Laura Ingraham

Trump did not simply follow Beebe's recommendation.

He was fully briefed from the Pentagon and intel communities.

He did have an open and productive dialogue from his entire war cabinet, who each gave informed assessments.

And finally, President Trump, as always, understood leverage, and then when he made his decision, how to use it.

This is how the White House is supposed to work.

They're not supposed to sit over in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and do whatever the press or the pundits or cable or podcast hosts or global elites want them to do.

The president is supposed to act in the long-term interest in security of the United States, not in his own short-term political interest.

So if we cannot come to some type of peace deal with people who can't be trusted, then what?

Well, looks like the U.S.

is going to escalate.

President Trump is already warning of widespread further damage, threatening to hit electric generating plants, oil wells, and Karg Island, as he's reportedly considering sending ground troops in to secure the uranium.

Now, knowing what little time we have and how quickly this can spiral out of control, we still have a lot of questions.

For instance, was the president fully briefed about the risks of all of this from the beginning?

And was he then able to take it all in and understand the complexity of this, how complex it could actually get, and further possibilities of casualties or other damage, the difficulty of...

was a little bit Reagan-esque, especially toward the end.

I think this could have been the best speech he has ever delivered, and I'm interested to see perhaps a little bump in the polls.

But regardless, any historian who's writing about this presidency has to watch this speech tonight and read it carefully because this, to me, is one of the best speeches as a State of the Union I've heard in probably 20 years.

And does that mean the H-1B visa thing will not be a big priority for your administration?

Because if you want to raise wages for American workers, you can't flood the country with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers.

We have plenty of talented people here.