Michael Knowles

And the Persians have been waiting for this for so long and how wonderful for the Iranian people.

And I said, well, you know, respectfully, I like Persians and stuff, but why am I supposed to care about that?

I'm an American, right?

This is the best case you can make for the war?

So according to the reporting here, Bibi Netanyahu flies to the White House.

They have this high-level meeting.

Vance at the time was in Azerbaijan wrapping up that trip.

But even with the vice president out,

Everyone was saying, look, the Israelis are overselling this.

I think the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, said that.

Same thing with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

And you're really probably not going to get regime change.

I was always so skeptical of this idea that the Iranians were going to just rise up and take over their government because, you know, all we ever see is these hot Persian women smoking cigarettes, ripping off their hijabs.

I said,

I don't think that's reflective, actually, of most of the Persian people.

And so obviously we're not getting regime change.

The White House hasn't even really pushed that for the last four and a half weeks or so.

So but by the end of this conflict, the question is, is the straight opening is does Israel want to go along with the ceasefire?

Apparently not.

Will Trump do it anyway?