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Mark Warner: “Our ability to continue to listen to bad guys talking to bad…”

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

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Sen. Warner, more | Face the Nation Full Broadcast - June 14, 2026

Published | Video Starts at 26:51

Have Google and Verizon and the rest said, if you come and ask me for information, I won't hand it over. What has happened is those investigations that have already started continue. Okay? Our ability to continue to listen to bad guys talking to bad guys abroad continues. The question is whether you can start new actions. And we are now, and I've not gotten a report yet, whether the telcos and the Googles are going to continue to adhere or whether because they don't have the indemnification, they'll stop participating. (26:51–26:57)

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