Yeah that’s our Senate Majority Leader, always thinking ahead to the possibilities of rescue for Americans stranded in the Middle East. Stitched in after that is Secretary of State Marco Rubio fumbling questions about the same topic and also getting pretty snappy with reporters asking him to remember what he said less than 24 hours ago about why convicted felon President Trump decided to attack and that the Israelis are really taking the lead. Rubio nows says he didn’t say that.
All this while the US consulate in Dubai is on fire from a drone strike and Punchbowl News’s Andrew Desiderio reports Indiana Senator Todd Young “went off about the WH’s and GOP leadership’s handling of the Iran situation during the closed-door Republican lunch,” earlier this afternoon.