See below for video and highlights from Sen. Mark Warner’s appearances today on ABC (“This Week”) and CBS (“Face the Nation”).
First, here’s a clip of Sen. Warner talking about the U.S. military’s “‘double-tap’ strike on alleged Venezuela drug boats.” According to Sen. Warner: “I think the video is chilling, disturbing…Because the idea of these two survivors hanging on to remnants of a boat and then America taking a series of additional strikes. The Congress needs to see it at the very minimum, and I think the American public needs to see it.”
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he’s seen the video of the U.S. military’s “double-tap” strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boats.
“I think the video is chilling, disturbing,” Warner said. “Because the idea of these two survivors… pic.twitter.com/wYfTOEWV2y
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 14, 2025
Next, here’ Sen. Warner saying Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado “is a hero, she deserves to win the Nobel Prize.”
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) praised Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo last week: “Ms. Machado is a hero, she deserves to win the Nobel Prize.”
“One of the mistakes the Biden administration made last year when the opposition… pic.twitter.com/79qBtfo4JL
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 14, 2025
And in this video, Sen. Warner says:
“I’m confident the majority of these boats have drugs on them. They knew the 11 individuals in the strike on September 2nd. They don’t know all of the individuals on many of the other boats. And what I worry about is this legal opinion, which really seems to stretch, I don’t think passes a smell test, saying somehow having the having drugs on these boats is the equivalent of, say, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard having bombs and weapons. And I think the American people and Congress deserves to see the video that I saw of with these survivors, what took place, how they were waving appears to the airplanes, and then to take this strike. I also think it’s important that all of the documentation of the execution order, the after-action report, there is a legal opinion, the JAG core. We need to see that as well, because I am reluctant to kind of reach the conclusion that some of my colleagues have that this was an illegal strike…I want to get all the documentation. I think the strike is extraordinarily chilling. And I think a lot of Americans will reach a very negative conclusion about this. But I think it is so potentially damning to say that our military is taking illegal strikes. I’m giving them the benefit of he doubt. Give me the information. I think General [Dan] Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, wants to provide that information. I’m not sure Pete Hegseth wants that out. And the remarkable thing is Hegseth pounds his chests, brags about all these kind of things until there controversy, and then appears he often throws uniform military under the bus.”
