Jason Chaffetz on the Iran war: “En masse the American people are still wondering, why is it that we're doing this? What was the national imperative?”
Chaffetz: “If you go out and talk to the average person, you know, we were going to wrap this up rather quickly”
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From the September 3, 2026, edition of Fox News' America Reports
JOHN ROBERTS (ANCHOR): And we're prepared to do another one anytime they want — the president not playing here.
JASON CHAFFETZ (GUEST): No, they've got a lot of explaining to do, I think en masse the American people are still wondering, why is it that we're doing this? What was the national imperative? And I think they need to continue to make that case.
ROBERTS: Well aren't you the skunk at the garden party?
CHAFFETZ: Well I'm just saying, if you go out and talk to the average person, you know, we were going to wrap this up rather quickly, and here we are turn the corner now —
ROBERTS: Six months later.
CHAFFETZ: — coming into Labor day and how long is this going to go, because Republicans in large part supported President Trump because he wasn't going to put us in forever wars, and so what is it going to take in order to actually solve it and move on?