{"id":2450915,"date":"2025-06-23T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feckless-margaret-brennan-thinks-shes-secretary-of-state-liberal-media-scream\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:26:57","slug":"feckless-margaret-brennan-thinks-shes-secretary-of-state-liberal-media-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feckless-margaret-brennan-thinks-shes-secretary-of-state-liberal-media-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"Feckless Margaret Brennan thinks she\u2019s secretary of state: Liberal media scream"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffeckless-margaret-brennan-thinks-shes-secretary-of-state-liberal-media-scream%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2450915&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a recent episode of CBS&#8217;s &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; where host Margaret Brennan had a contentious interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Brennan questioned Rubio about Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions and criticized his interpretation of intelligence reports, suggesting that the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-men-convicted-in-mexican-mafia-murder-in-orange\/\" title=\"3 Men Found Guilty in Mexican Mafia Killing in Orange\">lacked concrete evidence<\/a> that Iran had decided to weaponize its nuclear program. Rubio countered her arguments by stating that Iran was enriching uranium far beyond what woudl be needed for a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >civilian nuclear program<\/a> and emphasized that they had everything necessary to build nuclear weapons, dismissing Brennan&#8217;s claims as misinformed. The exchange is portrayed as a confrontation where Rubio effectively shut down Brennan&#8217;s assertions,with the article implying that her approach was more indicative of a partisan stance then objective journalism. The piece concludes by reflecting on the dynamics of the discussion and how it illustrates the tension between the media and political figures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Feckless Margaret Brennan thinks she&rsquo;s secretary of state: Liberal media scream<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2155640\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>If the Sunday performance of CBS <em>Face the Nation<\/em> host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3269262\/liberal-media-scream-cbs-margaret-brennan-offended-unelected-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Margaret Brennan<\/a> were in a Looney Tunes cartoon, Bugs Bunny would have mocked, &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/getyarn.io\/yarn-clip\/da2b5981-aa82-4ee5-a7e8-d458a5881671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">da nerve<\/a>!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, and much better, Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3269262\/liberal-media-scream-cbs-margaret-brennan-offended-unelected-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Marco Rubio<\/a> brushed aside her grade school &ldquo;yes it is, no it&rsquo;s not&rdquo; debate over military intelligence and belief that she knows more about it than President Donald Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/afghan-bombings-have-not-changed-bidens-withdrawal-plans-source-says\/\" title=\"Afghan Bombings Have Not Changed Biden\u2019s Withdrawal Plans, Source Says\">top national security adviser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3450745\/artificial-intelligence-resume-filters-study\/\">AI job filters push white guys to the bottom of applicants<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3449737\/art-of-the-deal-takes-center-stage-white-house-report-card\/\">Art of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/art-of-the-deal-takes-center-stage-white-house-report-card-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Art of the deal takes center stage: White House Report Card ... Washington Examiner\">deal takes center stage<\/a>: White House Report Card<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3448588\/vance-approval-rating-matches-trump-rasmussen-poll\/\">Vance approval matches Trump&rsquo;s, giving MAGA a one-two punch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t know what you&rsquo;re talking about,&rdquo; Rubio said in an appearance to discuss Trump&rsquo;s decision to attack Iran&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-war-triggers-debate-on-japan-hosting-u-s-nuclear-weapons\/\" title=\"Ukraine War Triggers Debate on Japan Hosting U.S. ...\">nuclear weapons facilities<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>After Brennan continued to say she knows more about whether Iran planned to make nuclear weapons or not, Rubio gave his best &ldquo;da nerve&rdquo; look and told her, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s not how intelligence is read. That&rsquo;s not how intelligence is used. Here&rsquo;s what the whole world knows. Forget about intelligence, what the IAEA knows. They are enriching uranium well beyond anything you need for a civil nuclear program.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CBS&rsquo;s Brennan Shut Down by Rubio: &lsquo;You Don&rsquo;t Know What You&rsquo;re Talking About&rsquo;\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ZR6_ZlPD8g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>From Sunday&rsquo;s <em>Face the Nation<\/em> on CBS:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MARGARET BRENNAN: <\/strong><em>Let me follow up on a phrase you just used &mdash; weaponization ambitions. Are you saying that the United States did not see intelligence that the supreme leader had ordered weaponization?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO:<\/strong> <em>That&rsquo;s irrelevant. I see that question being asked in the media all the time. That&rsquo;s an irrelevant question. They have everything they need to build a weapon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BRENNAN:<\/strong> <em>No, but that is the key point in U.S. intelligence assessments. You know that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RUBIO:<\/strong> <em>No, it&rsquo;s not.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BRENNAN: <\/strong><em>Yes, it was.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RUBIO:<\/strong> <em>No, it&rsquo;s not.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BRENNAN:<\/strong> <em>That the political decision had not been made.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RUBIO:<\/strong> <em>No, I know &mdash; well, I know that better than you know that. And I know that that&rsquo;s not the case.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BRENNAN: <\/strong><em>But I&rsquo;m asking you whether the order was given.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RUBIO:<\/strong> <em>You don&rsquo;t know what you&rsquo;re talking about. And the people who say that &mdash;&nbsp;it doesn&rsquo;t matter if the order was given. They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons. Why would you bury &mdash;&nbsp;why would you bury things in a mountain 300 feet under the ground?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BRENNAN:<\/strong> <em>Right.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RUBIO: <\/strong><em>Why would you bury six &hellip; why do they have 60% enriched uranium? You don&rsquo;t need 60% enriched uranium. The only countries in the world that have uranium at 60% are countries that have nuclear weapons, because they can quickly make it 90. They have all the elements. They have &hellip; why are they &hellip; why do they have a space program? Is Iran going to go to the moon? No. They&rsquo;re trying to build an ICBM, so they can one day put a warhead on it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BRENNAN:<\/strong> <em>No, but that&rsquo;s a question &hellip; that&rsquo;s a question &hellip; that&rsquo;s a question of intent. And you know, in the intelligence assessment, that it was that Iran wanted to be a threshold state and use this leverage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RUBIO:<\/strong> <em>How do you know what the intelligence assessment says? How do you know what the intelligence assessment says?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BRENNAN:<\/strong> <em>I&rsquo;m talking about the public March assessment. And that&rsquo;s why I was asking you if you know something more from March, if an order was given.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>RUBIO: <\/strong><em>Well, that &mdash;&nbsp;but that&rsquo;s also an inaccurate representation of it. That&rsquo;s an inaccurate representation of it. That&rsquo;s not how intelligence is read. That&rsquo;s not how intelligence is used. Here&rsquo;s what the whole world knows. Forget about intelligence, what the IAEA knows. They are enriching uranium well beyond anything you need for a civil nuclear program.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/staff\/brent-baker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Brent Baker<\/a>, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: &ldquo;Refreshing to see a guest take on the liberal premises forwarded as facts by legacy media hosts. This wasn&rsquo;t the first time this year that Brennan has been schooled by a Trump administration official. Maybe she should consider being more of a dispassionate interviewer and less of an advocate for the left-wing spin of the day.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rating:<\/span> <em><strong>THREE<\/strong> out of <strong>FIVE<\/strong> screams.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2155640\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2155640\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Brennan acts like she&#8217;s the secretary of state, but Secretary Marco Rubio dismissed her childish debate on military intelligence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2450916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rubio-Scream-CBS-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[57764,47318,35945],"class_list":["post-2450915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-feckless-2","tag-margaret-brennan","tag-secretary-of-state"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Rubio-Scream-CBS-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450919,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450915\/revisions\/2450919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2450916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}