U.S. Central Command announced just moments ago that the American and Israeli militaries are commencing with strikes on Iran.

These strikes are reported to be planned to continue for the next several days. In fact, this may well develop into another phase of a full-scale war, a hot war, kinetic war, people dying,

bombs dropping, missiles flying. And on one level, this is not surprising if you haven't been

checking in on the progress of our war with Iran. But if you have been sporadically reading

headlines about where we are and where this is likely to go, you may be a little bit confused

because we were just told the other day that a deal,

the President of the United States, holds that a deal with Iran is imminent.

Any moment now, we've been hammering out the details.

Our crack diplomatic team has been traveling back and forth to Pakistan and we're very, very close.

That turns out it's not true. That is, and we counted, the 38th time

the President of the United States has announced since March 23rd, an imminent deal with Iran.

And like the other 37 times, this one turns out to be completely untrue for whatever reason.

And we are back to bombing Iran.

And Iran has pledged to respond not by bombing the United States because they can't, but by hitting

our allies in the region, the six Gulf states who are our closest allies in the Middle East,

and they've, almost all of them have sustained tremendous damage, in some cases very

severe damage to military and civilian infrastructure. And they'll continue to do that. So this is

escalating. The war is back on, despite repeated promises that it was over, that we'd already

won. We could play you a lot of clips. No point really in doing that because it's

depressing. We could play you all 38 announcements of an imminent deal. Again, you get the point,

but we can't resist playing just one from about six weeks ago. This is the President of the United

States saying that victory is already ours and we're all really only hanging around

...