Hi, everyone. It is 4 o'clock here in Washington, D.C. I'm Alicia Menendez, in for Nicole Wallace.

Day 25 of the war with Iran. Here's where things stand. A barrage of strikes by Iran proving that despite Trump's claims of total obliteration, the Iranian regime remains a major threat.

Here at home, gas prices continue their upward climb,

and two of the country's former top military leaders,

well, they are warning of chaos ahead.

Donald Trump's own former defense secretary, Jim Mattis,

saying, quote,

we're in a tough spot when it comes to forcing Iran to reopen the

Strait of Hormuz and ease the oil crisis.

Watch.

And I think that what we're seeing is a situation where targetry never makes up for a lack of strategy.

And by that I mean 15,000 targets have been hit. There have been

significant military successes, but they are not matched by strategic outcomes. Now, some of the

strategic outcomes early on, unconditional surrender, regime change, we're going to dictate who the next supreme leader is.

Those were clearly nonsense. Those were delusional.

And echoing those concerns, former General Stanley McChrystal, he told David French in the New York Times

that the Trump administration cannot fight its way into an end to this war.

This idea of decapitating the regime, and we've got this current leader, where we killed

his father, we killed his wife, we apparently banged him up pretty good, and then we say,

well, that will make him more willing to negotiate.

Right.

It wouldn't have that effect on me. The Trump administration,

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