Rubio hit with blunt retort while decrying 'chaos': 'Welcome to the White House'

Secretary of State Marco Rubio struggled to wrangle a room full of reporters when he hosted the White House briefing on Tuesday while Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was on maternity leave.

"I'll be filling in for Karoline today, obviously," Rubio announced to reporters before recapping President Donald Trump's efforts to open the Strait of Hormuz. "It's criminal for sure, but it's desperate and destructive, this blockade of the Straits of Hormuz."

Several minutes into the briefing...