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It goes. Excellent. It goes. Yes, we got a really busy show today, don't we? Yeah, and I think Emily's going to be joining us. She just was having some boomer computer issues, so we'll let her work that out. She can jump on whenever she gets that figured out. But yeah, I mean, we're all watching to see whether we're going to be at war with Iran over the weekend or next week or what exactly is going on there.

Ryan's got some new reporting about how Democrats are approaching all of this. And, you know, I would say you'll be disappointed.

But I think actually people probably expect the way that Democrats are by and large, elected official Democrats are by and large approaching the possibility of a major war with Iran.

Yeah, nobody can be disappointed anymore.

Yeah, you have to have hopes and expectations to be disappointed.

Yes, good point. Excellent. High hopes. High hopes. We'll take a look at that. We got a Wall Street Journal article on that right here. That was breaking this morning. Trump weighs initial limited strike to force Iran into nuclear deal. President Trump is weighing initial strike to force it to me's demands, a first step that would be designed to pressure Tehran into an agreement, but fall short of a full-scale attack that could inspire a major

retaliation. The opening assault, if authorized, could come within days, would target a few

military or government sites. People familiar with the matter said, if Iran still refused to comply

with Trump's directive to end its nuclear

enrichment, the U.S. would respond with a broad campaign against regime facilities.

So what do we make of this deal making? You know, strike first, deal later. Well, the, and what's

different about this reporting is prior to this, we'd been, obviously we can see all of the military

equipment that is being amassed in the region, you know, the largest amount since the Iraq War.

So everyone can see that. A bunch of the leaks to Barack Ravid and others were saying, hey,

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