Ret. Gen. Marks on the Trump-Gabbard Disagreement: The Fact That It Was Done Publicly, ‘That‘s a Punch in the Face’

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MARKS: "Well, I. Tell you. Having been told I‘m wrong multiple times in my career, I understand exactly what that what that means. I‘m being challenged. I‘ve got to get back and figure it out. In other words, if I am presenting options to my commander in chief, my boss, and they are completely off base, we‘ve we‘ve got work to do. I mean, that‘s number one. And then the fact that it was done publicly. I mean, that‘s a that‘s a punch in the face. That relationship has got to be fixed or Tulsi Gabbard becomes irrelevant if she‘s not part of the going forward. National security invitation list, then our intelligence work is going to be at ad hoc. Which which has happened before. So administrations have gone through these kinds of changes and these kinds of challenges before. But I think it‘s important to realize that, you know, the president, the president‘s intuition or his desire to achieve a political end state will always drive what what that decision making looks like. And I think it‘s important to realize that if there is a three month or a multiple month, multiple year pathway for a nuclearization of a weapon and Iran, I got it. That‘s a pretty conservative timeline. However, khamenei could pick up the phone tomorrow and call his buddy and the axis of evil and Kim Jong UN and say, hey, you got a couple of nukes, ship one my way. And I‘m not being facetious here, but we could at a very close point for nuclearization. And the intel world has gotten stuff wrong before, so this is now playing out in public, which is unfortunate."