John Sopel

where missiles aren't being fired, bombs aren't being dropped, but neither is anything happening towards reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

Nothing is happening about Iran's nuclear material.

And you can just see a world in which, you know, we've had Donald Trump.

calling together meetings with his kind of military commanders saying, what are my options?

And talking about ground troops again and talking about all these other things to break the impasse.

And you've then had a statement from the Supreme Commander of Iran saying, you know what?

If you start firing at us, we're ready to start firing at you.

We will make your lives hell.

And so America will then, well, what will it do?

Will it just say, OK, well, we better hold off?

And so you've just got this total impasse where what you could see happening is that America agrees to some kind of short term deal, which would look like an absolute defeat, whereby the Strait of Hormuz gets reopened because we talked about how much oil prices have gone up and the shock that is coming to the world's economic system, which we are in the foothills of right now.

in return for nothing to happen on the nuclear material that Iran has.

And as you say, Emily, so what has been achieved at the end of that, if that's how it comes to pass?

So there are two things about Hegseth and that appearance.

The first thing to say, and you made it clear that this was the first time that he'd answered questions

from congressional leaders.

How unbelievable is it that a war that has been going on for weeks and weeks and weeks.

And this is the first time that anyone from the executive is held to account by the lawmakers that pay the bills for the Pentagon.

I'm taking such resentment and umbrage at the question.

And I'm sorry, Ro Khanna's.