Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing what we’re learning about Trump’s Iran deal, the costs and benefits of a negotiated settlement, why the neocons are furious but Trump’s deal will help Americans, and more.

MEGYN KELLY: The neocon hawks are not happy. They’re not happy at all. They want this war to go on and on. I mean, really, they want this war to go on and on. Well, it’s not going to. Sorry, I mean, Israel is definitely going to do its best to continue this thing, and we’ll probably try to queer this deal over and over and over again, but the President has clearly had it. He has seen through Netanyahu and his puffery around the magic that is possible in Iran. It’s over. Those lies will no longer be believed. So my money actually is on Trump refusing to go back in there, refusing to resume the bombing. He says he will. I don’t think he actually will. And they’re not happy about that. They wanted Iran bombed to smithereens. It’s got 90 million people in it. It’s nearly 10 times the size of Israel, and that really was never a realistic option, even when Trump was saying that complete annihilation was going to happen to Iran, and now it’s really not going to happen. Iran’s about to be richer than it’s ever been. I mean, we’re about to release a lot of money to Iran, and they will emerge from this whole thing in some ways much better off than they were before. They’ll possibly be in control of the Strait of Hormuz. They’ll definitely have hundreds of billions of dollars that they didn’t have before, and look, this is part of Trump’s peace plan, in a way. He’s trying, he tried the stick, now he’s trying the carrot, that’s really what it boils down to. And he feels like he can try the carrot, because we obliterated their nuclear facilities last June, so he’s not really that worried about the nuclear weapon. I know he said he had to say that to launch this war, as we’ve been telling you here, that wasn’t a real concern. Tulsi Gabbard, the intelligence community had told him they’re nowhere near developing a nuclear weapon. He kind of had to say it as a justification. My own belief is that what he really wanted to do over there was get rid of the Ayatollah. He did that, I think he believed Bibi that if he did that, there could be regime change, and we might get some better people running Iran. Trump continues to say that happened. Time will tell. We did degrade some of their missile facilities and their missile capacities. Unfortunately, we really degraded our own in the process, but look, the important thing is we did the thing last June, which was very effective. The nuclear dust is a skyscraper, buildings height underground, and if they try to get it, Trump has told us repeatedly, we have satellite technology that will show us. In that case, we would go back in, and we’re trying now to bring Iran out of the dark ages, and make it, you know, more.. I don’t want to say twin, but maybe more of a distant cousin to its other Arab state relatives, where, they’re participating in the global economy in a meaningful way that could make them rich, that could help the world, that wouldn’t make them such a pariah, and I get it. They’re virtually all of their critics say that’s not possible with these guys. They’re Islamic radicals they can’t be reasoned with. It kind of exists just to take aim at Israel and its big brother us. This is a pipe dream, but President Trump is trying. The President yesterday was extraordinary in making comments on this. I had never seen him so frank about the realities in Iran, which I have to say was very encouraging. Why was it encouraging? Because my number one takeaway on all this, when you’re looking at the upsides and there’s downsides, as I just outlined, is that President Trump now gets it. He gets what’s happening there. He understands the danger of listening to Israel when it comes to bombing campaigns in the Middle East, and he also understands that Iran, for all of its leadership troubles, and there are many, I don’t dispute it, is a country with, like I said, nearly 100 million people living there, and they have to survive. The President said, “I don’t want them to starve, can’t have the Iranians starving to death. And he’s starting to realize that, at least, with ever whomever he’s negotiating with, and it’s still the IRGC, which is radical, in charge of Iran, but he’s starting to believe that there’s at least an opportunity for that carrot. All right, President Trump yesterday started with this one. I’m going to play a couple sound bites. First of all, he talked about, on this front, about nuclear enrichment, because there are two purposes to enriching uranium: one is domestic energy, the much more nefarious one is creating a nuclear weapon, and here’s what Trump said about that. It’s very clearly opening the door to nuclear enrichment. I imagine it’s going to have a number like below 3.67 I understand why the critics don’t like it, but that hit totally different tone by the president there on the question of whether Iran can have a nuclear program.

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