Kurt Mills

And President Trump would not want to repeat Jimmy Carter's mistake by doing intervention in Iran.

Yeah, so high stakes meeting.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has already met with Secretary Rubio.

It was, by all appearances, well, it achieved the goal of getting Netanyahu on the Board of Peace.

I will note that the body language of Secretary Rubio was rather strange.

with Netanyahu.

It didn't look like Rubio was particularly happy to be there because Netanyahu is going to come to this series of meetings of an agenda.

He does not want basically any deal that the Iranians will plausibly accept, and he wants the U.S.

to return to a war footing

with Iran.

And it looks like yesterday that he was very much getting his way.

The president's messaging to both Israeli media and to Lawrence Kudlow was using the missiles line.

That is that the Iranians have to disarm entirely.

in order to have an acceptable deal.

That is something that the Iranians will not do.

They'd rather just go to war and take their chances.

Today, though, I think the appearance is that it's more murky and that no one really knows what the president wants to do.

We have, obviously, a lot of assets in the region, and we could attack.

The Israelis could attack.

Indeed, the Israelis have signaled that they may attack if the U.S.