McCain Continues to Press Warren on Whether Soleimani Is a Terrorist Until She Says He Is
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was pressed on why she previously didn’t call Qasem Soleimani — the Iranian general killed in a U.S. drone strike — a terrorist. During an interview on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was pressed on why she previously didn’t call Qasem Soleimani — the Iranian general killed in a U.S. drone strike — a terrorist.
During an interview on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday, co-host Meghan McCain asked Warren why she called Soleimani a “murderer” and the drone strike an “assassination of a senior military official” but declined to call him a terrorist.
Warren responded by asking what the proper response to Iranian aggression is.
“The question is, what is the response that the President of the United States should make? And what advances the interests of the United States of America? Think about Sadam Hussein. You want to talk about a bad guy. However, going to war in Iraq was not in the interest of the United States. We lost thousands of American lives. It cost us here at home. It has cost us around the world.”
Watch her comments below:
Warren continued to say that the president has to have an “appropriate response” to Iranian aggression, and declined to call Soleimani a terrorist.
When she tried to change the subject, McCain pressed her again, asking, “Do you think he’s a terrorist?”
Warren responded, “He’s part of a group that’s been designated…”
Before she could finish her sentence, McCain interjected, “So, he’s not a terrorist?”
“Of course, he is. He is part of a group that our federal government has designated as a terrorist,” Warren said. “The question, though, is: What’s the right response? And the response that Donald Trump