Kennedy warns ayatollah wants to 'drink our blood out of a boot' as Iran tensions escalate

A Senate Republican warned Thursday that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's primary focus is shedding American blood as U.S.-Iran relations continue to simmer. 

"The ayatollah not only thinks that I'm going to hell because I don't agree with his religion — he wants to kill me," Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said on the Senate floor Thursday.

"He wants to kill Americans and the Israelis and anybody who does not believe in his jihad and drink our blood out of a boot," Kennedy continued. "And he's acted on that...