Joe Kent

He chose to believe it.

He could have called you if he wanted to.

He could have called Gabbard.

He could have listened to any of these people.

He ultimately chose not to.

Do you feel like you're stripping a little bit of agency away from the president by, I wouldn't say laying all the blame on the Israelis, but a lot of the blame on the Israelis?

I think we'll have plenty of time for that later on.

I think right now we're in a crisis.

And what I want the president to know is that right now, I mean, probably for the next, hopefully two weeks, but maybe even less time, he has time to turn this thing around.

So that's the most important thing to me.

That's the most important message I want to get out.

At the end of the day, he is the commander-in-chief and he understands that.

And that's why I think for him to truly capture all of his power back and for him to actually govern based on the mandate that 77 million people gave him, I think if he reflects right now on the way that this whole debacle happened and we got into the state that we're in right now with the Straits of Hormuz in peril and the price of energy and no end in sight,

I think the main focus has to be on getting him to change course.

So I guess we'll have this conversation again later to say, you know, who deserve blame later on.

But right now my focus is on hopefully getting him the space to change his mind.

I see the tactical approach that you're trying to make here.

And again, I really do respect it.

It is just that I guess, you know, we're in different positions here because my relative confidence for that happening is basically zero.

What's your confidence on that?