Name: Panel: Is Trump losing control of the Iran war?
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One is whether it's credible that the United States would just simply not know that Israel was going to do something like that.

And then the second thing is Netanyahu saying, we acted alone.

Not sure anybody is disagreeing or disputing that part of it.

I think the question is not whether they acted alone, but

whether they did so without any knowledge from the United States.

Yeah, I mean, look, there's a difference between the military's coordinating and President Trump personally approving a strike.

I think I do know that the Israeli and the US Military absolutely knew about this strike, but

I, but I don't know whether it moved up the chain or not.

Sorry to interrupt you, but I think that's extraordinary.

But if there is military coordination on something as serious as a Ellen, a gas field attack, that that would not make it up to the President.

I don't know if you've ever been around in the Oval Office and how busy the President is and the prime Minister's coming in.

I've been in the middle where, you know, the DNI has been accused of not.

Maybe it's possible, but I think that's not even the point.

The point is, is that it, Israel did this on purpose, they did this in order to escalate or they're really, really dumb about what Iran is capable of doing and what they think because it is so obvious after the Karg hit and the escalation that this was going to happen.

I think it actually is very important whether or not the United States was given a heads up on a huge escalation by the Israelis that's attacking Iranian oil infrastructure, which resulted in retaliatory attacks on Gulf infrastructure, which is tanking the world economy and affecting the pocketbooks of every American citizen.

And it's pretty clear that the White House put out opposite signals earlier.

They said they were pointing out to reporters that they were briefed and it was part of a means to pressure the Iranians to open the Strait of Hormuz.

The Iranians escalated and then later Trump said that he didn't know and then the Israelis leaked that they.

So, yeah, I think it's worth figuring it out.

But it just goes to show you, as President Trump has said, as Tulsi Gabriel testified today, US And Israel are on different pages.

They're operating, I think, from different objectives.

They have different estimations of how long the war should last.

I think to piggyback a little bit on your point, it highlights one of the greater problems people have.

Because even if Democrats should say that Iran's naval capacity has been decimated, one of the largest sponsors of terror has been depleted, their ballistic missiles have been depleted, I mean, all of those things can be successes.

As you're talking about what the military objectives are, what we still don't know is what the cost is, what the human cost is going to be.

We don't know what the cost to everyday Americans is going to be.

We don't know if we're going to have to put boots on the ground and all of us around the table, if we're intellectually honest.

We know that if one of our objectives is to go in and make sure that they don't have the ability to have a nuclear program, we're going to have to put boots on the ground to achieve that.

So I think that what, what we want and what most people want and what most average everyday Americans want is while it's taking us more dollars at the tank to fill up our gas tanks every single day just to do our nominal task, we want to have clarity, we want transparency, and

Like even if you were to say, which I said at the beginning of this statement about the successes of some of the military objectives, true.

We thought at the beginning of this, we'd be out of this by now.

And no one's been able to articulate that at all.

So one of the parts of this that kind of merges what you're, what you're both saying on this, either side of the table, if we are not the ones driving the tempo and the escalation of this war, and

This, this is a question that was posed to the secretary of Defense today.

Why are we helping Israel prosecute this war if they're going to pursue their own objectives?

What is the answer to the question, are we controlling the tempo or is Israel controlling the tempo?

Well, look, the president said today we're coordinating, we're allies here, but

it's perfectly reasonable to believe that we do have different objectives here.

Our objectives, I don't think, have really changed.

We don't want them to have nuclear missiles.

We've taken out the navy, and these are our objectives.

Israel has to live with this in the neighborhood.

And Israel, of course, for them, this is the finishing off of what was done to them on October 7, which will never happen again.

Reasonable for us to have different questions.

Is the answer to the question that Israel does what it wants and we just have to live with it?

Because that's the, that's the question the world is asking themselves.

If Israel decides to continue moving up the escalation ladder, attacking energy retaliatory attacks, that that's not just Israel's problem anymore.

That's the whole world's problem suddenly.

Well, look, it sounded to me today like President Trump was not happy about this strike, and

it sounded like Prime Minister Netanyahu got the message.

So, look, my anticipation is, is that we're heavily influential to them.

And I don't know that we necessarily control.

So in theory, we should be able to have the more than a 50% say in whether American blood and treasure is spent to perpetuate this war for months and months.

And it's pretty clear from what President Trump said today that the war he wants to get out very soon.

And it's pretty clear from what Netanyahu said today that he doesn't want to get out very soon.

One of them is going to be right and one of them is going to be wrong.

So, so who's going to win that disagreement?

Is it going to be Trump and we're going to end the war soon, or is it going to be Bibi and the war is going to go on for a very long time.

And in the end, we're going to find out who really wears the pants in this bromance.

Well, look, the bottom line is, is that Israel cannot exist, will not exist, has said they won't exist any longer with an Iranian State that is funding terror proxies and committing the kind of atrocities against Israel that we saw on October 7.

They have wiped out the terror proxies for the most part.

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