Jon Favreau

And she said at one point, some of the previous leaders are now no longer on planet Earth because they lied to the United States and they strung us along in negotiations.

And that was unacceptable to the president, which is why many of the previous leaders were killed.

I do not...

I think if you were one of the current leaders in Iran, I don't know if that gets you to the table.

Negotiate with us or die.

You think that's going to get them to the table, get them into a negotiating mood?

so he's you know there's all these reports over the weekend like we said that so they're thinking of taking karg island or some of the other islands so they can control the oil or at least use the use the control of the islands as a bargaining chip in a negotiation because i think as trump and the rest of the government recognize that maybe taking karg island is easier than holding karg island because then you have a bunch of troops on these islands and now the iranians can just you know shoot away at them and try to pick them off and you've got you know holding it is pretty difficult

And the same with the incredibly complicated and dangerous mission of going into Iran and getting out the nuclear material.

And so you're starting to hear, you know, Rubio said, maybe we don't need ground troops for the objectives.

And they think that maybe in a deal with Iran, you get the Iranians to like go with you to get the nuclear material, to take it out or give it to themselves or whatever else.

But then the question is, why would the Iranians

voluntarily give the nuclear material to the US or open up the Strait of Hormuz.

And maybe Trump thinks they would do it so that they wouldn't have all of their power plants and desalination plants bombed and that the bombing would stop.

Although Trump's like, we have about 3,000 targets left and then we're done.

So then what happens when the 3,000 targets are done and the regime is still standing and the Strait of Hormuz is still closed and the nuclear materials are still inside Iran?

Then you're fucked.

Then you have nothing else to do.

And then from the other side of it... Which is why he's threatening war crimes for the civilian population, because he thinks he's like, well, I need some kind of a leverage.

For them, the regime surviving, even with all this damage, is a win for them because then they can say and they can show the world the United States and Israel gave it everything they had.

And they did not destroy the regime.