Steve Clemons

I mean, even Donald Trump recently said, hey, he loves inflation.

Well, the American public does not love inflation.

Kitchen table economics are under a lot of stress right now.

And a lot of Republicans running in the midterm elections in November are very, very frustrated and worried about what they're facing from the electorate, even in very red parts of the country, because Americans do not like this war.

Well, look...

I guess the good news is that we're not in all out war.

What you're seeing, I wouldn't call them polite strikes, but they're not nasty strikes.

You don't see Donald Trump wiping out Iranian civilization, which is what he promised to do on one occasion.

all of that would be very bad.

And the world is sort of holding its breath to what degree of instability and wobbliness this can have.

And so the ceasefire, as you pointed out, is kind of a fake one.

But people have not completely and entirely left the negotiating table, although they pretend to.

But there's still folks talking and whatnot.

And look, everybody knows at the end of the day that

that significant parts of the world are screwed and one side is waiting for the other to blink.

And right now we need both sides to blink.

Well, look, we hear from I've heard at various points in this process from very credible sources that we were very close.

We were so close to a real deal that Lindsey Graham, a U.S.

senator from South Carolina, Senator Roger Wicker, you know, others came out blasting the potential deal that Trump had.

And then it was at that moment that Trump said, oh, maybe we shouldn't rush so quickly.