new - GOP *disarray* is building ahead of the election - Republicans increasingly breaking with the Iran War from James to Hinson to Mike Rogers to MMM - "It's not popular," says Sen. Ernst of her Iowa colleagues' distance from it. “The administration hasn’t been clear on how to end this and I think that’s why people are moving" - Sen. Budd: “You have to be in sync with people in your state to get elected — in an authentic way. I think people genuinely want the war to be over" - Thune is trying to kill the Democrats' Iran resolution this week, but Tillis says he's voting for it: "There are so many headwinds now for these candidates that I hope that the administration gets the point that you can be 90% with the president and speak about the 10% you’re not" - Wicker criticized Trump's Xi visit on the floor just now, calling Xi a "brutal, unelected and oppressive dictator" - Oh yes, and Curtis wants Judiciary to subpoena Trump Jr., prompting no comments from Grassley

On Monday’s ‘Deadline: White House,’ MS NOW legal analyst Andrew Weissman compared Trump barring MS NOW, CNN, and Politico from inside White House grounds to… foreign journalists in 1930s Nazi Germany having reports reviewed by the government before they could leave the country. “In the 1930s in Germany, William Shirer and other foreign journalists were required by the German government when they were reporting on the growth of national socialism, of the Nazi Party. They were required, before they could report to their home countries, to give their written statements to the government before the public in other countries could hear what was going on in Germany. That is what the president is trying to do, is to whitewash history. To whitewash the information that you get. That's why it is bigger than just MS NOW saying, ‘Oh, we want this,’ or CNN wants this, or Politico wants this. This is what authoritarian regimes do. William Shirer reported this in real time in his diaries of what was going on in Berlin…”

🚨Trump meets with Gulf leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to discuss Iran. Yet Israel—the regional power that has directly demonstrated significant military capability against Iran—is not at the table. Several of these countries have struggled even to protect their own critical infrastructure from Iranian or Iranian-backed attacks. At the same time, Israel has shown both the capability and willingness to strike directly at Iran and absorb the consequences. The UAE has played an important regional security role, but if the discussion is about confronting Iran and shaping the region’s security architecture, excluding Israel is a glaring omission. Simply a joke.

Let’s talk about how Jordan treats Palestinians: After Palestinian terrorists attempted to assassinate King Abdullah’s father King Hussein - twice - and after they hijacked four airplanes in the lead up to September 1970, the Jordanian military expelled and killed thousands of Palestinians. In 1951 King Abdullah I was assassinated via shooting by a Palestinian terrorist in 1951. Today by population, Jordan is effectively a Palestinian state and yet the people are ruled by King Abdullah - who is Hashemite. Since October 7 Jordan has refused to take in refugees from Gaza - calling it a “red line” and national security issue - all the while publicly complaining about Israel’s justified response to the worst terror attack in the country’s history.

I was not shocked that he gets attacked viciously and publicly on social media by the likes of professional anti-Zionist Mehdi Hasan or by the legion of twitter trolls and frauds who put “historian” in their bio. But still, the level of anger and hate he has been subjected to startled me.