A ticked off Mike Lee says the Iran briefing was so bad it changed his mind on Kaine’s war powers resolution, and now he’s going to support it
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Mike Lee calls Iran briefing “probably the worst briefing at least on a military issue I’ve seen,” adding that it was “insulting” to be told by administration officials not to debate merits of taking military action
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Rand Paul echoes Lee and calls instructions by administration not to debate military action “particularly insulting.” “I think we need to debate the separation of powers,” he adds
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Lee echoing Dem complaints about length of briefing. “They had to leave after 75 minutes while in the process of telling us we need to be good little boys and girls and not debate this in public,” he says
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Lee also angry that administration officials told lawmakers they couldn’t discuss certain information because it was classified while sitting in a SCIF (secure area)
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Man, I haven’t seen a senator that pissed in a while.
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this is more evidence that the B-team Trump has around him now (actually by now there's been so much turnover we're on the C- or D-team) are not up to the task.
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For the first two years of Trump's presidency all we heard from these GOP Senators was "Mattis, Kelly, Tillerson... Mattis, Kelly, Tillerson..." well hey guys, Mattis Kelly and Tillerson are long gone. Your Holy Trinity containment vessel failed.
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