John Bolton

I wrote in Mike Pence because I thought he would.

Obviously, there was no way he was going to win or no way anybody other than Trump or Harris would have won.

But I just didn't think that either one of them met the standard I thought was appropriate.

Yeah, well, I think that's probably true.

I must say, I didn't foresee that things would be so chaotic in the national security space.

I thought a lot would depend on who we nominated.

And I think we know the answer to that now.

But, you know, I live in Maryland, so my vote basically doesn't make any difference anyway.

Well, I don't think...

People who know the situation inside Iran really thought that the people would go out in the streets for weeks for a long time after the attacks began because they had been in the streets basically in an economic protest in December and January.

And that had ended with people being machine gunned.

And that has an intimidating effect, as you can imagine.

And I think...

It is the case that Trump and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs have all been saying to Iranians, stay indoors during this bombing campaign.

What they should be doing is working on pulling the regime apart at the top, working on senior regime officials who may be thinking, you know, this government is going down.

I don't want to go down with the ship.

And there's an appropriate time to come out in the streets.

And what you're looking for is a time when much, if not all, of the military isn't about to say, we're not going to fire on our fellow Iranians.

We're just not going to do it.

Which is why I think the attacks on the Revolutionary Guard and the besieging militia inside Iran are so important.