Senator Mark Warner

So I think he could have made the case.

We would have asked the hard questions, and I think they would have been required to explain munitions supply, and are we going to make sure we get our Americans out of the region safely?

I'm not sure we'd have got the majority, but it would have been,

the idea that the Iranians are bad guys, I think we would all agree, and somehow being able to lessen their influence in the region, I think he could make that case, but

It would have been easier in January when the Iranians were on the streets.

It would have still been hard in March, but it would have been easier if he'd actually answered some of these basic questions.

It's clearly not off the table.

We got about 6,000 troops in transit.

More starting to come.

You know, I...

My gut is, and I have no intelligence on this, is that it would probably not be about Karg Island, where the Iranian energy infrastructure is.

It would probably be trying to go in to get out the 1,000 pounds of enriched uranium.

But the military planning for that requires at least 10,000 troops to hold the perimeter, as well as to go into these caves where the enriched uranium is.

And this stuff is really volatile.

The idea that you're going to be carrying out these volatile canisters of enriched uranium, well, if we did that, I would expect the Iranians to go ahead and shoot their own missiles at these bunkers.

And we can end up with a lot of troops literally buried alive.

So to execute the extraction of the enriched uranium during a war, man, that's a tough nut to crack.

Well, the kingdom...

Obviously, MBS is kind of a keeper of the holy shrines in the Muslim faith.

They've obviously had part of this kind of historic Sunni-Shia rivalry for more than a thousand years now.