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I'm still not entirely sure what happened yesterday, Jeremy.

Maybe you have more clarity, but it looks like perhaps the Iranians fired on some U.S.

ships.

U.S.

retaliated with strikes on Karg Island, among other locations.

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Trump is insisting, though, that all of this bombing does not amount to a violation of the ceasefire somehow.

Mac, if you could pull that up, we can take a listen to that and then get Jeremy's reaction on the other side.

So not only do you have him adopting a rather Israeli definition of ceasefire, that apparently it doesn't mean an end to the war at all, but then he makes another genocidal nuclear seemingly threat against Iran in those comments.

Jeremy, what is your understanding of what happened and what is happening now?

Yeah.

Well, and I also, you know, found it very noteworthy and interesting, the reporting from you guys and from other outlets that the Saudis and the Kuwaitis said, no, we're not going to help you with your Operation Freedom or whatever it was called, which had just been announced with great fanfare.

You had multiple press conferences from the secretary of state, from Pete Hegseth and General Kaine.

coming out and talking about this, touting this thing.

And I'm like, heck, Seth, use some, oh, we're putting a red, white, and blue dome over the street or something like that.

And then just as quickly as it begun, it's completely reversed.

And we find out behind the scenes, the Saudis and Kuwaitis said, no, we're not going to help you with this and you need us.

So I found that very interesting because that added a limiting factor in that I hadn't considered before on top of the political limitations for Trump, on top of the economic limitations, on top of all of the constraints that he has just in terms of supplies and munitions and capacity.

You also add in that your allies, a few of them are going, I'm not sure about everything that you're up to here and we could pull the plug.

Now, the reporting now is that they've said, OK, well, you can use our air bases again.