Tommy Vitor

From what I've read, it sounds like the ballistic missile launchers are the choke point.

So I think the US and Israel are probably rushing to take out as many of those as possible.

That said, I mean, I was just watching the Fox News, I think, and one of their big chyrons is that the drones, Iran's drones.

have proven harder to intercept and ultimately like those are easier to fly from a lot of places iran has more of them you just sort of like set the gps coordinators in these drones which you know they're like lawnmower engines and they can but they can fly like 2 000 kilometers and just follow a gps to a point so that threat could take a long long long time to fully neutralize

the ballistic missiles can do more damage but right in the long term like who knows um how long they'll have these drones so on monday president trump finally spoke about the war uh he started on saturday morning in public it was not a major address to the nation it was like a little iran war topper at a i think pre-existing ceremony to award the medal of honor to three people um here's a bit of what he had to say in his remarks i was very proud to have knocked out the iran nuclear deal by

Michael specifically led with the JCPOA criticism to trigger you.

And as our greatest president said, mission accomplished, my friend.

So, Ben, look, I think what listeners should take away from that supercut is just the incoherence.

Like it gets worse when you look at the totality of Trump statements from Saturday till now.

On Saturday, he talked about regime change as a goal.

He told the Iranian people to rise up today.

That was just not part of the messaging.

The Saturday video statement said,

about the war, went through these greatest hits of Iranian aggression and grievances with the two countries starting in 1979.

The new spin on Monday is that Iran was trying to rebuild its nuclear weapons program, which I don't know, may or may not be true, but it certainly wasn't an imminent threat.

And then he tries out this new line that we'll later hear from Hegsath, which is that Iran's ballistic missile program

would provide a shield for its nuclear ambitions, which is complete and total bullshit, as evidenced by the fact that the U.S.

and Israel are pounding the fuck out of Iran's military targets now and would have been able to do so in the future.

So everyone should write that off.

And then on top of that, Ben, Trump told one reporter that he had a list of three people who might run Iran going forward.