Senator Mark Warner

The moment is – it's incredibly fraught.

The moment is fraught, but like remember the president has also –

recently said to call for the Iranian people to rise up.

Well, listen, I am glad and shed no tears about the Iranian leadership...

I mean, this is an awful, awful regime.

But if the president is now saying to the Iranian people, rise up, does the American – do we then have an obligation if the Iranian military brutally murders them after our president called for them –

to rise up, what obligation do we have?

In many ways, this timetable of this strike now was because he made similar comments in January and was not able to execute because of his other military forays.

So I think it's incumbent upon the president

to make the case to the American people, to make the case to Congress, to seek a level of declaration of war.

This is not something where the president had to respond to, again, the notion of an imminent threat.

This is the president having a war of his choice

And he needs to get the assent of Congress and the American people.

Listen, I would support Tim Kaine's effort.

I think it is important that we should not cede all power to this president to arbitrarily make decisions about where we deploy forces.

Again, I just wish the media, I wish the president's supporters would listen to the families of

Of the sailors and soldiers deployed.

And are saying, you know, when is my son or daughter coming back?

Many of these sailors have been deployed now for well beyond the normal six months.

What is the plan?