U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) this morning got into a spat with Secretary of State Marco Rubio over Iran, arguing that President Donald Trump, in Tweet-chest-thumping mode, has the United States in a stalemate with a country precisely empowered by Trump's unconstitutional war.

Booker pointed out that the Iranians continue to leverage the Strait of Hormuz while bulking up with money from the Chinese and through the Trump Administration's greenlighting of highly enriched uranium.

"It's the exact deal you vilified [President Barack] Obama from having," Booker beratd Rubio. "You've created a worse situation where our adversary and enemy is causing havoc in the region, funding proxies and terrorists, while they have discovered the power of shutting down the Strait of Hormuz as a consequence of this ill-conceived war, which never should have never happened. You've made our adversary stronger while you're begging to get back in a deal."

"There's no one begging for anything," Rubio shot back. "The Iranians might be begging. Their economy is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day. Economic factors are far worse today than four months ago... hyperinflation. Currency devalued. Iran is far worse. The issue they face is the supreme leader is immune from [political] pressures. ...They've lost their industrial base. Their economy is far worse today. They have no navy left and they have lost a substantial amount of missile capacity."

"Secretary Rubio, you keep telling us we're winning this war," Booker said. "The American people see how we're losing at the pump and with costs, for a billion dollars a week for a war abroad, while every day he [Trump] tweets out 'We've obliterated them.'"