Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. We got a double header for you today in segment two, Senator Ruben Gallego, who's been on fire on social media about all this.

So I wanted to grab him and talk to him about how the Democrats should deal with the Trump-Iran war news.

And tonight for the political junkies, we'll be live on YouTube and Substack as the Texas Senate primary results come in.

I guess there's some Texas

House Racist Demometer as well. So come check us out on your platform of choice. But first,

he's retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General. He served as commander during the surge in Iraq from

2007 to 2009. He writes to Military Affairs for the Bullwork, thank God. And he's the author of a new book.

If I don't return a Father's Wartime Journal. It's released next week, but it's available for pre-order now. I'll put the link in the show notes. You go pre-order that book right now. It's Mark Hartling. How you doing, man? Hey, Tim. It's good to be with you. And thanks for hawking the look for me. I need it. It's wonderful. I was pageing through it last night and this morning.

We'll get into the book at me i need it it's wonderful i you know i was pageing through it um last

night and this morning and it's night we'll get into the book at the end but it's it's nice it's one of

these books that's like uh my attention span as being negatively impacted by you know the

internet by my twitter addiction etc and i read way more books in a year in the past few years than I have recently. So the nice thing about your book is it's one of those. You can just kind of pick up and do a couple chapters in the middle, you know? You don't have to commit to the whole. How many pages is it? 325, I think, something like that. You don't have to commit to the whole 325. you can, you learn some life lessons along the way if you just pick up a couple chapters. We'll get to that. We'll get to it. But first, we got to do more podcasting. I think the first question is, do you have any more clarity today that we did yesterday on what exactly it is that we're doing here. It seems like we have some

mixed messaging coming out of the White House. No, it's actually getting worse from what I can tell.

There's more messaging of exactly what the end state is. And that's important to the military

commanders. I mean, you know, if you say regime change or regime decapitation or take out their Navy or destroy all

their ballistic missiles, you have different planning cycles. I think that the military operational

campaign is really going toward destroy as much stuff as possible within the country. But, you know,

the Israelis, I think, have maybe even a different mission set

based on their actions. They are looking at true decapitation without any kind of thought about

what comes next. They just want to destroy all of a round's leadership, kill all of them, and

destroy as much stuff as they can as long as the Americans are hanging on. And what's interesting, kill all of them, and destroy as much stuff as they can, as long as the

Americans are hanging on. And what's interesting, Tim, I heard this morning that the Iranian

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