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We're going to jump right in this.

There is just so much to talk about.

So let's go right to our guest, Tom Carrico.

He is a senior fellow with the

International Security Program and the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center

for Strategic and International Studies. You can find them on exit, Tom Carrico, which is K-A-R-A-K-O.

Tom, thank you so much for taking the time to join us. Appreciate you being here. Hey, good morning.

Glad to be here. So there's not much to talk about at all. Because I know one of the things you talk

about is preventing nuclear, you know, nuclear conflict and all that kind of things. So you're the

perfect person to talk to today. So obviously we're going to talk about Iran, for those of you who are

quite sure why Tom's here. We're going to obviously talk about Iran. So correct me if I'm wrong,

but the reason we went into Iran, the reason we are engaged right now in Iran, just to clear this up,

is because they, is it because

they told Marco Rubio and Steve, actually Steve Whitkoff, that they were weeks from getting a nuclear

weapon and we couldn't stop them now. Is that why we're there? Because I know a lot of people

seem to be confused about that. Well, I think it's perhaps understandable that there is some confusion

because there have been multiple explanations, a number of competing explanations. But the one to which

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