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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

Now that Donald Trump and Iran have agreed to a very fragile ceasefire,

the administration is facing mounting questions about his threat to wipe out Iranian civilization. White House press secretary Caroline Levitt lost her temper under tough questioning about this topic.

Pete Hegsseth also tried to spin about this threat, and he too flopped miserably.

All this comes as even some of Trump's own allies are questioning whether he got a good deal out of this fiasco.

We think this all reveals deeper failures. Trump and Hagsath sought to show that the threat of

overwhelming military force can accomplish literally anything, yet that too failed. We're talking

about all this with a great commentator on national security affairs, Georgetown's Rosa Brooks.

Rosa, really nice to have you on.

Good to be here, Greg.

So we have a ceasefire now, but it's a little hard to see what we got out of it.

The U.S. largely destroyed the Iranian military and killed some of Iran's senior leaders.

The Strait of Hormuz might be reopening, but it was open before the war, and Iran's grip on it appears tighter now. The basis

for the new talks seems to be somewhat more friendly to Iran than before. Rosa, is that about the

size of it? What's your reading? It's not even clear that the Strait of Hormuz is,

in fact, open. It sounds as though two ships have gone through as of the time we're recording this

podcast, but then it reclosed again. So it's not even clear we have a ceasefire. And already there

are disputes. The Israelis are continuing to attack targets inside of Lebanon. The Iranians are saying,

well, then we're closing the straight again because that wasn't the deal. You're supposed to stop.

The Israelis are saying, no, no, no. Attacking Lebanon wasn't part of the deal. So this may be

collapsing as we speak. It's a little hard to know. But yes, I think even if, even if it

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