Shawn Ryan

I think they just sold him a very simple, rushed response.

rushed equation to get us into this conflict.

A big part of getting a quick action like this is rushing the president and telling him, hey, the protesters were just out there in June.

We don't have time, in July, I'm sorry, in January.

We don't have time for a long deliberation.

We need to conduct these strikes now.

And so I think they took away a lot of his decision-making space and time.

and only put a handful of advisors around him.

And maybe those are the people that he requested, but because he thought that he was under the gun for a time crunch, I don't think he had enough time to really fully assess that.

No, no, not at all.

I mean, we share very similar views.

It's one of the reasons we probably got married, but.

Right on.

Sure, sure.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well, that and I think our political opponents would love us to believe that this very unpopular thing we're doing is popular to convince us to keep doing it.

I'd be very wary, obviously, of CNN.

I don't know why we're even listening to CNN.

It's insane.

So I think the conventional wisdom would tell you, and I think the president was told this, I think the president was told that wartime presidents are always popular.