Notice how many direct questions on Iran Rubio appears to answer with the information requested, but he doesn’t actually provide the info requested. The best one I think is:
QUESTION: How does the State Department interpret the President’s recent remarks when he said, quote, “The Iranian people need to have guns and I think they are getting some guns,” end quote? What did he mean, and do those comments relate to any ongoing or potential U.S. actions like supplying those weapons?
SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, I think it goes back to the question I was asked a moment ago. I think the President thinks it’s heartbreaking that the Iranian people are abused by this regime in the way they are. In the end, I mean, this regime is not – guys, I know I’ve said this – I think I said this in my hearing before the Senate when I got confirmed. I don’t know of any country in the world where there’s a bigger difference between the people and the people who run the country, okay? This country is run by radical Shia clerics, and that’s not what Iran and the Iranian people are. Now, they may be Shia, but they’re not radicals and they’re not clerics, and they just want a normal life and a regular life, and in many ways a very cosmopolitan country with an incredible history – incredible history and incredible legacy and the like.
So there’s this huge divide between the people of Iran, whom we sympathize with and who the President sympathizes with, because they’re the ones suffering. Look, the world is a victim of Iran, okay? The world is a victim of Iran because they’re terrorists, because of what they’re doing now in the straits. But the people of Iran are daily victims of the regime, and the President has deep sympathy for what they’re going through. And I think he’s just expressing that sympathy and that frustration that they don’t have the ability to do more to get rid of this regime that has crushed this country and isolated it from the world, which is a country that shouldn’t be isolated from the world, because its people are phenomenal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtg7UoUNaw
Notice how many direct questions on Iran Rubio appears to answer with the information requested, but he doesn’t actually provide the info requested. The best one I think is:
Yes, the ‘avoid the question by talking about a previous question’ is a classic.