Why Did We Attack Iran and is Michael Bennet a South Park Character? [32:49-37:55]

This is a serious threat to us and to Israel. The question is how to handle it. And President Trump said, we are not the policemen of the world. He ran on that. And now he's turned us into the world's policemen, into its jury, into its judge, into its executioner. And just because we have the most advanced military in the world... Senator Types says that we should be in a perpetual war, all around the world. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That's Colorado Senator Michael Bennett yesterday with John Ratcliffe, the head of the CIA. Bill, he says, this is a serious threat. This is a serious threat to the United States and Israel, but not an imminent threat. And then claims that there's no clear goals. I thought it was a moment where Michael Bennett fell flat on his face. What are your thoughts, sir? It's the thing that I heard in that is he wasn't focused. And there were a couple of things in there. One, love the fact that the chair was like, you're both big boys. That was totally my favorite part. And the other favorite part was when, at the end, they're banging the gavel. And then he says, thank you. There's just so many things in there that I just, I like that. So then I thought I thought entertaining as you outlined, Bennett didn't spend a lot of time asking questions. And I found it intriguing. And I thought that just based on the conversation, it was more insightful when Bennett pushed back on Ratcliffe and then accused him of wasting Bennett's time. And what I mean by that is, if during the seven minutes, the only thing he can manage is a single question, and this is important. As Jeff outlined, he didn't lead with a question. He led with a speech and then went into his questions. And because he did that, I find it extremely silly for him to complain about who in that exchange is using the time. If you were focused on getting questions and answers, then ask questions and try to focus the answers. You can interrupt them, but then you can refocus the question. Bennett did none of that. I, I want to see what his notes were in that because it seems like there was a speech and maybe a couple of bullet points that he turned into a question because his question was way too open-ended. And that's part of the problem you have in these situations. When you give a very open-ended question to the witness, they are instructed to burn the time. Exactly right. It's exactly what they're told to do. It's a battle, it's a boxing match. Yes, it is. Yes. And he came in ill-prepared. His coach didn't have him ready. Whoever was his cut man in the corner should go in there and go, you're bleeding all over the place because he looked bad. His questions were ill-focused and in the time in which he's talking about the threat, the thing that he needed to talk about, even when Ratcliffe is going through that list of stuff, the most important thing he could have done was say, I'm not hearing imminent threat. Have you addressed the imminent threat? That's how you interrupt that question, that answer. That's how you get it, you try to refocus what they're doing. And ill-prepared, bad question. Who writes these questions sometimes? But again, these are more about making political speeches and making sure you can get something on the ticketing talks, your social media, to say, look, constituents, I'm holding their feet to the fire. I am making sure the Trump administration, and then if you're a Republican, I am fighting for the fill in the blank. We've all seen it, we've all heard it. But I guess I don't understand what Democrats want at this point. So for instance, Jason Crowe says that there's no justification for a war with Iran. No justification, no justification for a war with Iran. Iran has killed 1,000 Americans over the last 47 years, 1200 dead Israelis on October 7th. They're in a desperate bid to get a nuke. They run around all over our media saying it's a God-given right to have a nuclear weapon. They have plenty of drones and ballistic missiles that we're dealing with right now. No justification for a war with Iran as Jason Crowe. And then you hear Michael Bennett try to play both sides going, well, they're terrible. This is a serious threat, but not an imminent threat. So I'm sorry, do we only go to war when somebody has a nuke pointed directly at us? And the finger is coming down on the button? Or in this case, what we have is Iran at its weakest point in the last 50 years.