Hello and welcome to DSR. I'm David Rothkopf, your host, and this is the second DSR of the week to talk about the Iran situation.

Some of you may have already heard the first that we did a day ago with Rosa Brooks and former Secretary of the Army, Christine

Warmouth and former Secretary of the Air Force, Frank Kendall. Today we have three other

of our best friends and advisors, starting with Ed Luce of the Financial Times. How are you doing Ed?

Very good. Thank you, David. You are up very early this morning on morning Joe, but you still

look well rested. It's remarkable. Have you been napping ever since? It's one of those creams

that they advertise for aging men on Fox News. No, it isn't,

actually. I wouldn't dream of buying such a product. Well, if anybody would dream of it, it would be

Joe Serencio, who is another of our friends who looks amazingly well preserved, given what we

know about him, one of the countries.

My long history of abuse of various substances. I know. It's amazing. And it's worked for you.

And it's worked for you. I wish I could say the same for our other WMD expert here, John Wolfstall,

who is a nuclear policy fellow at Pax Sapiens.

And how are you doing today, John?

I was better before the intro, but glad to be here, David.

Well, let me try and up the game here with the intro, because each one of you has written something

that I think everybody should

read this week. John, you had an article called Trump just made the world much more dangerous

at the New Republic. Excellent article. People should read it. Ed's latest column, Donald Trump's

Dangerous War of Wim, available right now at the Financial Times,

and Joe wrote at his substick an illegal, unnecessary war of choice just a couple of days ago,

and I'm going to avoid throwing Ed and Joe into a fight

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