Michael Knowles

He's in a very difficult situation.

There's no real win available to him.

So to your point, Megan, the reporting that says he's kind of sick of the war in Iran.

Yeah, I get it.

That's a big threat to the Republicans right now.

even as we've got a lot of structural wins thanks to the courts, thanks to redistricting.

So any way to wind this thing down, I think, is probably the right thing to do because the probability of ousting that regime under current political conditions, I think, is basically zero.

You have these three options, which is either you just take a bad deal or you invade Iran, which nobody really wants to do, or you could just keep the status quo, which is what the president has been doing, though he's signaling that's probably coming to an end.

which is Iran launches its blockade to hold hostage 20% of the world's oil and natural gas and fertilizer and petrochemicals and all this other stuff.

So you're basically holding the global economy hostage.

And then Trump does the reverse UNO card double blockade where he says, okay, well, we're gonna starve you and we're gonna stop you from exporting your oil.

And then it just becomes this game of chicken.

What's gonna happen first, a global recession or the Iranian oil pipes bursting?

And that's a very, very dangerous game, especially in a midterm year.

Megan, I know they stumbled over a few words here and there, but your children are much better at articulating the English language than many members of Congress.

So I would not let that discourage them at all.

That's great.

Also, you know, you can hear at the top, Megan, your children's names, which is it's giving me intense wasp name envy because the Knowles line, they're very waspy.

I mean, there's I got a lot.

I've got like Clarences and Basil kind of, you know, and I you're.