WATCH: Sens. Warner and Rubio aren’t sure when oversight will see classified docs
Jenny Goldsberry
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Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) admitted Sunday that there is no such timeline yet for when they will receive classified documents retrieved by intelligence officials.
Both senators are members of the Senate Intelligence Committee with Warner as chairman and Rubio as vice chairman. The committee anticipates receiving the documents found at former President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, and those found at President Joe Biden’s former think tank and Wilmington, Delaware home.
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“Our job is to make sure there’s not an intelligence compromise,” Warner explained to Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation. “And while the Director of National Intelligence had been willing to brief us earlier, now that you’ve got the special counsel, the notion that we’re going to be left in limbo and we can’t do our job, that just cannot stand.”
Sens. Warner and Rubio on Face the Nation
Brennan asked Rubio about the possibility of withholding funding from these intelligence agencies as a way to threaten them to hand the documents over. Rubio claimed he is “not in the threat business.”
“I prefer not to go down that road, but it’s one of the pieces of leverage we have as Congress,” Rubio said.
“We’ve got a problem in terms of both classification levels, how senior elected officials when they leave government, how they handle documents,” Warner admitted. “We’ve had too many examples of this.”
Sens. Rubio and Warner on Face the Nation
Both senators agreed it is a priority to ensure that China does not have any access to classified documents from the White House. Already, Warner pointed out, many forms of technologies have “migrated over to China.”
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“I don’t care where you fall on the political spectrum in America, that’s not good news for free people anywhere in the world,” Warner said.
Amid the document drama, attention is shifting to other former presidents and vice presidents, but all have denied keeping documents in their possession.