H.R. McMaster on how Democrats' wins in the midterms might change the Iran war
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[0:00] Welcome back. Republicans are wrestling
[0:02] with their midterm losses in different
[0:04] ways today, especially on the issue of
[0:06] the war with Iran. President Trump is
[0:08] acknowledging the conflict and its
[0:09] effect on prices likely played a role in
[0:12] last night's Democratic dominance.
[0:13] >> Vice President J. D. Vance was more
[0:15] explicit, writing on social media this
[0:17] morning, quote, "The war is the reason
[0:20] we lost." For more, let's bring in CBS
[0:23] News foreign policy and national
[0:25] security contributor. Retired General HR
[0:26] McMaster served as one of four national
[0:29] security adviserss in the first Trump
[0:31] term. HR, it's great to have you with
[0:32] us. There's politics and there's policy.
[0:35] I know you always come down or
[0:37] principally come down on the policy
[0:38] side. Do you believe that this midterm
[0:40] election result will have any bearing on
[0:43] the policy decisions the president will
[0:45] make about the future of the war with
[0:46] Iran?
[0:48] >> Hey, Major Eni, great to be with you.
[0:49] Yeah, I I think it will. I think it will
[0:51] constrain the president in in the way he
[0:53] goes about achieving the objectives he's
[0:56] laid out maybe on the Rad War in
[0:58] particular. I think really what it what
[0:59] it could affect and what I'm what I'm
[1:00] worried about here in the lame duck
[1:02] congress in particular is that you know
[1:04] the disagreement the you know the the uh
[1:07] uh you know the the emotion over over
[1:09] the war in Iran if that gets conflated
[1:11] with the defense appropriations major
[1:13] you know this 1.5 trillion uh that that
[1:16] is that is up for approval in in the
[1:18] Congress then I think our milit