Jon Lovett

He's the troll that sits and collects the toll at the Strait of Hormuz.

It's actually very similar sort of.

geometrically to when he was asked which ex-president he was talking to and then didn't want to say, and then they all denied it.

So Iran saying these talks aren't happening, Trump saying they are, but he won't say with who, why?

Because he suggests if he says who the US is talking to, Israel might kill them, which also gives you a little bit of a concern about what the negotiating posture can be about promising an end to the conflict when you can't promise that your chief ally won't step in and escalate when you choose not to.

We're not at that part of the show yet.

Don't skip ahead to our hot candidate section.

Hot Iranian?

Hot Iranian section, yeah.

The administration has gotten several Iranian generals up to like 3,000 or 4,000 degrees.

Jesus.

Tough.

So there's that.

Yes.

Look, what an extraordinary couple of weeks this has been.

First, a war launched without Congress, without clear goals, goals that evolved over the basically over the course of that weekend.

They didn't really land on if there's one set of goals that kind of landed on repeatedly.

It's the Rubio version, which is no nuclear capabilities to destroy the Navy, etc.,

But they had talked about regime change, the regime's inability to project power.

Then they closed the Strait of Hormuz, at which point Trump began begging our allies to join the fight after the fight had already begun.