See below for video and highlights from Sen. Mark Warner’s appearance this morning on “Face the Nation” – on CBS “News” in airquotes, lol
- From Face the Nation: “As Trump administration officials downplay the latest weak jobs report as having flawed data, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) says he doesn’t believe the numbers are flawed, calling the Bureau of Labor Statistics ‘the gold standard’ in the U.S. and around the world. ‘Could there be reforms? Absolutely,’ Warner tells @margbrennan. ‘I am fearful that this focus is on who is keeping score when I think the American public realize the job market is tough, and particularly in terms of manufacturing jobs.'”
- Sen. Mark Warner: “The president had promised a ‘Golden Age’ for American workers; we’re down 80,000 manufacturing jobs since the beginning of his term…We’re about to see the biggest job dislocation in our history, I believe, in terms of AI job dislocation.”
- From Face the Nation: “Sen. Mark Warner, the top ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, says he was blocked from attending a classified meeting with a key U.S. spy agency after an intervention by Laura Loomer, a far-right political activist close to President Trump. Warner tells @margbrennan he has raised the issue with his GOP colleagues on the committee. ‘You want to talk about something that is dangerous? You restrict Congress’ ability to do oversight, particularly with this administration, then we are flying blind,’ Warner says. ‘We are the eyes and ears of the rest of the Senate to do this oversight. They try to restrict this, America will be less safe.'”
- From Aaron Rupar: “Warner on Laura Loomer: ‘Is she actually the acting Secretary of Defense, or Secretary of War as of this morning, or is she the real Director of National Intelligence?‘”
- Sen. Mark Warner: “Well, first of all, the Maduro regime in Venezuela are bad guys and we obviously need to do all we can to stop fentanyl. We have not been briefed on this. This was a DoD, it was not an intel project, it was a DoD project. But my fear is there are still international laws of the sea about how the process of interdicting these kind of boats. There’s supposed to be a firing of a warning shot. You’re supposed to try to take it peacefully. My understanding this boat none of those procedures are followed. And I’m going to get the full brief this week. But what I’m worried about is if we put our sailors in harm’s way by violating international law unless there is the appropriate designations, could this come back and and hurt those sailors? The sailors were doing their job…This kind of action should be briefed to the intelligence community. And I’m a member of what’s called the Gang of Eight. Those are the folks that’s supposed to get the absolute secret stuff that only the president gets. I’ve gotten no briefing…No briefing on this…The level of sharing and the timeliness of the sharing. We, for example, we were on the Iran bombings, you know, we were not notified beforehand. My Republican colleagues were notified. When you start making oversight and who gets shared information on a partisan basis, you know, this kind of cooking the books and intelligence, how we got into the war in Iraq in the first place.”
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