Josh Dawsey

They were destroying naval ports.

They were destroying Air Force areas.

There was little defense originally from the Iranians.

And it looked like a military campaign that was working.

Yeah.

A senior person in the White House said to me that they had on all of these calls, a lot of them are BB saying, you know, here's how we should blow something up.

Here's how intelligence can do it.

Here's what it would mean to the Iranians.

Here's how it would hurt them.

Here's how it would pressure them.

And trying to convince the president to do it.

energy infrastructure, other things that even the president originally did not think were smart moves by the U.S.

And so this person was saying to me that Bibi always comes in with a plan of what should we bomb next, and here's how we know it will be effective, and here's what we will do.

Well, they've started to change in recent weeks.

I think the president is coming under a lot of heat domestically for what's going on with the United States economy, what's going on with, you know, gas prices, what's going on, you know, within the 50 states, right?

A lot of Republicans splintering even on the war.

A lot of frustration from all CEOs and others in the business community about the closed straight of Hormuz, right?

and a lot of sort of just malcontent that there's no sort of endgame that works great for the United States.

The president has started looking more for a deal, right?

Some way to end this for himself, to end this for the country ahead of the midterms.