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Joining us now is an expert in a field who actually, a little bit of a Nostradamus too, because

he called for this, I believe, in 2012 with an amazing article.

Joining me now is Matthew Kronig.

He's the vice president and senior director of the Atlantic Council's Skrokov Center for Strategy and Security.

And he's going to be joining us today via Zoom.

So I'm pretty excited about that.

And we're going to get his thoughts on Israel Strikes on Iran last night.

So, Matthew, how are you doing, boss?

I'm doing well, and it's a pleasure to be with you.

I've enjoyed your work for many years, so I'm honored to be with you this morning.

Oh, thank you very much.

And again, I know you're not going to do

what I told you so, but I feel like I told you so. I am in, and I think the majority,

that completely understands why Israel is doing what they're doing, given the fact that war

was declared on them October 7th, and their existential threat is a real one in fact.

All things seem, all money, all things seem to be coming from Iran with as far as financing

Hezbollah and Hamas and stuff. So it was only a matter of time. And then like I said,

Iran had what, 60 days to try to figure something out in President Trump so

eloquently put, this is day 61. So as an expert on this, your take would be greatly appreciated.

Yeah, well, on the told you so piece, I used to work on the Iran desk at the Pentagon. And when I left,

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