John Kiriakou

That's how they want to play it.

So I went to Carrie and Carrie says, you know, we're stirring up a hornet's nest here.

And I think we should just let this fade into history.

I was like, again, because you want so badly to be secretary of state again.

It's awful, hideous business.

There are some places that I'm optimistic about.

And actually, there are some developments that may look ugly on the surface that I'm optimistic about.

First of all, this ceasefire, we're recording this on, I guess, today's Thursday, but the ceasefire that was announced this morning, this is huge, huge.

And I think this is not a victory for the Israelis.

I think that it makes Donald Trump stronger and Benjamin Netanyahu weaker.

Netanyahu's decision to bomb Gutter was too much, just too much.

It could have served to embarrass the president.

What it ended up doing is it weakened Netanyahu's position.

So that's a victory for the White House as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, the print correct pronunciation.

But they you're saying like a G. They use a G sound Other Arabs would call it Qatar with a like a K. Uh-huh, but in the Gulf dialect, it's way down here.

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The other thing is Iran.

Man, I follow Iran more closely than anybody I know.

You remember, you're a little bit younger than I am, but not much.