Joe Kent

And that's what makes me nervous right now, where this could happen really quickly.

So my assessment, this is based on several sources, people who I've spoken to.

What I'm told is that I see a lot of Pentagon leaders, they've come out anonymously and they're leaking.

They're like, no, we warned Trump about the Straits of Hormuz.

From what I know, that's not 100% true.

Again, I am not absolving Trump of any responsibility.

They certainly told him that it was going to be a potential issue, but they sold a much more optimistic vision at the beginning.

This is not just the Israelis.

This is also our own chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who I'm speaking about,

Specifically, and the narrative, again, that I've been told is that the people who did share that view were excised from their command, which you could see it's public knowledge.

It's been reported out there.

I'm curious for what you heard about the way that that went down many of those critical meetings in the situation room.

You know, I think the imagery that's been publicly released is very telling, where you had one small group that was down in Mar-a-Lago that night, and then you had the rest up at the Situation Room at the time.

Look, in the lead up to the 12-day war, we were having very robust debates that were part of the National Security Council process.

The principal small group, we'd have the deputies committee meetings.

We'd have very robust debates with all 18 intelligence agencies, with the Joint Chiefs staff.

And that played out over the course of about a month in the lead up to the 12-day war.

And to include that ahead of Midnight Hammer, where a lot of us said, okay, fine, if you bomb these sites, that's all well and good.

We take out Iran's ability to enrich.

That meets our strategic objective.