The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday he sees “absolutely no national security issues” with a scathing rebuke of President Donald Trump in an anonymous op-ed in The New York Times.
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said the commentary reflected “a president who is lashing out.”
"He is lashing out in terms of whoever wrote the op-ed and I wish the person would have revealed their identity,” he said. “But you've also got the president attacking his Justice Department. And that is one of the reasons I think you're seeing not only Republican members [of Congress], but what appears to be a lot of folks in the White House, having real concerns about this president's stability.”
In a separate interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” Warner elaborated on Trump’s tweet that two “very popular” GOP House lawmakers — Duncan Hunter of California and Chris Collins of New York — shouldn’t have been indicted by the Justice Department ahead of the midterms.
“This President is so irresponsible and I don't think we can continue to excuse his behavior as anything resembling normalcy,” Warner said. “So, it'll be interesting to see whether my colleagues are willing to stand up and call out these activities. “
“I think very shortly, as the [special counsel Robert] Mueller probe continues, we're all going to be at that moment where history will judge us,” he continued. “And I think this president will be judged as well.”
In his CNN interview, Warner also said he doesn’t believe the claim of ex-foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, George Papadopoulos, that he can’t recall telling anyone on the campaign that Russia had damaging emails about Hillary Clinton.
"This guy Papadopoulos, I've never met him, but he clearly is aspiring to be a player,” Warner said. “And my understanding is he can't remember whether he turned that information over to other senior people in the Trump campaign. That's not very believable."
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