LEMON DROP | Rep. Suhas Subramanyam: "Everyone Is Losing Right Now!" [0:00-2:06]

This is not a trick question, so is the straight-of-arms open as it closes, open as it closes? Which one is it? It's both, right? But mostly closed, right? In the end, what we want is to have ships going through there without Iran being total control. So Iran is in control now, apart because of this war, and now the Navy is blockading it too, and so everyone's losing right now. Yeah, I mean, and as I said, I'm not trying to be funny, but people don't know. Iran will say it's closed, Donald Trump will say it's open, he'll say, we are in complete control of it, and the American people don't know. Look, I am more, I think informed about a lot of this stuff than the average American, they're all of them, people were more and more than me, and I don't know sometimes. Yeah, I think the average American didn't know what the straight-of-arms was before this war, and now they know that Iran has this incredible leverage now over the rest of the world. And it's all because of this war. We created more problems than we solved by starting this war of choice. Do you know, do you have, have you gotten a logical justification from the administration about why we did this? Why we did the whole war? I mean, they think that it was the only way to stop Iran from getting nukes. It was the only way to stop Iran from sponsoring terrorism in the region. The reality is, they did not exhaust every diplomatic option. Iran is very difficult to negotiate with, but in the end, this is what we're doing now, right? We're still at the negotiating table and we haven't solved anything. But they said they obliterated last summer all the nuclear weapons? They did, didn't they? Right, yeah, I wonder what happened with that, yeah. It seems like they are telling us one thing and then doing another. Why do you think they did it? They did it because I think they were in a position where they were impatient with Iran, because they thought it would be like Venezuela, it would be simple. We'd be out of this within a week, and instead, they did not understand who Iran was. You have to understand your enemy before you pick a bite like this. And a lot of the people who give great intelligence to people all the way up into the White House, they were fired. They were part of the doge cuts, right? And so we didn't get that call or we didn't get that intel that we really needed.