Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) threatened to impeach President Donald Trump over his actions in Iran if the Democrats manage to gain control of the House after the midterms.
“He should be impeached now,” Khanna said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Briefing.” “He’s taken us into a disastrous war, threatening war crimes in Iran, in terms of knocking out plants, and knocking out electricity.”
“And the Democrats will impeach him once we take back the House, and should impeach him for all the things he’s done,” he added.
Khanna tied the issue directly to upcoming elections and control of Congress.
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“And, depending on the Senate, he may face conviction if we get to 60, especially if — his numbers keep going down, and the Epstein issue continues to be a vulnerability,” he continued.
He returned to the impeachment point again during the exchange, repeating that Democrats should move immediately rather than wait for the next election cycle.
“Absolutely. He should be impeached now,” Khanna reiterated, doubling down on the timing of any action against the president.
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) made a similar accusation about the Iran conflict, claiming the administration’s actions amounted to unlawful conduct tied to the strikes.
“He’s kicked the hornet’s nest, he’s got his foot stuck in it and he doesn’t know how to get out,” Moulton said on MSNBC. “So what is he doing? He’s resorting to war crimes.”
Moulton comments on President Trump’s decision-making, saying he cannot explain his thinking.
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Moulton pointed to the targeting of infrastructure and framed it as an escalation rather than a contained operation.
“He’s got his foot stuck in it and he doesn’t know how to get out,” Moulton added, repeating his warning that the situation could spiral further.
While some Democrats pushed for accountability, others focused on the military outcome itself.
Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) said the operation achieved a specific objective tied to Iran’s defensive capabilities.
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“The operation has been executed successfully, in terms of the overall objective, which was to destroy the weapons shield that was being built up — the rockets, the missiles, the launchers, the ships to protect the enrichment facilities,” Landsman said during an interview on WBUR’s “Here and Now.”
He expanded on how that changes Iran’s position. “That has been destroyed. And it doesn’t mean that they are out of weapons, but ultimately their ability to build back up their enrichment work has diminished significantly,” he added.
Landsman said the explanation from the White House has not been consistent. “I think what the president has done is confuse everybody as to what the operation is,” he continued. “It was not regime change. It wasn’t anything to do with the enrichment facilities or the enriched uranium.”
He clarified the scope of of the operation. “It was to destroy what was being built as a weapons shield around the enriched uranium,” Landsman said. “So that meant the launchers, the rockets, the missiles.”
Landsman also noted that the strike did not eliminate the nuclear material itself. “And it doesn’t mean they are out of weapons,” he said again, stressing that the threat remains despite the damage to infrastructure.
On the Republican side, Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) said the presence of enriched uranium remains the central issue.
“Not as long as this regime is still in power,” Stutzman said on CNN. “We should never trust this regime. This has been going on for 40 years.”
He described the leadership in Iran as a long-term threat. “If the IRGC and the ayatollah are still in power in Iran, it will always be a problem,” he said.
“These guys — they are true believers that if you don’t agree with them and their religious beliefs, that they are going to either eliminate the person or they’re going to get a nuclear bomb in order to leverage the rest of the world.”
Pressed on whether that meant regime change, Stutzman did not back away. “I think that there has to be a regime change here,” he remarked.
He added that the president’s negotiations could shape what comes next. “Well, and, again, the President knows a lot more than I do,” Stutzman went on. “If he is comfortable with a new person that’s taking power, then that is a new leadership in Iran.”
He outlined what he believes is necessary moving forward for the foreign country. “We can’t let the old guys stay in power,” Stutzman said. “We have to let the Iranian people have their country back.”
Trump, meanwhile, issued a series of warnings directly to Iran on Truth Social as the operation continued.
“Our Military, the greatest and most powerful (by far!) anywhere in the World, hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran,” Trump wrote.
“Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants! New Regime leadership knows what has to be done, and has to be done, FAST!”
He followed with another message referencing a strike earlier in the day. “Much more to follow!” Trump penned, referring to an attack on what he described as the largest bridge in Iran.
He then pushed Tehran to negotiate with the United States. “IT IS TIME FOR IRAN TO MAKE A DEAL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF WHAT STILL COULD BECOME A GREAT COUNTRY!” he continued.
Trump returned to the message again, warning that the military campaign had not reached its full scale.
“Our Military… hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran,” he repeated, signaling additional strikes could follow.
Iran’s foreign minister responded to Trump’s message with his own social media post.
“Striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender,” Abbas Araghchi wrote on X. “It only conveys the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray.”
He rejected the idea that infrastructure damage would pressure the country into concessions.
“Every bridge and building will be built back stronger. What will never recover: damage to America’s standing,” Araghchi added.
Iran also launched additional strikes targeting energy infrastructure in Kuwait, hitting a desalination plant and refinery, according to officials.
