Patrick Bet-David

very much because you know what what i did as soon as he went public i i called a producer that i know and i said any chance you have joe kent's contact information because i'm a member of this group called veteran intelligence professionals for sanity vips and we wanted to give him our it's called the sam adams award for integrity and intelligence

And so she sent me his info and we gave him the award.

Beautiful.

But I've never spoken to the man.

I think the situation is unique because Donald Trump is president.

Donald Trump has this innate ability to spin things better than any previous president, I believe.

I could actually see Donald Trump saying in a nationally televised announcement, we won, it's all over, we're coming home.

I could see that happening.

I'm not saying it's going to happen tomorrow, but I could see it ending that way.

Now, with that said, I think that

This is one of those times where we need to let the diplomats do what they're trained to do.

We have not made great use of the Omanis.

We've not made great use of the Qataris or the Algerians.

I mean, these are all countries that we work through over the course of decades to carry out diplomatic communications with Iran.

I think the bottom line is,

We have one idea of what we want from Iran, but the Israelis have a different idea.

You notice, for example, the president announces a ceasefire in Lebanon, and boom, 24 hours later, the Israelis bomb.

It's because we have competing interests.

You know, there's this old saying in Washington, there's no such thing as permanent friends, just permanent interests.

Well, our interests diverge with those of the Israelis on some of these issues, specifically Iran and Lebanon.