H I'm going to ask you in a minute uh

your opinions on whether Prime Minister

Netanyahu

uh will engage in the systematic

sabotage of the memorandum of

understanding. But before I ask and

obviously before you reply, I want to

run a clip from uh Jake Tapper. Now,

Jake, whom I've known for years, I

believe to be intellectually honest, is

paraphrasing a tape from a transcript

that he verifies as a call between

President Trump and Prime Minister uh

Netanyahu. It's pretty graphic. Chris,

cut number one.

>> Uh Trump told Netanyahu he was sick of

his antics. I've done everything to

protect you. You bettering go along with

this. Everybody's sick of you, BB, Trump

said. All the Jews are sick of you. Even

the two Jews on this call are sick of

you," Trump added, referring to Jared

Kushner and Steve Whit. "You can't back

out of this," Trump ticked through the

list of controversial decisions he had

made supporting Israel through both of

his presidencies.

>> Now, does that

um in your view manifest a serious

effort to make theou work or just

performative by the president?

Well, it's good to know that our Jews

are talking to their Jews and their Jews

are talking to our Jews and the Jews

have decided they don't like each other.

I suppose

>> I find the whole thing reprehensible. I

don't even want to talk about it. I'm

disgusted. I'm tired of listening to

people talk about Jews instead of

talking about Americans and American

diplomats and American governmental

officials and an American president.

Okay, I got that off my chest. It's

early. All right, this that's Go ahead,

please. I

>> I I'm just sort of sick of that now. Is

this real? Yeah, it probably is real.

But what difference does it make? How

much freedom of maneuver does President

Trump really have? Uh what have they got

on him? Is he under duress? I think he's

under duress. This man never wanted to

go to war with Iran to begin with, as

far as I can tell. That was certainly

the case 5 years ago. Uh so what made

him do it to begin with? And then once

he got into it and he figured out this

was a catastrophe,

uh the Israelis and their agents in the

United States wanted him to continue to

bomb and bomb and bomb. You know, bomb

your way to success. Kill your way to

success. Just keep bombing. You know,

the old Air Force argument argument.

Well, drop some more bombs. Eventually,

it'll work. He rejected that to his

credit. That's a good thing. He he went

along with thisou although he hates it

because he knows he's effectively

admitting that, you know, we lost

militarily.

Uh but you know I think it's probably

real but again what difference does it

make? The only way out of this is a

military solution and that military

solution is not to attack it's to

disengage which is why I wrote the piece

I did on the Substack judge. right now

your your Substack piece which I commend

to everyone judgment day uh for Trump's

war uh is a profound act of military

understanding

personal uh courage and intellectual uh

honesty but back to what you don't want

to talk about will Netanyahu do his best

to sabotage theou because he can't stay

in power and probably can't even stay a

free man if he doesn't have a war to

fight.

>> Oh, I'm sure that's true. But I also

don't see any evidence that he or the

people around him are prepared to stop

any of it. I think they're clinging to

the notion that if they can keep this

going long enough, they will somehow

another be victorious. And I don't think

that's going to change. So the answer to

your question is President or or Mr.

Netanyahu will do everything in his

power to sabotage any agreement

whatsoever with Iran. And unfortunately,

I think that President Trump is being

duplicitous because on the one hand,

it's clear that he does want to

disengage and he would like to find a

way out of this. But at the same time,

he's got the CIA, MI6, and Mossad

working out to drag Syria's head

chopping brigade into the war against

Hezbollah in Lebanon. and he's actually

given the green light to the sale for

$700 million of jet engines to the Turks

that they're going to put in their new

jet fighter, the Khan. So, it looks like

we're trying to bribe the Turks to turn

their gaze away from Lebanon, and allow

us access to the Arabs they control

in uh Syria, the head choppers, and move

them over to fight Hezbollah. Uh, this

doesn't sound like a man who's trying to

disengage and restore stability, does

it?