Sen. Adam Schiff pushed back on CNN host Kasie Hunt’s ridiculous framing on whether there was any “upside” or “positive news” from Trump’s irresponsible and unconstitutional attack on Iran this weekend.
After expressing his gratitude to the troops who put their lives at risk to complete the mission, Schiff hit Trump for putting them at risk in the first place, and pointed out to Hunt that the Iranians may have already moved material out of one of the sites prior to the strike.
SCHIFF: But it’s not an operation that should have ever been authorized by the president in the absence of intelligence showing that Iran had made the decision to break out and build a bomb.
The intelligence I have seen — and it’s been limited — indicates that Iran had certainly enriched uranium, but had not made the decision to build a bomb or pursue the mechanism of a bomb. And, in the absence of that, this is not a strike that should have been ordered.
In watching Hegseth during that press conference this morning, we saw a lot of arrogance from the defense secretary. And as wars in the Middle East have demonstrated, arrogance is a deadly commodity. We simply don’t know what is going to occur now, whether Iran will retaliate, whether Iran was able to evacuate some of the enriched material from Fordow.
