Trump official squirms when pressed by reporter: 'I don’t know the definition of war'

Kevin Hassett, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, stammered Sunday when pressed on the U.S. war against Iran, telling CBS News’ Margaret Brennan that he didn’t fully comprehend the definition of the word “war.”

At the direction of Trump, the U.S. Navy is currently enforcing a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway off the coast of Iran through which a fifth of the world’s oil trade flows. Brennan, who featured Hassett as a guest Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,”...