Jon Favreau

Amazing.

So there's been a lot of stellar reporting in the last week about what's been happening in the White House during this war since...

You know, we can't trust the public comments of anyone who works in the White House.

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan had quite a detailed story about the Situation Room deliberations that led to war, which apparently included an in-person presentation by Bibi Netanyahu.

What did you make of that piece?

Yeah.

What I got from that was, yeah, first of all, stunning that you had a head of state in the situation room, even an ally, like pressing for making the case for war in the situation room.

I don't think that that has ever happened.

I don't I certainly don't remember it ever happening.

That said, I also, you know, the pro-Israel folks will say, well, Donald Trump has agency and he made the decision himself and it wasn't necessarily just Bibi.

And I think the piece bears that out for sure.

I think he he Bibi definitely made the case and definitely influenced him.

But I think Donald Trump wanted to hear a pro-war case from Bibi Netanyahu.

And I guess there was like, you know, there was four Republicans.

four potential objectives for the war.

And the piece says that first was decapitation, killing the Ayatollah.

Second was crippling Iran's capacity to project power and threaten its neighbors.

Third was a popular uprising inside Iran.

And fourth was regime change with a secular leader installed to govern the country.

And basically the military, Kaine tells Trump, he thinks the military does have the capacity.