Krystal Ball
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But does he really care at the end of the day if that turns out to crumble, if he's also able to say, I did this, I brought people to the table, they had all the incentives, and they just didn't want to make a deal?
And that's also probably something he's satisfied with at the end of the day.
Less satisfied, of course, than being able to be remembered as the president who brought peace to the Middle East or whatever he thinks that his vision of peace in the Middle East looks like.
Mara, Gaza, whatever that was or is, actually, because that seems to still be the plan.
Hard to know.
But anyway, all this is to say, you look at.
how people have been treating Trump, who are supporters of the robust Israeli-American alliance over the last couple of months.
Like, he is the hero, the visionary.
All of his haters are
They are disintegrating the coalition.
They're being selfish.
The pushback is anti-Trump.
And now some of these same people are doing pushback and saying that Trump is abandoning Israel.
They're furious.
You heard Podoritz and Eli Lake, who, by the way, we invited to come on the show today.
We will keep asking him to come on because... My cousin Eli.
Yeah, distant by marriage, I think, right?
Yeah.
And so we want to bring somebody on who's going to make this... My cousin won't even come on the program.
...argument.