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President Donald Trump looks like he's all set to take us to war with Iran.

After a period in which he seemed to want to negotiate with Iran, Trump has now tweeted that he wants Iran's unconditional surrender.

The New York Times has a deep dive into Trump's deliberations on this, if that's the right

word, and the findings are extraordinary. We're drifting into war with Iran, even though our

own intelligence assessments don't appear to support the case for it, and Trump was influenced in his

thinking on all this by what he saw on Fox News. Meanwhile, some prominent MAGA figures are

aggressively warning Trump against taking the plunge. Today we're really fortunate to be making

sense of all this with foreign policy veteran Matt Duss, who was a longtime advisor on the

Hill and is now executive vice president at the Center for International Policy. He has a great

new piece for Foreign Policy magazine on what's about to happen. Matt, thanks for coming on.

Thanks, Craig. Great to be here. So last week, Israel started bombing Iran's nuclear facilities and killing its senior leadership.

Trump seemed to want to try to negotiate with Iran, but all indications are that he and his senior team basically gave up on being able to stop Israel.

Now he's just tweeted that he wants Iran's unconditional surrender and tweeted that we know where exactly Iran's

leaders hiding. He's an easy target, but we are not going to kill him now. Matt, Trump is talking

about Israel and the United States as we. What happened over the last few weeks? What's the current

situation? Well, yeah, as you said, Trump more than seemed to want to cut a deal with the Iranians

over their nuclear program. He very much, you know, he was invested in this. He had his, you know,

his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who had engaged in multiple rounds of talks with the Iranian,

with Iranian negotiators. I think Trump famously announced these talks a few, a couple months ago in an

Oval Office meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, who seemed none too pleased about that

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