Mark Halperin

But that's an asymmetrical advantage for the Iranians.

They don't have the firepower of the United States.

They didn't when the conflict started.

And they don't now.

But what we're seeing every day in real time is the drones give the Iranians the ability to compete with the United States, attacking ships, attacking Israel.

That's a real problem.

And it's a problem like the question of how the United States wasn't prepared to deal with controlling the Strait of Hormuz.

They seem not prepared to deal with the drones.

And people are asking, including some of the administration, Republican allies of the administration are asking, how could the United States have initiated this conflict without, it appears, a plan on the Strait of Hormuz and a plan on the drones, okay?

I'm saying they didn't think about it or they had nothing, but they're improvising now to come up with ways to counteract those two challenges against the Iranians.

Three things raised their hand, raised their face here in the last couple days that also, again, are very ominous.

Cyber attack.

There's report of a big Iranian cyber attack.

The Iranians have long been known as one of the premier practitioners of cyber warfare and of hacking.

So now there's been one.

Now we need to be on guard for more.

That would open up another front where the Iranians, again, have an asymmetrical advantage.

Reports of potential sleeper cells, including potential use of drones, either sleeper cells in the United States or drones coming to the United States.

Big report about a potential attack in Los Angeles.

Again, it doesn't need to happen to destabilize people, to get a lot of people concerned in the United States, maybe people who aren't paying super close attention to this.