In an interview with former UN ambassador John Bolton today, Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett asserted that Iran’s Shahab missile “could actually hit — I think — some military installations in the United States.” “Absolutely,” replied Bolton, clarifying that it was “U.S. forces stationed in the region” that could be threatened by such a missile. Watch it:

The current range of Iran’s Shahab missiles is said to be 1,200 miles, but the United States and Iran are much more than 1,200 miles apart. The approximate distance between Tehran and Washington, D.C. is actually 6,340 miles.

UPDATE: In response to this post, Jarrett informed ThinkProgress that he did not say Iran’s Shahab missile could hit military installations “in” the United States. “Those were not my words,” Jarrett told us. “I said the Shahab missile could hit military installations ‘of’ the United States.” We regret the error.

Appearing on the Situation Room today, conservative pundit Mary Matalin insisted on opening more U.S. land, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to oil drilling, claiming that the U.S. is “the only nation” impeding efforts at more drilling. She repeated the conservatives’ current favorite lie: that China is drilling near Cuba, just off the coast of Florida — even though the lie has been thoroughly debunked and Vice President Cheney himself has admitted the story was false. Watch it:

Last week, Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) was so furious at his party’s false statements about drilling that he took to the Senate floor to decry the “fabricated China/Cuba connection” that he said “has no merit.”

The McCain campaign website has a new interactive timeline which attempts to prove how and when John McCain was right about Iraq. Interestingly, the timeline begins in August 2003:

The Wonk Room’s Matt Duss writes, “So while McCain is certainly not modest about trying to claim credit for the 2007 troop surge — which his site graciously refers to as ‘The McCain Surge’ — he is somewhat more modest about providing examples of his leadership, wisdom, and judgment about Iraq from before August 2003.”

In a new interview with Sky News, President Bush suggests that his family’s time in the White House may not be done, mentioning his brother, Jeb, as a future presidential contender:

President Bush was asked by a SkyNews correspondent whether the end of his term marked the end of the Bush presidential dynasty that began with his father’s Oval Office tenure 20 years ago.

In response, Bush singled out his brother, who has often been mentioned as a possible Republican presidential contender. “Well, we’ve got another one out there who did a fabulous job as governor of Florida, and that’s Jeb,” he said. “But you know, you better ask him whether or not he’s thinking of running. But he’d be a great president.”

A federal judge ruled today that the White House Office of Administration, which likely has records of the White House’s knowledge of the millions of missing e-mails, is not subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and thus does not have to turn over its e-mail record. The Office of Administration had responded to FOIA requests since its creation in 1978 until the Bush administration reversed that policy last year — after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed this lawsuit.