Politico’s Jonathan Martin has posted the Youtube clip of the chaos that ensued at the beginning of yesterday’s hearing, when Gen. Petraeus’s microphone failed.

Armed Services Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), about halfway through the 8-minute clip, says quietly in front of a live mic that the disruption by Code Pink activists “really pisses me off.” He utters a few profanities and then converses casually with Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), who explains to him the group’s strategy:

HUNTER: Here’s their strategy. There’s about ten of them, so they’re going to sacrifice one about every five minutes. If they do that, I’d move the whole identifiable group out.
SKELTON: I can’t do that
HUNTER: Well because they’re all in the same group, the same dress. The pink people — they’re an association…

Skelton apparently decided that prosecution is a better solution than throwing out whole groups of people. (He also jokingly drops an f-bomb in the clip, if you keep watching.)