This CBS News Host Got Taken to the Cleaners by Rubio on Sunday. Want to Guess Who?

Matt Vespa | January 05, 2026 6:50 AM

Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio has the patience of a saint—I think I’ve said this before, because this is brutal. In a shoddy attempt to downplay how elite this raid in Caracas was over the weekend, CBS News host Margaret Brennan wondered, essentially, why we’re not an occupying force in the country since there are still four top Maduro targets at large. It’s not as dumb as when she said too much free speech led to the Holocaust, but it’s up there. Rubio was aghast, noting that Democrats and Eurotrash leaders are already up in arms about this raid, we were going to deploy troops on the ground for days to find these guys.

He later said that our forces landed in the middle of the nation’s largest military base, infiltrated it, grabbed Maduro, read him his rights, and left within three minutes. This is hard to do, and only our military could pull this off. Here, little Margie is whining that we didn’t get four other people at the same time. We got the top target, you clown. Just truly insufferable:

🚨 HOLY CRAP. Sec. Marco Rubio ERUPTS on Fake News Margaret Brennan after she grilled him for not arresting MORE narco kingpins in the same night as Maduro

"This is NOT an easy mission and you're asking me, why didn't we do that in 5 OTHER PLACES at the SAME TIME?! I mean,… pic.twitter.com/BsKsdWRjJF
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 4, 2026

Margaret Brennan may not be the most biased Sunday morning host (that's obviously George), but she has a hard perennial lock on dumbest. Rubio has to hold back laughter. https://t.co/m05VIvea08
— Benjamin Domenech (@bdomenech) January 4, 2026

You're confused? I don't know why that's confusing
You're gonna go in and suck up five people They're already complaining about this one operation. Imagine the howls we would have from everybody else if we actually had to go and stay there for days to capture four other people.
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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 kicked 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 asset.
Brennan, what the hell is this line of questioning? We don’t go after the top target. You want more troops on the ground? What is it, honey. Because let’s say we could grab every target through your pedantic scenario here, you would still find another dumb way to criticize it.