Mark Warner

very little visibility into what happens next after the Supreme Leader is eliminated.

The president said, well, let's, you know, stop bombing Ukraine for a week or two.

He gave him a couple of days.

It feels like all of these starts and stops with negotiations around Ukraine simply allow the Russians to continue to pound the Ukrainians.

I've made the statement very strongly that if they start killing people like they have in the past, we will get involved.

If we take a kinetic strike, does that actually unite the Iranian people in a way that the regime has not been able to?

The last time we intervened in Iran in a major way was 1953 when the CIA overthrew the Iranian regime to protect Iranian oil for the West.

Many historians would argue that led to the Ayatollah.

I got a lot of the families of the sailors who were down there who were all saying, I don't want my son and daughter.

One, are they going to be in a war in harm's way?

And two, what's our goal?

And I don't think we've articulated that goal in a way that passes muster with the public, with the Congress, and Lord knows with the world.

I'm not making – drawing any conclusions here because when you make the accusation about war crimes, that is an accusation once made cannot be retracted.

But we are in those waters or in that area because, again, I think this constant, careless, sloppy approach from Pete Hexaff.

I want to see the execution order.

I want to hear the communications between Democrats.

the admiral who made the second strike decision.

I want to have all that data point.

Obviously, I'm very, very, very troubled.

It feels like this was a plan that they took almost entirely from the Russians, did no consultation with Congress, no consultation with the Europeans, obviously didn't read in Zelensky and the Ukrainians, and now they're getting ferocious pushback.