Iran is a country, it's a deeply, it's a deeply factional situation.

What is the result of what he's saying?

The result is, I don't know, chaos, anarchy, a civil war.

We don't know what our goals, the goals of the United States are.

We don't know what the goals, the personal goals of Donald Trump are. we don't know what the goals, the personal goals of Donald Trump

are. We don't know what the goals of the Iranian people are. He likes the fact that war gives him

a platform. Nobody talks about anything else. It is, of course, the wag the dog scenario. You go to

war, it's war. And who is at the

center of war? Donald Trump, the man waging the war. Michael?

Joanna. Oh, that's good. You remembered my name, on our last podcast I could see you groping for it.

You didn't have to see.

I think I acknowledged.

I had completely forgotten your name, but I've practiced.

Okay, so Marco Rubio wakes up this morning to possibly an entirely new job taking over Iran as we are recording

this, which is Saturday morning, Israeli television and radio.

Possibly, but I wouldn't jump that conclusion because I literally think nobody knows this is

the, this is not even the fog of war. We've gone into the, to the, to the black hole of war.

But in the black hole of war, but all I would say is that Israeli radio and television are reporting that the leader of Iran has been killed in a nest, right?

Right. But what we saw, what we saw reporting last week is that the, that the Iranians had anticipated this and had and had set up a

a high a hierarchical structure that would that would replace anyone in the leadership who was who was

killed immediately replaced them that their entire goal was the survival of the regime.

Right. So they had succession planning in place where anything to happen to him. All right. So let's just reel back a moment for people who haven't joined us before. And don't care if either of us can remember each other's names. I'm Joanna Coles.

...