Rubio ties up CBS anchor's brain on Venezuela: "I don't know why that's confusing"

Oh give us a break. CBS News hack Margaret Brennan thought she could spring a gotcha on Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whining about why the Trump administration only nabbed Venezuelan narco-dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife instead of rounding up every last indicted thug in the regime at once. This is the same media crowd that would have screamed bloody murder if we turned Caracas into another endless quagmire.

Rubio, fresh off Sunday shows where he owned the narrative, schooled her like she was an intern. And folks, he was spot on; Marco didn't hold back.

Referencing Maduro's arrest on Saturday, Brennan noted that President Donald Trump's administration had left a number of others, who had also been designated as narco-terrorists, holding power of some sort in the Venezuelan regime.

"The defense minister, who has deep ties to Russia, $15 million price on his head. He is still in place," Brennan said. "I'm confused. Are they still wanted by the United States? Why didn’t you arrest them if you are taking out the narco terrorist regime?"

"You're confused? I don't know why that’s confusing to you. I mean, it's very simple," Rubio pushed back, but Brennan interrupted.

"They're still in power!" she protested.

"You're not going to go in and . . . you’re going to go in and suck up five people?" Rubio’s tone was incredulous. He spoke to her like she just got off the boat from Boatswana, if there even is such a place. "They are already complaining about the one operation! Imagine the howls we would have from everybody else if we actually had to go and stay there four days to capture four other people."

"We got the top priority," Rubio continued. "The number one person on the list was the guy who claimed to be the president of the country that he was not, and he was arrested along with his wife who is also indicted."

"That was a pretty sophisticated and frankly, complicated operation," Rubio said, and Brennan voiced her agreement as he explained, "It is not easy to land helicopters in the middle of the largest military base in the country. The guy lived on a military base. Land within three minutes, kick down his door, grab him, put him in handcuffs, read him his rights, put him in a helicopter and leave the country without losing any American or any American assets."

"That’s not an easy mission and you're asking why didn't we do that in five other places at the same time?” Rubio asked. "I mean, that’s absurd!"

Exactly. 

This was a surgical strike, folks. Delta Force pulled off a flawless op, no American losses, top target in cuffs, and the media's big complaint is why not more? Because that's how you turn a win into Iraq 2.0, you geniuses. Rubio just exposed the absurdity of these armchair warriors who want everything but nothing at the same time. Classic liberal media meltdown. 

Trump gets results, and they can't stand it.

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