‘Can You Answer Me?!’ Matthews Confronts National Review Editor Over Trump Attacks

Chris Matthews got particularly heated with a National Review editor tonight over the anti-Trump manifesto, contending that the only reason all those conservatives hate him is because they love war and Trump doesn’t.

Matthews said that pretty much everyone on that list, especially Bill Kristol, “are all war hawks” and “that’s why they don’t like Trump, because he’s the only guy on the right wing who said it’s a stupid war.”

National Review‘s Eliana Johnson insisted this isn’t a single-issue proposition, but Matthews insisted that’s clearly it because they all love war. He asked, “Can you answer me? Which is not a hawk in that group?”

Johnson said that plenty of names on that list have said Iraq was a mistake. Matthews insisted that “every name on that list supported the Iraq war.”

When Johnson suggested it’s Matthews who has the Iraq “obsession,” Matthews curtly responded, “When we lose 4000 lives in a war that should have never been fought, hen we kill 100,000 people, when we get ourselves involved in a situation we cannot get out of for years… yes, it’s an obsession.”

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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