Scarborough HOUNDS Schumer on Degrading Iran's Regime, Mika Cries 'Trick Question'
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Scarborough HOUNDS Schumer on Degrading Iran's Regime, Mika Cries 'Trick Question'

If you are one of those hardcore leftists, you know that you can tune into MS NOW's Morning Joe on almost any given weekday, sit back, and get the dose of propaganda needed to get you through your daily routine. There are however those rare occasions where Joe Scarborough seems to momentarily flashback to his days as a GOP Rep from Florida, before he ever hooked up with Mika Brzezinski, and acts with common sense, which was the case, for a while, on Monday's show. Near the end of an interview with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), talking about the Iran war, Scarborough asked Schumer, "Is it a good thing that we're degrading Iran's military infrastructure?"  Schumer responded by throwing in the usual Democrat talking points. SCHUMER: And now our prices are through the roof, the world economy is in chaos, etc. And so it's so, we're now so, in so deep, and Iran sees that they have real leverage here that it's harder and harder, we ought to get out. Then Scarborough pressed Schumer. SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. You got to answer my question first. Is it a good thing that that Iran, I think you would agree with me, epicenter of terrorism in the world since 1979. Is it good that their military infrastructure is being degraded to the degree that it is, yes or no? SCHUMER: It's you can't because it's a premature question. What's going to happen in the next several months? SCARBOROUGH: You have the military side. You have the political side. I'm simply asking on the military side, is it good? Regardless of whether we agree with going in or not, is it good that Iran's military infrastructure has been seriously? The back and forth continued until Mika Brzezinski blew her husband's cover! BRZEZINSKI: It's a trick question. It's a trick question. SCHUMER: Yes it is.  BRZEZINSKI: If you do not strategize the consequences of the action, the military action, if you obliterate and do all these things, but you don't actually play it out in your minds and have strategy for the consequences, it may not be good. SCARBOROUGH: Let me answer the question for everybody in America. The answer yes, it's good that that terrorist regime, their military has been, and capabilities have been degraded radically. The question, Mike, though, is political. It's the political question. What is the political impact? What's the impact in the streets? What's the impact in the region? SCHUMER: In all due respect, if you ask the American people if you have the choice of degrading the military, the military structure in Iran, but having gasoline be $6 a gallon, and our economy falling into a deep recession where millions lose their job, what do you think Americans will say? The current gas price is $3.97. Scarborough kept pressing. SCARBOROUGH: Senator, you're not listening to me. That's the political side. SCHUMER: No, it's not political. It's a consequence. just like Mika said. SCARBOROUGH: Why don't we talk about the Yankees? Because you're not following me here. SCHUMER: I am following you, I just don't agree with you. SCARBOROUGH: You don't understand me, there's a big difference. I would say that most Americans would say it's a good thing, that it's degraded. Would they agree that we should have gone to war? I think most Americans, you look at the polls, they don't want this war. But there is it's something that I think the Democrats should be, Democrats should be clear about. Iran has tried to kill Americans since 1979. Two things. Hold on. Two things can be true at once. It can be good that Iran's killing machine has been degraded. At the same time, the consequences may outweigh the good that come from that. Finally, Schumer seemed to acquiesce. He had to put up the fight, since the Left wants a harsher fighter against Trump. SCHUMER: I don't disagree with you. You know, the fact that the leader Khamenei is dead, is gone, no one regrets that. The fact that Iran has less ability to create military trouble is, is, is. no one disputes that. But you have to look, I don't think it's political to be very honest with you. It's the consequences. The military, the geopolitical the economic consequences. I'm saying political. Let me finish. SCARBOROUGH: You just said what I was saying, the geopolitical consequences. The back and forth continued for a bit longer, but in the end, Mika, who cried trick question in the first place, announced that there was "common ground." I'm sure Schumer had no expectation of being challenged the way he was, not on Morning Joe.