Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale at Hillsdale.edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And, of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale.com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. You at Inside the Beltway in the Relief Factory studio. Welcome. Thank you for joining me. I got a lot of great guests coming up today. Eliana Johnson of the Washington

of the Washington Bill. You get inside the Beltway in the Relief Factor Studio. Welcome.

Thank you for joining me. I got a lot of great guests coming up today.

Eliana Johnson of the Washington Freebeacon, the commentary podcast, Philip Balboni of the Global Post, Josh Croshauer from the Jewish Insider.

I've got Ben and Ben Talibu and Admiral Mark Montgomery from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

And we're talking about one thing, almost only one thing. The upcoming negotiations in Islamabad, Pakistan,

between Vice President J.D. Vance, Special Envoy Steve Whitcock and Jared Kushner, and whomever

the Iranian regime sends. Whatever is left of that regime,

they're sending representatives to Islamabad. Meanwhile, Israel has rejected the idea of a ceasefire

in Lebanon. Iran has issued so many different statements. We don't quite know what to believe

there. I do know that their alleged Supreme Leader,

Hamini 2.0, the one who's in a coma in Kum, and he might be dead. He issued a written statement

that was read over Iran TV, and we don't know who's running what in Iran. Iran is not seeking

war, but we will not forfeit its right and will consider all

resistance fronts as a unified entity. He also added there the definite victor in the war.

All right. So there's propaganda and there's posturing, and we've got lots of banging fists and

shoes on lecterns at the UN cruise chef style. But I remind everyone at the beginning, we have lots of

presidents to study when high stakes international negotiations occur. And I've got to break

this down for the Steelers fan. I'm not going to tell you about the Congress of Berlin. I'm not

going to tell you about the Congress of Vienna. I'm not going back through the history of diplomacy, but I'll use some obvious

examples. We can go back to 1938. Neville Chamberlain goes to Munich and basically gives

Hitler everything he wants and comes back with an umbrella and a piece of paper saying

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