Jon Lovett

He was asked, how can it both be only just beginning and almost over?

And he's like, in a way, both are true.

Yeah, it's really, it's gotten real meta here.

He also was like, you know, we could have done it.

So look, if we didn't, if they're like, they asked him to define success.

And he said, well, success, you know, the mission's over when the next day, they don't go back to building nuclear weapons the next day.

And then he said, look, we could have done this the easy way or the hard way.

And we did it the hard way.

But I actually think the hard way is the easy way.

What?

What does that mean?

It was wild.

It's just like, clearly what happened today is he woke up, he saw the price of oil going through the roof.

He saw the stock market getting spooked.

And he was like, I got to say something to calm the waters here.

But like, I don't know that that means it's actually going to end the war sooner than later.

Like the Israelis are going to have a say.

The Iranians are going to have a say.

And by no objective measure is mission accomplished, right?

Like there's 900 pounds of enriched nuclear material sitting in Iran that everybody says they're the most concerned about.