MS NOW’s Ali Velshi tore into Marco Rubio, blasting the secretary of state for his “nonsense” claim that diesel prices would be three times their current price if not for Donald Trump’s war with Iran. The “11th Hour” host said Rubio’s remarks proved he wasn’t the “adult in the room” in the Trump administration, as some thought he would be.
During an interview with Fox News, Rubio was asked about the skyrocketing price of diesel, which on Tuesday hit a record high of $6.53 a gallon — up more than 75% from a year ago, according to AAA.
“Every American president says it. Every world leader you meet with tells the president, ‘We agree they can’t have a nuclear weapon,’” Rubio said on Tuesday. “Eventually someone has to do something about it, or it’s going to happen.”
“And then imagine North Korea, but in the Middle East; that would be catastrophic for the world,” he added. “And you wouldn’t be paying $6 or whatever diesel is this morning — you’d be paying triple that.”
But Velshi wasn’t buying it.
“Come on, man — come on,” he said in response to Rubio’s comments. “I used to like you. I used to think you were smart.”
“This nonsense about [how] diesel would have been $18 a gallon if we didn’t attack Iran — that’s not true,” Velshi said. “There was a way to get Iran to not have a nuclear weapon: It was called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran nuclear deal that was signed in 2015 under the Obama administration.”
The MS NOW host said the agreement “was demonstrated to be working” before “it was ripped up” by Trump in 2018.
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Allison Detzel is an editor/producer for MS NOW. She was previously a segment producer for “AYMAN” and “The Mehdi Hasan Show.”