Senator Mark Warner
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They've been grinding down the Russian forces.
You put $10 billion into Putin's pocket and much more to come,
He's got a lot more juice to go.
And the other one that's just, I am just amazed that people's heads haven't exploded, is in the middle of this war, the fact that the administration has taken the sanctions off of Iranian oil, 140 million barrels, I think it was, that were already in transit.
That gets sold.
That's $14 billion in
through the Iranian regime.
The very folks who are bombing us right now, we're now funding their efforts to take out American troops, Israel, and our Gulf allies.
I mean, we kind of live in an Alice in Wonderland, up is down and down is up, but literally funding Iran and Russia.
Somebody should have thought of that
before he went into this war.
Again, a hard, tough question.
I heard those claims by the president about the Israeli strike on some of the Iranian energy infrastructure facilities.
But then I hear others say there's no way they could have done that without help of American targeting.
So I don't know.
Two, I do think, you know, at least in starting timing that the president kind of, and Marco Rubio acknowledged this, that, you know, the timing decision of when was left to Israel and the whole notion he put before us and then did say publicly, hey, we had to go ahead and start because Israel is going to strike and then Iran with his back.
So we struck first.
But again, I think that I'm a strong supporter of Israel.
I have been consistent on that.
I think it's an extraordinarily important ally.