The Trump Administration's Statement on Iran

Ruben Navarrette: It's possible that somebody like Ratcliffe might have seized on the opportunity to make a splashy announcement about Iran and also that there were good reasons for doing so. He says it can both be true that Ratcliffe's statement was fundamentally accurate and also that it was shaped for political purposes and to have a political effect. "I think this focus on motivation and the motivation of the foreign actor is a little bit besides the point, right? So had Donald Trump in 2016 had Russia did done everything that they did ... he wouldn't have been a scandal"