Speaker unverified: belief

Transcript context

…Which Trump hopefully appears to be doing now in Iran. I think Trump is early… I mean, it’s interesting you said that because he’s early indicators. Again, who knows where the ceasefire goes. But I think it was important he slapped Khamenei, but he also said to Bibi, “Enough, enough.” And it’s like, okay, now we’re going back to Oman. There’s going to be a temporary ceasefire. Now let’s negotiate. And I think that’s important. And I think it shows that Donald Trump is leading, not following. It shows that Donald Trump is his own man, not on the payroll of the Russians or the Iranians or the Israelis or all these other crazy accusations that have been made about this guy for many, many years. And he’s going to give, as they say, peace a chance, and he’s going to give a ceasefire a chance. He’s going to give negotiations a chance. But I’ll think he’s sending the message to the Iranians and he needs to send it to Putin is, if you don’t take me up on my offer, I’ve already demonstrated that I am serious and I will use American power carefully and selectively in the way that I’ve done in the past. At the risk of doing the thing I shouldn’t do. But just to test the ideas of libertarianism and the things we’ve been talking about. Can we, for a brief time unrelated to everything we’ve been talking about, talk about World War II, what was the right thing to do in 1938, 1939? What would you do? Okay. To be clear, World War II has nothing to do with current events. In fact, many of the horrible policies of the United States, in my opinion, have to do with projecting World War II onto every single conflict in the world. Okay.…

Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.