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NICHOLS: “But the Iranians are not potted plants. They’re not just going to sit there and say, wow, that was a really good operation, I guess it’s over. And I think nobody’s really thinking this through in the White House. The president is saying, he’s threatening the Supreme Leader, he’s calling for unconditional surrender. There’s all this stuff coming out of the White House. And I just want to underscore this problem of, you can’t pull this off when you don’t have a functioning Secretary of Defense and a functioning intelligence community. And, you know, these are really important institutions. And, you know, even on the — under the best circumstances, with a fully functional White House, with people who know what they’re doing, this would be an incredibly fraught operation. But when you have, you know, this group that, you know, again, seems to be in such disarray, this — that makes this a tremendously dangerous thing to do.”