Welcome to The Rest Is Politics US with me, Katty K.

And I'm Anthony Scaramucci. How are you, Katty?

I am good. We are recording this Sunday evening, Europe time, Middle East time, and Sunday lunchtime, US time, day two of the

strikes against the Middle East. I think it is worth giving an update now. I think we've got a better

sense of why, you know, what was behind the administration's timing in the sense of the day.

How the US administration had, the Trump administration, I think Anthony is trying

to frame this in a way that is already people are poking holes in. And they're trying to frame it

in a way that they can circumvent the demands of the American constitution and the role of Congress,

which I know you think is dangerous and we should get into that a little bit more.

We have got the news that three American service members have been killed and others are

seriously hurt in hospital.

It's obviously a moving situation.

There is also news coming out tonight, Anthony, that the Iranian foreign minister has reached

out to his Amani counterpart.

This is being recorded by Reuters saying that the what is left of the Iranian regime wants to de-escalate.

So let's see where that goes.

But I think there's a lot of politics of this and there's a lot of moving parts in this.

And there is still the overriding question of what does the White House want from this and what can they possibly

get from this? Because I'm not hearing anybody, Anthony, that I'm talking to at the moment,

saying that there's much clarity about what kind of a regime takes place after this. We know now

that the existing regime of the Islamic Republic as we knew it a week ago has

been effectively decapitated, but we don't know what replaces it.

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