Senator Mark Warner

And this designation of, which has never been used before against an American company, of a supply chain risk, I don't have confidence that this is a thought-through process.

And then I moved to the intelligence side,

where it is clear, intelligence professionals, I know they're intimidated because people are getting fired for telling the truth, but the idea, it was pathetic when Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was basically saying the only person that can decide what is imminent or not is the president.

Well, that is a totally ridiculous statement since the job of the intelligence community is to say,

Is this risk imminent tomorrow?

Is it imminent in six months, six years?

So it is obvious reflection that they totally blew off the professional opinions of the intelligence community as well.

So I don't have confidence there as well.

Well, Scott, I hesitate to say this.

But I think the most serious threat we face right now is at least some people in this administration's willingness to interfere in this year's midterm elections in a radical way.

You take the president's own words of, you know, we ought to federalize elections, put Republicans in charge, something that's totally counter to traditional Republican belief that elections ought to be state and local.

You take Kristi Noem's own comments saying we ought to

have voting so we could have the right people vote for the right people.

We have Tulsi Gabbard literally showing up on a domestic warrant, looking at grabbing the voting machines in Fulton County, Georgia, and she grabbed machines in Puerto Rico.

I believe this could be a warmup for what's next.

And I am hugely fearful.

That some piece of intelligence, accurate or not, will be used as an excuse to send in the troops, change election days, federalize elections.

I haven't been spending a ton of my time talking to retired military, retired intel, retired law enforcement.

to be willing to stand up if an action like this happens and try to pre-bunk the misinformation, disinformation that may be used as an excuse to take over elections this year.

I never thought I'd say that in America, but I am terrified and go back to the worldwide threat hearing.