In this interview, the insufferable Margaret Brennan attempts to match intellect with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Ms. Brennan fails miserably. The outcome is an epic broadcast of media bias, dramatic acting by Brennan and a very visible smackdown from a highly competent Rubio.
Margaret Brennan attempts to tell Marco Rubio what intelligence assessments are and how they are used. Now keep in mind as a U.S. Senator Marco Rubio was the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and a member of the Gang of Eight conducting intelligence oversight for years. Brennan thought she could match wits with Rubio, she failed miserably; embarrassingly so. WATCH:
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: Secretary of State and acting White House National Security Adviser Marco Rubio now joins us. Mr. Secretary, I know it has been an intense few hours, but so far, it does not appear that Iran has yet retaliated against the United States. What intelligence do you have at this point about their capabilities to respond, the intent of their proxies? Is there any kind of command and control structure left to activate them?
SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, well, we’ll see what Iran decides to do. I think they should choose the route of peace. We have been- we’ve done everything. We have bent over backwards, okay, to create a deal with these people. Steve- Steve Witkoff has traveled the world extensively, met with them- well not even met with them, met through the Omanis with them, and discussed back and forth. We even put an offer to them that they wanted elements of it in writing, and we offered it to them- very generous offer by the way. We’ve done- and we’re prepared right now.
If they call right now and say, we want to meet, let’s talk about this. We’re prepared to do that. The President’s made that clear from the very beginning. His preference is to deal with is to deal with this issue diplomatically, but he also told them we had 60 days to make progress or something else was going to happen. And I think they thought they were dealing with a different kind of leader, like the kinds of leaders they’ve been playing games with for the last 30 or 40 years. And they found out that’s not the case.
So this mission was a very precise mission. It had three objectives, three nuclear sites. It was not attack on Iran. It was not an attack on the Iranian people. This wasn’t a regime change move. This was designed to degrade and, or destroy three nuclear sites related to their nuclear weaponization ambitions, and that was delivered on yesterday. What happens next will now depend on what Iran chooses to do next. If they choose the path of diplomacy, we’re ready. We can do a deal that’s good for them, the Iranian people and good for the world. If they choose another route, then there will be consequences for that.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me follow up on a phrase you just word, ‘weaponization ambitions.’ Are you saying there, that the United States did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization?
SEC. RUBIO: That’s irrelevant. I see that question being asked in the media all the- that’s an irrelevant question, they have everything they need to build the weapon–
[CROSSTALK BEGINS]
MARGARET BRENNAN: –That is the key point in U.S. intelligence assessments. You know that.
SEC. RUBIO: No its not.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes it was–
SEC. RUBIO: No its not–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –The political decision had not been made.
SEC. RUBIO: –No, no. Well, I know that better than you know that, and I know that that’s not the case. You not- you don’t know what you’re talking about–
MARGARET BRENNAN: But I’m asking you whether the order was given.
[CROSSTALK ENDS]
SEC. RUBIO: And the people who say that- it doesn’t matter the order was given. They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons. Why would you bury- why would you bury things in a mountain, 300 feet under the ground? Why would you bury six- why do they have 60% enriched uranium? You don’t need 60% enriched uranium. The only countries in the world that have uranium at 60% are countries that have nuclear weapons, because it can quickly make it 90. They have all the elements they have. Why are they- why do they have a space program? Is Iran going to go to the moon? No, they’re trying to build an ICBM so they can one day put a warhead on it–
MARGARET BRENNAN: No, but that’s a question- that’s a question- that’s a question of intent. And you know, in the intelligence assessment that it was that Iran wanted to be a threshold state and use it as leverage–
SEC. RUBIO: How do you know what the intelligence assessment says? How do you know what the intelligence assessment says–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –I’m talking about the public March assessment. And that’s why I was asking you, if you know something more from March if an order was given–
SEC. RUBIO: –Well, but that’s also an inaccurate representation of it- that’s an inaccurate representation of it. That’s not how intelligence is read. That’s now how intelligence is used. Here’s what the whole world knows. Forget about intelligence. What the IAEA knows they are enriching uranium well beyond anything you need for a- for a for a civil nuclear program. So why would you enrich uranium at 60%, if you don’t intend to one day use it to take it to 90 and build a weapon? Why are you why are you developing ICBMs? Why do you have 8000 short range missiles and two to 3000 long- mid range missiles that you continue to develop? Why do you do all these things–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Understood.
SEC. RUBIO: They have everything they need for a nuclear weapon. They have the delivery mechanisms, they have the enrichment capability, they have the highly enriched uranium that is stored.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.
SEC. RUBIO: That’s all we need to see.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right. Well, and that’s–
SEC. RUBIO: Especially in the hands of the regime that’s already involved in terrorism and proxies and all kinds of things are on- they are the source of all the instability in the Middle East–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –And no one’s disputing- no one’s disputing that. I’m not doing that here. And they were censured at the IAEA for that enrichment and for violating their non-proliferation agreements. I was simply asking if we had intelligence that there was an order to weaponize because you said ‘weaponization ambitions,’ which implies they weren’t doing it–
SEC. RUBIO: –Well, we have intelligence that they have everything they need to build a nuclear weapon, and that’s more than enough.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. Can- I want to ask you on the policy front, there are personnel throughout the Middle East, from the United States in Bahrain and Kuwait and other bases. If those countries are attacked by Iran because of their association with the United States, will the United States defend them?
SEC. RUBIO: Well, that’s exactly why they’re there. That’s a great point, actually. Do you know why we have bases in Bahrain and Qatar and UAE and in all these places? All those bases are there because those countries are afraid that Iran will attack them. If Iran was not a threat to the region, if the Iranian regime- because I’m not talking about the Iranian people, the regime was not a threat to the region, we wouldn’t have to have any of these bases. Those bases are there because those countries are petrified that these- that the Iranian Shia clerics that run that country will attack their country–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Will the United States defend them if they are–
SEC. RUBIO: As you know, they’ve got a very difficult history- well, that’s why we’re there. That’s why we’re there.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So yes, we will defend them.
SEC. RUBIO: They’ll attack us, is what they’re threatening to do. So we’ll defend our people, obviously. We’ll defend our people- well, they’ll attack our bases, and those are our bases, and we’re going to defend our personnel. We’re prepared to do that, but we’ll do more than just defend we’ll impose costs on Iran if they attack American personnel, whether they do it directly, or whether they do it through some of these proxies that they try to hide behind, and that includes the Houthis so- another proxy of theirs. So- but let’s hope they don’t choose that route. Let’s all hope that they actually decide, okay, let’s go negotiate. Because we want a diplomatic and peaceful solution. We have achieved our objectives. We’re ready to negotiate this in a peaceful, diplomatic way. We’ve been prepared to do that for days. They are the ones that played games, as they have done for 40 years, as they have done to multiple presidents. They tried to play games with President Trump, and they see what happens. This is not a game-playing president. When he says he’s going to do something, he will do it.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I hear you saying here you want to de-escalate. When you are talking about diplomacy, you are looking for Iran to pick up that offer that was put on the table you mentioned by Steve Witkoff. Can you just clarify, does that mean the U.S. would still allow for Iran to have a civilian nuclear program if it does not enrich on its own soil?
SEC. RUBIO: But that- but that’s never been an issue. There’s countries all over the world that have a civil nuclear program, no one here is saying that Iran can’t–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –But that’s still the offer on the table?
SEC. RUBIO: Sure, that’s always been there any kind world has a right to have a civil nuclear program. What they don’t have a right to do is to enrich it at 60%, hide it under a mountain and develop long range and short range and mid range missiles and sponsor terrorist proxies all over the world. They don’t have a right to do that, and that’s what they’ve been doing. And no one’s dealt with it, and it’s continued to linger, and they’ve played games with multiple presidents and multiple countries around the world, and they’ve gotten away with it for 40 something years. This is very simple. The President wants to resolve this diplomatically and peacefully. He gave them a chance to do that. They delayed. They had all these kind of delay tactics. They wouldn’t even meet with us directly. We had to go through third countries. This is very simple. Let’s meet directly. Let’s work on agreements that we can that are good for Iran, good for the Iranian people in particular, good for the safety and security of the world and the United States. That’s always been our preference, that continues to be our preference, but they’re the ones that were playing games with this. And these are the consequences. We had to achieve those objectives. We had three objectives yesterday, Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan. We conducted a brilliant military operation under the command of President Trump, and obviously great credit to Secretary Hegseth and General Kurilla and General Caine and all of our- all the airmen and phenomenal people in the U.S. military. No other military in the world could have done this to achieve those objectives–
MARGARET BRENNAN: No, it was astounding.
SEC. RUBIO: –what happens next is up to the regime. The regime wants peace, we’re ready for peace. They want to do something else, they’re incredibly vulnerable. They can’t even protect their own airspace.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, clearly- clearly, they could not. But what is the U.S. assessment of how much nuclear material at those sites was moved prior to the attack? There has been talk for days about bombing of Fordo.
SEC. RUBIO: Well, look, we- we don’t, no one will know for sure for days, but I doubt they moved it, because you really can’t move anything right now, and they can’t move anything right now inside of Iran. I mean, the minute a truck starts driving somewhere, the Israelis have seen it, and they’ve targeted it and taken it out. So our assessment is, we have to assume that that’s a lot of 60% enriched uranium buried deep under the ground there in Isfahan. And that really is the key. What they should do with that is they should bring it out of the ground and turn it over. Multiple countries around the world will take it and down blend it. That’s what they should do with that. And what they should do is say we’re not going to have any enrichment capability in our country, instead what we’re going to have is a civil nuclear program like dozens of countries around the world have where we build reactors that create electricity and we import enriched material. And we’ve made very general – I’m not going to get all the details of the offers, but there are other avenues here that would be acceptable to them. If that’s what they wanted, if what they want is a civil, peaceful nuclear program, the route has always been there. The problem is that everything they’re demanding has nothing to do with a peaceful program. They are all the things you would want if you want to retain the option of one day weaponizing the program.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay.
SEC. RUBIO: Which has been their clear intent. To me, that’s indisputable. I followed this issue for 15 years–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Yeah–
SEC. RUBIO: –Including the intelligence on it for 15 years. Okay? I have followed it. And the intelligence, these are assessments, and sometimes they’ve been wrong, I’ve seen them revised multiple times, these guys want a nuclear weapon one day. They do.
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Okay, to that point–
SEC. RUBIO: –And it isn’t going to happen, not while Donald Trump is president.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Understood. You’ve said this is not about regime change, but you are describing a regime that you have said for decades, I mean, for upwards of 40 years, has chanted Death to America, has done all the things you just described. Isn’t a diplomatic deal with them a lifeline? Aren’t you offering to negotiate with the same people you’re saying did all these things? So therefore, are you actually looking for regime change?
SEC. RUBIO: But that’s not the point. That misses the point. I don’t like that they chant those things. But one thing is that they chant those things. Another thing is that they chant those things, and they have terror proxies are all over the world, and they have long range missiles that can reach the United States one day and they have the potential to be one step away from a nuclear weapon–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –One day.–
SEC: RUBIO: –Yeah, well one day could be tomorrow, could be a week from now, could be a month from now. You know, all it takes is the flip of a switch. By the way, they’re not going to broadcast that to the world. By the time we figure out that they’re doing it, you have all the pieces in place. Okay?–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –So are there still targets you want to hit?–
SEC. RUBIO: –It’s like a loaded, a gun here, and the ammunition. It only takes one second. We have other targets that we could hit, but we achieved our objective. The primary targets we were interested in are the ones that were struck tonight in devastating fashion. The ones that were struck, I guess, yeah tonight over there their time, and devastating fashion. And we’ve achieved that objective. There are no planned military operations right now against Iran unless, unless they mess around and they attack American or American interests. Then they’re going to have a problem. Then they’re going to have a problem. And I’m not going to broadcast what those problems are, but suffice it to say, know this, the United States flew halfway around the world, right into the heart of Iran, over their most sensitive locations. These things got rocked, and then we left, and we were out of their airspace, we were over the ocean before they figured out what had happened.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Understood.
SEC. RUBIO: And there’s plenty of other targets– We don’t want to do that. That’s not our preference. We want peace deals with them, and that’s up to them to decide.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You said defend American interests. Would the United States military take action to keep, for example, the transit point, the Strait of Hormuz, open? If there are attacks on oil installations, would the United States consider that a direct act by the state, even if it was carried out by a militia?
SEC. RUBIO: Well, I’m not going to take options away from the President. That’s not something we’re talking about right now in terms of being immediate. But if they do that, the first people that should be angry about it are the Chinese government because they take, a lot of their oil comes through there. So they should be the first ones that are saying, if they mine the Straits of Hormuz, the Chinese are going to pay a huge price. And every other country in the world is going to pay a huge price. We will too. It will have some impact on us. It will have a lot more impact on the rest of the world, a lot more impact on the rest of the world. That would be a suicidal move on their part because I think the, the whole world would come against them if they did that.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Will the Chinese and Russians stop trading with Iran?
SEC. RUBIO: I have to ask the Chinese and the Russians.–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –You haven’t’ asked them?–
SEC. RUBIO: –Probably not. I mean, they’re getting, you know, they’re, well, the Russians are getting a bunch of these, you know, these drones that they’re using are coming from Iran.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Exactly.–
SEC. RUBIO: –They’re coming from Iran. So I saw the foreign minister, instead of meeting with Steve Witkoff, is headed to Moscow to meet with Putin, which was a pre-scheduled meeting, which is fine, you know they can go meet. And you know the- the Russians at the end of the day, I mean, they buy drones from them. But look, this is very simple. They, we want to have an agreement with them, a diplomatic agreement in which they have a civil nuclear program but are not enriching and don’t have weapons-grade material or weapons grade capabilities laying around. It’s that simple.
MARGARET BRENNAN: –But they’re – understood.–
SEC. RUBIO: That’s our interest here. Who they trade with, who they deal with. Those are other topics. Our objective here is very straightforward. They’re not going to have a nuclear weapon. They’re not even going to get close to a nuclear weapon. They’re not even going to be in the neighborhood of a nuclear weapon because these people are dangerous. This is a radical Shia clerics, who run that country–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Yeah.–
SEC. RUBIO: –And they are the source of all instability in the region, all of it–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –And you’re offering to negotiate with them.–
SEC. RUBIO: –Without this regime, there is no Hamas. There is no Hezbollah. Well because we don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon, but–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Okay, but let me–
SEC. RUBIO: –That’s the core objective. But no, no, but I’m going through the things they’ve done, because that’s why they can’t have a nuclear weapon. Okay? They sponsor Shias–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Yeah, I’m just trying to–
SEC. RUBIO: –I’m sorry they sponsor the Shia militias, Hamas, Hezbollah, all these other terrorist groups. These people aren’t getting, are never going to get anywhere close to a nuclear weapon, not while Donald Trump is president.
MARGARET BRENNAN: For the Americans, for the Americans at home who are going are we at war, you know, I’m trying to suss out some of the facts here. So why would, why would Iran agree to any peace deal if the United States is already pulled out of one that they had, as President Trump did in 2018, and now launched two surprise attacks, both Israel and the United States have done so. There is such a massive trust deficit there. How could you possibly come to–
SEC. RUBIO: Yeah, but the trust deficit started with Iran.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I know.
SEC. RUBIO: Well the trust deficit, the ones that shouldn’t be trusted are the Iranians because they’re the ones that sponsor terrorism. Did they forewarn us before they blew up the embassy in Lebanon and killed over 200 American servicemen? Did they forewarn us before they built IEDs and blew the legs and arms off of American servicemen in Iraq? I mean these are the people that are doing this forever. They’re the ones that no one should trust. They’re the ones that have lied about their nuclear program. They’re the ones that have hidden things from the international organisms.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But that sounds like, but that all sounds like we’re headed towards regime change, where the desire to get these people out of power. Are you–
SEC. RUBIO: No, no, no, now. A serious foreign policy is one that’s focused on identifying what our national interest is. You don’t have to like the regime. There are a lot of regimes around the world that we don’t like. Okay, but in this particular case, what we are focused on is not the changing of the regime. Okay, that’s up to the Iranian people if they want to do that, but that’s not what we’re focused on. Our national interest is about one thing, and that is Iran not getting anywhere near the capability to weaponize and have nuclear weapons. They’re not going to get anywhere near that capability. The President has made that clear from day one. Our preference for solving that problem, that very specific problem, is through diplomacy. We’ve said that. We’ve given it every opportunity. They played games, they tried delay tactics. They’re trying delay tactics now on the Europeans because of the snapback provisions.–
MARGARET BRENNAN: When did the president–
SEC. RUBIO: –And you talked about the JCPOA. That was a crazy deal.
MARGARET BRENNAN: When did the President make this decision? Because he said he was giving two more weeks of diplomacy on Friday, and on Friday, these jets took off.
SEC. RUBIO: Well, the president retains the opportunity to pull out of this at any moment, including 10 minutes before. But the president ordered options. The President- look the decision, in my view, was made when he wrote a letter to the supreme leader and he said over the next 60 days we want to do a deal with you and solve this problem of nuclear weaponization and we want to do it peacefully. If after 60 days, we don’t see progress or it isn’t solved, we have other alternatives. He made that very clear.–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Mr. Secretary–
SEC. RUBIO: I think what some people struggling with here is that we today have a president who does what he says he’s going to do, and that’s what happened here–
MARGARET BRENNAN: –Mr. Secretary–
SEC. RUBIO: –And hopefully the Iranian regime got that message.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We’re going to hit a commercial break, so I have to wrap you there. Thank you very much for your time.
I just no longer have the patience for Brennan and her producers.
To say the least.
Brennan and her fellow “news” reporters are cut from the same mold.
An insufferable group of know-it-alls who don’t know as much as they think they know.
The big positive I see from this interview is Rubio’s articulation of exactly what the US is looking for from the Iranians. He stayed on point and shut Brennan down. The audience he was talking to rarely hears this type of information, especially as the straight and unspun truth. The choices the Iranian clerics now have are the same ones this audience have always had. Keep believing the liars or start believing the truth tellers. Period.
Totally agree.
And Rubio was able to deliver that message despite the chaff and countermeasures of the chief Deep State Agitator
I skim through the transcript and read Sec. Rubio’s answers (most of them). Even then it’s difficult to get the odious woman’s snide voice out of my imagination!
That’s why I never listen to it, would much rather read transcript. Just can’t bear to let my ears be assaulted by these
horrible smug ignorant malcontents, absolutely insufferable!
I couldn’t watch ! Just reading it, made my blood boil!
Odious! Great adjective. Odious and insufferable.
I love listening to these interviews..I love hearing these traitors like Marge get a verbal beatdown!
I view this as moral support for us. seeing them go into enemy territory and punk them out helps morale.
After 13 minutes I could no longer stand that Lefty. Ever notice the Left always takes the opposite of the Right’s positions? I can’t wait ’til someone walks out on her! What a babbling idiot!
In xa “game of wits” with Marco, ogr frankly any of the Cabinet, Margaret and Co. are outgunned and low on ammunition
People are obviously for and against what took place last night. One thing for sure…this team is highly, highly competent and we should be very grateful for that. God bless our warriors still in the Middle East and those still on their way home! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I would like to second that perspective. The words and actions of PDJT and his cabinet has been focused on saying what they mean and meaning what they say (straight shooting). As a citizen, I support the strong leadership being demonstrated.
I was opposed to USA bombing Iran. My objection was based on the fear/presumption that any direct military attack by the US would unify the Iranian people in support of the Existing Govt/Mullahs/Ruling religious fanatics and coalesce the Iranian peoples’ hostility into new terrorism directed at the USA (i.e. unintended consequences) as well as making the existing, disliked Iranian govt rulers more popular. I vividly remember the US military hostage rescue mission (under President Carter) which failed and was exploited by the Iranians to portray the USA as a paper tiger. I pray that PDJT employs our awesome military with humility and caution recognizing that many US military operations have less than perfect results. Hopefully, a lasting peace in Iran can now be attained without any more direct US military missions.
re: “I was opposed to USA bombing Iran.”
Note, please: We did NOT bomb civilian infrastructure, like power, water, roads or bridges.
What was BOMBED were plants used to refine/make nuclear bomb material and materials …
ON TOP of THAT, the US thru pres Trump delivered had-drawn lines in the sand that could have prevented this.
I hope someone informs her that she does not sound intelligent asking the same question 3-4 times and getting smacked down each time.
We don’t need to know if the Ayatollah ordered weaponization of the uranium because there is no need for 60% enriched uranium other than weaponization.
I could not loathe the presstitutes more.
her job is to make a person say a phrase that hurts them.
Ah, but thee best way to get your message across is thru repetition.
She did Marco a favor, by setting it up for him for being able to repeat the message, without sounding like an idiot.
Why do they need uranium enrichment period. They have large oil resources. Don’t need uranium at all.
Iran’s nuclear power program (not for developing weapons IMO) was started under the last Shah in the mid to late 1950s. My guess is that he viewed it as something that would show the world that Iran was a “modern” country. Besides, oil is rarely used as a fuel for electricity generation… although Iran is home to one of the largest known natural gas fields on the planet.
Surely I’m not the only one to notice the contrast between Biden’s debacle in Afghanistan and President Trump’s anti-Nuclear strikes in Iran.
War is a Racket. War will always exist as long as corrupt politicians and banksters exist!
if President Trump is as real as he feels, then the Banks are next.
You are WRONG!! War will exist as long as humans are on earth!!!!
You can tell Sec Rubio was close to saying “they FAFO” but bit his tongue cuz TV. I wouldn’t have had the self control. Lol
Retired Magistrate here: Rubio is very articulate, stays on point and gets his message across. He does not get lost in the weeds.
He is an exceptional speaker. Every word carries weight and authority. I very much respect this man. I sometimes wondered if he finally feels unshackled from a world that he never truly felt comfortable in. He has exceeded my expectations.
DD
The Truth has no agenda.
There’s no reason for him to lie…
Anymore.
WWIII has been officially cancelled.
Now if they just get H.J.Res 101 voted on…
There will be no place left to hide…
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
Why can’t people just say the honest truth. “sure, we’d like regime change, but we’d like the Iranian people to do it”.
SoS Rubio implied it, which is the wisest thing to do.
It means he fully understands the limits within which the US must operate.
There are no limits on the “death to America” crowd…
It is open season.
Yet that DtA crowd is a relatively minor component of the 90 million citizens of Iran. They do currently, however, have the guns and the thugs to terrorize the citizens…at least for the meantime. Time is soon coming, when the Persians will stand up to the theocratic thugs and boot them out the door.
This series of events may just provide the momentum to do just that.
The media mongrels are howling about regime change. In this instance, regime change could be a positive outcome. Hope springs eternal, yet the Middle East has been involved in turmoil for 6,000 years, or longer.
Most of the time when you bomb countries they become more solidified and nationalistic. However there are a few historical cases where that did not happen. Probably not a good idea to bet that way this time though.
to keep people from being more divisive…
already are having to spend alot of time re-educating the people so they know its a facility that got bombed and not the country of Iran. (yes that sounds odd, but it is accurate in this situation, where a country can know you arent going to do anything more than what you said)
Regime changes from within are now more difficult. That was one of USAID’s jobs.
There’s still Soros and the Open Society, but I don’t think they’re active in Iran.
That leaves the little geniuses at Langley to organize the work locally by setting up good scenarios to stay in plausible deniability.
Business as usual.
Around 5:00 mark…🎯💥💯
“How do you know what the intelligence says (Margaret)?!”
Almost as good as “I really don’t care, Margaret.”
“Margaret, you ignorant sl*t!” would be the ultimate 😁…imo
Great stuff, great fun, early SNL
Ah, for the days when SNL used to be funny…
Amazing how close SNL comedy resembles Margaret Brennan.
Pillow talk with hubby?
Hubby is an attorney in the Marine Corps’ JAG office but also has a finger in global intelligence.
Insufferable understates the degree to which woman’s personality is contemptible.
Brennan is a 40 something Crone..
Rubio should have reversed some of his questioning by asking Margaret, “How many countries without the nuclear bomb have 60% enrichment and more?” When she could not answer or tried to deflect he should have confronted her with the answer. This would have been even more humiliating.
Perhaps. But that could have led the conversation off into the weeds about what Margaret knows or doesn’t know.
Sec. Rubio was on point the whole time.
Stay off these shows. They are poison.
In reality they show how ill-prepared, ignorant and biased they are…that should be educational to the still few viewers that actually think.
Say what you will, the world just watched an historic event. Good vs Evil, and God wins. You heard President Trump testify!
Sundance
I did go to watch the video, and paused it about 4 seconds in and it froze on MARGARET BRENNAN’S FACE!
Her face looked very “evil” to me, weird eye stuff, and weird facial expression. I got to 4 seconds and paused.
Do I have to watch this lady talk and move too. Let me think about it.
Anyway, I appreciate what you have to watch on MSM to inform us what is going on in D.C. 🙂
I have the video still on my Brave browser, and I’m writing this from firefox.
Maybe it was the combo of hearing her voice and seeing the frozen still, that said to my self “do I have to watch this?” … I’m sure you understand where I’m coming from.
I do like horror movies, so I will probably watch it, later. 🙂
I hope you don’t mind my informal way to writing on your website. I feel like I’m at home , with other MAGA people. I try to be respectful of everybody here. 🙂
Very grateful to Sundance for the transcript. Did not watch.
I’m a fast reader with little time to watch videos, and insufficient hearing to scale them up to 2x time.
“Very grateful to Sundance for the transcript.”
Yes.
Haven’t listened to the interview yet but I enjoyed reading it.
Rubio is great.
I liked how he said that the radium was still there
but buried
and we will be watching Iran to see what they do with it..
This is what unnerves me. This snake of a woman spent weeks pressing about Fordow. Now that that has been accomplished, she now is on to regime change! These people make me sick!
Truly I despise these people. Enough of the war! One and done! Iran will not have a nuke but trying to tie this to regime change which will only come at USA expense is despicable! It’s only meant to lay a trap for the President similar to what they did to George W Bush.
Thankfully, Trump and Rubio seem to be cleared eyed on the regime change question. I’m encouraged to hear Rubio strong pushback against that by saying regime change is only up to the Iranian people.
But this woman truly is evil. Her interview is so unnecessarily hostile. It’s not meant to get information to the viewer but to try to pressure the administration down a foolish path!
Uniparty is pissed he ended their war.
Marco won’t let her get a word in edgewise. The tables have done a 180. There’s a new sheriff in town, and his posse won’t put up with it anymore. CBS should just show cartoons on Sunday morning – they’d have better ratings.
Maria Bartiromo intv with Rubio…
Just yesterday I read a statement by one of those mullah scum essentially saying they believe we’re stupid, we’re cowards – that they rendered that spy (Buckley) in Beirut a slobbering incoherent wreck (which they did); that we’ll never be able to overcome them. It was full of arrogant bravado. That’s who they are and what they believe.
President Trump needs a break. I hope he is playing golf where no one is able to interrupt.
In a battle of wits, Margaret always shows up unarmed.
Brennan is an odious toad.
A spanking of epic proportions.
Bravo.
Secretary Rubio is the surprise of the century when it comes to his performance. He has dropped the RINO mantle and stepped from the swamp canoe. There are only a few disappointments in President Trump’s cabinet choices, the main ones at the CIA, DOJ and FBI. But even these laggards are huge upgrades over the last administrations. And maybe they’ll surprise us one day, too.
As for the likes of Margaret Brennan–swamp funded minions, rattlesnakes with lipstick, paid saboteurs. In colonial Boston, talking heads of corporate media would be tarred and feathered on rails, and corporate executives would be booking passage to Newfoundland.
Big Coattails freed him of whatever the Surveilance State does to control people
The question most interesting in bringing out the real intent of Iran was when Rubio asked why a country would build their facilities so far underground Not a direct quote, but it bears the fact they were, indeed, intent on a nuclear weapon.
Another Mockingbird fail. GJ Marco Rubio
Operation Mockingbird: The CIA’s Media Manipulation Program
I’m surprised Margaret’s husband doesn’t demand that she wears a hijab.
MARGARET BRENNAN: “No, but that’s a question- that’s a question- that’s a question of intent.”
No, Margaret, it’s not a question of intent, it’s a question of CAPABILITY! You can never know for sure a potential enemy’s intent. There are too many human variables to calculate accurately. But you CAN learn/know about capability. And when you have a murderous, inhuman, evil regime like Iran who ruthlessly attacks civilian population centers and has supported terrorist groups throughout the world for 45 years, you simply can’t afford to take chances.
he could just simply say
“We don’t want their facilities existing that could produce nuclear weapons. Thats it Margaret. If they need support in energy for their people we will make a deal that benefits both of us… “
Thank you for the transcript. I cannot listen to her or look at her. She in no way, shape, or form, respresents Americans. She has no clue what we are thinking. So far, Trump has kept his word and that is what we are watching.
Again, Baghdad Brennan delivers a confrontational interview with the leadership of her own country.
Could she possibly be a Kamala voter?
LEADERSHIP THANK YOU LORD!
I have met many Persians and almost all are lovely people. I do not envy those trapped in Iran their authoritarian overlords.
It’s why when I saw the Biden regime trying to make America a police state, I was so disturbed.
Covid mask/hijab, lockdown with armed enforcement in areas, trying to mandate a “vaccine”, demanding vax papers and banks feeling free to debank those that didn’t meet the state sanctioned thought police edicts.
Doctors, lawyers, journalists and many more were deprived of their employment. In the case of doctors and lawyers, the state worked to deprive them of the licenses needed to work or hospital privileges and disbarment, respectively.
We aren’t out of the woods yet with what is happening with Palantir.
The Iranian People do not need nuclear power…
They have oil to spare.
hilarious right.
That is the point many miss. With all that oil why need alternative power?
Iran orders closure of Strait of Hormuz — putting one-fifth of world’s oil supply at risk
https://nypost.com/2025/06/22/world-news/iran-orders-closure-of-strait-of-hormuz-putting-one-fifth-of-worlds-oil-supply-at-risk
Iran doesn’t won the Strait. Nor will the succeed in any attempt to close it. China will not allow that.
I remind everyone if it’s not, “one and done”. Iran is 603,000 square miles and Iraq is 169,000 square miles. Afghanistan is 252,000 square miles. How did lengthy engagements in those places 2.5 and 3.5 times smaller than Iran play out?
its just a thought. doesnt mean it will happen. You have a President that thinks we are the world largest Energy supplier… so with that, theres no way he’d send us to die for oil elsewhere.
Iran and Iraq fought each other to a standstill for ten years, from which we deduce they were roughly equal in capabilities. i.e. not very good.
The trick is how to keep Iran in its box, but with no cost to blood and treasure. War, like Iraq or Afghanistan is definitely not worth it.
So after stating the obvious, with whining and wailing of teeth, let’s come up with solutions that work. (Or is it impossible?)
Secretary Rubio is approaching MAGA Rock Star Status.
Be careful. People here said the same thing about Elon Musk two months ago. Now he’s a dirty bag.
Elon Musk catches rockets for us. Elon Musk retrieved trapped astronauts from space. Elon Musk exposed the waste and abuse of USAID. I have a lot of respect and appreciation for Elon Musk.
Marco owns Margaret so much so if the ownership of CBS was not going to change I could see CBS never inviting Rubio on again.
Brennan was/is pathetic.
Yikes! Even reading the transcript was torture. The interview with Maria Bartiromo was better, and, Marco could make his points in far less time. Is Margaret Brennan the left wing female Sean Hannity?
A fool like Margaret like is the last person to know they’re a fool.
The media definitely does not have a shortage of Margarets.
“So this mission was a very precise mission. It had three objectives, three nuclear sites. It was not attack on Iran. It was not an attack on the Iranian people. This wasn’t a regime change move. This was designed to degrade and, or destroy three nuclear sites related to their nuclear weaponization ambitions, and that was delivered on yesterday.”
Trump is walking right into a Democrat op.
How so?
They are going to controversialize every angle, no matter what action he takes (including inaction).
Probably not, but thanks for your input.
😁
One could argue we’re a primary source of instability in the Middle East.
Why nuclear weapons? To keep others at bay, including the US?
One would be a fool to make the argument!
“Yahu” and “Rock N Rolla Ayatollah”
🤣🤣🤣….
hehe
Poor Mags, looking for the axe handle
There IS no axe handle, Maggot, Trump Doctrine sez forever warfare is go8ng bye-bye
TAKE OUT THE SHIA LEADERSHIP AND RID THE IRANIANS OF THE AYATOLLAHS!!!!
Pray for our nation. Pray for President Trump.
Whom ever has a prayer please post it somewhere.
Jesus gives me hope, and God gives me strength to get through this.
Love to all of you on the treehouse.
Keep your heads on a swivel and stay safe out there.
This may get a little bumpy.
This insufferable woman must have a banner on whatever screen she uses to recite the questions that her producers instruct her to ask. The banner says “Margaret Be Thick As A Brick” because you are.
Wasn’t that a Jethro Tull song?
JD Vance…
Talk about evil faces (Kirsten Welker).
Her husband is Syrian.
Amit Segal
@AmitSegal
I’m gonna say something a bit different from what that source told the New York Times. He said Fordo was damaged Severely but wasn’t destroyed. So I’ll tell you what Israel’s current assessment is.
Cont reading….
Operation Midnight Hammer: The Strike That Changed Everything
How do we know the Iranians don’t already have a nuke? The intelligence community you say? You mean the weapons of mass destruction IC?
If Iran wants a nuke, they can get one from China a whole lot easier than building one. And who’s gonna stop China from giving Iran a nuke, the US? Please.
This is all completely stupid and a manufactured distraction
The regime should be taken out and then let the Iranians choose their next government!
Give them a mini constitution! Why is that hard?