Seth Meyers Mocks Marco Rubio’s ‘Bumpy Sunday’ on Iraq

After breaking down Jeb Bush’s problematic handling of questions about the Iraq War last week, Seth Meyers turned his attention Monday night to Marco Rubio, who had some struggles of his own during an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.

“Conventional wisdom was, Marco Rubio was the candidate who benefitted the most from Bush’s stumbles,” Meyers said. “And after seeing Bush’s clumsy handling, there was no way Rubio was going to make the same mistake.”

Of course, what followed was a back and forth between Wallace and Rubio full of circular logic and short of concrete answers to rather direct questions. “Were Wallace and Rubio even in the same room?” Meyers asked. “Because it seemed like one of them was on a five-second delay. There’s less over-talking when my grandpa orders at the McDonald’s drive-thru.”

“How low is the question bar right now?” the host continued. “‘Knowing what we know now’ is the easy Iraq question, no one should be getting that wrong. The better question is ‘knowing what we knew then, would you have invaded Iraq?'”

While Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and even Hillary Clinton all can agree that based on the intelligence presented at the time, they would (or did) authorize the invasion. But, as Meyers made clear, there were a few people who felt differently:

Watch video below, via NBC:

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