Hello and welcome. It is Eric Eriksen nationwide. Glad to have you with me. The phone number is 877-97-9-37-37-425, should you wish to be on this year program. So, you know, every hour I kind of give the hour a title. I have to do this.

My producer makes me for podcast purposes.

The title that I gave for this hour is everything Biden touches breaks.

He's about to break the Middle East.

Listen, there are a lot of things I could start the day with Catangia Brown Jackson,

the Hunter Biden stuff, oh, we'll get there.

Ron DeSantis versus Larry Hogan, the mysterious Trump phone call log.

That's not mysterious at all.

Ukraine, there's a lot.

But the biggest news and the news that

very few are talking about, the news that is actually going to be the most consequential for the

next decade is the Iran deal that Joe Biden seems to want to pass and possibly has the votes

to get through Congress. The Iran deal is rather monumental because it has a lot to do with the magical thinking

of the Biden administration right now.

The magical thinking of the Biden administration is this comes from progressive think tanks.

And I should note the contrasts here.

When Donald Trump said that he wanted to find a new path forward in the Middle East,

everyone said it was impossible that you could not get peace with Israel unless you resolved the situation with the

Palestinians this was conventional wisdom at the time that you could not find any path forward unless

there was also some way to deal with the Palestinian situation no peace in the Middle East

and it was a remarkable bit of arrogance to think that we would ever be in this sort of situation,

to be in a situation where you would think that you had to do an all or nothing take in the Middle East.

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