Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said Sunday there’s been no explanation from the Trump administration on how it’s “thinking through” the consequences of the killing of Iran’s top military leader.
In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he agrees Gen. Qassem Soleimani represented a "real threat," and appreciates that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “is trying, in his own words, to de-escalate.”
"I'm not sure the president, by his kind-of taunting tweets, is necessarily trying to de-escalate,” Warner lamented, adding he wants to hear how the administration is “thinking through” the deadly strike.
"I'm not sure how we will be seen as both stronger and smarter if we have our Iraqi allies asking us to leave, if our NATO allies don't feel like they're going to be informed before we take this kind of action, and frankly, if the people in the region who were against the Iranian regime, all across America, are now rallying against America,” he said.
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