Michael Knowles

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?

Will Trump force it through?

And what will we have gotten out of it?

And it shouldn't have anything to do with our ceasefire.

No, so the fear is that, and I've seen people say this, they went from criticizing Trump for bombing Iran to criticizing Trump for not bombing Iran.

Bill Kristol came out, he said, this is a taco, Trump chickens out.