Mark Mazzetti

So last December, he goes to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President Trump.

And during that meeting, we believe that Netanyahu basically asks Trump's permission for Israel to strike Israel.

sometime in 2026, particularly ballistic missile sites, because this is of urgent concern to Israel.

Iran's missile program, as we've seen, is quite capable of hitting Israel.

And so even as Trump is talking about the protesters,

Netanyahu is also making his own case for a joint U.S.-Israeli conflict to be far more ambitious than what happened last year.

And the question, of course, is all of these diplomatic talks are happening is if they fail, we're building up this huge military presence in the Middle East around Iran.

What kind of attack will the United States be willing to do?

Would it be limited?

Would it be large?

And what would the goal of any such attack be from the United States perspective?

That was the biggest question over the last several weeks as this military buildup in the Middle East was happening, the largest military buildup since the Iraq War of 2003.

The military is planning for a very large-scale conflict, but what would the president decide and why and why now?

And how is the Trump administration justifying this conflict?

What is the reason for war?

What is the evidence of the threat?

And what you saw this week was President Trump and some of his senior advisors making a case for war on many different fronts, and that case didn't hold up very well under scrutiny.

So you heard the president in the State of the Union address on Tuesday night saying that Iran has ballistic missiles that will soon be capable of hitting the United States.

That is not true.

The Iranians have a ballistic missile program.