Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, senior fellow for national security at the Family Research Council, Simone Ledeen, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, and John Byrnes, strategic director for Concerned Veterans for America joined a panel discussion with NTD's Steve Lance.
The panel discussed Secretary of State Marco Rubio's remarks to the press before briefing the top eight leaders of both chambers on Monday, the United States' degradation of the Iranian Navy and their ballistic missile capabilities.
The panel also discussed what they learned from the Secretary of War Peter Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine's briefing the press on Monday, and the questions that remain about if American ground troops will be deployed on the ground in Iran, and the length of the war.
The panel also compared President Donald Trump's war on Iran to previous wars, the best case scenario of the United States removing security forces that are killing the Iranians protesting against the regime and the goal of the Iranian people deciding their leadership. The panel also assessed the threat from the Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas, and other proxies, and sleeper cells in the Western hemisphere and the United States, and imams who are very sympathetic to the radical Islamist radical view of the late Ayatollah.