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First, the president called the war in Iran an excursion and said America had already won with no boots on the ground.

Now, the administration is considering boots on the ground to open up, choked off oil supplies,

and the ask to fund the war to Congress and taxpayers reportedly $200 billion.

We want to be sure, and it's a small price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy top.

But how and why the president plunged the country into this conflict, still murky,

will talk about what his intelligence officials said and wouldn't say on Capitol Hill this week. Plus, more of the week's top stories like the

very confrontational confirmation hearing for Trump's pick to be the new head of the Department of

Homeland Security. We'll get to all of it with Megan Scully, Congress editor at Bloomberg News. Hi, Megan.

Hi, thanks for having me. Great to have you. Anita Kumar is around the table, head of standards

and practices and former managing editor and White House correspondent at Politico. Hi, Anita.

Hi, great to be back. Taylor Popolars is also here. The whole gang is around the table. National Political Reporter for Spectrum News based at the White House. Again, Taylor, as always, hi.

Great to be here. All right, gang. First, our friends Phil Stewart and Idris Ali at Reuters

broke a big story this week. The Trump administration is considering deploying thousands of

U.S. troops in a new phase of this war, including, according to some plans, on Iranian soil.

Anita Kumar, what did we learn? Well, we learned, as you said, thousands of troops. We learned that

there are a couple places that they are focused on, the Strait of Hermuz, which a lot of people

are familiar with now, that very important corridor there that everybody's kind of focused on how

to open that up when Iran says it's open, but is kind of

effectively closed it. And so we know that that's being considered. There's also some possibility

of air and naval forces there, but also some possibility of ground troops. But we don't know a lot

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