00:00Why were you so sure that President Trump was going to do what he did right then and not use those full two weeks that he said he might use to think about it?
00:10And then at the end of it, he could have simply got cold feet and said, we're going to do nothing.
00:14I don't have a terrific answer because, in fact, if you look at the sort of the cold facts, they would seem to strongly militate against a decision by the president to act.
00:24The polls taken that week showed that close to 90 percent of the American public was against American military involvement against Iran.
00:33And, you know, but there were divisions within the White House between the divisions within the MAGA movement and isolation as part of that.
00:39That movement was very much against military involvement by the United States in Iran.
00:43And so the president really went against the odds, went against public opinion in a very major way.
00:49And but at the end of the day, I think the president saw an opportunity.
00:53He likes winners. Israel was emphatically winning.
00:56He saw an opportunity to put an end to the war through American intervention.
01:01And look, it succeeded. Right now, we've got a ceasefire.
01:04The big question is what happens next and what's going to be America's position if and when the Iranian regime comes back to the negotiating table?
