The panel on CNN's "NewsNight" got heated on Wednesday as the price of President Donald Trump's "unpopular" war in Iran was brought up.
Since late February, Trump's war with Iran has raged with almost no end in sight. The Iranian regime has blockaded the Strait of Hormuz, which has sent global energy prices skyrocketing, even though the U.S. and Israel have killed multiple of the country's top military and political leaders.
Meanwhile, the goals of the conflict remain unclear. Trump has said the goal was to create the conditions for the Iranian people to rise up and take control of their government, and also to prevent the Iranian regime from developing a nuclear weapon. Neither outcome has materialized yet.
John Avlon, a former Democratic congressional candidate from New York, argued that Trump's attempts to effect regime change through airstrikes alone won't solve the issue. That's when the panel started to get heated.
"Oh yeah? What about when you throw in their navy? Does that help?" Scott Jennings, a GOP consultant, said snidely.
" Scott. Scott, just for one second! Stop the talking points," Avalon said.
"A blockade is a talking point?" Jennings shot back.
"It is easy to blunder into war, but it is very hard to get out of it," Avlon said. "And that's why our allies are saying, 'We're not with the U.S. on this,' because no case was made. That's why the war is unpopular at home, because no case has been made."
