Senator Chris Murphy

Yeah, it's great to be with you guys.

We're psyched to be back in a world where it's not just the women's team that is awesome, but the men's team as well.

I think our instinct is often to apply previous lenses to sort of modern, very unique problems.

And so, you know, we look at what the president is doing in Iran and we look at these negotiations and we try to apply a conventional rationale.

I just don't think that works.

I think that we underestimate the degree to which this is just –

basic incompetence that we have people who literally have no idea what they are doing, who are applying no lessons from the past, who are drawing on no one who has any experience in doing diplomacy in and around the Middle East.

And what you are getting is, you know, just gross incompetence.

The

to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by closing the Strait of Hormuz.

The idea that Trump has is that because Iran right now is letting at the very least its ships through, if we stop Iranian ships from getting through, then Iran will magically open the Strait to everyone.

I think it

fundamentally misunderstands the way that Iran thinks about this war.

They believe they are winning the war.

The regime does not feel any threat internally, and thus they think they can just wait us out, that the pain on the U.S.

economy will break Trump's will before the pain on the Iranian economy breaks their will.

Same thing with negotiations.

You know, we're trying to find a logical thread of these negotiations.

I don't think there's any logical thread.

I think this is