Some first day of work at CNN for Jay Carney.
The former press secretary began his new political commentator role Wednesday night by being blasted on the air by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) minutes after President Obama's primetime address announcing plans to destroy ISIS.
'By the way I'm astounded that Mr. Carney should say that the free Syrian army is now stronger, in fact they've been badly, badly damaged,' McCain began.
Throughout the conversation, Carney iterated that he and McCain would have to agree to disagree, and the one-time GOP Presidential candidate was not having it.
'It's your boss is the one that when the entire national security team wanted to arm and train them that he turned them down,' McCain said.
Carney responded that other factors were in play with not leaving a residual force.
'On the question of the residual force, there was another player in that which was the Iraqi government, A, B- it was the fulfillment of the previous administration's withdrawal plan, C- and it was also fulfillment of the President's promise to withdraw from Iraq and not maintain a true presence in perpetuity which I think was pretty consistent with what the American people wanted and believed was the right approach,' Carney said.
McCain snickered throughout Carney's responses.
'Facts are stubborn things Mr. Carney, and that is his entire national security team including his secretary of state said we want to arm and train and equip these people and he made the unilateral decision to turn them down, and the fact that they didn't leave a residual force in Iraq, overruling all of his military advisors is the reason why we are facing ISIS today,' McCain said.
The Senator continued to claim that Carney did not have facts, and felt that he was distorting them.
'Senator I understand that you present the facts that you believe are true based on the argument that you've made for a long time sir that we should leave troops in Iraq in perpetuity and that's just not what this President believes,' Carney said.
'It's not a matter of disagreement, it's a matter of facts, and you have yours wrong and you have distorted them,' McCain said.
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