Jon Lovett

It is boots on the ground.

I don't understand why the media kind of like takes at face value these claims.

Like, oh, it's not boots on the ground.

It's like, yes, it is.

Yeah.

What we just saw was the most bizarre, like we've never ever seen a president talk so cavalierly and vaguely and in ways that contradict itself about putting Americans in harm's way.

We've never seen anything like this.

Never had someone who seems to either not be able to retain the information he's given, not want to retain these information he's given, not be honest about what he knows and what he doesn't know.

We don't even right now, like in the last, what, 48 hours, we've been told that the goal is to destroy the Navy and the missile program, but also the only acceptable outcome is unconditional surrender.

We've been told that this isn't regime change, but people should rise up and overthrow the regime.

We're a week in and we still don't, like, forget knowing why we were doing this before.

We don't know why

They did this after they did it.

We still don't know.

And that was after the three of us, as part of our jobs, watched the president talk about it for about 90 minutes.

We have no idea what we're talking about coming into this studio.

We watched the president of the United States, the commander in chief, spend an hour and a half talking about national security and national interest.

And we do not understand why we went to Iran, what success in Iran looks like, how we get out of it, what the goal is, any of it.

That is madness.

What we're dealing with is madness.