Mark Warner

Warner says Trump deserves no credit for the war but that ending it was better than continuing.

“I'm not going to give him credit, but I'm glad he ended it rather than continued what could have led to even a worse circumstance”

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Warner criticizes the U.S. for rejecting Ukraine's offer of anti-drone technology.

“it was so insane that we didn't take the Ukrainians offer in December, where they were going to say, we will give you our anti-drone technology”

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Warner says public claims that most of Iran's ballistic missiles were destroyed are untrue.

“The earlier estimates, and I can say this because it's in the public, that we had eliminated 70, 80, 90% are just factually not true”

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Warner says the war has left neither the U.S., Gulf allies, nor Israel stronger.

“None of that makes us, none of that makes our Gulf allies, none of it even frankly makes Israel stronger than when we started 107 days ago”

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Warner says Section 702 provides a large share of the presidential daily brief.

“It is 70% of what was in the presidential daily brief”

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Warner says reforms have sharply improved FBI compliance with Section 702 safeguards.

“They went from only 60% compliance to 98% compliance on making sure that appropriate checks and balances are dealt with”

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Warner calls Bill Pulte unfit to be DNI, citing his background and use of private mortgage data against critics.

“Bill Pulte is a third generation rich kid who literally got thrown out of his own family's company”

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Warner says Kash Patel should not lead the FBI and deeply worries him.

“But no, Kash Patel scares the hell out of me. And what also scares the hell out of me”

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Warner says there is no intelligence evidence that Iran's new leadership is more pragmatic, and that the IRGC has gained power.

“absolutely zero evidence that anybody in the new crowd is more pragmatic, that is more westward leaning”

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