He better be ready for this… he can't deny they've said it.
He can't run out the line about them making gasoline – he's got to frame it in the context of "if I were President we'd use every facility available to collect intelligence to determine if there is an actual threat to our national security - or if this is an empty threat." The goal of the interviewer is to make him appear weak.
Ron gets too encouraged with his success sometimes and thinks he doesn't have to be political sometimes. His surge will end if he doesn't give a good political answer on Iran that mainstream republicans can live with.