“You don’t know what you’re talking about”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in excellent form in Margaret Brennan’s interrogation of him on Face the Nation yesterday. Rush used to refer to it as Deface the Nation and Brennan is carrying on the tradition. Rubio was excellent throughout. His widely applicable observation to Brennan could be the quote of the day: “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

The transcript reads:

QUESTION: Let me follow up on a phrase you just were – weaponization ambitions. Are you saying there that the United States did not see intelligence that the supreme leader had ordered weaponization?

SECRETARY RUBIO: That’s irrelevant. I think that question being asked in the media all – that’s an irrelevant question. They have everything they need to build a weapon.

QUESTION: No, that is the key point in U.S. intelligence assessments. You know that.

SECRETARY RUBIO: No, it’s not. No, it’s not.

QUESTION: Yes, it was that the political decision had not been made.

SECRETARY RUBIO: No, no, I – well, I know that better than you know that, and I know that that’s not the case.

QUESTION: But I’m asking you whether the order was given.

SECRETARY RUBIO: You don’t – I mean, you don’t know what you’re talking about. And the people who say that – it doesn’t matter if 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?

Whole thing here. Brennan, by the way, is quite the student of history. She might have topped herself earlier this year in another interview with Secretary Rubio. Criticizing Vice President Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, Brennan asserted: “[H]e was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.”