For Jeb Bush and the issue of the Iraq War, the third time was the charm—but you wouldn’t know that from reading the headlines. Bush, the former Florida governor and brother of the president who took American troops into Iraq in 2003, had a difficult time explaining his position on the war this week, first in an interview with Fox News’s Megyn Kelly and later with radio host and Fox News personality Sean Hannity.

The question Kelly posed—knowing what we know now, would President Jeb Bush have authorized the war?—was not the one Bush answered. Instead he said he would have done so given the intelligence at the time, as Hillary Clinton would have as well. Bush’s attempt to clean things up with a friendly Hannity, he claimed he misheard the question and added that considering it again, he “didn’t know” because the question was a “hypothetical.” His rivals for the Republican nomination pounced on the opportunity to say, of course, knowing what we know now, they would not have led the country into war.