Ryan Grim

It goes.

Excellent.

It goes.

Yes, we got a really busy show today, don't we?

We got a Wall Street Journal article on that right here that was breaking this morning.

Trump weighs initial limited strike to force Iran into nuclear deal.

President Trump is weighing initial strike to force it to meet his demands.

A first step that would be designed to pressure Tehran into an agreement, but fall short of a full scale attack that could inspire sanctions.

a major retaliation.

The opening assault, if authorized, could come within days, would target a few military or government sites.

People familiar with the matter said, if Iran still refused to comply with Trump's directive to end its nuclear enrichment, the U.S.

would respond with a broad campaign against regime facilities.

So what do we make of this deal-making?

Strike first, deal later.

And the timing is a little ironic after all of the Democrats just came to Munich for their foreign policy debuts to all of a sudden be radio silent on foreign policy is very interesting.

Now, I know you're talking about more of a moderate sort of centrist wing of the party who thinks about this.

But where are people like AOC and others who are considered the progressive left of the party?

It also seems like a little bit of radio silence from them.

Is that true?

And Emily, on your side, now, I also feel a little bit of radio silence in the lead up to this one that feels different than the conservative America first noise before the 12 day war.