MAGA lawmaker gets all he can handle on MS NOW: 'You just want to spew!'

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) went to bat for President Donald Trump's leadership in the Iran war during a Tuesday MS NOW segment — but anchor Katy Tur refused to relent as she poked holes in his arguments.

"First question, do you think the war with Iran is going well?" asked Tur.

"On the whole, I do," said Lawler. "The Ayatollah, the clerics, the leadership of the IRGC has been eliminated. Their ballistic missile capabilities have been degraded. Their naval fleet nearly obliterated. Obviously, they have very little to lose. And so they are acting out belligerently, as we see with what they did in the Strait of Hormuz. But the president took action to blockade their blockade, and that has forced them to have to re-evaluate. These are extremely complex and serious issues."

Lawler then rattled off a number of estimated statistics about Iran's nuclear program. "Republicans and Democrats have said for years they can't get a nuclear weapon, that this regime needed to go. But just saying it is far different than actually taking concrete steps."

"Do you believe this administration had a real strategy for how to go in there, and how to ensure that there would not be a nuclear bomb?" said Tur. "That would require regime change. And instead of regime change, we've gotten a religious regime to a more hardline military regime that is currently in place. The discussion I was just having showed that the Iranians are picking the U.S. negotiators, demanding Vice President Vance, and you may say they're backed into a corner, but that corner includes leverage over the Strait of Hormuz, which fuels the global economy. And it's put everybody under strain. And they don't seem all that unwilling to use it and to continue to use it for quite some time."

"So they may be backed into a corner, but that corner is well-stocked," Tur added. "And it seems, it appears the president is the one who is more desperate in this moment. Do you not agree?"

"Well, let's look back," said Lawler. "Barack Obama engaged in a seven-month conflict in Libya that resulted in a civil war," said Lawler. "Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi fully endorsed it, fully embraced it, said everything was great." (The United States was not the cause of the Libyan Civil War.)

"I don't want to do a 10-minute detour for President Obama," said Tur, trying to redirect the conversation back to the current issue.

"I know, I know, I know, you just want to spew out — I know you just want to spew out the talking points for the left here," barked back Lawler. "But the fact is this. This was a just war that the president engaged in to stop this regime from possessing a nuclear weapon."

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