Senator Mark Warner

But boy, oh boy, the undercurrents that somehow we were outsourcing some of the timing of this war to our Israeli allies, that's not going to play well.

And then I don't think there's any indication that I've heard

And if the president, again, he used the term, he'll feel it in his bones when it's the right time to declare victory.

If he declares victory tomorrow, I don't think there's any assurance that Israel won't continue or that the Iranians won't continue.

But Israel, I may not agree, but they are clear to their public what the goal is.

The goal is regime change and anything in complete decapitation of Iran's military capabilities.

Anything short of that, I think they would back into the position that you said a couple of minutes ago.

A wounded Iran with all these military capabilities might be a worse outcome than what the status quo was.

Now, they clearly have been degraded, but they've still got a lot of assets.

And one of the things that is kind of on a macro level more mind-blowing to me is that

Our Pentagon has said repeatedly we have shortage of munitions, but we are running so low on the interceptors and long-range attack missiles.

I won't give you the numbers because it's classified, but we are in a...

really tough position, and Israel is as well right now.

So if Iran can keep bleeding our munitions stockpile down, very soon I think you'll see the American bases in Israeli cities vulnerable to the Iranian attacks because we don't have the number of interceptors we need.

I have a huge lack of confidence.

I mean, I have confidence in the number two guy at DOD, Steve Feinberg, but he's more on internal operations.

But Hegseth making these decisions, and not just about this war, but he recently declared Anthropic a supply chain risk, which is basically a death sentence to America's, at this moment in time, it could switch in a month, leading AI company

And he did that on his own without any process.

because he wanted to have absolute control, it appears, over the ability to use AI to surveil all Americans or to create an offensive AI-driven weapon without a human in the loop.

Those are policy decisions.