Mark Halperin

who are worried, who are worried.

And part of what they're worried about is they think there needs to be a broad coalition.

There needs to be a rallying.

Democrats in Congress, of course, have been against this from the start, with few exceptions, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and a few others.

But that's another area where, you know, we say in politics and these issues, good gets better and bad gets worse.

The Democratic criticism of the mission overall, why is he doing it, didn't ask for permission from Congress, etc.,

all of no exit strategy, all of that criticism becomes more powerful, more covered, more pointed if things aren't going well.

And again, right now, because of the straight and other things, they're not going well.

Public opinion, you know, wrong to say Republicans are against this or even MAGA is against it.

In fact, MAGA is pretty supportive still.

But some segment of MAGA is not for this.

And independent voters, whether they're true independents or they lean Democrat or lean Republican, have real questions about it.

I'm revising my view on a couple things, related things to go to public opinion.

One is, I had said on this program and elsewhere,

that the president's shifting and inconsistent positions on all sorts of things related to the conflict were not only not bad, but actually were good.

They gave him flexibility.

They allowed him to appeal to different people on different things.

They kept the enemy off balance.

But now I think it's a problem because when he says things like things are great in the straight, as we heard earlier,

And people know it's not true.