Welcome back to the To the Contrary podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. We still have chaos at the airports, which amazingly has not been solved by the deployment of ICE agents to our airports. Meanwhile, we're all wondering, are we actually talking with Iran? Are there negotiations with Iran or is Trump just simply making that up? Meanwhile, Lindsey Graham says that Trump should invade

Karg Island, citing the invasion of Iwo Jima, saying we took Iwo Jima, why not take Karg Island?

Editor's note here, the invasion of Iwo Jima cost the lives of 7,000 U.S. Marines, 20,000 more Marines were wounded. Another indication that maybe

Lindsey Graham is going through some things. So we have a lot to talk about today.

And joining us today, our good friend, Adam Kinziger. How are you, Adam?

Good, man. How are you?

I always answer day by day, which I think is an honest answer, honest and fair answer.

So, you know, at the risk of having events overtake us, since whatever's happening with Iran could change within the next hour,

Donald Trump over the weekend, via social media post,

of course, because that's how war is wage and diplomacy conducted these days, says that he was giving the Iranians a 48-hour warning that if they did not open the Strait of Hormuz,

he was going to start destroying their energy infrastructure, which sounds very Putin-esque,

considered a war crime, backed off on that this morning. Give me some sense of what's happening

right now, because we still don't have clear objectives or how the hell this thing ends,

but give me your take of, as you and I are speaking, where are we at?

Yeah, look, I think, and I want to talk about specifically the energy stuff,

but let me just say where we're at today.

I think Donald Trump is desperately looking for a way out.

I think despite the fact that he's completely psycho,

I think he understands that until Iran agrees

to open the straight, he either has to force it open. You know, there's a host of ways to do it,

none of which are going to be easy, or he has to have them convince basically to lift the straight

because all it takes, Charlie, is one dude with a man pad to show an

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