Coming up, David French joins us to talk about the Iran War, the huge volcanic blowback to his

James Tolarico piece, some thoughts about what it's like being a moderate Christian in today's

Republican Party.

And the big story is that he's keeping his eye on going into the future.

It's a very good episode.

David. episode. David French, welcome to the Tangle podcast. Thanks so much for being here.

Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. So there's a ton going on, and I'm super excited for this conversation. I have a million questions for you about some of the James Tolariko writing you've

been doing recently, your views on the current state of the Republican Party, and, you know,

Trump 2.0, what's been happening with this administration.

But we're recording this now Thursday afternoon.

Obviously, we are a couple weeks now into war with Iran. I mean,

there's been some debate about the language. We've talked about it on this show. I don't know what

else to call it aside from a war. It's a war. I mean, there's no credible argument. It's not a war.

I mean, come on. Great. We don't have to argue about that. Yeah, we don't have to do that page. So, you know, there's obviously a lot of threads here.

There's, you know, storylines about the Iranian regime and the relationship between the United States and

Israel and destabilizing the Middle East and Trump's campaign promises not to start wars.

But you're David French,

and I have you on the show, which to me is an opening to talk about some of the legal questions

around this war. And this is the stuff that I know is really in your lane and your strike zone.

And I think I would maybe start by just asking you something I've been getting asked a ton by my audience, which is how is it okay for Donald Trump to do this?

A lot of people seem to be under the impression that, you know, to have an extended operation like this where we are deploying U.S. troops, where we're deploying tons of money and resources to the region,

he should be having to go to Congress. Obviously, we've seen presidents not do that in the past.

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