in that video is the United States for a lengthy period of time observing two men with no weapons, with no radio.