Fox News Cuts Away From Mike Lee: White House Iran Briefing 'Worst I've Ever Seen'

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Source: Crooks and Liars






1/08/20 2:18pm

Senator Mike Lee was incensed about how the White House approached their explanation of why they provoked Iran, and Fox News was apparently afraid to broadcast it.


Fox News cut away from Mike Lee and Rand Paul's press conference where both of them had steam coming out of their ears after they were briefed on the events in Iran over the past week or so.

At one point, Lee was practically huffing and puffing as he told reporters:


I had hoped and expected to see more information outlining the moral and legal justification. The briefing lasted only 75 minutes whereupon our briefers left. This is not the biggest problem I had with the briefing, which I might add is the worst briefing I've seen, at least on a military issue, in the nine years I've served on the United States Senate. What I found so distressing about the briefing is one of the messages we received from the briefers was "do not discuss, do not debate the issue of appropriateness of further military intervention against Iran and if so, you'll be emboldening Iran." The idea we would be less safe by having a debate or discussion about the appropriateness of further military involvement.

Fox News cut away from it as soon as they could so as not to alienate Dear Leader. Here's what Fox News viewers got to see:.................................................
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Read more: https://crooksandliars.com/2020/01/fox-news-cuts-away-mike-lee-rant-white

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The second video is fox cutting them.



Republican senator Mike Lee blasts the Trump administrations post-Iran briefing, says they were told they could not dissent from Trump, couldn't debate it, and if Trump needed justification to go to war "I'm sure we could think of something"

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.fox decided to cut away from the press conference

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[SunSeeker]

1. K & R for exposure.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

2. If only we could get rid of fux spewz.....

Would do so much good for the nation.

[Crowman2009]

3. It is modus operandi for FAUX news to cut off mics and have news alerts..

...when shit doesn't go their way.

[calimary]

4. Truth hurts. And must be suppressed,

for the sake of the guy who LIES ALL THE TIME.

[Marcuse]

5. Fox

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Trump team unqualified

to run a bowling alley.

[machoneman]

7. WH dictatorship! Don't even think of questionaing us! We are in charge!

Wow, and we hoped we'd never have a military coup. We do hope one of the genrals or more on the JCOS would overthrow the Orangeanus!

[louis-t]

8. They didn't put a 'D' in front of his name?

[LuckyLib]

9. So Senator Lee -- the stink of all the admin bullshit getting to you?

Are you waking up?

[rpannier]

10. I thought maybe a young blonde white woman had gone missing