In an interview with Tucker Carlson, “Breaking Points” co-host Saagar Enjeti said there is an “information vacuum” around the Iran conflict and warned the White House may be overestimating political support for the war.

TUCKER CARLSON, HOST: So as I said, I flipped to DC three times in the last month to try to convince Trump not to do this. It didn’t work. It happens. I’m looking at this and I’m thinking, boy, this is not going to get better. So then I think, I’ll fly up again and ask him, I mean, I don’t know if anyone else is doing it, so I’m going to try, to just declare victory and go home. Like you killed an 86-year-old cleric, let’s just call that a win and then pull back. And so then meantime, he got convinced to denounce me. Okay. I don’t care. I’m going to fly up anyway and see him, right? Even though he’s like denouncing me. So I call over there to see, you know, call someone who knows him to say, I said, I’m just going to fly up anyway and tell him this because I think it’s so important. And the person says, don’t bother because he’s being shown polling that this war is like a 90-10 win for him. And I said, I don’t know where that polling is coming from. It’s like, you know, I guess you can make any kind of poll and it’s, he’s watching Fox News, which is telling him the same thing, and he’s getting fake polling. I guess they’re only polling Sean Hannity’s viewers or something. And so I’m not sure that there’s a sense as if this was yesterday, because I was getting so agitated and worried. I don’t think that there’s a sense that this is unpopular. Like I think there’s an information vacuum here. SAAGAR ENJETI, BREAKING POINTS: There’s a massive information vacuum. And you know, for the president and the administration who declared victory based on internet and vibes and podcasts, let’s take a survey, shall we, of every podcast that he appeared on and how do they feel about the Iran conflict? You can, you can look very clearly for yourself. You can look at a lot of the polling of that same demographic, which they were very excited about young men in particular, how are they feeling about this conflict? And you know, if you were saying 90, 10, it’s not even true in a Republican sense. I mean, the latest one that I saw was like 72% Republicans, which by the way, Mr. President and everybody in the administration Bush had 93 for Iraq. And how did that turn out for him? So let’s not put, you know, put all of our eggs in the basket of just because Republican voters are here, that this is all going to be like sunshine and roses. And I also would not make the spurious claim that it’s all about Iran. It’s about compounding effects. The gas price effect of the Iran conflict is going to be dramatically more important to the White House’s political chances in the midterms than anything that’s actually happening on the ground. I don’t think it should be that way, but that’s reality. And I do think also, you know, your, your, your, uh, your inclination to get into trying to declare victory, that’s the correct move from a strategic perspective and economic perspective from every political perspective. You don’t want the entire country’s national discourse focus on Iran. I’ll give you a good example. Just yesterday, the White House did a summit where they were trying to address rising electricity prices on data centers in another world. No Iran. That’s a main topic of conversation on my show, a major topic.

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