Tommy Vitor

And I didn't see it defaced yet.

Not that I incurred vandalism.

I'm surprised it hasn't.

There's something about the black and white color scheme that's a little triggering, too.

To be fair, budgets for documentary PR is usually like that.

Yeah, usually it's hundreds of millions.

The funniest thing about it is that they insisted in an international release.

And they won't release those numbers.

Because I get it.

The MAGA diehards will turn out for any fucking piece of junk that glorifies their leader.

But the idea that anybody was going to see that in Europe, it just feels like a troll.

Good job, international.

That would pay for the Washington Post Foreign Bureau for the next 10 years.

It sure would.

The Melania release.

Yeah, I talked to a friend of the show, Ali Vaiz, who's the international crisis group's Iran expert and just one of the smarter, more nuanced thinkers about what's going on inside of Iran.

So we talked about the dizzying run of events over the last couple of weeks, where things stand, what the negotiations are about between the United States and Iran with some of these other countries involved, what the interests of those countries like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar are in trying to avoid this war.

And I think very importantly, like what if there is some kind of regime change in Iran, which we still don't know will happen, who might come next?

And that's something you don't hear a lot about.

But Ali really breaks down a few different scenarios for how that could go.