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Mark Warner: “Congress has an oversight role here.”

Featuring: Mark Warner, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes

Published October 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 05:00

… seen officers already appear to be fired because they've raised concerns, they deserve to know with clarity the legal reasoning of why they're being put in harm's way. And again, Congress has an oversight role here. This is US Government 101 and frankly not to be divided and used as political pawns. And the truth is as well, my Republican colleagues bear responsibility as well. (05:00–05:03)

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“This administration chose to give this sensitive legal document to a select group of more than a dozen Republican senators.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 01:36-01:46
“You've even got countries like the Dutch acknowledging they're not sharing information with us as much as they used to in a public forum…”
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“Only Republicans were called before the strike on Iran.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 08:09-08:13
“The Venezuelan people... voted in overwhelming numbers, close to 65%, to throw Maduro out.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 11:04-11:13
“The administration convened a briefing for Republican senators, and only Republican senators on the U.S. recent U.S. military strikes in the…”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 00:17-00:28
“They shared the Office of Legal Counsel's opinion that tries to lay out legal justification for those strikes again. They didn't share it…”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 00:30-00:41
“This Office of Legal Counsel opinion should be shared with every member of the Senate, not just the Gang of Eight.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 02:36-02:45
“Every Senator, Democrat, Republican, Independent, has a constitutional role to play when the United States uses military force.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 02:45-02:53
“I call on this administration to immediately provide not only the OLC opinion, but as well as the secret target list that was briefed my…”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 06:26-06:38
“National security, which has always been the province of bipartisanship... They are blowing that all up.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 08:17-08:30
“I presume [the classified briefing] did [have less information than the briefing that the Republicans got yesterday].”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 08:43-08:45
“Maduro is a bad guy. The drug gangs are awful.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 10:04-10:08
“The idea that they're going to kind of arbitrarily pick a dozen Republican senators to share this with... is wrong.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 10:23-10:40
“Our top intelligence professionals... did not see that linkage [between Maduro and drug cartels].”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 11:23-19:16
“Major allies of America... basically said to me... What the hell is going on?”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 11:42-11:49
“They supposedly are going to make [the documents] available now.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 11:59-12:02
“The idea that we're going to selectively give on a partisan basis only information about putting troops in harm's way... our country's made…”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 13:49-14:07
“Smarter members than me on legal opinions have raised concerns whether if these strikes violate international law.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 15:54-16:03
“We've been asking for this [Office of Legal Counsel opinion] not for days. Or weeks. But I think it's been for months since they started not…”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 16:05-16:21
“Promising it and then only sharing it with Republicans.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 16:25-16:29
“If there is a United States policy to try to remove [Maduro], it sure as hell ought to at least be shared with the Gang of Eight.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 19:20-19:31
“Every senator needs to get [the Office of Legal Counsel opinion].”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 19:46-19:48
“They have drugged their feet, drugged their feet, drugged their feet, promised we did it, didn't deliver.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 20:24-20:30
“There is no legitimate reason not to share at least the legal opinion, what the goals are with the American people.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 21:18-21:26
“This makes America less safe and frankly, it further deteriorates relations with our allies.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 22:46-22:54
“Congress gets no oversight on the actions of this president, particularly when it appears to be a many week long Maybe month long campaign.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 22:56-23:04
“The carrier that has just been dispatched is homeported in Norfolk.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 23:44-23:49
“We are putting potentially those sailors in harm's way right now and they're not even going to say what their legal justification is.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 24:08-24:15
“I have raised the undermining of the independence of the IC for months in a SCIF.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 24:58-25:12
“There was enormous bipartisan concern and that's why they I think tried this political ploy to try to give assurance to their team.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 26:02-26:16
“My understanding is they want to simply offer this to the gang of eight. That doesn't cut it.”
Sen. Mark Warner Eviscerates Trump Admin Lack of Transparency on Boat Strikes | Uploaded October 30, 2025 | 26:37-26:42