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Sen. Mike Lee calls Trump administration’s Iran briefing ‘insulting’ and ‘demeaning’ and now backs restricting military powers

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, invoked all of those words minutes after leaving a briefing Wednesday on the escalating hostilities between the United States and Iran and said the Trump administration’s handling of the conflict so far has moved him to support a Democratic-led effort to rein in President Donald Trump’s power to take the nation to war.

Lee said the briefing on U.S. forces assassinating a top Iranian general and Iran's retaliation of bombing air bases in Iraq housing American troops “was probably the worst briefing I've seen, at least on a military issue in the nine years I've served in the United States Senate.