Rahm Emanuel
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But again, you know, only the president of the United States can order American servicemen and women.
Only the president of the United States can order resources that are pulled out of the Indo-Pacific, pulled out of different theaters to that theater, pulled THAAD weapons out of South Korea, pulled Patriots that were supposed to go to Ukraine.
Only the commander in chief can do that.
And so, you know, the prime minister made his case.
Doesn't mean you have to buy it.
I don't believe...
Look, I mean, it's a theoretical discussion, or a hypothetical, rather.
I don't think the President of the United States would do that.
And while I have zero confidence in the people around him, and I mean that from the Cabinet to the White House, I actually think they would hit the pause button.
They would find some nerve of character to step up and say what they didn't do here, meaning here being the lead-in to the Iran war.
they would know that this would have to be stopped in some way.
There's no technical way.
Look, head of the Joint Chiefs, there's the rest of the military.
I think there would be
I'm just betting on human character, there would be a massive pushback on this.
I don't know what got Tucker Carlson, he's not like a horse whisperer, the great whisperer to Donald Trump, to say that.