Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three martini's coming up.

Very glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the three martini lunch.

Grab a stool, a lot to get to today.

And Jim, I love my job. I know you love your job we all have bad

days on the job but if you're a high ranking or what now passes for a high ranking iranian

government official your days the last few days and a few days last year have been really really

bad days and so of course with the the killing of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Kameni,

and so many other leaders that we talked about yesterday, well, they sort of have to try to replace

these people. And so apparently they insist on doing this in person. Here's Trey Yings, reporting actually

from the site of where an Iranian missile struck

Israel yet again, explaining what's happened on the other side, Israel striking a meeting

that was choosing new leaders. But I'm told by a senior Israeli official that the Israelis just

struck the Supreme Council gathering where the Iranians were meeting to choose

a new supreme leader. This is a significant development and again speaks to the Israeli intelligence

about this war. They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what's left of the leadership

was gathering to choose a new supreme leader.

Yeah, and beyond that, there was a report that the regime's new defense minister,

who replaced the previous minister, who was eliminated two days ago, was also eliminated today.

So, Jim, I think eventually, if you're going to go to these meetings, you've got to be like,

don't nominate me. Whatever you do, don't nominate me. But I guess being at the meeting at all is a pretty big problem. One big question is, why are you going to the

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