The briefing room door slid open 6 inches and Marco Rubio pushed his face through the gap. It was less like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, and more like a goofy substitute teacher pulling a face to win over what he knew would be a difficult room.
It worked. Up to a point.
The audience chortled while the dual-hatted secretary of state and national security adviser took on yet another role: maternity cover for press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“Thank you for having me today,” he said, before launching into his spiel about why “Project Freedom” was very much a defensive operation to keep Iranian gunboats from interfering with shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, a completely different proposition to Operation Epic Fury, which was over anyway.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives to speak at a press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday,
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