Kara Swisher

Okay, moving on.

President Trump says the U.S.

is in serious discussions with the new regime in Iran, but he's also threatening to completely destroy key energy sites if a deal is not reached.

That's a nice way to negotiate.

This is the Pentagon preparing for what could be weeks of ground operations in Iran, according to the Washington Post.

Total number of U.S.

troops in the Mideast are now 50,000, around 50,000.

That is insane amounts of people, roughly 10,000 higher than typical levels.

The Iranian military is warning that any U.S.

occupation would lead to captivity, dismemberment, and disappearance.

It is worrisome with all those people there.

There's always something bad going to happen.

And as the war drags on, markets are sliding down, with Nasdaq and Dow falling into correction territory last week, and the S&P down about 7%.

Markets are sort of a trailing indicator of some of this stuff, I think.

But

I think it creates a jittery feeling just because of the shifting back and forth.

And if you noticed, a lot of Trump people, especially Marco Rubio and J.D.

Vance, were not on any of the Sunday shows.

They're avoiding, all the cabinet members are avoiding the Sunday shows.

I had a really interesting interview before I went to New York with Tom Tillis.