Jon Stewart

Welcome to the weekly show podcast.

My name is Jon Stewart, and I will be your host and guide on this week's episode.

It is Tuesday, May 12th.

We won the war in Iran.

It is over.

The only slight hiccup is apparently Iran believes they also won the war.

Iran and so we're a little bit of a stalemate as we're trying to figure out who is correct in that environment and it does get incredibly confusing to some extent so we thought today rather than speculate rather we want to unravel the past a little bit in terms of how has America gotten here where we feel as though we need to intervene and

in every different area of the world, whether through covert coups or bombing raids or sanctions or all these other methodologies to control the world, none of which seem to do that at all.

They just seem to sow an increased level of chaos.

So we thought, well, who knows about that kind of stuff?

Maybe somebody who's been in the room when those interventions are being discussed, and that's who we're going to talk to today.

the author of the upcoming book, All We Say, writer, political commentator, national security analyst, currently co-host and Pod Save the World contributor at MSNOW, Ben Rhodes.

What's happening, man?

Hey, John.

Good to see you.

Good to see you.

Now, you're a speechwriter for President Obama.

You're Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama.

In this current moment that we find ourselves, where we are in a war,

to hopefully coerce the Iranian regime to give us something that vaguely resembles the JCPOA that was negotiated how many years ago?