Tom Nichols

We're going to make a great deal.

They're begging me for a deal.

None of that happened.

And I think the last thing anybody wants

in Washington right now is to have to go back into this.

You know, Nancy and I were talking at one point about General Kane's briefing, which really sounded like a wrap-up.

It didn't sound like a here's where we are on the eve of a ceasefire.

It sounded like a, well, it's been 39 days.

Here's all the stuff we destroyed.

Thank you and good evening.

Yeah, that's, of course, that's what Pete Hegseth's going to say.

Because, you know, while this war has been going on, there's been another drama going on at the Pentagon.

Pete Hegseth's worried about his job.

And if you wonder why the Secretary of the Army came out in recent days and said, I'm not quitting.

I have no plans to resign.

I'm not getting fired as far as I know.

That's Dan Driscoll.

And he has been floated as the most likely replacement for Pete Hegseth.

So every time you see Pete Hegseth, just assume that all he's doing is speaking to Donald Trump and saying, please keep me in my job.

Boy, that is a great question, because what would constitute more erratic than starting a war half a world away with a country of 90 million people and then threatening to erase their civilization from the planet?