{"id":94539,"date":"2026-06-03T19:42:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/fmr-sen-mccaskill-on-rubio-hearing-i-would-have-been-tempted-to-ask-what-happened-to-you\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:42:01","slug":"fmr-sen-mccaskill-on-rubio-hearing-i-would-have-been-tempted-to-ask-what-happened-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/fmr-sen-mccaskill-on-rubio-hearing-i-would-have-been-tempted-to-ask-what-happened-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Fmr. Sen. McCaskill on Rubio Hearing: I Would Have Been Tempted To Ask &#8220;What Happened To You?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Former Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) joins MS NOW&#8217;s Chris Jansing to react to Secretary of State Marco Rubio&#8217;s testimony before Congress<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CHRIS JANSING, MS NOW: I wonder, Claire, then, as you watch it, and just generally, Marco Rubio, who is trying to keep his job but also may think he would make a good president, how thin is that tightrope?  FORMER SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL (D-MO): Yeah, I don&#8217;t understand Marco.   JANSING: But you served at the same time he was in the Senate.   MCCASKILL: No, we served together. And I-he knows that they are playing hide-the-ball here. He knows that this is a confusing mess. And, you know, he&#8217;s trying to, you know, thread a needle.  And, you know, he&#8217;s good at threading a needle. But at the end of the day, if-I would have been tempted, if I was on that panel, I would have been tempted to ask, what happened to you? Would you have really done that?  Yeah. What happened to you? And I would have had the report he co-signed about Russian interference in the 2016 election that he was the co-author of, as-along with Mark Warner and the Intelligence Committee.  And I would have said, you know, you signed this. Are you saying that you lied when you signed this? Are you saying this report-because I think that would have set the table for a guy who has lost his bearings in what he believes in.  I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s done. I think there will be other moments that he&#8217;ll struggle with more than maybe he&#8217;s struggled so far in this hearing. But it&#8217;s very hard to keep up with what Marco Rubio believes in.  And I think that&#8217;s a very difficult place from which to run for president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/06\/03\/fmr_sen_mccaskill_on_rubio_hearing_i_would_have_been_tempted_to_ask_what_happened_to_you.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) joins MS NOW&#8217;s Chris Jansing to react to Secretary of State Marco Rubio&#8217;s testimony before Congress. CHRIS JANSING, MS NOW: I wonder, Claire, then, as you watch it, and just generally, Marco Rubio, who is trying to keep his job but also may think he would make a good president, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1683,23686,3086,6900,29392,18374,12844,21049,201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}