00:00I'm speaking to you from New York City, so I'm in the United States looking at all of this.
00:08And what I will tell you is that for us here, it looks like the Iranians have the cards,
00:18they have the dominant position. I won't repeat the arguments that were made already
00:24to that effect. I'll just add a couple more. This is a country here which doesn't want an inflation,
00:34but sees one coming from his policy, doesn't want a war. This is the first war that I can remember
00:43in my lifetime, and I was born and lived and worked in the United States all my life. This is
00:48the first
00:49war where the majority public opinion is against the war from day one, not a year or two in when
00:58they're exhausted and the horror of it comes home. But right from the beginning, this is a war that
01:05the majority of Americans didn't want. And it is important that his own base, which used to include
01:14people like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene and many others, have deserted him,
01:20are turning against him, are running against him. The few by-elections we're having are going against
01:28him. This is a man who made decisions, above all this one, to attack Iran that have entrapped him
01:37in a way from which he now finds it extremely difficult to escape. Whether you call it a down
01:46ramp or anything else, really doesn't matter. He is trapped. There's nothing he can do. That's why he
01:53keeps extending these deadlines, saying one thing and another. Last point. We are a country that needs
02:02desperately to believe that it is not in a process of decline. And it needs a cheerleading president
02:11who is going to take over Greenland and reclaim the Panama Canal and punish the Iranians. This is
02:18political theater that the situation he thinks demands. But he's taken it far beyond what the population
02:28is willing to tolerate.
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