underground, especially after dropping six of those mother of all bombs on it? I don't know.

So suddenly my confidence that all you need is the US to say yes and those facilities will go away, I'm not so sure. I feel like the US involvement would be maybe we could destroy them, maybe we couldn't. So it might be worse if we try and fail. Because that would also tell them exactly how deep they have to build it next time. If we use up six bombs and the facility is still operational, then we're going to have to really rethink things. I think that's possible.

Well, Israel says they've destroyed 40% of Iran's missile launchers. And that might be true because the number of missiles that Iran has launched toward Israel has gone down each night. And I guess last night there were only 30 if I have that right. So they went from a few hundred to 100 to 30. That would sort of suggest that Iran is running out of usable good missiles. So they started with what were estimated as 2,000 ballistic missiles and allegedly they fired around 400 so far. But you wonder why they're not firing the rest of them? Are they saving them? Is it because they're going to save them for one big hit somewhere? Or have their rocket launchers been so degraded that they don't even want to load one on a rocket launcher because it means the rocket launcher will disappear?

So we don't know what they're thinking, but it does look like their capabilities have been degraded, but they might have plenty left. According to the Wall Street Journal, Israel is running low on their defensive Arrow interceptors. That would be a certain kind of missile that intercepts the incoming missiles from Iran. So you might have Iran is running out of offensive missiles while maybe Israel is running out of defensive missiles, but you really can't tell in either case because it's the fog of war. So we don't know what's real and what isn't.

Well, Tucker Carlson had a tense conversation with Ted Cruz on Tucker's podcast. And I guess Ted Cruz is in the camp of wanting the US to be militarily involved with the attack on Iran. And Tucker is very much against that. So Tucker got a real good gotcha on Ted Cruz when he asked him, "Does he know the population of Iran?" And Ted Cruz said he did not. And then Tucker mocked him mercilessly for wanting to bomb a country and not knowing anything about it. The answer is 92 million people. So Iran is a big-ass country. So it's about a third the size of the United States, which is really big.

And then Tucker asked him if he knew how many ethnicities are in Iran. And I think the right answer is there are around a dozen major ones and probably infinite smaller varieties. But Ted Cruz did not know the answer to either of those questions, but also didn't seem to think it was terribly important. And I'm not sure he's wrong because if I said to you Iran has 50 million people or I said to you they have 150 million people, would you have a different idea of what to do? I mean, in both cases, you would still, if you were Ted Cruz, in both cases, no matter what that population number was, you'd still say, you know, should we take out the underground facilities? So I'm a little bit on Ted Cruz's side that he really didn't need to know the details because if you know that there are two or three underground nuclear sites and you know the history of Iran and Israel and you know what the current military situation is, do you really need to know that the best estimate is they have 92 million people? It'd be better if he did, but does it make that much difference? I'm gonna say it was a really good gotcha. So it embarrassed Ted Cruz, but I don't think it made that much difference. I feel like he knew enough to be part of the conversation.

Meanwhile, the news loves reporting on whether the Trump allies are splintered. So it looks like Charlie Kirk and JD Vance are on the side of Trump has earned the freedom and flexibilit