00:00Israel launched attacks on Sunday in southern Beirut, striking what it said where Hezbollah
00:04targets there. Trump was not happy with that. How much has this conflict changed or damaged
00:09the relationship between Trump and Netanyahu? Well, it's an extraordinary situation because
00:15on the one hand, Benjamin Netanyahu has gotten so much of what he wanted out of President Trump.
00:22I mean, he got the president to commit to a full-scale military campaign against targets
00:29thousands of targets across Iran. That was something that no U.S. president had previously
00:35been willing to do. So again, comes back to that issue of when you look at the amount of damage
00:40that
00:40the U.S. and Israel together have inflicted on Iran, it's extraordinary. The entire senior leadership
00:48of the country was essentially wiped out. But you have not seen actual regime change. So Israel still
00:54has many goals with Iran that it would like to achieve. So on the one hand, it's like Benjamin
01:00Netanyahu can say, wow, Trump gave me so much of what I want. On the other hand, Israel is not
01:07going
01:08to be happy if there is an agreement that essentially returns to the status quo. The Iranian regime remains
01:15in power, although weakened and hobbled and sort of fractured. And it is allowed to reconstitute its
01:21ballistic missile and its drone programs. And then also continues its support for these groups that
01:27really oppose Israel like Hamas and Hezbollah. So you have seen these like very public strains where
01:34the president of the U.S. is basically yelling at Benjamin Netanyahu over the attack in Lebanon that
01:40you mentioned. But when you look at the actual substance, it's much more complicated and you
01:46can make the argument that Benjamin Netanyahu has gotten a lot of what he wanted.
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