Shawn Ryan

Vice President DNI Gabbard and their teams, I think, are absolutely key.

And the DNI, yeah.

And there's good people at the Pentagon that can give you options.

That I don't know.

I wasn't at the vice president's level.

I think they have a good relationship.

I just, based on what I've seen and based on what we've seen in the public sphere, he has been taking more advice, obviously, from Lindsey Graham, from Ted Cruz, from Mark Levin on TV.

than he has been from people who may say, hey, sir.

In terms of how easy and great of an idea this will be.

I mean, so the media ecosystem, they're not giving him tactical military advice, but they were, I believe, in my opinion, a big part of echoing the Israeli talking points about no enrichment, you have to strike now.

If you strike now, you'll be a hero.

There was also this false narrative, basically, that said, like, hey, because the people were on the streets in January, if you take a couple strikes right now and you really hammer them,

The rest is gonna be easy.

It's gonna be a cakewalk.

The people are gonna rise up.

They're gonna overthrow the regime.

They're gonna love you.

They're gonna cut a deal.

It's gonna be quick and easy like Venezuela was.

I think Venezuela did a lot to give us some false confidence in how quick and easy a regime change, regime modification, whatever you want to call it,