Rebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., aggressively confronted Biden administration officials Wednesday during a classified briefing on Israel, according to a Democratic lawmaker who was in the room and another source. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., and a source familiar with the situation said that Van Orden approached the Biden officials during a question-and-answer portion of the briefing.
'He said that he had done two tours in the Middle East,” she said. “He was basically implying that he was the expert and they were not.' Van Orden, who has served in Congress since January, is a retired Navy SEAL who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. While Rep. Pramilia Jayapal, D-Wash., did not mention Van Orden by name, she told reporters that she decided to leave the briefing early because the subject matter became too political.
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