I think he's got to take out some kinds of bases or trains or infrastructure that could harm the Persian people.

I see it from a historical lens.

So the only reason the Japanese surrendered was Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a fire

bombing at Tokyo.

They weren't going to surrender.

I said that would have been hundreds of thousands of more casualties there.

So I think the president does rely on history a bit.

And if he's got to use U.S. military power to damage the country and believes that there will be a payoff to that, a positive payoff,

then that's what he'll do.

I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me tonight is one of the last guys making sense and host of the no-spin news. Bill O'Reilly, Bill,

good to see you. Dave, thanks for having me in. Bill, I've played a lot of clips of you over the last

couple of weeks because I think you've been a very fair arbiter about what's going on with this war,

about what the intentions have been, about

that we don't always know all of the pieces before Trump does things. I think you've analyzed

his tweets well, et cetera, et cetera. We are taping this now. It is 3.50 p.m. on Tuesday,

April 7th. We're going to air this at 7.15. Supposedly at 8 p.m., something is going to happen.

Where are you at with all of this at the moment?

You know, it's a guess, but I think there is a chance that there'll be an extension

because I know talks are going on through Pakistan.

And I don't believe that Donald Trump wants to kill civilians.

In fact, I know that.

Because about four weeks ago, Dave, I had an extensive conversation on the phone with the president about the whole situation

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