Rachel Maddow

We saw the same thing in Venezuela.

So I just don't know why you would be sending the 82nd Airborne, all these special forces, if you weren't going to use them.

I guess you could say it's for leverage in some negotiation, but the Iranians don't seem intent on negotiating with Trump.

They've been bombed twice in the middle of negotiations.

If he were somehow to leave the Strait of Hormuz closed,

then we suffer all the global economic impacts, the potential catastrophe to our own economy.

He doesn't seem to understand that either.

He keeps saying that we don't use the Strait of Hormuz.

That fundamentally misunderstands energy markets.

It may be that more of that oil and gas goes to Europe and Asia, but look at the price of the pump, right?

It impacts us too.

So we're dealing with either an escalatory cycle that he can't get out of or just a tremendous amount of incompetence because he should be trying to negotiate the reopening of the Strait

as the pathway to ending the war.

The American people are basically telling the president that they are not okay with any of this.

Happy to have you here.

We are having a moment of sort of unbelievably dramatic news, news that's like if you were pitching a movie, the people you are pitching it to would say, no, that's too over the top.

We can't do that.

Denmark reportedly sent soldiers just a few weeks ago.

They sent soldiers to Greenland armed with explosives and blood supplies.

The explosives were to blow up the runways at airports in Greenland, and the blood supplies were in anticipation of combat casualties in a conflict with the United States.