Luke Thomas

From their perspective, they may believe that they have more reason to sprint for a weapon on the basis of a stockpile of highly enriched uranium that they only built after Donald Trump shredded President Obama's Iran deal over the objections of his secretaries of state and defense.

So you've got a more hardline and dangerous regime in Tehran, which has now shown to the world

that under heavy aerial bombardment from the two most powerful air forces in world history they can sustain closure of the strait and throttle global energy supply and very swiftly in this conflict

The president found himself in the dilemma where his options were to escalate or to lose.

And now we're in this standoff that is doing immense damage to the global economy and our leverage in these situations.

nuclear negotiations, which are crucially important because an Iranian nuclear weapons capability would be an existential threat to many of our allies, a critical national security threat to the United States.

Our leverage in that diplomacy is now diminished.

I deeply and sincerely regret the immense damage that this incompetent president has done to our standing in the world, our position in the world, to our national power, to our economic power, and to our alliances through his and his team's rank incompetence.

and amateurism this has been an ill-fated ill-considered debacle from the very start and the whole world can see it and they can never unsee it well there's some good news though we can say pussy again you know so that's nice we can they said he gets back in there

You know, I'm afraid that that's just one of those private questions, Tim.

Look, I've been clear and outspoken about this for years now.

Israel is an important ally of the United States.

The United States is committed to the security of the Israeli people.

But there's no such thing as security.

unconditional security assistance to a foreign government.

No foreign government is simply entitled as a matter of right to American weapons at any time, for any purpose.

We have no strings attached.

And it's entirely reasonable for the United States to use the leverage that comes with the provision of armaments to a foreign government to shape that foreign government's conduct, no matter how close an ally they are.

Where a foreign government's conduct is adverse to our interests or contrary to our values, then using that leverage, using that power to advance the interests and values of the American people is not just appropriate, it should be normal.

Yeah, I want to go deeper on the Saudi and Emirati connections because I think this is some of the most blatant and grotesque conflicts of interest and corruption in the history of white houses.